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· 10 years ago
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When you're almost asleep and your leg jerks all of a sudden... that's your brain kicking you awake because it thinks you're dying.
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lilyisamazing
· 10 years ago
Why doesn't it happen when we're actually about to die?
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chu
· 10 years ago
Because your heart rate is already high enough that the brain doesn't sense you're slowing down.
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itssobig
· 10 years ago
Someone once said that when someone dies in their sleep, an angel carries them to heaven. When you jerk awake, the angel dropped you.
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taratheartist
· 10 years ago
Almost every night I jerk awake. I don't know which is worse. The fact that I'm dying every night or that my angel is clumsy as shit
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chu
· 10 years ago
Or that God seems to think it's your time every night but someone along the way manages to fuck it up
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taratheartist
· 10 years ago
They had one job
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guest
· 10 years ago
Hmm, someone should really just look at the science behind this instead of making something up. It's really because when you sleep your brain disconnects the control between your conscious mind and your ability to move your body. This keeps you from moving while you dream but still allowing you to move in your dreams. Its also why some people wake up and are paralyzed for a bit before their brain kicks in and realizes its made mistake and allows you to move. The jerking happens when your brain hasn't shut off your control completely yet and thus allows partial movement. There is no proof of any life threatening issues behind the jerking. It is fun however to scare people by telling them that though.
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chu
· 10 years ago
I think you're right, but there is a grain of truth to this. It's not the jerking that's the result of your heart slowing to an unsafe point, it's the feeling of falling which might or might not result in a jerk.
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