Quote Originally Posted by Got Milk? View Post
Just google it, there is many resources talking about it. Most of them talk about the same thing . another source i looked at: "Your brain thinks you are dying. It sends an electrical impulse through your body, causing your muscles to jerk, thus causing you to awaken. If the brain failed to send the impulse you can die due to asphyxiation. You occasionally stop breathing while asleep, but it is a small window in which you stop breathing."

If you were already breathing normally before the brain thought it was dying in a dream, wouldnt it continue as normal though, with no "real" cause for it to send the physical impulse?