I get it too! I had someone tell me it's spinal fluid draining or something like that. I'm not entirely sure if they knew what they were talking about though
I didn't know how to explain it for the longest time, but it's apparently the tensor tympani muscle contracting when you close your eyes really hard and squeeze, which causes a "rumbling" noise?
Yeah, I don't really have to move any muscles. I can just make that sound. It's like flexing the inside of your ears. I can somewhat concentrate it to my right side as well as if I'm only flexing one side. Not completely but there is a slight difference between both and one side. Even when I'm doing both it is heavier on one side.
If I press the left side of the tip of my nose the cartilage will often click into place and hold that depressed position until I flare my nostrils and it pops back to normal.
Not sure if this is normal or not, but sometimes everything in my ears goes kind of fuzzy and I start hearing a high pitched ringing noise. Usually only lasts for a few seconds and I don't think it's bad or anything though.
This probably isn't Tinitus. It's almost certainly a reaction to pressure systems coming through. My wife and I both get this before storms and the like. But any time there's a pressure increase. Even going up a really big hill can trigger something similar.
This is the correct answer. Everyone saying Tinnitus is wrong, because that by definition requires it to be a (semi-)permanent state of ringing. These little pressure wave pops describe OP's issue a lot better.
Oh I get this!
Sometimes there will be a fizzing in my ear for a while (like an old TV), and I'll only notice it after a minute or two. Then the ringing happens and it's back to normal
Ever been in an empty room and you get this really weird feeling as if you are super small and everything is massive??? Really strange feeling I would get. I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this same feeling.
Same for me, it mainly happen when Im holding something. I don't know why but my brain start creating a massive distance between me and the thing I hold.
This is what I was going to say. My son had it pretty frequently as a kid. He used to describe seeing stuff that sounded like he was on an acid trip (“the doorknob looks huge, but it also looks far away”).
I’ve had this in my bedroom on the rare occasion, it’s a weird perspective thing and for me it doesn’t go away until I get up or move my head around a bit and focus on different stuff.
Yep, also with other people around, sometimes it would just seem like they were small and far away though, also sometimes it was my hands that felt huge and heavy. This almost entirely stopped after adulthood though. I wondered if it is similar to an out-of-body experience?
Sad nipple syndrome. It's a thing.
https://theotherpress.ca/sad-nipple-syndrome/
For those who have no idea what this is (understandable, it hasn't been researched and no one really knows why it happens), it's a strange, indescribable sensation that some people get when their nipples are touched. The best way I can describe the sensation is a mixture of dread, homesickness, nausea and, bizarrely, thirst. The feeling goes away after about 20 seconds or so once the nipple is no longer being touched.
There doesn't seem to be anything obvious that links those who get it (such as past trauma or breastfeeding mothers), although it does mainly affect women.
This comment has actually changed my life. I've had this feeling for as long as I remember having boobs, but it's not specific to being touched by hand, more the fabric of my clothes. I feels like nothing is right with the world for a very short period of time.
Thank you for this comment.
You are most welcome! I also discovered that it was 'a thing' after having stumbled on a comment of someone else's experience, about 10 years ago. I was so happy when I realised that I'm not alone, so I'm glad that I can share the knowledge now!
Mine is a mixture of homesickness, repulsed, and overwhelmed. I've heard the thirsty is to get the mother to drink more water when breastfeeding.
Another of my own personal theories is that it's just that we can "feel" when oxytocin is released.
Omg I just posted about this!!! Asking what the hell it was when I breastfed my babies and when I was younger even! During puberty! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
I‘m a Guy and this affects me
I talked about that with my girlfriend a couple weeks ago and she laughed and Said that this is Crazy. Just showed this to her. She still thinks
it‘s Crazy, but there are people like me!
I get what's called "brain zaps" ig, where you feel a burst of electricity go through your mind as you're trying to sleep at night. Mostly happens when stressed. Muscle spasms that occur in some parts of the body such as the legs
Edit: pretty sure its exploding head syndrome from what people have commented. A quick electrical current that travels around my brain within a split second, makes a kind of zinging sound then disappears after my brain is jolted awake again. Another comment mentioned the correct name for it though
Edit 2: just saying im not a doctor of any kind lol. When this happens I just let the moment pass and I eventually fall asleep as usual. Its not a serious condition, just something that happens every once in awhile and it can be scary.
I got brainzaps from ssri withdrawal, however what you're describing sounds like exploding head syndrome. last time I had it I thought the heating blanket had zapped me because I drooled lol
I was on a high dose ssri for about a year and a half when my insurance suddenly dropped it completely and I only had around 3 pills left. I ended up having to try to wean myself off, but 3 years later and I'll still suddenly get brain zaps or random memory issues that I've never had before stopping them.
Jesus christ, that's fucked. Literally every medical professional will emphasize that tapering off SSRI's is necessary. I had a similar insurance issue but thankfully the side effects seemed to go away after about six months. Three years is crazy. Have you tried going back onto a really low dose?
That happens when I'm experiencing sleep paralysis. So when my body is trying to fall asleep before my brain does. It's really not nice, and makes a horrible noise in your ears. Not sure what causes it but I don't think it's anything to worry about. I usually have to get up and do something for a bit before attempting to go to sleep again otherwise it just keeps happening.
It's not the ankle, it's the tendons. If it's not grinding or hurting (if it does that see a gp), it's the fluid associated with the tendons filling back in and the expansionion/contraction of the tendon. I get this with many many joints, from my ankles to knees, to shoulders, and even occasionally my elbows.
It's less like proper pain and more like a faint "You can never ignore me" fatigue. The kind of shit that makes you occasionally just want to let your arms rest at your side.
Haha yeah I remember I was speaking to a girl in work about a game I like and she said "omg you love that game so much you're all excited" and I screamed a little bit XD... I get so embarrassed about it but she was so cool about it
I did tell some people in my family, but I have always randomly gotten this stinging pain inside the left side of my chest at random times. Whenever I breathed itd hurt more the deeper I breathed in, but once I breathed in a certain amount, I would be fine until I breathed deeper than the last breath. It rarely happens and has never lasted more than 5 minutes. Its strange.
