Eli5, What is that good tingly feeling you get right before falling asleep?

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The only way I can describe it is like a rush of something (like adrenaline) but a more relaxing, warm feeling rather than the spiking, energetic feeling of adrenaline.

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As your body approaches sleep, your heart rate and blood pressure lower, muscles relax, and your brain chemicals change – an especially important change is that there’s more GABA, a neurotransmitter associated with relaxation. So your comparison to an adrenaline rush is very apt, you’re experiencing an increase in a neurotransmitter that does the opposite of what adrenaline does. 🙂

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As your body approaches sleep, your heart rate and blood pressure lower, muscles relax, and your brain chemicals change – an especially important change is that there’s more GABA, a neurotransmitter associated with relaxation. So your comparison to an adrenaline rush is very apt, you’re experiencing an increase in a neurotransmitter that does the opposite of what adrenaline does. 🙂

Anonymous 0 Comments

As your body approaches sleep, your heart rate and blood pressure lower, muscles relax, and your brain chemicals change – an especially important change is that there’s more GABA, a neurotransmitter associated with relaxation. So your comparison to an adrenaline rush is very apt, you’re experiencing an increase in a neurotransmitter that does the opposite of what adrenaline does. 🙂