ever experience a myoclonic jerk

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My legs or arms sometimes spasm in my sleep, heres one time in particular,
I was taking a nap one time on my couch and my foot jerked out and kicked my mom's antique lamp from the table next to the couch onto our hardwood floor.

I used to get these really bad, it would happen when I was falling asleep, and I would have several, one after another after another. I was awake, but I couldn't control it. Really uncomfortable and freaky. Hasn't happened lately. I feel like it got worse when I drank.

One kind of interesting thing: I researched it a lot when it was happening to me, from what I read, no one's 100% where they come from. But do you notice that they're usually accompanied by a feeling or image of falling? I always thought the falling sensation came first, then you twitched, but apparently the movement comes first, and then your brain sort of tries to explain it by creating the image of falling. Weird...

I've never had them, but every guy I've dated has. It scares me...I always think they're having nightmares.

Oh I hate those... almost made me fall off the sofa once.

I have these all the time. I don't know if i actually move at all though because if someone else is in the room they never seem to notice, although they could also be half asleep.

Actually responding to your sig here:

Atheism IS religion. It's inverted religion. Atheism is theism turned inside-out.

You can't escape the human need for dogmatic structures. The amount of energy and dedication required to deny the existence of God is a reversed mirror-image of what it takes to believe in Him. If one's lack of faith is strong enough, it becomes a faith in its own right.

What if an atheist never believed in god in the first place? Why cant religion be treated like everything else, if i don't believe that all planets are cubes then why isn't that belief the same as believing in it? Should everyone be given a label for every belief they do not believe?

Yeah I always wondered what those were called. Does anyone else sometimes hear extremely loud, but sudden sounds when these occur? I can't really describe it... I guess it is kind of a jerky sound, like dead silence then an atomic bomb crashing beside you... but its instant and doesn't last...

I've been having these since I was a kid, and now I have them during the day as well. My mum didn't work out what they were, otherwise I might have been diagnosed with epilepsy before I had a grand mal. Ah well.

yarr that also happens to me quiet teh often. finally a name arises~! i thought i was dying for reals or something when it happend

Yeah I used to work with a couple of myoclonic jerks.

No seriously I know what you're talking about. It usually happens to me when I don't like the way I worded something, or more often when I imagine myself wording something badly. The entire upper half of my body will just jolt all at once, like every muscle from my waist up contracts at once. It's kind of annoying but it is there and gone in a split second so it's hard to even react to.

Sometimes it happens when I am extremely tired or exhausted, but in this case it can occur anywhere on my body, usually my legs and/or arms though.

1 a: the state of a religious <a nun in her 20th year of religion> b (1): the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2): commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance2: a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices3archaic : scrupulous conformity : conscientiousness4: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

That might be true if you consider Atheism to have "a set of beliefs".

Try not to spew rhetoric at every chance you get.

Yes quite a lot lately. Stress related. I was exposed to inexperienced truck drivers both in testing them & training them & they were very rough on the equipment & me as well. I have a startle disorder as well & being startled repeatedly contributes to the exacerbation of my myoclonus. It takes months & sometimes more than a year for the spasms to settle down.

I get those quite a lot. It must not be that uncommon though, because I once even saw a comic strip where Garfield experiences one just when he's seconds away from a deep slumber.

I also frequently have what some people call an "out-of-body experience", experience, where I actually feel like I'm walking upright, and then suddenly I fall down and I'm jolted awake in my bed. I know I'm not really out of my body, but it really feels like I'm up and walking around some place. Except it's so dark it feels more like no place. Like, not in my room or my apartment at all. Sooo mysterious!

I saw the title of this thread and I thought, "I've never heard of that, but I bet It's that thing I get when I'm falling asleep," and it is!

Hurrah!

Gee... and here I thought my soul was escaping, tripped on something and fell back in, in an astral projection fail.