- Anne Charter's Biography Kerouac, the railroad hotel dream
- Jack Kerouac's Dream Book
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Footnotes
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[2]The neurological reason that hypnic jerks occur is not fully understood, although there are two predominant theories.
Some researchers suggest that as a subject's heartbeat and breathing slow down, hypnic jerks occur as a natural part of muscular transition.[4]
Another theory states that as a subject falls asleep, their muscles begin to relax and cease working, causing the brain to believe that the body must be falling through air. It is thought that this causes people to thrash their limbs in an attempt to catch something or turn oneself upright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
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