Okay so something weird happened in my sleep today. I was in a deep sleep and I jolt awake. I notice the activity in my mind on my hand so I look directly at my hand as my eyes opened. I see my hand was forcing its way up, raising above my head and formed into the Spock hand sign from Star Trek. It scared me because nothing like this has happened to me in my sleep before but right after I saw my hand, I put it back by my side and fell right back to sleep. Later when I got up, I researched the web to find out what this hand sign was and finally I found an image of Spock in Goggle Images. Then found that it was named the Vulcan Greeting. Afterwards, I looked up where the signal was derived from and found it had a Jewish origin meaning the word Hebrew word shin meaning Almighty God. I have not watched Star Trek in ten years. I have no idea what prompted this weird awakening with the hand gesture. The only other times I find myself jolting awake is either when someone enters the room while I am asleep, I awake with my eyes looking directly at them. Or when I fall asleep in public like when I was in school, I would jolt awake because I knew I wasn't suppose to be asleep. Or sometimes when I have some sort of an epiphany in my mind when sleeping. Any ideas on why what happened today happened?
Additional info, added Thursday July 19 2012, 9:30 am: My grammar is a good reason to edit questions. (: Ha. Want to answer more questions in the Miscellaneous category? Maybe give some free advice about: What does it mean?? Xanadu answered Thursday July 19 2012, 1:42 pm: Its hard to say really, the brain is still a complex thing and a true wonder of the world. Something you watched, read, or heard before sleep could of triggered a dream in which you 'acted' out. I personally have had some experiences like this but to a much more 'nightmaric' degree (dont think Nightmaric is a word but it is now!) to where I've woken up and whatever I was dreaming transcended into the real world for seconds to minutes on end. An example would be I woke up and seen my bedroom covered in spiders the size of small cats which prompted me to fly up out of my bed so fast that the bed frame snapped in half, I was terrified (I call these Waking Nightmares). I've also woken up to me sitting up playing an imaginary piano. I dont think theres anything for you to be worried about unless you start trying to put a vulcan death grip on people in your sleep, then you may need to find some help :) [ Xanadu's advice column | Ask Xanadu A Question ]
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