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Myoclonic jerks are not a part of or associated with sleep paralysis, and apparently are common to all people. Everyone suffers from these in the same way that everyone suffers from getting the hiccups. Most people will suffer from sleep paralysis a couple times in their life as well. I had an incident of sleep paralysis perhaps twenty years ago, and that was only once. Most people will probably suffer from it once or twice in their entire lives.

Sleep and dreaming have been a fascination of mine for years. My family has peculiar sleep patterns. My mother and my sister for example would hold on complex discussions dead asleep. My brother can memorize what happens around him while he is asleep, and I can do complex tasks while dead to the world. I have upwards of eight or nine lucid dreams a month that I can vividly recall.

However the strangest thing that happens to me with sleep are the voices. When I am about to nod off to sleep I hear dozens of voices overlapped talking. Now I can pay attention to one of them, and actually here what it says. However if I do that I wake back up, and if I pay no particular attention I am gone in short order. I have never figured out exactly what that is all about.