Thread: Falling Awake

I get this as well. Not as frequently as yourself, though.

I did some searching and found a blurb on it on a website called Stop Snoring.

Stage two is best described as the stage in which many people experience the feeling of falling followed by a sudden jolt back to consciousness. During stage two, the muscles of the body become totally relaxed and muscular response and co ordination cease.[/b]

It seems as though it is caused by the loss of coordination.

Oh thatnks, I just wanted to know what it was. Ok im happy now

You know i found out why people get a feel of falling and wake up, scientists think that because we evolved from monkeys we still have some of the skills left, if we slept in trees we'd have to wake up before we fell so we wouldn't die. i thought that was a pretty interesting and good explanation for it.

That's interesting eMu. Another neat thing (that doesn't really have anything to do with this which I thought I'd like to share nonetheless) is how when it comes to childhood fears, almost all girls are afraid of what's "under the bed" and boys are afraid of what's "in the closet". Apparently this is stemmed back to the hunter-gatherer days, where while the guys where out in the forests hunting, the girls, at night, were up in trees for protection from predators below. So that's why they say guys tend to be more afraid of what's in the darkness of the closet, instinctually, and the girls are afraid of what's lurking below them, under the bed.

Neat no?

Dylan

Originally posted by Dylan
That's interesting eMu. Another neat thing (that doesn't really have anything to do with this which I thought I'd like to share nonetheless) is how when it comes to childhood fears, almost all girls are afraid of what's \"under the bed\" and boys are afraid of what's \"in the closet\". Apparently this is stemmed back to the hunter-gatherer days, where while the guys where out in the forests hunting, the girls, at night, were up in trees for protection from predators below. So that's why they say guys tend to be more afraid of what's in the darkness of the closet, instinctually, and the girls are afraid of what's lurking below them, under the bed.

Neat no?

Dylan

XD haaaa. That's interesting. Although myself, I've always been more scared of what's in my head.

Do you mean the fealing of falling, and then you jerk back awake? Your leg twitches? I remember reading that Astral projectors believe this is the Astral body being jerked back in because of some danger or something.

It's called a hypnic jerk in the sleep research community and experts still don't agree on exactly what causes it.

Well, It happens right before I fall asleep. I all of a sudeen feel like I'm falling and it's so wierd!

I used to get this alot, and usually alot of times in a row.

It's really annoying, waking up really fast with your heart pumping, try to fall asleep after that

Originally posted by tsen
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Haha, that's funny. I've always been a big fan of yours too

I thought it had something to do with the liquid in your ears...Y'know, the balance tubes? I'm obviously no bio major, but there's tubes in your ears with liquid inside of them that help you to keep your balance, and I think when you lay down occasionally it shifts and makes you feel like you're falling...I dunno for sure, but it seemed to make sense when I thought it up.

EDIT: Awesome avatar, Ronso!

Ancestral genetic heritage? praps. Blood pressure/Atmospheric pressure causing changes in inner ear balancing fluids? praps. I don't quite know. What I DO know is that, contrasting an actual "falling", I've had nights where (and not after drinking) I felt like the bed was actually tilted at an angle, sometimes up to around 80 degrees or more. This has always happened when I was still awake and I actually found it significantly difficult to get to sleep while still feeling like the bed was on the wall. I'd have to change position, losing the cool sensation of spatial distortion, to get to sleep. The ancestral thing arises there to claim a bit of validity in my mind. If you're falling, from being tilted at 75 degrees, and from a tree, you're not getting to sleep until you've reached either the ground or the next branch. Then again, by placing the head at a certain angle to the earth's enter of gravity, and depending on bloodpressure and atmospheric pressure levels, your inner ear fluids might be a bit confused thus resulting in an off-balanced feeling. Reaching a sleep state could, because of lowered body function frequencies, cause a system pressure change = imbalance in ear fluids which the instinctual mind could easily take for falling from a high point. That's just my two cents. It's good we have that sense though, I remember I fell out the bed once and felt like a complete no0b.
-Torch


BTW, I'm scared as hell of ALL closets.

HaHa. I fall out of bed every once in a hwile, but who doesnt? Last year i had this night that i kept fallign out of bed. It was horrible. Id go to bed in my bed, and wake up at midnght wiht a masive head ache, on the floor. Then i crawled back in be,, and fell asleep. The an 3 am i found myslewf on the floor aguain with the head ache. I ewent to bed again, and at like 8 i woke up on the floor once more... I think that was a horrible experinece. lol, but its kinda funny now looking back.