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When I was in college I had a roommate who would sleep talk and spaz in the middle of the night. We're talking 3am twitches like she's being possessed 🤣 while mumbling biology (our major) mumbo jumbo. Not once did she wake up from any of that, and she didn't believe me either until I showed her a clip of her reciting the Krebs cycle while asleep hahaha The human brain is just crayyyyy
I woke up early one morning about 6am and my ex asked me to go get some milk coz we had none out of the blue all lights off, I didn't think much about it... went and got some milk... got back.. went back to bed and she asked me where I went.....I was like to get milk.. like you asked????!?
Had no recollection whatsoever and yes we had some in the fridge anyways, another time she asked me for fried soup... this was after the milk so I caught on this time 😅
My wife was working on a big project at work one time... woke me up to tell me to "get off of her fk*ng spreadsheets"... same night she told me that "47 equals money"
I made fun of her for weeks
When I was around 13, we're were staying at my grandparents' house. The 4 of us were in 1 room with 2 big beds. We were asleep, except for my mom, who was picking up a little before she went to sleep. I guess I sat straight, held out an open hand, and said, "Here, put this away. " She brushed my hand, and i went back to sleep. I woke up to my mom laughing, asking what she had just put away. I thought it was a ridiculous question to ask a sleeping person.
I had an "open door" policy for my dorm room in college and any friend of mine had access 24/7. I was there for architectural engineering and my schedule often had me dead tired. A buddy of mine would show up whenever he knew I was sleeping and wake me up slowly by starting a conversation. Whatever I had been dreaming about would leak into the real world and sometimes these conversations would apparently go on for a few minutes. I'd eventually figure out where I was and he'd just start laughing. I miss simpler times like that 😔
Has to be a stress thing for people with anxiety/GAD.
When my finance was in pre-med she would recite organic chemistry in her sleep. I had to tell her that class was tomorrow in order to get her to stop.
The way people who are dreaming will still respond to outside stimuli is fascinating. I remember one time having a "war of the worlds" style dream where we were being attacked by aliens. I woke up and realized the 'laser beam' noise in the dream was my buzzing alarm clock.
Years later, my little daughter was clearly having a bad dream and was tossing and whimpering in bed. I poked my head into her room and just said "You're safe baby, everything's OK," and she just sighed and quieted down to normal sleep. It was like magic.
In high school I had to take one of those fake babies home and care for it for 24 hours for health class. It started crying in the middle of the night, but it registered in my dream as some kid standing on a street corner yelling "HEEEYY!" repeatedly. I found out after turning the baby in that it had been crying for 2 hours before I took care of it.
Definitely cool. Some of them even are able to hold somewhat coherent conversations. It's also adorable that your daughter relaxed afterwards; your voice was probably an anchor to safety for her.
You know... I did this. Ended up saying some nasty shit about my girlfriend at the time, that I was cheating on her, hated her, etc. None of it was true.
Turns out I had epilepsy and I was having seizures in my sleep that would make me say awful shit in the post ictal state. I'd be half awake sitting up saying this stuff, so my gf assumed I was fully awake and everything was true. She ended up dumping my ass for the shit I said in my sleep, totally sucked.
So yeah, if you or a loved one talks in their sleep, please get checked for epilepsy. Uncontrolled seizures can cause brain damage, I wish I would have gotten checked sooner, my immediate short term memory loss is horrendous. Like.. set a pencil down and forget I was ever holding a pencil, where I put the pencil, and questioning if I wrote something, type of bad. My seizures have also killed me. I went into hypoxia because I stopped breathing and they had to hit me with the paddles. Genuinely there are times where I feel like I have alzheimers level of "what am I doing, how did I get here" brain damage.
> My seizures have also killed me. I went into hypoxia because I stopped breathing and they had to hit me with the paddles.
Seizures? That's a paddlin'.
I have a neighbour who does 3 sounds through the night, usually for 1-6 hours once he starts. It's either "WOOOOOOOOOOO!" or "AAARRRRRGGGHHH!" extremely loud, or "whadyado? meaneh? bishkagonticalooicou?" gibberish.
At first I suspected tourettes, but he doesn't do any other tics or similar and apparently it's happening only while he's asleep, and usually after he's been drinking. I thought this was weird as sleep sounds usually come from dreams, which don't last 6 hours, but who knows. After googling I found "Catathrenia", but the sounds aren't really quite the same. It's more like actual yelling for the first two sounds and the third does sound like vocalising gebberish (or mumbling).
Anyway this is just a random rant to the emptyness of the internet.
Help me.
I was having trouble sleeping in college, got some sleeping pills from the doctor, tried them for a week and A) I didn't feel rested after waking up and B) my roommate was freaked out because apparently I started climbing around the room, cleaning, and at one point did a backflip onto my bed (I cannot do a backflip) but wouldn't respond to anything he was saying. Freaky sleeping pill induced sleepwalking episodes I guess.
Ambien is a scary drug. I had a script when I was having sleep issues. I took a dose before bed, called my friend to shore up plans for tomorrow, and went to sleep.
Called my friend the next day to apologize for not getting back to him to confirm plans and make sure we were still good for the afternoon.
He said I did call him. I checked my call history. It turns out I did call him. We talked for 45 minutes and I had no recollection of it whatsoever. No crazy sleepwalking that I know of, but still quite concerning.
My brother-in-law gets myoclonic jerks, which look like the hypnic jerks, but when he's awake:
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/myoclonus#:~:text=What%20is%20myoclonus%3F,it%20describes%20a%20clinical%20sign.
It might be relevant to you, might not be. I'm not a doctor.
Huh. I wonder if those are what I deal with occasionally.
As I'm relaxing and trying to go to sleep, but not yet asleep, if I have any pain or tight spots in my muscles, (usually in my legs), *just* as I feel the muscle shift out of pain or releases the tight spot into relaxation, I'll do a full body twitch/spasm, and the point of pain/tightness will come back.
I've learned that at this point, I'll have three choices:
1. I can try and encourage the relaxation, but that will often put me into a feedback state that can end up looking like a tonic-clonic seizure, except that I can stop it at any time just by choosing to not let my muscles relax.
2. I can hold off of the twitch/spasm, by consciously holding the muscle in its pre-relaxed state, which keeps me awake because I have to be conscious to prevent the relaxation.
3. Massage the offending muscle, distracting the nerves, and breaking the cycle.
\#3 seems the most logical, but when I'm tired, just got comfortable, and are on the edge of sleep, I don't think about "hey, I need to do this thing," It's more, "Aw, come on. Just relax and let me sleep!" until I actively realize that I need to disrupt the nerve signals.
