Have you ever experienced this before?

Question

Last night as I was lying in bed I had just started to doze off
when suddenly I woke up not knowing that I had even fallen asleep and felt like I just jolted back into my body.
My whole body shook for a split second and I was quite terrified until I realized I must have fallen asleep.

Does this sound familiar? Can anyone recognize this?
Thank you in advance for your answers.

Do you of the term used to describe it?

Do you of the term used to describe it?

Answer 1

The sensation you are describing is a perfectly normal response to being quickly woken from a deepening state of sleep. Yes, you had fallen asleep, and were likely well into the second state-which happens just before dream state. You can be aroused from this state- happens all the time with your alarm clock. If you are asleep, and making the transition into the dream state, the brain "locks" the muscles of the body, so you don't act out your dreams. When people are woken from this transition state, the muscles are suddenly released back to the waking, or conscious control. You note this as the jolt, or dropping sensation, because in some ways you might say you are "dropped" back into control. The muscles sometimes do tremor as they convert back from the "locked" position of sleep, and are untensed.
People who are suddenly awoken often note a short period of disorientation, before the entire brain sort of powers up. This doesn't usually happen if you are woken by an alarm clock because you have gone to sleep with a sort of preprogrammed expectation of waking for the sound. It won't happen if you wake normally, because the body gradually comes out of the deep states of sleep to wake you from the least deep state.
The sensations you describe are all very normal and well documented by sleep researchers. Although it was disconcerting to you, it is nothing out of the ordinary or something to be concerned about. It was nothing exotic as astral travel, or anything beyond normal physiological response to being startled out of a slightly deeper state of sleep than usual.

Answer 2

I have had this experience several times. The scientific explanation is that our mind changes from one state of trance into another, and we experience the transition through the sensation of jolt. I don't know what the psychologist call it, but from a metaphysical perspective, this could be something as simple as "grounding", meaning your mind fully returning to the body and been firmly grounded in it. As someone said, metaphysicians believe that during your sleep you reach the astral levels, thus you go "above the ground"- the physical plane of earth. There is lots of literature on the subject of course, but I am not sure which source is the best.

Answer 3

Yes, i have experienced that before. I have "jolted" that way my self and exactly the same without even knowing i was falling asleep. I have also had the ones where u think ur fallling and wake up trying to hold on to something. In both u always wake up pretty scarred! lol seriously! A lot of psychologists think its because it means "u are not in control of a life situation" so in ur dream u jolt or fall. Hope that helps

Answer 4

Yes, I've experienced this quite a few times in my life. I know there's a technical term for it, but I surely don't remember it. I've always just called it the "body splang", a term I saw in a Garfield comic, ha ha. I hate the adrenaline rushing through your body when that happens! I remember reading a while back that this seems to occur mostly when you're stressed and that it's your body's way of quickly releasing that stress from all your muscles so you can sleep better.

Answer 5

Its known as a form of a lucid dream it began to happen to you and U freaked cause U did not understand it so U shot back into your body....terrified b/c it was a new feeling unknown to the physical world we live in..This is the possible beginnings of what some may call Astral Travel......Its like stepping semi-consciously in your case ....into another dimension this is what Shamans do when they perform soul retrivials....Except they understand the universal laws that exist in that dimension and use it to accomplish things like soul retrivials and they also understand it enough to consciously go into that state at any given time.......U kinda stumbled into it as a spectator......

My advice to you is don't feel the fear just because U don't understand......if it ever happens to U again....try to feel the experience for a little longer.....then U will realize there is nothing to fear....It obviously happened to U for a reason.....albeit unknown to U at this time but for a reason...........Sometimes our path calls us whether we like it or not....

Don't forget "we are Spiritual beings having a physical experience"....

Answer 6

It's called sleep apnea. Very common, but it can occassionally happen to people who don't have breathing problems. More than likely you were sleeping wrong and your body had a hard time getting air.

Talk to a snoring person and they will tell you that they experience this all the time.

By the way, psychologists say it is almost impossible to remember the last half hour before you go to sleep. If you tell yourself to remember something when you get up, like call a friend. And you do this right before you go to sleep, more than likely, you won't remember it. And that is why you don't remember falling asleep. Had you more time to assimilate and go into REM, it probably wouldn't have happened.

People with colds or allergies also have problems with sleep apnea.

Answer 7

Happens all the time to me...right when you are about to sleep and realize that you are still awake...you might feel a breeze or hear a sound and it jolts you back into reality. I usually jump and can feel all my muscles twitch. My boyfriend tells me that it is my subconcious getting ready to leave him...ha ha. It's apparently normal because it's happened to me for years and never usually interferes with my quality of sleep.

Answer 8

It's Astral Traveling... It happens to me really often and I'm use to it already, some times it has happen when you have one of those dreams that you think you are falling, and then suddenly you get up. Its believe that your soul can travel to other realms of the cosmos.
Get this book: FLYING WITHOUT A BROOM by D.J. CONWAY
its really good in explaining what's Astral Traveling, why and how it happens and also how to control it, which you can actually do.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

yeah...that's happened to me many times. Usually I had a dream about falling and it woke me up and i jumped/shook. It's wierd. But yeah, it's happened a lot.