There are times when I wake up suddenly twitching my body while sleeping. This phenomenon is described as ‘sleep attack’ or ‘sleep surprise’. It appears as the body moves on its own, although the brain did not instruct it while sleeping, and it often occurs when the body is nervous or under severe stress.What causes seizures while sleeping?The reason for seizures is usually when muscles contract at once or when a part of the muscle flinches. In general, a person’s heart rate drops when he or she sleeps well and relaxes his or her tense muscles. In addition, sleep goes through a total of five steps. You enter a total of five stages in a shallow state, a light state, a deep state, a slow-wave sleep state, and an REM sleep state. During sleep, the sleep phase is usually repeated three to four times. The more you go to the later stage, the more your muscles relax. At this time, if the muscles are not relaxed properly, seizures occur in the muscles, resulting in a sudden wake-up with surprise.Then, why is muscle relaxation not done properly?As I mentioned in the beginning, if fatigue or stress is severe, the body tries to stay tense. If your body is tense until just before you go to bed and you fall asleep in that condition, it will be difficult to sleep well. In addition to these reasons, sleep attacks can occur when you exercise excessively just before going to bed, eat caffeine foods such as coffee drunk late, or act to awaken your brain. Occasionally, seizures may occur while sleeping even when taking antipsychotic drugs.Having a seizure while sleeping like this is a common symptom that anyone can experience at least once, and it is characterized by the fact that it occurs more often when you fall asleep for a while on the bus, subway, or during class than when you sleep at night. The reason for this is that sleeping posture is not comfortable, and it is difficult to sleep well because it is a posture contrary to gravity. Because the brain is trying to fall into a sleep state, but the body is not.Sleep seizures are common enough to occur in anyone regardless of age, so most people don’t take them seriously and just skip them. However, if you wake up from seizures too often, it can lead to sleep disorders, so it is good to find the cause and deal with it.It is not caused by a major problem or disease in the body, but by the time you go to bed, your body was tense. Sleep seizures occur when you enter the first stage of non-rem sleep. So if you want to get rid of these symptoms, it’s important to relieve your nervousness before bed. It should properly relieve fatigue and stress and allow you to fall asleep comfortably without thinking about worries or worries before going to bed.If sleep surprise leads to excessive levels, it can lead to insomnia, so you must improve it. Insomnia causes mental fatigue as well as physical fatigue, which adversely affects brain function. Sleep disorders such as insomnia can reduce concentration and memory, which can lead to problems with work and learning.A suspected disease?-Limb attack syndrome A symptom of discomfort in arms and legs when sleeping or staying still is called lower limb attack syndrome. It’s a disease that people who haven’t experienced it feel so unpleasant that it’s hard to imagine. If the severity is not severe, seizures occur only when you feel this discomfort while sleeping, kicking something with your feet or waving your hands. Movement of arms and legs when you have just fallen asleep is called ‘periodic quadriplegia’. This is a symptom that most people with lower extremity anxiety syndrome are experiencing. The cause of these symptoms is not the problem of arms and legs, but the problem in the central nervous system of the brain. Although the exact cause was not found, it is presumed to be a symptom caused by an abnormality in function. It is said that the common characteristics of patients with the symptoms are often due to lifestyle habits such as nicotine, alcohol, overeating, and late-night snacks, and sometimes they lack iron. If you want to prevent the symptoms from appearing, you need to improve these lifestyle habits and work out steadily to relieve fatigue and stress.- Weekly sleepiness refers to a symptom of sleepiness that is difficult to endure during the day even though you have slept enough. I often doze off or fall asleep regardless of time and place, and I often wake up twitching in my sleep. If you have daytime sleepiness, you will have problems with your performance skills, such as study and work, and you will be evaluated as a lazy person by others.When this happens, you may feel intimidated and frustrated, and sometimes you are under severe stress. If you fall asleep at any time and place, you may have problems with your normal social life. If you have narcolepsy or hypersleep, it can occur when your sleep quality is poor. Especially when you have a snoring habit, your sleep quality can be bad. This is because if the degree of snoring is severe, the brain cannot wake up and fall asleep deeply. Especially when sleep apnea symptoms appear together, it is recommended to undergo a thorough examination and treat them.If you often wake up with seizures during sleep, we recommend that you suspect the diseases and get tested properly.previous image next imageprevious image next imageprevious image next image