Can someone explain this?

I don't know how to say it.. when you're lying in bed, ready to sleep , sometimes I get this feeling, for 3 seconds, that I'm falling or the bed is falling and after I react to it I realize that nothing actually happened..

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it happened to me more than once. it happens when im about to doze off. its when im brain-tired. i can feel that my head (or my mind) is falling, then i snap back . since you are half-awake, you're not able to think clearly or evaluate what exactly had just happened.

you're brain is tired

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WaywardYak	Posted Nov 6th, 2009 at 1:35PM Hypnic jerk. As far as I know it's not yet fully understood why it happens, although there are theories. I'd say it's pretty safe to say though, it has nothing to do with souls or any other such bollocks. Rated: +2Vote for this!
LonelyYiska	Posted Nov 6th, 2009 at 7:48AM I've done that. I believe it's because our souls leave our body in our sleep and we do fall back in. Sometimes it's scary. Rated: +1Vote for this!
awhtum	Posted Nov 6th, 2009 at 7:50AM Sorry cant explain it..Im sure someone can on here,iwould try looking under the peoples that deal with dreams..it use to happen to me alot when i was a young adult..Its a very haunting feeling Rated: +1Vote for this!
listenup	Posted Nov 6th, 2009 at 7:57AM I have that almost every day ... I have posted a question before about that .. for me I don't like high places so I think because that I have this dream ... my uncle always dreams about cars accident when he sleeps . Rated: +1Vote for this!
ZombieKitty	Posted Nov 6th, 2009 at 8:12AM I don't know. It's happened to me before too hon. I hate that feeling. Many explanations I suppose, but I really don't know. Sometimes I wake up at night and can't move for a moment and can't speak. They call that sleep paralysis, but I think there is more to it than that. Rated: +1Vote for this!
Literaturegirl	Posted Nov 6th, 2009 at 8:35AM Unromantic explanation but...it's probably neurological and the sense you have of being awake is just that, as you're probably in fact drifting off to sleep. Rated: +1Vote for this!
Quagmyre	Posted Nov 6th, 2009 at 9:51AM your falling asleep, but then suddenly becoming alert for some reason. Rated: +1Vote for this!
r8r4	Posted Nov 6th, 2009 at 1:21PM Happens to me all the time. But no, I can't explain it. Rated: +1Vote for this!

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