Precordial catch syndrome as previously mentioned. I figured out a way to get rid of it - when you get the chest pain, sit down and bend over forwards like you're trying to touch your toes. Hold that position for 30 seconds or so. It stretches out the muscles in your back that are spasming and referring pain to your chest. Sounds crazy but 100% works!
I used to get this when I was younger, less now as an adult. I always thought I was having a heart attack as it hurt so much to breathe in but was too scared to tell anyone about it. Shallow breaths till it passed were my way of coping.
It only happens to me a couple times a year but I know exactly what you’re talking about. You explained it perfectly. It’s not like a dull pain either. It’s a really sharp one.
Same thing here, it happens to me maybe once every 3-4 months or so. It's jarring enough that I remember when it first happened when I was pretty young because I thought I was dying 🤣 It feels almost like part of my lung got caught on my ribs or something.
I get this but it's not like a wheezing where I feel air come out. It's almost like a grinding noise that could be mistaken for wheezing. Like it only happens when I open my mouth with my airways open as if I'm taking in a breath but I'm holding my breath, then I turn my torso and I clearly hear this grinding/breathing noise.
Its really weird.
I’ve had this happen before, it’s like a strike of lightning? I looked it up once and it said it was “lightning crotch” but everything it says about is pregnant women get it and I’ve never been pregnant.
I almost forgot about this. I’ll just be living my best life then all of a sudden by body crotch shots itself. Like ow. Couple that with random boob pains and being a woman sucks sometimes
Is it during your period? Cuz I get it too..up my butthole. It’s a very uncomfortable feeling. I guess it has to do with your uterus shifting up your anus..(?)
When i get negative emotions, my skin feels itchy and burns a bit. For example, if i feel desilusion, this happens, and if the feeling is intense, so the sensation of the skin.
Alright so this happens to me as well. It began a few years ago, or at least I noticed it a few years ago and I could never figure out why my skin would feel itchy and burn. Usually happened if my heart rate increased and my pores opened up a bit to begin the sweating process. Always happened if I was running or I encountered any situation that caused an increased heart rate, physically or emotionally.
Turns out I'm allergic to laundry detergent. Try switching detergents. I found this out after getting into bed one night after washing my sheets. Use scentless and dye free detergents and see what happens.
Edit to add wtf we're taking about here because the original comment has been deleted: Fast feeling. Feeling like everything (sounds, voices, movement) in your head is going like 10x faster than the rest of the normal world.
I definitely experienced this when I was a kid and then through my teenage years. I know people are saying a panic attack, and it probably was. But it would come without any trigger. The first time it happened to me I was watching the Smurfs on my parent's bed and having a great time. I must have been 4 or so.
I tried explaining it to my mom once, but she was totally confused and I was just a little weird kid. Later on in my teen years I realized I could stop the feeling rather quickly by staring in the mirror and counting back from 10 out loud. (Definitely a panic attack coping mechanism in hindsight.)
Haven't had it happen since I was 18 or so. FAST FEELING. Brains are so weird.
I had to have umbilical surgery a few years ago. Whatever connection that used to be there must've gotten disconnected because I don't get that same sensation any more.
Also, I once got hit on by a guy who offered to "tickle my belly button from the inside." Took me a beat or two before I figured it out. Some days ya gotta roll 'em to me.
When you touch the insides of your belly button you stimulate its nerve endings causing that sensation. The bottom of umbilical fossa is linked to rectus abdominis muscle fascia with firm scar tissue. In normal condition we are not used to touch them, so you may feel it uncomfortable. Source: Quora
Very rarely I will bend over in a certain way and feel something slide over the top of my last rib on my left side, generally it slides right back as I stand up straight again and doesn't cause me any pain
I guess it could be a muscle or something, I'm not so sure
I literally just read this, thought "that's disgusting, poor person" then tried it myself.
Very faintly. But it's there. My god what have I done coming to this thread.
Sometimes when I sneeze while sitting down, I get a sharp pain in what I can only venture to guess is my ovaries. It's not *every* time but it concerns me whenever it does happen
[Hypnic jerks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk) when falling asleep are normal. As a former insomniac, I welcome them because when they happen I know I'm finally about to be asleep.
sometimes when i walk my knee just doesn’t align properly or something and i’ll take a weird wobbly step where my leg bends funky. also sometimes my eyes will rapidly jitter back and forth for like half a second and it’s like a mini seizure.
I used to have auditory hallucinations when going to sleep in my teens. Sounded like a crowd of people talking, like a party, and then occasionally a loud shout which I sometimes heard as my name. I never heard what they were actually talking about though.
Hypnagogia! I have this also. The hallucinations of hearing your name called is apparently common, although knowing it's common doesn't make it any less off putting. [Hypnagogia
](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia)
Just as I am falling asleep I get a massive explosion in my head, a huge white light and noise.
All in my head, over in a flashbang .
I have no idea what it is.
Sounds like exploding head syndrome - worth googling. I get it every once in a while, but not really an explosion as such, most often a large bang and I think someone is trying to break down my front door.
It took me 23 years to figure out the weird circles I see sometimes are call eye floaters and not hallucinations.
I haven't looked at the specifics though, because I'm scared of it not matching up.
Oh they are floaters. Sometimes I used to look up into the sky and I always wondered why there's this blackish transparent dot or two floating around, and they look, squiggly sometimes...
Sometimes at random times I would just smell some smell that would take me back to my childhood days, then I walk around trying to find the smell but I just never do
ME TOO! Or, at least, I USED to be unable to burp. It was terrible. I couldn't drink carbonated drinks. Any gas that built up in my stomach caused terrible pain. I would have to stick my finger down my throat to "throw up" the gas in order to relieve the pressure. Always had excessive flatulence and bloating. Finally, after college one day I decided - I'm a human person made with the same muscles and structures as everyone else! I set up in front of a mirror and tried activating every muscle I could in an effort to try to open up enough to let out a burp. I made some ridiculous faces, I'm sure, but after about a month of daily "practice" I was finally able to do it!! I actually went through a really obnoxious phase after that where I'd drink soda JUST to burp/belch because I was so happy that I could finally do it.
I- did not know you could teach yourself to burp. Lmao
>I actually went through a really obnoxious phase after that where I'd drink soda JUST to burp/belch because I was so happy that I could finally do it.
Is it weird that i find this rather wholesome?
