Thread: Falling Sensation?

I used to have 'falling' dreams frequently. One more recently. In the recent one, I was trying to get up a mountain in a white jeep. A former co-worker was driving it. We charged up the mountainside, then lost contact with the ground. We started falling backwards, and I cried out at first. Then, I calmly accepted the fact I was going to die. When the jeep hit thr ground, there was no sound. I was standing at the bottom of the mountain, no sign of the jeep or my co-worker. I thought "I knew I should have just hiked it." and I started climbing the mountain on foot.

I've had another falling dream where I was already on a mountain on a road and the truck went over thte edge. I fell a short distance, then flew around the rest of the dream.

One of the more strange falling dreams I've had wasn't really falling. My next door neighbor had a hill in their backyard. I used to have dreams that I was going down a sled in their yard, and getting nervous as the fence was approaching. When I got to the fence, I would push off with my feet, and I would go back up the hill, only to slide back down toward the fence again and nervously getting ready to push off again. That dream was more like bouncing off the fence along the ground, but it sure had the falling feeling to it.

yes, yes I've had the same sensation, I always took it as a normal thing. I experience when i'm going to sleep, and meditating. I get a little dizzy then i feel like i'm falling in a twirling motion.

Do you think it was a hypnic jerk?

That also happens to me, one of the reasons I joined to ask about that. Some of the time when I'm falling asleep, it feels as if I'm floating or being pulled even. Not only do I get the sensation of falling, but of floating in certain directions.
It's not always a falling sensation for me either. I'll still feel the weightlessness, but sometimes I feel as though I'm floating up instead of falling down. I can even remember feeling sensations of falling through things, like my upper story on which I live.
It's usually unsettling, and I'll reactively wake myself up, but sometimes I'm able to relax enough to enjoy it then I typically end up slipping into sleep.

Originally Posted by Burns

Do you think it was a hypnic jerk?
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Hm. Could be.

But it feels so real. Go sky diving and you'll understand

From an interpreter's perspective I would say its an outcome of anxiety and insecurtity.
Ofcourse only you can answer that question, and only to yourself. But often stress and lack of sleep gives that falling sensation that often ends up in a hypnic jerk as Burns said.

Others might say it is the astral layer that is snapping into your body again. If you have experienced anything like an astral projection you will get that slight shock when you get sucked back.

One time, durring an emotionally turbulent time of my life(childhood), I was dreaming that I was falling and falling. The ground got closer and closer. At the very moment that impact with the ground would have happened, I abruptly woke up. My bed was bouncing as if I had just landed on it from a fall. I thought that was so wierd, and I'd been wondering about that for some time. Thanks for the link to what the hypnic jerk is. I'm sure that's what it was.