Letting myself fall on purpose
11 July 2026
Went off the edge of a multi-storey deliberately, to find out whether the jolt would wake me. It did not. I landed, nothing happened, and the dream carried on in a car park. I have wanted to try that for about two years.
- wonder
- relief
- awe
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What the research says. Link the page you are drawing on.
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SamSleep-science information
The hypnic jerk and the falling-in-a-dream thing are usually treated as two separate events that got associated after the fact. The jerk happens at sleep onset rather than in REM. So falling deliberately mid-dream probably would not trigger it, which matches what you got.
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