jolted

Try opening up a disposable camera and getting jolted by a shock from the flash's capacitor.

The hint could have kinda slapped my brain and jolted the more concise answer outta me.

That always jolted me awake for a good 15-30 mins, though your mileage may vary.

It jolted me back and made a sound like a fire cracker going off.

I know people who are light sleepers and get jolted awake in the night because of noise.

Just knowing that you can be sitting there perfectly calm, then suddenly jolted into a panic attack is a daunting thing to deal with.

One common variation is that the character themselves are jolted by the rapidity of the cut, adding a layer of meta-winkingness to the trope.

Each button advanced the time by only one hour or one minute, and you could have only one alarm, and it jolted you awake.

I am jolted, nearly shocked, that in 2026 you have to maintain some Flash-based websites.

The car wasn't aimed at him, it was slowly turning away, it didn't hit or touch him, his hand held phone jolted as he fired.

Every few months, almost immediately after falling asleep, I will just be jolted awake.

We spend 4 valuable years marching to and from classrooms, sitting all day in a daze just to be momentarily jolted awake by an obnoxious bell.

"According to Reuters newswires, the strike had "jolted" the world's gold markets, causing the price of gold to drop by US$2 per ounce last Friday." Ah, right.

When Nolan pointed his camera at the ocean while the narrator intoned about "the shores of our subconscious" it jolted me to attention as water is a common symbol for the subconscious in a great deal of English literature and film, and Nolan uses it in this very conventional way throughout Inception.