Has anyone experienced this while about to fall asleep? - General

Yes this will sound fucked up but I'll try to explain. When lying in bed, tired as hell, nearly sleeping, you get this feeling in your body. Like you're either really small and the room is really big, or the other way around. And when you open eyes, everything is normal. What the fuck is wrong with me?

Never had that nor heard of it.

isn't this alice in wonderland syndrome. It's apparently quite common when going to sleep. According to Dr Wiki [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome[/url]

Sometimes when I'm about to fall asleep it feels like I'm spinning.

No, but I have experienced the "Half Asleep falling down stairs experience." The one where you suddenly wake up and it feels like you're falling.

occasionally it happens to me it's fucking weird

Nope. Just a falling sensation every now and then. What that Dookninja said.

[QUOTE=dookster;26214124]No, but I have experienced the "Half Asleep falling down stairs experience." The one where you suddenly wake up and it feels like you're falling.[/QUOTE] oh i fucking hate that EDIT: aaaaaaauuuuuuttttttoooooommmmeeeerrrrgggeeeeee

Ive never had something like this, sorry but I have no clue what it could be.

Yeah, actually, something like it.

I used too. Right before I go to sleep, my room suddenly starts to grow bigger. I start hallucinating and see that pretty much everything is getting bigger. I start to freak out, I'm sweating like shit and I'm awake for the rest of my evening.

Sometimes i feel like that when i am about to fall asleep, it does feel kind of weird. I just see everything in my mind to be really far away, like my field of view is really weird.

[QUOTE=dookster;26214124]No, but I have experienced the "Half Asleep falling down stairs experience." The one where you suddenly wake up and it feels like you're falling.[/QUOTE]Hypnic jerks are so awesome to get - for me atleast.

Wonderland syndrome seems to be it, thanks! Good to know I'm not alone, it's scary as fuck.

Sounds kinda cool. I'd like to feel it. All I ever get is the falling one.

[QUOTE=moamazing;26214189]Wonderland syndrome seems to be it, thanks! Good to know I'm not alone, it's scary as fuck.[/QUOTE] Another mystery solved

For me, any background ambiance, along with the feeling in my body just slowly fades away.

Sounds like the issues associated with proprioperception with some mental illnesses. (namely PDDs)

I sometimes get sleep paralysis. I hear sound from my computer get higher and higher. And suddenly, I hear a dark voice saying something in Irish.

i sometimes feel as if im falling out of my bed... don't know if normal

[QUOTE=johnT447;26214112]isn't this alice in wonderland syndrome. It's apparently quite common when going to sleep. According to Dr Wiki [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome[/url][/QUOTE] Only if he's actually seeing the room as larger rather than just feeling it. Or if he's coming off of a migraine

Sometimes I even feel my boobs floating or something.

[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;26214312]Only if he's actually seeing the room as larger rather than just feeling it. Or if he's coming off of a migraine[/QUOTE] Eye components are entirely normal. The AIWS is a result of change in perception as opposed to the eyes themselves malfunctioning. The hallmark sign of AIWS is a migraine (AIWS may in part be caused by the migraine).[citation needed] AIWS affects the sufferer's sense of vision, sensation, touch and hearing, as well as one's own body image. Sensation suggests not just vision, and surely that would be an hallucination if the room looks bigger

I have this sometimes, but it's usually with my eyes closed and my mental images seem to rapidly change size.

[QUOTE=moamazing;26214449]Sometimes I even feel my boobs floating or something.[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception[/url] [quote]Proprioception is occasionally impaired spontaneously, especially when one is tired. One's body may appear too large or too small, or parts of the body may appear distorted in size. Similar effects can sometimes occur during epilepsy or migraine auras. These effects are presumed to arise from abnormal stimulation of the part of the parietal cortex of the brain involved with integrating information from different parts of the body[/quote] Theres your answer, no bullshit or frills.

[QUOTE=dookster;26214124]No, but I have experienced the "Half Asleep falling down stairs experience." The one where you suddenly wake up and it feels like you're falling.[/QUOTE] Haha i always get that, its creepy

[QUOTE=tomatmann;26214290]I sometimes get sleep paralysis. I hear sound from my computer get higher and higher. And suddenly, I hear a dark voice saying something in Irish.[/QUOTE] Me too, I hear something above me say [i]"Fock me, out o' whiskey.[/i]" I think it's the spirit of my great-grandfather.

[QUOTE=johnT447;26214482]Eye components are entirely normal. The AIWS is a result of change in perception as opposed to the eyes themselves malfunctioning. The hallmark sign of AIWS is a migraine (AIWS may in part be caused by the migraine).[citation needed] AIWS affects the sufferer's sense of vision, sensation, touch and hearing, as well as one's own body image. Sensation suggests not just vision, and surely that would be an hallucination if the room looks bigger[/QUOTE] [quote]The eyes themselves are normal, but the sufferer 'sees' objects with the wrong size or shape and/or finds that perspective is incorrect. This can mean that people, cars, buildings, etc. look smaller or larger than they should be, or that distances look incorrect; for example a corridor may appear to be very long, or the ground may appear too close.[/quote] AIWS implies problems with proprioperception and the presence of hallucinations. [editline]21st November 2010[/editline] Hypnagogia is what it really would be considered. The problem is with proprioperception.

sleeping is for pussies

I have the sensation of falling pretty often, but my bed is old and has wheels, so when I spasm because I think I'm falling, I jerk the bed over and usually fall into the crevice between the wall and the bed. :frown: