> > I tend to get annoyed when that happens. I'm almost fully asleep when my whole body suddenly jerks. This isn't just a leg thing, the way Faux Pas and Grishny described. No, it's my whole body. It often happens when I'm having a flying or falling dream. I'm about to land when that twitch-jerk-spasm thing happens. It startles me awake, I get mildly irritated, and then I drift off to sleep again.
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> > Ell"Heavy sleeper 90% of the time"myruh
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> Maybe you should be thankful instead of getting annoyed. I heard once that if you "die" in your dream, you'll die for real. That twitch-jerk-spasm thing right before you smack the ground in your dream could be a safety mechanism that keeps you from dying IRL.
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> I don't know if that's true, but the person who told me that asked me if I could ever remember dying in a dream or nightmare, and I had to answer no. I *always* wake up before "dying." So maybe it's true. And who knows...maybe some people who die in their sleep dreamed that they died. We have no way of knowing.
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> Gri"the body cannot survive without the mind"shny

I used to think that, too, but one time I did die in a dream. I was pushed, in a large plexiglass box, into the ocean and I drowned. It was surprisingly peaceful.

Mou"don't think you'll catch me on an oceanliner any time soon, though, especially one with my ex-husband and a bulldozer on board"sie