Thread: Is this normal?

Originally Posted by Don Juan

Of course you are insane...mad...we are all mad here...you are too or you wouldn't be here.

Care for a cup of tea? Where is that damned Dormouse....

This post is officially YYNYM approved.

+20 YYNYM points.

I hear the strangest things when I WILD. I hear voices, conversations, loud mechanical noises, animals breathing. You name it, it pops into my brain.

Don't worry about it. It is normal. When you start to enter REM sleep, you have tiny muscle spasms in your ear that cause these random sounds that are then given a full hallucination. Similar to how your eyes move when you enter REM, your ear moves, too. Rapid Ear Movement.

Changes in compliance of the tympanic membrane have been detected in normal human sleep, presumably due to spontaneous contraction of the stapedius and tensor tympani muscles of the middle ear. In the waking state, these muscles generally respond to loud sound (middle ear reflex). Middle ear muscle activity typically erupts before or at the onset of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and persists throughout the REM period in a discontinuous pattern resembling that exhibited by rapid eye movements. Approximately 80 percent of all nocturnal middle ear muscle activity is contained in REM sleep. Half of the remaining 20 percent occurs in the 10-minute intervals just prior to the onset of REM sleep. Middle ear muscle activity is often associated with other phasic events such as momentary enhancement of electromyogram inhibition, apnea, and K complexes. Rapid eye movements and middle ear muscle activity, though significantly correlated in REM sleep, are not always simultaneous.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...t/178/4062/773

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Similar to how your eyes move when you enter REM, your ear moves, too. Rapid Ear Movement.

Rapid Ear Movement. I like it.