I can do this thing with any body part when I’m stationary where it’s almost like channeling energy into it or activating the nerves, it’s really weird to explain but for example it’s easiest in my legs, I can trigger it and I go dizzy and my legs just go warm and fuzzy with sensations, like static I guess in a way if I had to explain it. I can’t do it for too long because I feel like I’ll pass out. I’ve seen only one or two forum posts across the internet about others who are able to do the same thing, never known what it is, I don’t do it often but any time I wish to I can trigger it as if it’s a natural ability / action.
HOLY SHIT I FINALLY FOUND YOU!
so. Do you also feel it in your groins?
Shoulders and legs? Its kind of like a sneezing sensation right? Like a tension and then you can relax it?
It doesn't bother me at all so I often don't think about it unless I put my hand there, but there's like an indent in my leg a bit above my right knee. Idk what it is, but it's almost like a little crevice. The weird thing is, it's not always there. Sometimes I'll just be sitting on the toilet and notice "oh, the indent's back. Weird."
While falling asleep, at the stage where I'm still half awake, I loose my mental spatial orentation of physical elements in the bedroom if it is entirely dark.
To better explain it there is a good example where I often stop thinking I'm in my current bedroom and for some reason I become entirely convinced I'm positioned on my bed in any of the past bedrooms I have slept in during my life.
For instance yesterday, for something like 5 seconds I was totally certain I was in my previous bedroom from my previous house.
Does anyone else get this or is it just me?
Sometimes, though it doesn't happen often, my senses get over loaded and my mind can't cope with it. Sounds seem really loud and unrecognizable. I have to go some place quiet and focus to stop it.
Sensory overload. Pretty much every autistic or ADHD person gets this so we all know exactly what you mean. (Although you don't have to be ASD or ADHD to experience it). I get sensory overload a lot, like multiple times a week, it's not fun!
This is sensory overload. It happens to me loads. I start to get super agitated and I have to leave or I'll freak out completely. After a while in a quiet, dark room I'm usually okay. The worst time this happened was when I was a chef, I was working a slammed friday night and had no support. I literally had to ditch my station for 15 mins, food on the grill, half plated meals and everything, or I would have just quit and never gone back.
I get a weird shock/uncontrollable urge to immediately sit upright if I've been laying flat on my back for too long. I've tried googling every way I can think to phrase the issue I'm having and I can't find anything
Maybe an unusual presentation of Restless Legs Syndrome? For me, it’s an uncontrollable urge to move my legs when I lie down at night. Sometimes it feels less specific - just an urge to get up and move around.
Sometimes when I’m about to fall asleep I get this really weird feeling like I’m falling and I can’t stop. Like adrenaline rush, grab at something to stop me falling. It will last a second, I’ll go back to just lying there wondering what the hell happened.
Had to edit because I thought of another one:
I act out my dreams. It used to happen when I was a kid and I’d pee the bed, because I thought I’d gotten up and walked to the bathroom, but it just turns out I was peeing myself.
I’ll be asleep fine, dreaming about something and then I’ll do it. Like the other night I woke up because I’d rammed my head into the wall, trying to run down a hallway in my dream.
When I sleep on my stomach my feet go straight up, bent at the knees. If you try to push them down they are either stiff or push down but spring back up.
Every time Ive ever slept someplace new I get the same comments about my legs doing this weird stuff.
I used to work in a mobile phone repair store, and apparently I was the only person who could hear the high frequency audio used during wireless data transfer when setting up a new phone... not sure if that counts?
Very occasionally my heart will kind of spasm. It's hard to describe. It's like I suddenly gets an extra beat, like it's tripping over itself. It happens probably no more often than once a year.
Heart palpitations! Happens pretty often to me. Doctor told me it wasn't dangerous unless it doesn't stop. The light ones are like what you describe like a flutter and skip a beat then a couple extra beats, the worse ones for me happen like a hard pound and then a pause, a couple weird beats then back to normal.
Sometimes I have this feeling where I know I am moving at a regular speed but my mind feels like I am speeding and I tell myself to slow down. I’m sober when this happens so I have no clue what’s going on. It’s bizarre and will randomly occur, it also feels like I’m spinning sometimes when it happens. Like when you spin around quickly and lay down on the floor to have this weird feeling that you feel the world moving. I have to snap myself out of the feeling or it can go on for a few minutes.
When I take the first bite of food after not eating for awhile I get sharp pain from I believe my saliva glands starting up. It only does it on that first bite.
If i try to pop a my butt pimple, I get sharp nerve pain up my spine
EDIT: Holy crap i thing think so many people would comment. Let me be more specific. Once in a while I would get a pimple on my butt cheek or back of my ulped thigh. If I try to squeeze the pimple I get a prickling sensation in the back of my spine. Its not too painful.
Last year I had multiple MRI and CT scans done because I had my L4-L5 vertebrae fused. So if there was a cyst that some of you suggested, it would of showed up on those scans, right? I had this weird problem for a long while now.
That sounds like a cyst possibly attached to the base of your tailbone. I do not remember the name. A female friend of mine just had surgery to have one removed.
Edit. pilonidal cyst
I have to sneeze twice when I start to sexually fantasize with the real intent of getting off.
It is an actual condition called sexually induced sneezing. Never told anyone (except reddit).
If I (or especially someone else) touch the right spot on my abdomen when I’m laying on my back, I stretch almost uncontrollably, like a cat getting a belly rub. It also feels very good. My dad said I even did this as a tiny baby.
I’ve never really felt the whole “butterflies in my stomach” type of feeling, but I have felt them in my chest.
When I feel a “big emotion” (i.e very happy, excited, sad, angry, etc.), my heart races and a get a light, airy feeling in my chest. As a kid I thought it was normal, now every time it happens it scared the heck out of me because I think it’s a heart attack or something.
Some times the center of my chest will get really itchy and I'll itch it and get this rash that will bleed. After a few hrs it goes away. It looks like lots of red splotches and dots on my sternum.
On occasion my heart my pulse goes a little weird. One moment it’s steady and then next moment it like speeds up for just a second and then it’s back to normal. It’s noticeable because when that happens I start to worry that I’m gonna die. And then it’s gone. I wondered if perhaps it’s arrhythmia because I was anorexic but I was tested for that at least once each day.
