Parafunctional Habit

For a number of weeks now, I have been awakened by strange noises. I always wake up confused on where it was coming from. There were nights when I turn to the headboard and imagine that there were creepy crawlers behind it. Other times, I thought that the noise was coming from outside the window. Joven, on the other hand, is in deep sleep. When I told him about it, he said he didn’t hear anything. I tried to describe the noise to him but I can’t seem to describe it. Scratching, squeaking, high-pitched scraping all rolled into one.

That same night, the noise revealed itself to me again. I turned my head to where it was coming from. Then I saw… Joven. The noise was coming from him! His jaws were moving! He was grinding his teeth! What the?! Naku! I thought of waking him up but he stopped the grinding when I was about to touch him.

That morning, I told him of what I saw. He said it’s not him. In denial! Hmp! I was actually more worried than anything else. I’m not sure what it was exactly.

I googled it in the Internet. They call it bruxism.

Causes remain unclear.

No accepted cure.

Haay.

Any experiences in this? What to do? =(