Seriously though, your brain is doing a solid job of paralyzing your body as you drift off. For many of us, there’s an in-between stage where we are dreaming, yet our body tries to react. Mine used to always hit when I went to step off a dream curb.
Notice in dreams you can’t move quickly when action is required? Everything is slo-mo, heavy, thick. You can’t punch, run, fuck, nothing goes right. I assume you get that part?
Imagine every muscle in your body lightly twitch all at the same time for a single instant and without warning. I’m not sure why it is associated with a falling sensation, but it doest make you think of that. Maybe there is a brief feeling weightlessness when it happens?
Never had this. Im always confused when people talk about it.
Congrats, you’re sleeping correctly!
Seriously though, your brain is doing a solid job of paralyzing your body as you drift off. For many of us, there’s an in-between stage where we are dreaming, yet our body tries to react. Mine used to always hit when I went to step off a dream curb.
Notice in dreams you can’t move quickly when action is required? Everything is slo-mo, heavy, thick. You can’t punch, run, fuck, nothing goes right. I assume you get that part?
Imagine every muscle in your body lightly twitch all at the same time for a single instant and without warning. I’m not sure why it is associated with a falling sensation, but it doest make you think of that. Maybe there is a brief feeling weightlessness when it happens?
There is a brief moment of “I’m falling” when this happens to me, which evaporates immediately but I can remember it after it wakes me up.
When it happens to me, I’m usually already dreaming and it comes along when I think I’ve tripped on something.