2007-01-02 08:28:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Some normal people sleep with their eyes slightly open. This symptom, however, should prompt a search for an underlying neurological problem, namely bilateral facial weakness. One of the more common causes of such a problem, particularly if it has gone unnoticed by the individual, is a form of muscular dystrophy called facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. This may be quite mild in some cases and may present only as some asymptomatic facial weakness and mild shoulder girdle muscle atrophy. It runs in families from generation to generation.
While there is no way of treating several of the causes of facial weakness, eyes could be held closed by pads, or even by surgery in extreme cases. I strongly recommend an evaluation by an ophthalmologist, and also by a neuromuscular specialist, the former being more urgent for the care of your eyes
2007-01-02 12:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by Rose Bridge 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once your eye doesnt register any light, it tells the brain that the eye is closed. When a person falls asleep their eyes are usually closed tight, but as time goes on the musce relaxes and the eye slowly begins to open.
2007-01-02 08:37:19 · answer #2 · answered by jimckinnon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mother does this but her pupils are rolled back so all you see are the whites (although it IS NOT like a scene from Poltergeist - they are just slits). My friend also sleeps with his eyes open - but to where (again) his eyelids are opened just as slits yet you CAN see his iris and pupils. He does this as a security measure - as a result of a happenstance early in his life on which I shan't elaborate but know it is real and can happen from muscular abnormalities (like my mother) or traumatizations from childhood (like with my friend).
2007-01-02 08:38:32 · answer #3 · answered by ConfedChick ! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know it's just how they sleep
2007-01-02 08:37:56 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ luving animals ♥ 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'd like to know also, both my son(8) and daughter(3mos) do it and it creeps me out.
2007-01-02 08:32:09 · answer #5 · answered by mom of 7 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey! I do that! i dont know why though, but one time i scared my sister when she was going to scare me! it was so cool! but, i dont know why, i got it from my dad, he does it too.
2007-01-02 08:42:43 · answer #6 · answered by Lydia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummmm ii guess thtz the way they want to sleep!!!
2007-01-02 08:31:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEIR NERVES OR MUSCLE OF EYE-LID!
2007-01-02 08:32:00 · answer #8 · answered by donia f 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Uh ,they usually call this death lol.
2007-01-02 08:30:21 · answer #9 · answered by Duane Allman 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't know, but it's creepy as hell.
2007-01-02 08:30:54 · answer #10 · answered by dragonkisses 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