Hi all, For many years, I’m having a very weird problem. Sometimes when I can’t fall asleep, (or can’t fall asleep again after having slept already), I’m experiencing a very frustrating state of my body, I’m still not able to describe it properly. Here’s an attempt… Best way to describe it, is a state of big discomfort laying still. I constantly have the extreme urge I really have to move my body. It’s an agitated, nervy, tingling feeling. I actually have the impression it’s radiating mainly down to ‘ending’ parts of my body (hands and feet) If I force myself not to move my body but lay still, I experience something I wouldn’t describe as “pain”, but still it hurts. I’m not even sure if it’s physical or mental discomfort. It’s something between being nervous/tired/thirsty/uncomfortable, having muscle 'pain', and yet it’s none of them… An extreme urge to move. When I force myself to stay still and try falling asleep, sometimes it’s that bad, that I have ‘bursts’ in which I suddenly spastically move my whole body for a second. Throughout the years I discovered it gets better when someone (eg my ex girlfriend) softly caresses me on the back. Now I’m alone, and I try to caress myself on the arm. It helps a bit. Are there people that recognize this in a way, and is there a “name” for this phenomenon? Is there a cure? Thank you so much to read my story! M