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Hi guys, I'm new to the site but glad I found somewhere to share my symptoms.

I'm getting a sort of electrical shock when trying to fall asleep. This electrical shock seems to be described on other sites as 'jumps' or 'zaps' or 'surges of energy'. It happens not when I'm sleeping but the moment I am about to fall asleep. Its like a sort of butterflies feeling in the stomach and then a rush/surge of energy to the brain which gives you a 'jump' and electrical feeling in the head and sometimes upper body. The more extreme they are sometimes produce a twitch in maybe the arm or leg. Its not painful but I guess is quite scary when it happens. These can happen numerous times a night.

Many friends/family I have spoken to say this is normal and they are familiar with the symptoms (I understand what they mean as it can be quite similar to when you suddenly wake from a bad dream) but mine seem to be a lot more often and extreme. I know my symptoms don't seem to be normal.

I've been having these for about 5-6 weeks now (some nights are worse than others) but generally its been more or less every night. This has turned into a vicious cycle because when you actually close your eyes at night to go to sleep you are actually waiting for the 'shock' to happen instead of trying to sleep. Obviously the less sleep you have, the less functional you are the next day and so on and so on. You then get sleep deprived which I believe also may trigger this.

The only other thing I can add to my symptoms is sometimes during the day I get a spaced out/empty/dizzy/cloudy feeling in the head (hard to explain). Sometimes this can turn into a sort of brain/head sensation where you feel you need to kind of 'shake it off'. Again, its hard to explain, something like if you have restless feet and you need to kick out of it but its in the head so you need to give yourself a shake to snap out of it.

I have read quite a bit about anxiety/stress and these symptoms may fall into this category but the issue I have with this, is that I have nothing to be anxious/stressful about! All is OK with job, money, house, relationship etc so I'm not sure how this all started. Could I be anxious about this illness? Again, a vicious cycle?

About me - I'm a fit and healthy 35 year old guy. I actually exercise quite a lot (go to gym/swim 4 times a week and have run numerous marathons over the past year). Although this fitness regime has stopped since I have started having these symptoms as I am feeling quite weak/tired due to not getting much sleep due to it. I have no major prior illnesses and I am not on any medication. I don't want to get in the habit of taking sleep medication.

I have been to the hospital and spent the night where they performed numerous blood tests/Heart ECG/X Rays/Urine and all came back OK. The only issue I had was slightly high blood pressure (but not high enough to be put on any medication). I have also been for an MRI scan and EEG epilepsy test. I will find the results with these in about 5 weeks time.

Anyway, that's my symptoms and hopefully someone might feel at ease that they are going through something similar.

Reading similar posts on the internet I don't think anyone has come to the conclusion on what in fact is causing these problems, even though a lot of the people actually been for tests and seen doctors. Has anyone experienced these issues?

Thanks guys, feel free to get in touch smile

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  • kyra38642
    kyra38642 GD10

    Posted

    Hi!!! I have pretty much the same experience and I wanted to know if you would describe the head feeling as like fading away from lack of blood or oxygen in the brain while feeling your pulse in your head? For me I don't have an accurate depiction of space, time, or reality when the episode occurs. For example, I can't see images in my head for more than a second before they become distorted. The feeling of the image stretches and moves until I can't sense it anymore. When I close my eyes, it's not black but it's more of nothingness. I feel tingly and it's paired with muscle spasms in my leg. This has been going on for years but I don't experience it often. I've always wondered if it's a condition and if someone else experiences this mind blowing sensation. I look forward to your response!

    • desmond74976
      desmond74976 kyra38642

      Posted

      Hi kyra .yea I get same symptoms. Doc said it's due to stress .the only thing I'm stressed at is I can't sleep. So doc put me on amtrypline to help me relax.but I still get these zaps sometimes I can handle them .other times I'm scared to shut my eyes

  • carolyn40231
    carolyn40231 GD10

    Posted

    Wow... i have had this for 8 years.  sometimes it gets quite. but i have it 24/7.  I was on antidepressants for 12 years and about 8 years ago i stopped.  It was prozac and elavil.  So without going to the dr.  I kind of thought it was from that.  because i didn't have it before.  but I don't think it's harmful...just sometimes for me it gets really loud, especially if i haven't slept well for a few days.  I also have a sound that sounds like a sudden clap. and it does kind of make me feel a little light headed at times but i never thought the 2 were connected, now I know. 

    • desmond74976
      desmond74976 carolyn40231

      Posted

      8 years bless you. Don't know how you coped.I told my neuroglist that I want to come off amtrypline. She agreed that I can try some oxygen at home to see how I get on .hope you getting better soon

  • Sifah
    Sifah GD10

    Posted

    Thanks so much... I was having having the same, after reading this thread now i m feeling so comfortable.. i had just read out the exact words i used to describe this, which was so much disturbing until i found there are ppl like me, i was realy clouded and wordless and so much worried i had found same words "ringing noise in the brain" this was the same words first i described the experience to my own self which i m experiencing when i m falling into sleep, sometimes throwing-out my hands and head while hearing a bell ringing like-on a electric short.

