Has this ever happened to you?

I just laid in my bed to rest for a few minutes and must've fallen asleep, maybe fifteen minutes or so. Next thing I know, I jumped up, really rapidly, and sat up, then stood up fast. I felt for one moment I was dead. Like I wasn't there fully. After another minute my heart started racing. I was so nervous of what had just happened.

I've woken up before from a deep sleep, and not known where I was for a few seconds. But this was so alarming, to JUMP up out of sleep like that, as if I were dead standing there...I think my brain wasn't in full consciousness. Luckily within a minute or two I was fine, and my heart stopped racing. Has this ever happened to you?
The closest thing I could find online of what it could be is a possible Hypnic jerk, where being overtired makes your brain get confused which sleep stage it's in. It was quite scary standing up, thinking I was dead..😢

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JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M

I had a recurring problem while sleeping. I would dream that there were huge spider webs hanging over my bed. Or perhaps I was half-awake and not dreaming, and looking into the darkness and hallucinating? I am nearsighted so things like the green light on the smoke detector wobbles!

Then I would be terrified by the perceived webs, jump out of bed (literally, rather than in a dream) and crouch down on the floor. Then snap out of it a few seconds later and emerge awake.

This happened occasionally for a few years, especially when there was stress in my life. It has not happened in a long while, though, thankfully.

It is a good thing I did not also thing the floor was lava, LOL! 😁