Why do I suddenly twitch when drifting off to sleep?

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Kodemaster

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

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Astralzombie

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Xanth

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.

Lionheart

 I saw that they "took the high road" and left anything like Sleep Paralysis and Astral Travel, completely out of the equation. :roll: