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  • “But ideas lie everywhere, like apples fallen and melting in the grass for lack of wayfaring strangers with an eye and a tongue for beauty, whether absurd, horrific, or genteel.”
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A Nightmare (Hint Memoir)

Saturday, Jan 15th, 2011 by Anita


I woke up abruptly and lay in bed terrified to make a move, in case something of the dream had spilled over into reality.


 

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  1. TheIkariansNo Gravatar says:
    01.15.11 at 10:51

    I have a question? Does not happen to you that sometimes you wake up abruptly because in dreams you were falling down into an abism? or a huge fall or something, so you feel a strech in your leg that makes you wake up. What does it mean?

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    • AnitaNo Gravatar says:
      01.16.11 at 12:39

      Hi Nairim,

      Yeah I get that too sometimes, it’s scary as hell to wake up like that! I looked it up and turns out that it’s called ‘hypnic jerk’ (weird name huh).

      One reason for the feeling of falling is:

      When your body enters into sleep, it undergoes changes in breathing, temperature and muscle relaxation. Muscle relaxing may cause hypnic jerk. Your brain interprets all the signs of relaxation as a sign that you are falling and signs your limbs to wake up. Therefore jerking occurs. This is likely to happen for some people because they experience a sensation or visions of falling as they drift into sleep.

      And an eerie thing is that it’s apparently similar to the dying process:

      Body reacts to falling asleep much in the same way that a body may twitch when dying. Hypnic jerk is a reflex used to keep the body functioning. Your brain registers falling asleep as a situation in which body needs to be stimulated.

      There’s more about it at this website:

      http://www.sleepdisordersguide.com/topics/hypnic-jerk.html

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