Thread: Jolting Awake!!!

...i dont know what 'they' would call it, but this happens to me, its strange, because i will be completely relaxed for a while, then randomly, a surge of electricity will curse through my body.

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Originally posted by Lucid83
I havent had this recently but before I started getting interested in lucid dreaming I would slowly dose off into sleep. With in half a minute or less I would feel like I was falling. I would Immediately jolt awake and my heart would be beating.

I hate that! You're dozing, all peaceful-like one moment and the next you're falling off. And then, BAM, you wake up full of adrenaline, which makes it right tough to get back to sleep again. I usually ended up looking like this all night:

Falling off? I sometimes have the experience that somebody's just lifted up the matress of my bed and I'm falling off it...

Sometimes I am dosing off my brother is next to me in his bed watching tv. I jolt awake and my arms and legs kick up. He looks at me and says "damn" then he starts laughing.

When it happens to him I do the same thing.

i get that when im dreaming but still aware of my surroundings. it usually happens when i fall of the steps or something in my dream. pretty crazy

yup yup yup... been there done that. This happens to me in class a lot! Everyone around me likes to laugh about it I must admit, it is quite funny seeing other people doing it also

These sound like symptoms of what is called...sleep starts...just at the onset of sleep I get an electric type of jolt that wakes me up freaked out every time it happens!..if yyou don,t know what it,s like just let me zap you with a tazer gun right after you fall asleep...almost like a mis-fire in the brain

Yeah I know what you all mean. Its like you're lying there peacefully and you may be thinking of skate boarding or something and you fall of the skateboard but somehow it just seems like you were actually doing that and you just jump up trying to break your fall..

Its like when you rmind starts to drift off into its thoughts and you get a wierd sensation throughout your body.

Yeah, happens a little more often when I'm dozing off for a nap than during regular sleep. I hear it might have something to do with your body entering REM sleep too quickly.. if that's true, now I'll just need to figure out how to turn it into a WILD instead..

Originally posted by Lucid83
I would Immediately jolt awake and my heart would be beating.

really now...are you serious....

Hehe the nods and then the ZAP gotta hate that! though I agree it is funny to see it happen to some one else too hehe.

I wonder what it is... mebby your on to something about entering REM to quickly, though sometimes I can ZONK and wake up in the dreaming in minuts. *shrugs*

I duno bout my heart, but I do forget to breathe at times Paperdoll =P

My grandpa used to be able to controll his heartbeat, he would mess with the nurses when he was in the hospital =) It sucks I never got to know him, he died when I was a lil baby, but my om was told that he was watching over me =)

According to "The Enchanted World of Sleep" by Peretz Lavie they are called "hypnic jerk". "The muscle relaxation that signifies falling asleep is sometimes interrupted by a sudden start called a hypnic jerk for which we have no well-established explanation, although we may assume that it results from a change in the brain to decrease muscle tonus." With that being said I've had these numerous times. In fact I think I had around 4-5 last night when trying to fall asleep. I'm noticed them more now that I've been thinking about dreaming more etc.
Martin

Ohhhhhh Yeeeaaaaah!!!!!! I remember that term now. I learned it in Psych. Its the Old Hypnic Jerk!!!!!!!

Woah, Thanks!!!!!!!! I learned about this before!!!!!

i always get them when im at school and trying to fall asleep, then the teacher tries to wake me up, it makes me jerk and everyone laughs




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Originally posted by Lucid83
I havent had this recently but before I started getting interested in lucid dreaming I would slowly dose off into sleep. *With in half a minute or less I would feel like I was falling. *I would Immediately jolt awake and my heart would be beating.

Would this be the hypnogogic imagery and does this happen to any of you too??

It happens to me too, I'll be just going to sleep and in my mind I keep falling then....BOOM...I'll jolt awake.

Originally posted by Seeker
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Let's see, I started getting interested in dreams/sleep right around the week of the January 6th 2004. I'm still not sure what made me look into dreams but I'm pretty sure I had a good dream which caught my interest. At school (I’m a junior in high school) I looked up dreams/sleep at our library and got the "Enchanting World of Sleep" and a big book by Aristotle (it only had a few sections on sleep/dreams) which I haven't looked at much since lots of the theories are out dated etc. I read the “Enchanting World of Sleep” in a few days which only stuck my interest more. Almost by coincidence while on a hike with a few friends the topic of dreams etc came up and a friend that had seen waking life said we should rent it that night. We ended up getting Waking Life and watching it that night (then watching Mulholland Drive, which was my recommendation, and they fit together perfectly). I loved Waking Life and after doing a few searches on Lucid Dreaming I came up with this site. At first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to lucid dream, and I’m still not positive if I do. One of the things I like about dreams is there seemly randomness, how they feel so real. Since Monday I’ve been keeping a dream record every morning and have been able to remember at least a dream per night (this is without waking up in the middle of the night etc). However lots of my recent dreams have been boring. I’ve still been keeping a record since I think there are things to be learned from dreams (like deep true feelings about someone etc) but a dream about having dinner with my grand parents (who I see a few times a month in waking life) is almost disappointing. Anyway that’s my little introduction, sorry for writing too much.
Martin

Its really funny you mention that you just out of the blue got interested because I felt like the same thing happened to me. One night I woke up several times around christmas and all of a sudden i have a vivid recollection of alot of my dream segments. Then i just went on line and started looking. I found lucid dream sights and tips on recalling dreams. Then i found this site. Have had 2 lucid dreams since. 8)

I thought I posted here but I guess not....

Anyway, I've felt it to(the falling feeling)

I thinks its awesome. Its kind of like your on a roller coaster ride and your going down the big drop. I have never experienced this during regular sleep. I only get it when Im in school and I put my head down and just relax/fall asleep. I rarely experience though

Originally posted by nightowl
I thought I posted here but I guess not....

Anyway, I've felt it to(the falling feeling)

I thinks its awesome. Its kind of like your on a roller coaster ride and your going down the big drop. I have never experienced this during regular sleep. I only get it when Im in school and I put my head down and just relax/fall asleep. I rarely experience though

I also have only gotten these when falling asleep at school. I get a sensation like I'm falling and suddenly my legs will kick up and I will jolt awake...

Originally posted by Ultima
I also have only gotten these when falling asleep at school. I get a sensation like I'm falling and suddenly my legs will kick up and I will jolt awake...

crazy, me too. my leg will twitch realllllllly bad and my eyes will open faster than...well, just fast.

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I also have only gotten these when falling asleep at school. I get a sensation like I'm falling and suddenly my legs will kick up and I will jolt awake...[/b]

Yea, same. I'll get the uncontrollable twitch to wake me up. Its not that I do it on purpose. its more like an instinct to react when falling.

We can come to a conclusion everyone. School is a big factor in experiencing this feeling