What Goes Bump in the Night | Sleep Disorders

[@Exurb1a]

Your best yet. No doubt. Your absolute best yet, loved it.

[@Awpteamoose]

oh hey, you make pretty cool videos too

[@marssantoso]

Didn't know exurb1a comments on youtube videos. I thought you just make videos.

[@ppg7373]

exurb1a you are the sixth big youtuber ,i noticed,commenting on one of his Videos

[@Chad_Thundercock]

When Exurb1a pops by for a visit, you know you've made something good. Now we just need Hank from SciShow, Isaac Arthur, and the folks from Extra History, and we have ourselves a party.

[@nolynste1926]

@@Chad_Thundercock extra credits. They're called extra credits.

[@JanCarol11]

My ex-husband had REM sleep behaviour disorder - so bad - that I couldn't sleep with him for the last year of marriage. He would stand on the bed, tear down the blinds, strike out. It was trauma based, and it wasn't until after his death that I was able to piece together the trauma related to this. It was deeply buried. So - while it was physical - it has a trauma basis.

[@ResidentMilf]

My husband has PTSD and occasionally thrashes and talks in his sleep. It's better than it used to be though, at least he doesn't try to punch people that aren't there and the yelling is in English.

[@syntheticteapot]

My dad used to fight in his sleep and yell in Spanish. My mom tried to wake him up one time and he punched her. It was so bad.

[@theoldhermit2601]

I have PTSD myself, and often jolt, cry, etc in my sleep. As far as I know I haven't gotten violent yet, though I've hit my head on the wall a lot. So I slightly relate, it's awful but I mostly worry about how much my loved ones must worry

[@iammrbeat]

Was this a dream?

[@fdr45]

Yes

[@CooperCarmean]

We live in your dream.

[@UltmateKngofNothngthest]

Please dont wake up or we will all die

[@Covents2s]

Are you talking about the all of video, the very beginning of the video, or all of your life, because all of them are dreams.

[@Covents2s]

Thank you Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[@erkdoc5]

You forgot the best part of sleep paralysis, how it's often tied with a nightmare. No clip of waking up with a nightmare figure by your bed rushing towards you.

[@Coeurlarme]

And I'm thankful for that. Fuck I was terrified during the whole video of seeing some kind of screamer.

[@HudaefCares]

One time I had sleep paralysis, I was lying in bed unable to move. My nephew was sitting at the foot of the bed, his back towards me. I called out to him to lend me a hand, (he was probably 5yo then, it was kinda weird of me to ask him for help) and he turned to face me, except... His face wasn't there. The center of his face was see-through; I could see the wall through his face. I got so scary that I woke up.😨

[@hoppinghessien]

As a child, I had no idea what was going on. Because of my uber religious upbringing, I thought demons were attacking me every night. I would try to scream for my mom to save me from the evil thing I felt near me. All I could do was beg Jesus to help me. I don't miss those days...

[@fighterck6241]

I always get the sensation that there just has to be somebody in the room with me. Either a family member or friend or just any old "friendly sombody" who can hear my gurgled attempts at screaming and will come and pull me off the bed or couch, causing me to crash to the ground and un-paralyze me. Then there's the other "presence" which I can't name or really describe but it's ominous and about to reveal itself to my un-moving and vulnerable self. Sometimes I feel both at the same time. It's weird. What's weirder is that I always get the feeling that a part of me knows that neither of them are even real...

[@denchua]

I usually get those when I forget to turn off the bedside lamp before I go to sleep. It's scary as hell. I sometimes imagine demons or ghosts inside my room staring at me. I once heard a group of entities talking to each other wondering if I'm asleep or just faking it.

[@VictorDude98]

A funny thing about ADD is that it tabs into "caveman mode" where the body is afraid to go asleep because it is more fragile then. So it tries its best to keep you awake and safe.

[@HisKitch]

I have Exploding Head Syndrome. Sometimes it sounds like a dog bark really loudly, somebody shouting WOAH, or in some cases it sounds like a huge rush of water.

[@qui9]

He mentioned it also usually being the sensation of falling - and I had that a lot as a kid. So much that I'd just accept my dream's fate, bored, and wait until I woke up.

[@aleksandarnikolovski9518]

I often have the falling sensation, but sometimes usually when i take naps I just experience sudden invoulontary shaking and I jump from the bed (it's not due to nightmares). It's kind of weird. Also sometimes I can listen and remember whole conversation between people while I lie in bed but still not being able to wake up (can't open eyes and move) It's like a part of my brain is only working while other parts are still in sleeping mode. Guess is somewhat of sleep paralysis.

[@JanCarol11]

History Kitchen, Exploding Head Syndrome is frequently a side effect of antidepressants, or withdrawal from them. These effects can happen up to 1-2 years after you quit the antidepressants - they are related to "brain zaps."

[@kleonymos5726]

I have sleep paralysis so i try not to lay flat to lower the risk. While you lay there it feals like you cant breath you feal heavy and it feals like you can move that part of your neck that touches the head and then you cant, only last about 3 minutes so thats a good thing.

[@MasutaMJ]

When I first learned about that syndrome I could only think of sleeping peacefully then next thing you know you hear a bomb going off. But only in your head in the middle of the night. Creepy.

[@67kingdedede]

"If youre doing it in your dream, you're probably doing it in real life" Tell me that before I try to dream piss next time

[@k8tallison250]

My husband does this EVERY time he drinks! Thinks the corner behind our bedroom door is the toilet.....

[@david2869]

I have pissed a LOT in my dreams, and I often have dreams of looking for a good bathroom. Usually it means I have to get up and piss IRL.

[@Don2006]

I actually dreamshat a year or two ago. I'm 31.

[@ZGKIV]

Ive turned having to piss into a lucid dream trigger so i can stop it, wake myself up, and get to the bathroom

[@rfsmassacre]

This is too relatable dude. I have had a lot of times where I wake up from dream only to be inside the same dream again or another dream.

