I, too, used to have these myoclonic jerks all the time. Slipping from a ladder, as you say, or, more commonly for me, misstepping in a rowboat and almost tipping. And, yes, they would wake me up with that little bit of dream attached. Not for a while now, though.
Ursula, getting rid of all her extra commas in one go... Eric Yost wrote:
Mine is about the myclonic jerk.You ever have one of those dreams in which you are falling from a wall or slipping from a ladder, only to have a myclonic jerk of your legs partially awaken you? The dreaming pedaling of the legs is translated into a physical peddling of the legs by the myclonic jerk, and it causes partial awakening. Many people have them.
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