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- dleifelohcs, on 10/12/2007, -6/+48Don't worry. You are not be alone.
- deldigger, on 10/12/2007, -4/+38Frankly I would rather have the sensation of waking up next to the girl in the picture.
Ger - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36"...climax the second she jerks..."
She's a lucky lady. - jgclark123, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34"George Bush doesn't care about tired people."
~ Kanye West on George Bush on hypnagogic jerk - wolfkeeper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22You're supposed to stop when she falls asleep. ;-)
- trash115, on 10/12/2007, -23/+35it's george bush's fault
- absoluteczech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9this would happen to me back in high school, when i was sleeping in class.
- krakelohm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Thats when I start...
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I get this sometimes. I thought there was something wrong with me for a while, especially when I was on a plane and I suddenly jerked so much that my tray-table smacked into the seat in front..
But someone else told me that this isn't because your body thinks you're falling, but that your mind thinks you're dying, so it sends a shock signal to all your muscles with an adrenaline surge to try and get you moving again.
Spooky eh?
Jimzip :D - jgclark123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Me too, it pisses me off because it blows my cover.
- Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I hate dreams where you feel like you are falling. You can see the graound colimng towards you, you are terrified, then, BAM, you jerk awake. Scary stuff...
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I always find that I "know" it's about to happpen a second or so before it actually does...like I'm walking down the stairs and I miss a step and BAM! Violent, scary awakening.
- bjohnsonwsu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8No, the rest of us have jobs.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"You know when you lean back in a chair too far, then catch yourself? I feel like that all the time."
- Steven Wright - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is so odd...
My dream: (for those who want to read)
I had a dream the other day about a large rock everyone was jumping off into the water to swim... but the people I was with they were WAY too scared (it was only like 20-30 feet high) so we were about to leave... then as we went down the road we decided to stop and jump off another rock which should have been a lot lower than the other since it was down the road about 200 feet and the road was going DOWN. So I ran to the edge to check the height and eventually jump but I got way too close and a little bit of the rock / cliff broke off and I heard everyone yelling, I fell for at least 5 seconds and as I looked down I saw the dark blue water and a rock right under me, only the tip of it was over water and I could avoid the tip easily (about 20 foot radius) but there was no way I could avoid the part of the rock that was underwater, it was clearly visible...
then a discovery channel diving tip flashed through my head about diving so I straitened my body out and directed myself to the side. I thought the impact would kill me but as soon as I hit the water I didn't hear any water bubbles around me, It was complete darkness! Then I woke up and realized it was all a dream, It was the most realistic dream I had ever experienced (besides one I had of me falling from the twin towers).
lol OK... I'm bored but thanks for reading!
and OMG check this out... 666 diggs and 66 comments right when I clicked it lololol
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http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/3330/screenhunter1277pr.jpg - n00854180t, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This happens when your brain is creating hypnagogic imagery, and the supression of motor function isn't complete (not completely asleep that is).
- Exodin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I thought I was am be alone but thanks to this article I realize that I am be not.
- recon16, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4exactly!!! ill be in Geometry and wham im awake!
- chimona, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yeah, right at the beginning. I also have been told that i've jerked and not remembered it, has that happened to anyone else?
- madeingermany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's what Ctrl+Z is for ;)
- JesseJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The answer is either:
A. It is a rudiment. Because we lived in trees for millions of years a while ago.
B. Because god wants to see your little christian body twitch when you go la la. - Exodin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"And I Love dreaming of falling! and Hitting the bottom. many times just to prove the old saying - "If you hit the bottom you will die!" wrong."
Much to the worlds dismay, Vanilla Ice proved that old saying wrong over 10 years ago. - converge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This usually happens when I'm over-tired and fall asleep too quickly.
- wnathans, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4right when i am beginning to fall asleep
- cheez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i dunno if this has ever happened to anyone else, but if i'm swimming in the ocean during the day, i'll get the same wavey feeling in bed. weird, huh?
- insanitarium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Old hag syndrome is the experience of your body being paralyzed but your mind being awake and your eyes being open. Lucid dreaming is the purported experience of having complete control of what you do during your dreams.