[@Т1000-м1и]

Or when you wake up but don't really wake up and fall back asleep, mixing up the dreams to create insanely ridiculous things

[@TylerPlantaTree]

I have binged watched too many , just found you last week. I'mm too addicted.

[@Apoxiosis]

ive had the gunshot/explosion thing. i was also a combat engineer for the army so my brain had a real good reference point for the sound of c4 and heavy explosives. still got a brown spot in my bed

[@SophsNotes]

I agree. EDS is indeed basically what it says on the tin. Wise words.

[@jayteegamble]

C'moooon please explain. I want to be an insider too.

[@DavidJamesHenry]

SophsNotes: Pretty much what it says on the aluminum

[@FischerFilmStudio]

XD

[@HH-lr2zt]

We're studying sleep disorders in AP Psychology and this was more informational than 2 lectures put together.

[@Adventurer32]

Probably not the best idea to watch this right before I go to sleep...

[@Pingviinimursu]

Third time I thought this, third time I watched this, third time I feel like an idiot who will never sleep again.

[@jamsum7215]

I consistently watch it before I go to bed and every time I do I regret it in the end.

[@sharjesm]

Somnambulism "What time is it?" Time to kill.

[@ХристоМартунковграфЛозенски]

"Time to fall asleep.... forever ! " (*Maniacally laughs*)

[@communisttrash8590]

“If your doing it in your sleep then your probably doing it irl” Well see ya later virgins

[@Jack-fz8gc]

S-step bro...?

[@SavageMinnow]

Guys who want virgins are the most disgusting pieces of trash. Way to advertise your sexual disorder. Now, please get help.

[@communisttrash8590]

@@SavageMinnow what

[@Jack-fz8gc]

@@SavageMinnow I think you misread something along the way bud

[@TitaniusAnglesmith]

@@SavageMinnow You must be self projecting because no one talked about that 😳

[@tendiesman4637]

My sister would have night terrors while sleep walking. She would actually run around the house will she was dreaming and slam doors and scream. She would even run up and down the stairs and never fell once.

[@tinycockjock1967]

Poplk what a legend

[@Apjooz]

I do that too. I often think the house is on fire or collapsing.

[@Serenity_yt]

I mostly just tried to go to the loo keyword tried when I was younger or have weird convos with my family and then wake up somewhere totally different. The convo thing still happens ocaisonally and never fails to amuse the next morning when the other person tells me about it. Edit: I wish I had that much controll I still dont sleep in high beds for the most part because once or twice I stood up and just walked over the railing instead of climbing down the ladder.

[@kylethomas2993]

I feel asleep with the TV on, and the show played into my dream

[@SailorSabol]

Kyle Thomas that happens to me all the time

[@karamanid]

I play KZbin videos on my bedroom for a similar effect

[@david2869]

@@karamanid Or I just fall asleep in my chair when watching YT.

[@grsimpson3957]

@C R Yeah, I woke up disappointed I hadn't won the Kumite in Bloodsport

[@TheOsamaBahama]

I once fell at sleep listening to a podcast and I listened to the entire thing during my dream.

[@tomh2572]

I used to have dreams that were what I would describe as nightmares, but they're not like the common Car crash or serial killer nightmares. It'd just be some object, like for instance, a football. I'd perceive it in good condition in a clean and healthy looking environment, like a football field, and then I'd suddenly see the object destroyed and filthy, and the surrounding environment turned to waste. Almost as if I'm looking at before and after footage of some nuclear detonation, but it would be in areas where I frequent, such as my estate or the train station in my village. (I live in a country that likely would not be the target of such a detonation, and which does not have nuclear power stations, so the likelyhood of this happening to me is extremely slim.) I don't often get these dreams anymore. I mostly got them as a kid, but every now and then I get one like it. It usually doesn't just feature one object and background, either. Not long after I see the destroyed area, I see a new object and area, in good condition, with no damage or the like. I've had similar dreams where it'd be someone's voice, usually softly singing or humming, followed by them screaming or shouting, not necessarily in fear, but more in anger, and it's usually directed at me. I find these kinds of dreams to be pretty stressful for some reason, as if the events in them are my fault, and that I could somehow have prevented them. I've talked to some friends about them, but they don't have any dreams like this. I'm sure that maybe someone has had a dream like this, so maybe if you have you can reply or something. idk. Thanks for reading I guess.

[@TheLalliman]

I haven't had that particular dream, but I likewise have a weirdly-specific recurring one. For me it's that I'm sleeping in the dream, but still aware of my environment in that weird 'only makes sense in the moment' way. I'm aware that something bad is going to happen, like a bomb is going to explode, a poisonous snake is going to bite me, or orcs are going to attack my house. (Yes, that last one happened.) I try to wake myself up, but my body is unwilling, and I have to struggle against the temptation to just keep sleeping and let it happen. Naturally, this really messes with me when I wake up in real life wondering if I'm still in danger. I think these highly-specific nightmares are manifestations of our worst fears, even if we maybe don't consciously know about that fear. My recurring dream would represent the fear of something happening while I'm unable to respond, which I recognise as something I'm particularly afraid of. Yours might be the same, since you aren't there when the disaster happens, or it might represent a general fear of large-scale disasters. Dreams are a way to process our experiences, so they certainly mean something, although perhaps in an abstract way.

[@whoofianbrony8804]

I actually have something similar. they don't happen often though

[@lifemythanimations6606]

*Fallout*

[@TechyBen]

My dreams, and I assume many peoples, are sometimes a mixture of visual memory and functional understanding. So it may have been your brain pulling out images you knew (football etc) and doing things it thinks are possible (thinking about how clean/old/new/dirty they are etc). However, that they were scary, or that you remembered them instead of sleeping normally, suggests something was disturbing your sleep.