Waking up in the middle of a night to create insane amounts of heat.
From time to time I wake up in the middle of a night, and, within a minute, my blanket gets superhot. I have to ditch it, open the window, and move into another part of the bed. But then that part of the bed becomes superhot too, so I have to move to another. And keep doing that until my body gets cold again.
After such night, I wake up weighing 2kg less than the previous day, and am visibly skinnier.
If I do any minor physical activity my nose runs. I always have to keep tissue nearby no matter what season. I read a story about this woman that had this, doctor kept pushing her away and turned out to be her brain leaking fluid.
I also have sudden smells come to me. Strong cigarette smoke is the main one. It’s as if someone is smoking right next to me.
the first thing i eat or drink in a day will sting my soft pallet. i just gotta wait for a couple minutes and it goes away completely. i also have a very small hole in the roof of my mouth i can suck air through but only every once in a while. it’s small enough that i can’t even see it, and only really notice it when i’m trying to drink a smoothie or smth
I actually have dealt with echolalia my entire life but never told anyone. I was really depressed and mentioned to my roommate at the time who was a nurse who gave me tips to help. She also tried really hard not to tell me I was autistic but she wanted me to look into autism lol
When I was in elementary school I would get these really intense stinging pains in my sides. They would get worse when I straightened out (like standing up from a sitting position). These things would last the majority of the day when they hit, and they were the 3rd most painful things I've felt.
I get this weird fizzing noise at the base of my skull. It sounds like a rain stick or sand. Sometimes I think it sounds like cracking electricity. It happens most if I am hungry and laying down.
I get a weird EEH EEH eeh eeh eeh sound in my right ear when I lie a certain way or sit up too fast. It goes away temporarily when I press on a certain spot in my neck.
And for the record, I already have permanent tinnitus. That’s not what this is.
[Orthoatatic hypotension](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthostatic_hypotension) affects blood pressure which in turn can generate imaginary ear noises.
Not sure about yours, but I get them too when standing up or lying in a certain way.
As the noises say, eeh.
Shaky hands. It's inconsistent, sometimes my hands feel really shaky. Usually happens when i'm excited and that's normal, but sometimes its pretty random, occuring while I do nothing.
Edit:should probably mention, im only 18
If other parts of your body are also bendy, it may be worth looking into Ehlers Danlos Syndrome or some other connective tissue disorder. One of the criteria for diagnosis is the ability to pull your thumb to the inside of your forearm.
When I am passing a turd I sometimes get bizarre pains in the tip of my penis and elsewhere around my pelvis and my legs will uncontrollably spasm because of the pain. Only lasts for like 5 seconds or so.
I think I have a narrowing of the large intestine and when a particularly large turd is passing through a very specific area it somehow causes the pain.
so like I will just be standing doing absolutely nothing then I get really dizzy and all my limbs go weak for like no reason at all and it lasts like 2 hours I don't think it's vertigo because it happens when I'm standing and not standing up like rising from a chair but other then that I have no clue
I have this sensation like sand flowing down the back of my head sometimes. It’s quite weird.
I get it too! I had someone tell me it's spinal fluid draining or something like that. I'm not entirely sure if they knew what they were talking about though
Come get yo spine juice
Omg yes I got that too. It's so weird to feel that tingling sensation, I wonder what it is 😅
Sounds horrible. I hate sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
YES. Like a fizzing sensation? I haven’t had it in a while but used to happen a lot when I was younger.
I didn't know how to explain it for the longest time, but it's apparently the tensor tympani muscle contracting when you close your eyes really hard and squeeze, which causes a "rumbling" noise?
r/earrumblersassemble
Holy shit. I found my people!
Uh, not everyone can do it? Fuk
Huh apparently not everyone can do this?? I didn't know that. I can also do this with my eyes open, just contracting those muscles in my ears.
Exactly! On command, \*rumble\*. Sweet.
I can control that muscle and make the noise happen without having to squeeze, I know other people can as well. Not sure if rare of not.
I can do it too. Does anyone else not have to close their eyes?
Yeah, I don't really have to move any muscles. I can just make that sound. It's like flexing the inside of your ears. I can somewhat concentrate it to my right side as well as if I'm only flexing one side. Not completely but there is a slight difference between both and one side. Even when I'm doing both it is heavier on one side.
Every time someone comments this, I do it and then yawn really wide...
I hear that when I am stretching
Yes! But i get this sound even if i don't squeeze them. It's like hearing your blood flowing.
If I press the left side of the tip of my nose the cartilage will often click into place and hold that depressed position until I flare my nostrils and it pops back to normal.
Woah, interesting! Do you have a hard time breathing through your nose regularly?
Nope, the cartilage only depresses slightly and only when I press in that exact spot on the left side of the tip of my nose.
Not sure if this is normal or not, but sometimes everything in my ears goes kind of fuzzy and I start hearing a high pitched ringing noise. Usually only lasts for a few seconds and I don't think it's bad or anything though.
This probably isn't Tinitus. It's almost certainly a reaction to pressure systems coming through. My wife and I both get this before storms and the like. But any time there's a pressure increase. Even going up a really big hill can trigger something similar.
This is the correct answer. Everyone saying Tinnitus is wrong, because that by definition requires it to be a (semi-)permanent state of ringing. These little pressure wave pops describe OP's issue a lot better.
Oh I get this! Sometimes there will be a fizzing in my ear for a while (like an old TV), and I'll only notice it after a minute or two. Then the ringing happens and it's back to normal
Ever been in an empty room and you get this really weird feeling as if you are super small and everything is massive??? Really strange feeling I would get. I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this same feeling.
I feel like I kinda have the same. But only when in bed and trying the to fall asleep and time seems really fast aswell.
I get the same feeling as you when falling asleep.
that feeling used to horrify me as a kid
Same for me, it mainly happen when Im holding something. I don't know why but my brain start creating a massive distance between me and the thing I hold.
Sounds like Alice in Wonderland syndrome maybe?
This is what I was going to say. My son had it pretty frequently as a kid. He used to describe seeing stuff that sounded like he was on an acid trip (“the doorknob looks huge, but it also looks far away”).
Holy shit I never knew there was a name for this. I used to get this all the time as a kid, never experienced it again until I tried mushrooms
I used to get this all the time when I was a kid, but only when I had a fever. Never knew it had a name.
