Exploding head syndrome

I experience EHS (Exploding Head Syndrome) once in a while, where I hear a loud bang (like a gunshot) typically as I am falling asleep.

Memoria1 is a film that uses this syndrome as the kernel of an idea.

I wrote about it for the first time Week­notes 2023 W02: Exploding head.

See also: exploding head syndrome on Wikipedia.


  1. Memoria, written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (185 Films, Anna Sanders Films, Beijing Contemporary Art foundation, 2021). ↩︎