Does anyone else get this feeling while they sleep?!


Question: It usually happens to me right before I'm fully asleep and it feels like I'm falling. And then all of a sudden, it stops and I have this weird reaction. I would like to know why this happens and what it's called.


Answers: It usually happens to me right before I'm fully asleep and it feels like I'm falling. And then all of a sudden, it stops and I have this weird reaction. I would like to know why this happens and what it's called.

This happens to almost everyone, and there is a scientific reason to back it up:

Neanderthals (early humans) slept in trees. During the course of the night, they would sometimes fall out, and awake as they hit the ground. Scientists say that this may be the cause of humans feeling as if they are falling and waking startled.

Yeah I do sometime. I have a shake like feeling and wake up.

i am not sure but it happens to me.
And one time i had fallen a sleep watching a movie on my friends shoulder and i was imagining kicking a soccer ball so and my leg totally spazed and kicked him!!
it was sooo funny but soooo weird!

Hypnogogic hallucination. Hypnogogicc is the period of time between wakefulness & sleep. It is a time prone for imagery that feels very vivid & real.

yeah, i feel that sometimes, it



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