Re: electric/shock sensation while falling asleep?
Hey, lately I've been getting the same sensation as described in this thread. It first happened about a month ago during an LSD trip and it freaked me out because I had originally thought it was due to the ingestion of the drug. But reading through this thread, it seems as though other factors play a bigger role in producing this sensation. Since it first happened to me, I've abstained from using any hard drugs, but it hasn't stopped this sensation (which ALWAYS occurs just before I drift off to sleep). For me, the sensation is best described as an electric shock which seems to start at my right temple and runs right through my body. I've gotten used to the feeling as it's been happening most nights since it first began, but I can say that it isn't very pleasant. Almost every time it will bring me right out of my sleep to the point where I'm wide awake again. For those that find it hard to imagine the feeling, if you've ever had the sensation of jerking out of your sleep, it is quite similar. The only difference between jerking in your dreams and this is that that this electric sensation always occurs directly BEFORE you enter your sleep and not DURING it, and it also sends what seems like an electrical current through your body as you jerk wide awake. This electrical sensation is very intense but it only lasts a moment.
Looking through this thread, it seems as though factors such as dehydration and stress are a bigger cause of this sensation than what I had originally thought (I drink very little fluids during the day, and as of the last couple of years, I've been under a lot of stress due to a couple of different reasons). Also while scanning the replies to this thread, I saw someone mention astral projection/lucid dreaming. It is possible that this electrical sensation occurs every night to us, but that most of us do not feel it happening. OBE's (Out-of-body experiences/Lucid dreaming/Astral projection) is the same as dreaming, and before someone enters a conscious OBE/dream they will always get a very intense sensation (just like this electrical sensation) before entering that "dream world," similar to how we get this electrical sensation directly before we enter our own sleep/dream. So maybe that's all we're feeling??
Re: electric/shock sensation while falling asleep?
I got the electric shock sensation problem as well (only one night a few times, yesterday so far), and it comes for me with the full package - I felt it in my head and chest, before falling asleep, but while I was still awake, and at the same time I got a little hallucination - I heard a little girl's voice call repeatedly "daddy"... It was so realistic I thought at first my neighbor's little daughter was screaming after a nightmare or something. So it really shocked me when I realized it's coming from within my head (I have no children which further puzzled me). As far as medicine goes, I am the "no chems, only natural salves" kind of guy so I have never taken any relevant medication. I drink 3 liters of water a day, and I don't drink any electrolyte heavy drinks, so I doubt it is a matter of dehydration or electrolyte imbalance. The only issue I have is that I am constantly a little sleep deprived, from a very early age I sleep 6-7 hours a day.
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Originally Posted by matjosh
i THINK i was albe to evoke this feeling at will.
Same here - as I got agitated about what had happened, I felt it almost starting again, and when I forced myself to stop thinking of it I fell asleep normally. This, coupled with the hallucination makes me think this has to be on psychological grounds, but then again I am no physician, and judging from all your posts there isn't much point to visit one.
