From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   Piccolo Pete wrote:   
   > "David Mitchell"  wrote in message   
   >> You might be experiencing some confusion within your mental body image.   
   >> When you have been relaxed for more than about 20 minutes, the   
   >> proprioreceptors which normally tell your brain where each limb is lose   
   >> their calibration, and stop undating this image.   
      
   This is well known.  Look it up.   
      
   >>   
   >> If you are still in a state approximating REM sleep (which you probably   
   >> are, as you are paralysed) then your eyes are probably moving.  Eye   
   >> position is another signal which is fed to the body image,   
      
   This is well known.  Look it up.   
      
    > so it's likely   
   >> there will be some confusion: your eyes are moving rapidly, and there's no   
   >> input from your muscles to compare those signals to.   
      
   It's an inference.   
   >> Hence you may feel as though you are rocking, or swaying, probably quite   
   >> rapidly.   
      
   So is this.   
      
   > I demand proof on this.   
      
   I realise that you've just gone into meltdown; but in case anyone more   
   reasonable is reading, I've explained that my supposition is based on   
   well-known facts and reasonable inferences.   
      
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