mouth turned down when asleep?

[totallyconfused]

My mother looks so sad when asleep, her mouth is really turned downwards.Is this considered loss of facial expression?

Sometimes I think I see the real her when she doesn't know you are watching or when shes asleep.

 

[love.dad.but..]

Dad always in later stages had a drooping protruding bottom lip..it was explained to me that it takes a lot of conscious effort from our brains to keep our facial muscles working so in dementia it can't be maintained...made sense to me anyway!

 

[Rach1985]

My dad does the same, looks sad when asleep. Also sleeps so calmly it’s scary, I’ve thought he is dead more than once

 

[hillyjay]

Once in a while I notice my husband’s mouth is turned down, always on the left side. No other signs of anything are visible. It’s usually in the morning when I see this. Could that be connected with tiredness or a passing inability to control that one set of facial muscles?

@love.dad.but.. My FIL with dementia also always had a protruding lower lip when he was asleep.

 

[Dolly80]

My mother looks so sad when asleep, her mouth is really turned downwards.Is this considered loss of facial expression?

Sometimes I think I see the real her when she doesn't know you are watching or when shes asleep.

This happens to my nan now, I was quite shocked when I first noticed as her mouth was only turned downwards on her right side and it had never happened before. I was surprised to see this thread as I didn't know it was related to the dementia, I naively thought it was related to her not using her false teeth anymore but what everyone has said here makes much more sense.