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?

    • unfnknblvbl@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Oooooh I also get this occasionally! It’s absolutely terrifying, isn’t it? Like somebody has hit the “reset” button for your brain…

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        1 year ago

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