Answer: No, he is certainly not having a fit. This behavior is quite normal and occur during periods of deep sleep. As man, it is now recognized that there are periods of light sleep and of deep sleep, the latter accounting for around a quarter of the total sleeping time in the cat.
When a cat first goes to sleep, it is usually curled up into a ball and there is incomplete muscular relaxation. However, after ten to thirty minutes this initial phase of light sleep gives way to period of deep sleep in which the muscles are fully relaxed, and the animals now lies on its said. At this time, although the eyes are closed, there are bursts of rapid eye movements (REM sleep), together with more obvious movements of the limbs, paws, tail ears and whiskers.
In man dreaming occur during this type of sleep, which is believed to be a state in which the brain ‘programmed’ with information about recent events; the information is being transferred from a temporary memory store to the man banks of data. This would explain why they young kittens enjoys only deep ‘dreaming’ sleep for about the first month of the life. After that it then gradually develops the adult sleeping behavior.
In the cat each period of deep sleep lasts six or seven minutes, and in along session of sleeping there any be a number of such periods.
