Feeling your eyes “throb”, “jump”, or suddenly tremble is a fairly common experience, but it can also be disconcerting.
Many people believe it is something serious, when in most cases it has a simple and benign explanation.
This phenomenon is medically known as palpebral myokymia, and although it is usually harmless, it can also reveal important signs about your health and lifestyle.
What are eye twitches?
The so-called “palpitations” in the eye are not actually heartbeats, but involuntary spasms of the eyelid muscle, usually the lower eyelid.
