The present application discloses a discontinuous reception method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device detecting a downlink control channel sent by a network device, wherein the downlink control channel carries at least one discontinuous reception (DRX) information of at least one terminal device, and the DRX information of each terminal device of the at least one terminal device is used to indicate that each terminal device wakes up or sleeps during an on-duration of a DRX cycle; the terminal device determining the DRX information of the terminal device from the at least one DRX information; and the terminal device determining, according to the DRX information of the terminal device, whether the terminal wakes up during the on-duration or sleeps during the on-duration.