head jolts from mushrooms

anyone ever get head jolts from mushrooms ...
i never read any trip report about this in the vaults , blue-light , drug forum or here ...

it happens to me everytime . i think i had 4 trips in my life where coming down it didnt happen in bed ...

my first two and one wher ei waited like 19 hrs before sleeping ...

its almost like insomnia headjolts or anxiety cause neuron pops ..

its rly fucked up .. not quite a seizure, but im sure its not normal !

only mushrooms does it to me ...

not 2ci , 2ce, dmt , salvia , 4hodipt , 4homet , 4hodpt .. its rly wierd ...

I'm kind of relieved to read this, and yes, I know exactly what you mean. It's like a bolt of electricity suddenly fires in your brain. Not painful at all, but startling that's for sure. The good news is that it goes away when you stop. I've searched around and found no explanation for it, but I have a friend who experienced the same exact thing. At this point, I'd say it's a harmless side effect.

woah ! thanks man .. yeh no pain at all .. once it happened 8 times in a row ...
i do think it created my chronic anxiety though

One effect of getting off SSRI's is these brain jolts you speak of. I have experienced them myself, when I went cold turkey off 50mg paxil daily. This leads me to believe it is related to their serotonin action.

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Originally Posted by Mr.Writer

One effect of getting off SSRI's is these brain jolts you speak of. I have experienced them myself, when I went cold turkey off 50mg paxil daily. This leads me to believe it is related to their serotonin action.

that's exactly what i first thought as well

yeh . it always has felt like the "fission" of what ever bond was created...
i was more interested in seeing how many people had this happen to them..
thanks man ..

Been awhile since I've done any shrooms but I don't recall this... I certainly do recall the brain zaps from SNRI withdrawals (Cymbalta). Seems I would have remembered if shrooms did the same thing.

I wonder if it's more similar to a hypnic jerk.... You said it was happening while coming down and laying down trying to sleep, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

yeh .. though the first time ever when i was young it was walking down stairs ...

it rly dose feel like lighting pushing outwards from the centre of your head ..

whats a hypnic jerk dude ?

The startling part (for me) is that it's an internal sound phenomena (or at least that's how I perceived it). I don't think it's quite the same phenomenon as hypnic jerk, though it might be related - because I definitely associate it with falling asleep. I've experienced that jerking/startled awake due to the falling sensation - which has been my experience with hypnic jerk. This is very similar, except that it's not the experience of falling, but instead an electric (and startlingly loud) jolt sound and the painless, but disturbing feeling, as the OP described, of that jolt moving through your head.

Imagine you're wearing a non-padded, tight fitting helmet with a powerful vibrator attached to it and some one flips it on for an instant, and that's kind of the sensation I'm describing. The accompanying noise is like a sudden and loud electric buzz/arc. For me it happened in an instant, then it was over and it was as if nothing happened at all - no residual feeling or effects - aside from the fact that it scared the crap out of me, every time it happened and I was really worried for a time that it was some kind of early symptom of schizophrenia. So far (knock on wood) that has proven not be the case, and like I said, it (the head jolts) subsided.