Is is normal to "wake up" to this feeling?

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Every once in a while, shortly after I fall asleep, I will "wake up" and be aware, but not totally awake. I hear this intense buzzing sound, and when I try to move around, I can feel a weird separation from my body, as if there is a separate body of mine moving instead of my physical one. I can sometimes make myself do this, but I forget to/can't breathe normally, so I get scared and stop.

I've tried to look up what it could possibly be, and found something familiar called "astral projection" but honestly, that sounds like total crap to me, I'm an adult and an atheist who doesn't believe in the supernatural and just wants an explanation and maybe an inkling that what I'm going through is normal.

Anyone?

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  • justfaceit
    14 years ago

    No it's not just waking up, it's sleep paralysis, and/or night terrors. This happens to me almost every night, it's kind of connected to Lucid dreaming too...
    Poster of this story, look up both of those things.

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  • xino00
    14 years ago

    you don't believe in religion and astral projection and want an answer?

    What freaking answer are you gonna get?
    Oh let me guess, a science answer....

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    • zackman5000
      14 years ago

      exactly my thoughts

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  • Troll
    12 years ago

    Because you are gay.

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  • DeadByDesign
    12 years ago

    Your half dreaming half awake and what you feel is just Ur dream body, once your in paralysis picture another body jumping or falling out of your real body and you will be in the dream world in your dream body Aka an out of body experience

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  • crazykittens
    13 years ago

    Supernatural is something I kinda believe in and I'm atheist, but thats only because I saw a ghost a few years ago.

    I literally saw a figure in my room that walked over to me and then split into a million pieces. I had my lights on too, so I do believe. I guess you're stubborn and will only believe if you see something, lmao..that was me too. Anywhoo, I think it is just in your head.

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  • Domnal
    14 years ago

    Echoing a poster above this sounds like something related to sleep paralysis. I get it quite often, especially when waking from a lucid dream or when I'm utterly exhausted and then go to bed and my body is asleep before my mind so I actually experience the detachment from my physical senses...

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  • vintagebeauty224
    14 years ago

    i know not just an answer, but the answer. its a religous one, but then again you wouldent belive it...

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  • Hotdogvendor
    14 years ago

    I remember seeing a documentary trying to explain why people think they've been abducted by aliens, and apparently sometimes the whole mechanism that disengages your body when you are asleep doesn't shut off when you wake up. (this is so that you don't go walking out of a window because you're moving around in your dream). So apparently you'll wake up feeling completely awake but with no bodily control, and hallucinations and other sensual distortions are quite common, I assume because you're still partially asleep. Although apparently you should be feeling pretty extreme panic... it's not perfect, but it's it's a suggestion.

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    • dragonwriter7
      14 years ago

      Astral projection is NOT fake. I've done it. In fact, I did it just this morning. I'm getting rather good at it. The sensations you're describing sound just like astral projection, which can actually be rather useful. I would suggest experimenting with it. See if you can prove you're really leaving your body. Your body should breathe as normal, but you will not feel yourself breathing. It might feel strange, but you won't feel the need to breathe. Astral projection does not kill.

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  • stanley_fedoraless
    14 years ago

    Yes, it's perfectly normal to feel weird as you're waking up or falling asleep. It's even normal to hallucinate as you're waking up or falling asleep--I often wake up and see a huge alien bug on me so I jump out of bed and panic until I remember that this always happens and the bug isn't real. Anyway, compared to that yours is boring, and mine's normal so yours must be normal.

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  • apocryph
    14 years ago

    Yeah astral projection is complete crap. Don't buy it. Your brain just does funny things when you sleep. It's normal for everybody's brain to work a little different. It's even normal to imagine something weird like astral projection is happening.

    It's less common, but more rational to accept it as a quirk of your brain. Perhaps further investigation into your sleep patterns is required.

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      your wrong, astral projection is entirely real. some of are connected to these higher dimensions and can access these higher realms. Lucid dreaming is actually a sort of astral projection in a way as well. The OP clearly has a gift that he is simply not using. I can say that from personal experience, I have predicted things using my dreams that would be impossible without having psychic powers and more recently I have known things about people and understood things about them that would impossible if it were not for some sort of psychic ability. I think we all have psychic powers, but most of us have not awakened them

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  • [Old Memory]
    14 years ago

    I think it is called - as you pegged it - waking up.

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