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I Can’t Explain This. Can You?
I hesitate to publish this strange happening in my bedroom
My brother suggests it is a muscle cramp, but you know when a muscle twitches, spasms, or cramps. It wakes you up, demanding attention. You either stretch the offending limb in hopes of relief or you are forced to get up and walk around until the muscle relaxes and the pain subsides. I am not asleep when this phenomenon occurs. My legs are quiet.
It is not an air current caused by our heating system or improperly closed windows. No. If it was airflow then it would happen every night in the same place. It doesn’t. It is random as to what night, time, and where. What is consistent is it happens and has for several years. And it only involves my legs and feet.
It has happened while I am sitting up in bed reading, but more often later in the evening. Again, I am not dreaming, not in a groggy half awake state. I am wide awake, and alert to my surroundings when it happens. If it occurs while I am asleep, the instances do not wake me.
Last night I got up to pee at 2:30 in the morning. I hate to get up because I have difficulty falling asleep again. I use this annoying period when it is too early to get up for the day to mentally compose or edit stories that may or may not progress beyond this stage. My companions, two snoring…
