/yume/ - Dreams

wasnt sure if this should go in misc or a new thread because its a dreamlike hallucinatory before sleep experience without technically being a dream (been an extremely long-time lurker of uboachan since the old site but never posted but what happened to me recently was so weird that im breaking my silence) but does anyone else experience the sort of "falling" illusion of motion when you're about to fall asleep? i get this especially on my back and usually right before dreaming and am fairly sure its common enough that others will know what im talking about.

However, the other night i experienced something like this but if it were just absolutely cracked.

imagine for a moment you are lying on your side. youre extremely tired but not fully asleep or getting that usual sense that youre on the edge of dreaming like the falling feelings tend to happen in. instead, youre just lying there minding your business when suddenly you have the sensation that you begin to rotate, as if you were lying on some kind of rotating disk. like resting in fetal position on a record spinning on a record player. except it isnt as gentle or consistent as a record player would normally be, its fast, jarring, and switches from clockwise to counter-clockwise without rythm or reason. your actual body is not moving but your entire internal sense of a body is and you are feeling it violently, as if your soul was being jostled around but still remaining centered in the same place as your tired flesh that just wants a god damn break.

i got up after trying to just let this happen and be taken into sleep but that didnt work and it got so uncomfortable to feel like i was moving that fast that it was impossible to ignore. it has never happened to me before or since then. i almost considered posting this to /x/ instead because it was probably the closest ive come to feeling like something evil decided to ruin my night in particular but id rather not jump to that conclusion.

anyone experienced anything similar or other senses of motion while falling asleep/pre-dreaming or am i just fucked?