[@wizzotizzo]

dude i literally had this exact thing, nearly word for word, i swear i thought i was the only person who had this, thank you for sharing this

[@Emeralsha]

I'm really glad you mentioned Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, because I feel like not enough people know about it. It's fairly common and can really deeply impact your life if gone undiagnosed. Most doctors don't know about it (at least that I have visited before I was diagnosed), and I only discovered I had DSPD about 10 years after I started having problems (finally went to a sleep clinic). If you're having troubles with sleep, see a professional!! It may just change your life.

[@RunawayCaboose]

Who tf would stand in their room and try to wake up during a lucid dream? You have complete control over the dream! I’d have some sick adventure

[@TheKewlPerson]

Often you can't control yourself waking up it just happens

[@JMM33RanMA]

I had a weird one. I didn't like what was happening and thought "I don't like this!" and it replayed, proceeding in a different direction.

[@stackflow343]

That wasn't the case for me. I lucid dreamed chronically for several years. Not exactly how popculture often portrays it. Also, my dreams started to take place in or around my house towards the end and I started to get worried that I could be sleepwalking o_O

[@JMM33RanMA]

D Were the dreams centering on your house exactly as it is or was? For years I had dreams centering on the house I grew up in, but with a curious overlay of the familiar rooms being simultaneously other countries. So going from my bedroom to the kitchen through the living room would simultaneously be going from America to Germany via France.

[@stackflow343]

The house would be mostly recognizable, but also vaguely distorted. There were times tho that walking into the den turned into me being somewhere else.

[@Т1000-м1и]

The beginning clip is the most accurate portrayal of weird dreams that's still remaining clear and detailed video without complex visual effects

[@neurotransmissions]

Ooo, 60fps! And effects! I used to sleep walk and would even go outside in the snow. Luckily I grew out of that. Sleep is...weird.

[@FatCat715]

I loved this video and i think you did a great job. I have Idiopathic Hypersomnia. It is hard for people to understand, they think I just need more sleep. I can sleep for 9 hours and never feel rested.

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

Thank you....interesting. I'm a fairly new sub so I'm having a binge and wanted to tell you so far I admire your variety of topics, and depth of research. Looking forward to more

[@aprilrichards762]

I get night terrors from PTSD due to past abuse. I tend to remember my dreams, so I turn them into stories.

[@semisweetsakura2646]

I have a various assortment of sleep disorders. Delayed sleep phase syndrome, exploding head syndrome (the falling sensation), occasional sleep paralysis, and chronic nightmares, to be exact. I also used to talk and wiggle a lot in my sleep, but I don't anymore. I do thrash and fall in and out of sleep usually starting around 6-7am and ending when I wake up, though. Regardless, it was fun to watch a video on someone going over many of them! Good work, man!

[@christopherkrol6515]

My math tutor's huspband died of fatal familial insomnia, it was incredibly sad when he passed away.

[@djmarycruz]

Sorry for your loss

[@faisal3398]

One time I was dreaming that I got something I really wanted and I kinda felt that I was dreaming so I tried doing something stupid that would usually wake me up but it didn't, then I got really excited but I started to feel the dream fading away, I tried holding back my excitement but in the end I woke up. When I went back to sleep I dreamed of another exciting thing happening to me but I was with a friend and I told them about my previous dream. The dream was exciting yet inconsistent but I still didn't realize it even though I have previously been conscious in my dreams.

[@Sorenzo]

About firelight not messing too much with our circadian rhythms: The fact that you can tell that everything outside the firelight is dark probably has a psychosomatic effect. I mean, it's not like you're gonna think it's still daytime because you're staring into the fire well into the evening.

[@flipperbear9]

I'm a doctor, and you don't have to be one to talk about medical stuff, in fact your video is pretty good.

[@Sonic6293]

I've experienced a lot of these sensory/conscious disorders. If you're a lucid dreamer, just enjoy the ride.

[@rosstheboss1014]

Sonic6293 well said fellow Lucid Dreamer.

[@TheKewlPerson]

I often Lucid dream but just ignore that I'm dreaming and instead of controlling what's around me, I like to see how the dream naturally plays out, like I'm watching a movie except I'm in the movie (except I've actually had dreams where I'm watching something else in the third person and I'm not in the dream)

[@rosstheboss1014]

Krok Krok how the fuck does that have to do with anything?

[@Coeurlarme]

@Krok Krok snowflake? Having lucid dream sometimes is pretty common I think, at least if you remember your dream well (and it's not uncommon to be able to remember your dream well) so it's not really "snowflaky" to say you have them.

[@stackflow343]

"just enjoy the ride" That's what I thought until I started lucid dreaming chronically. It's not quite how people say it is. Always felt like wading through a haze with a lot of influence on events but not really control. I get the feeling that when people brag about it online like some sort of entertainment or pass-time, they're probably making it up.

[@littleboyblue40]

Don't know how you don't have more subscribers. I love the content man, keep it up!

[@OutdorsDanny]

I think it's because he claims to be neutral and then is fairly biased. While he seems to lean more to the left. But since he discusses hot topics intellectually he is going to piss off either side. Therefore he turns off people from both sides. I like listening to his intellect even though I don't much like his politics. I don't belong to either party though so this doesn't really bother me. since I tend to hate everybody's political opinion. bunch of statists LOL

[@MaineCoonMama18]

Yay, you mentioned mine! Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder (or Syndrome). I suddenly started suffering from it at 11 but it took 7 years for me to be correctly diagnosed. Mine is severe, which means your body clock is delayed by 5 or more hours. They don't know what causes it but it usually appears suddenly in adolescence. The only treatment is basically to manipulate your body clock so you can function during normal hours. I manage to manipulate mine pretty well now, but I don't sleep well and am often tired.

