Thread: Weird Twitch

that used to happen a lot as a kid to me i would confuse the sound of my alarm clock with the school bell

That's fairly common. It's called a "hypnic jerk", because they seem to generally occur more during the hypnogogic state.

what-is-a-hypnic-jerk

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

It happens to me to. Its because SP hasnt fully took effect, and you have premature reactions. Do you sometimes have the feeling of falling backwards for a long time too??

It's funny how many times this same question has been asked over the years (by myself included when I first joined), but everyone calls it something different when they don't know what it is, so you can't even do a successful search for it.

This happens to me all the time. Usually when i fall asleep for the first time at night. When it first started happening to me it was fairly shocking.

I belive it is called a hypnic jerk.

totally common

it's weird though that you're usually half into a dream (or minidream maybe) when it happens. And usually for me it seems that the dream is based on the jerk, yet precedes it. Like I'll be walking and then trip and jerk or be riding my bike and crash, yet I don't feel like I would have dreamed it if it weren't for the "hypnic jerk" climax. Maybe dreams are just a type memory of an event that never happened. Are there theories that say something like that?

anyway, anybody have dreams that have nothing to do with the jerk? Or does anybody know anything that could explain what I'm saying? Or is this idea nonsense?

annnyway
Jamous

Originally Posted by Elwood

It happens to me to. Its because SP hasnt fully took effect, and you have premature reactions. Do you sometimes have the feeling of falling backwards for a long time too??

The falling backwards feeling has happened to me. It was when I was picturing myself catching a baseball. I could clearly see myself going back and back and when I hit the wall I had a hypnic jerk. It's a pretty weird feeling.

yeah one time i was in a "dream" fighting someone, and in real life i punched the cabinet next to my bed and broke my hand. no bueno.

lol, i actually had the exact same thing happen to me. Football came down, i kicked it in my dream, and woke myself up cus i kicked out in real life....i posted it somewhere in the forums....god knows where though

Yeah I get this a lot. My ex girlfriend was really bad for it, I was frightened some nights that I would wake up with a black eye or something.

I have not had the feeling of falling backwards, but just before I drift off I feel like I drop down quickly. Its a weird feeling...

I've been having that "falling backward feeling a lot latley. I wake up adrenaline induced everytime.

it used to happen to me alot and still does sometimes !! normally i am walking along and step down a kirb by this time im kinda semi seeing images or the road im walking down then i step and boom my leg kicks out like i just miss-stepped a kirb haha i read up on it and from what i gathered it was from were the muscle's have not fully relaxed..and i do know that the most tension is carried in the jaw !! and to help your should massage the side's of the jaw muscles to release tension because when i dream i tend to grind my teeth i dont know why because when awake i cannot stand doing this !! but in sleep i do it so hard my teeth actually feel kinda aching and when i bite down when awake its painfull so i must be biting damn hard !! but now i do this i seem to keep lucidity more and not wake up with a painfull jaw/mouth from the nights ld attemps

Dammit this happened to me twice in about a minute last night! I was back from a long day of paintball and I kept seeing my friends running towards me about 5 feet away just walking the trigger and I kept getting freaked out and trying to dodge and then waking myself up, it was very annoying and I felt stupid .