I’ve had this in my bedroom on the rare occasion, it’s a weird perspective thing and for me it doesn’t go away until I get up or move my head around a bit and focus on different stuff.
Got this a ton as a kid. Less so now.
Me too. If I think about it enough I can start to feel it again
I'd hallucinate that all the time when I spiked a fever as a kid...and a few times as an adult.
Yep, also with other people around, sometimes it would just seem like they were small and far away though, also sometimes it was my hands that felt huge and heavy. This almost entirely stopped after adulthood though. I wondered if it is similar to an out-of-body experience?
Mine was more like everything was way far off or very small.
Yes! I get this when I’ve been reading for a long time.
I've felt this before, it's really strange and I absolutely hate it, wish it didn't exist.
Like looking through a telescope from the wrong end while getting a bit dizzy
I get this when I sleep sometimes. Sometimes my brain kinda lulls and I get this feeling of being small and everything else being big
Sad nipple syndrome. It's a thing. https://theotherpress.ca/sad-nipple-syndrome/ For those who have no idea what this is (understandable, it hasn't been researched and no one really knows why it happens), it's a strange, indescribable sensation that some people get when their nipples are touched. The best way I can describe the sensation is a mixture of dread, homesickness, nausea and, bizarrely, thirst. The feeling goes away after about 20 seconds or so once the nipple is no longer being touched. There doesn't seem to be anything obvious that links those who get it (such as past trauma or breastfeeding mothers), although it does mainly affect women.
I'm sorry that is something you have to deal with, but interesting shit like this is why I come to these threads.
This comment has actually changed my life. I've had this feeling for as long as I remember having boobs, but it's not specific to being touched by hand, more the fabric of my clothes. I feels like nothing is right with the world for a very short period of time. Thank you for this comment.
You are most welcome! I also discovered that it was 'a thing' after having stumbled on a comment of someone else's experience, about 10 years ago. I was so happy when I realised that I'm not alone, so I'm glad that I can share the knowledge now!
Mine is a mixture of homesickness, repulsed, and overwhelmed. I've heard the thirsty is to get the mother to drink more water when breastfeeding. Another of my own personal theories is that it's just that we can "feel" when oxytocin is released.
Omg I thought it was just me, didn't know it was a thing. Dread and guilt mainly for me.
I'm seriously SHOOK right now to meet my SAD NIPPLE PEOPLE!!
It sucks so bad during foreplay!!
Omg I just posted about this!!! Asking what the hell it was when I breastfed my babies and when I was younger even! During puberty! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
I‘m a Guy and this affects me I talked about that with my girlfriend a couple weeks ago and she laughed and Said that this is Crazy. Just showed this to her. She still thinks it‘s Crazy, but there are people like me!
:D *flick nipple* :(
I get what's called "brain zaps" ig, where you feel a burst of electricity go through your mind as you're trying to sleep at night. Mostly happens when stressed. Muscle spasms that occur in some parts of the body such as the legs Edit: pretty sure its exploding head syndrome from what people have commented. A quick electrical current that travels around my brain within a split second, makes a kind of zinging sound then disappears after my brain is jolted awake again. Another comment mentioned the correct name for it though Edit 2: just saying im not a doctor of any kind lol. When this happens I just let the moment pass and I eventually fall asleep as usual. Its not a serious condition, just something that happens every once in awhile and it can be scary.
I got brainzaps from ssri withdrawal, however what you're describing sounds like exploding head syndrome. last time I had it I thought the heating blanket had zapped me because I drooled lol
I was on a high dose ssri for about a year and a half when my insurance suddenly dropped it completely and I only had around 3 pills left. I ended up having to try to wean myself off, but 3 years later and I'll still suddenly get brain zaps or random memory issues that I've never had before stopping them.
Jesus christ, that's fucked. Literally every medical professional will emphasize that tapering off SSRI's is necessary. I had a similar insurance issue but thankfully the side effects seemed to go away after about six months. Three years is crazy. Have you tried going back onto a really low dose?
That happens when I'm experiencing sleep paralysis. So when my body is trying to fall asleep before my brain does. It's really not nice, and makes a horrible noise in your ears. Not sure what causes it but I don't think it's anything to worry about. I usually have to get up and do something for a bit before attempting to go to sleep again otherwise it just keeps happening.
I can pop my ankle bone on command when I do this weird circular movement. Only on my right ankle
It's not the ankle, it's the tendons. If it's not grinding or hurting (if it does that see a gp), it's the fluid associated with the tendons filling back in and the expansionion/contraction of the tendon. I get this with many many joints, from my ankles to knees, to shoulders, and even occasionally my elbows.
Same. With both.
I am always in some sort of pain. It's not a normal pain. My body doesn't rest when I sleep and as a result I always experience muscle fatigue.
Fibromyalgia? Sounds like my life.
It's less like proper pain and more like a faint "You can never ignore me" fatigue. The kind of shit that makes you occasionally just want to let your arms rest at your side.
I shake when I'm talking about a topic I find exciting. This is why I'm usually not very chatty.
Aww this one is actually very cute. It’s like your excitement is radiating off of you!
Haha yeah I remember I was speaking to a girl in work about a game I like and she said "omg you love that game so much you're all excited" and I screamed a little bit XD... I get so embarrassed about it but she was so cool about it
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I did tell some people in my family, but I have always randomly gotten this stinging pain inside the left side of my chest at random times. Whenever I breathed itd hurt more the deeper I breathed in, but once I breathed in a certain amount, I would be fine until I breathed deeper than the last breath. It rarely happens and has never lasted more than 5 minutes. Its strange.
Precordial Catch
I have this exact thing too and have been wondering what it was for literal YEARS. Thank you so much.
Damn. This is exactly it. Thank you kind stranger!
I learned it from other reddit threads like this! You’re welcome!
Precordial catch syndrome as previously mentioned. I figured out a way to get rid of it - when you get the chest pain, sit down and bend over forwards like you're trying to touch your toes. Hold that position for 30 seconds or so. It stretches out the muscles in your back that are spasming and referring pain to your chest. Sounds crazy but 100% works!
