Any one know what that shock that bolts through your body as you are just falling asleep?
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that's a good observation. The shock occurs because of the discharge of neurotransmitters (chemicals that neurons use to communicate with one another) that occurs just prior to falling asleep. People believe this has something to do with paralyzing us---so we don't act out our dreams.
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Alot of poeple actually will stop breathing for a half of second when the sleep,i know its weird and scary,my fiance does it and it scared the -hit out of me the first time i withness it,and He explained it to me,he,s docter told him about it,They have a name for it,but i forget what he called it!but its o.k.Don,t be scared,I know it freeks you out when it happens,but just relaxe and take a couple of deep breaths and you will be o.k.God bless,Hollywood
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worse .... I hit that door and fall and pretend to be dead .... then I wake up and everyone will think I was unconscious .... then I sue the company that had the door in my way!!!
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When I was 3 or 4 yrs old I had a reoccuring dream that I was running on top of a grain elevator and I fell to the ground. Sometimes I would wake up and other times I would hit the ground and roll into a pre-dug grave but I wasn't dead. Than I definitely would wake up sweating. Thanks a lot for that one. Now I am scared to go to sleep. I want my Mommy.
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I shared a room with my two brothers and we had a bunk bed with a pull out bed that lay on the ground. I was on the top bunk, sleeping. I had a horrible dream that I was falling off a cliff, then I landed with a hard thump. The landing woke me. I looked up and couldn't figure out why the ceiling was so far away, then I heard my brother wheezing under me. I had fallen off the top bunk. All I did then was climb back up and fall asleep to the rhythmic gasping of my older brother.
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It's like a pressure or shock wave. \nImagine the Hiroshima bomb of menstral cramps. Like that.
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I used to have that problem and still do occasionally.When you are either j****ng off or having s*x, it causes it a lot of pressure in your brain stem area and the major areas of the back of your head and it can cause serious cramp like pains. I thought the first few times it happened to me that I was going to pass out but didn't...But mainly you are putting a lot of stress on your nerves but even more pressure on your head--Just take it easy for a while: do what you would normally do and maybe take a few Motrin or Tylenol before or after s*x or ej*******on...Hope this helps and good luck...You are not alone!
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I hate when that happens.\n\nMost likely you just slept on it wrong, cutting off the circulation somewhat, causing your leg to "fall asleep".\nJust do a little wiggly jumpy dance and it'll get the blood flowing back to it again .
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Oh, yes, this is fun one.  What is happening is that sometimes when you are falling asleep, as your heart rate lowers and your muscles relax and your breathing slows, your brain thinks, just for a split second, that you are dying (you can see the similarities).  As a "check," your brain sends a test signal to your major muscle groups, causing them to spasm and you to jolt awake.  It is more likely to happen if your brain doesn't "think" you should be sleeping- like sitting up at a desk, for example, or if your internal stress levels are high at the end of the day.  I know it sounds crazy, but it really is a defense mechanism.  If you really were in danger, your body would not react to the test signal, and your brain would go into "fight or flight" mode to try and save your life.
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youre either sleeping on it cutting off blood supply, or your spine in the c-section in your neck area is pinching a nerve making it tingle and throb.  I had the pinched nerve,which also makes you loose muscle contraction.
