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What are hypnic jerks? 😵‍💫

You’ve all that that feeling when your body jolts you awake or it feels like you’re falling.. that’s called a hypnic jerk. We all get them from time to time but when you have heightened anxiety they can happen more frequently.
This happened to me back in 2019 and I genuinely almost lost my mind over them. I would get at least 10+ per night and it started to seriously disrupt my sleep. This led to increased anxiety and a vicious cycle that I struggled to break.

Eventually, I figured out that managing my day time anxiety helped with my night time hypnic jerks. So I got serious about avoiding anything that made me feel worse which was mostly self inflicted things such as Googling my symptoms or spending too much time on Reddit forums or checking my body excessively. Once I got these things in order, I felt calmer at night which led to the hypnic jerks eventually after 4 months going away.

They weren’t pleasant but they’re harmless.

Have you ever had hypnic jerks? ⬇️