While discussing sleep disorders etc
can anyone explain why if we're supposed to be naturally paralysed when we sleep to prevent harming ourselves, people can sleep walk/talk/hypnic jerk etc?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:57, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

i think all that is when the sleep paralysing thing goes wrong
that jerk thing is something to do with not falling out of trees
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:58, Reply)

No idea
But I think it should be the other way round. Humans are the only animals that completely lose knowledge of what's going on while they're sleeping. All other animals are able to wake up and react within seconds, or they'd be dead before realizing.

If we were like that, it'd be a lot easier to wake up in the mornings.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

I think it's to do with the different types of sleep we go through.

( girlinthehole, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

Different phases of sleep,
sleep paralysis isn't constant.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)