why do we randomly feel like freefalling during our sleep?
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ELI5: When you are falling asleep, your brain does a lot of special tasks that help make sure you relax and are rested for the next day. Sometimes, especially when we are really tired, or have a lot of things going on in our life (stress), our brain might make a small mistake and think that the relaxing of our muscles for us to fall asleep is actually us falling down. You know how when you trip, your arms reach out? That is something we do to keep us safe when we fall. Because the brain thinks we are falling down, it also thinks we need to catch ourselves to keep us safe.
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