Thoughts before sleep

Hi Karen, I could never fall asleep without reading to sleep or couldn't sleep at all. Thinking before sleep is a vicious cycle of making sure I don't sleep. These days I sleep well and easily by not thinking of things at sleeping time except calming thoughts of the nights when I get to be able to cuddle up and sleep with my Greek.

Honestly nowadays before I go to sleep I always think about this guy I really like. I know its very teenagerish but yeah, that's what I think about every night before I go to sleep. =)

I like to clear my mind of ALL thoughts before falling asleep so as to prevent them from invading my dreams. What I do before bed and what I think about vary according to where I fall asleep, the time, etc.

The thoughts that are in my mind before I go to sleep is if I am actually going to get any sleep that night and what I am going to do with the kids the next day. I normally have real trouble sleeping last night I got a good nights sleep so I have been using my energy on here all day

hi karen i just also have the problem of thoughts before sleep. but it's hard to say what it is. sometimes some very weird thoughts haunt me for a long while. as for me, the time usually is much longer, maybe about half an hour. sometime i'll have the idea that i'm sick. that is a big problem to me.

Karen, just before going to sleep, I sit on my bed for a while,cross-legged, and for a few moments try not to think about anything. Yeah, thats right. Even if it sounds cool and easy, with some careful consideration you will know how hard it is not to think about anything, even for a second. Our mind is not habituated in doing something like that. Its always busy in thinking about something. After one's day is over, it generally leaves certain feelings inside you, certain memories, images, scenes that you've captured the whole day. I think it is really necessary to flush them away before you fall asleep. This is a form of meditation. When you start it and go deeper, you are just surprised to find out that there are thousands of thoughts that come one after another, inside your head. One thought is relating to other, and that makes the continuous flow. You just break that flow for a few seconds. Yeah, even if you are an expert, you will only be able to do it for a few seconds. But those precious moments will take you to the highest level of relaxation and comfort. Sometimes you'll feel divinity within, and blissful. Once this absolute peace is gained, all the troubles, excitements and other strong feelings are driven outta your mind. Then I thank god for everything and fall asleep. The sweetest and most peaceful sleep of the day. take care.... God bless you all....

Hi Karen I tend to analyze the days events and it's usually detrimental, being of a negative mind I tend to view things with a negative perspective so I will lie awake at night thinking about stuff and looking for the slights or reading into the situation. I tend to fortune tell and catastrophize instead of looking at it from an unbiased viewpoint I will go straight for the negative side which is not healthy I know I do need to deal with it. I sometimes see negatives where positives are. A harmless gesture or word could be said to me and I can be lying in bed making that response look entirely negative. Analyzing things or people is not always a good thing especially if you see life with pessimism and the glass for me is always half empty!

Happy sunday , Karen, i know exactly what u sre talking about. I hate it when my mind does that to me when i go to bed. My grandmother always said i took my troubles to bed w/me & i guess she was right. She use to say to i was the only person she had ever known that had to rest before they went to bed.lol. I have to try & unwind no matter what time it is. Hope u have a great day.

hi karen madam, sleep is not a problem to me,when i curl up in the bed,i immediately going to sleep within 5 or 10 minutes,i never thought the things to remember,from begining itself what ever the worries im in ,i am having sound sleep that is gods gift,have a nice day

Hello my friend PeacefulWmn9 Ji, WEll, to get soundsleep, mind should be totally erased from any thought. When we put our head onpillow, just Remember Almighty in any form and in my case I repeat Gayatri-Mantra in dying voice and go to sleep. Let's not botehr mind for next day's planning . May God bless You and have a great time.

Well, for me I just though about bad things that happen into my life from the past and always asking myself about those mistakes.

I am a real problem sleeper and every single thought possible pops into my head and drives me wild. The worst thought I get is when I think about how I can't get to sleep because I can't stop thinking, and then I think if only I could stop thinking about thinking I would get to sleep and it never ends. It's basically a vicious circle which never really stops and it has been known to take me hours to get to sleep. Oh, how I hate going to sleep. I have been known to get up and go downstairs and put the TV on rather then wind myself up and wake my boyfriend up. I'm probably doing myself no favours by getting up, but it's betther then annoying myself.

Normally, it takes about 10 minutes for me to fall asleep. I pray to God. Then I toss around and in no time I am asleep. But at times, it takes more than an hour to sleep.

I have all sorts of thoughts before I go to sleep. I think about what happened during the day. I think of what I need to do tomorrow and I think about the past. I think so much that its hard to get to sleep. I worry about the financial difficults that I'm in, I worry about the kids, everything. I think about the book I'm writing. I think about the love ones I miss. I talk to God before I go to sleep and then when i simply can not get to sleep because my head will just not let me. I get up and watch something mind numbing on TV, if that dosesn't work I read a book that usually keeps me up all night. Sleep is highly over rated anyway, right? LOL I stop sleeping well after my first child was born and since then, well sleeping, true sleep like when I was a baby... has been few and hard between. Yes, I also get my best ideas before I go to sleep, why? I have the answer to that. You get your best ideas before you go to sleep because you are finally letting your mind just wonder and it brainstorms like crazy. I enjoy being awake at night and if sleeping could be done during the day. I would.

When I go to bed thoughts race to my head aswell. I guess it's something a lot of woman have because some of us, like myself, don't allow themselves to ponder during the day. Once the day is over: work is done, dinner cooked, house clean and you finally relax after your crowded day.. the thoughts come. Sometimes clearly pensive and not fun, sometimes creative thoughts just like your mom mentioned. I come up with good ideas for new sketches for clothing me and my mom can sew for example, or I am thinking about how my life is going and if it's going in the direction I want it to go.

I will usually try to free my mind of all worries before falling asleep, PeacefulWmn, but it doesn't always work.For the times that it doesn't I've found it helpful to me to silently sing hymns that I learned in church from my youth. This will soothe me to sleep in little or no time.

i think about what i didnt do on that day, and what i should do the next day. sometimes it is a good idea to list it on a piece of paper, and order it from most important to least important for the next morning. then, i relax in bed, with with a relaxing cd or reading a good book or just hang out with my cat. sometimes i do a crossword puzzle in bed until i get tired.

I am usually thinking about the activies of the next day and who I will be meeting and what we will be discussing. There are a few things that I need to do and I am really worried abotu them. I want my work to grow.

i must say i dont like to think more before sleep, but the fact is that most of the time i'm thinking the past things or planning the future, esp when the sad memories, which would hurt me a lot, and made me sleep not well. so now, i'd prefer to reading some professional books, or listen to some beautiful musics, which help me fall asleep quicker.

When I go to bed at night, I also used to find that my mind would go into overdrive as well. However, I realized that I was able to change that if I would take myself to my little imaginary place when I was getting ready to fall asleep and I would be able to slip into sleep a lot quicker. I am a worrier by nature and by removing the ability to worry before I fell asleep, I've adapted to the point that I am a much better sleeper than I was before.