[@Emeralsha]

I also have a severe case of DSPD. It can really deeply impact your life, which I feel isn't talked about enough. There definitely needs to be more education out there about it, because I too was misdiagnosed for years! It's hard to keep on such a tight schedule, but I know you can do it. Messing up here and there can suck (it can just derail everything), but you can fall into a rhythm after a while. I don't know how old you are, but it can be recognized as a disability in schools and possibly even some workplaces, and they will not be able to penalize you if you show up late sometimes. If you can't keep on schedule, it might just be easier to conform to what your body really wants (I'm also talking to myself here because I haven't kept a good schedule for about a year now). Just some ideas. Hang in there!

[@flowerlandfilms]

...delayed phase is a part of my non 24 cycle as well... ...the australian government does not recognise it as a disability, so i'm just accused of being lazy a lot... ...but depriving myself of sleep to attend meetings is too torturous to do anymore, the older i get...

[@Emeralsha]

That's really hard, I'm sorry you're going through that. This just goes to show that more awareness really is needed. Maybe there's a way to accommodate your sleep more (different work hours)? Or maybe there is a sleep disorder organization where you are that you could join? Not sure, but you're definitely not alone, and I wish you the best.

[@_ZombieDoll_]

I suffer from multiple sleep disorders, it's a fun time. Once I was having a sleepover for my birthday and in the morning had a bit of sleep paralysis, I knew what was going on so I just waited for my body to get the message and just listened to the world, and managed to catch my friends talking about and then eating the chocolate I was given for my birthday.

[@Ghipoli]

Wait a minute... You sit on your bed when recording these videos?! Never noticed that... Great video btw!!

[@KnowingBetter]

For the few bedroom ones, yeah

[@liamdoes8580]

Sometimes he does household activities

[@carschmn]

Sometimes he’s on his couch.

[@kumatoni5245]

Woah, you totally threw me for a second by referencing the "on the tin" advert! haha New subscriber. Love your content!

[@seangagnon8458]

Could you please clue us in. What's the reference from. Thank you.

[@EebstertheGreat]

I was diagnosed with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome at 17. It's exactly how it sounds. It is difficult to impossible to fall asleep at a normal hour. 3 am feels early. I can make up for it with regular naps, but I have no doubt that more diet and exercise would improve it. It's not really a mystery, and it's not like there's nothing I could do. That said, it clearly affects me a lot more than anyone else I know.

[@theshamanite]

I'm probably an insomniac, considering I couldn't sleep without meds since I was born. I don't nap like other teens, and drifting off to sleep is weird to me. I did this intentionally once and my body felt groggy for half the day. I usually pass out, like turning off to sleep. I think consciousness being the first to go before the rest. You guys have it best I've heard, but this above is my best. Subjective world we live in.

[@kathulemerald8000]

Great vid, Will never forget the time I was lucid and was learning how to fly for the first time. Abnormal or not, I'd love to Lucid dream more often. :)

[@Spicyfeathers]

Amazing video, ive never been shouted out to as an onironaut! When i was a kid i slept walked (probably still do) according to this video i also had exploding head syndrome too as i would fall from great heights and wake up suddenly often, sometimes actually falling out of the bed. Id wake up at my school (across the street from my house) ready for class sometimes. I still kick when im trying a dream skateboard move (that one wakes me up) eventually i had my first lucid dream in which i got to throw summertime snowballs. I blinked but realized if i opened my eyes id just wake up. So i used that as practice of staying asleep. “If i can blink in my dreams i can lucid dream” -me. I got really good at meditating, flying and reality rips. The hardest thing to do in your dreams is meditate. What body are you aware of? When in the deepest depth of my dream-walking i had considerable trouble telling dreams from reality. Lucid dreaming cooled my sleepwalking considerably, but i still have plenty of sleep issues. Ive had sleep paralysis, night terrors (not since lucid dreaming), and so many false awakenings (as demonstrated in this video). I am unable to share a bed with people due to my experiences. And, maybe out of trauma, i have a decent case of insomnia. Though ill admit i just dont go to bed in the first place and opt for 3-4 hours less sleep than i need. thank you for this video, i feel… normalized. Im totally checking out that dream video now!

[@vanyasmith1125]

I have narcolepsy type 1 (narcolepsy w/ cataplexy) which is pretty wild tbh, like it is a sleep disorder but it affects my entire life, not always in ways that are bad. Maybe I'm just a sucker for silver linings, but sleeping through dental work and on every flight I take is pretty nice. It is sort of different for everyone and we don't know a ton about the way it works because we don't know much about our brains really, and I think that is what makes it so interesting! There is so much more to it than just EDS and I feel it's particularly fascinating... though I suppose I'm a bit biased. I'd encourage anyone to research it if you're one of those people who just enjoys randomly researching things

[@kaitlyn__L]

I’m waiting on the actual sleep study, but definitely have excessive daytime sleepiness, definitely fall asleep without warning, almost always fall asleep on journeys longer than 15 minutes, and get moments of cataplexy. (I had to tick these off and a few more to get a sleep clinic referral.) It’s the last one I find most annoying, suddenly having my muscles go limp for a few seconds. At least it hasn’t broken anything important since I was a child. Edit: oh yeah, before puberty I’d have full body cataplexy for many seconds or even a few minutes rather than just a second or two in my extremities. I’d go floppy often enough as a child that we had our own familial term: “she’s got the flop”, “a flop attack”, etc. I’m not sure if they thought I was just playing, certainly no one thought it was worth medical attention.

[@Sylvatic98]

I had exploding head syndrome once, but instead of an explosion it was dogs barking and people SCREAMING. I also heard a faint version of this for a bit every night for about a month before this.

[@James.Stark.Ben.Edition]

I am actually a writer and I remember all my lucid dreams. They're really weird

[@Iraski]

RLS, OSA, and DPSD here. I'm so bad at sleep it might as well be a talent. I was also a very lucid dreamer as a child, to the degree that I had a hard time understanding how anyone wouldn't be aware they were in a dream while dreaming. At first it was terrifying because I had nightmares most nights, but that forced me to learn how to wake myself up and eventually direct my own dreams. I mostly lost the ability as a teenager as it became more interesting to see how the dreams unfolded naturally, even if it was a nightmare. I still occasionally have dreams where I am a passive observer instead of an active participant, though.

