Many people have such an experience that their bodies will shake suddenly when they sleep. The specific feeling is that when they fall asleep, their muscles will twitch involuntarily, and they may also feel that they are stepping empty or even falling, causing people to wake up at once.
The most common explanation for this phenomenon is this: [The brain will think that the body is going to die, so it will send a pulse to wake up the body.]
This phenomenon is called muscle jerk. There is also a name for muscle jerk that occurs during sleep-sleep twitch.
Muscle pumping is a kind of rapid involuntary muscle convulsion, similar to electric shock. People who often suffer from muscle pumping must pay attention to it, which indicates that your body function is not very good at this time.
Why is it easy to have muscle pumping when falling asleep?
When falling asleep, most of the nerves in the cerebral cortex are in an inhibited state, but some nerves are still relatively active, giving out some weak motor instructions to make the lower leg twitch.
When falling asleep, the brain’s ability to control is very low, so the power to inhibit the occurrence of this conditioned reflex in the lower limbs is also very weak, which is easy to occur for a slight reason.
No matter adults or children, if this happens occasionally, there is generally no need to worry too much.
However, if the occurrence frequency is too high, it may lead to the occurrence of periodic limb tic disorder, affecting sleep and life, requiring further treatment in the hospital.
How to adjust?
If you are very disgusted with occasional convulsions or have a bad experience, you can try the following methods to adjust.
Step 1 Relax appropriately
Under high pressure for a long time, it is easy to fall asleep and twitch. Therefore, it is very important to control pressure for daily life. Look at the relaxed content before going to bed, put your work and mood aside, and you can have a good sleep.
Step 2 Stretch your muscles
Muscle twitches are especially easy to occur when muscles are tense. You can move slightly before going to bed, stretch and move the muscles of your lower limbs.
3. Work and rest regularly
A regular lifestyle not only has many benefits for the body, but also reduces sleep twitches. It is best to exercise moderately during the day and go to bed early and get up early at night.
Step 4 Use of drugs
If you don’t just have occasional convulsions, but you don’t sleep well, can’t sleep well, can’t sleep well, wake up early, and feel tired after waking up, and this situation has lasted for several months, and your usual adjustment can’t get better. Then you can try some drugs to help you sleep according to your doctor’s advice.
5. Improve sleep environment (bed, mattress, quilt, etc.)
Improving sleep environment is also an important link to reduce the probability of muscle pumping.
Bedclothes are too cold, too hot, airtight and too heavy, which will make people wake up repeatedly at night.
Some bedding with poor materials may also cause allergy and affect sleep quality.
In addition to comfort, such as indoor decoration environment, home tone, etc. also affect sleep to a certain extent.