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Ouch.
Incidentally, did you know there is something actually called "exploding head syndrome?" It's a sleep disorder, characaterized by the sufferer waking up in the middle of the night after experiencing a loud sound that seems to come from inside their own head. It's nothing like what happened to Chess Player Nikolai Titov, according to the Weekly World News, which reported that his head actually did explode from thinking too hard. It's caused by a condition called Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis, or HCE. Here is a list of warning signs that your head may explode, according to that article:
- Does your head sometimes ache when you think too hard? (Head pain can indicate overloaded brain circuits.)
- Do you ever hear a faint ringing or humming sound in your ears? (It could be the sound of electricity in the skull cavity.)
- Do you sometimes find yourself unable to get a thought out of your head? (This is a possible sign of too much electrical activity in the cerebral cortex.)
- Do you spend more than five hours a day reading, balancing your checkbook, or other thoughtful activity? (A common symptom of HCE is a tendency to over-use the brain.)
- When you get angry or frustrated do you feel pressure in your temples? (Friends of people who died of HCE say the victims often complained of head pressure in times of strong emotion.)
- Do you ever overeat on ice cream, doughnuts and other sweets? (A craving for sugar is typical of people with too much electrical pressure in the cranium.)
- Do you tend to analyze yourself too much? (HCE sufferers are often introspective, "over-thinking" their lives.)
Finally, I found this while searching for an image of an exploding head:
This is a piece by renowned artist Keith Haring. This piece, simple though it is, sold for $492,000 at a Sothebys auction in 2005. The meteor is coming to annihilate us all, for we have called it down upon ourselves. My neighbor Draw could... well... draw circles around Keith Haring, probably literally.
