Thread: Absurd thoughts just before drop off

It's like this:

I am trying to go to sleep. It's a battle every night for me; not that I have insomnia, it's just I can't turn my thinkbox off. After a while, I do not notice a reduction in my thoughts, just that they are becoming absurd. For instance, I am thinking 'What shall do tommorow?' and then, I think, 'I better eat the biscuits or the bear will eat me' or something suitably unreal like that. This always hapens just at the point at which I enter sleep proper, so I can 'catch' myself, although it is hard to abandon these thoughts.

This is not a one-off case, it happens every night. Does this sound familiar to any of you?

Same thing happens to me often, except my thoughts are usually pretty boring ones. It doesn't happen when I am really tired though. Maybe you should not try to sleep unless you are really tired. If you can't drop off, just read a book until you can't read any more, perhaps?

Originally posted by Citrusponge
Same thing happens to me often, except my thoughts are usually pretty boring ones. It doesn't happen when I am really tired though. Maybe you should not try to sleep unless you are really tired. If you can't drop off, just read a book until you can't read any more, perhaps?

I don't sleep enough as it is. I would regard myself as (moderately) handsome save some rather striking bags under my eyes. Those bags must die, and I will clench as much sleep as I can.

Yes, when I am really tired they don't occur. But that's probably because there is no intermediate stage between wakefulness and sleep, in that as soon as you hit the pillow you're out. Ideally, anyway.

Happens all the time to me. I always just wrote it off as the logical part of my brain shutting down.

Its weird how hard it is to go to bed before one get very tired. I know its a bigger chance to get lucid if i get 10 hours sleep. That means very early bed and wake up relaxed. but

Heh, that happens to me all the time too. One moment I'm thinking perfectly logically, then the next I find myself thinking of things that don't even make an ounce of sense. I actually find it kinda exciting and amusing.

From what I understand, this is the harbinger to Hypnagogic Imagery... capitalize on it! As long as you remain aware of the absurdities that keep impinging on your thoughts, then you can also remain aware of the fact that they are materializing from conceptual to palpable experiences and eventually you will have just performed a WILD! I have those experiences too, and everyone I know does... the problem is being aware of them the whole time... I usually notice it once... "Francis artificially inseminated the C4 Plant, what the heck does that mean?!" But after that the absurdities drift pass my notice then I go to sleep.

Same thing for me too. I am tormented by my own thoughts, and I realize that they start to get so absurd that I think that I am going insane. That's why I sleep with the TV on. I have to, my own thoughts drive me insane. Almost nightly before I fall asleep, during when I start to fall asleep, I start to get freaked out by almost nightmarish thoughts, about horrible things that happen to my family, that just sort of come to me, so I have to wake up fully, sit up in the bed, and shake my head to calm myself down, and tell myself that everything is going to be fine. It sounds worse than it really is though. Basically, I just get freaked out by my own thoughts sometimes.