Sleep Vocabulary!

HYPNIC JERKS or HYPNAGAGIC JERKS . It’s an involuntary muscle contraction whose possible reasons includes poor sleep habits, stress, anxiety, stimulants where people experience symptoms such as feeling as though they are falling, rapid heartbeat, dreaming about falling, rapid breathing, sweating . But don’t fret, these sensations are not signs of any underlying health condition.

PARASOMNIA, a sleep disorder that causes abnormal behaviour while sleeping which includes behaviour such as sleepwalking, sleep talking, nightmares, night terrors, bedwetting, bruxism (teeth grinding), sexsomnia (sexual behaviours while sleeping), sleep-texting etc. This results in undesirable effects such as daytime sleepiness or fatigue, not remembering doing certain activities, wake up wondering where you are, unfamiliar cuts on your body which could be caused by stress, anxiety, insomnia, sleep deprivation, neurological conditions.

After talking to people about their sleep schedule you realized that sleep quality matters more than quantity . You look to your right and notice a young woman sleeping on a chair, and it strikes you as amusing that the ability to sleep anywhere, at any time, is a superpower and it is called — NARCOLEPSY where a person suffers from chronic neurological excessive uncontrollable daytime drowsiness which causes sudden sleep attacks, cataplexy( sudden loss of involuntary muscle due to strong emotion such as laughter, anger or crying), hallucinations, the person can sleep in an ongoing conversation