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often as i'm about to fall asleep in bed, i feel like i'm falling far down into a ditch or something, almost like an elevator shaft. then i feel like i twitch or make a jerky movement (although i'm not sure if i even do) and then i'm awake and i'm not falling anymore... does anyone know why this might happen & is it normal??
I've definitely had that happen to me a few times too. Often it's during this state where I'm half asleep and start dreaming, and in my dream I miss a step or something and end up jerking my leg in real life.
They say when you fall asleep, your soul leaves your body. Maybe that's what you're experiencing. Well if you believe in that kind of thing anyway; most people don't.
Google "astral projection" and "OBE".
its called a hypnogonic jerk. everyne experiences though many dont remember it(like dreams). its when all your muscles have relaxed seconds before you go into the first stage of sleep and then all your muscles tense. because its close to sleep you do experience falling etc, completely normal.its a medical/psychological phenomenon.
this has happened to me many times once i fell like i was falling right when i fell asleep and grabbed hold of my bed to find i wasnt even near the edge...another time my friend spent the night and i had just fallen asleep and kicked my leg up it was pretty random
I also experience this, its usually by falling off a bicycle or something not too dramatic. But I do twitch then kinda wake up when this happens.
Hmm wonder if there's a medical explanation, I do know I've fallen off many bicycles when I was a little kid lol.
That happens to a lot of people including me my brother and some of my friends its weird/cool but its normal.
I think it's from part of you're brain shutting off like it's supposed to, but it does so before you are actually asleep...
much like with deja vu.
please don't quote me on this OR hold me to it, because I am no doctor of any kind, I just heard this somewhere.
But anyway, It's completely natural for you to experience it every once in a while
This used to happen to me all the time and i had to go to see a doctor and he gave me pills and they work pretty well so my advice for you is to go see a doctor =]
ive had this happen to me more then once too. I dont know what it is, id really like to know too.
this is a natural instinct that was developed in the monkeys we evolved from. Is purpose was when we used to sleep in trees (as monkeys)if we woke suddenly our muscles would tense to make us grab a branch to stop us falling from the tree.