the feeling of falling

**vividness** · 05-13-2004 08:19 PM

i know a lot of people who experience this.. but what is it exactly??
why do we get the feeling that we're falling, then wake up?
does anyone have an answer to that?

**Seeker** · 05-13-2004 08:57 PM

I am thinking it could be related to sleep paralysis onset. I experience similar feelings in the early stages of WILD.

**Emi Chan** · 05-13-2004 10:43 PM

I know, I get that also. But I remember last year seeing someone post a thread on that. I cannot remember who, but someone in here knows exactly what that means. The thread is in here somewhere I just forgotten what the title was.

**ashliebelle** · 05-14-2004 08:39 AM

I was on the floor of my friend's room the other day, and just closed my eyes for a bit. I started getting very dim images of a baseball game. When I went to throw the ball, my arm completely spasmed and woke me up. My friend started laughing at me, and i felt like an idiot, because i half-knew that I was sleeping while I was playing baseball... it was so weird because it was like I wasn't paralyzed at all.

**Placebo** · 05-14-2004 10:42 AM

Yeah, I have that feeling accompanied by a spinning sensation.
The spinning is more powerful than the falling though.

I thought it was hypnogogic imagery, but I don't dream immediately after it.. so not sure.