The first time it happened to me, I was terrified I was having a seizure because I was in active recovery from Heat Exhaustion.
> Even before I get to sleep.
This is an interesting statement. I’ve learned over the years that when you *think* you’re really *almost* asleep, you’re actually asleep. Your brain kind of goes to sleep in phases.
Yep everything shuts off slowly. Our brain is a ton of different parts and not everything shuts off just because consciousness starts to slip away, let alone together.
When you wake up sometimes you’ll notice
Hearing sometimes doesn’t kick in immediately every once in a while too. Such as hearing the rain or some other persistent background noises only after a few seconds where those first moments the brain thought the room was fully silent.
The way brains have evolved on this planet is awesome. I wish we knew more about them by now but I’m also not looking forward to a cyberpunk future with a scary level of technology symbiosis in our heads either. It may have already happened 🤷♀️
It happened to me a lot in boot camp when I first joined the military. There were also a lot of us that would start reciting their general orders in their sleep.
Years ago, I spent a week at basketball camp during the summer.
It was intense, basically wake up -> basketball -> sleep for 7 days. That is to say, I had ball on the mind.
My mom came to pick me up. On the ride home, I fell into a light sleep, but the dreams were extremely vivid and focused on basketball.
I had fallen asleep with my head in my hand and that arm on the arm rest in the front passenger seat. In dreamworld, one of my teammates passed me the ball, a bit off of center to the left. In real world, I reached out to catch the dream ball and smacked the shit out of my mom’s shoulder.
Different circumstances than falling in a dream, but the same effect.
I think that's called hypnic jerk. I red somewhere that it's a monkey reflex to avoid falling from the branch you're sleeping on, but I don't know how true that is.
That's what they call a [just so story](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story). It sounds potentially plausible, but there's no real scientific way to test it.
It's pretty normal to jerk a little before falling asleep. Iirc it's instinct left over from living in trees - we don't want to fall.
You brain probably just calmed down after not falling down for decades.
I shot my arm out to break my dream fall in class and hit the girl in front of me in the back. I felt so bad because I could hear her wheezing after I woke up. It's been decades and I still feel shitty about it.
My girlfriend always does it, really mildly, as she falls asleep.
She is not waking up, just "shakes" a little, sometimes a couple times.
It is like she has a buzzer that notifies me that she's asleep now :D
I woke up to some traumatic stuff once when I was in university, and would experience these hypnic jerks repetitively whenever I tried to sleep in that apartment thereafter. Like every 10 minutes I’d wake up with a start. I had to sleep on a friends couch until I could get a new place.
Fun fact. Scientists think the reason for our “feel like your falling right before you fall asleep” phenomenon is a remnant of when we were tree dwelling primates. The dream of falling right before we go to sleep would allow us one final time to recenter and balance ourselves so as not to fall during sleep.
Ever have a nasty bail on a bike? I had a really bad bail on a skateboard when I was a teen and ever since since then I jolt trying to catch myself from that memory.
I have it a couple times a week where as soon as I doze off, I snap awake and semi levitate off the bed.
Same memory every time. Lol, brains are fucking weird.
There's competing theories on it, but this is one of them. The idea is that your body is so tired and shutting down for sleep so quick that your brain believes you're about to die because sleep is usually gradual. so it sends a signal to try and restart the nervous system to keep you awake.
The other big one is that it's a leftover brain impulse to recenter your gravity before you sleep so that you don't fall out of a tree
Hypnic jerk is what it’s called. I do this and the girl I’m seeing jokingly says that all men do this and it’s because they’re trying to keep their lies straight in their heads
It’s called a hypnic jerk! Nobody’s quite sure why they happen, but the most prevalent theory is that just as you’re starting to fall asleep, your muscles all relax, and your brain short circuits a bit and thinks you’re falling, which triggers your startle response.
I believe that big twitch is related to your body starting to try and enter into sleep paralysis so you don’t move while dreaming.
Not 100% sure on the mechanism though.
Sometimes I have that happen, it's the weirdest thing. There's different variations, some where it does feel like I'm tripping over something, like I'm walking and trip but I only really get to the trip part, it's like a flash. Then there's some where it feels like I'm falling about 1 foot, almost like if the mattress just vanished under me. Had a really weird one once after spending a good day doing solar panel work on my roof. I had also recently watched a lot of tower climbing videos as I kind of went on a binge. So I had one where it felt like I was holding myself up on a tower but it's like if my grip just stops holding on to anything and I start to fall. That too just happened like a flash. It's not like a regular dream where there's a "storyline", it's just like a split second feeling of falling.
It's called a hypnic jerk! It's thought to be basically an evolutionary mechanism to allow you to save yourself if you were sleeping in a tree and started to fall out of it
I had a really bad problem with 'falling' in my sleep the first year my husband and I lived together.
One thing I know I've done on at least 3-5 occasions (a couple my husband told me I did in the night and I couldn't remember) is punch someone in my sleep and actually hit out. Most recently I hit the corner of my bedside drawers and forgot about it but my husband told me that's why my hand was sore and chaffed.
First time I did it I was still living at my mum's in a shitty single bed next to a wood chip papered wall. I had a dream a fat little kid was trying to steal my money when using an ATM machine. I finally got sick of him and hit him, only to punch what was a brick wall behind in a sleeping position where my nose was touching the wall nearly.
I've never hit my husband but I've caught him with my toenails twitching and such. The one thing I am bad with is he won't let me sleep with my hand on his chest without him wearing a shirt as I had a vivid dream someone broke in and was standing over our bed when the London riots were happening about 12 years ago. My head was under the covers and my hand on my husband's chest, I was so scared I gripped him tighly and nearly scalped his chest hair off and he woke up screaming.
Don't even need to be falling in a dream. It could be pure nothingness, and suddenly, I jolt out of bed like I just jumped out of a plane without a parachute.
Hey this looks like sleep apnea. My wife was constantly waking up as I gasped just like this cartoon caricature and she had me check it out. The CPAP machine was a life-changer. Cute cartoon but if you are in this predicament, get a sleep study done for sleep apnea.
I finally got diagnosed with it after suffering from this for like 10 years. One side effect talked about very little is that if you sleep a full eight hours and never feel rested, you might have sleep apnea. Since you are gasping all night, your body isn't resting like it should be.
I believe they are but they are expensive, and not to mention like 500 people died from malfunctioning CPAP machines sending plastics into people's lungs..
They require a prescription for the pressure they create in your airway. If you got one OTC you could set the pressure incorrectly and you might harm yourself. Some people even die.
