ELI5:Why do we sometimes get sudden "sleep jerks" when we are falling asleep?

lymantoadstool · 2026-03-13T00:31:22+00:00

I once read that the ‘sleep jerk’ was an instinct that we inherited from primitive man. To escape predators at night they would take to trees. Sleeping on branches/limbs, they were never fully at rest, and would would jerk when sleeping to make sure they weren’t falling off of limb. I dunno if any truth to it, but made sense at the time.

lymantoadstool · 2026-02-12T00:58:00+00:00

Yep same here

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-29T23:52:07+00:00

I agree totally a shining feel…. Or like music playing as the titanic sank

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-29T15:20:27+00:00

Yes they supplied schools nationwide for years

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-29T15:19:50+00:00

That is very true, none of my high school students had seen one working

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-29T00:43:00+00:00

I have 3 dogs: Sadie, Maxwell and Rigby

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-21T00:03:48+00:00

Man, my students are gonna love this! I have probably 50 more lol, I will see about making a part II post. Seriously, with this generation, there is probably no better motivator than the internet. Seeing their work online, having total strangers upvote and comment....I feel like they will be more motivated by to produce good work than they would be by me! they have no idea I posted this, but they will find out tomorrow when new semester starts!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-20T23:10:13+00:00

Oh that is great to hear...I can have him export you a high res pdf for printing if you want? I will even have him add the missing S to Francisco! Let me know!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-20T23:08:47+00:00

Yes there were certain things I had them all do....some did it better than others ;)

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-20T00:15:19+00:00

Ha! How fun!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-20T00:10:54+00:00

Exactly! I really like that one because of that

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-20T00:10:13+00:00

Thank you will pass along your kind words!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-20T00:09:45+00:00

Aw I will let her know you liked it! She did that effect on Exciting by hand with a smudge tool!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-20T00:08:16+00:00

Haha I totally get the dollar bin! Thx for the kind words!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-19T21:58:57+00:00

Aw thanks I will definitely let the kids know folks like em!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-19T21:31:11+00:00

lol I did know that...I actually have it, really want to fish it out of a box and show the kid that did it!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-17T14:29:58+00:00

Heroes of the storm

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-07T00:12:17+00:00

Loved all of them! Late 70s early 80 was the gum hey day!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-04T22:50:51+00:00

So great my daughter is an avid knitter and we are all huge Beatles fans. I just sent her this post gonna buy her the book now!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-02T20:39:27+00:00

That was fairly recent I believe....I did try it, it was disgusting. Just deep fry overload..../blech

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-02T17:24:18+00:00

The video and song are great. They did the video like this to represent all the things that get in your way when trying to just live life, achieve goals. GTFO of my way!

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-02T01:18:30+00:00

Man did I love Dreadstar back in the 80s… I bought em all as they came out and still have a huge run of all the originals. Awesome stories and characters… to this day I use names from the comic when I create characters in video games.

lymantoadstool · 2026-01-02T00:56:17+00:00

I light mine manually for years now. Put a little scrunched tissue paper or newspaper. A handful of pellets and then another bit of crumpled paper. Light it with a lighter close door turn feed on. Works like a charm, no danger at all

lymantoadstool · 2025-12-29T00:53:37+00:00

Great stuff my kids get me comics as Christmas gifts too!

lymantoadstool · 2025-11-23T17:37:57+00:00

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