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[Musashi_HUmar]

So I was in study hall and done with all my work. I had nothing to do, so I put my head down for a little bit. Before I knew it though, I was sort of asleep. All of a sudden, I was half dreaming. I was riding a bicycle. And all of a sudden, I let go of the handle bars. The bike started spinning out of control. Right as I was clamping down on the handle bars, I woke up and jumped a bit. It looked sort of like a muscle spasm. Fortunately, no one really noticed. Has anything like this happened to you? Being half asleep and dreaming and then waking up real quick like that?

[Lunia]

Yeah I've sorta had that too, especially when I dream that I'm falling. Recently I had a dream I was hit by an avalanche and it was like I really felt the impact on my body, funny how its all connected.

[Amy Rose]

Yep, I have the one where I'm falling and then snap awake quickly a LOT.
I always wake up before I land though

[Musashi_HUmar]

It's ironic really how real life and dreams can be connected. That's probably how part of the concept for NiGHTS came to be.

[spinningcannon]

Yeesss this happens to me almost daily. XD Although with me it's caused by severe lack of sleep.

Even so-- I can only figure that this is caused by being right on the edge of consciousness, and slipping off when we aren't paying attention. ^^
It is quite interesting, though, although I wish I could remember mine more often. My memory is horrible. XD

[TRAViS]

Mmm I love it when I notice I'm slipping onto the edge of consciousness. Nothing really comes of it other than a few amusing moments (still working on pulling off a full WILD).

Yeah I've sorta had that too, especially when I dream that I'm falling. Recently I had a dream I was hit by an avalanche and it was like I really felt the impact on my body, funny how its all connected.

I've had that happen before too. As far as I remember, that's caused by a signal that's sent down your spine right before you go fully asleep that causes your entire body to twitch or shake. It happens every night and you're seldom aware of it. I've had dreams where I fall flat on my arse and on impact I wake up with my body rebounding and moving a bit in bed. They're rare occurrences for me.

If I could let my sleep schedule run however I want it to (college isn't helping) I'd probably spend a lot more time investigating and experimenting with the semi-conscious...

[Nyclone]

Last night I had one of those: I jumped off a huge cliff, and when I landed, I was in the future. O_o But I didn't wake up right after that...

[DAiLiGHT]

I've had dreams like that, except I don't wake up all of a sudden. Usually it takes my friend Eddie hitting me with a pencil and snapping at me to stop drooling on his shirt before I wake up.

[Musashi_HUmar]

lol

It's really not a good thing to fall asleep in class, no matter how boring it is!

[tinfoil]

This happens to me all the time during class. I wake up when I dream that I fall off of a chair or something like that.

[Nemoide]

It used to happen to me in high school when I would fall asleep in class with some regularity.
I think it is pretty much the same thing as when you are going to bed and all of a sudden are jolted by a falling sensation?

[DiENE]

about 80% of the time when I am in bed ready to sleep for the night I have a 5 mins sleeping period in which that has to happen before I can truly fall asleep, it ALWAYS reminded me of when you enter a dream in NiGHTS and the Minions steal your Ideya before you can JUST BARLEY get to NiGHTS XD that always annoyed me.

[Minn]

Things like that occasionally happen to me, but never anytime other then when I'm trying to fall asleep at night. Like once I was just barely asleep, and dreaming although it was more like a series of random thoughts buzzing in my head all movielike. I was walking somewhere and there was...something in front of me {can't remember} and then out of nowhere this tape measureing tape extended and hit me in the eye-
-And I jolted wide awake in bed, feeling like something had actually hit me in the eye.
...Stupid brain.
Also, once tried adjusting my hair or something in a dream by bending my neck sideways-
- did the same thing in real life and woke up instantly. Gave myself a krink in my neck too. Agh.

[Musashi_HUmar]

Similar things have happened to me. What's interesting though is when you're just about asleep, when you tell yourself or imagine something go on, it feels like it actually is. Of course that is, until you grip your bed or something and you wake back up.

[Pikmingirl]

Ooh, yeah I've had one of those dreams before. They feel weird but funny in a way. I was also half asleep and then when I felt like I fell off the bench, I jumped and woke up and felt very awake or something. XD Those dreams are fun in a way... Sometimes, lol.

[DAiLiGHT]

I recently encountered that today, actually, without Eddie having to hit me with a sharp object.

I was in Biology class and we were watching I Am Legend (because it's the day before a long vacation and Mr. E just REALLY doesn't feel like teaching XD) and I put my head on my hand and before I knew it I was OUT and I had a nightmare. I was being attacked by wild rabid dogs, and one of them attacked my throat and I snapped awake. I touched my throat and could swear I saw blood, but I guess I was imagining it because no one else saw anything and there was no real wound to speak of.

[Lament]

Please nobody take this personally, but wouldn't it be funny if there was a banner that said, "The NiGHTS into Dreams Community" - "Come and join us!" and everyone in the picture was just dead asleep? I would chuck nuggets XD

I had those dreams all the time. Like three weeks ago, I was in math class, and I had not slept the previous night so I was tired. Well, I finished my test, and layed my head down. I don't remember having any dream or anything, but I jumped up really quick like without any warning whatsoever, and everyone looked at me like I was retarded... Poor me XD

[iLLViLLAiN]

I can't really recall experiencing that but I do know I have had plenty of times when I had sleep paralysis. The most notable time was the image of a man with a sky blue face just looking at me angrily. I tried to move but I couldn't. I had sleep paralysis -.-"

[Uly'aoth]

Funny i've had dreams like this before. Many dreams I have underwater i'm not holding my breath but i'm not drowning. Instead its like flying without having to stroke it's so much fun...until you run into the great white shark that is...and from that a rock wall 0_0 *Chop!*

[Saphira]

I've had dreams like that before. I was in a jacuzzi, and I fell asleep. Suddenly something screamed WAKE UP! at me and I woke up.

[Musashi_HUmar]

Yeah, those are some weird dreams. It's strange the way the unconscious mind works...

[TORiAS_the_fallen]

The mind is AMAZING! This happens to me alot, too. I have these dreams roughly every teo weeks....

[Saphira]

Once I was on my bed, watching TV late at night, and I fell asleep accidentaly. I dreamt that a dog was chasing me, and then it bit my knee, and then I started spazzing out, and I woke up in bed and my knee was throbbing for a few seconds... it was wierd...

[Arctides]

So, one time, I had a dream that I was going through a high-tech obstacle course. At one point I jumped over something in the course, and was suddenly jarred awake as I landed on the floor next to my bed and whack my ankle on the edge of my desk (which is also next to my bed). Apparently I'd actually jumped

[NeoScriptor]

Mine tend to be intense, like Arctides'. I'll be falling or something, and wake up when I hit the floor next to my bed. It's happened about three times now, funny how my subconscious can time that so well with gravity and all... As for those jittery, half-baked ones when you're just falling asleep, I've had one every night this week. The only difference is that I've been dead tired all week, so I guess that has something to do with it.

My brother has this stuff happen to him hardcore. He once fell out of a bunk bed, dropped six feet, and hit his head on a printer. My parents and I got up and ran over to him and found him fast asleep with his head still on the printer, haha.

[Metaria]

I've fallen asleep in class, only to twitch whenever the teacher's voice rises or falls in inflection. And I can feel the twitching, even when I'm dreaming. It feels really strange.

I've also had dreams where I'd be fighting someone, and make some sort of crazy Matrix-style move to dodge their attack, and wake up in that position about three seconds before I fall off my bed.