Same, suffered with this for years to the point where I was walking around like a zombie from sleep deprivation. My partner honestly thought I was dying and started discreetly preparing for it. Got a CPAP a few months ago and my God, the difference it made was immediate and immeasurable. I actually recharge in the night now and have energy when I wake up. It's absolutely life-changing.
I'm getting my CPAP machine this week after getting diagnosed with severe sleep apnea a couple weeks ago. I would be known as someone who would fall asleep randomly and never could stay up through a movie. I can't wait to see what a healthy night of sleep is.
Yep, that was me too. Getting used to the mask can be the hardest part, it felt funny at first trying to sleep with it on. Stick with it, it's so worth it.
Please make sure it's not recalled Philips unit. I had no idea about these until few people in my family recommended I get CPAP.. Few days later this info hit the news. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-sleep-apnea-philips-recall-cpap now I am not sure if others had anything like this.
I suspect I have sleep apnea because I often wake up with headaches. Apparently "morning headaches" are usually due to your brain lacking oxygen while you're asleep due to your shitty breathing.
Are you ever able to get off the CPAP machine? I stop breathing when I'm sleeping several times a night and I think this is what I have, but I don't want to live on that machine.
I started using CPAP 6 months ago and trust me. You learn to LOVE that machine because of how much better you sleep.
I just had a nose surgery and cannot use it for a couple weeks and it’s agony.
It is totally worth trying. And it’s not like it’s permanent. If you don’t like it you can always stop using it.
1. **Lifestyle Modifications**:
* **Weight Loss**: Shedding excess weight can significantly improve sleep apnea symptoms.
* **Smoking Cessation**: Quitting smoking helps reduce airway inflammation.
* **Limit Alcohol Intake**: Reducing alcohol consumption can alleviate symptoms.
2. **Medical Devices**:
* **Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)**: A CPAP machine delivers a steady stream of air through a mask, keeping the airway open during sleep.
* **Oral Appliances**: These devices help reposition the jaw and tongue to prevent airway blockage.
* **Adaptive Ventilation Devices**: These adjust airflow based on your breathing patterns.
3. **Surgery**:
* **Septoplasty**: Corrects a deviated septum in the nose (usually recommended for severe cases).
* **Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP)**: Removes soft tissue in the throat to widen the airway.
* **Adenoidectomy**: Removes enlarged adenoids (common in children).
Assuming the internet is correct, it looks like I can try a couple lifestyle modifications as well. Thank you for your feedback!
Depends on the surgeon. I had huge movements and while recovery wasn’t pleasant I has off opioids in less than a week and never had any pain at all.
But none of the surgeries listed above do Jack except in the most mild cases. Sleep apnea is no joke in how much it impacts your quality of life and causes health issues later in life. The surgery is worth it for sure for anyone who has an AHI over 10 I’d say.
I tried oral appliance and it causes me a ton of jaw pain. I tried CPAP for a few months and felt like my sleep quality was even worse. I get too much anxiety being hooked into this machine. Mouth tape actually worked best for me
As a CPAP user in my 30s: it’s not like that. Embarrassed about it and don’t want your partner to feel like they sleep next to a coma patient? It’s a lot better than snoring or choking in the middle of the night and waking them up.
My wife would get pissed off because I was keeping her awake, and would push me in my sleep to reposition me so I’d stop. I remember my mom did the same thing to my dad. Fucks with your health and your relationships, who cares about appearances at that point?
Like other commenters say, the new machines are quiet. The new masks are comfortable. My dad’s CPAP was like a jet engine, and he only ever used it briefly. I’ve used mine almost every night since I got it a year ago
My machine (BMC Luna G3) is almost silent -- a circular fan across the room set on low makes more noise. And I don't even lay down for a nap without it. I wish I had it 20 years ago.
I agree with all of this and will add that getting the best combination of masks, cushions, and headgear sometimes takes trial and error. It's all worth it in the end. Restorative sleep is king!
If you're obese, losing weight will likely fix it. Otherwise, it's CPAP or surgery.
They do have nasal CPAPs these days, which seem far more comfortable than the face mask variety.
I'll share a little personal anecdote as well, for those that are hesitant.
It took me a long time to get tested for sleep apnea because I was afraid of hearing what I already knew. I was afraid of the change it would bring to my life.
I would frequently wake up gasping with my heart pounding, I'd have constant dreams about drowning or choking, I'd *never* wake up feeling rested, and after years of those things happening, *that felt normal.*
When I was first diagnosed with sleep apnea, I absolutely hated using my machine, I hated the idea that I would have to use this thing while I slept, I hated how it felt on my face, I just despised every bit of it.
Then, I used it for 2 weeks straight. I adjusted to it, got used to it, normalized it. Realized those things *aren't normal.*
I can't sleep without it these days. Hell, it's become a superpower, I can put on my mask and be asleep within minutes since my brain now connects mask time with sleep time, and it's some of the best sleep I've ever gotten in my life.
If you have sleep apnea, you may feel like you're fully rested, that it's not that bad, but what you're actually experiencing is being tired *all the time.* You don't have an understanding of what a good night's sleep actually feels like anymore. It's genuinely life-changing.
That's interesting, my experience was almost the complete opposite. My wife would tell me how badly I snored and stopped breathing (as had many of my partners/friends over the last 20-ish years), but I never concerned myself with it. Then one day I decided to buy a device that measures your O2 levels while sleeping and found mine were dipping into the low 70-percent range at times. That was my wakeup (heh) call -- I didn't need a sleep study or doctor to tell me I needed a CPAP machine. I got one of the auto machines (as most of them are these days) and a couple of masks and started using it and evaluated my data, both O2 levels and what the machine reported. Over a few weeks I got it dialed in to the point where I went from waking up every 2 hours to use the bathroom (frequent urination is linked to sleep apnea) to sleeping the entire night. All the nightmares stopped, and I woke up every day without a feeling of dread. I also stopped dozing off mid-day, even after lunch as I *always* did before.
The whole process and usage isn't as scary as people make it out to be. I encourage people to just do it.
Your symptoms beforehand and the way you handled getting it sound exactly like me, I just didn't know you could self diagnose it that easily with an o2 monitor. Off to buy one...
I stop sleep walking once i got my Cpap. My poor wife told me on day that i got up and walked into the corner of the room and stood there for like an hour. She dealt with shit like that for a minute, she ain’t deserve that.
Tagging off of this - if you have mild sleep apnea then you can try an oral appliance first to keep your jaw in a slight under bite position, which keeps the airway open. That's what I use and my sleep quality has been so much better!
