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jonnyC wrote:
I find that when just dropping off to sleep, when very tired I get like jolts running through my body that will make me kick my leg, twitch an arm. It is like a shot of adrenaline is shot to my brain and it almost jump starts my body.
Ditto,i get them quite a lot and when all my sp and that first started it happend when i was really anxious around people which made me even worse,to much tension in the muscles or somthing i really dont know but i still get it when im out which makes me feel awfull.
I find that when just dropping off to sleep, when very tired I get like jolts running through my body that will make me kick my leg, twitch an arm. It is like a shot of adrenaline is shot to my brain and it almost jump starts my body.
I am not sure that I completely understand what you're saying. I get a lot of muscle twitches, tingles for weeks after an anxiety attack and/or brain jolt, but I never get muscle twitching/ tingles first and then a brain shock. Are you getting your muscle twitching first and then a brain shock (by brain shock i mean it feels like a current of electricity is passing through your brain)?
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Ditto,i get them quite a lot and when all my sp and that first started it happend when i was really anxious around people which made me even worse,to much tension in the muscles or somthing i really dont know but i still get it when im out which makes me feel awfull.
Sorry, but I don't know what sp stands for, could you explain?
Are you getting brains shocks first and then muscle twitching or the other way around? I know what you mean about feeling awful, I feel that for months after an anxiety attack and I hate the tingling/twitching in my feet and legs.
SP is refering to social phobia, which i belive basicly refers to SA- social anxiety. someone please correct me im wrong and the two are diffrent?
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I find that when just dropping off to sleep, when very tired I get like jolts running through my body that will make me kick my leg, twitch an arm. It is like a shot of adrenaline is shot to my brain and it almost jump starts my body.
i commonly, almost nightly that is, experiance something similar. Im not quiet sure what you mean by twitching an arm or leg, but alot of the time when im going to sleep after, oh 10 maybe 15 minutes sometimes, i start to drift into sleep i can sort of, "feel" my mind slipping away and whatever i was thinking about just evaporates from my mind. i dimmly realize i cant remember what i was thinking about, and sometimes instead of drifting into sleep my whole body jerks along with my brain. I would have to say it almost feels like my mind is being ripped from someplace, maybe sleep or a dream or... its hard to describe but i feel extreamly disorianted for a few seconds after, sometimes i have to rationaly think and work out where i am in my room what is around me in the dark and what direction im facing in my bed.
i rather like the refrence that its like a bolt of electricity, since all my muscles contract just like they would if you were shocked with electicity but i never thought of that comparison before. in an instant im wide awake and have to start trying to go to sleep all over again. i think this has alot to do with why i have such a hard time getting to sleep most nights.
back in highschool the few times i started to fall asleep in those really boring classes this would happen to me and i would suddenly just jerk my whole body, always thought it must have looked so werid and made me worried and nervus for the rest of the class.
i would very much be interested to know if this sounds similar to what you mean by twitching an arm or leg.
It sounds to me like you are experiencing a hypnagogic jerk. Read what these links have to say about H-jerk and see if it sounds like what's happening to you.
wow, i didnt know that, that does sound like thats what that is, yay me i fall into another 10% catagory
i realized when i posted it that i was not what your main topic was about, i just thought it sounded so very similar to what JonnyC and Danfalc had mentioned i wanted to understand what they were talking about a bit better, i guess it isnt really related but, thank you for the good information.
after looking at those and thinking back i realized i do on occasion have a strange sense that my bed has just vanished from under me right before this happens
No problem about being slightly off topic, we both learned something new, and I was glad I could help a little. I have had similar experiences (h-jerk) which I had read about a long time ago, the article said were supposed to be caused by falling asleep so fast, the body thinks something is wrong. Now that you know what it may be, you can research it and see if you can correct this problem, and then a good nights sleep.
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