Palpitations after worrisome thoughts.

I am not sure on how to formulate this but at time, even while sleeping I feel my heart beating through my chest for either no specific reasons or some worrisome thoughts. it goes on for a while and is quite unpleasant..
HELP!

[scaredjo]

hiya loads of people have these symptoms with anxiety, heart related things are my speciality!! have you been checked by a doctor?

[cj29]

Many of us here experience health anxiety.  Mine is centered around my heart like yours.  I actually feel every beat and notice every little 'hiccup' in my chest.  Before, I never gave a second thought to this, but when I experienced my first panic attack I believed I was actually having a heart attack.  I went and got checked out by my doctors and everything checked out fine.

In my experience, once I went through this, I became VERY aware of every little sensation in my body in areas concerning my heart.  I notice my pulse throughout my body, I can feel my self 'rock' to the beat of my heart when I lay down, etc.  But it is actually normal; I just did not give it a second thought when I did not worry about it.  Quite often we become oversensitized to our sensations and interpret them catastrophically when it is actually a 'normal' sensation.  

As scaredjo says, get checked out by your doctor and then confront this anxiety head on why these worrisome thoughts are bothering you by going to talk to a therapist.  You will be amazed how much you can learn about this and the various ways to thrive with what you are going through.  Please keep us posted!