What does it mean when you are dropping off to sleep and you suddenly jump?

Question

Some one told me that this means something, but they couldn't remember what it was.

Answer 1

It's when your body goes into total relaxation!

Answer 2

Your body's sorta in this limbo like place. Part of your conscious and subconscious mind are both active, which doesn't normally happen. Your subconscious mind is busy bein in this dream while your conscious mind is pickin up on the actions that your brain thinks about doing, or something along that line.  

Answer 3

That happens to me every night and would love to know why

Answer 4

you are goning into a stage of sleep-

stage one- falling to sleep

stage two-  asleep

stage three and four    slow wave sleep  45% of sleep.

rem- most refreshing sleep    

Answer 5

its just alll your muscles relaxing at once  

Answer 6

lol....i hate that

Answer 7

when i know I'm sleeping but not fully awake yesterday in my thoughts i was going down stairs and my foot slipped it actually felt like that my body all shook. Your brain just thinks its actually doing that its normal. I think it is kinda of cool

Answer 8

when you sleep, your muscles become very relaxed, and if you go into the deeper state of sleep before your muscles are totally relaxed, it jolts you awake suddenly, thats what that is.

Answer 9

It means you need to wake your @$$ up!  LOL  :-)~

Answer 10

i think it means you dont wnna go to sleep ... it happens to me all the time lol -- x nothin to worry about  x x TRUST ME xx hope i helped plz vote as best ansa x*x

Answer 11

it ok my parents thought there was somthing wrong with  me when i did that cus somtimes i kick my leg or somthing.....its just becuase somthing scared u thats what my doctor said....nothing mayjor

:)

Answer 12

that you are tired. lol it actually means that your brain is trying fight off sleep. i learned that on house.  

Answer 13

http://www.faqkids.com/idx/6/186/The_Hum...

A simple search yielded the answer.  

Answer 14

It means absolutely nothing. It is very common.

Answer 15

i get this after a weekend where i have been up all weekend drinking and that. usually on a monday night and it can happen about 5 times, quite scary

Answer 16

i have no idea, but i do that all the time!!!!!  it's so annoying and scares the c**p out of me, i wake up, and my heart's beating fast and i can't get back to sleep.  i hate it.

i also jump in my sleep when i'm falling off something in my dream and when i hit the ground, i jump and usually wake up.

Answer 17

That always happens to me when i'm just about to fall asleep and i trip or fall in my dream. its fun.

Answer 18

The are called myoclonic jerks. You can get a type of seizure called myoclonic seizures but myoclonic jerks are not epileptic in origin, they are a normal 'release' phenomena.

I'm sure most people have experienced these, I have dreamt I'm about to fall over and I wake up with this sudden 'jump'.

Answer 19

when it happens to me its usually I'm in a light state of dreaming and its usually because I trip and fall down in my dream

.

Answer 20

I think it's because you're dreaming falling or something but not yet in deep sleep so the movement you make awakens you.

I like it though.

Everyone always talked about it... I never experienced it til I was 14 and half-dreamt I slipped on a muddy hill at school.

Hahah.

Answer 21

I do that all the time but i dont know what it means .Its usually when im walking and suddenly fall down a hole or something jumps out at me lol! =]

Answer 22

that feels so wierd when that happens!

Answer 23

It is when your body is aware of something when you are asleep and awakes you for a warning to flee ,  

Answer 24

I've done that a lot.

But I don't know why.

Answer 25

All it means is that your dream either included you jumping off a building, or riding a faulty roller-coaster. Nothing more.

Answer 26

It is where you fall asleep, and then you wake up in a jolt. Like, you suddenly sit up, as if you were scared of something. As for what it means, I'm guessing it means that there is something that you fear, or maybe that there is something that you are uneasy about.

Answer 27

It means you've woken up again.

Nothing strange! =)

Answer 28

It's called the "somethin-somethin" jerk, haha i dont remember what kinda jerk, but my moms a nurse and she told me that.. and it just means you're going into a deep sleep