Why the heck does my body feel like it's tripping sometimes when I sleep?

So I’m about to snooze when all of a sudden before I drift off it feels like I missed a stair in my bed and I start to fall until I’m forcefully woken up by the shock. Like, WTH?! It’s not like a dream where you fall off a skyscraper, it’s more like before you start to dream when it happens.

Saturdaycat,
@Saturdaycat@reddthat.com avatar

I will raise you one. Sometimes I see lots of colors and patterns right before I sleep or wake in the middle of the night. Like I took some sort of psychedelic

pleasestopasking,

Hypnagogic hallucinations, completely normal!

Saturdaycat,
@Saturdaycat@reddthat.com avatar

You’re right! But once it happened when I was partially off the bed with my head hanging off, so combined with blood rush to my head and a pounding headache! But the patterns were cool at least

shinnoodles,
@shinnoodles@lemmy.world avatar

Discovering that this is a common occurence is comforting. I thought I was crazy or something.

Flesh_Goron,

No Idea why it happens, but there is a name for it! It’s called a Hypnic Jerk.

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