Have you ever experienced that thing when you just dozed off to sleep and then you start dreaming of walking, riding a bicycle, climbing stairs, or just plain running and then suddenly you fall off the bike, fall down on the ground, or tripped? and then you jerk awake, sometimes your knee jerks up or your legs. What do you call that phenomena?
2007-02-21 10:33:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Sleepwalking under the larger category of parasomnias, is a sleep disorder where the sufferer engages in activities that are normally associated with wakefulness while asleep or in a sleeplike state.
2007-02-21 10:42:05 · answer #1 · answered by b c 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is just your heart rate slowing down to extreme lows
your internal "pace maker" gives a light jolt and it ends up waking you up with a sudden fall
or something that startles you to a sudden movement of a certain body part
Me, personally it is just randomly falling into a black ditch.
and i end up twitching and waking up in the middle of the night
2007-02-21 19:45:29 · answer #2 · answered by Eng 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,,, it called rem, random eye movement. This is when your brain is coming down from it's natural high. This happens also when you are about to wake up from a long sleep.
2007-02-21 18:42:28 · answer #3 · answered by ZEBUCORE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