Hypnic jerk, hate that shit
I broke my leg recently and I’d do the fall thing in my hospital bed and kick my broken leg into the air and wake up screaming. God hates me hahaha
I had the same thing happen constantly when I broke my leg and ankle last year.
I kinda like it. Also like bedspins, for some reason I got them a alot as a child/teenager. Was like my own personal roller coaster ride every night. I rarely get them now :/
I didn’t get them that often, but it’s been many years now. Likewise, I found them quite enjoyable, an intriguing experience I wish I had experienced more often!
Never had this. Im always confused when people talk about it.
Imagine every muscle in your body lightly twitch all at the same time for a single instant and without warning. I’m not sure why it is associated with a falling sensation, but it doest make you think of that. Maybe there is a brief feeling weightlessness when it happens?
When it happens to me, I’m usually already dreaming and it comes along when I think I’ve tripped on something.
There is a brief moment of “I’m falling” when this happens to me, which evaporates immediately but I can remember it after it wakes me up.
Congrats, you’re sleeping correctly!
Seriously though, your brain is doing a solid job of paralyzing your body as you drift off. For many of us, there’s an in-between stage where we are dreaming, yet our body tries to react. Mine used to always hit when I went to step off a dream curb.
Notice in dreams you can’t move quickly when action is required? Everything is slo-mo, heavy, thick. You can’t punch, run, fuck, nothing goes right. I assume you get that part?
I’d love to feel that again, if only once… Got lost over the years, last I remember having that was in my late 20s.
Happens to me every time I sleep on airplanes. Never happens otherwise. I tend to get some weird looks from the other passengers.
Happens to me when my feet are left hanging.
This is part of what is called a Hypnic jerk
Followed up by waking up the next morning in sleep paralysis.
I’ll get the awareness switch between unconscious and conscious states, but I don’t equate it with “falling”.
Am I the only one that has never experienced this
