In Article <1995Jan31.051555.16764 at galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
jb019a at uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jonathan David Byrd) wrote:
>In <dstout-2701951011040001 at 149.142.143.218> dstout at mail.nuc.ucla.edu (David
Stout) writes:
> This sounds good, but one can't overlook a simple discharge
>especially if a person is very acitve. Rest would be "abnormal" so really
>the body is simply adjusting to non-actvity. If you are an active person,
>it could be justintermittent discharges of of electrical activity kind of
>like miniature end-plate potentials.
If you've experienced the phenomenon you would know it is not merely the
firing of a few neurons and a few muscle fibers - I would call it a
whole-body jerk rather than a twitch. I don't think the MEPP analogy holds
here.
> There is also the possibility of early
>dreams which I myself have almost immediately into sleep which can also
>trigger reactions.
But remember, when you begin dreaming you actually have inhibition of motor
activity - unlike the simple decrease in muscle tone associated with light
sleep before dreaming begins. Movements during dreaming would indicate a
problem with the inhibitory pathway. And here's another question for you:
how do you quantitate the time from the point you fall asleep to the point
you begin dreaming?
Rifle River
jstream at girch1.med.uth.tmc.edu
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