J4CKO

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Then, your body gives a spasm and you wake up again, not every night but fairly regularly, normally quite gentle but can cause you to move a few inches.

Anyone else get this ?

Turbohot

I went through a phase when I did get it a lot.Not anymore.Stopped itself.Relates to various factors.Hopefully Deep will come in and cast some light on it

pauly

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get it occasionaly

Turbohot

On occasion just the anxiety may cause such jerks, although in that case one would expect them when you are nervous, stressed, and anxious, not as you are falling asleep or relaxed.According to some,deficiency in magnesium and electrolytes or trace minerals can cause body spasms too.

J4CKO

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Never normally bothers me, just occasional but the one the other night woke the missus up, must have been big as she sleeps through earthquakes.

dpb

Yep......get similar sometimes - kind of imagined everybody does to some extent...

Seem to remember my mother complaining to my step-father about the same thing - waking her up.

Stiff

Yes I get this occasionally. Someone once told me it's down to your heart stopping and the body reacts by jerking to get it pumping again. Probably a load of old tosh though! I'm usually dreaming of something where I'm falling (like off a bike etc)so I reckon it's just an instinctive reaction.

David Lock

Only when I'm driving.......

mart360

closest to correct answer..

when you go to sleep your bodys automatic functions, breathing, etc are handled by a certain area aof you brain, these are autonomous fuctions, so you dont need a breath in breath out command issued evey couple of seconds.

when you go to sleep, your brain shuts down your motor reflexes to prevent you acting out your dreams, its this cross over where the brain is shutting down the functions, and you body decides its not quite ready and take control of the motor responses back, hence the jerk or spasm


Mart

J4CKO

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If I dont get the spasm, my wife issues one of the following questions just as I am nodding off.

Did you put the dog in the kitchen
Is my car locked
Did you turn the Christmas lights off (obviously only during December)
Stop FARTING
Whats that noise
Etc

alcazar

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Yeah, I get all those too, especially the fourth one

Someone told me that the effect we are discussing on here is due to a mild form of epileptic fit, and almost everyone gets it, some more than others.

I certainly do, I'm usually running across the playground at school, and trip over a raised manhole cover

A good mate dreams he's going for a header in front of goal, the keeper deflects the ball downwards with his fist, and my mate tries to kick it instead..............and usually kicks his wife

Alcazar

J4CKO

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I certainly do, I'm usually running across the playground at school, and trip over a raised manhole cover

PMSL !

NotoriousREV

I get massive, full body spasms so pwerful that the Mrs swears I lift a few inches off the bed when they happen

RON

Thats odd, cos i get these kind of 'spasms' when i'm nodding off, and i sometimes fell as if i'm hovering above the bed momentarily, then a spasm, and then i go to sleep proper.... odd!

J4CKO

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NotoriousRev, do these spasms last a couple of minutes and end in a satisfied sigh ?

Lee247

Must be a man thing, apart from you TH
My other half does this all the time, its really annoying.

jameswrx

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Get this too, annoys the hell out of the mrs

M444GY

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normally happens when im on the train on the way home from work. makin me look like a fool

alcazar

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FPMSL

Now THAT, I'd love to see.

Alcazar

NotoriousREV

Funny you should say that, I often dream that I'm falling and as I hit the deck I wake up with a spasm and it feels like I've just landed on the bed!

J4CKO, I do also have those kind of spasms and they disturb the wife just as much

ChrisB

I find I can be in bed, dozing off and my legs will twitch. I've always blamed it on something not being right since I broke my right femur.

On holiday one night earlier this year, my girlfriend reckoned I looked like I was raving in the bed, so got an elbow dropped in the ribs to wake me up. I was oblivous to everything.

boxst

Hello

I have this for a few nights after a long flight. Whilst I'm trying to sleep on a 'plane I wake up thinking I'm falling. Not a pleasant experience.

Steve

lubo

im female and get this loads as im nodding off......it wakes me up never mind anyone else and is quite a horrible experience as it gives you such a fright. Dont think mine is down to dreaming about falling off things cos i dont, its just like a WAKE UP call

Lee247

see, its a man thing

Lee247

sorry lubo, didn't see you there, how are you anyway, good I hope

lubo

hiya 84 lol just doing away and wishing i could hibernate..........

Fuzz

slightly off topic but when you wake up are you a slow dimmer switch or is it flick and the lights are on... if you know what I mean.
I'm BANG awake compus mentis straight away but a freind of mine is like "urghh where am I, who are you" for at least 30 seconds.

Seems fecking weird to me... she's also a twitcher, drives me up the wall.

Andy

Lee247

I hate winter too, lubo, the other half twitches even more then

brickboy

It is NOT just a man thing ... two former girlfriends used to, AND my wife thrutches about like they've gone 2 hours with Ron Jeremy when falling asleep.

T4molie

Both me and the missus get this.... she tends to mumble slightly and then twitch

I had one so bad the other night that I kind of bolted up in bed and instantly flipped myself over to lay on my side / front in one move

Andy