• TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Imagine every muscle in your body lightly twitch all at the same time for a single instant and without warning. I’m not sure why it is associated with a falling sensation, but it doest make you think of that. Maybe there is a brief feeling weightlessness when it happens?

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        2 months ago

        There is a brief moment of “I’m falling” when this happens to me, which evaporates immediately but I can remember it after it wakes me up.

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      2 months ago

      Congrats, you’re sleeping correctly!

      Seriously though, your brain is doing a solid job of paralyzing your body as you drift off. For many of us, there’s an in-between stage where we are dreaming, yet our body tries to react. Mine used to always hit when I went to step off a dream curb.

      Notice in dreams you can’t move quickly when action is required? Everything is slo-mo, heavy, thick. You can’t punch, run, fuck, nothing goes right. I assume you get that part?