There is nothing more irritating than finding that perfect comfortable position and feeling that alluring sense of drifting off when your body suddenly jerks you awake because it thinks it’s falling off your bed – which you know is impossible because you are sleeping in the middle of it.
This Business Insider video clip explains the annoyance that is the hypnic jerk.
Is it less annoying now that you know why? Probably not. But at least now you know…
