Keep waking with a bang? Sounds like exploding head syndrome

Name: Exploding head syndrome.

Age: First mentioned in 1920, clinically described in 1989.

Appearance: WhuAH!?

And this is a disease, is it? Well, it’s a syndrome, which is a vaguer term to describe a few symptoms with a tendency to go together.

In this case, the rapid disintegration of the skull, cerebrum and associated tissues? Prognosis: mess. Treatment: mop and bucket. Like in that early David Cronenberg film Scanners. Er, no. Nobody with exploding head syndrome actually turns up at the doctor’s with an exploded head.
[link to www.theguardian.com]