Usually, when you lie down on the table at noon break, you will feel that your feet suddenly step on the ground, and then your whole body will shake like an electric shock and wake up in an instant. Or when you sleep at night, you will suddenly start to twitch when you lie down well. What is the situation?
Why does the body shake suddenly when sleeping?
Often sleep when the body suddenly shakes to wake up. So I searched the Internet for the reason why the body suddenly shakes when I was sleeping. Then a doctor gave me the answer: "the sudden shaking in sleep is that the nervous system finds that you suddenly fall into sleep and have no activity for a long time. It thinks you are dead, so it moves. I want to try whether you are dead or not;
See this result, scared me to drop a ground hair!!!
When sleeping, do you feel a sudden kick or twitch? The truth is - muscle pumping. There is no doubt that the word "death" makes the above paragraph full of alarmist atmosphere.
What is muscle pumping?
1. Muscle pumping
It is a kind of rapid muscle involuntary twitch, because the speed is very fast, then will appear the similar electric shock movement. It usually happens when you fall asleep, your body suddenly shakes, accompanied by a strong sense of fall, like stepping out of a chair.
2. Physiological muscle jerk
This type of muscle jerk is a normal physiological manifestation, such as hiccup, muscle jerk during sleep, or muscle jerk when nervous or tired. Sleep twitch, also known as sleep fright, is a scientific term for shaking when sleeping. It belongs to involuntary muscle twitching, which occurs in the arms, legs and even the whole body.
3. Occasional muscle pumping
It's a normal physiological phenomenon. It's normal for everyone to have a sudden twitch when sleeping. This occasional jitter is in the rapid eye movement period of sleep, is accompanied by rapid eye movement phase when the normal physiological phenomenon occurred.
Causes of muscle jerk
1. Overworked: heavy pressure during the day, nervous.
2. Calcium deficiency: low blood calcium, leading to muscle, nerve excitability hyperactivity, resulting in convulsions.
3. Deficiency of liver and kidney: if it is not very severe, but more frequent, it may be caused by deficiency of liver and kidney and deficiency of Qi and blood.
4. Symptomatic muscle pumping: if accompanied by headache, dizziness and other conditions, should be done a brain CT or magnetic resonance imaging, to determine whether the symptoms are due to brain lesions.