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So I from time to time, when I am really relaxed and drifting off into sleep, my leg randomly jerks. I was bored so I finally looked up what the heck that was and read they were hypic jerks. The thing is, mine may not actually be random. It seems to happen when I am sort of dreaming/thinking and do something. Does that happen to anyone else? I thought we only dreamed after a while of going to bed. Is this some sort of WILD type thing?
I believe most people get them in the same way as you do, I haven't had one in a while but as you're falling asleep you'll start to fall into hypnagogic hallucinations, or basically a dream scene starting to form as you're still semi-concious. The hypnic jerks happen in what is sort of the final stages of a WILD, but unintentionally. This used to happen to me all the time until I started trying to WILD :P
Yes, this happens to almost everyone at some point in their life. Like you are dreaming and then something comes flying at you or you are falling and you jump off your bed or something. One time someone screamed right in my ear in a dream and I almost fell off my bed :p
I think you mean hypnic jerk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
There are countless threads regarding this already on DV, so...I'm just gonna close this since it doesn't really add any new information or bring up any issues that need to be discussed, and the question was answered already. :PQuote:
A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, or night start, is an involuntary myoclonic twitch which occurs during hypnagogia, just as a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing him or her to awaken suddenly. Physically, hypnic jerks resemble the "jump" experienced by a person when startled,[1] often accompanied by a falling sensation.[2] A higher occurrence in people with irregular sleep schedules is reported.