Tripping While Falling Asleep

Last night as I was falling asleep I started to imagine, I guess it was HI walking down a set of stairs. This didn't feel like a dream but on the verge of one. Then I would suddenly trip and feel it physically in my bed, like I just fell down on the bed. Ive had this before, seems to be on nights where I am really tired and there has been different situations all of them I either fall or trip though. What is this a sign of? I hear people have a falling sensation when passing into dreamstate but whenever I have this I always hit the ground and then wake up. Maybe there is a way to turn this to my advantage?

Man, I have this all the time, it's died down a lot though since I start Lucid Dreaming.
Also when I fall down and hit the ground I shake in my bed and if anyone saw that they'd think I was insane,
I've been telling myself that when it happens again, it will be during a WILD so I can focus on entering that dream scene, not falling down, and continuing to do whatever it is that I want.
I don't know what causes this, and it's always falling down, but maybe it's your HI making something to accompany the falling sensation while your are falling asleep consciously during a WILD or by mistake.
Sometimes falling down in a dream leads to a false awakening, maybe you could try a Reality check once this happens.

Hahah, this comes up in a new thread every other week, it seems.
And in each such thread someone posts this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

Aye, hypnic jerks. Fun...somewhat.

I never knew there was a word for this, Merlock. Thanks for posting that. I've had strange half-dreams of tripping over tree roots for years, and I always wondered what on earth they could be.

This adds excitement to sleeping. Well..no, no it doesn't. When you share a roommate who has the same sensations it's actually amusing...almost. One of us will just spasm, sleepily informing the other that they just fell down.

Mmmhhmm...

i thought i was the only one that this happened too, i'm glad i'm not alone, it always gets me, its like your bodys reacting to something that it thinks it there

Yeah Merlock I think its kind of fun too. I get it a lot, especially when I'm very tired. I like it, makes falling asleep a lot more interesting anyways. :content: Sometimes I don't even remember what made me fall, I just snap back to bed, with a big inhale of breath and a big adrenaline rush. I'm like, "Oh I'm dead! .... Oh I was almost asleep lolz!"

Yeah me too I thought I was the only one also

I did that all the time when I'd fall asleep in school. I'd usually see something comming straight at my head just after I fell asleep. I'd jerk my head up really fast (stfu) and half of my class would look over. I'm not sure if it was the (uncomfortable) position I was sitting in, but it only happened at school. It rarely ever happens when I'm in bed.

It happens mostly when you are REALLY tired, I can't explain why, but it is called Myoclonic Jerk or Hypnic Jerk. It is when you are really tired and your body tries to keep itself awake. That made no sense, well it's like, your brain is falling asleep, but your body isn't asleep yet. That's pretty much how I understand it anyway, it was on House and I asked my dad who is a doctor if thats what it really is and he said yeh.

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Hahah, this comes up in a new thread every other week, it seems.
And in each such thread someone posts this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk[/b]

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ha you beat me to it, Merlock ;)

Haha, yeah that wiki describes it dead on.

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Last night as I was falling asleep I started to imagine, I guess it was HI walking down a set of stairs. This didn't feel like a dream but on the verge of one. Then I would suddenly trip and feel it physically in my bed, like I just fell down on the bed. Ive had this before, seems to be on nights where I am really tired and there has been different situations all of them I either fall or trip though. What is this a sign of? I hear people have a falling sensation when passing into dreamstate but whenever I have this I always hit the ground and then wake up. Maybe there is a way to turn this to my advantage?[/b]

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I have felt the tripping sensation from time to time when trying to fall asleep. To me, it feels like I'm about to step down from a sidewalk onto a street, but the curb is taller than I think it is so I trip and I wake up from my half-asleep state.

-Rob

For me I see forest but its more like a blur when suddenly I trip over huge fallen tree.