Explosion in the mind?

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I don't know how better to describe it. It was like something blew up in my mind earlier this week. There were all kinds of thoughts and feelings swirling around about a wide range of unrelated stuff. It's like that cloud of debris that blows up when a building falls. I've been reeling from it for a few days and feel like I'm trying to peer through a fog.

It's been about a week and I had to stay home from work one day because I just felt the need to stay away from all the crap there.

I feel as though I'm ill, though physically I'm ok.

I'm not sad, or lonely. I'm basically pretty happy and easy going.

I don't know what happened. Has anyone experienced something like this or have any idea what this mental....well...illness, for the lack of a better word, is?

Thanks for reading - I really appreciate it. I feel like crying but don't know why. I feel bad, but I don't.

Sounds like an especially intense anxiety attack. I have them all the time and they can be incapacitating. In fact, they seem to be getting worse as I get older.

Anything like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome

I have had this happen a cpl times in my life. I'd describe it as a tidal wave of thoughts, images, and memories crashing down on me. I have a clear memory of it happening twice in the last 3 yrs, and both times all I could really do was wait for it to pass. I'll also occasionally suffer the swirling fog affect when trying to sort through my feelings for a woman I work with and have gone out with a few times. But those times it's not such a wide range, but will last longer.

I had that happen once from a massive panic attack which was caused by OCD...it is very scary.
I suggest going to a psychiatrist if it gets worse

"... a tremendously loud noise as originating from within his or her own head ... the sound of electrical arcing (buzzing)."

Exactly, and this is the first I have heard of something similar happening to someone else.

Thank you all for your responses.

I have had the explosion sounds as I fell asleep in the past, but it was just a sound, not really emotional (other than startling). Thanks for that link, MidlifeAspie.

This experience is a first time for me and was a waking phenomenon that seems emotional in nature. Jojobean, I do have OCD that I really struggle with and over the last month or so I have been turning my attention toward it, considering it and trying to make sense of it - sort of in the same manner you'd take apart a clock to figure out how it works.

I have terrible anxiety that follows me in everything I do and I've been becoming aware of it while considering OCD. Maybe that's what's caused it.

Thanks again, everyone, your responses are a great help.

I have had it just like it is described in the wiki, with a buzz rather than an explosion. It sounded like "zzztt" and there was a flash and then I was very relaxed. The first time it happened it scared me because I thought it was a seizure but there were no ill effects. It has happened to me many times but when I describe it to people, they didn't know what I meant. It always happened when I was very stressed out and after it happened I felt relaxed so I decided to not worry about it.

Not until this thread did I hear of this happening to anybody else. And now it turns out to be common enough to have a wiki...and the explanation that I have been curious about for decades,

It's nice to know it has a perfectly logical explanation, that it happens to enough people to generate not only a thread but a wiki, and that it has not caused harm at least as noted.