why do we randomly feel like freefalling during our sleep?

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why do we randomly feel like freefalling during our sleep?

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They are called hypnagogic jerks no one really knows why we get them but one main hypothesis is it is a reflex left over from tree living primate ancestors that slept in trees, and that it might have been beneficial in preventing them from falling out of the trees when they slept.

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