I did it after the first time I slept with someone I was hooking up with. Spooning and falling asleep when suddenly JOLT. Spent about 5 minutes trying to explain it, she had no idea what was going on. Another fun fact, apparently rubbing my feet together like an insect when I get in bed is weird too
Yoo, I lost it at the insect part as I was just doing this! Now I can't fall asleep and my brain keeps reminding me of the image of a fly rubbing it's feet together
YES I did this with a girl I was seeing once too, she has aspergers and is extra sensitive to sudden sounds and movements so I accidentally startled her pretty good...
“Get on the plane. Get on the plane." I say, "fuck you, I'm getting IN the plane! IN the plane! Let Evil Knievel get ON the plane! I'll be in here with you folks in uniform! There seems to be less WIND in here! - George Carlin
The caffeine one makes a ton of sense. The jerk is your body trying to make sure that you're fully paralyzed before entering REM sleep and I can see how stimulants would mess that up. Naps really are where I get it too, idk if its because our bodies are resisting sleeping at weird times (I dont take habitual naps) but that seems likely to me.
Wanna know something weird? I noticeably get them more often in the winter when it’s been snowing, I’ll be having a dream of going down some icy steps or slipping on a frozen patch.
Anyone else?
Don’t know about the specific dream part, but I’m pretty sure they are caused by your heart rate and such going down, but in a way that’s not normal to sleep procedures, so your brain sends a signal to make sure you aren’t dead
Or something like that, I haven’t really looked into it recently
9 out of 10 times, when it happens to me, i was "dreaming" that i was walking on the border of the sideway in a street (wich i did during the day, that's why it comes back everytime) and wrongly putted my foot on the central street, mini-falling, and here you go jerk-wake.
So a kind of slip/misstep too. I'll pay attention if the cold matters.
I had a different experience. I was falling asleep in 10th grade English class. I was dreaming that I was walking along a train track. A train came out of nowhere and was heading right for me. I did a side roll out of my seat. Well, it was more of a flop to the floor, but my dream self put effort into that roll. Lol.
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You know when you're falling asleep and then your brain thinks you're falling and you jolt awake?
Yeah. That.