Have you suffered from sleep tremor?

Doctors offer a possible explanation

Medical research estimates that about 70 percent of people have experienced the terrifying "fake fall" that usually comes shortly after drifting off to sleep, which is scientifically called sleep tremor or sleep vibration, and leaves a somewhat tense effect, especially since it occurs suddenly. .

And recently someone asked the question on the "Twitter" platform, where he asked his followers: "Don't you hate that you just fell asleep and then your whole body jumps and you have some kind of small heart attack?"

Others responded by commenting on the physical disorientation "You're lying in bed, you're asleep and (suddenly) your whole body is shaking. You're (now) awake! What the hell is that?"

A third asked anxiously, responding to the same line of questions, "Am I the only one who has random jerks when sleeping?"

This relatively harmless and common feeling is known by experts as a "sleep jerk" or "sleep start."

It occurs when the body suffers from "sudden muscle contractions" similar to what happens when it "jumps" when frightened, and many experience it with a feeling similar to a rapid or sudden drop.

Researchers don't actually know for sure what causes sleep jerks, but they have several theories.

"Andy" quotes the Sleep Foundation, which specializes in sleep studies, as its possible scientific explanation for this, saying, "When you fall asleep, researchers suspect that there is sometimes an imbalance in performance between the nerves in the retinal brainstem, which leads to a reaction that leads to sleep jerking."

And she continued, “For example, it may happen that when your muscles relax completely, although this is a normal part of sleep, your brain mistakenly assumes that you are really falling and reacts by twitching your muscles. It is also possible that sleep jerks are a physical reaction to the images.” similar to the dreams that accompany it.”

To try to avoid these dreaded, albeit harmless, tremors, sleep experts suggest monitoring your normal daily activity and changes in it. They believe that excessive caffeine intake, consumption of stimulants, vigorous exercise before bed, emotional stress, and sleep deprivation can all lead to stress. It increases the possibility of these sleep attacks.

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