the mega twitch

**tkdyo** · 10-18-2007 05:25 AM

I put this in my other thread, but I think it is a separate question all together.

I have a new problem when trying to WILD in that when I get to sleep paralysis and try to slip in to a dream, instead of fully going to sleep, my whole body just jolts and throws me awake again....my friends have had this problem too, sometimes when not even trying to lucid dream, but they dont get it often...

We call it the mega twitch because it feels like your whole body kind of spazzes at once, has anyone else had this problem? and how did you get around it. It happens nearly every time I transfer from sleep paralysis to half dreaming....

thanks!

**Merlock** · 10-18-2007 05:28 AM

That would be a hypnic jerk, I imagine.
Often accompanied by hypnagogia/a light dream of walking and stumbling or falling until the jolt that awakens you.

**tkdyo** · 10-18-2007 05:32 AM

yeah, that would be it, although it doesnt always have a falling dream with it, most of the time Im not even dreaming yet.

**EVIL JOE** · 10-18-2007 06:11 AM

Mine aren't usually falling. The last one I remember, I was almost in a dream. I was on the road near a lake I live by and I got on a large rock and lost my footing.

**h2oannah20** · 10-18-2007 06:34 AM

yeah those hypnic jerk things. i get those all the time, they scare the shit out of me.

**remus0** · 10-18-2007 06:54 AM

I usually wake up to those in a cold sweat. But yea, I have no idea how to get around them. They rarely happen to me, but the days that they do; they happen like 5 times a night.

**Merlock** · 10-18-2007 06:59 AM

Originally Posted by remus0

I usually wake up to those in a cold sweat. But yea, I have no idea how to get around them. They rarely happen to me, but the days that they do; they happen like 5 times a night.

A night?
Hypnic jerks happen upon falling asleep, not in deep sleep.
If you're waking in a cold sweat from a suddenly terrifying dream then...I imagine that's a nightmare?