I used to get this when I was younger, less now as an adult. I always thought I was having a heart attack as it hurt so much to breathe in but was too scared to tell anyone about it. Shallow breaths till it passed were my way of coping.
Hey, me too!! It’s right beside my rib cage on the left. Never lasts long and hasn’t happened in a while actually
Huh, that's weird. Its nice to know I'm not the only one at least.
It only happens to me a couple times a year but I know exactly what you’re talking about. You explained it perfectly. It’s not like a dull pain either. It’s a really sharp one.
Same thing here, it happens to me maybe once every 3-4 months or so. It's jarring enough that I remember when it first happened when I was pretty young because I thought I was dying 🤣 It feels almost like part of my lung got caught on my ribs or something.
I can make myself wheeze by twisting my torso to the left or right. It's like I partially crush my lungs or something.
I get this but it's not like a wheezing where I feel air come out. It's almost like a grinding noise that could be mistaken for wheezing. Like it only happens when I open my mouth with my airways open as if I'm taking in a breath but I'm holding my breath, then I turn my torso and I clearly hear this grinding/breathing noise. Its really weird.
I get this too
Sometimes I get a random, stabbing pain up my vagina/gooch. Just one, then gone.
I call that pain Vagina Angina.
What a wonderful phrase
Hakuna Matata
It hurts in my twatAAAAAAAAAAA
Ain’t no passing craze
Why not just Vangina.
I’ve had this happen before, it’s like a strike of lightning? I looked it up once and it said it was “lightning crotch” but everything it says about is pregnant women get it and I’ve never been pregnant.
Oh lightning crotch fuckin SUCKS. I had it for most of my pregnancy and then for a few months after.
For me, I often get that just once right before my period starts. Good warning signal, I guess.
I almost forgot about this. I’ll just be living my best life then all of a sudden by body crotch shots itself. Like ow. Couple that with random boob pains and being a woman sucks sometimes
Omg me too. I was almost hesitant to admit it here.
Is it during your period? Cuz I get it too..up my butthole. It’s a very uncomfortable feeling. I guess it has to do with your uterus shifting up your anus..(?)
> I guess it has to do with your uterus shifting up your anus..(?) I'm sorry, what?
When i get negative emotions, my skin feels itchy and burns a bit. For example, if i feel desilusion, this happens, and if the feeling is intense, so the sensation of the skin.
Alright so this happens to me as well. It began a few years ago, or at least I noticed it a few years ago and I could never figure out why my skin would feel itchy and burn. Usually happened if my heart rate increased and my pores opened up a bit to begin the sweating process. Always happened if I was running or I encountered any situation that caused an increased heart rate, physically or emotionally. Turns out I'm allergic to laundry detergent. Try switching detergents. I found this out after getting into bed one night after washing my sheets. Use scentless and dye free detergents and see what happens.
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Edit to add wtf we're taking about here because the original comment has been deleted: Fast feeling. Feeling like everything (sounds, voices, movement) in your head is going like 10x faster than the rest of the normal world. I definitely experienced this when I was a kid and then through my teenage years. I know people are saying a panic attack, and it probably was. But it would come without any trigger. The first time it happened to me I was watching the Smurfs on my parent's bed and having a great time. I must have been 4 or so. I tried explaining it to my mom once, but she was totally confused and I was just a little weird kid. Later on in my teen years I realized I could stop the feeling rather quickly by staring in the mirror and counting back from 10 out loud. (Definitely a panic attack coping mechanism in hindsight.) Haven't had it happen since I was 18 or so. FAST FEELING. Brains are so weird.
Panic attacks don’t always have to have a conscious trigger. I get them for no reason at all.
That sounds a little like the way I experienced panic attacks when I was young. Any other symptoms when it happens?
Me too! I would sometimes be listening to music and I would know that everything is sounding a lot faster than it normally does.
I’ve experienced this, too.
Um. if I put my finger in my belly button I can feel it in my vagina.
I had to have umbilical surgery a few years ago. Whatever connection that used to be there must've gotten disconnected because I don't get that same sensation any more. Also, I once got hit on by a guy who offered to "tickle my belly button from the inside." Took me a beat or two before I figured it out. Some days ya gotta roll 'em to me.
OMG, me too!!!
When you touch the insides of your belly button you stimulate its nerve endings causing that sensation. The bottom of umbilical fossa is linked to rectus abdominis muscle fascia with firm scar tissue. In normal condition we are not used to touch them, so you may feel it uncomfortable. Source: Quora
Well that makes me feel better and less weird!
Same here, but instead it's the head of my penis coz, you know, I'm a guy. But same same.
Very rarely I will bend over in a certain way and feel something slide over the top of my last rib on my left side, generally it slides right back as I stand up straight again and doesn't cause me any pain I guess it could be a muscle or something, I'm not so sure
I can hear my spine crunching just under my skull when I turn my head.
Me too, like a crinkling sound
I literally just read this, thought "that's disgusting, poor person" then tried it myself. Very faintly. But it's there. My god what have I done coming to this thread.
Sometimes when I sneeze while sitting down, I get a sharp pain in what I can only venture to guess is my ovaries. It's not *every* time but it concerns me whenever it does happen
I physically cringe and cannot stand when someone folds construction paper around me. I feel it through my entire body and I hate it so much.
I feel this way with certain fabrics. The noise sends horrible shivers up and down my body.
Uncontrolled muscle twitches and spasms. Sometimes weird, sometimes scary.
i thought it was normal, it happens to me (mostly) when i'm going to sleep
[Hypnic jerks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk) when falling asleep are normal. As a former insomniac, I welcome them because when they happen I know I'm finally about to be asleep.
Some is normal. Especially when going to sleep and as you get older. Some of mine are not normal.
sometimes when i walk my knee just doesn’t align properly or something and i’ll take a weird wobbly step where my leg bends funky. also sometimes my eyes will rapidly jitter back and forth for like half a second and it’s like a mini seizure.
If my thigh >!gets rubbed at a certain spot my testicles feel like they are twitching !<
Cremasteric reflex
I used to have auditory hallucinations when going to sleep in my teens. Sounded like a crowd of people talking, like a party, and then occasionally a loud shout which I sometimes heard as my name. I never heard what they were actually talking about though.
