when you are falling asleep..........

[speed_monkey]

When you are falling asleep, kind of inbetween being awake and being asleep, do you ever 'dream' you are falling, or in the case of last night tripping over a curb and jolt yourself awake???

This happens to me about 3-4 times a week, very strange.

Am I going to die? lol

[Jag-D]

Sometimes falling, sometimes tripping up, sometimes my foot coming off the pegs or pedals on a bike

[speed_monkey]

apparently (according to my colleague) if you hit the floor in your dream before you wake up, you are dead.... literally.... WTF!!!

[LeoZwalf]

Yup, I get this too, maybe once a month or so. Mis-treading a step, treading on a loose kerb stone, falling off my bike... all ending with me waking with a jolt and scared stless for half a second!

[LeoSayer]

speed_monkey said:

apparently (according to my colleague) if you hit the floor in your dream before you wake up, you are dead.... literally.... WTF!!!

How would anyone know this?

[speed_monkey]

LeoSayer said:

speed_monkey said:

apparently (according to my colleague) if you hit the floor in your dream before you wake up, you are dead.... literally.... WTF!!!

How would anyone know this?

God knows but he is adament!

[Jackpot]

It happens as your conscious brain gradually relinquishes control of the motor functions, then a faint stimulus, such as a noise signals the semiconscious brain into trying to scramble itself into action again.

[Plotloss]

speed_monkey said:

apparently (according to my colleague) if you hit the floor in your dream before you wake up, you are dead.... literally.... WTF!!!

Do you work with 7 year olds then?

[speed_monkey]

Plotloss said:

speed_monkey said:

apparently (according to my colleague) if you hit the floor in your dream before you wake up, you are dead.... literally.... WTF!!!

Do you work with 7 year olds then?

Are we talking mental age??? If so then yes... yes I do

[shirt]

speed_monkey said:

apparently (according to my colleague) if you hit the floor in your dream before you wake up, you are dead.... literally.... WTF!!!

yeah, and if you say 'candyman' three times....

i have been stabbed, shot, run over, blown up, etc. in dreams and i'm still here. i have a recurring dream where i;m in the war and bayoneted, but i just lie there waiting until ze germans have gone and walk off.

i do the jolt thing, but never because i'm 'falling'.

[Jem Thompson]

I often jolt myself awake. Happened in class once, friend thought it was very funny. Scariest one was when I dreamt I was riding down a hill on my bike, went through an intersection and got t-boned by a bus. It was a very violent jolt that time.

[staceyb]

Yup happens to me all the time, feels like I'm going to fall out of the bed but haven't moved at all.

[dundarach]

Called a Myoclonic jerk.

The strange thing is how does your brain know to dream about an involuntary movement, or in your dopey state do you jump then instantly dream the fall....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoclonus

[speed_monkey]

shirt said:

speed_monkey said:

apparently (according to my colleague) if you hit the floor in your dream before you wake up, you are dead.... literally.... WTF!!!

yeah, and if you say 'candyman' three times....

That works........... honest!

I know someone whos monkeys uncles dad did it........... and died!

[allister88]

I've herd that its a throw back from when we were primates and slept in trees - It is our mind testing our reactions to stop us falling out of them...


Apparently.

[John MacK]

speed_monkey said:

Am I going to die?

Yes


HTH

[Jag-D]

speed_monkey said:

shirt said:

speed_monkey said:

apparently (according to my colleague) if you hit the floor in your dream before you wake up, you are dead.... literally.... WTF!!!

yeah, and if you say 'candyman' three times....

That works........... honest!

I know someone whos monkeys uncles dad did it........... and died!

Died to death?

[shakotan]

dundarach said:

Called a Myoclonic jerk.

The strange thing is how does your brain know to dream about an involuntary movement, or in your dopey state do you jump then instantly dream the fall....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoclonus

Indeed, funny this came up, I was talking to...er, someone about this last night!

[speed_monkey]

John MacK said:

speed_monkey said:

Am I going to die?

Yes


HTH

YAY..... erm.... or not

[Tiggsy]

speed_monkey said:

apparently (according to my colleague) if you hit the floor in your dream before you wake up, you are dead.... literally.... WTF!!!

Worse "i work with retards" thread ever.