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Old 10-09-2012, 04:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Xanth
Yup, this is correct. I've experienced hypnic jerks for my entire life... it happens only once in a while, but it's always been there, mostly experienced while I've been falling asleep.

Personally, I've always attributed it "accidentally" consciously experiencing the body falling asleep. You unexpectedly feel a sense of "falling", which you then "jerk" in order to save yourself from falling. It's the same kind of motion you make to save yourself when you tip just a bit too far on a chair and believe you're going to fall over when you don't. Same thing.

No offense to Astral Explorer, but seriously, it has nothing to do with "energy pathways".

We can agree to disagree then I had it happen for a couple months when I was 2-3 months into my meditation program. My teacher sat me down and explained exactly what I said, I am not saying he knows everything but it made sense to me. I have never had it happen accompanied with the feeling like I was falling, so obviously what is happening in your situation yet again does not apply to everyone. We seem to keep having this conversation where you think just because something happens to you under specific circumstances it applies to the rest of the world, I am sorry but that is never the case.

We are all different and the circumstances are different. The person asking the question said nothing about the feeling of falling so why does that mean what happens in your case is the same as his? I have also read that it happens at a certain point on our meditation regiment because it is clearing up blocked energy pathways or opening dormant ones in at least 3 books all written by different authors. Off the top of my head two of them being Robert Bruce & T. Lobsang Rampa. So while I have no doubt what you say it is probably is what you're saying it is in your case I will never agree that it is always the same in everyone elses. Personally I tend to believe people who have almost a lifetime of experience like Robert Bruce than one random person on a forum who claims to know all the answer's of every mystery of the Earth that applies to every single person alive. Robert Bruce offered more than one possibility, not just one single probability handed to you as the stone cold truth because in his case that's what it was. Sorry again but this is just how I feel and I am sure others can agree.
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