Thread: I want to learn this !!

Hey everyone im new here.

I found this site after doing a search about something that has been constantly happening to me all my life. Every now and then when im lying down trying to get to sleep i get this quick and very real sensation that im falling. Its like my bed just opens up and i fall through. This always jolts me awake. Does anyone here know what im talking about? It always takes me over an hour to get to sleep unless im real exhausted. Ive been told that its just a dream but i dont agree because im not really asleep when this happens (im close but not fully asleep).

I havent found out what exactly it is that causes this but i would like to know.

Ive read a little about this lucid dreaming and this seems really cool. I want to learn this because why waste the night on autopilot when i should be able to do whatever i want..

Any advice for a newbie like myself would be appreciated!!

It's either a hallucination, or an Out of body expierience.

I wonder if there is a way to control it... like not get surprised by it and just let myself keep falling or something

Are you familiar w/ Sleep Paralysis? Our brains cuts off the signal to our body (paralysis) every night as we enter the REM stage of sleep. People usually experience this "sudden rush" of falling through their bed after they've entered SP. I myself have done it a lot of times. This usually means that your body was asleep and completely paralyzed while you were still conscious.
This is also a popular way of Lucid Dreaming; its called Wake Induced Lucid Dream, or WILD. WILDing is the practice of remaining conscious until and while you're asleep; personally, its my favorite technique since I already have experience w/ SP. I used to experience SP a lot too when I was younger (11) before I began Lucid Dreaming, but now I do it intentionally in order to dream.
Next time you find yourself going through this, try to remember what is happening, remain calm and let it happen. If you do, then you will find yourself in a dream!

Originally Posted by WolfeDreamer531

Are you familiar w/ Sleep Paralysis? Our brains cuts off the signal to our body (paralysis) every night as we enter the REM stage of sleep. People usually experience this "sudden rush" of falling through their bed after they've entered SP. I myself have done it a lot of times. This usually means that your body was asleep and completely paralyzed while you were still conscious.
This is also a popular way of Lucid Dreaming; its called Wake Induced Lucid Dream, or WILD. WILDing is the practice of remaining conscious until and while you're asleep; personally, its my favorite technique since I already have experience w/ SP. I used to experience SP a lot too when I was younger (11) before I began Lucid Dreaming, but now I do it intentionally in order to dream.
Next time you find yourself going through this, try to remember what is happening, remain calm and let it happen. If you do, then you will find yourself in a dream!

He hit it right on the head.

You are SO lucky!

This is indeed a sensation associated with sleep paralysis (SP). SP basically keeps your sleeping body from acting out your dreams (which would be bad). That quick jerk you descirbed is known as a "hypnic jerk." Usually a hypnic jerk only happens when a person is really tired. You said you can only get past it if you are exhausted. Have you tried to get extra sleep and see if that helps it go away?

vertigo?

Originally Posted by The Prodigy

Hey everyone im new here.

I found this site after doing a search about something that has been constantly happening to me all my life. Every now and then when im lying down trying to get to sleep i get this quick and very real sensation that im falling. Its like my bed just opens up and i fall through. This always jolts me awake. Does anyone here know what im talking about? It always takes me over an hour to get to sleep unless im real exhausted. Ive been told that its just a dream but i dont agree because im not really asleep when this happens (im close but not fully asleep).

I'm also new to this site, although I've been attempting LD's for quite some time. more to the point, that same thing has happened to me many times before. It's at the moment when i'm about to dose off and then i feel a very fast falling sensation, or it feels like my bed is tilting forwards and i'm slipping off. I've been taking over an hour to get to sleep almost every night recently, perhaps that has something to do with it or it could be some type of OBE, although i had on of those before and it wasn't anything like that

Originally Posted by jedsmim

I'm also new to this site, although I've been attempting LD's for quite some time. more to the point, that same thing has happened to me many times before. It's at the moment when i'm about to dose off and then i feel a very fast falling sensation, or it feels like my bed is tilting forwards and i'm slipping off. I've been taking over an hour to get to sleep almost every night recently, perhaps that has something to do with it or it could be some type of OBE, although i had on of those before and it wasn't anything like that

^ It's a normal thing that happens to sleepers, not even necessarily lucid dreamers.