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I heard that sometimes when falling to sleep. people can feel falling sensations..
Well a couple of times (and last night, which caused me to write about this), my mind kinda wandered off, and for whatever reason I was thinking that I was leaning on something. Then that thing broke off, and my if it was real my arm would have fallen down too. The strange thing was that even though I wasn't fully asleep (although not fully conscious, either), I was woken up because I 'felt' it falling away..
Is that normal? :shock:
[Edit: Sorry about posting this in the wrong forum :(]
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I don't think it's in the wrong forum...
what you're talking about is called 'hypnagogic jerks' and they occur just as you are falling asleep and your body starts to relax.
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As Irishcream said, thats called a Hypnic Jerk (Aka Hypnagogic Jerk). They are normal occurances, but we ussually don't remember experiencing them as they are in the transisition from wake-sleep and sleep-wake.
I ussually experience them in the form of a dream during the transistion and wake to falling sensation.
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Yeah, a lot of them I remember exactly what my HI was about that caused it.
I experienced a violent jerk two nights ago. I was laying there dozing off, and my imagery - I was still experiencing blackness, but I faintly saw a sidewalk, and I started to fall over toward it (I guess my subconscience placed me there as well), and I reached out of break my fall, my body entire shuttered, as if I had just hit the sidewalk. Popped me wide awake for like a minute.
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ones i laying down i was waking and i trip it felt so real