- Exodin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This syndrome pisses me off, I am punched awake seconds before I can fight off a horde of pirate ninja robots.
- wolfkeeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"If this has happened to you on more than once occasion, don’t worry, you are not be alone."
Do you mean that if this has happened only once, then I'm allowed to worry? - tbeals, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it happens to me right after falling asleep. I always attributed it not realizing i fell asleep.
As far as the falling sensation when dreaming. I think your brain can reproduce anything you feel, smell, taste, touch, etc. So if your falling... your brain makes the sensation of falling. - EnjoyTheFact, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I get this right when I wake up occasionally but I've never had it happen to me as I'm falling asleep. Dugg.
- jeznav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That in the same way a body will often twitch as a person dies (as a reflex to attempt to keep the body functioning) it is thought the body might misinterpret falling asleep as a situation in which the body needs to be stimulated.
- jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Phew. Me glad! Me worry about be alone sometimes when me sleep. Solomon Grundy saaad.
- kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's comforting to know that I not be alone, since this has occurred more than once occasion. Thanks you.
(just goofing, digg, interesting stuff) - bluesydude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Help! I've fallen and I can't wake up.
- jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My favorite hypnic jerk scenario happens at work. I'll be sitting at my desk, numb from spreadsheet overexposure, and close my eyes with my hand on the mouse. I wake up after sleep right-clicking, only to find I've just deleted something and I have no idea what. Good times.
- mikeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And I thought it was just me. I have not had one in a few years but when I was a kid it always happened. I'd be sleeping and I would see my house below me as I'm falling down, then I see my bed, then blam it feels like I just went smacked into the bed and that the springs are pushing me up and down. I'm awake at this time and I try and see if the bed is bouncing, but it is not. At the same time I can feel my heart beating fast al feels too real.
I always thought that maybe I had some sort of levitation power that lifted me up and that's why it felt like I slammed into the bed. - lunarship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good ole nocturnal myoclonus, I know it well. I always seem to do it when I dream about jumping off something (I have a lot of dreams that read like action movies, don't ask me why...)
- scinju, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5The worst is when I'm in history or something, sleeping away during a video, when all of a sudden, BAM! My leg snaps out and I kick the girl in front of me, causing her to yelp all of a sudden. Leading the teachers to yell at me and give me a referral for abuse. It actually was a muscle spasm this time!
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lol, I've experienced this relatively regularly throughout my life (several times a month I'd say)... and man, once ended up bad. I twitched so hard/fast that I shattered part of my wrist on the dresser next to my bed x.x
- madeingermany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, that's some news!
The Straight Dope had that story 25 years ago http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_090.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You know how as your arm gives in and your head falls towards the desk, and you wake up?
Let's just say I've bruised my forehead on multiple occasions. - OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I get the same feeling at night but then when I wake up I find my wife trying to throw me out the window
- timbudtwo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1More commonly known as myoclonic jerks
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"link occurrences of “Hypnic jerks” to [...] and discomfort" Explains why it seems to happen to me a lot when I sleep on the bus.. Cool link, always wondered what the feck it was..
- Ben - dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had a few of those that feels like your falling, and a TON of twitches that wake me up.
- BlackPhantom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When I was about 11 or 12 one night I had the sensation every time I nodded off. It was like one o'clock in the morning and it lasted for at least half an hour before I started crying, I was absolutely nackard.
- thechitowncubs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hate when this happens when you are nodding off in study hall and then you wake up and kick the desk right when you were about to catch up on your sleep.
Now I don't feel like such a retard that I know I'm not the only one. - silent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1someone got payed a lot of money to research what imo is common sense.
Come on now...
Who knows, maybe this was researched by someone who has witnessed it and never experienced it.
ah well... - asoap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I see that photos of that girl sleeping everywhere. Or rather, I see photos of that model everywhere! It's funny, all of those photos come from iStockPhoto.com. Keep an eye out for this model, you'll see her everywhere. Heck you can even buy the photo from the article.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/who/239107_sleeping_woman_colour.php?id=239107 - Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1happens to me all the time usually when I am just about to fall asleep.
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