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sleep jolts on Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:17 pm

aussieXdude123

Joined: 14 May 2006
Posts: 21

some times when i am tired and about to fall asleep mty whole body suddenly has this jolt and it makes me completely back awake and it gets really annoying because i do need sleep Rolling Eyes

yeah i know this isnt a dream but it has to do with me sleeping

this might just be muscle contractions but could you tell me what it is if you know or think you know
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Posted on Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:49 pm

Redifin

Joined: 03 Feb 2006
Posts: 56

Your body thinks it's, let's say, standing up. When all of a sudden you can feel your physical body, your mind freaks out and jolts you. It's perfectly normal, and compare it to, let's say Vertigo.
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Posted on Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:10 pm

skiman691

Joined: 25 May 2006
Posts: 14

aussie i have those all the time and its good to finally have an explaination for it and they are very very annoying and they always happen when your really tired haha
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Posted on Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:30 pm

Kinji

Joined: 25 Jun 2006
Posts: 6

I think I agree with Redifin. Your body thinks it's standing up. When this happens to me I'm usaually walking and I'll like step off a curb or miss a step or something then when I try to catch myself in my dream my body will wake up trying to do the same. It freaks out my gf. Smile
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Posted on Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:51 pm

Jacen

Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Posts: 3

wow... i thought this was only me with the walking.

Thats a completley accurate description of what happens to me. I always think im walking down steps in my dream, i miss a step and im jolted awake. It is annyoing. It happens a few times a week.
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Posted on Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:43 pm

LiveStrong7

Joined: 14 Jul 2006
Posts: 171

hmm...I call those the twitches lol... happens to me awake or asleep...just muscle spasms...
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Posted on Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:14 pm

Mad_Hatter

Joined: 19 Feb 2006
Posts: 393

I get those, usually while I'm in the middle of hypnogognic imagry. I react to it, and since I'm not in sleep paralysis yet, so does my body. Might not be what is happening to you, but it is the closest thing I've experienced to that. Besides simple muscle spasms of course.
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Posted on Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:57 pm

psiready

Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Posts: 93

Yeah it happens to me all the time. I have a dream and then I trip and then I just kick or something and wake up. I'm like "AH" *kick*, I'm worried if I kick something. Hey has anybody had a dream where you act out what you dream. I once had a dream where I was pointing at my mom and saying "no don't do that" and then I woke up in bed with my arm pointing in the air and my head turning in that direction and then my arm fell. My arm almost fell on my brother but I moved it away in time.
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Posted on Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:59 pm

PsiGuy60

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 900

Those are nothing new to me, its called sleepwalking.
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Posted on Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:11 pm

psiready

Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Posts: 93

Actually that acting out thing is not supposed to be physically possible during a dream since your motor neurons are shut off. During a dream your muscle tone is supposed to be relaxed. You CANNOT act out a dream. Otherwise everybody would be running around during the night. That is an accepted rule however I have had the strange experience of it happening and I'm asking if anybody else has.
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Posted on Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:34 pm

Mad_Hatter

Joined: 19 Feb 2006
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PsiGuy60 wrote:
Those are nothing new to me, its called sleepwalking.


You aren't conscious when sleepwalking however. I used to sleepwalk a lot, and I never remembered any of it. This is something else, I think.
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Posted on Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:48 pm

thomasantony

Joined: 04 Feb 2006
Posts: 15

Kinji wrote:
I think I agree with Redifin. Your body thinks it's standing up. When this happens to me I'm usaually walking and I'll like step off a curb or miss a step or something then when I try to catch myself in my dream my body will wake up trying to do the same. It freaks out my gf. Smile

It does happen to me too. The odd thing is that I wouldn't have started dreaming yet. I would be very relaxed and just lying there thinking of something or the other and I suddenly feel like I missed a step or something and I rise my leg. Then I dont remeber what caused me to do it, since I wasn't thinking about walking at all. Or maybe I forgot that I was thinking about walking...

Thomas
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Re: sleep jolts on Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:26 am

ENtoMT

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 229

aussieXdude123 wrote:
some times when i am tired and about to fall asleep mty whole body suddenly has this jolt and it makes me completely back awake and it gets really annoying because i do need sleep Rolling Eyes

yeah i know this isnt a dream but it has to do with me sleeping

this might just be muscle contractions but could you tell me what it is if you know or think you know
Dude! this happens to me too! Exept its like when im trying to get to sleep i kinda shiver hard in a jolt like way and i am annoyed by it.
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Posted on Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:15 pm

ryanb21

Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Posts: 238

For me I'll be falling off a cliff and right before I hit the bottom...WHAM! I jolt awake. It has something to do with the animal part of the brain. I think it's when it's been holding a simple emotion like fear or something else in all day and once your human part of the brain is asleep and the consicous passes down to the instinctive animal part (which is before deep sleep). That's why it usually happens right after or during you loose consiousness (I cant spell that word). That's is mostly accurate of what my dad said (He studies the brain and stuff).
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Posted on Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:49 pm

Kow

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 167

I get those while like walking in a dream, or if someone throws something at me, I'll try to catch it and wake up from the movement. Other times, I feel like my bed is tilting up and I'm falling toward my feet so I kick to stay on the bed. It's really wild, once you think about it.

OH, and on the note of sleep walking, my friend would like sleep run into things. Scare the crap out of people in the house.
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