Comments on: The Jerk https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/ Most trusted dream expert on the planet! Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:59:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: John Irvin https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-51 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:59:52 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-51 what I am askin bought is not related to sleep. my hands arms and every part of my body jerks, yestarday I lost controll 2 times and fell to the floor and it is gettin worse,,,what can some one tell me. I am afraid ome of these falls will land me in the hosptital..

]]> By: Jaya https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-50 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:32:24 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-50 Yes, it just happened to me yesterday when I went
to bed, exhausted, after coming home from work. I
closed my eyes, and immediately was asleep and dreaming,
or I suppose not actually dreaming, but just having
hypnogogic imagery. In the imagery, I was walking
quickly around the corner of a building… there was
some landscaping around the corner, with plantings
bordered in with railroad tie type wooden things,
and as I came around the corner, I tripped over one
of those, and began to falling towards the ground…
as I was falling, I jerked awake with a big gasp!

]]> By: kris https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-49 Thu, 14 May 2009 15:42:15 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-49 Another thing about this hypnotic jerking is that my husb. says if you don’t “catch” yourself as you are falling, or as your leg jerks, you can willfully leave your body and do astral projection. He used to do that all the time, but not as much, now that he’s older.

]]> By: Shelly Senter https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-48 Wed, 13 May 2009 18:22:49 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-48 This is a really funny story. I was on a plane one time and this happened to me. I was sitting between my husband and a stranger and I kept dosing off and then jerking myself awake. I felt really sorry for the stranger next to me as I kept hitting him!!

]]> By: Claudia K https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-47 Wed, 13 May 2009 15:43:58 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-47 I have had these experiences, I am falling off to sleep, then I suddenly have this feeling that I am falling out of the bed, sometimes I feel that I am flying and I am falling and I jerk away. It used to be very frightening.

]]> By: Joan https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-46 Wed, 13 May 2009 03:27:01 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-46 I have had this experience several times. It usually occurs when I first fall asleep. I have noticed that when this sensation occurs I am usually on the top of a building when I fall off.

]]> By: krazy https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-45 Tue, 12 May 2009 22:07:19 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-45 I have the hypnic jerk nearly every night and it drives my wife insane. Most of the time I don’t have a mini dream (or don’t recall it), but sometimes I do have the sensation and/or dream that I’ve tripped, or I’m falling off a chair, building, etc.

Do you have suggestions on reducing the frequency or is it just something we (mostly my wife) will have to deal with? Thanks!

]]> By: kristen dodson https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-44 Tue, 12 May 2009 18:56:15 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-44 Yes, I have had this happen. I often will be climbing a ladder or a set of stairs, and I wake myself up as my legs move! I don’t think it’s a jerk that I feel, but I have often felt that too. My husband has it happen every single night, several times, makes it hard for the bed partner (me) to peacefully drift off!

]]> By: Vickie https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-43 Tue, 12 May 2009 18:43:35 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-43 I have to have atleast a sheet over me when sleeping. If not I will wake myself with this. I say it holds me down and I don’t feel like I’m falling. So I guess I am falling in my beginning sleep. Not with a sheet though, stops it.

]]> By: Debra S. Dreyer https://www.lauriloewenberg.com/the-jerk/#comment-42 Sat, 09 May 2009 01:01:57 +0000 http://thedreamzone.com/blog/?p=735#comment-42 I just had this happen this morning. I woke up about an hour early and I was worried that I would find myself sleeping through the normal ‘wake’ time. So about twenty minutes into returning to sleep – I jerked awake. I just got up! = )

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