NONONO

Well if these are happening to you, I can diagnose you.

They're called hypnic jerks. They happen just before you fall asleep and can cause panic and are also accompanied with a feeling of falling and legs shooting out.

You can prevent them by reducing caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol intake, reducing stress and not exercising 2-3 hours before going to bed.

how am i supposed to reduce stress when i realise i could die in my sleep

The chances of you dying in your sleep are astronomically low, and it is likely on of the best ways to die considering you're usually not panicking or terrified when it happens and probably not in any form of pain. Being scared of going to bed because you may die is an irrational fear especially considering that dying due to a lack of sleep is a far worse death.

oh ok thanks

bro my step dad died in his sleep

thats not nice
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Ldofllod

Just become suicidal then you won't be afraidbpf death

for a sec i thought you said exercising 2-3 hours before going to bed and i got so scared i killed my roommate and shoved a live piranha up my ass

yes

Lol it rarely happens to me
Probably less than twice a year

never for me

it happens to me all the time when im sleeping

im leaving for good like flick7

i told myself "its just a dream, whats the worst that could happen" and it stopped for me.

“🤓”

🤓 (/j)

Usually I’m falling in a thought, or something and it’s weird

I control that falling sensation to give me a roller coaster sensation

For me, it used to be someone-hitting-me-with-a-mallet-at-my-face sensation...

Would it hurt?

no

I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t vape and I never do excercise but this shit always happens to me

The first two 👍
The last one 😔

(I mean not never but not often)

🤓

this happens to me bc my parents stress me out so much

Me too bro

Isn’t it because your body thinks your dead and its trying to wake you up?

That's a theory, not proven. The things I listed here cause hypnic jerks however.

me when i actually falled of my bed: thanks

"I'm npt a doctor, but I play one in comment sections."

I studied them a lot because they were happening to me

I don’t do any of those things but yet it still happens to me

Inconsistent sleep schedule also happens to you. Regardless it is nothing to worry about and has no real negative health benefits

*effects, not benefits

Dang. Probably should reduce my nicotine and alcohol intake.

I like that feeling

It's very interesting that's for sure

Same I figured out how to do it on command just because of how much i like it

-1 How
-2 Why do you like it

How?! You must tell me! I like it too

Tell me how

I use to be able to do that, too! Now I forgot...

Then you open your eyes and your 1,000 feet in the air.

and what the f**k is that helicopter

old helikopter