In an article on LiveScience this week, researchers are finally getting around to studying a condition called exploding head syndrome. This syndrome is a condition in which the person hears a loud noise from either one ear, both ears, or inside their head while going to sleep or waking up. “Fortunately, exploding head syndrome is not as dangerous as it sounds,” says Marc Lallanilla, author of the article.
I think that the name of this condition is rather cool. It would be awesome if scientists and doctors changed the names of illnesses and diseases to make those that have them at least think about the good side of it. I mean, why would anyone want to tell their friends or teachers that they cannot hang out or come to school because of a cold? A cold is not an awesome name for a sickness, but what if it was changed to something like an extreme nasal and throat nuisance? Maybe adding in something about watching the television all day in the name as well. Having a fever? How about calling that lava? I mean, that is what a fever feels like, a very accurate description. Chickenpox? No. More like red polka-dotted body inflection (on a more humorous note). But, I guess sometimes we just have to live with the English words we have for illnesses and diseases.
This sounds like a rather annoying syndrome to deal with, but I suppose if you live with it for a while you could get used to all the noises going to sleep and waking up. It still is not a good thing for people who cannot sleep because of exploding head syndrome, because sleep is very important for being awake and alert everyday. Hopefully scientists and doctors can come up with a cure for this disease, or a way to lessen its affects. To those that have this disease, you have a cool name for your condition, but I hope that you can find a way to deal with it, through your own home remedies or medical assistance. And I think it would be awesome if more discovered diseases and sicknesses were given more colorful and striking names than the boring ones that exist now, although this may just be because we use the words so often that we do not think much of them. In any case, illnesses should have more words like extreme, exploding, petrified, decayed, etc.
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