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Sometimes, I wake up with a jolt.
Well, I wasn't really asleep, but I'll give you an example, anyway.
I dreamed I was at a supermarket and running really quickly. I crash into a wall, and land on the floor. I wake up with a jolt.
The weird thing? I wasn't really asleep. I was just imagining everything.
Is this weird?
This is a hypnogagic jerk. It's fairly normal. I usually get them most if I'm attempting to take a nap or sleep earlier in the night.
I've experienced that alot, except that I was on a bicycle and I did a face first to the ground.:P Woke me straight up.
Yup I have these a lot when Im in a moving vehicle and taking a nap. Very common and usually associated with seeing or feeling yourself fall right before you are jolted awake.
I've had this happen to me. Exactly the same way you described it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Treevis121
Ugh, I hate those. It's always stepping off a curb or a stair for me, even if I'm not really thinking about it, it'll feel like I missed a stair and I'll wake right up.
Yup yup I get those jerks sometimes, one of the few hypnagogic sensations that I ever experience.
That's happened to me before. I am dreaming one minute, then the next, my eyes shoot open rather quickly, and it almost feels like I fell off my bed because of the jolt. It was kind of scary,
I would get those jerks in class when I started falling asleep in morning lessons at college.
I'd scare myself - and sometimes those sitting close to me - a fair bit.
Glad I'm not the only one. :) Thought I was narcoleptic for a time too - but the symptoms went away when I left college :)
I have this every time I awaken from me falling in a dream. The falling sensation overwhelms me and I jolt when I wake up.
It may be a hypnagogic jerk, but it may also be sleep apnea. Sufferers of sleep apnea sometimes get woken up in sudden jerks because they stopped breathing.