What's this sensation I get sometimes when I'm sleeping?

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answer:SOME people think that’s the very tiniest beginning of an out of body experience. There is this “threshold” that induces terror or general creepiness just before you leave your body. If you managed to go past the feeling, supposedly you’ll have a lucid out of body experience. But most people wake up or start dreaming to get away from the uneasy feeling. I am not sure how I feel about it but I used to read alt.oobe on UseNet decades ago and was into studying it. I am not saying that’s really what is happening to your body, but that people in that group described that exact thing you mention and they linked it to a near out of body experience.

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