Falling asleep - involuntary convulsions

Slow Play Ray · #1 10-10-2005, 07:35 PM

Don't you hate them? I was just about to nod off, and dreamed I hit a pothole on a bicycle. My whole body twitched in reaction, and bam - I'm awake again. Weird.

send_the_msg · #2 10-10-2005, 07:40 PM

yeah that's happened to me (like falling then all of the sudden i hit the ground), but i always consider it freaking sweet when it happens.

STLantny · #3 10-10-2005, 07:40 PM

Usually they suck, sometimes tehy are cool.

Matt Flynn · #4 10-10-2005, 07:41 PM

google hypnagogic jerk

Slow Play Ray · #5 10-10-2005, 07:46 PM

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hypnagogic jerk

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heh - this sounds like a good insult.

InchoateHand · #6 10-10-2005, 07:47 PM

Your body twitched first, and then your brain made a story to explain it. Its fun like that.

Sometimes my fiancee and my cat will both be doing this in the bed with me. Makes it hard to sleep with the periodic twitching.

Blarg · #7 10-10-2005, 07:47 PM

I've gotten that sometimes when I'm super tired but have too much caffeine in me. The feeling of falling down, down, down, then suddenly getting caught up like my parachute violently opened and slammed me harshly upward out of sleep when I was right on the brink of sleep, crossing over into it. When I've been super-caffeined, I've had this happen many times in succession, and that kind of screwing with my system repeatedly in a short period of time can leave my head really spinning and make me feel outright delirious.

WackityWhiz · #8 10-10-2005, 07:51 PM

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Your body twitched first, and then you brain made a story to explain it. Its fun like that.

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So I set my alarm for 8:30 cuz I have class at 11 and I usually snooze the alarm for 30-45 minutes. The girlfriend calls me at 8:35 and I roll over and pick it up, say some jargon and fall back asleep. Here is where the dream starts...

I'm in my bathroom but for some reason it looks like a hotel bathroom with a huge mirror and a hair dryer mounted on the wall. I'm talking to my girlfriend and I'm talking like I don't know english. I cannot come up with any words, just gibberish. I hang up the phone and walk out into my room which looks like my room in my apartment. I have horrible vision and balance. I can't seem to walk straight. I look down and my left arm is across my chest and my wrist is limp (like I was retarded) and I couldn't move it.

At this point I got really worried and I stumbled onto the ground. I began to crawl out into the hallway because I couldn't stand back up. I see a room on the right side and my grandparents were inside of it. My grandpa gets out of bed and sees me lying on the floor. He walks over to me very calmly, like he knows what is wrong and can help me. He kneels down on the ground and he says, "Calm down, it's going to be ok," and he reaches his right hand out and tells me to touch it with my right hand.

My right hand is fine and I touch his hand with no problem. Now he tells me to touch his hand with my left hand, the retarded one. I try my hardest but I just can't get my arm to move. With one last effort, my hand begins to move and I get it to touch my grandpa's hand. As soon as I touched it I woke up...

Turns out I had rolled over on my shoulder and I had a terrible cramp in it. My brain manifested that elaborate 3 minute or so dream to get me to move my arm because it hurt.

blows my mind

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crookedhat99 · #9 10-10-2005, 07:52 PM

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I've gotten that sometimes when I'm super tired but have too much caffeine in me. The feeling of falling down, down, down, then suddenly getting caught up like my parachute violently opened and slammed me harshly upward out of sleep when I was right on the brink of sleep, crossing over into it. When I've been super-caffeined, I've had this happen many times in succession, and that kind of screwing with my system repeatedly in a short period of time can leave my head really spinning and make me feel outright delirious.

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And then when you wake up, horrible, horrible things have happened.

bravos1 · #10 10-10-2005, 07:57 PM

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Your body twitched first, and then you brain made a story to explain it. Its fun like that.

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It's amazing how fast your brain can make something up in such a short time, but make it feel like it was a "long" dream. I used to get bad back spasms and I would always have a dream that I got stabbed in the back. Kinda sucked waking up with my body arched back. I would slowly unarch it but the spasm would frequently come again ... I used to also get cramps in my calves when I slept which would hurt for like the next hour or so.