No matter how many times it happens, it never seems to get better or stop feeling abruptly. See, you’re beginning to drift into dreamland, but just as you’re about to slip out of your head into that deep sleep, you’re starting to fall… way. I don’t know if you were interested in this strange phenomenon, but I always wondered why this happens.Apparently, it happens to people on a regular basis. And scientists have finally figured out what that means. They even dubbed it the “Hypnic Jerk”. Descriptions of hypnotic jerk vary from person to person, but a commonly shared experience is that it makes you feel like you’ve fallen. It is Researchers believe that some external factors, such as caffeine and tobacco, may increase the frequency of sleep jerk. We recommend avoiding it.
Drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin have been found to have similar effects, and sleep deprivation has also been found to cause this phenomenon. Hypnotic jerk is most commonly seen when falling asleep rapidly during or after a state of extreme fatigue. In rare cases, when the body is really exhausted, the brain processes the stages of sleep too quickly and gets confused, thinking that the body and its major systems are malfunctioning. It responds by waking you up with bursts of chemicals that your brain may interpret, building dreams designed to wake you up.
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