Why can you sometimes feel your heartbeat in random parts of your body?

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Sometimes I’m laying in bed completely normally and suddenly I feel my heartbeat in my hip or a random part of my body. I’m not even sure if this is normal but when I googled it I found nothing.

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You are not feeling your heartbeat but actually your pulse. Your heartbeat is your heart pumping blood out and your pulse is that pressure wave/pulse traveling down your arteries. You are essentially feeling the pressure created from your heart pumping. You may feel your pulse in different areas because pressures are higher in bigger arteries, also you can locate some arteries more easily than others.

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