Falling
Radiolab
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What Is a Hypnic Jerk?
Professor Frederick Alkulich is a sleep expert at the University of Colorado. He says he got fascinated by these giant jerks at the beginning of sleep. The hypnik jerk appears to be this, what seems to be a reflex. It's you're still semi-conscious and you start to feel kind of dreamy.
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