A minute or two after falling asleep,Luke felt like he was being tossed up and down as if on a boat in rough seas.His experience best illustrates
A) the circadian rhythm.
B) hypnagogic sensations.
C) sleep spindles.
D) narcolepsy.

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Luke's experience of feeling like he was being tossed up and down while falling asleep is a hypnagogic sensation, which is a brief sensory experience that can occur during the transition between wakefulness and sleep. The other answer choices (circadian rhythm, sleep spindles, and narcolepsy) do not describe this particular experience.

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