Why does your heart rate jump when you sleep? Why do you sometimes feel like you’re falling from a skyscraper in the middle of the night?

These are both things that many people have wondered about. Your heart rate can rise or jump when you sleep due to just the position you’re in, or if you are experiencing stressful situations similar to anxiety, it can put pressure on your heart, causing it to pump blood at a faster pace.

Your oxygen level being too low is also a reason for your heart rate to increase. When you sleep, your breathing can pause several times, but only for a short moment, and once your body catches on, you will quickly begin pumping more blood and jolt back into your pattern.

What are other things the human body does that could be considered “weird”?

Have you ever thought about why we yawn? Why is it that when you see someone else yawning, you have an urge to do the same? 

Some have said we yawn due to a lack of oxygen and that yawning is a way for our bodies to get more, but recent studies think we yawn simply because we are tired or bored. Depending on the environment you’re in, once the main source of entertainment or whatever has your attention gets boring, you’ll begin yawning. 

But what about the hiccups? 

Technically, the hiccups are a type of spasmodic contraction; they normally last a few minutes and will come occasionally for most people. But some people do experience the hiccups on a daily basis, which can be a sign of an underlying disease. 

People have come up with many ways to get rid of the hiccups, though, you may have been told to hold your breath, or chug cold water while holding your ears shut, or even just holding your breath until they go away. 

These are just a few weird things that our bodies naturally do, but let’s dive into the even weirder. Have you ever wondered why we actually get goosebumps? Why do we get these little bumps along our arms or the back of the neck? Some say it means a ghost is near you, watching and lurking in the shadows. While others think it’s just a symptom of being too cold.  But goosebumps are actually connected to a lot of things; they technically come from a very tiny arrector pili muscle and can be a result of many things, for example: The chills, internal fear, panic, nervousness, and even being tickled. 

There are so many weird things that our bodies do and we humans just let it go unnoticed, from the random jolts to having an itch on the palm of our hand. It’s all quite weird if you ask me. But it is safe to say that these are all relatively safe and nothing that should cause you any excessive worry. 

Here are some outside opinions from students who have thought about similar things: Why do people get sudden heart attacks?  Why do humans blink?

Both of these are reasonably weird or questionable to think about. A heart attack can really happen out of nowhere, there are reasons to them but they can take place in very unexpected situations. Most people are not aware that they could happen and are usually caused from a sudden block of blood or an extremely reduced amount.

And for blinking, something that everyone does, this simply just lubricates your eyeballs and helps prevent your eyes from drying out. 

At the end of the day, some may think these are weird and some may think these are all normal, but the truth is it’s something that every human body does.