Why do we turn while we sleep?

Tutul, I have a tendency to have a hard time sleeping. Mine is for feminine reasons. Sorry...I won't get any more specific than that since we don't know one another and I am sure you don't really care. LOL! As for you, do you eat too late? And by too late, that could mean anything past 7 pm your time. I also find that I have a hard time sleeping if I eat past 7 or 8 pm. You have to allow your food to metabolize and digest long in advance of going to bed or it can effect your sleep. As for why we toss and turn, if we don't we may experience our extremities falling to sleep. Our leg, arm, hand, fingers, foot or toes could go numb if we don't move a little at night and get our circulation flowing a little bit again. The difference is, most times we won't notice if we shift positions at night. We notice if our bodies are already having a hard time staying asleep. Make sure, if you drink any caffeine, you don't drink it past 3 pm your time. Don't eat too late. Try not to do anything too stimulating before you go to bed. For example, don't exercise or play video games. Try reading in dim light. Lie down, dim the lights and curl up with a good book. Experts will say you shouldn't watch TV for about a half an hour to an hour before your bedtime. It can keep your brain stimulated and make it harder for you to fall asleep and even hard to stay asleep. Don't do anything on your computer either. Good luck! I hope you get it worked out.

Hmmmm... So nice of you to notice it tutul... Perhaps you just had a stressful time at work and just wanted a good night sleep and wake up the next thing in the morning relaxed and satisfied. Actually the concept of repositioning is to allow the body from avoiding bed sores and in order for an individual to have a more comfortable position during the span of sleeping... But in your case, your too sensitive to too much movement definitely the reason why you waked up during a minute movements. So the best thing you can do is take a warm bath, use appropriate pillows for support, a good tooth brush and perhaps making self calm and relaxed to allow continuous span of sleeping... Or if that still doesn't work, better go for some medications that might actually allow you to be calm and relax or even better if you go for sleeping pills... but just do it as a last resort.. doing such is not good for one's usual pattern...

Herro tutul0045 Thank you such a fantastic question. I turn a lot, sometimes I'm awake and sometimes I'm asleep. I learned some of the possible reasons and are very appreciative of all the people who gave us ideas. Prosperous mylotting

Hi, tutul0045. If I turn in my sleep it may be because I just so happened to woke up. I am usually uncomfortable. I will position my body onto the bed and pillow so that I can feel comfortable while sleeping. Thid is when I will turn into my sleep.

Hello, Tutul. I understand what you said. Sometimes, we do cann't fall asleep while we turn over and over again due to heavy work at daily time or some other pressure. However, I think it is normal to turn and change our position to keep our body comfortable while we sleep, and most of the time we can keep on sound sleep after turn around our body. Have nice time and happy mylotting.

I think that we turn to relax the part of body that straiten because of continue sleeping to certain posture. It's needed. Yes, I felt the same way, I just can't have sound sleep because thoughts keep roaring in my mind, sometimes I could not get sleepy till 4 am, but sometimes there's sound sleep. When I got sound sleep, I feel really fresh next day.

We turn during sleep for a simple reason: to allow blood flow to parts of our body that that have been constricted during our sleep. Just like sitting, if you tend to sit too long your but will definitely ache so to allow blood flow you must stand-up.

There are a number of reasons why we toss and turn when we are asleep. However, I think the most simple reason is that we are trying to find the most comfortable position when we attempt to sleep. There are just some angles that might be comfortable in certain circumstances. However, there are times where we shift to gain some level of comfort. This is natural I think. I do not really think it is a problem. Our body might be sleeping but our mind is working. That is why we have dreams and nightmares. So the fact that we shift in our sleep, is because of subconscious signals being sent to our mind. So its not entirely uncommon and I doubt there is all that much of a problem. It is about gaining the most comfortable position so we can sleep.

Friend tutul0045, according to me there are two reasons, one is you may did starainful of work because of that reason when you turn you will wake up and another is if you sleep also your blood won't sleep, what i mean to say is blood always flowing through out your body and if you are sleeping in same position for a long time then obviously blood won't reach your part in which side you put pressure so for that reason you have to turn other side while sleeping. I have faced same problem, while sleeping if i turn then i was waking up so that means on that time i was working tooo hard and it was very stressful job for me. But now i am working in different and if i turn while sleeping then i won't wake up. Happy mylotting friend.

Friend tutul0045, according to me there are two reasons, one is you may did starainful of work because of that reason when you turn you will wake up and another is if you sleep also your blood won't sleep, what i mean to say is blood always flowing through out your body and if you are sleeping in same position for a long time then obviously blood won't reach your part in which side you put pressure so for that reason you have to turn other side while sleeping. I have faced same problem, while sleeping if i turn then i was waking up so that means on that time i was working tooo hard and it was very stressful job for me. But now i am working in different and if i turn while sleeping then i won't wake up. Happy mylotting friend.

As we know there are still part of our brain cells keep working when we are sleeping so we have senses even in deep sleep. I guess that these brain cells let us turn another side so both of our side can have a rest. But there may be something wrong with your health if you wake up every time when you turn. Usually we can keep sleeping when turn.