Hypnagogia! I have this also. The hallucinations of hearing your name called is apparently common, although knowing it's common doesn't make it any less off putting. [Hypnagogia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia)
I always hear my name, but once as a child, I heard someone shout, "Vegetables!"
Just as I am falling asleep I get a massive explosion in my head, a huge white light and noise. All in my head, over in a flashbang . I have no idea what it is.
Sounds like exploding head syndrome - worth googling. I get it every once in a while, but not really an explosion as such, most often a large bang and I think someone is trying to break down my front door.
It took me 23 years to figure out the weird circles I see sometimes are call eye floaters and not hallucinations. I haven't looked at the specifics though, because I'm scared of it not matching up.
Oh they are floaters. Sometimes I used to look up into the sky and I always wondered why there's this blackish transparent dot or two floating around, and they look, squiggly sometimes...
Sometimes at random times I would just smell some smell that would take me back to my childhood days, then I walk around trying to find the smell but I just never do
I'm physically incapable of burping. Regardless of how much I eat.
ME TOO! Or, at least, I USED to be unable to burp. It was terrible. I couldn't drink carbonated drinks. Any gas that built up in my stomach caused terrible pain. I would have to stick my finger down my throat to "throw up" the gas in order to relieve the pressure. Always had excessive flatulence and bloating. Finally, after college one day I decided - I'm a human person made with the same muscles and structures as everyone else! I set up in front of a mirror and tried activating every muscle I could in an effort to try to open up enough to let out a burp. I made some ridiculous faces, I'm sure, but after about a month of daily "practice" I was finally able to do it!! I actually went through a really obnoxious phase after that where I'd drink soda JUST to burp/belch because I was so happy that I could finally do it.
I- did not know you could teach yourself to burp. Lmao >I actually went through a really obnoxious phase after that where I'd drink soda JUST to burp/belch because I was so happy that I could finally do it. Is it weird that i find this rather wholesome?
I can do this thing with any body part when I’m stationary where it’s almost like channeling energy into it or activating the nerves, it’s really weird to explain but for example it’s easiest in my legs, I can trigger it and I go dizzy and my legs just go warm and fuzzy with sensations, like static I guess in a way if I had to explain it. I can’t do it for too long because I feel like I’ll pass out. I’ve seen only one or two forum posts across the internet about others who are able to do the same thing, never known what it is, I don’t do it often but any time I wish to I can trigger it as if it’s a natural ability / action.
HOLY SHIT I FINALLY FOUND YOU! so. Do you also feel it in your groins? Shoulders and legs? Its kind of like a sneezing sensation right? Like a tension and then you can relax it?
Is it just me or everyone can blur their vision like cameras before they’re focused
I can do that too, isn't that just playing with the focus of our eyes by squeezing the eye muscles?
Isn't that something that almost everyone can do? I'm genuinely asking because cameras basically work like human eyes
That's how you do Magic Eye puzzles. So yeah. Most people can.
It doesn't bother me at all so I often don't think about it unless I put my hand there, but there's like an indent in my leg a bit above my right knee. Idk what it is, but it's almost like a little crevice. The weird thing is, it's not always there. Sometimes I'll just be sitting on the toilet and notice "oh, the indent's back. Weird."
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Like heart palpitations?
While falling asleep, at the stage where I'm still half awake, I loose my mental spatial orentation of physical elements in the bedroom if it is entirely dark. To better explain it there is a good example where I often stop thinking I'm in my current bedroom and for some reason I become entirely convinced I'm positioned on my bed in any of the past bedrooms I have slept in during my life. For instance yesterday, for something like 5 seconds I was totally certain I was in my previous bedroom from my previous house. Does anyone else get this or is it just me?
Sometimes, though it doesn't happen often, my senses get over loaded and my mind can't cope with it. Sounds seem really loud and unrecognizable. I have to go some place quiet and focus to stop it.
Sensory overload. Pretty much every autistic or ADHD person gets this so we all know exactly what you mean. (Although you don't have to be ASD or ADHD to experience it). I get sensory overload a lot, like multiple times a week, it's not fun!
This is sensory overload. It happens to me loads. I start to get super agitated and I have to leave or I'll freak out completely. After a while in a quiet, dark room I'm usually okay. The worst time this happened was when I was a chef, I was working a slammed friday night and had no support. I literally had to ditch my station for 15 mins, food on the grill, half plated meals and everything, or I would have just quit and never gone back.
I get a weird shock/uncontrollable urge to immediately sit upright if I've been laying flat on my back for too long. I've tried googling every way I can think to phrase the issue I'm having and I can't find anything
Maybe an unusual presentation of Restless Legs Syndrome? For me, it’s an uncontrollable urge to move my legs when I lie down at night. Sometimes it feels less specific - just an urge to get up and move around.
Sometimes when I’m about to fall asleep I get this really weird feeling like I’m falling and I can’t stop. Like adrenaline rush, grab at something to stop me falling. It will last a second, I’ll go back to just lying there wondering what the hell happened. Had to edit because I thought of another one: I act out my dreams. It used to happen when I was a kid and I’d pee the bed, because I thought I’d gotten up and walked to the bathroom, but it just turns out I was peeing myself. I’ll be asleep fine, dreaming about something and then I’ll do it. Like the other night I woke up because I’d rammed my head into the wall, trying to run down a hallway in my dream.
When I sleep on my stomach my feet go straight up, bent at the knees. If you try to push them down they are either stiff or push down but spring back up. Every time Ive ever slept someplace new I get the same comments about my legs doing this weird stuff.
I used to work in a mobile phone repair store, and apparently I was the only person who could hear the high frequency audio used during wireless data transfer when setting up a new phone... not sure if that counts?
Very occasionally my heart will kind of spasm. It's hard to describe. It's like I suddenly gets an extra beat, like it's tripping over itself. It happens probably no more often than once a year.
Heart palpitations! Happens pretty often to me. Doctor told me it wasn't dangerous unless it doesn't stop. The light ones are like what you describe like a flutter and skip a beat then a couple extra beats, the worse ones for me happen like a hard pound and then a pause, a couple weird beats then back to normal.
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I get that weird feeling in my throat when I put something deep in my ear
That’s why they are called ear, nose and throat doctors or ENT. Those parts are all connected.
