• salarua@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    one night while i was laying in bed wide awake, i felt myself fall. like a quarter inch. i was lying flat on the bed and i wasn’t moving at all, but somehow i fell as if i like teleported a quarter inch into the air

    • Gray@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I wonder if it was a hypnic jerk. Brains are weird so maybe your brain made it feel like instead of just jerking in bed (that’s what she said) you had fallen and the sense of hitting the cushions was you landing. I know I get hypnic jerks every few months and they always startle me.

      • Echolot@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I get this falling feeling very regularly, like nearly nightly. You get used to it and now it’s like an indicator for me that I’m about to fall asleep.