Electric/Energy surge to brain when trying to fall asleep.

Hi all! I hope as many as possible take the time to read this as it really might help you! After sufforing from this for 1,5 years I start to come to the conclusion that this is due to adrenalin, noradrenalin and cortisol!

And if you don’t want to read everything just check the only thing that has worked for me and many others:  TRE=  (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises). There are at least 6-8 different moves. But one of them is the essential ( the shaking move, but for that you need to fatigue your certain muscles which is done with the other moves), try it and see what it does for you. And please if you feel like it, spread the word! Many might think, there is now way i could cure something that happens in my brain with some stupid, funny looking excercise, well.. this excercise has a lot to do with how to balance you adrenalins, noradrenalins and cortisol, so yes it has an effect. This excerice is learned from nature, from how animals release stress.

I would have so much to cover, because as many of you, I saw all sorts of doctors, and experts, took all sorts of bloodtests, sleep tests, and brain/neck MRI:s without getting any help or even any understanding of what it’s all about. Nobody had a clue! However finding this blog was wonderful, because finally I have some folks to relate to. My love and compassion goes out to all of you as I know how frustrating this can be! 

As many of you have written, the weird thing about this is that, for whatever reason those nights that you sleep, you really don’t seem to do anything differently during the day vs. those days which were followed by terrible nights. So you really don’t know what was it, that made the change. You basically ate the same vitamins and supplements, were trying to be as healthy as possible and followed the same day rhythm, but still 2 totally different nights. Wouldn’t this indicate that these symptoms are NOT simply related to nourishment and day rhythm?

I also read that many who suffer from this, suffer because they have stopped taking some depression medicines. In these cases the symptoms are related to the fact that there is an imbalance of serotonin and noradrenalin or perhaps their transmitters. Well isn’t that interesting. Why? Well you can support serotonin synthesis with vitamin D and omega3 both of which I took for a long time with no result (which led me to think it can’t be a lack of serotonin). But noradrenalin together with adrenalin (and of course cortisol) are not nearly as easy to control, even though you can of course try, I for sure did with all sorts of different supplements, none of which seemed to work, (as examples ashwaganda, ginseng, lacrits root etc..). And by the way many of us who carry these symptoms have not taken any depression medicins. Anyway, as the symptoms are so similar to those who have, and and said there are “chemicals” in the body that we cannot regulate too easily (especially unders continues stress) I started to suspect that this must have something to do with adrenalins, noradrenalins and cortisol. So I started to check on all sorts of ways (something else then supplements) that could help in balancing these chemicals. Eventually I found a technique called TRE, Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises. I did this yesterday and boy did it make a difference. I will absolutely continue doing this everyday!

I really don’t have any faith in doctors at the moment, because I really don’t think they appreciate the urgency of our situation. By saying “I don’t think its anything dangerous, don’t worry..” they really don’t understand that being without any sleep for days in a row is not something to undermine.

Hope you all the best! Really hope you give TRE a try!

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Hi guys, after suffering from this for a few years, and after trying everything, the symptoms only seemed to get worse. Then I suddenly by accident discovered something that gave me a clue AND HOPE on what this might be all about. After one more night of no sleep, I was dead exhausted. I went back to bed just because there was nothing else I could do. I put on some youtube radio talk show on the background just to distract my mind from the hell I was going through. Of course, I could not pay too much attention to the show as I was dead tired, and my brain was still trying to fall asleep BUT this time, as these zaps started to occur, I was in a totally different state mind. I was calm, there was “space” between me and the zaps. The zaps did not bother me, in fact as they came in this state of mind, they actually felt quite relaxing. Relaxing to the extent that after I had got them for some 15 minutes or so, I almost felt as if I had actually slept a whole night.

I have been listening to all sorts of relaxing music as I try to fall asleep, but it hasn’t helped, and even those times that it has, the relaxing sensation was nothing even close compared to what I experienced when I had this youtube talk show on. This is what led me to a hint of what might be causing all this.

Let’s think about our conscious and unconscious minds, anxiety and falling asleep phase. As we begin to fall asleep our consciousness is normally (obs normally) “as a whole” moving from the conscious to the unconscious mind. Just to demonstrate my point further below, lets imagine that the unconscious mind is located as an open bucket within the conscious mind. Furthermore, lets imagine, that in order for your consciousness to move to the unconscious mind, you need to start the unconscious mind, in a similar way you start the engine before you start driving. And now, lets think about anxiety. Again, think about it, just to demonstrate my point, as poisonous liquid that can only be stored in the unconscious mind when you are sleeping. Whereas the conscious mind cannot deal with anxiety if its turned off, ie if its sleeping. For us suffering from this symptom, TOO MUCH anxiety in the unconscious mind would in this falling asleep phase (“starting your engine”-phase) leak out from the unconscious mind to the conscious at the point of “starting” the unconscious mind. The bucket of the unconscious mind is quite simply too full of anxiety so some of it is leaking to the conscious mind when you’re just about to drift away and ZAPP!! Anxiety is poured to a sleeping conscious mind which can’t handle it while asleep.

Now, lets get back to why the youtube talk show probably helped me to cope/experience these zaps in a totally different way. Perhaps you already guessed it. Some of my consciousness was still in the conscious mind because it was still listening to something they said (talk vs. music= talk gives the conscious mind more to grasp, that’s why its easier to sustain some parts of your consciousness in the conscious mind). So simultaneously as some of my anxiety spilled out from the unconscious to conscious mind, I was aware enough to experience the anxiety on a conscious level. This seems to make all the difference. To be honest it almost felt like some beautiful hypnotherapy at its best. I could deal with anxiety on a very physical level.

So basically what I suggest is not necessarily to put on a youtube show, but to listen to some of these

Relaxation Sleep Hypnosis, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSk95v3wLDw[/b]

but there are many, with different voices styles etc. Try one which feels good for you.  My technique is not to even concentrate too intensively on what they are saying, but just relaxing. Letting yourself fall asleep whenever if you feel like it.

Lots of love