Physical adrenaline rush when partaking in special interests

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Does anyone experience the physical sensations associated with adrenaline rush when special interesting? Clammy, shaky, that sort of thing. Like an anxiety attack but happy.
I occassionally do when I'm engaging in a very direct way. Eg one of my favourite things to do is watch apes for hours in zoos and sketch them and stuff. Sometimes interact if a chimp friend comes to the window. I usually end up teaching other visitors stuff atleast once. Sometimes about halfway through the day I come over a bit light-headed or my hands are shaky, sometimes my stomach hurts a bit. I initially worry and think something's wrong until it hits me that I've been running at 110% excitement capacity for a couple of hours and I'm feeling the effects. I calm down a bit after the first half and usually eat something to stop the shaky hands. I always think I'm only cheerful but chill but don't realise I'm actually super overexcited.

Naming my interests or seeing them on TV sometimes makes my heart race a bit and I fidget but it's the very direct engagement that physically affects me the most. Not every time, plenty of times I'm just emotionally upbeat and calm. But it's def not uncommon to spend the day in a constant state of BUZZING and then go home knackered.

It happened today because I hadn't been zooing for months, I was playing a game of chase with one of the chimps I know well and my stomach did a flip suddenly and I felt bad. But it subsided quickly and I recognised it as the adrenaline thing.

I tend to experience this form of positive anxiety and excitement, than the common worrying and catastrophizing types of anxieties. To a point, yeah, it makes me feel alive.
Maybe that's what some adrenaline junkies feel -- except I don't chase the highs. Any forms of highs or overwhelm in any form is a bad news for me, because it meant that getting carried away into dysregulation, and because of the nature of this feeling in particular; prone into recklessness.


Sometimes, when I still have my special interests...
And certain interests that I wanted (tho not a special interest) but had to be put off because practical reasons.

It's not as continuous.
Because I have hormonal fluctuations and my body is rather sensitive to internal change, so disruption and seemingly inconsistent reaction is inevitable.

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I get what you mean, past a certain threshold anxiety and excitement feel the exact same physically so I don't enjoy the sensation itself. A stomach ache is still a stomach ache even it's being caused by seeing my favourite animal lol.