[@frafrafrafrafra]

Watching it at 04:45 am, well......

[@josh-ch9sm]

Frank Diodati 3:18 AM here

[@DanielStarbuck]

2:47am here which is still pretty early for me.

[@basil9973]

I just stayed up a whole night. Its 5:21AM

[@robertgrey1377]

Dear mr knowing better, I watched this video a few years ago and have since developed parasomnia. Night terrors or similar. I had my first night terror this year and your video totally popped into my head when I finally woke up. Cray cray. But now I gotta go to the doc, it’s been occurring a few times a month and it’s very disruptive.

[@mLswanson]

I’ve actually had a lucid dreams a number of times, but only once or twice was I able to control the dream once I realized I was asleep. Nevertheless it was pretty awesome and I would love to be able to do it more often. And you’re totally right about the teeth grinding dream thing, I know that I grind my teeth and I wear a nightguard because of it, but I know when I’m having a night where it’s particularly bad because I will dream that there is gum stuck in my teeth and no matter how much in the dream I scrape and pull the gum out of my teeth I can’t get it all out, and saw the entire dream is about me being annoyed at this gum stuck in my teeth lol

[@botas5254]

KB, your content is always quality and enjoyable. Love ya man! -Dawson

[@mrlolzot]

I've got a pretty strange way of experiencing sleep paralysis. When it happens I feel my body being kind of sucked into a void and I start hearing a very loud very high pitched noise. My teeth also start to hurt a lot. I can always get out of it by trying to move but it takes me a while of trying and I only gradually get motoric control again. I do still keep proprioceptic and sensoric control but it acts kind of weird. I can feel my limbs getting pulled in different directions or have the sensation that I'm being grabbed and lifted by something. I never see any detailed things only sort of shadows moving.

[@ilikemyrealname]

Lennert Vh pretty typical actually. I’ve had SP for 30 years. I’ve had what you’ve explained plus maaaaany more issues. The old hag on my chest, the shadow people, neon lights, feeling of levitating, so on. This video explains it in a way so basic that it barely counts as being a representation of the disorder. It’s a whole lot more than your body not waking up. Maybe that counts for when it happens at the end of your sleep, but SP can also happen towards the beginning of sleep. So would be the opposite, your mind not going to sleep. Sorry for your SP experiences, I know how intense it can be. And yeah, the teeth thing is terrible! I’ve experienced demon like figures pulling me up off of my bed by only my top row of teeth. The pain was so intense, I woke up still feeling residual pain, even though it wasn’t real. And that’s the biggest takeaway from SP, none of it is real. Waiting out the experiences over the years has been one of the biggest lessons in patience. Good luck bro!

[@slow17motion]

You're not alone, dude. I always feel the presence of someone (or something). I've heard loud static. Anytime I've just sat there and let it happen, it becomes terrifying. The best way for me to kick it is to concentrate upon moving my legs. Also, always GET UP. I've been fooled before, thinking I was up, only to find out I wasn't.

[@kleonymos5726]

slowSEVENTEENmotion when i experience sleep paralysis i feal heavy and it feals like you can move that part of your neck that touches the head and then you cant, i try to move my arms off the side of my bed so they fall and it seems to kick my brain on but this takes forever because its hard to move very slow paced.

[@OutdorsDanny]

I have occasionally dealt with this since as far back as I can remember. Still scares the s*** out of me whenever it happens. But in my case anytime I try to physically put the parts of my body that are being pulled away back in their body parts. It hurts like hell like your foot falling asleep times 1000. So at a young age realized I have to just think it and not physically do it still, takes forever but it's not as painful. Those who have never dealt with this have no idea the things we have seen.

[@illbeburningstar1]

@@slow17motion ya I have it pretty regularly as well and your right that if you don't get up you seem to get stuck in this loop where you feel like you've woken up but you haven't

[@styxdragoncharon4003]

...I live with a few of these and it is worse than most realize. The hard part is getting treatment, because in most places there is none. Thank-you for shedding light on this. Mahalo nui mai ka Puna.

[@stevenmiller5400]

A Bane mask that keeps you alive is not creepy.

[@drakep.5857]

"Is it really a problem, or is it BADASS?" - Idubbz

[@oanaalexia]

I'm forever grateful that I've found your channel. It's so neatly put together, so cool and it makes me angry that you don't have millions of subscribers. I love you! 💖

[@daisyhinojosa23]

If we can’t tell when we’re dreaming, how can we tell if we’re ever awake?

[@vincedibona4687]

Now you're catching on.

[@Kaitivere]

easily

[@sifridbassoon]

very interesting video! i've always had sleep problems, and I've experienced several of those disorders at various times. I once had sleep paralysis on a bright, sunny Saturday afternoon. I was napping on the sofa in my living room, and I remember thinking "you've GOT to get up." But no matter how hard I tried, I could not move my arms or legs. Also a typical effect (for me anyway) is that if I try to scream, all I can do is make some kind of croaking sound. It's as if I can't push the air hard enough to actually scream (of course, this is what I remember from my "sleep paralyzed" conciseness. If I actually make any sound there would need to be someone else in the room who could hear me). in my "head exploding" episodes, usually i'm in a cave and step off a cliff. I fall down and down and eventually hit a ledge, but then bounce off and continuing falling. this usually happens repeatedly until i either wake up or fade back into unconsciousness. But lucid dreaming is the BEST! especially if you can get to a point where you can guide it (i won't say control because i'm not sure it can be controlled). it's a great way of having "naughty time" with someone who doesn't even notice you in real life. however, you don't want to beat someone up or shoot your boss or anything because if you lucid dream a lot, you can start having problems knowing whether you are actually in reality or a dream, and as a friend of mine once said, people who can't tell the difference between reality and non-reality tend to be called schizophrenic (yikes).