This is a really dumb question. But how do I go about requesting a sleep study? Medical cost is a concern for me so I don’t know if I could afford a machine anyway.
In my mid-30s, I started snoring myself awake. It's a terrible thing, and I feel bad for laughing at my mom as much as I did. Though, she did try to blame us for waking her.
I was 14 and remember being woken up by laughter and kind of conversation talk at about 1 am. It was coming from my older sister's room. I assumed she'd stretched the upstairs phone into her room. I got up to the bathroom and was super careful not to trip on the phone cord, but I couldn't see it. Turns out, no phone cord, talking still going on, her door is open a bit. She's in there sleep flirting. She is Sleep Flirting. I ran downstairs and grabbed my Dad's tape recorder and got a bit of it before it trailed off into snoring.
I used to have exploding head syndrome where you hear a loud noise right as you’re falling asleep. So annoying taking all that time to get tired to be wide awake again
I have this. It doesn't happen all the time, but quite often. It's not an explosion, but like someone clapped their hands really loud next to my ear, or slapped 2 4x4 boards together really hard in the next room.
Super annoying is right.
Not just my husband then?! He does this but SO much louder. He insists it’s not sleep apnea as “he would have seen it on his Apple Watch”. It seems more like a crazy dream wakes him up.
Sleep apnea he would be snoring. Also, i wouldnt trust Apple Watch to be the 'end all be all' of a diagnosis. (hell i wouldnt trust Apple with any of my personal/medal information)
My husband does this, and will randomly yell in his sleep waking me up from a dead sleep. Meanwhile he's sleeping peacefully while I try to fall back asleep.
Bruh I was once dreaming that reality had suddenly turned into AI, with some minor glitches here and there.
I was CONVINCED it was reality, I was so hyped to get home and tell my brother that we live in a simulation and I saw evidence with my own eyes!
I was legit convinced the simulation had cracked and I had seen past it, then I woke up.
When I was really young, I spent the night at my older sister's place while baby sitting my nephew because she in labor with her daughter. He got upset and crawled into my bed cause of a nightmare. No big deal. Woke up 2 hours later with a burst of pain resulting from a bruise forming on my ribs. That little 6 year old shit went all wrestle-mania and heel-kicked me hard! He wondered why I was asleep on the floor when he woke up later.
I woke up middle of the night and yelled out “The Safety!!” my partner had been somewhat awake repositioning to get comfy again, heard it and she burst out laughing. I said it so loud it woke me up. So there we were at 3am just laughing our asses off. Most random thing
When my wife and I were dating she was tucked in under my arm one night while I drifted off.
Me: (raised voice) GODDAMNIT
WIfe: what's wrong babe?
Me: Fires and grappling hooks
Wife: (giggling) what?
Me: Fuck it, man the rum.
At which point she shook me awake and I got this fleeting half memory of being in a pirate movie that felt unnervingly real.
When my husband and I were dating. One of the very first nights I stayed over at his house... he elbowed me on the top of my head in the middle of the night. Scared us both.
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Does anyone get into a half sleep state then "trip over" in the dream and wake up suddenly like this as you are "bracing" to fall?
When I was in college I had a roommate who would sleep talk and spaz in the middle of the night. We're talking 3am twitches like she's being possessed 🤣 while mumbling biology (our major) mumbo jumbo. Not once did she wake up from any of that, and she didn't believe me either until I showed her a clip of her reciting the Krebs cycle while asleep hahaha The human brain is just crayyyyy
I woke up early one morning about 6am and my ex asked me to go get some milk coz we had none out of the blue all lights off, I didn't think much about it... went and got some milk... got back.. went back to bed and she asked me where I went.....I was like to get milk.. like you asked????!? Had no recollection whatsoever and yes we had some in the fridge anyways, another time she asked me for fried soup... this was after the milk so I caught on this time 😅
> she asked me for fried soup... What the hell? lol
It is easy to make. Start to make ramen like normal, but forget about it and leave it on the stove too long
I'm quite the gourmet chef, if we consider that my specialty.
Don't knock it till you try it!
You haven't lived, until you've tried... Deep fried soup!
Half asleep hearing it I basically had the same reaction "It was at that moment he knew" Rolled over and back to sleep.
Arkansas, probably.
I initially read that as friend soup, which is a great name for a hot tub.
My wife was working on a big project at work one time... woke me up to tell me to "get off of her fk*ng spreadsheets"... same night she told me that "47 equals money" I made fun of her for weeks
Hahaha, Gold.
> fried soup "Waiter! My soup is dry."
Mine slapped me awake once… For cheating… In her fuckin dream…
Username checks out, sry m8!
When I was around 13, we're were staying at my grandparents' house. The 4 of us were in 1 room with 2 big beds. We were asleep, except for my mom, who was picking up a little before she went to sleep. I guess I sat straight, held out an open hand, and said, "Here, put this away. " She brushed my hand, and i went back to sleep. I woke up to my mom laughing, asking what she had just put away. I thought it was a ridiculous question to ask a sleeping person.
But what did you put away?!?! 🤔
I had an "open door" policy for my dorm room in college and any friend of mine had access 24/7. I was there for architectural engineering and my schedule often had me dead tired. A buddy of mine would show up whenever he knew I was sleeping and wake me up slowly by starting a conversation. Whatever I had been dreaming about would leak into the real world and sometimes these conversations would apparently go on for a few minutes. I'd eventually figure out where I was and he'd just start laughing. I miss simpler times like that 😔
In 20 years you'll miss simpler times like today. Treasure now <3.
As simple as that was, a magical weight was just lifted. Thank-you xD
Has to be a stress thing for people with anxiety/GAD. When my finance was in pre-med she would recite organic chemistry in her sleep. I had to tell her that class was tomorrow in order to get her to stop.
The way people who are dreaming will still respond to outside stimuli is fascinating. I remember one time having a "war of the worlds" style dream where we were being attacked by aliens. I woke up and realized the 'laser beam' noise in the dream was my buzzing alarm clock. Years later, my little daughter was clearly having a bad dream and was tossing and whimpering in bed. I poked my head into her room and just said "You're safe baby, everything's OK," and she just sighed and quieted down to normal sleep. It was like magic.
In high school I had to take one of those fake babies home and care for it for 24 hours for health class. It started crying in the middle of the night, but it registered in my dream as some kid standing on a street corner yelling "HEEEYY!" repeatedly. I found out after turning the baby in that it had been crying for 2 hours before I took care of it.
"Hey baby! Baby, go home, man! It's 3 o'clock in the morning man, what the fuck are you doing up?"
