Last night I was trying to WILD. As I kept my conciousness going by counting progressively slower, I started to feel a falling sensation. Suddenly, BOOM! My body jerks. I fling my eyes open and looked around, but everything is the same. That kind of freaked me out so I just tried to MILD, which didn’t work. I don’t remember any dreams at all from last night.
Similar stuff has been happening to me! It’s sort of like starting a dream, I kind of see a situation, then something happens and, as you said “My body jerks. I fling my eyes open and looked around, but everything is the same.”. It’s been happening for the past few days. I hope that mean I’m on the way of LDing 
EDIT: To make myself clearer, in the dream I was going to sit on a sofa/chair thing, but I went through it, so I jerked in bed thinking I was going to fall down.
hehe same here, but after a few secs it stops for me and everything’s quiet and relaxed again
hmmmm, this sensation occurs during the hypnogic (sorry my spelling sucks) stage. it happened to me when i was younger a lot. it feels like you were falling or tripped its that same jolt that goes through your body, like a jerk and you snap awake wide eyed, and its even a little scary and breathtaking. It happened to me when i imagined myself sleeping elsewhere then my bed or at least imagining being in a different location, or just being lost in my thoughts and then being suddenly jerked back. however i saw that this said “hmm that was weird” and wanted to share something, the other night i slept good, but when i was trying to MILD back to sleep, my body began to go numb, everything above my hips, and sorry to be rather blunt but i had a random erection, i dont know if that has anything to do with it. so anyways everytime i breathe in deeper i become more numb, everything starts buzzing and those normal hypnogic images and dots become bright and intense and hurt my eyes, kinda like when you push your finger into your eyes. my whole body from the waist up is completely numb, and it scares me. im used to having an arm numb from sleeping on it but ussually trhat hurts because im stopping blood flow to my arm. this is my whole upper body and i cant be sleeping funny on my whole body, it starts getting weirder and has nothing to do with my goal, getting lucid, and its not sleep parilysis so i move my arm just an inch and it leaves just as soon as it occured…sorry to be blunt earlier lol but i thought a full description of the scenario is necassary and helpful and its cyberspace, no one knows who i am i really dont care
i thought i was the only one
lol, my breathing changes when i’m for example in guided meditation, i push the air out rather then pulling it in
and i’ve gotten falling sensations sometimes, but i kick my legs randomly when i do
oh, and the numb feeling might be the SP, escpeccially because it dissapears if you move, if you keep still longer you might get full SP
My body ALWAYS jerks when I do the counting wild. You just have to keep going.
This phenomenon is called a “myoclonic jerk”. It happens when you fall asleep. It’s generally due to your sensory inputs to be suddenly switched off and it’s interpreted by your brain as a fall.
Ooo scientific! 
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Ya, like Basilus West said, a “myoclonic jerk”. 
However, another explanation would be that your heart rate drops too fast, either because you’re tired or something… and then your brain thinks you are going into “coma” so it “jerks” you. 
(dunno how true is that…Got it from somewhere…)
Usually, this myoclonic jerk I realised is associated with me in a dream, tripping over something, missing a step, or walking down a step that is particularly large.
I wonder how about others?
Oh and er… I find that this jerk is kinda exhilerating! 
this happens to me exactly how you describe it. it only happens maybe once every 6 months nowdays though, when i was a kid it happened a lot more.
I experienced the same thing once. I was just laying down, and I was visualizing myself playing tennis. I guess I was so into it, that when I got hit by the ball (in the fantasy) it startled me so much that my whole body jerked. I don’t know if this is somehow related to the myoclonic jerk phenomenon… does your brain make up something to rationalize the jerk?
Happens to me whenever I concentrate on HH (I don’t see HI I see HH straight away). I feel as if i’m walking along a path and suddenly a cliff top will come into view, I always accidently step off of the cliff and I experience the jerking sensation that other people have talked about.
The only thing that confuses me is that if I see the cliff top before I fall how can it be a myoclonic jerk? I shouldn’t know i’m going to fall untill my senses are switched off, so I shouldn’t even see the cliff.
I have a question.
If it is such that in this pre-dream state, you are reacting physically to imagined stimuli, then I may have related experiences.
I am a sophomore in college, but back in 9th and 10th grade, I would kinda daydream. I’d be sitting at my desk, bored as hell, and I suppose then I would see imaginative stuff. I usually had someone in class that I hated alot and in this daydream I would kick him, but my leg would jerk as if I were sending a partial signal to it. This kicking would remove me from the daydreaming. If I am correct, I believe what WILD is, I was doing with my eyes open, sitting up, and in the class. It never got far because every one of the daydreams involved kicking someone that I didn’t like, thus my leg shook and I awoke.
Tell me anything you can about it.
edit: I never reached the dream state, and I didn’t know of “Lucid Dreaming”, so I never would have remained lucid anyways. Also, for the staring to work, I need relatively quiet and still surroundings. Heh…Having a lucid dream with my eyes open…My eyes would probably get really dry and crumble into dust next morning.
You can have Ld’s and not know anything about LD’s. I’ve had LD’s before without knowing about Ld’s , just figured I’d let you know that, I can’t really answer your question. I never have experianced anything like that but I hope this helps.
Those daydreams may not have been lucid. I have a hard time actually picturing remaining conscious and going into a dream like that. I never thought of it/didn’t believe in that.
I believe it now, but I keep forgetting how to do it. Anyhoo, I got three final exams in college this week before Spring Break, and I may not be able to experiment with WILD daydreaming (eyes open and staring off into space, is it the famous soldier’s thousand yard stare?)