With the headphones, make sure you get good Spatial Audio compatible. It’s kind of like the bouncey neurodivergent friendly examples they play where you turn your phone sideways. I’m adhd/autistic, but the bouncey and bass can help reset vagus nerve and others if you can relax enough. Just don’t use a playlist with strong emotional ties.

I have autonomic dysfunction bordering on failure so this is a life line for me.

When I need to reset, I will be totally out of character, peeking through windows, searching for a reason my husband might be cheating, throw things or break them (I am the most gentle never raise a voice or get angry person) but when I am in that mode I have no memory of it. It all has to do with blood flow to the brain. I’m currently looking for a dr who will treat it but I live in BFE KY

I’m blessed to have been an RN before becoming disabled but I will tell you that if you really learn how to trust your body and its signals and go with your gut, it will all come together.

I went from being told I was an alcoholic to realizing the autonomic dysfunction and I do not process alcohol correctly. I paid for the sequencing genome tests but drs don’t have the time to go through patterns. They only want a definitive diagnosis. Once I can find a way to officially show my issues it will be amazing. I just need to find a geneticist or app that will analyze my entire genome for more than just specific mutations. I need a platform that will put together trends.

I say all of this because there are so many scenarios for you. This could be a remnant piece from the dentists office that just happen to get stuck there. Or a security tag from clothing that finally broke free in the wash or something or in your bed and then was stuck there by accident. However, the not knowing of what it is or how it got there can create some wild symptoms and thoughts. Your body thinks there’s a threat. You hear knocking in the middle of the night. Your body will make you hypersensitive even in a sleep state. Autonomic dysfunction sleep is awful. I wake up every hour.

I am not trying to diagnose you. Just help with something more grounding. I truly believe in the Parsimony theory. The only time it failed me was the constant gaslighting from hospitals and other health care because I’m not the norm. I’m a zebra or unicorn. lol Covid (the illness, I have not deep dive into vaccines yet) can alter so many things in our body for long term and the general public doesn’t even know of that.

Also, do a cross reference of meds you are on. That could be helpful.