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To answer this question you need to understand the sleeping stages.\nMany people think of their sleeping bodies as if they were cars parked for the night--motionless, engines off, headlights dimmed. But sleep is an amazingly complex state of being. As we sleep, muscles tense and relax. Pulse, temperature and blood pressure rise and fall. Chemicals crucial for well-being course through the blood stream. The brain, like a Hollywood director, conjures up fantastic stories, complete with a plot, characters and action. \n\nYou don't simply "fall" asleep. You descend slowly through different levels. As you close your eyes and drift off, you enter the first stage of what is called quiet sleep. Your brain produces irregular, rapid waves, and muscle tension decreases. You breathe smoothly, and mundane thoughts float through your mind. If roused, you might jerk awake quickly and deny that you'd slept at all. \n\nIn stage 2 of quiet sleep, your brain waves become larger, punctuated by occasional sudden bursts of electrical activity. You've definitely crossed the border between wakefulness and sleep. If someone lifted your eyelids gently, you wouldn't waken; your eyes no longer respond to stimuli. \n\nAs you descend into stage 3, your brain waves become slower and bigger. In this state of deep slumber, your bodily functions slow down even more. Finally stepping into stage 4, you reach deepest sleep, the most profound state of unconsciousness. On an EEG (electroencephalogram), your brain waves would appear extremely large and slow. You are so "dead to the world" that a thunderstorm might not wake you. \n\nThis step-by-step journey into oblivion usually takes more than an hour. Then you begin to climb upward, moving rapidly through the same sleep stages as before, not all the way to full wakefulness but in active sleep. Because the pupils dart back and forth, this stage is called Rapid Eye Movement or REM sleep. (The four stages of quiet sleep are often referred to as non-REM or NREM sleep.) \n\nDuring REM, your brain waves resemble those of waking rather than of quiet sleep. The large muscles of your torso, arms and legs are paralyzed, although your fingers and toes may twitch. You breathe quickly and slowly, the flow of blood through your brain accelerates. REM sleep is the time of vivid dreaming, and if wakened, you'd probably recall a fragment of a fantasy. \n\nAfter about ten minutes in REM sleep, you descend the sleep staircase again. The entire cycle of REM and NREM stages takes roughly 90 minutes. Early in the night, the periods spent in the deepest stages of quiet sleep are longer. In the second half of the night, REM sleep predominates. By morning, you go around the sleep circuit four or five times. \n\nThis pattern changes gradually throughout life. From infancy to adulthood, REM periods dwindle to less than a quarter of a night's sleep. By their thirties, men spend less time in the very deep stages of NREM sleep. Women begin to sleep less deeply in their fifties. By age 65, both sexes spend half as much time in deep sleep as they did when they were 25. The lighter sleep stages increase later in life, and REM shrinks to about a fifth of total sleep time.
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A Bang Before You Sleep?\nThe bang you may hear before falling asleep may be the well known phenomenon among the spiritually knowledgeable. The pineal gland may close the circuit int he brain, after relaxing and gliding into the Alpha State (scentifically measurable, slowed brain waves).  Thepineal is the root of the so-called Third Eye, which is activated by the closed circuit. This closing of the circuit can cause us to hear a loud bang as if from a shot or similar. When the Third Eye, one of our 7 main Chakras, stays mainly open and the circuit can flow freely, the bang will rarely  be heard.\n\nWhen you have a cat or dog in the room and consciously hear the spiritual bang, the animal will not move its ears from the bang you hear. This is a sign that it is an inner bang, not a physical event.\n\nThere is much our schools do not teach us, but it is all in books. We only have to rediscover the ancient knowledge.\n\nA good book to read would be Secrets of Chinese Meditation by Lu K'Uang Yu. May be as a second hand book (Internet, Amazon, Barnes and Noble). The second part of the book is full of practical experiences with our spiritual powers.\n\nHappy study.\nCordially, India.Magica
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dryer sheets, rub them on your hands and things you use often that shock you... door knobs, hair brush, tv
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Hi! I have experience sleep paralysis also, and found it a very frightening experience.  Some people tend to call it 'old hag' syndrome..  others just refer to it as a sleep disorder.  Like you, I rarely said anything about it because I thought I was going crazy!  Check out website www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050709 it's called 'Night of the Crusher', and might help you understand a little bit more.  I assure you that you aren't going crazy or anything.  If it happens again, try to relax and let it all pass.
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You are having vivid dreams or dreams in which you act out and have no knowledge of it until you wake up and see the results.  You need to go to your doctor right away as this is seriouse and you do not want to end up hurting yourself worse.  The doctor can prescribe some medicine for you to take at night as you are going to bed.  The medicine can help you go into a more deep restfull sleep like totally knocking you out so you cant hurt yourself. Go to the doctor as soon as possible.
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It's called sleep paralysis.
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Everybody will react differently. Are you sure its from the session or is it just a coincidence? It doesn't mean anything, just that your body was really tired and drained after the session.