grunts in the night....

Yes I had the electrical noices too, a bit like a machine.It lasted around a year then stopped suddenly, haven't had them for a few years now.Very strange.

You've enlightened me - I always thought that humming noise was coming from the fridge!

I stopped falling off the back of a bus when I began taking magnesium.

Here's a helpful guide to what sort of magnesium you might need. It's not a vendor's site.

www.vitacost.com/blog/vitamins-supplements/supplements/types-of-magnesium.html

Oooh Indiana...I get those also.. doctors have no idea ...like a sort of electric shock
also..not as often ...get a sort of quick trickling sensation in my head!!

Ever since a very bad respiratory infection some years ago, I have had these whining sounds in my throat at the first sign of a cold or sinus trouble.

I know what it is, it is air making its way through congested airways, a bit like a wind instrument, the air pressure builds up behind a mucus blockage or similar and then the air pressure pushes through quite quickly. It only happens at night when I am lying down but it can keeps me awake and at its worst DH has heard it.

When it is at its worst, I put lots of pillows behind me and sleep sitting up, it seems to help.

I hear the hum also, at night and during the day it drives me mad, went to my parents to stay thinking it a noise in my house but nope the hum is present at my parents house much to my dismay of hope of a peaceful undisturbed nights sleep. Had thought it perhaps distant traffic noise at my own house, but hearing the noise at my parents house who live in the middle of nowhere well away from traffic means the hum isn't traffic related. It drives me nuts, have tried wearing ear plugs but they seem to make the hum increase. The only way to remove the hum is with TV noise or listening to music with earphones in as I fall asleep, but earphones make it very difficult and uncomfortable to actually fall asleep. I want to escape this noisy world. Before anyone suggests I may be suffering from tinitus hence hearing that hum, I'm not. Have had my hearing tested for it, and hear no noises when put my fingers in my ears. The hum I can almost feel. Also just before I nod off to sleep I make involuntary low grunts, almost sound like a low growl, I'm not asleep as well aware of my breathing and the noise I make which then makes me sit up. Was in a coma last January intubated orally not nasally and wonder if it's related to possible damage to my throat. It sometimes feels as if I've stopped breathing. Had to come here after finding a post about grunting before falling asleep as found no answer elsewhere or similar events happening elsewhere. Had to cheat to join and tick I'm 50 out of desperation to reply to you. I'm 44 so not far off 50, and I hope this isn't banned from being posted due to me not being 50 as requested when joining this group. I've really had enough of the hum and these low grunts that bring me to full alertness. The grunts can happen even when just very relaxed lying down with head propped up on 3 pillows reading a book or playing a game on my mobile before starting to drift off. I do have brittle asthma, maybe my breathing is being cut off somehow. My coma was so peaceful filled with wonderful dreams that I long to go back into it never to wake again. Incidentally was aware of distant far far away voices in my coma and was aware of my face and hair being touched. Upon waking from coma was able to recite what had been said to me without being asked/prompted/questioned. I asked off my own back if the words had been said to me, very distinct words and if my memory of my hair and face being touched were correct along with the words that went with it. My mum confirmed all of it. She never asked if I could recall any of it, I asked her if she had said/done. That hum wasn't present in my coma thank god, hence me longing to go back into it for such deep peaceful quiet sleep.

To everyone who has been having the electric type noises when asleep, I've done some research and it seems lime its a benign "disorder" called exploding head syndrome. No one knows why it happens so far, but it is harmless for the most part. It may be indicative of any other number of sleeping issues, such as excessive nightmares or stress/anxiety that someone is experiencing while awake. It should stop all on its own

When I was going through the menopause I frequently had what I called the "bolt from the blue." It was like an electric shock through my brain.

I also used to get the slipping off the kerb sensation just as I was falling asleep when I was a child and I also had a feeling which I called "feeling like an elephant" which meant my body felt big and heavy.

Now I'm woken up every morning at 4a.m. by people clumping about in the flat above mine.

I guess it's all part of life's rich pattern and as Alice in Wonderland said "curioser and curioser.

Yes, I think that's it. One of my (grown up) children gets it too but others have no idea what I mean. I can feel my husband shaking me so I am conscious and I have a dread of having a bad stroke and being permanently 'locked in'! But other times I do imagine I'm banging my head on the headboard to try to wake up but thats all nonsense - i havent moved!. Also as it says on the site sometimes theres a horrid sensation in my body too which I cant describe - a sort of buzzing!

mary does this fit what you experience? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
If so, it's quite common, and has been reported for a very long tome - without anyone really understanding what causes it... No help to you I'm afraid, but at least you know it's not just you

Does anyone else experience this? I occasionally sort of half wake but i am paralysed- i know where I am but I cant move or speak. It's horrible. Sometimes I can't breathe properly but have no control over it. With a huge effort I can make a pathetic whining sound and DH (who has been trained to understand this) prods me till I wake up fully. I then have to get up and wash my face or I'll drift straight back into it which is awful.

I wake up some nights coughing violently. Then I need to keep swallowing and drinking water. It's horrible. Once I'm awake I can't get to sleep again.

You of course may have and nasal polyps like me. I have been known to make some very strange noises!!!!!!! Good luck.

P.S. Had them removed and they grew right back!!!!!!

I realised it did Harri as soon as I pressed 'post'. I've just been looking at old pictures of Derby, where I grew up, and there is one with green trolley buses with open backs. Made me smile!!

I have also had what you call an electrical current going through the brain. I thought because I was getting older that it is a temporary blood clot passing through the brain and does not stick but just passes through !!!

I'm sorry, because I realise this is serious, but this thread has had me chuckling away. Sometimes I wake myself up with grunting or snoring, and I also miss a step just as I'm getting off to sleep. Fortunately, I've been spared the electric shock through the brain, though. It's still not as bad as being kept awake by manly snoring, which is more like having a lorry in the room.

I get the 'falling out of a tree' feeling.

kitty falling off the back of a bus gives your age away.

I hear humming too, rather like a car engine idling. At first I thought it was tinnitus but I now think it is all the electronic equipment that remain plugged in 24/7.

Stansgran when we moved to the London area I could always hear a 'hum', just the distant perpetual sounds of traffic, planes, people etc.
When we moved to a country town it seemed so quiet - but there is more of a hum here now as well.

Myoclonus. Good old Google - www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/myoclonus/detail_myoclonus.htm

Other links seem to connect the electric zzzz with myoclonus too.

I recall this 'jerk' being called something (iconoclastic??) and it marks a change in type of sleep level from light to deep. I used to notice my son did this and then I could trim his toenails without a bother....

Ha! Let's hope he doesn't spy on you here, jings

I shouldn't have posted that!!!

My son still makes thumb sucking (breastfeeding?) noises in his sleep.

Could these noises be The Hum? I hear the world humming at night. And in the day but I put the radio on. There are all sorts of theories. There is even a map ! And no I'm not in a locked facility.For me it's like the gently revving of an engine. I decided rather than go mad that it is the world safely turning on it's axis .