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A hypnic jerk, hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, sleep twitch, myoclonic jerk, or night start is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment.
The word hypnagogia is sometimes used in a restricted sense to refer to the onset of sleep, and contrasted with hypnopompia, Frederic Myers's term for waking up. [2] However, hypnagogia is also regularly employed in a more general sense that covers both falling asleep and waking up.
A hypnic jerk is the feeling triggered by a sudden muscle twitch, causing the feeling of falling while sleeping or dreaming. Hypnic jerks typically occur moments before the first stage of sleep. [2] About 70% of people have experienced hypnic jerk. [3] Hypnic jerks are most common in children, when dreams are considered the most simple. [4]
Due to the difficulty in collecting ejaculate produced during nocturnal emissions, relatively few studies have examined its composition. [4] [5]In the largest study, which included nocturnal emission samples from 10 men with idiopathic anejaculation, the semen concentration was equivalent to samples obtained from the same men by penile vibratory stimulation, although the proportions of sperm ...
The first version of this article was adapted from the public domain NINDS Myoclonus Information Page Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine. "Why do we twitch while falling asleep?" (The Straight Dope) Myoclonus Fact Sheet Archived 2016-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (viewed 5 Apr 2005)
Polyphasic sleep is the term used to describe any sleep pattern that includes three or more periods of shuteye in a 24-hour period instead of the more traditional large snooze at night.
Across town, on the northern edge of Los Angeles, another fire broke out in Eaton Canyon, near Pasadena, quickly consuming 200 acres later in the night, according to Angeles National Forest officials.
Other sleep related disorders like sleep apnea are ruled out by examining the patients' respiratory effort, air flow, and oxygen saturation. RMD patients often show no abnormal activity that is directly the result of the disorder in an MRI scan. [7] RMD episodes are strongly associated with stage 2 NREM sleep and, specifically, K Complexes [8].