Weird Experience When Falling Asleep

[Geoffrey]

Hi there! IT'S THREAD TIME :sweat1: I had a weird experience last night and this thread is based on that. Let's start from the top! When I go to sleep I sometimes imagine the most cliche of dream worlds, so I can imagine myself being there, get relaxed, and fall asleep faster. The reason it's a giant cliche (I mean, it has a castle for crying out loud and the girl I'm in love with is the princess that lives there) is because it takes less effort to imagine. The next thing I do is try to cut all my thoughts off; when I begin thinking in a sentence I immidiatly know what I meant so there's no reason to 'say' the whole thing out loud. Basicly it's all very innutiative. It takes a little concentration and I certainly can't get myself to stay focussed when I've just watched, like, the most awesome action movie ever. Anyway - it was the same thing last night, back in my borderworld between being awake and being asleep. I tried to focus on the sound the grass makes when I step on it and how it feels when I lie down on my hill (yes, I have a hill - which has a beautiful view of the castle by the way), all to make that world a little more real. Now one thing that always happens when I do this is that after a while I get the feeling that all my other senses are blocked and everything turns black - it's very soothing. I've translated this to the first thing I thought off so now my dreamworld has giant shutters in the sky. Well, to make things even more relaxing I thought I'd lie in the grass and fall asleep. So here I was lying in bed, imagening I was lying on my hill trying to fall asleep, trying to fall asleep. Weird thing was that I suddenly felt as if I was falling through myself (in the real world, I mean), until it felt like I was about halfway through and I shocked and woke up. It all happened in less than a second but it was certainly a weird feeling, I didn't feel the bed anymore and I just fell. Now I know that this whole subsection is based on things that go beyond dreaming and all that, so I thought I'd have a better chance of a good answer here. Just out of curiousity!

[Merlock]

Aye, this gets asked every other week. Then again, it's been brought up three times this week already so those statistics are false, hahah. Anyway, you experienced a hypnic jerk. Happen all the time when falling asleep, most often associated with the feeling/visualisation of tripping and falling, then being shocked awake. So not much "beyond dreaming" about it, really.

[Geoffrey]

I was hoping for something a bit more spectacular. Ah well!