Do you do this?

[Swedishguy]

Yes, I do this. I feel a sudden presence and becomes awake.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

When I start drifting off to sleep, I get to a point where there is only a tiny fraction of me still awake (that I can detect), and one of my limbs or an entire side of my body jerks waking me back up. Snap back to reality I guess. It doesn't happen so much anymore (that I notice), it used to happen on the ungodly long ride to school every morning on the bus (hour - and hour and 15 minutes).

They should have another choice up there: Somewhat or occasionally.

@ Godwynn: I have also heard reports that some people feel a presence in the room, like at the foot of the bed.

Not saying this is what you're experiencing, but I know some people that say they were "abducted by aliens" are suffering from sleep paralysis, and it's just they're just imagining someone in the room.

 

[Catharsis]

I've never understood the term 'drifting off to sleep'. That doesn't happen to me. I am awake (usually for hours after I go to bed) and then I am asleep. I don't notice that I've fallen asleep until I wake up.

So, if I have experienced the hypnic jerk, I probably wouldn't have noticed it.

 

[Keshik]

I used to experience the jolt consistently on nights after going to the gym. It was so bad that I really had trouble sleeping.

 

[Tykinruoka]

I've never understood the term 'drifting off to sleep'. That doesn't happen to me. I am awake (usually for hours after I go to bed) and then I am asleep. I don't notice that I've fallen asleep until I wake up.

Same here.

 

[Dachs]

Same here.

Whenever I\'m in bed, I\'d have to agree, but if I\'m anywhere else - say, dozing off during a lecture or something - I always wake up very quickly...then drift back again and start sleeping...and then wake up again, and repeat.

 

[Shadylookin]

ya it sucks. the adrenaline rush used to keep me awake for a good amount of time as well 10-15 minutes, but now I have been able to go back to sleep within a couple of minutes.

 

[Leonel]

Sometimes I do. I just jump in my bed for no particular reason as if I was shocked. But I look around and see no stimuli that could have caused such a reaction.

Ghosts playing with my nervous system maybe?

 

[Syterion]

Only in class when I shouldn't be sleeping.

 

[Atticus]

Yes. It's always associated with "pseudo dream" of falling.

About that sleep paralyzes: I've heard/read that some form of epilepsy could manifest that way (and not necessarily in seizures), and usually the epileptic feels presence of some creature. Friend of mine has had this experience. He said that he couldn't move and felt like there was something in the room, and that something was evil.

Nice dreams everybody.

 

[Masquerouge]

Yeah it sometimes happen to me, when I'm not completely asleep but I'm starting to dream, usually of falling.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Yeah, its harder than calculus. Do you ever get out of it on your own or do you just wait it out?

Generally, it's a kind of mix between both, but generally I still get awake, so I would favor the first option. I don't remember anytime when this happened and I've directly slept back afterwards. Maybe it did happen and I don't remember, I don't know.

 

[BassDude726]

Nope, but sometimes I wake up with the distinct impression that I'm falling. I think it has to do with walking on solid ground in my dream and then sudden having no pressure on my feet.

That's weird, because it's the opposite for me. I get the feeling I'm falling too, but I do the jerk/wake-up thing when I have a dream that I slipped on ice or tripped over something.

 

[Sophie 378]

The jerking thing happens occasionally - maybe a few times a year. I haven't noticed any pattern to when/why it happens or how I react to it.

I don't have sleep paralysis as such, I just find it really hard to wake up - usually I wake up enough to notice that I'm awake and should be getting up soon, and that I could move if I really wanted to, but I don't want to get up enough to get past the massive lethargy barrier. When my parents find me in this state, coming to say "time to get up", they think I'm still asleep - they've even shaken me and not "woken" me. But then, often they've shaken me to wake me when I actually am asleep, and not got anywhere then either, so there you go.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Do any of you ever "anticipate" your alarm clock? Whatever time I set it for, I will almost always wake up a minute or two before it goes off. It's as if I "know" what time it is. It's very cool, because it's not a sudden awakening from REM like an alarm clock does, I'm just done sleeping right before my alarm goes off, like my body planned it all night long to wake up then.

 

[Guangxi]

hasnt happened to me.

 

[Catharsis]

Do any of you ever "anticipate" your alarm clock? Whatever time I set it for, I will almost always wake up a minute or two before it goes off. It's as if I "know" what time it is. It's very cool, because it's not a sudden awakening from REM like an alarm clock does, I'm just done sleeping right before my alarm goes off, like my body planned it all night long to wake up then.

Yes, that's fun. And useful too!

 

[Irish Caesar]

Do any of you ever "anticipate" your alarm clock? Whatever time I set it for, I will almost always wake up a minute or two before it goes off. It's as if I "know" what time it is. It's very cool, because it's not a sudden awakening from REM like an alarm clock does, I'm just done sleeping right before my alarm goes off, like my body planned it all night long to wake up then.

I've done that frequently.



Not recently, though.

 

[MobBoss]

Soon after you fall asleep, do you then suddenly jolt awake, as if someone just smacked you across the face? Often this is associated with an involuntary jerk of the knee, and a rush of adrenaline, for me, anyway.

So, do you do this?

Why does this happen?

I do this all the time. I even wake myself up sometimes. I do seem to recall feelings or a sensation of falling. My wife complains about it a lot. Some nights she goes to sleep on the couch because she cant get to sleep its so bad.

 

[Ansar]

Yes, it does happen to me.

Happens to me all the time.