Why do I twitch when I sleep?

If you experience convulsions while sleeping, you need to understand the causes. For example, you may be feeling unwell, irritable, or under too much mental stress, which may cause sudden convulsions in your subconscious mind. This is especially likely to happen in infants and young children.

1. Occasional twitching or shaking is a normal phenomenon that occurs during rapid eye movement sleep at night. "Rapid eye movement" is the time when people dream. This period only accounts for about 1 hour of the entire sleep. During this period, the human brain has not fully entered the awake state, and the unconscious commands of the cerebellum are sometimes executed unconstrained, manifesting as short-term unconscious movements, which are referred to as twitching during sleep.

2. It may be caused by physical discomfort, irritability and other reasons. When a person is under great mental stress and his subconscious mind still exists, his body will suddenly twitch.

3. Many babies will experience twitching when they sleep. There are many reasons why babies twitch when they sleep:

1. It may be a normal sleep phenomenon, such as a newborn startle;

2. It is possible that the child is suffering from restless sleep due to calcium deficiency. In severe cases, the child may also experience twitching of the hands and feet.

3. It may also be caused by epilepsy or certain genetic metabolic diseases.