Is this normal?
 

when i'm about to fall asleep i sometimes prematurly dream of sometimes a ball hitting me or me tripping on the side walk or something and i feel in my mind that it actually happened and my body quenches and stuff but i dont feel the pain/whatever...sort of hard to describe too, does anything like that ever happen to anyone?

I'll be dreaming that I'm falling or something and then wake up all of a sudden scared out of my mind lol

It happens to everyone. We all get those involuntary jerks occasionally while just beginning to fall asleep. I've found it happens to me more often when I'm in a circumstance where I'm supposed to be awake - like in a class, or a business meeting, or sitting in a chair watching TV . . . it seems to not happen as much laying in bed at night - probably because when we're <i>trying</i> to fall asleep, we make the transition from conscious to unconscious much faster and more smoothly.

Or maybe it's our bodies' way of waking us up when we're not supposed to be sleeping.

Yes yes.. I can relate. Just before I fall alseep, I often feel like a am falling thru ice, or like thru a hole of some sort. My lega and arms jump as if i really did fall.. Kinda trippy.... and annoying sometimes when it disturbes my "almost sleep" and i have to start alllllll over again.

Looping out on a bicycle

i used to deliver pizzas full time, so i spent like 60 hours a week driving, so this one time, i dreamt that i was driving and fell asleep at the wheel, and when i jolted awake in the car, in my dream, then i woke up in my bed, being jolted awake twice in a row, sucked.

I can always tell when Im about to fall asleep when my thoughts start making *no sense* whatsoever. Sortof like preemtive dreaming, I guess.

I wouldnt worry about it :D

I can definitely understand, I feel like I'm falling right before I drift off into sleep. I jerk and sometimes feel an adrenaline rush, it's really odd. Other times I can feel my legs are arms twitch, but sometimes I'll literally flail my arms or legs. It's freaky!

HAHA
I've gotten those.
I also have gotten dreams where I am in the middle of something really instense and my body actually forgets to breath! Then the reality of not breathing kicks in and I get a jolt of gasping for air (waking me up of course).

-Robert

Yeah. I'll be lying there half-conscious and my mind will wonder off, and something will happen in my mind and my legs will jerk.

Yup, happens every once in a while. It's like if you were standing on a platform, and then the platform were just released from underneath you, it's that sudden jerk, and my whole body jumps.

Twice (yes, exactly twice, it freaked me out bad enough to remember precisely) I had this thing where it felt like I was falling, and then i shift my gaze and can see the ground approaching, and then i actually HIT the ground, and I jolt all over. Scared the shit out of me both times.

Kind of off topic, but there was ONE night in my life where I completely remembered myself falling to sleep at night and it seemed like the night went by in the blink of an eye. It was like I closed and opened my eyes once and it was 8-9 hours later and the sun was up. Very weird. Anyone else had a similar experience?

I get the falling maybe one a month... Sometimes it's worse. Especially when youu're "more into" the dream - like it seems to be real, then the falling happens, and you get the shit scared out of you. I HATE it.

madcow: That happens from time to time for me, don't know why it happens though... possibly extremely deep sleep.

What about waking up from a shallow sleep to what you thought was the sound of an explosion??? I get these quite often, only to be told that nobody heard anything, and that I dreamed the sound.

Hey, you think that's crazy? Every morning I wake up with dirt and blood on my hands, smelling like sweat, and I don't remember what I was dreaming.....

Hypnagogic startle is what you're looking for. This is natural and happens to almost everybody.

first of all, there is no such thing as normal, as we are all different and all have our own special quirks........
The dreams are telling you something about your life and what is going on in it.......
Is there something or just in general a feeling of running into problems or feeling like a victim, whether it be from other people or just things that seem to happen to you? Sounds like you go along and then out of nowhere, something stops you or seems to just happen not the way you wanted or expected it to. What about your career or love life? How do you feel toward that?

According to my... philosophy professor, I do believe, it's been hypothesized that the phenomena is in our genes. Back in the tree dwelling days of human evolution, creatures that twitched when they got the sensation of falling and flailed their arms out didn't die if they were REALLY falling off of a tree. Those that didn't were naturally selected out... by dying. Hehe.

God I hate it when that happens, it gets the adrenalin flowing and takes ages to drift off again.

Yeah that falling dream stinks. I'll end up flailing under the covers for a second. It always happens right on the verge of sleep. The other really bad dream is the one where I am coming up on finals, and I remember that there was a class I was supposed to go to but forgot all about (so consequently I got an F). I always get this when I'm in a college environment.

Yeah I have those experiences. Body's response to perceived stimuli. Reaction to what you think is occuring. Not all that much fun IMO.