i wish i could turn off my brain...
By misc11
@misc11 (384)
United States
March 30, 2011 12:22am CST
It is past my bedtime and all I want to do is go to sleep but I can't because I keep thinking and thinking. I think more at night than in the day when I should. I have most of my good thoughts and ideas at night, and I am not sure why. All I know right now is I wish there was a switch where you could just turn off your brain sometimes and be dormant....if only I could invent that, I'd be a millionaire!
5 responses
@Gothicana (458)
• United States
1 Apr 11
you are writing my words.I have exactly the same problems.
I go at 11.00pm to bed and looking the last time at 3.00am to the clock.
In the daytime I am so tired i am not my self anymore.
I have that since I am 15 and I sorry that I cant tell you how to stop that
@happy4nowreason (2)
• Australia
30 Mar 11
Hi, when you get into bed and are comfortable, take a few Min's to take deep breaths, through your noise out through your mouth.Tell your highest self{the little voice inside your head}That it is time to go to sleep,and on walking the next day,you will remember all those ideas the next day. This may take a little time, as your mind is very active at night{its quiet,and less interruptions at night} relax your body first by tensing then by releasing, you will then get use to your own body and how it feels. You don't have to bottle this one, just pass the method on.
@joram328 (503)
• Philippines
30 Mar 11
Yes, there are times when I get to experience this, especially when I am excitedly anticipating what will happen in the coming day. What I usually do is to drink a cup of warm milk, let it go down for a while, then I lie down and relax my mind and try to turn my thoughts away from what I was thinking about previously. I usually come up with happy thoughts, totally unrelated to what I normally do on a daily basis, example is watching the sunset or gazing at the stars, or gazing over a lake, etc. Scenes that are tranquil and relaxing. Try it and I'm sure you'll be dozing off in no time... :)
@Aloevera521 (178)
• Australia
30 Mar 11
I think U'd better go to sleep
try to put ur effort at day time.
O maybe U can try sleep at day time and work at night
@violici (21)
• United States
30 Mar 11
I do this all the time, and I never found a way of actually "turning off my thoughts", and every time I tried to stop thinking and just fall asleep, more thoughts would come. Instead of trying to stop my thoughts, I let them come in, I'd think about one thought, analyze it, that would lead me to another, and so on, but I'd fall asleep much faster if i tried to stop it, instead, I started enjoying my thought-process and how cool it is that I can analyze things so accurately, so I looked at the positive side of it and my body didn't go into that "frustrated" mode anymore, because really, that's what stopped me from falling asleep, not the thoughts themselves.
