Hypnic jerk, hate that shit
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2024
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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 when my feet are left hanging.
Happens to me every time I sleep on airplanes. Never happens otherwise. I tend to get some weird looks from the other passengers.
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