Strange feeling just before falling asleep

Hi, for the past few months I've been feeling this strange feeling instead of the sliding into sleep feeling I usually have. It's not everytime I fall asleep but when I get it, it's impossible to fall asleep until the feeling leaves. The other night I spent an hour fighting the feeling off.

I can't describe this feeling well, not even to my wife. But it's sort of like a feeling of things feel like their too easy or too simple combined with a feeling of almost feeling sick but not quite. It's a very odd thing. So long as it's there, it's sort of a barrier to falling asleep. The other night it came just after I comforted my daughter back to sleep after she had a nightmare and at first it was only a mild feeling and I was happy because I could ignore it but then the feeling grew and grew until it was all I could think about. Not even getting out of bed to go to the loo helped.

I have ADD and take ritalin so maybe it's a strange side effect of that. I wish I could describe this feeling better, but does anyone maybe recognise this particular sleep barrier feeling?

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