Probably there is no such person who would not experience a feeling of falling and weightlessness when falling asleep. Involuntarily, questions arise, a person begins to think about why, when you fall asleep, it seems that you are falling somewhere. What is it - physiology or mysticism? Or maybe both together? Let's try
figure it out. This is not a dream about falling, but a physical sensation that wakes us up. It, plus everything, is accompanied by a hallucination.
Why does it feel like you're falling when you fall asleep?
To better understand this, let's try to understand the very mechanism of sleep. At the moment of falling asleep, the brain sends a signal to the spinal cord that it is necessary to relax the muscles and suppress all stimuli. The feeling that a person feels does not wake him up from sleep. This is the part of the phenomenon that is more or less explainable. But what happens? Some scientists believe that in such cases, the signal given by the brain seems to be lost, and instead of relaxing the muscles, the spinal cord gives commands to contract them even more in response to the slighteststimulus. Therefore, any movement a person can perceive as a feeling of falling. According to another version, the answer to the question: "Why, when you fall asleep, it seems that you are falling?" lies in the very mechanism of relaxation. The fact is that the muscles relax before the brain completely falls asleep. It turns out that with complete muscle relaxation, brain activity is observed. The sensation of muscle relaxation is perceived by the brain as a fall, and it tries to wake the sleeping person. This is most likely the answer to
question: "Why, when you fall asleep, it seems that you are falling?".
Hallucinations: a variant of the norm, no more
And here is another answer to the question of why, when you fall asleep, it seems that you are falling. Many people believe that hallucinations are something mentally ill people suffer from. But actually it is not. Everyone has experienced hallucinations to one degree or another. This is nothing more than a brain error when it misinterprets the stimuli it receives from the nervous system. And to some extent, scientists see in hallucinations the reason why, when you fall asleep, it seems that you are falling. By analogy: if a person noticed a dog following him out of the corner of his eye, but it turned out that it was a pile of garbage, then this means that the brain simply misinterpreted the information received and gave out a picture too quickly. So harmless
hallucinations occur more often if a person is under stress or overwork. In such situations, the brain is overloaded and tooquickly produces the results of the analysis of the environment. So, during falling asleep, the muscles relax and the brain begins to look for a source of danger. As a result, it seems that you are falling in a dream.
Interpretation of dreams of falling
Such dreams are interpreted differently depending on what events occur in them, except for the fall. If a person fell and immediately got up - this is a sign of imminent well-being. If it did not work out, then this indicates misfortune. If in a dream the earth leaves from under your feet, then this is interpreted as a loss of control over your life. The interpretation of dreams with a fall requires a detailed analysis of events in life and in the dream itself.
