What could this vibrating sensation when I’m in bed be?

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And no its not that you dirty vipers

Sometimes when I’m in bed half asleep, a vibrating sensation happens that jolts me awake.

It happened most of last night so I’m quite cheesed off that I didn’t get w good sleep.

No the tumble dryer wasn’t on
No the heating wasn’t on

Any ideas?

We live near a busy A road and the house will occasionally vibrate when heavy lorries pass?

No. I live in the arse end of no where.

Lorries do pass in the day and it will send a shudder but this is a continuous vibrating sensation lasting hours

Phone on silent vibrate? Heating pipes or boiler coming on?

Do you sleep with someone who has small tremors ?

I sleep alone, my phone is on night mode which does not disturb me unless it’s my alarm.

Have you got an electric blanket?

Next doors vibrator

Is it The Hum?

If DP ever finds this he will be grinning from ear to ear as he’ll know it’s me straight away.

Do you have a satellite dish or aerial above your bedroom OP? I had this exact problem for months and it was waking me up more because I didn’t know what it was rather than the actual noise iyswim.

Realised that it was massive pigeons or crows landing on my aerial during the night which was quite loose so would rock really hard from side to side and send vibrations all through the roof and walls. I’d been telling DP for ages that it was mice or rats crawling through the pipes

Put water into a wide shallow container , to a 1cm depth.
Put container on bedside cabinet , anything firm.

When this sensation occurs , shine a light across the water.

If you see movement, ripples, you’re not imagining things.

Following on from @peanutbuttermilkshake, does it happen only when the weather is windy say?

I had this while back - never did get to the bottom of it. Still get it occasionally in my new place - different bed, no electric blanket now..phone nowhere near bed, ground floor flat with concrete floor , no passing traffic...mystery.

I sense it's perimenopause - it has come back since I had an ovary removed three months ago but I have had symptoms for years now.

If you find out what causes it let me know!

@JaimeLeeCurtains wtf is the hum?

I have just googled it and lo and behold it is a symptom of peri / menopause.

Another mystery solved!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35344544

The Bristol hum is a known phenomenon.

The hum! We have it here. It's really odd

[quote SoDiorDarling]@JaimeLeeCurtains wtf is the hum?[/quote]
"The Hum is a name often given to widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people" - Wiki (yeah, I know, I know).

Have you had your resting heart rate checked recently?

I was going to say peri/menopause. I get it occasionally, only at night, just a sort of vibration all through the body 🤦‍♀️

It's The Twitches! Usually happens when you are just drifting off to sleep.

Weighted blankets are supposed to be good for that.

My son has them and he is not peri-menopausal (unless there is something he is not telling me).

@LizFlowers

It's The Twitches! Usually happens when you are just drifting off to sleep.

I sometimes get a twitch but I can't see how it could be described as a hum, that's a completely different thing. Please say I haven't gone my whole life and not known they are the same

When I thought my head was vibrating in bed it turned out to be a bee in my pillowcase.

@GwendolineWindowlene

When I thought my head was vibrating in bed it turned out to be a bee in my pillowcase.

Oh brilliant 👏👏

I woke up to a slug on my face once.

@Cailleach

I have just googled it and lo and behold it is a symptom of peri / menopause.

Another mystery solved!

It better not be!!! I’m only 32!!

No electric blanket

Satellite dish is downstairs from the living room. I’m at the back of the house from it

Heart rate is fine. Little high one some days but fine according to my app...so taking that with a pinch of salt:

And definitely no bee! That is scary. Poor you and poor bee

I think I’ll have to accept 3 options:-

It’s in my head
It’s some medical phenomenon
Ooooor it’s a masturbating ghost

Sleep paralysis?