Hi guys,
This question tends to come up from time to time and I figured I'd post a link to a couple articles explaining this phenomenon:
http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon971114/skinnyon.html
http://askascientist.binghamton.edu/nov-dec/18nov04ask.html
Jeni
The links in the above post are dead. Here's a new one.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/why-do-we-twitch-were-falling-asleep-785736
I'll unlock this one so some more discussion can happen. :)
For those of us who are experienced in projection, the associated phenomenon isn't strange at all.
Exploding Head Syndrome?
Just hypnogogic sounds...
Hypnic Jerk?
I refer this to the sense of accidentally expanding consciousness away from the physical and not being prepared for it.
I saw that they "took the high road" and left anything like Sleep Paralysis and Astral Travel, completely out of the equation. :roll: