I will be like dreaming i am falling off something. it will be a very light dream and then i JERK real hard and wake up again. it doesn’t happen much but it is startling when it does. i always dream differnt scenarios of things that would make me jump like that when it does happen.
Sometimes like when im about to fall unconcious i get this, and almost completely wake back up because i jerk hard enough, rare is when im dreaming and jerk to wake up.
i do that a lot, i always thought it was just me trying to stay awake when i didnt want to goto sleep because i get them only when i am dozing off, not when i am trying to goto sleep… craziness.
When i am going to sleep however i do get the sensation that i am hurdling through space, or if i have been on the water that day, like i was rocking in a boat.
lotsa fun…
C’est la Vie
evryone gets that and i find it really cool and love it when it happens. for me im kindof conciously jerking myself out of fear of falling and a little while ago i was going to try to just leave it and see what happenes but i havent had on of them since , eh , ohwell
I once posted an alternative theory about these myoclonic jerks. It’s a Hindu one and according to this version, the falling sensation is the result of falling into the gap between waking and sleeping. You can master it to experience it consciously, to even control it consciously so you can keep yourself falling. Apparently there’s no fear to wake up prematurely because you’re not asleep nor awake. You’re right in the middle, apparently a doorway to deeper experiences. Here’s the topic: https://community.ld4all.com/t/falling-between-two-worlds/6570
I experienced this a while back… in the middle of Organic Chemistry class. The lecture was as intriguing as ever, and I started falling asleep. Suddenly I was falling and jerked awake. But as I jerked upright, I also yelled, at which point the whole class turned to look at me.
I get that quite a lot during the beginning of the night, suddenly jolting awake the moment i’ve fallen asleep, not nice if you’re having trouble sleeping It seems to happen more when i lay on my back or if i’ve been feeling extra tense. The only times I experience the falling sensation is upon waking after a full nights sleep.
try consciously breathing in and out in this state and when you breathe out, counting until its time to inhale again.
in the right conditions somewhere when you are counting it will go from a normal thinking voice to a hallucinatory voice, and…
if you’re lucky or talented you can hold on to the sleep state consciously.
i’ve only really experienced this once, but i also haven’t tried to very often, you have to be fairly alert yet oscillating in and out of sleep. so it’s not a great idea at bed-time.
on the inhale you want to be not thinking at all, and on the exhale you want to be falling asleep, you want to create a balance of inhale = awareness, exhale = drifting off while counting.
When it happens to me, I see a fence, I run up to it, I try to jump over it, and my foot gets stuck. Every time. That’s what the falling is for me. But if I fall in a full dream, I almost always become lucid.
Ooh I love that feeling lol, I get it almost every time I fall asleep in class. I don’t know why everyone seems to dislike it, I think it’s a cool feeling! Usually I just “go with the flow”, try to relax even more and not jerk out of it.