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OK I havent slept since , I can't remember but I was just looking through the forum had me feet up elevated on a stool. For a slit second I think I started to nod off but at that precise moment I felt a pressure under my left foot as if I had stood up and stood on top of a plastic pipe about 4 to 5 inches in diameter. Just as quickly I felt the pipe roll as if I was falling backwards , then I jerked and realize I had nodded off...What caused this and can a dream begin that fast in our mind in those couple seconds I nodded???
Mam,I can not answer your weird phenomena query but I can vouch for Instant Dreaming as it happens to me a lot !...I have noticed the time...gone to sleep...woken up just ten minutes later fully aware of my dream !I hope ewe get answer to your question and also .............some sleep !!
Quote from: Karen W. on 30/09/2007 18:58:59OK I havent slept since , I can't remember but I was just looking through the forum had me feet up elevated on a stool. For a slit second I think I started to nod off but at that precise moment I felt a pressure under my left foot as if I had stood up and stood on top of a plastic pipe about 4 to 5 inches in diameter. Just as quickly I felt the pipe roll as if I was falling backwards , then I jerked and realize I had nodded off...What caused this and can a dream begin that fast in our mind in those couple seconds I nodded???I think your is a (bizarre) variation of the free-fall feeling often people (me too) experience when going rapidly into sleep. I think to have read this is caused by the inibitory pulse on all our muscles in that instant.Maybe that inibitory pulse on your legs muscles made you the feeling you couldn't take your feet where you want, and the unconscious, which you have to know is Very creative, interpreted this information as "a pipe is rolling under my feet".
Myoclonus (IPA: /ˌmɑɪ̯ˈɑk.lə.nəs/) is brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles. It describes a medical sign (as opposed to symptom) and, generally, is not a diagnosis of a disease. The myoclonic twitches or jerks are usually caused by sudden muscle contractions; they also can result from brief lapses of contraction. Contractions are called positive myoclonus; relaxations are called negative myoclonus. The most common time for people to encounter them is while falling asleep (hypnic jerk),