Twitching girlfriend

Factual Questions
1

Sometimes my girlfriend twitches while she is falling asleep. Her whole body just tenses up for a split second, then relaxes. She’ll do this five or ten times over the course of about fifteen minutes, and then she stops. She seems to be asleep the whole time and doesn’t remember doing it.

Is she dying horribly of some incurable disease, or is this really common? :confused:

2

I thought everybody did this, do you mean to say you do not?

3

Ok, I looked it up, it’s called Hypnagogic myoclonus and apparently

4

I think everybody does it, but you usually don’t notice it unless you make a movement so sharp that you wake yourself up. And even then you might not realize that it’s a common occurrence.

5

I’m prone to it when sleeping someplace new and especially when sleeping (actually sleeping) with someone new.

How long you been together?

6

The Master speaks

7

FWIW, my girlfriend and I started sleeping (actually sleeping) together in the morning about a week or so ago and I haven’t noticed this. I’m positive I do it sometimes, though, because I get that falling/flowing feeling a fair bit.

8

She’s dreaming about chasing squirrels.

Sailboat

9

In this case, what the Master speaketh, is pretty inconclusiveth, and is subject to lots of conjecturishoushness, with all due respect to His Knowingness.

10

The Master was a lot younger then. That’s a 25-year old column.

11

I twitch so much that Mrs. Cliffy should get better health insurance.

–Cliffy

12

my SO and I both do it all the time as well, it’s only a pain when it wakes me up or if he happens to twitch and kick me or something. Other than that it’s no big deal.

Russell

13

I have the restless legs, but they don’t bother me, they have always been like that. My husband should be so lucky. HE gets Evil Hand Syndrome: every now and then one or both of his hands will try to kill him in his sleep. Usually its a one-hand stranglehold on his own throat, but occasionally both hands team up and try to unscrew his head. The noises wake me up and I make him stop. I have to. If he actually succeeded I would never get anyone to believe he sonambuloautothrottled.