Has this happened to anybody before going to sleep?

[Aphtonites]

Sometimes, when i'm in bed and i'm about to go sleep, my vision flashes, i hear something loud like lightning, and i suddenly get startled and i shake for half a second, and it's not lightning or anything, nothing happened around me, it was just me imagining it.
I've had it happen for a long time, since 2007 or so.

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[Lørd Tøny]

I've heard noises in my head I never heard before and big flashes of light shine in my head. I also shake or get startled as well.

Or sometimes I am about to fall asleep when I don't want to sleep my mind wakes myself up by 'shocking' myself. (Only way I can describe it).

[Nymethus]

sometimes I twitch for no apparent reason, and it's not only when I try to go to sleep

it keeps happening

[Aphtonites]

Looked it up, some other people said to have had it.
It's pretty weird though, it scares me from going back to sleep for a few minutes until i'm confident enough.

[Lørd Tøny]

Here I thought I was unique! I guess I am not getting super powers.

[LegendZ]

Mine's a flash, which shocks me awake.

I won't be able to sleep for a while after that.

It's like I'm about to dream and I'm suddenly kicked out of it.

[Caution]

Nope.

[fred da kiko]

sometimes i begin to dream that i am falling over so vividly that i switch into survival mode and twitch to adjust balance, waking myself up in the process.l

[JD]

TheWorm told me about a year ago about exploding head syndrome. I don't know if he was joking or not but he seemed pretty serious--it's when you hear a noise so loud you think your head explodes, but it's not really.. well. real. There's no determination whether or not it's a physical or mental thing causing the 'explosion,' so it's not a really well documented thing.

[Sandvich]

TheWorm told me about a year ago about exploding head syndrome. I don't know if he was joking or not but he seemed pretty serious--it's when you hear a noise so loud you think your head explodes, but it's not really.. well. real. There's no determination whether or not it's a physical or mental thing causing the 'explosion,' so it's not a really well documented thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome

[JD]

Well since OP isn't a woman over fifty I doubt that's what it is.

[Sandvich]

although it has been reported as young as age 10.

[Night Fox]

it keeps happening

I warned you about the twitches bro
I told you dog

[Mr. Wuggle]

When I'm laying in bed, I remember my past days and how painful (physically) they were, and then suddenly it feels like I got hurt in the same place I did in the morning.

Kind of hard to explain.

[lordician]

Well, quite some years ago i knew when nightmares where about to hit me.
I would see my room as if there was a lightsource nearby and i would feel very stiff.
I couldn't move at all, the only way to stop this was to think of good things.
Fun things and that.
Then i would get out of that creepy thing and not get a nightmare, otherwise i would get one.

Really weird.
Don't have it anymore though.
The dreams i had years ago were sometimes weirder and creepier but mostly a lot more awesome then those i have now.
If i have any. :S