    goodluck to all.. Thanks for share

  • rachel47166
    rachel47166 GD10

    Posted

    my neighbors are doing this to me with their cell phones. 2 people from section 8 across the street are using their cell phones to do this. and a few others from the complex are doing this with their cell phones. this single microwave wave can zap a heating element on a back massager, burn out the heating element on a microwave itself. i will pray for you. pray for me. we are being electronically harrassed. an apartment diagonally from me on a different level can do it. a person can do it from standing in the street towards a target. they zap me continuously and ruin my sleep. the wave though in the body? that is from a gps in the steering wheel of you car triangulating with the coordinates of your very house or abode, so that no where you are in the house, the radiation senses your heartbeat and just when you are about to fall asleep, your body waves awake. and that is NOT cell phone. that is gps in the steering wheel. an FBI agent has to remove the gps in the steering wheel or the dealerships. but, the dealerships are lame about even promising to get the gps implanted on the left side of the steering wheel box behind the wheel. electronic harrassmen, bullying, and stalking are terrible. no one wants to think it's happening to them, but i can assure you that the things you speak of is a single stalker, or multiple gang stalkers, who are not going to get caught by the police. the police are lame when it comes to putting people into federal prison who belong there concerning electronic harrassment. and the landlady? forget it! she won't believe it either. it's all lame harrassment designed to slow down an excellent person.

    • rachel47166
      rachel47166

      Posted

      well, the body waving awake? that could be cell phone. they might sense heartbeat by cellular triangulation again through an app and control your falling asleep so that it cannot happen. it's a way of controlling and harrassing someone to practically control where and when they sleep. a lot of people are wicked and have controlling spirits. it's satanic and it's wrong. good people don't do things like this. at all. it doesn't even cross our minds. but, wicked people? wicked people have no problem being as sociopathic as they desire. it's something God will judge thoroughly. when the time is right, God will descend with a shout from His Throne and come down here and judge all of the wicked and put the wicked in the place that they should go and take the righteous to the place of His Eternal Love and Glory. Hold fast and do not sin with your mouth. Don't give Satan any foothold in your life. If Christ died between 2 thieves and did not curse at His murderers, we can endure for the sake of Christ. Endure to the end.

       

  • Bluesky825
    Bluesky825 GD10

    Posted

    im having this same problem. is it normal.? can i get well soon?
  • emma92137
    emma92137 GD10

    Posted

    Hi did you ever find a solution to this? I'm going through the same and really want iT to stop!! smile thanks for any help!

    • desmond74976
      desmond74976 emma92137

      Posted

      Hi I just try to relax before I go to bed now or read a little ifound that this heips. I've been on amtrypline had all test blood and mri scans all good. So it's nothing to worry about that for sure. Hope you well soon have a nice xmas

    • emma92137
      emma92137 desmond74976

      Posted

      Thanks I'm glad to hear you have improved. Have a lovely Christmas.

  • adrian_03530
    adrian_03530 GD10

    Posted

    Hi ... im so glad i found this page and found that im not the only one on earth feeling this ... I stared feeling the exact effects you are all mentioining some few weeks ago...i know ecxatly how you all feel !!  its annoying and scary and creepy at the same time..  its hard to explain..  but all of you can understand.. everythime its time to sleep you just think about it.. im sure i wasnt like this before .. this is somthing new ... i used to like sleeping a lot .. my favourite part of the day ... now im avoid sleeping as much as i can ..

     No one has an explanation to this ... is this somthing new then ?? 

    I hope it gets better for me and all of you.

    Hope to find a good explanation soon .

    Thanks

    • eddarbonne
      eddarbonne adrian_03530

      Posted

      At first I thought it could be related to my diabetes. It seemed to always be there. It mattered not whether my blood sugars were high or low.
  • ucronio
    ucronio GD10

    Posted

    I have had the sensation described on this thread when sleeping for about 8 years (now I'm 28) it comes and goes with no apparent reason, there are periods of time when I have it more frequently few times per week) and sometimes I don't have it for several months. I haven't been able to find a common factor that triggers this.

    Appart from what you all have shared, the electric sensation on chest and/or brain, I would also add that I feel this starting progresively and going in crescendo until I move, the feeling vanishes when you move, but as you start dripping off again the feeling will come back some of the times.

    In addition to this, this sensation often comes to me with some kind of auditory or visual hallucinations (hypnagogic, hypnopompic hallucinations)

    It also leaves me a weird feeling the following day on my brain and body.

    Other things that might or might not be related. As I said I've been having this for, probably around 8 years with no apparent common factor. It has happened to me when drinking the night before, with no drinking for weeks, with/without caffeine intake, exercise or not and in/out depression [I haven't ever taken any drugs to treat it], I also have had different kinds of insomnia over the years.

    I have really bad memory (it might not be related, but before this started to happen it used to be better than the average and now is sometimes worrying and I'm only 28 years old) 

    I don't know if it's heart related (I had some tests taken to find out what was this, I had a sinus bradycardia on my EC, and some kind of supraventricular arrhythmya on a holter during the night, nothing serious according to the doctor, and I don't know if they are related in anyway with this) if it's brain related (I had a EEG, to see if it was some kind of epilepsy, it didn't looked like that) or respiratory related, maybe some kind of sleep apnea...

    It's good to see that I'm not the only one with these symptoms. Please, if any of you get a diagnosis of what we have, come back here and let us know!

  • steve76641
    steve76641 GD10

    Posted

    Hello, have your conditions resolved or changed? One thing that comes to my mind could be a lack of some dietary vitamin or mineral or too much of one making you more hyper sensitive to your circumstances? How about sleep arraignments or anything else out of the norm.
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