Myth busting: it’s about how twitching eyelids are an omen – not
The twitching can happen out of nowhere and it can feel like your eyelid is getting electrocuted. And that’s actually not far from the truth.
Your eyelid “jumps” because of the intermittent bursts of electrical activity in the nerves that control your eyelid muscles, according to Dr Loo Jing Liang, the head and senior consultant with the Singapore National Eye Centre’s Neuro-Ophthalmology Department. That’s the more scientific explanation for these seemingly random bursts of electrical activity – and makes more sense than the superstitious belief that twitching is a sign that someone is thinking of you.
Some even ascribe different meanings to the timing of the twitch and which eyelid twitches. For instance, some believe that a left-eye twitch after 7pm could mean an impending argument. But if it happens in the right eye, you’re in for some unexpected gains.
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