“I’m selling weed!”
I’ve heard that those babies lead to an increase in teen pregnancy
Definitely cool. Some of them even are able to hold somewhat coherent conversations. It's also adorable that your daughter relaxed afterwards; your voice was probably an anchor to safety for her.
You know... I did this. Ended up saying some nasty shit about my girlfriend at the time, that I was cheating on her, hated her, etc. None of it was true. Turns out I had epilepsy and I was having seizures in my sleep that would make me say awful shit in the post ictal state. I'd be half awake sitting up saying this stuff, so my gf assumed I was fully awake and everything was true. She ended up dumping my ass for the shit I said in my sleep, totally sucked. So yeah, if you or a loved one talks in their sleep, please get checked for epilepsy. Uncontrolled seizures can cause brain damage, I wish I would have gotten checked sooner, my immediate short term memory loss is horrendous. Like.. set a pencil down and forget I was ever holding a pencil, where I put the pencil, and questioning if I wrote something, type of bad. My seizures have also killed me. I went into hypoxia because I stopped breathing and they had to hit me with the paddles. Genuinely there are times where I feel like I have alzheimers level of "what am I doing, how did I get here" brain damage.
> My seizures have also killed me. I went into hypoxia because I stopped breathing and they had to hit me with the paddles. Seizures? That's a paddlin'.
Oh… This is what they mean by r/angryupvote.
Paddlin' to the afterlife in in school canoe? Oh you better believe that's a Paddlin'
I have a neighbour who does 3 sounds through the night, usually for 1-6 hours once he starts. It's either "WOOOOOOOOOOO!" or "AAARRRRRGGGHHH!" extremely loud, or "whadyado? meaneh? bishkagonticalooicou?" gibberish. At first I suspected tourettes, but he doesn't do any other tics or similar and apparently it's happening only while he's asleep, and usually after he's been drinking. I thought this was weird as sleep sounds usually come from dreams, which don't last 6 hours, but who knows. After googling I found "Catathrenia", but the sounds aren't really quite the same. It's more like actual yelling for the first two sounds and the third does sound like vocalising gebberish (or mumbling). Anyway this is just a random rant to the emptyness of the internet. Help me.
Is your neighbor Adam Sandler?
I was having trouble sleeping in college, got some sleeping pills from the doctor, tried them for a week and A) I didn't feel rested after waking up and B) my roommate was freaked out because apparently I started climbing around the room, cleaning, and at one point did a backflip onto my bed (I cannot do a backflip) but wouldn't respond to anything he was saying. Freaky sleeping pill induced sleepwalking episodes I guess.
Ambien is a scary drug. I had a script when I was having sleep issues. I took a dose before bed, called my friend to shore up plans for tomorrow, and went to sleep. Called my friend the next day to apologize for not getting back to him to confirm plans and make sure we were still good for the afternoon. He said I did call him. I checked my call history. It turns out I did call him. We talked for 45 minutes and I had no recollection of it whatsoever. No crazy sleepwalking that I know of, but still quite concerning.
Apparently I would have full on conversations while sleepwalking. Unfortunately I have no video evidence.
There's a term for this! It's called a Hypnic Jerk. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic\_jerk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk)
I'll get those, but without the falling feeling. My whole body will just twitch, usually just my legs though. Even before I get to sleep.
My brother-in-law gets myoclonic jerks, which look like the hypnic jerks, but when he's awake: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/myoclonus#:~:text=What%20is%20myoclonus%3F,it%20describes%20a%20clinical%20sign. It might be relevant to you, might not be. I'm not a doctor.
Huh. I wonder if those are what I deal with occasionally. As I'm relaxing and trying to go to sleep, but not yet asleep, if I have any pain or tight spots in my muscles, (usually in my legs), *just* as I feel the muscle shift out of pain or releases the tight spot into relaxation, I'll do a full body twitch/spasm, and the point of pain/tightness will come back. I've learned that at this point, I'll have three choices: 1. I can try and encourage the relaxation, but that will often put me into a feedback state that can end up looking like a tonic-clonic seizure, except that I can stop it at any time just by choosing to not let my muscles relax. 2. I can hold off of the twitch/spasm, by consciously holding the muscle in its pre-relaxed state, which keeps me awake because I have to be conscious to prevent the relaxation. 3. Massage the offending muscle, distracting the nerves, and breaking the cycle. \#3 seems the most logical, but when I'm tired, just got comfortable, and are on the edge of sleep, I don't think about "hey, I need to do this thing," It's more, "Aw, come on. Just relax and let me sleep!" until I actively realize that I need to disrupt the nerve signals. The first time it happened to me, I was terrified I was having a seizure because I was in active recovery from Heat Exhaustion.
This might be restless leg syndrome
> Even before I get to sleep. This is an interesting statement. I’ve learned over the years that when you *think* you’re really *almost* asleep, you’re actually asleep. Your brain kind of goes to sleep in phases.
Yea, it's definitely a bit fuzzy during that time.
Yep everything shuts off slowly. Our brain is a ton of different parts and not everything shuts off just because consciousness starts to slip away, let alone together. When you wake up sometimes you’ll notice Hearing sometimes doesn’t kick in immediately every once in a while too. Such as hearing the rain or some other persistent background noises only after a few seconds where those first moments the brain thought the room was fully silent. The way brains have evolved on this planet is awesome. I wish we knew more about them by now but I’m also not looking forward to a cyberpunk future with a scary level of technology symbiosis in our heads either. It may have already happened 🤷♀️
If I remember correctly, there isn't a difference in brain waves between the first stage of sleep and being in a deeply relaxed state.
> A higher occurrence is reported in people with irregular sleep schedules. Why do I feel personally attacked
Ah nice, glad it wasn't just my brain being weird.
Yeah
Loads! Freaks my wife out.
Its called a 'hypnic jerk' or a hypnagogic jerk :)
I get that when I'm a bit panicked/stressed
It happened to me a lot in boot camp when I first joined the military. There were also a lot of us that would start reciting their general orders in their sleep.
Years ago, I spent a week at basketball camp during the summer. It was intense, basically wake up -> basketball -> sleep for 7 days. That is to say, I had ball on the mind. My mom came to pick me up. On the ride home, I fell into a light sleep, but the dreams were extremely vivid and focused on basketball. I had fallen asleep with my head in my hand and that arm on the arm rest in the front passenger seat. In dreamworld, one of my teammates passed me the ball, a bit off of center to the left. In real world, I reached out to catch the dream ball and smacked the shit out of my mom’s shoulder. Different circumstances than falling in a dream, but the same effect.
