Falling Dreams

What about knee jerk dreams? dreams where you jump and land or bang your elbow or whatever and in real life your physical arm twigs in relation to whatever happened in the dream?

I've dreamt I've fallen over before say during a power nap (which is awesome btw) only to notice my physical knee jerk as it happens in the dream - weird :D

I've also dreamt of flying but never falling to an untimely death....yet.
 
I don't have many falling dreams have work up with a start a couple of times after feeling like I've tripped over or fallen over but pretty rare.

Worst are night terrors, used to have them quite often as a kid but now only when I'm ill and I overheat in bed. Basically you'll suddenly be awake and you'll be terrified... of nothing. You're concious but you can't stop being terrified, even when you're brain has realised what's going on and knows nothing's wrong it still continues. Last time it happened it was about 45mins of me pacing, getting drinks, and browsing the web before it passed enough to go back to sleep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror
 
mrk said:
What about knee jerk dreams? dreams where you jump and land or bang your elbow or whatever and in real life your physical arm twigs in relation to whatever happened in the dream?
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I've had many of them; they tend to be football related :rolleyes:
 
The only time I fall is when my wings don't open straight away. I have a lot of flying dreams. I don't always need wings haha
 
I frequently gets that "falling feeling", which wakes me up (a big twitch) :mad:
 
ATI_Karl said:
Google Sleep Deprivation

When you sleep, you mind just switches your body off, muscles etc become relaxed.

What you had is a lucid dream, your not alseep, yet your in a dream, your muscles are still connect to the brain.

As your still awake, your body can reciprocate the point of inpact, waking you up.

If you do not wake. The dream carrys on.

you wont die lol
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Thats not Ludid dreaming. Iv practised lucid dreaming.

Its a technique where you teach yourself (self relaxtion before you sleep), keep dream diary's, find focal points in your dreams which allow you to take control of your dream.
 
Sleep is still quite a mystery because there's no evidence showing why we need sleep but there is recent evidence showing how to fool your body into thinking it has slept a good night by simply not eating for 12-16 hours (another thread a few days back I created).

Approx 3% of people in the world also have a mutation that allows them to get a proper sleep from less than 6.5hrs sleep too a recent study found.
 
DJMK4 said:
Thats not Ludid dreaming. Iv practised lucid dreaming.

Its a technique where you teach yourself (self relaxtion before you sleep), keep dream diary's, find focal points in your dreams which allow you to take control of your dream.
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Spot on. You begin to recognise patterns in your dreams and are able to change the outcome of that pattern subconsciously. Keeping a diary is most important part and, as you write more, you'll remember more as well.


mrk said:
What about knee jerk dreams?
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That is just a standard response to waking. Your body releases a chemical while you're asleep that helps to prevent you from acting out your dream in real life. Once in awhile the chemical misfires, causing a flinch. Your brain reacts to the flinch very quickly (fractions of a second), incorporating it into your dream.

Remember, time is not real in a dream. You can have what seems like an hour long dream just in the 9 minutes after you've hit your snooze alarm.
 
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