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I woke up this morning with wet feet. Unless my roommate was messing around with me, which he swears he's not, something's definitely going on.

I remember doing a project in high school about sleep. Sleep cycles, what happens to your body as it sleeps, how important sleep is, all that stuff. I remember my presentation was so long, people actually fell asleep as I was presenting, bringing a sort of Andy Kaufman brand of irony to the whole thing. The teacher gave me an A. She liked me though, because I used the Internet to find articles to do reports on and actually showed interest in Psychology.

Anyway, I still remember some of the stuff from the report. I guess when you enter REM sleep, some endorphin or something is released that effectively paralyzes you while you dream. This is why sometimes you might jerk awake from a dream really quickly and not be able to move for a few seconds. Your body is a bit slow to unlock your paralysis and let you move. On the flip side, if your body doesn't have this endorphin or whatever, you're not paralyzed while you dream and you actually move around, even getting up and walking around in some cases.

So maybe I'm walking around in my sleep now. It'd certainly account for the fact that I don't feel rested when I wake up. I've never been a sleepwalker before, but someone had to write that stuff in here, and my feet had to get wet somehow.

So should I strap myself down at night?


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