Just when I was waking up this morning and was still in a kind of dream world and before I opened my eyes, my body suddenly received a big jolt and it felt like the house had been hit by a truck.
It was very frightening but it didn’t harm me in any way physically.
Doctors have various names for it like ”hypnagogic myoclonic twitch” or “Hypnic jerk” but they obviously don’t really understand it because they always add qualifiers such as, “It’s most likely” or “Probably caused” by etc. which are a real giveaway.
I’d like to hear from some others about what they believe or have read to be the causes.
Around 70% of people say they’ve experienced it either once or many times, so you’re not alone.
All of the following believe in some form of reincarnation;
Baha’i Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Druze, Eckankar, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Mayan Religion, Scientology, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, and probably some other religions too.
So if you’re tempted to scoff at the idea of soul, just remember that not just a huge number of people believe in it, but probably two thirds of the world do, and a great many of them believe that the soul leaves the body when you sleep.
So the non-scientific reason given for the jolt that we sometimes receive is said to be caused by soul returning to the body at an accelerated rate.
Normally the soul is said to leave and return gently, but if you’re suddenly woken by an external source or even something frightening in a dream then soul has to return far more quickly in order to be present when you awaken and hence the “jolt”.
In line with what live-one had to say, I discovered this on the Internet;
Like the brain would really misinterpret falling asleep with falling down; give me a break!
Whereas I agree with MacTheKnife that it seems highly unlikely that that brain would or even could really misinterpret falling asleep with falling down, there is some other relevant info.
Some researchers maintain that lack of sleep from sleep anxiety or sleep deprivation can it fact confuse the muscles and the brain.
They say that the muscles continually attempt to relax and shut down for rest, whilst your brain remains awake creating continued “misinterpretations” of falling or loss of balance.
I’m not by the way at all closed to the idea of soul leaving the body because it seems obvious to me that we are far more than just bodies; but that’s another post perhaps
This jolt happens to me almost every morning when I am in a dream and waking. My heart races and I feel s if I am breaking through a wall to wake up. The dreams are very vivid and always center around my childhood home amd family. There are times I return again to the dreams and it is as if I have to force myself back to “reality”. These dreams are almost nightly and I wake this way often. I feel as if I am living two lives….
Maggie you have a gift called out of body expirence you are astral traving look it up in youtube
omg i do something similar to that i have dreams from the past and its hard to breathe! does that mean i have the same thing?
Some researchers maintain that lack of sleep from sleep anxiety or sleep deprivation can it fact confuse the muscles and the brain. I experienced on it cause of being exhausted. In such a way that you may fall into floor. Good that you shared this informative blog.
They are called myoclonic or hypnic jerks and I have them all the time.
They can be caused by different things such as medications you are on, irregular sleeping schedule or some medical conditions.
Sad that you see everything through the eyes of medication.
Millions of people that are not on medication and don’t have any “medical conditions experience the same thing.
Why do you get them all the time?
Which medical condition do you have?
It’s weird, I experienced that same thing this morning. I am a graduate nurse at a trauma 1 center in Memphis. I was at this house and an older lady coded (stopped breathing/pulse less). I immediately jumped in rotation doing compression, kind of like at work. The only exception was during my compression I was “Jolted back to reality by this electrical force” it was really weird! I can’t explain it but instantly awaken and knew someone had just passed!
-Tarrence
my 4 yr old son woke up this morning screaming and scared. at first he could not explain it, but then he is convinced he has had an electric shock (not true obviously) and said it felt like ‘cold fire’. is this what you are all refering to?
I think the physical effect varies only a little from person to person and for me it felt like I’d been hit very hard in the chest.
Unless your son ever had an electric shock then he wouldn’t know what one felt like, and I can well imagine that he’d experience the jolt as and electric shock.