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A universal experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/bertstrips@lemm.ee

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Hypnic jerk, hate that shit

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I had the same thing happen constantly when I broke my leg and ankle last year.

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 :/

[–] Redfox8@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

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!

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Never had this. Im always confused when people talk about it.

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

When it happens to me, I'm usually already dreaming and it comes along when I think I've tripped on something.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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?

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Happens to me when my feet are left hanging.

[–] Kongpiler@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Happens to me every time I sleep on airplanes. Never happens otherwise. I tend to get some weird looks from the other passengers.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is part of what is called a Hypnic jerk

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Followed up by waking up the next morning in sleep paralysis.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'll get the awareness switch between unconscious and conscious states, but I don't equate it with "falling".

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Am I the only one that has never experienced this