This happens to me occasionally in bed. I think about falling and my body gives a sort of response to it by making me actually feel like I’m falling. How does this happen?
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For the same reason that thinking about a salty cracker can make one salivate. The body takes cues from mental processes about matters real and imagined.
Also, it’s been shown through brain imaging that reading or saying or even thinking of active verbs (kick, punch, run, etc.) activates the same parts of our brains as doing the activity itself.
The weird part is these same areas do not light up on scans i/r/t passive verbs and abstract ideas, like the variations of “to be” or “to think”.
In Korea there’s a saying that is the moment you are getting tall. Just an old belief heard from my mom lol
If you mean when you are sleeping, there’s an old belief that that’s the precise moment the soul is leaving your body. You jerk awake to bring it back. I know this is poppycock, but when it happens to me, I get a little freaked.
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