Spasm During WILD?

Sureal · May 23, 2004, 10:04am

Well, I’ve tried WILD a couple of times (with much success though). But one of the things that is annoying me, is that ocasionally whilst atempting it, a part of my body will suddenly twitch or shot out or something.
It happens at the point where your sort of imagening dreams, only it’s more like a day dream than an actual dream.

This isn’t usually a problem (other than making me restart WILD), but this morning it was.
I was laying in bed, listening to my breathing, and was in that state I mention aboved. All of a sudden, my leg lashed out (hard), and hit my wall, toes first. It’s taken a large chunk out of my toenail, and hurt like hell. I’m really surpised it didn’t break my toe.

Another bad case would be in the past, when I ‘tripped over’ in that day dream thingy. My entire body went into spasms (which, yeah, scared the hell outta me).

Has anyone else experinced this? Or is it just me. And is there anything I can do to stop this?

Macrophage · May 23, 2004, 11:02am

yeah, happens to me every now and then but mine aren’t that hard.

I googled around for it found something called “myoclonus”

ninds.nih.gov/health_and_med … nu_doc.htm

Myoclonus is a term that refers to brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles. It describes a symptom and, generally, is not a diagnosis of a disease. The myoclonic twitches or jerks are usually caused by sudden muscle contractions; they also can result from brief lapses of contraction. Myoclonic jerks may occur alone or in sequence, in a pattern or without pattern. They may occur infrequently or many times each minute. Most often myoclonus is one of several symptoms in a wide variety of nervous system disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Familiar examples of normal myoclonus include hiccups, and jerks or “sleep starts” that some people experience while drifting off to sleep. Severe cases of pathologic myoclonus can distort movement and severely limit a person’s ability to eat, talk, and walk. Myoclonic jerks commonly occur in individuals with epilepsy. The most common types of myoclonus include action, cortical reflex, essential, palatal, progressive myoclonus epilepsy, reticular reflex, sleep, and stimulus-sensitive.

medhelp.org/forums/neuro/archive/2409.html
j-bradford-delong.net/movabl … 01214.html

Sureal · May 23, 2004, 11:10am

Thanks .

It’s only occured a couple of times whilst attempting WILD, so I doubt it’s any of those diseases (or, at least, I hope so )/

Zogger · May 23, 2004, 6:06pm

heh. Well pretty much everyone I know who I’ve asked has these occasionally, so either we’ve all been eating too much beef, or it’s perfectly normal… It normally starts with the feeling of falling, then I’ll suddenly “hit” the bed and a leg or arm will jerk out sideways and hit the wall, which can be annoying, but quite fun, at times.

milod789 · May 23, 2004, 7:39pm

Yes it is very common. I often feel like I am having a seizure when trying WILD. You just have to ignore it.

Pilot · May 23, 2004, 8:45pm

yeah I get it rarely
if it isn’t too bad, just remain relaxed and still and it shouldn’t disturb trance

Presence_of_Light · May 23, 2004, 10:32pm

hmmm

sometimes i get spasms during the day in my arms…

kind of scares me that i could have one of those diseases, but I probably don’t.

… i usually have them once i think about them too, like, i just now thought about them so might start having them again. They suck.

Grizzled · May 24, 2004, 5:17am

Yup, I’ve had that happen; I was riding my bike (in a half dream state) and hit a tree, my legs spasmed, and I woke up. I think it is when the mind is imagining things, but the body has not yet been paralysed, so when something happens, your body corresponds to it.

Grizzled · May 24, 2004, 5:18am

Yup, I’ve had that happen; I was riding my bike (in a half dream state) and hit a tree, my legs spasmed, and I woke up. I think it is when the mind is imagining things, but the body has not yet been paralysed, so when something happens, your body corresponds to it.

mariposa · May 24, 2004, 10:29am

I get it all the time… not only one part of my body, but it’s like the whole body sort of jumps… used to scare me a bit earlier, but I got used to it. sucks that I have to start WILD from the beginning again every time…