A quick sleep related question
- rorybbellows
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A quick sleep related question
Does anyone know the name and cause of the phenomenon where by, just as you are on the verge of falling a sleep you suddenly and sometimes violently jump and are wide awake again ?
I always thought it was called an Alpha Jerk , but I goggled Alpha jerk and all I got was the band !!! so maybe it not that
RORY
I always thought it was called an Alpha Jerk , but I goggled Alpha jerk and all I got was the band !!! so maybe it not that
RORY
Hypnic Jerks (Edit: This link apparently requires a membership after letting you view it once. Grrr.)
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The late, great Richard Boston, founder of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in the UK, once claimed he coined a word to describe the state of being half-way twixt wakefulness and sleep, neither one nor t'other, during which such strange things can happen. His word was "hypnopompic." You wouldn't think he'd coined it if you google it. But that was Richard.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
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I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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I kinda go along with that bit of a theory.emmline wrote:I always feel like it's some last burst of electrical energy that has to be discharged before sleep can be restful.
I have been known to lie awake all night, with all sorts of thoughts having a rodeo in my head. The vast majority of those thoughts have little, if anything, to do with my day to day living.
I cannot keep up with the ceaseless procession of thoughts, any more than I can remember them once I eventuallly nod off.
A recent sleepless night I do remember was filled with strange and mysterious thoughts about the Polish economy..go figure.
Slan,
D.
BTW, when all of this is going down..the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are providing a nice soundtrack..I hear that as well.
D.
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From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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This happens to me all too often, especially as of late. I seem to have too many random thoughts for my head to process during the day, so it's does the bulk of it when I'm trying to get to sleep. I rarely get to sleep before 1am these days.dubhlinn wrote: I have been known to lie awake all night, with all sorts of thoughts having a rodeo in my head. The vast majority of those thoughts have little, if anything, to do with my day to day living.
Although, I will admit, my random, sleep-preventing thoughts are not punctuated by music provided by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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When the head hits the pillow, all fraught and sleep-defying notions may be banished simply by recalling the words of the good Lord himself: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. What a wise man! The eejits around him, and the ones who came after him in proselytising mode, were far more stupid.izzarina wrote:This happens to me all too often, especially as of late. I seem to have too many random thoughts for my head to process during the day, so it's does the bulk of it when I'm trying to get to sleep. I rarely get to sleep before 1am these days.dubhlinn wrote: I have been known to lie awake all night, with all sorts of thoughts having a rodeo in my head. The vast majority of those thoughts have little, if anything, to do with my day to day living.
Although, I will admit, my random, sleep-preventing thoughts are not punctuated by music provided by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Steve "rampant-atheist" Shaw
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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I never knew what that was called, or that it had a proper name, until today.
Apparently, the falling sensation in particular may be from evolution:Redwolf wrote:I've always referred to them as "falling dreams" because there's a sensation of falling when I suddenly jerk awake.
Redwolf
the wikipedia article above wrote:A more radical explanation is found in The Dragons of Eden, by Carl Sagan. This momentary consciousness and physicality are related to the time when our ancestors still slept in trees due to nocturnal ground predation. If you could be awakened enough to keep yourself from falling out of a tree, then you would presumably outlive your less evolved contemporaries, thus reinforcing this reaction over many generations of higher apes through natural selection. This also provides an explanation of the falling sensation
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I've also heard it described as caused when your astral body is leaving your physical body at the beginning of sleep and suddenly gets jerked back in for some reason. Just saying what I heard. I live in California, after all.
Tony
Tony
http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/newspage.htm Officially, the government uses the term “flap,” describing it as “a condition, a situation or a state of being, of a group of persons, characterized by an advanced degree of confusion that has not quite reached panic proportions.”