Brief Numbness and Hearing Loss After Waking Up from Sleep with Ear Pressing on Pillow

Today a rather strange and dangerous thing happened. This was the first time in my life I experienced this.

I was even surprised and scared that this experience could be for life!

I bought myself a new sofa (couch), it is without side backrests.

When I was sleeping, my pillow was on the edge, and it could fall off the couch, since there is no side backrest.

In the morning I woke up with a strange feeling - I was lying on my left side, my ear was on a pillow, and it was not clear how, but I was lying down (squashed) on my ear.

The ear was completely numb, but the worst thing was that I did not hear through it. It was 10 seconds after I took the ear off from the pillow.

What do you think? Have you had something like this happen? Now I really worry if I could have damaged the inner ear with this.

I am also amazed that this can happen. How can you squeeze your ear against a soft pillow enough to cause numbness and deafness?!

I have never come across this before in my life.

 

This has happened to me in the past before tinnitus and it actually happened to me today! Not sure why it happens but it is SCARY when it does. Sorry I couldn’t be of any help, but I wanted to let you know this has happened to me as well. I also wonder why.