Adrenaline surges

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I know this can be a symptom of chronic anxiety and I have had it in the past for months at a time but just wondered if anyone on here gets it. As I am falling asleep I get a feeling like an electric shock in my brain - bit like when you go over top of a roller coaster. it is only a second but I get heart pounding in my ears because of the shock. Some nights it keeps me awake all night unless I take a sleeping pill which I can only have occasionally.
I donot get the lirab movements like you do with hypnic jerks its purely an internal sensation.
 
Not sure it's the same thing you are describing, but this is what happens to me. Just as I'm drifting to sleep, I get a sensation in my head, like a jolt to the brain or something. It seems as though I'm hearing some kind of noise as it is happening, almost like my brain actually jerked. Happened this morning after tried to fall back asleep after only 4 hrs sleep. I kept laying there hoping it would pass, but no, EVERYTIME i started to drift, BANG, that jolt again. I too have anxiety, but have recently come off an antidepressant(ssri)-so I was thinking it might be related. I'm going for a sleep study soon to see if they can get to the bottom of this. Not sure its the same as what you have, but all in all, data suggests its anxiety -related, sleep deprivation related, and not harmful or dangerous. But it's frustrating as hell isn't it? Especially when it goes on for hours..days..forcing you to resort to sleeping meRAB. For me, it is accompanied by a noise in my head, startle response, followed by racing heart.
 
This symptom may be the beginning of (but stopped before it starts) a Sleep Paralysis event. Your description roughly matches what mine used to be like. But think more closely...is the electric jolt only in your head, or does it include some of your body? This could suggest cervical neck problems - a vertebrae touching the spinal cord slightly. As far as the jolt - does it happen only when going to sleep (or attempting)? I'd look over on the Sleep Disorders forum. Good luck.
 
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