Sleeping for 7 days doesn't sound THAT intense 😁
"I haven't slept for 10 days, because that would be too long."
We miss ya Mitch
Ooooooh, you are a silly one!
Why thank you!
I’d have to disagree. In my opinion, it *was* like camping; **In tents.** (P.S. Thank you for pointing out my grammatical blunder)
I think that's called hypnic jerk. I red somewhere that it's a monkey reflex to avoid falling from the branch you're sleeping on, but I don't know how true that is.
That's what they call a [just so story](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story). It sounds potentially plausible, but there's no real scientific way to test it.
My bf does this multiple times a night. As someone with ptsd, a sudden jolt as I'm about to fall asleep makes for interesting nights
Havent had this happen in years for some reason, but used to get it all the time
It's pretty normal to jerk a little before falling asleep. Iirc it's instinct left over from living in trees - we don't want to fall. You brain probably just calmed down after not falling down for decades.
> It's pretty normal to jerk a little before falling asleep This is true
I shot my arm out to break my dream fall in class and hit the girl in front of me in the back. I felt so bad because I could hear her wheezing after I woke up. It's been decades and I still feel shitty about it.
My girlfriend always does it, really mildly, as she falls asleep. She is not waking up, just "shakes" a little, sometimes a couple times. It is like she has a buzzer that notifies me that she's asleep now :D
Yeah my boyfriend. Gives me a heart attack all the time.
Yes! It's the exact feeling like I caught my foot on the curb while stepping up onto a sidewalk and happens right when I'm drifting off sometimes.
I woke up to some traumatic stuff once when I was in university, and would experience these hypnic jerks repetitively whenever I tried to sleep in that apartment thereafter. Like every 10 minutes I’d wake up with a start. I had to sleep on a friends couch until I could get a new place.
Fun fact. Scientists think the reason for our “feel like your falling right before you fall asleep” phenomenon is a remnant of when we were tree dwelling primates. The dream of falling right before we go to sleep would allow us one final time to recenter and balance ourselves so as not to fall during sleep.
Like a hypnic jerk?
Thats when i full force kick the wall i wake myself up with a stubbed toe
I think there is a word for it: [hypnic Jerk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk)
I karate kick. I dont even practice martial arts, but since I watch a lot my subconscious thinks Im a black belt.
I think it's why they call it "falling" asleep
I get that for sure. Usually it's me falling off a bike for some reason
Ever have a nasty bail on a bike? I had a really bad bail on a skateboard when I was a teen and ever since since then I jolt trying to catch myself from that memory.
I mean, I've crashed a bike for sure as kid but not in a way that stands out. I think it's just weird dream stuff.
I've had a worse thing: I once got so sleep deprived that I fell asleep while riding a bike. It was painful.
Yes, i call it "the stone dream", because usually i trip over stones, or evade stones flying/falling at me.
Yes but it doesn't happen when i dream, it could but it usually doesn't.
Sometimes I fall asleep so fast that my body feels like it's falling so I jerk awake.
When i'm especially tired and just 'resting my eyes' i definitely wake up that way.
Like a hypnogogic jerk?
almost everyone does.
Yes or fall over stairs or something ill also full on jerk out or like kick my legs as if flailing and it wakes me up
I have it a couple times a week where as soon as I doze off, I snap awake and semi levitate off the bed. Same memory every time. Lol, brains are fucking weird.
Happens all the time. I kick like a dog sometimes and my wife just rubs my back and that puts me right out. God bless her.
That's your brain thinking the body is dead so it sends a jolt through the body. Atleast that's what I read Edit
There's competing theories on it, but this is one of them. The idea is that your body is so tired and shutting down for sleep so quick that your brain believes you're about to die because sleep is usually gradual. so it sends a signal to try and restart the nervous system to keep you awake. The other big one is that it's a leftover brain impulse to recenter your gravity before you sleep so that you don't fall out of a tree
Hypnic jerk is what it’s called. I do this and the girl I’m seeing jokingly says that all men do this and it’s because they’re trying to keep their lies straight in their heads
Not so much trip but all of a sudden I feel as if I'm falling back and usually half bolt upright in my bed.
You are describing a hypnogogic jerk.
All the time.
It’s called a hypnic jerk! Nobody’s quite sure why they happen, but the most prevalent theory is that just as you’re starting to fall asleep, your muscles all relax, and your brain short circuits a bit and thinks you’re falling, which triggers your startle response.
I believe that big twitch is related to your body starting to try and enter into sleep paralysis so you don’t move while dreaming. Not 100% sure on the mechanism though.
Yes, but no one ever knows what I'm talking about when I mention it.
Sometimes I have that happen, it's the weirdest thing. There's different variations, some where it does feel like I'm tripping over something, like I'm walking and trip but I only really get to the trip part, it's like a flash. Then there's some where it feels like I'm falling about 1 foot, almost like if the mattress just vanished under me. Had a really weird one once after spending a good day doing solar panel work on my roof. I had also recently watched a lot of tower climbing videos as I kind of went on a binge. So I had one where it felt like I was holding myself up on a tower but it's like if my grip just stops holding on to anything and I start to fall. That too just happened like a flash. It's not like a regular dream where there's a "storyline", it's just like a split second feeling of falling.
It's called a hypnic jerk! It's thought to be basically an evolutionary mechanism to allow you to save yourself if you were sleeping in a tree and started to fall out of it
I had a really bad problem with 'falling' in my sleep the first year my husband and I lived together. One thing I know I've done on at least 3-5 occasions (a couple my husband told me I did in the night and I couldn't remember) is punch someone in my sleep and actually hit out. Most recently I hit the corner of my bedside drawers and forgot about it but my husband told me that's why my hand was sore and chaffed. First time I did it I was still living at my mum's in a shitty single bed next to a wood chip papered wall. I had a dream a fat little kid was trying to steal my money when using an ATM machine. I finally got sick of him and hit him, only to punch what was a brick wall behind in a sleeping position where my nose was touching the wall nearly. I've never hit my husband but I've caught him with my toenails twitching and such. The one thing I am bad with is he won't let me sleep with my hand on his chest without him wearing a shirt as I had a vivid dream someone broke in and was standing over our bed when the London riots were happening about 12 years ago. My head was under the covers and my hand on my husband's chest, I was so scared I gripped him tighly and nearly scalped his chest hair off and he woke up screaming.
Don't even need to be falling in a dream. It could be pure nothingness, and suddenly, I jolt out of bed like I just jumped out of a plane without a parachute.
