Eyebrow twitching
Eyebrow twitching lands on the spot that marks questions on your face: in sign language, brows lift for yes-or-no questions and draw together for who and why. It may point to a question you have not asked.
This page only describes folk beliefs. If the sensation keeps coming back or worries you, please see a doctor.
What it may mean
In American Sign Language, eyebrows are part of the grammar. They mark questions: raised for a yes-or-no question, drawn together for who, what, where and why. Hearing speakers often do something similar without being taught, lifting their brows on a question. So a twitch just above the eye lands on the face's question mark. Old superstition read it as news about other people; an encyclopedia of 1903 said an itching right brow signaled kind words from friends, and an itching left one, ill words behind your back. A more useful reading is about the questions you have been carrying without asking: the one for a parent, the one for a boss about money, the one you keep almost asking a friend. Many of them are shorter out loud than they are in your head.
Depending on how you saw it
Right eyebrow twitching
Daniels and Stevans recorded a hope for the jobless: if you are out of work, short of money and your right eyebrow quivers, money will come to you or you will find it. The old line was written for people waiting on news. If you are waiting on money, what is one question about it you could ask someone directly?
Left eyebrow twitching
The same book made the left brow the gloomy one: an itch there foretold unpleasant news, or someone speaking ill of you behind your back. Guessing at what others think often runs darker than the truth. Whose opinion of you would you rather ask about than guess at?
While someone else is speaking
A brow that jumps while someone else holds the floor may feel like your own question trying to get out. Meetings and polite dinners are full of questions nobody voices. What question did you swallow in your last big conversation?
Why it happens in nature
Small muscles in the forehead and around the eyes move the brows many times a minute during conversation, largely unnoticed. A brief flicker in one of them can come and go on its own.
To reflect on
Which question have you been carrying for weeks without asking it out loud?