Ever experienced, when laying in bed, you suddenly get the feeling that you are falling , when you really are just laying in bed?

Does anybody know what that might be? or what the heck i am talking about? (Not meaning to be offensive in anyway)

Just curious, does it maybe have something to do with Astrel Projection, entering out of your body?

You are describing a vestibular hallucination, a malfunction of the inner ear "acceleration and position" detection apparatus. You can induce similar sensations by shooting a small amount of cool water into your ear with an ear syringe.

It is best to be seated or lying down if you try that. Have a barf bag handy. Seriously.

Anyway, occasional isolated incidents of vestibular malfunction are to be expected. If there is any regularity or persistence to them, however, then you need medical attention promptly. The vestibular system is crucial to anything remotely resembling an ordinary life.

According to the physicians I've asked about this, it is the body registering a drop in blood pressure in preparation for sleep.

The internal organs actually "fall" towards the mattress....by about 1/64th of an inch!

Howdy, OTR. There are any number of physiological changes that accompany and surround sleep.

I went by the information provided in the OP. The poster does not ask about feeling his or her body drop 1/64 inch and then stop, but rather about feeling that he or she is falling. One job of the vestibular system is to tell you that you are falling when you are.

Nobody should regularly feel like they are falling just because they lie down in preparation for sleep. If they do, then they should consult a health care professional promptly.

Unless their bed is at the bottom of a giant cliff.

Well it doesn't happen regularly, only once in a long while.

I guess I didn't explain myself very well. What I meant is that the body misinterprets that approximately 1/64th of an inch "drop" as a far greater distance. At least this is what I was told by both a primary care physician and a pediatrician.



I haven't experienced this myself for many years but it happened several times a week during my childhood and well into my adolescence and even young manhood. That's when the physicians above told me not to worry about it, "it happens to everybody." That's all I can say because that's all I know.

Good to hear it worked out for you, OTR, and good for you that you ran the repeated variety past the docs.

I think they meant that the blood pressure thing happens to everybody, or that everybody gets a vestibular hallucination now and then, or both.

As to what sets it off, all sorts of stuff, including what the docs said. The strangest one that I've personally encountered was a device built for NASA to induce these events for flight training. I stuck my head in the thing, but I could only take it for a few seconds.

The most fun was a military bunker left over from WW II that had beeen built on sand and had shifted on its foundation, so that inside, visual horizontal was about 20 degrees different from real, gravitational horizontal. With no windows, there was no visual reference for the real situation. It was like an amusement park thing... very strange to walk around in - and access was down a ladder.

BTW, returning to something the OP asked, I may have dreamt about doing an OBE that night or within the next few nights, after being in the bunker. I hadn't thought about the possible connection before.

I sometime feel like im floating but not sure about falling.

Interesting topic. I get a weird feeling almost everynight where it feels like my skeleton wants to leap out of my skin. It happens just as I am almost asleep, then I suddenly wake with a sharp gasp and in an instant it's over. This can happen 2-3 times a night. I've never thought I need medical help. What do you people think?

Yes, that's a job for a healthcare professional. Good luck with it.

I experience this once in a while its a very strange feeling

no it do's not have any thing to do with Astrel Projection it a health problem have you ask't your doc about it because i would

It's funny to me for some reason. Whenever this happens to me. I start to laugh because when I'm in REM and that happens it feels like I really fell.

sometimes i lean back in the chair ...close my eye`s .....and get the same kinda feeling that im falling..........that stops when my head hits the floor......:~)

I remember, as a child, dreaming I was falling. What a horrible way to be jolted awake! It didn't happen much, but when it did, I would be scared to the point of panic. It has not happened to me as an adult. (Thankfully).

I know what you are saying I went through that alot, in fact I thought that is what they meant when they say "Falling Asleep"

Also I often have dreams of walking on an slanted sidewalk and I wake up when I fall into traffic.

Myoclonic Jerk

This strange falling sensation and muscle twitch is known as a hypnagogic myoclonic twitch or “Hypnic jerk” If this has happened to you on more than one occasion, don’t worry, you are not alone. Close to 70 percent of all people experience this phenomenon just after nodding off, according to a recent study at the Mayo Clinic.

Most experts agree that this is a natural part of the sleeping process, much like slower breathing and a reduced heartbeat. The occurance is well known and has been well documented. However, experts are still not completely sure why the body does this.

The general consensus among researchers is that, as your muscles begin to slack and go into a restful state just as you are falling asleep; your brain senses these relaxation signals and misinterprets them, thinking you are falling down. The brain then sends signals to the muscles in your arms and legs in an attempt to jerk you back upright. This misinterpretation that takes place in your brain may also be responsible for the “falling” dreams that accompany the falling sensation. These “dreams” are not really normal dreams, as they are not produced from R.E.M sleep, but rather more like a daydream or hallucination in response to the body’s sensations.

is this from a source? If so can you state it? Thanks. I might want to read on.

Nice little piece on this subject found here

http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/ski...4/skinnyon.html

Ta, Wedge

I used to get this every night as a kid, but this is because I have real bad ears! But I used to feel this falling sensation then picture me and my bed falling in to complete nothingness and then I would go off into my recurring night terrors! Horrible child hood hehe

One is called an "auditory sleep start." Here, instead of waking with a twitch, you wake to a very loud snap or cracking sound that seems to originate in the center of your own head. Sounds very unpleasant. Another, a "visual sleep start," replaces the crack with a blinding flash of light, also coming from inside your noggin or your eyes. A final variation returns you to full consciousness with a "flowing sensation" that oozes over your skin. All the sleep starts may be accompanied by a grunt, as you exhale through sleepy vocal chords.

But what -- or who -- is a myoclonic jerk? The term, I discovered, is outdated. Now this disorder is known as Periodic Limb Movement, which isn't nearly as colorful nor as fun to say.

The disorder itself is like hypnic jerking gone loco. As the myoclonic jerker sleeps, his legs jump and twitch at terrifically precise intervals -- every 30 seconds, for instance.

"It's like some sort of metronome," Mahowald says. "You can extrapolate five minutes out, and you'll be right on." The twitching may last two hours, then fade away. Although the jerker tends to sleep right through all the fun, the "bed partner" may not. And so researchers pay more attention to this disorder.

I often wake up to really loud cracks, scares the crap outta me!! also my gf has told me I twitch all the time when im asleep...man im weird ;-)