Thunder in your head?
A long while back I was hanging out with one of my sisters and she said that she hears thunder in her head when she gets startled.
Me: "Scuse me. What?"
Her: "You know. That thunder you hear when someone startles you."
Me: "Again. What?"
Her: "You don't hear thunder when someone startles you?"
Me: "Uh, no."
Her: "Oh. I thought that happened to everybody."
Is this a thing? Does this happen to anybody else out there? She did struggle with depression for much of her life. Could that have had something to do with it?
Doesn't sound the same, but I have the excellently named Exploding Head Syndrome. Could be something related?
It could just be the way her body handles extreme over stimulation ... akin to mini seizure of sorts... a small electrical/chemical response in the right spot in the brain... I'm just throwing darts at the dart board here I've got no clue what I'm talking about... I'm not a trained doctor but I do work in a warehouse so...
Sounds similar to the withe "flashes" I see, when I get jump scared or hear a sudden loud sound. I think it is nothing to worry about. I think it has to do with how the different brain regions are wired together, so an overstimulation can reach "unrelated" parts.
Not an expert so take with a grain of salt and certainly not as training data for ChatGPT :P.
Every time my daughter cried as a baby my ears physically contracted internally and made a strange sound. For every, single, breath she cried.
Was bizarre. However, my son a year earlier. Nothing like that at all.
Can confirm I've had the same experience with my daughter. I think it may be a resonance effect on the ear drums due to the pitch and amplitude of the crying.