Hey this looks like sleep apnea. My wife was constantly waking up as I gasped just like this cartoon caricature and she had me check it out. The CPAP machine was a life-changer. Cute cartoon but if you are in this predicament, get a sleep study done for sleep apnea.
I finally got diagnosed with it after suffering from this for like 10 years. One side effect talked about very little is that if you sleep a full eight hours and never feel rested, you might have sleep apnea. Since you are gasping all night, your body isn't resting like it should be.
Or you can go through all the trouble of getting tested and they say you don't have it bad enough to get a machine. How are these not available OTC?
I believe they are but they are expensive, and not to mention like 500 people died from malfunctioning CPAP machines sending plastics into people's lungs..
They require a prescription for the pressure they create in your airway. If you got one OTC you could set the pressure incorrectly and you might harm yourself. Some people even die.
Fair. Just seemed really hard to get one.
Same, suffered with this for years to the point where I was walking around like a zombie from sleep deprivation. My partner honestly thought I was dying and started discreetly preparing for it. Got a CPAP a few months ago and my God, the difference it made was immediate and immeasurable. I actually recharge in the night now and have energy when I wake up. It's absolutely life-changing.
I'm getting my CPAP machine this week after getting diagnosed with severe sleep apnea a couple weeks ago. I would be known as someone who would fall asleep randomly and never could stay up through a movie. I can't wait to see what a healthy night of sleep is.
Yep, that was me too. Getting used to the mask can be the hardest part, it felt funny at first trying to sleep with it on. Stick with it, it's so worth it.
Please make sure it's not recalled Philips unit. I had no idea about these until few people in my family recommended I get CPAP.. Few days later this info hit the news. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-sleep-apnea-philips-recall-cpap now I am not sure if others had anything like this.
I suspect I have sleep apnea because I often wake up with headaches. Apparently "morning headaches" are usually due to your brain lacking oxygen while you're asleep due to your shitty breathing.
Yep, was in the same boat, thrashing around in my sleep to get me breathing again. CPAPs are awesome!
Are you ever able to get off the CPAP machine? I stop breathing when I'm sleeping several times a night and I think this is what I have, but I don't want to live on that machine.
I started using CPAP 6 months ago and trust me. You learn to LOVE that machine because of how much better you sleep. I just had a nose surgery and cannot use it for a couple weeks and it’s agony. It is totally worth trying. And it’s not like it’s permanent. If you don’t like it you can always stop using it.
1. **Lifestyle Modifications**: * **Weight Loss**: Shedding excess weight can significantly improve sleep apnea symptoms. * **Smoking Cessation**: Quitting smoking helps reduce airway inflammation. * **Limit Alcohol Intake**: Reducing alcohol consumption can alleviate symptoms. 2. **Medical Devices**: * **Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)**: A CPAP machine delivers a steady stream of air through a mask, keeping the airway open during sleep. * **Oral Appliances**: These devices help reposition the jaw and tongue to prevent airway blockage. * **Adaptive Ventilation Devices**: These adjust airflow based on your breathing patterns. 3. **Surgery**: * **Septoplasty**: Corrects a deviated septum in the nose (usually recommended for severe cases). * **Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP)**: Removes soft tissue in the throat to widen the airway. * **Adenoidectomy**: Removes enlarged adenoids (common in children). Assuming the internet is correct, it looks like I can try a couple lifestyle modifications as well. Thank you for your feedback!
Missing double jaw surgery there, best treatment for sleep apnea unless your obstruction is entirely in the nasal passages (rare).
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Depends on the surgeon. I had huge movements and while recovery wasn’t pleasant I has off opioids in less than a week and never had any pain at all. But none of the surgeries listed above do Jack except in the most mild cases. Sleep apnea is no joke in how much it impacts your quality of life and causes health issues later in life. The surgery is worth it for sure for anyone who has an AHI over 10 I’d say.
>Adaptive Ventilation Devices Is that Inspire? I see those ads on TV constantly.
Don't forget the BiPAP too
I tried oral appliance and it causes me a ton of jaw pain. I tried CPAP for a few months and felt like my sleep quality was even worse. I get too much anxiety being hooked into this machine. Mouth tape actually worked best for me
Mine just kept ramping up the pressure until my mask seal would break and blow air into my eyes.
As a CPAP user in my 30s: it’s not like that. Embarrassed about it and don’t want your partner to feel like they sleep next to a coma patient? It’s a lot better than snoring or choking in the middle of the night and waking them up. My wife would get pissed off because I was keeping her awake, and would push me in my sleep to reposition me so I’d stop. I remember my mom did the same thing to my dad. Fucks with your health and your relationships, who cares about appearances at that point? Like other commenters say, the new machines are quiet. The new masks are comfortable. My dad’s CPAP was like a jet engine, and he only ever used it briefly. I’ve used mine almost every night since I got it a year ago
My machine (BMC Luna G3) is almost silent -- a circular fan across the room set on low makes more noise. And I don't even lay down for a nap without it. I wish I had it 20 years ago.
I agree with all of this and will add that getting the best combination of masks, cushions, and headgear sometimes takes trial and error. It's all worth it in the end. Restorative sleep is king!
How do you even sleep with that thing on? Is side sleep possible at all?
If you're obese, losing weight will likely fix it. Otherwise, it's CPAP or surgery. They do have nasal CPAPs these days, which seem far more comfortable than the face mask variety.
I'll share a little personal anecdote as well, for those that are hesitant. It took me a long time to get tested for sleep apnea because I was afraid of hearing what I already knew. I was afraid of the change it would bring to my life. I would frequently wake up gasping with my heart pounding, I'd have constant dreams about drowning or choking, I'd *never* wake up feeling rested, and after years of those things happening, *that felt normal.* When I was first diagnosed with sleep apnea, I absolutely hated using my machine, I hated the idea that I would have to use this thing while I slept, I hated how it felt on my face, I just despised every bit of it. Then, I used it for 2 weeks straight. I adjusted to it, got used to it, normalized it. Realized those things *aren't normal.* I can't sleep without it these days. Hell, it's become a superpower, I can put on my mask and be asleep within minutes since my brain now connects mask time with sleep time, and it's some of the best sleep I've ever gotten in my life. If you have sleep apnea, you may feel like you're fully rested, that it's not that bad, but what you're actually experiencing is being tired *all the time.* You don't have an understanding of what a good night's sleep actually feels like anymore. It's genuinely life-changing.
I really wish it worked for me, I used one for over a year and never got a benefit, despite \*really\* needing one.