[@aminturajev4502]

I was waiting for a jump scare at the beginning of the vid.

[@rawfullyhealthylife6380]

Sleep study is one of my favorites! That was part of my job in the af and it was so interesting to me!

[@ParanormalEncyclopedia]

Best medical advice a non doctor can give on anything: talk to a doctor

[@EmotionsNeverLie]

Something interesting I ran into with is hypnagogic hallucinations. It's like dreaming before you're asleep.

[@thezebraherd8275]

Last night I was dream then I looked at my feet and relalized I had a cut off foot that looked like mine next to me but I also had two feet then I woke up even though I tried to stay in the reality to get more sleep

[@BG-360]

I'm glad I watched this right before going to bed.

[@Mister.Real3]

Does anybody else watch his videos because it’s informative and he’s handsome?

[@howdypardner6278]

...those and the ferret

[@joeyt9259]

I’ve had almost all those dream behaviors you talked about, mostly while doing or coming off heavy drugs. Some of the dreams can be really fun, but other terrifying and used to piss off my ex even though I had no control of it (except obviously quitting drugs for good)

[@whiteshadow8520]

Really interesting! I usually wake up when things start feeling really warm... and... oh nvm I love how my alarm went off just as you touched your phone. Did you do that? ;)

[@Dumbreoff]

Great job on this one! I’ve had on and off night terrors for years now and I’m a bit extra in the sense that I remember most all of them and while I’m having them I’ll get up and go to someone to try and get them to help me calm down

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

Those sharp blasts of static while cutting to the dream-sequence or whatever? Those hurt. Please make such effects quieter in the future? Thumbs up on the cool video.

[@klaraj.4940]

turn your fucking volume down you dumb fuck or stop using head phones

[@liamlowery5485]

@@klaraj.4940 Who hurt you?

[@katelyn4627]

Nice video! I have narcolepsy, and it's interesting to me how often it's related to other sleep problems. I talk, sing, move, kick/hit, walk, and grind my teeth in my sleep. I've often had full conversations with people, eyes open, while still asleep. That one's a little weird lol. I don't experience cataplexy or sleep paralysis, but both are associated with narcolepsy as well. Many of these things happen in people with narcolepsy because our brains don't regulate sleep correctly, including when the body is supposed to be paralyzed. It can mean we're physically active during sleep and might experience paralysis right before falling asleep and/or after waking up. Cataplexy is a more sudden paralysis that can happen anytime during the day. It usually just affects one part of the body (arm gives out, face drooping, falling) and doesn't last long, usually just seconds. And for whatever reason, it's triggered by sudden, strong emotions, such as laughter or surprise or fear. (this is based on what my doctor told me and what I saw in my mother, who did have cataplexy; others might experience it differently).

[@kaitlyn__L]

I’m waiting on a sleep study but it’s suspected I have it, I used to thrash about constantly as a kid but as an adult I don’t move _at all_ while I’m asleep. I also used to get full body cataplexy for sometimes even a few minutes as a kid, as an adult it’s exactly like you described (usually one or both arms, and about a second).

[@doristheslug9609]

I had sleep paralysis once. The guy in the corner of the the room was a serial killer. And a roblox character model.

[@edwardzignot2681]

I've had tons of incidents of sleep paralysis. It happened so much I got used to it. I'd wake up, couldn't move , think "This crap again?" And start trying to wiggle my fingers and toes till I can move again while trying to ignore any craziness going on in my room. Before I knew what was going on yeah, most terrified I've been in my life!

[@legendofFranktheTank]

I experience it exactly like this!! Down to attempting to wiggle my toes or focus on moving body parts and everything. But I never got used to it, I'm at the point now where when it happens I know it's happening and I can try to tell myself that it's fine but it's still scary to me every time

[@aprilrichards762]

How many can't turn on lights in dreams? It tells me I'm dreaming.

[@Richard-qu5vi]

Same.

[@Noelciaaa]

Omg I had no idea that the exploding head syndrome was a sleep disorder :OO. I get it sometimes but it's never falling, more like things falling on me, pressure, noise and/or temperature increasing. Very often it's caused by the room getting too hot and my body forcing me to wake up like that so I prevent myself from overheating further

[@langeweile42]

this fking sound effect edit: you should know better

[@connerblank5069]

My favorite kind of lucid dreams are the new game+ variants. Where you have the exact same sequence of events as a previous dream happen, subconsciously remember that dream's events, and spend the whole thing manipulating the crap out of the plot for fun because you already know what's supposed to happen. Super fun. My second favorite kind is the ones where you realize you're dreaming, and then immediately do something people say you can't do in a dream to prove that you CAN, in fact, do that. Like read a book, or stab yourself to feel the pain. Honorable mention to infinite jump-running through crowds and breathing underwater, those are always cool.

[@Odbarc]

I lucid dream sometimes. It's wicked awesome but there's usually this duality of the "dreamer vs the dream" where my subconscious has barriers that doesn't want me to misbehave and there's generally sentries depicted as authority figures of some sort patrolling the dreamscape. Took me years to figure out how to fly as will (versus some kind of anti-gravity floating where I needed to jump and lock myself vertically) and DBZ style lasers to cause destruction. Phasing through walls and such seems like an innate ability so I can mostly go where ever I want -- even outside the bounds of reality (kind of like no-clip mode in games, and standing outside of the walls of the interior without going outside). I used to have regular nightmares as a kid so this kind of lucid dreaming was a natural defense I needed. I totally remember the first time I had a lucid dream and haven't had a nightmare since. (I was being chased by the Predator (that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie), scary, it was trying to bite and cut me. Then it was like, "Whow." and I became Neo from the Matrix (years before movie came out).

[@OutdorsDanny]

Odbarc that's awesome man. I remember my first lucid dream as a kid. I have lots of nightmares back then and horrible episodes of sleep paralysis. Now when I lucid dream my brain throws me into another one without even waking me up. My brother's first lucid dream he thought awesome I can fly, took off flying and smashed into the ceiling of the building he was in apparently he has more limits than you lol.