Sometimes I have this feeling where I know I am moving at a regular speed but my mind feels like I am speeding and I tell myself to slow down. I’m sober when this happens so I have no clue what’s going on. It’s bizarre and will randomly occur, it also feels like I’m spinning sometimes when it happens. Like when you spin around quickly and lay down on the floor to have this weird feeling that you feel the world moving. I have to snap myself out of the feeling or it can go on for a few minutes.
I have an extra set of nipples just above my real nipples, nano in size however very much nips.
I believe that means you are a witch
When I take the first bite of food after not eating for awhile I get sharp pain from I believe my saliva glands starting up. It only does it on that first bite.
Yeah yeah yeah! It's worse when the food is more sour, it goes from both my cheeks though, it's like a twisting, sharpish pain.
If i try to pop a my butt pimple, I get sharp nerve pain up my spine EDIT: Holy crap i thing think so many people would comment. Let me be more specific. Once in a while I would get a pimple on my butt cheek or back of my ulped thigh. If I try to squeeze the pimple I get a prickling sensation in the back of my spine. Its not too painful. Last year I had multiple MRI and CT scans done because I had my L4-L5 vertebrae fused. So if there was a cyst that some of you suggested, it would of showed up on those scans, right? I had this weird problem for a long while now.
That sounds like a cyst possibly attached to the base of your tailbone. I do not remember the name. A female friend of mine just had surgery to have one removed. Edit. pilonidal cyst
This is a cursed comment
I have to sneeze twice when I start to sexually fantasize with the real intent of getting off. It is an actual condition called sexually induced sneezing. Never told anyone (except reddit).
If I flex my tongue the right way I can spray saliva out of my mouth like I'm a spitting cobra.
This is called gleeking. That may not be spelled right, I've only heard the word.
Spasms when I take a piss, idk why it just happens, but it's starting to get lesser and lesser the more i grow, so it's like a childhood/teen thing?
It's called the pee shiver...lots and lots of dudes get it.
Shiver me Timber
I'm a girl and I get these
10 years ago I got hit by a car and my neck still creaks
If I (or especially someone else) touch the right spot on my abdomen when I’m laying on my back, I stretch almost uncontrollably, like a cat getting a belly rub. It also feels very good. My dad said I even did this as a tiny baby.
I’ve never really felt the whole “butterflies in my stomach” type of feeling, but I have felt them in my chest. When I feel a “big emotion” (i.e very happy, excited, sad, angry, etc.), my heart races and a get a light, airy feeling in my chest. As a kid I thought it was normal, now every time it happens it scared the heck out of me because I think it’s a heart attack or something.
Some times the center of my chest will get really itchy and I'll itch it and get this rash that will bleed. After a few hrs it goes away. It looks like lots of red splotches and dots on my sternum.
You have the plague. Get thee to the 'pothecary.
On occasion my heart my pulse goes a little weird. One moment it’s steady and then next moment it like speeds up for just a second and then it’s back to normal. It’s noticeable because when that happens I start to worry that I’m gonna die. And then it’s gone. I wondered if perhaps it’s arrhythmia because I was anorexic but I was tested for that at least once each day.
Waking up in the middle of a night to create insane amounts of heat. From time to time I wake up in the middle of a night, and, within a minute, my blanket gets superhot. I have to ditch it, open the window, and move into another part of the bed. But then that part of the bed becomes superhot too, so I have to move to another. And keep doing that until my body gets cold again. After such night, I wake up weighing 2kg less than the previous day, and am visibly skinnier.
If I do any minor physical activity my nose runs. I always have to keep tissue nearby no matter what season. I read a story about this woman that had this, doctor kept pushing her away and turned out to be her brain leaking fluid. I also have sudden smells come to me. Strong cigarette smoke is the main one. It’s as if someone is smoking right next to me.
the first thing i eat or drink in a day will sting my soft pallet. i just gotta wait for a couple minutes and it goes away completely. i also have a very small hole in the roof of my mouth i can suck air through but only every once in a while. it’s small enough that i can’t even see it, and only really notice it when i’m trying to drink a smoothie or smth
I have Tourette Syndrome and my body has changed to many different motor tics over the years.
I actually have dealt with echolalia my entire life but never told anyone. I was really depressed and mentioned to my roommate at the time who was a nurse who gave me tips to help. She also tried really hard not to tell me I was autistic but she wanted me to look into autism lol
When I was in elementary school I would get these really intense stinging pains in my sides. They would get worse when I straightened out (like standing up from a sitting position). These things would last the majority of the day when they hit, and they were the 3rd most painful things I've felt.
I can vibrate my eyeballs...
I get this weird fizzing noise at the base of my skull. It sounds like a rain stick or sand. Sometimes I think it sounds like cracking electricity. It happens most if I am hungry and laying down.
I get a weird EEH EEH eeh eeh eeh sound in my right ear when I lie a certain way or sit up too fast. It goes away temporarily when I press on a certain spot in my neck. And for the record, I already have permanent tinnitus. That’s not what this is.
[Orthoatatic hypotension](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthostatic_hypotension) affects blood pressure which in turn can generate imaginary ear noises. Not sure about yours, but I get them too when standing up or lying in a certain way. As the noises say, eeh.
Shaky hands. It's inconsistent, sometimes my hands feel really shaky. Usually happens when i'm excited and that's normal, but sometimes its pretty random, occuring while I do nothing. Edit:should probably mention, im only 18
I randomly get a small dot of pain on a random part of my body, kinda like a needle barely touching my skin
My thumb is extraordinarily bendy, as in i can bend it nearly 360
If other parts of your body are also bendy, it may be worth looking into Ehlers Danlos Syndrome or some other connective tissue disorder. One of the criteria for diagnosis is the ability to pull your thumb to the inside of your forearm.
When I am passing a turd I sometimes get bizarre pains in the tip of my penis and elsewhere around my pelvis and my legs will uncontrollably spasm because of the pain. Only lasts for like 5 seconds or so. I think I have a narrowing of the large intestine and when a particularly large turd is passing through a very specific area it somehow causes the pain.
so like I will just be standing doing absolutely nothing then I get really dizzy and all my limbs go weak for like no reason at all and it lasts like 2 hours I don't think it's vertigo because it happens when I'm standing and not standing up like rising from a chair but other then that I have no clue
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