You're Paralysed While You Sleep

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Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralysed during your sleep - most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dream. According to a Wikipedia article on dreaming, glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax and later become essentially paralysed.

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