Sleeping With Their Eyes Open?

[lavishsqualor]

Do your cats ever sleep with their eyes open? Is this indicative of a dangerous health condition? Atticus, my male two year old tabby has done it his entire life.

I'm just curious.

 

[Kieka]

Rocket does this sometimes. She was feral and has more survival habits then the boys do. Everything I've ever read on the subject says it is not indicitive of a problem. Rockets been doing it for three years now and her annual vet exam has always come back clean. I even did a full blood work up and x-rays when she was a kitten since all her litter mates died within a week off each other. Nothing showed up outside the norm.

 

[lavishsqualor]

Thank you for the input, Kieka! I appreciate it. I need to snap a photo of Atticus doing this. He looks awful!

 

[Caspers Human]

Cats often aren't fully asleep, even when we think they are.

They sometimes doze in and out of "twilight sleep." Sort of the way a human does when they start to wake up in the morning.

Kinda' conscious... Kinda' asleep.

 

[dustydiamond1]

Gypsy does this! I was wondering if that really was what she was doing. She can be looking at me with her eyes open but gives me her 'you startled me, Merow' when I touch her.

 

[kissthisangel]

Charlie does this all the time and it really freaks me out. He will be fast asleep and his eyes are glassed over I have to look at his chest / stomach to see if he is breathing. It doesn't matter how many times I literally have to check every time.