[@Altermerea]

Yeah I also don't have real nightmares since lucid dreaming. I never really do anything abnormal tho, don't need an urge to fly because I'm scared of heights and don't really have an idea what can I do. So I usually use it to remove every inconvenience that can happen in a dream (lost my phone or a bag - I'll bring that thing out of nowhere back immediately), and if the plot is not fun or sad, I just skip it over and force something new to happen, but don't really invent my own surroundings, I just play along with the settings and story the dream has provided me. This however changed my dreams into being very hyperrealistic and even mundane so it causes me more troubles to realize I'm dreaming because everything unnatural I recognize immediately, and if something traumatic happens, I am able to realize that I can revert that and it won't be permanent so I just stop worrying and restore the order myself. I once tried to make my own dream and I did, but when I had that 100% control over what I do it stopped being fun at all. Everything felt fake and unreal, like I was a 3rd person observer, not a participant. It is more entertaining to just let the dream be played out with that Game Master console on, because I don't know what to expect and that makes the dreams really nice.

[@bordergore6574]

I was really horny as i child so i tjink you can guess what my lucid dreams were about.

[@thomasdarby6084]

I must admit that your opening dream sequence unnerved me. I'm 66 years old, and ever since childhood, I've had a similar recurring dream, where the lights are out in my room, I can barely see, and I can't turn them on. This is usually ended by a shiver of fear up my spine. So thanks, I probably won't sleep tonight!

[@EarlGamer]

Great video, but at 18:37 you say, "A disorder doesn't necessarily have to be bad; Being excessively happy is a disorder," while "This is called Mania" appears on the screen. This is a significant misrepresentation of mania. Somebody who is clinically manic may be excessively happy, but they might also be excessively irritable or anxious. Other potential symptoms are obsessiveness, distractibility, cluttered speech, racing thoughts, and insomnia. And these are the relatively harmless symptoms. Mania can cause psychosis, a severe disconnect from reality. People in a manic state can experience delusions (such as grandiosity) and hallucinations. They are also likely to engage in behavior that is dangerous or harmful in other ways. Two common examples are hypersexuality and exorbitant shopping sprees.

[@VyewVyew]

Agreed... I can get behind the occasional hypomanic episode for creative jobs, but the accidentally self-harming risky behaviors in full mania is just not worth it. I would add to your common examples the patient gambling all their money away. Not to mention if the patient remains aware of their flight of thought, it can be very distressing to not be able to focus or think about anything as their thoughts race from disjointed topic to topic.

[@FolsomC]

"So of course I had to include it!" LOL I love your channel.

[@michaeldixon3129]

I have lucid dreams, I can either wake myself up during a dream, or I can manipulate it. For example once when I dreamt of being robbed, I made a gun appear in my hand

[@zegnar3420]

"The closer you get to the meaning The sooner you know that you're dreaming"

[@JanCarol11]

"Your brain knows it's not real, and so won't commit it to memory." Except that - tribal teachings proclaim that what we see in dreams is MORE real than "waking" reality, and the work we do there has flow on effects in the "waking" world. (I put waking in quotes, because - am I a human dreaming I'm a butterfly? Or a butterfly dreaming I'm human?) New sciences of Dreaming indicate that Lucid Dreaming is like an intelligence - like learning to do maths - that not everyone develops. Our materialistic world fails to recognise many values - like dreams and emotions - which are part of being Whole Humans. Because our materialistic world doesn't acknowledge it, we forget our dreams. The Kichua people of Ecuador share a caffeinated beverage before dawn and use that time to discuss their dreams. Remembering dreams - and being lucid in them - are skills, not aberrations.

[@Yezpahr]

I once had a disturbing dream-in-a-dream-in-a-dream dream (._. ). Very annoying, very scary and very confusing. I was dreaming about some psychedelic world, all I remember of that part. Then I got woken up by an unknown guy whom I didn't recognize but had a peculiar recognizable face oddly enough, he said "time to wake up" and he opens the curtains. While the light falls on my partner's side of the bed I see another dude on the other side of my bed and he's so odd-looking that I stand up, jump over the feet end of the bed to ask my partner who the fudge was in bed. He says "You're still dreaming". Which I didn't believe of course. I got quite upset, but I did wake up from that tantrum. Or so I thought. Looking around me I realize I had an odd dream, so I go into the living room to tell my dream to my partner. He's listening closely, a bit too closely, and then says "dreams will be dreams" and he starts singing some weird song titled 'menya zovut snur' (._. ). While I go back into the bedroom to fetch more clothes, not even questioning why he sings a song I haven't heard in 15 years, I was instead contemplating to rip a nail out just to see if I bleed or wake up. I decided that wasn't worth the risk, but while opening the bedroom door, it opened into the wrong direction and badly hurt my knee. That didn't even wake me up instantly, but the pain did make me question the reality of it all... it wasn't quite right because I noticed that door was opening into the wrong direction :/. I wake up for real this time and tell that whole series of the dream to my partner, but he was bound to his tablet screen unlike in the dream, and he said almost the same damn thing but this time "dreams are just dreams". Of course he already knew that his dream-counterparts said similar things so I knew he was just messing with me. Still I checked and asked if he was gonna sing a song now, which he found very peculiar.... he probably thought I thought I was still dreaming xD. There are a lot of weird dreams in my life, but that one takes the cake.

[@Jaska124]

Thank you so much for this, you seemingly pinpointed the sleeping disorder I have. I've fought and cussed in my dreams ever since I've been a kid. My close ones think it's because I practice martial arts daily or because I drink, but I've had rampages asleep even before I did either of those things. I might actually go and try to get a diagnosis after seeing this.

