[enigma]

I used to, until I just learned to let my mind go blank after turning off the light and laying my head down.

Also, I only find myself yawning if something awakens me prematurely.

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[maria]

hell yes. I get flashing images of unfamiliar places and meaningless words run through my mind...it's like you're not in control of your thoughts. It happens when I'm awake too, but it doesn't bother me too much.

 

[Da'Burgh]

Yeah this happens from time to time, most of my thought are fearful ones.

 

[enigma]

To my first reply I should add: It doesn't hurt that I'm always in a med-induced stupor when I go to bed, also.

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[Guest]

Yes. My most anxiety comes at night because when I slow down that's when I am penetrated with thoughts. I think of really random things and can't get them out of my head. Some of these are memories from the past that aren't so good. Sometimes the memories are accompanied with random dates and numbers and at times I am compelled to figure out the ages of the people I am thinking about at a certain time in history. I can't rest until I have figured out the math problems. Everything I think about is so meaningless and my thoughts usually go along with terrible nausea and fatigue. It's so hard to move, so usually I just lay there in agony. It's physically uncomfortable to walk around or read or do anything. When it gets this bad, I usually give in and take Ativan.

 

[Guest]

Hey I use to suffer from this every night for a year. I found it frightening. The worse thing was that the thoughts were completely illogical & just sprung from nowhere. I'd get images of people just faces or even colours. All I can say is it must be anxiety as now I am fine. Sometimes when I am stressed & can't get to sleep this happens to me but it doesn't frighten me anymore. I think its because I know it won't send me mad its just cause my brain is under too much stress. I know its like the tv is on in your head & you can't switch it off, but all you can do is try & relax by taking a warm bath, drinking chamomile tea & concentrating on reading a book in bed till you are tired & then go to sleep. This is all that helped me.

 

[Guest]

Yes. I just wrote in another thread that for many years now I haven't been able to sleep good. I lay there and toss and turn thinking about life and feeling absolute dread about having to be alive and do my slave labor or even end up homeless for life, that my life is another 50-60 years, and it's going to be pure misery every day. That's always kept me up at night. I've tried every otc sleeping pill and even a couple by rx and they have the opposite effect. I'll get 10 times as tired and groggy yet it *keeps* me awake, I don't know if it's the med directly or some anxiety about it, but I will stay fully awake all night long any time that I take a sleep aid so I just do not even attempt them anymore.

 

[terri*]

Hi DeNiro,

Like all the people above, I find getting to sleep is hell. Racing, obsessive thoughts, thoughts of past, thoughts of anything bad that has or could happen, thoughts of anything or anyone that has ticked me off...just think of any negative thing and that is my thought pattern. So, meds for me at night.

How about this...since I am able to go to be with the help of medication, it seems I wake up and do the same thing !!! :shock: I have to jump out of bed or turn on the tv or get on the computer to get it to stop.

We'd be soooo much better off if we didn't think ourselves to death.

Hoping you find a solution for yours.
terri

 

[Rektchordz]

when im trying to go to sleep my thought are soooo wrong... after ive been drinking its worse!! big time, i get sentences that dont make any sense and they repeat themselves over and over it does my fucking head in!!

 

[ShyTiger]

I found that sometimes writting in a diary b4 bed helps. I try and get everything out of my head on paper. No matter how stupid it seems. I give myself say 20mins- it seems to help when i have thoughts just hyjacking my mind and sleep.

 

[Guest]

Glad to see other people have stuff like this too.

Worst things for me are racing thoughts, and voices (Not the 'go kill people' kind before anyone says anything!) just fragments of sentences, sometimes the same voice sometimes different ones. Sometimes they're not even saying words I can make out I can just hear the voice.

Doesn't worry me that much as I'm it's just my mind on overdrive, and it doesn't happen often.

 

[Guest]

We'd be soooo much better off if we didn't think ourselves to death.

I totally agree. But how do you get the thinking to stop?