Twitching in your sleep?!?
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Twitching in your sleep, or any kind of muscle spasm, is a sign of magnesium deficiency.  If you take a magnesium supplement at night before you go to bed it should give you a better night's sleep.  Start at 1,000 mg, see how it feels.  You can take up to 3,000 mg, but if you take too much it will give you diarrhea.  Our diets are typically low in magnesium, unless you eat a lot of buckwheat (not white or whole "wheat", buckwheat is a different grain altogether) or almonds.
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I hate when that happens.\n\nMost likely you just slept on it wrong, cutting off the circulation somewhat, causing your leg to "fall asleep".\nJust do a little wiggly jumpy dance and it'll get the blood flowing back to it again .
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LOL, you've nailed it! I think you could also include twitching.
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Oh definately.  To the brain, you are really experiencing what is going on in the dream...well, sort of.  Anyway, it is not uncommon to have muscle contractions while sleeping in response to dreams.
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Sleep when your body needs it!!!!
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I agree. Stress and/or fatigue.  I get it too.  It is most annoying and sometimes I don't even feel stressed or tired but my eyelid continues to twitch.  It went away while I was on holidays. It's nice to know I have fellow twitchers!
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Restless leg syndrome..talk to your Dr.
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In my case, i'm actually fully awake and can hear everything that's going on around me, i just can move, speak or open my eyes.  The first few times it happened, it scared the whey out of me.  I still find it frightening.\n\nI did some research on it and while the people on here that have said it is part of our defense mechanism to keep us from acting out dreams and thereby harming ourselves or others, are correct, the sleep paralysis is actually different in that we are not dreaming when it happens.\n\nYou can use any and/or all of the search engines available and find quite a bit of information on it.\n\nOne of the things i find most helpful is a tip i read on one of the sites.  It said to rapidly move your eyes back and forth or to try moving your feet.  While these don't always work, i have found that sometimes they do and when they do work, i can bring myself out of it.\n\nAnother thing i do is try not to sleep during the day if i'm home alone.  In my case, it happens if i nap; but, because of some other health issues, i nap a lot.  So, if i have to sleep during the day, i will either do it while my husband is home or i'll call my sister or a friend ~ in any case, i ask someone to either come in or call after an hour and wake me up.\n\nThere are some that associate sleep paralysis with narcolepsy, so you might want to use the available search engines and do some research.\n\nFOR THE PERSON WITH THE NECK PROBLEMS:  Could you please explain how it is related to your neck problems?  I, too, have neck problems and i'm always wanting to learn more about the sleep paralysis.
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man i had a terrible twitch at the same time on every day for about 6 days.  it was wierd
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It's called sleep apoenia and is a normal but odd glitch in your nervous system.Panic will make it worse.Just remember it's normal,you won't die and relax and breath deeply.I have it too.It's what explains legends of vampires and night-hags,succubus etc.
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Hypnagogic myoclonus (also called sleep starts) is very normal and happens to just about everyone. According to the University of Marburg in Germany, reports of sleep starts are in the 60 to 70 percent range of sleepers (which means everyone) and they're often forgotten. It happens before you're getting into heavy duty sleep mode when the brain is gradually sliding away to dream land. You have probably experienced a falling sensation -- or some other weird feeling -- if you twitch yourself awake. Some people also experience visual sleep starts, a sensation of blinding light. Auditory sleep starts involve a loud snapping noise. (This happens to me, and up until now, I thought it was something outside my body and I would force my husband to get up and go investigate. Guess I won't do that anymore.)\n\nNot a lot is known about why people experience sleep starts, but there seems to be some suggestion that anxiety, some kind of noise, a vivid dream, muscle fatigue, or even genetic disposition plays some part, perhaps in how frequently the sensation occurs.\n\nIt might also be because you're gay.
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No it's just sleep paralysis. Something called a phantasm, I believe.
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Yes. deep sleep ! LOL
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twitching of muscles may be due to changes in the level of chemicals in blood especially calcium, also magnesium etc.\nIf the condition persits pls see a doctor, who might get a blood chemistry done.
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do you mean like sleep paralisis? at night, if you wake up and find this happening, don't panic, it is normal. sometimes when we have bad dreams, our bodies produce hormones which keep us from thrashing and hurting ourselfs in our sleep. if we wake up to early, we find ourselfs unable to move for a period. go to webmd for a rewally good artical on it
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It means you are really tired and run down. I get that when Im stressed or what I just said. Like the eyelashes kind of twitch. Anyway, get some vitamins and some sleep!
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The only thing I can think of is stress.  You probably want to go to a doctor to have it checked out though.  I have a similar problem.  My neck twitches and sometimes my back does too.  Another thing is that they only seem to do it when I think about it.  It's hard not to think about it though.  It's really annoying and I hope you get better from it.  Another thing to think about is that I do have an anxiety disorder so sometimes that makes me stressed out to.  Hope you feel better:)