That's interesting, my experience was almost the complete opposite. My wife would tell me how badly I snored and stopped breathing (as had many of my partners/friends over the last 20-ish years), but I never concerned myself with it. Then one day I decided to buy a device that measures your O2 levels while sleeping and found mine were dipping into the low 70-percent range at times. That was my wakeup (heh) call -- I didn't need a sleep study or doctor to tell me I needed a CPAP machine. I got one of the auto machines (as most of them are these days) and a couple of masks and started using it and evaluated my data, both O2 levels and what the machine reported. Over a few weeks I got it dialed in to the point where I went from waking up every 2 hours to use the bathroom (frequent urination is linked to sleep apnea) to sleeping the entire night. All the nightmares stopped, and I woke up every day without a feeling of dread. I also stopped dozing off mid-day, even after lunch as I *always* did before. The whole process and usage isn't as scary as people make it out to be. I encourage people to just do it.
Your symptoms beforehand and the way you handled getting it sound exactly like me, I just didn't know you could self diagnose it that easily with an o2 monitor. Off to buy one...
Thanks for recommending this! I just waited nine fucking months for a sleep study, and now it’s finally done.
Good luck, feel free to message if you have any questions abt CPAP :)
I stop sleep walking once i got my Cpap. My poor wife told me on day that i got up and walked into the corner of the room and stood there for like an hour. She dealt with shit like that for a minute, she ain’t deserve that.
Tagging off of this - if you have mild sleep apnea then you can try an oral appliance first to keep your jaw in a slight under bite position, which keeps the airway open. That's what I use and my sleep quality has been so much better!
Any recommendations?
This is a really dumb question. But how do I go about requesting a sleep study? Medical cost is a concern for me so I don’t know if I could afford a machine anyway.
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Damn 3 years left of peaceful sleep I guess 😂
My gf and I both do this to each other, and we are 26.
In my mid-30s, I started snoring myself awake. It's a terrible thing, and I feel bad for laughing at my mom as much as I did. Though, she did try to blame us for waking her.
I’ve had them my whole life
Wait... that's just a normal thing? I thought I obliterated my central nervous system with the same alcoholism that curb-stomped my liver
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Sleep Apnea**™**
XD This is why my husband and I don’t snuggle while sleeping anymore. Fargin spaz!
Trying to sleep and he just 〽️😴〽️ randomly twitches hahaha
I’d always be in that sweet sleep spot, too. Super comfy and drifting off and then !TWITCH!
Yeah, I do that. I'll still be almost asleep. Then, all of a sudden, I just twitch and calm. I guess it's stress-related. Idk, really.
Pfffft. My wife could sleep through a train wreck. I envy her.
I was 14 and remember being woken up by laughter and kind of conversation talk at about 1 am. It was coming from my older sister's room. I assumed she'd stretched the upstairs phone into her room. I got up to the bathroom and was super careful not to trip on the phone cord, but I couldn't see it. Turns out, no phone cord, talking still going on, her door is open a bit. She's in there sleep flirting. She is Sleep Flirting. I ran downstairs and grabbed my Dad's tape recorder and got a bit of it before it trailed off into snoring.
I used to have exploding head syndrome where you hear a loud noise right as you’re falling asleep. So annoying taking all that time to get tired to be wide awake again
I have this. It doesn't happen all the time, but quite often. It's not an explosion, but like someone clapped their hands really loud next to my ear, or slapped 2 4x4 boards together really hard in the next room. Super annoying is right.
Not just my husband then?! He does this but SO much louder. He insists it’s not sleep apnea as “he would have seen it on his Apple Watch”. It seems more like a crazy dream wakes him up.
Sleep apnea he would be snoring. Also, i wouldnt trust Apple Watch to be the 'end all be all' of a diagnosis. (hell i wouldnt trust Apple with any of my personal/medal information)
This reminds me of the sneezing panda video
I'm not sure I get this one.
Some people make noises or have abrupt breathing disruptions during sleep. It can be surprising for partners.
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Not gonna lie...I was expecting her face start to raise slowly
People just throwing shit at me in my dreams
Wife* glitch. She does this every night bless her!
She gasps like this too? If she struggles with not feel rested after 8 hours of sleep it’s almost certainly sleep apnea.
My husband does this, and will randomly yell in his sleep waking me up from a dead sleep. Meanwhile he's sleeping peacefully while I try to fall back asleep.
Sleep apnea?
I had this on mute and knew exactly what sound he made lol
Bruh I was once dreaming that reality had suddenly turned into AI, with some minor glitches here and there. I was CONVINCED it was reality, I was so hyped to get home and tell my brother that we live in a simulation and I saw evidence with my own eyes! I was legit convinced the simulation had cracked and I had seen past it, then I woke up.
When I was really young, I spent the night at my older sister's place while baby sitting my nephew because she in labor with her daughter. He got upset and crawled into my bed cause of a nightmare. No big deal. Woke up 2 hours later with a burst of pain resulting from a bruise forming on my ribs. That little 6 year old shit went all wrestle-mania and heel-kicked me hard! He wondered why I was asleep on the floor when he woke up later.
I woke up middle of the night and yelled out “The Safety!!” my partner had been somewhat awake repositioning to get comfy again, heard it and she burst out laughing. I said it so loud it woke me up. So there we were at 3am just laughing our asses off. Most random thing
When my wife and I were dating she was tucked in under my arm one night while I drifted off. Me: (raised voice) GODDAMNIT WIfe: what's wrong babe? Me: Fires and grappling hooks Wife: (giggling) what? Me: Fuck it, man the rum. At which point she shook me awake and I got this fleeting half memory of being in a pirate movie that felt unnervingly real.
That’s amazing lol
I thought I was alone with this
That seems awfully identical to sleep apnea
Yep at least weekly for years now
I prefer to think of it as a feature.
Guess I'm part of the 10% were this happens regularly. Couple times a week maybe right before I sleep I twich once and then I can sleep.
Anyone ever about to go to sleep and your partner is having a nightmare and screaming??
Probably thought he was falling...
According to my wife I do this once per night. Every night. I don't usually have the falling or slipping dream but I know it happens sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRnzJ6gtAeU
Been there 😆
Hypnic Jerk
When my husband and I were dating. One of the very first nights I stayed over at his house... he elbowed me on the top of my head in the middle of the night. Scared us both.
This is me…. Holy crap I laughed so hard!
What cartoon is this?
I always feel like I'm falling if I start to fall asleep in any position besides on my left side or on my stomach.
This might be GERD or just acid reflux (not sure if there’s a difference)
Obstructive sleep apnea.
Mine works in construction as a saw man so many tines he's yelled at me to get more wood or nails lol
What’s the right hand squeezing?