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do you ever awake with a jolt because you were just dreaming that you had fallen off a cliff? i do. and yesterday while having a little siesta i awoke from one of these with a jolt and a realisation.
i propose that this falling feeling is the body searching for the sensation of ground underfoot.
ie. we spend all day with some degree of pressure on the soles of our feet and when we lie down this we don't have. so the sensation suggests to our sleeping brain that we must be free falling . this triggers some degree of panic as we more desperately search for some terrafirma.
solution: sleep with your feet against the wall.
Online dream interpretation
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"Fall" [Klaatu, Oct 04 2004]
Online dream interpretation
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"Flying" [Klaatu, Oct 04 2004]
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I get flying dreams, not falling dreams, but I believe they both come because we used to swing through the trees, and somewhere our bodies sort of miss it. |
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I've had falling dreams (nightmares) but never a flying dream or, at least, one I can remember. |
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//... but never a flying dream ...// I had several, not actual flying, but waiting in the check-in line. That was the actual nightmare. |
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Welcome, brother! Weve been expecting you! |
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Lucid flying or falling dreams are almost worth the third of our lives wasted sleeping.
Almost. |
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Flying Dreams ^rule^. *Standing/walking on wall* dreams )suck(. |
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for a while i was able to 'cause' myself to have these dreams. they're awesome. |
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you *never* hit the ground in falling dreams - just remember that and enjoy! my worry is that I might not be dreaming... |
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I used to have falling dreams and then once subconsciously decided to pull up like a plane from a dive and fly, and then continued to for many years. |
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You can hit the ground [po] as long as you know you're asleep. |
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they're called hypnic jerks, i think.
nobody knows for sure why it happens, but it's believed that it's because when you relax your muscles your brain misinterprets it as falling, and tells your muscles to jerk you back up. so, i guess if your feet were against a wall, it would stop that from happening. |
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What? I used to hit the ground all the time in falling dreams. |
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Yeah, I've hit the ground in REM dreams a few times, but it's never pleasant. |
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I have a habit of, sometime during the period where I'm falling asleep [can take several hours for me] - of thinking that I've tripped over and am falling down. I usually snap alert while flinging my arms out to stop this imagined fall. happens maybe 1-2 times a week. It sucks, btw. |
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//you *never* hit the ground in falling dreams// |
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I should remind myself of that the next time I accidentally fall off of the Golden Gate Bridge or equivalent. |
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I guess you're one of the lucky ones to never have to experience the "hitting the ground" part. |
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i get flying dreams but I'm always doing too much work to enjoy it: some sort of dog-paddle to stay airborne. War dreams generally suck. |
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I think hypnic jerks are a vestige of the neonatal startle response. |
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//you *never* hit the ground in falling dreams//
Perhaps airline pilots should be issued with strong sedatives to be taken in case of mid-flight emergencies. |
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You haven't thought it through - who would land the plane once the emergency's over? |
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//you *never* hit the ground in falling dreams// I always do.
It's noisy but it doesn't wake me up. |
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no and you owe me a pillow. |
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[insert pillow-biter comment here] |
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