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I wonder if this is related to hypnic jerk? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk Similar outcome: you awake
by Kirby64 3y ago
I wonder if this is related to hypnic jerk?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
Similar outcome: you awake quickly in a panic, just the difference is hypnic jerk feels like something interior and you know it wasn’t a noise or something. I get these occasionally, and they’re easy to ignore because I just “know” it was dream-like falling feelings. Annoying in the moment but I drift back off to sleep quite quickly afterwards.
- garganzol 3y agoI am sure that hypnic jerk is related. Distortions of sleep/awake transitions have quite a universal pathology mechanics caused by brain stem / nerve damages. Either physical or metabolic. POTS is also a related condition. All those pathologies belong to a more broad pathological condition called dysautonomia.
- NikkiA 3y agoThey're related, but I've had 'explosions' that were NOT part of the near-sleep experience, so they're not purely a part of hypnagogic jerk.