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Thunder in your head? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by arth@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social
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A long while back I was hanging out with one of my sisters and she said that she hears thunder in her head when she gets startled.

Me: "Scuse me. What?"
Her: "You know. That thunder you hear when someone startles you."
Me: "Again. What?"
Her: "You don't hear thunder when someone startles you?"
Me: "Uh, no."
Her: "Oh. I thought that happened to everybody."

Is this a thing? Does this happen to anybody else out there? She did struggle with depression for much of her life. Could that have had something to do with it?

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[–] unfnknblvbl@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oooooh I also get this occasionally! It's absolutely terrifying, isn't it? Like somebody has hit the "reset" button for your brain..

[–] Sausage@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's awful when it happens but it's so infrequent for me that it's not too bad. Since having kids though it has evolved from a loud crash or bang to the sound of one of the kids screaming. My partner thinks I'm a complete loon when I go running into the kid's room for seemingly no reason, just to find them sleeping peacefully.

[–] Countmacula@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Gosh, that sounds so scary. I get it really bad at night.

[–] noorderling@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, I've never heard this was a thing other people experienced. I've had it for a while years and years ago, when I was under a lot of stress from my studies. The loudest, distorted synthesizer fog horn I've ever heard — and it was all in my head.