Anyone experience excitement for no reason?

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Do you ever feel inexplicable excitement? Like for a few hours you get tired of the subjects you've already been obsessing about, but the energy is still there, and you don't know how to channel it? Like a feeling of being extremely motivated, but it's a very narrow motivation and you don't know what you're motivated to do?

EDIT: There tends to be some kind of physical/mental movement to cope with this excitement, but not just focusing on one thing; instead, switching between things rapidly without processing what they mean

do you have ADHD?

how often does this happen?

do you do drugs?

do you drink energy drinks?

I don't do drugs or energy drinks; this only happens maybe once every few weeks, when I randomly get bored with my normal obsessions and there's like a "trail-off" of focal energy and I don't know what to do with it. I don't know if I have ADHD; never been mentally evaluated by any doctor (though my family pediatrician suggested to my mother that I might be autistic when I was seven)

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I used to get extremely excited ( for no reason or when I saw something new/interesting for the first time ) when I was younger. I had this sudden burst of energy then. But of late , I am getting indifferent as I am aging. What can I say, enjoy this phase while it lasts. It will motivate you to do things you love. With growing indifference that comes to us in later years, this motivation will also be gone.
Although this motivation is not giving you any clear direction, you can still pick up something you like (such as cooking, gardening or cleaning, or even photography or writing ) to get started and see where it goes. I too had this restless/unfocussed kind of motivation but then, I channelized it with my sheer will force into something concrete back then.
Now, I do not have this motivation anymore. I do not get excited as much and even if I force myself to do something, since there is no motivation/excitement, I find something missing in my creative life.

Thanks

I think that when I was younger, this happened a lot- like I would just be sitting around relaxing and I would have this surge of adrenaline that just made me get up do something. Now I don't think I get it really, anymore but I remember that being a common thing when I was younger... hopefully this is what you were talking about?

Well maybe...I wasn't sitting around relaxing, it was more like I've been more manic than usual for the past few days (and I'm pretty much always extremely driven and need structure of some sort to prevent it from getting chaotic), and I was focusing that energy on drawing/painting/music practice/learning about chemistry, and suddenly last night I couldn't focus on anything because there was so much energy. It turned into a meltdown when my mother told me something that ticked me off and I have bruises on my head from hitting myself before falling asleep. I'm calm this morning, but still driven as always.
I guess an analogy would be driving faster and faster until the car spins out of control and rams into a tree; only the car never breaks.

I had a prof. that was dx with hypomania.
There is hypomania and mania, hypomania being the milder version of same.

Wikipedia~Hypomania (literally “under mania” or "less than mania") is a mood state characterized by persistent disinhibition and pervasive elevated (euphoric) or irritable mood but generally less severe than full mania. Characteristic behaviors are extremely energetic, talkative, and confident commonly exhibited with a flight of creative ideas. [1] While hypomanic behavior often generates productivity and excitement, it can become troublesome if the subject engages in risky or less than wise behaviors. [2]

The DSM-IV-TR defines a hypomanic episode as including, over the course of at least four days, elevated mood plus three of the following symptoms OR irritable mood plus four of the following symptoms:

pressured speech
inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
decreased need for sleep
flight of ideas or the subjective experience that thoughts are racing
easy distractibility and attention-deficit similar to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
increase in psychomotor agitation
involvement in pleasurable activities that may have a high potential for negative psycho-social or physical consequences

Does this describe you when you are in this state?

By the way my prof. was the most productive woman I have ever met. She was a Psychologist PhD. amongst other things. For her it was not negative, unless she had been over 3 days without sleep.

pressured speech No
inflated self-esteem or grandiosity No
decreased need for sleep No
flight of ideas or the subjective experience that thoughts are racing hmm...My thoughts didn't seem to be racing; I was agitated because I wanted to do SOMETHING but nothing interested me and I had a ton of energy (I was stimming to deal with it)
easy distractibility and attention-deficit similar to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Yes
increase in psychomotor agitation Definitely
involvement in pleasurable activities that may have a high potential for negative psycho-social or physical consequences No

I get this feeling still, and I am 39. It usually happens when I have had a positive experience with my creative obsession (music.) When things have gone really well - I had a good performance or practice or made a breakthrough on writing a piece, I get a rush. This rush can last for a few hours.

I mainly want to talk about it (and drive my family a little nuts when it happens.) I feel like I had to keep talking about it until I get it out of my system. If I didn't have someone to talk to about it, I don't know how I would deal with it since I haven't ever been in that position. (When I was younger, I would talk my parents' ears off.)

I think it falls under executive functioning issues, specifically having to do with emotional regulation. I have problems in this area, as I also have problems with disappointment and get in a very deep funk when I am feeling that a relationship is "unstable."

Both the rush and the crush are physical feelings for me.

I also have problems with still wanting to eat (the physical act of chewing) long after I am full. I am more aware of it than I used to be and try really hard not to give into it. Unfortunately, chewing gum hurts my jaws, so that's not an easy solution...

So, I understand these long-lasting "after-effects."