[@SahrethLovesAnimals]

I was directed to your channel after a Facebook rant on not aligning myself with the right or the left and when I saw this video listed, I had to watch it first lol. I have dealt with abnormal sleep disturbances my entire life, including constant nightmares, night terrors, sleep paralysis, sleep-talking, and somniphobia. No exaggeration, my first recollection of dreaming was when I was around the age of 4-5 (I was in Kindergarten) and dreamt that WInnie the Pooh asked me to help talk Piglet out of killing himself via fire because Piglet felt that nobody cared about him. I first remember fearing sleep around 10 and first remember experiencing sleep paralysis around 12. My mom even said that when I was a baby, she would put me to sleep, only to have me wake up screaming at the top of my lungs for no reason and absolutely nothing would calm me down so she had to leave me to scream myself out, which sometimes I did for more than an hour at a time. To this day, at 26, I experience sleep paralysis monthly or more, constant nightmares, monthly night terrors, and am constantly anxious of going to sleep. I've been diagnosed with 'sleep disturbances,' PTSD, Schizoaffective Disorder (schizophrenia and major depression), but have refused sleep studies due to anxiety and paranoia. I remember having a good dream once in my life and that is it...but I can remember every detail of it. Subbed ^^

[@another_blacktomcat]

As i suffer from idiopathic hypersomnia, i know a bit about this topic. Please mind that the "sleep attacks" in narcolepsy are not exclusively actual sleep but most of the time cataplexy (is that what its called in english? sorry, non native speaker). Basically extreme relaxation of muscles, often while still fully awake. which is far more dangerous and frankly terrifing than "just" falling asleep. (think of falling off stairs without muscles tonus)

[@kaitlyn__L]

It’s called that in English too, yep! I’d go floppy often enough as a child that we had our own familial term: “she’s got the flop”, “a flop attack”, etc.

[@illeagle9560]

I love the dream sequences, they almost perfectly represent the worst of my dreams when I feel too drunk to walk, talk, or even see, I slide around like I'm stuck in the Team Rocket hideout from Pokemon Y/R/B and no objects work as intended

[@spazzyshortgirl23]

You are missing one thing though: non-cataplectic narcolepsy, which I suffer from. It means I have the excessive daytime sleepiness but sleep does not attack without warning while standing or talking; rather, any time I sit down or am required to just listen, (without medication) I will fall asleep,no matter how much I slept the night before. To make matters worse I sleep fitfully at night. It’s hereditary and appeared around age 16 and everyone just thought I was a lazy teenager who slept in church and class even when I didn’t want to.

[@FatCat715]

spazzyshortgirl23 I have the same disorder but my neurologist calls it idiopathic hypersomnia.

[@Zman44444]

“If you’re doing it in your dream, then you’re probably doing it in real life” I knew it!

[@Swaggerpede]

Sleep paralysis seems just to be an old friend by now, I've had it for years.

[@MrSashquatch2.0]

You know what I have to wear a tooth guard to sleep due to the grinding. The sketch you did actually happened to me! Also I get flashing lights while I sleep which can wake me up along with having a habit of sprinting joints too! 😂 still a good night sleep though

[@davidwells9982]

Well, your mention of FFI (fatal familial insomnia) and restless leg syndrome will be the reason for my insomnia tonight. Well done.

[@erictaylor5462]

I have had exploding head syndrome and sleep paralysis for as long as I can remember. It's possible that I've even had it longer than I've been alive. My mother said even as a baby I would sometimes wake suddenly and start crying at once with a loud "alarm cry". Normally I'd wake up and lay there for a bit, and if I was alone I would eventually start a "pay attention to me" cry. You pretty much described exploding head but you missed something with sleep paralysis. It is usually accompanied by hallucinations. I have auditory, visual, tactile, and even smell hallucinations, which contribute greatly to the realism of the experience. I can see shadowy figures in my room, I feel them pulling mt covers off, and upsetting my bed, and I can hear them and even sometimes smell them. Before I learned what this was it was utterly terrifying. But once I learned it was all in my head, it was much less scary. It still happens but so long as I remember, it's not real, I;m usually okay with it. I have discovered that waking me up by touching me or standing over me at night is not a very good idea though.

[@marks.7613]

This is the most inadvertently terrifying video in the history of inadvertently terrifying videos

[@nikitajohnson9561]

I almost shit myself in bed watching this when the Exploding Head clip played

[@GWL420]

I was given the useful advice helping with nightmares is to make a usual part of your daily routine is stopping yourself and asking yourself if you are dreaming, then using a psychological trick that most forms of language are impossible to replicate in dreams, try reading a book, checking your watch, or looking at a newspaper headline it will all be gibberish/different each time you look at it and this should cause one to realize they are dreaming.

[@nmarks]

Recently I rearranged my room by moving the bed where I cannot see the TV - a wall now blocks the view. Besides freeing up room for yoga and strecthing, it means that when I go to bed I absolutely must set the sleep timer on the TV so it goes to standby off after I have nodded off. This means that I no longer get woken by the TV in the early hours of the morning because I forget to set the sleep timer the way I used to when my bed faced my TV. The upshot is that I get six or seven hours of undisturbed sleep, so when I wake up I have more energy throughout the day and I have experienced a much better overall sense of well being. This little bit of extra discipline in my daily routine has definitely paid dividends - give it a try!

[@thebookwormhotel5336]

Ok I have this thing where I know I'm awake but is having a panic attack with hallucinations and a can walk and talk Last time I fought a war and won by making my bed ya but it was terrifying

[@than217]

I'm so glad I don't have sleep paralysis anymore. Had it for years in the early 2000s.

[@matthewhill893]

6:17 That's just an average day in the life of Pyro.

[@ilovekittieification]

Huddah huddah huh

[@paulcasanova1909]

Ive had exploding head syndrome once. I never realized it until you played the sound byte. I remember waking up from a weird dream screaming from hearing that sound.

[@AiNaKa]

i love that i have had almost every disorder listed here at least once

[@Flobberworm4]

Perfect video for watching on the phone whilst in bed, would recommend