Thread: Weird night...

Hey everyone.

I spent the whole day yesterday at a village festival, running a stall where i was selling cards to people. there was a bunch of us there doing loads of different things, and it was a busy festival, with over a thousand people turning up through the day.

Anyway, after exhausting myself doing that through the day, i had huge trouble when it came to going to bed.
I lay in the dark, with my eyes closed, but awake. And i could hear vividly hordes of people calling my name out, clamoring for my attention, and sometimes trying to grab me and pull me over to them etc. It was almost like a hallucination, as if my bedroom were really filled with people yelling at me.

I wasn't asleep and i clearly remember sitting up and telling them all to 'fuck off and leave me alone' (outloud) and then as it continued, getting more and more distressed, till i was on the verge of tears, begging them all to go away, speaking outloud into my empty room.

I think that this some sort of mental reaction to spending a full day in a claustrophobic environment with many, many people around me, which i'm perhaps not used to. But it was pretty bloody horrible and it was like i couldn't turn my mind off, cause they just kept yelling to me.

Does anyone have similar experiences to this? Or know what causes it?
I'm not even sure how i managed to get rid of it in the end, i think i tried the 61 point relaxation technique to try to become less restless, and then counted down from 99 in my mind, relaxing my breathing.

Anybody know how to stop it in future?

Thanks

sleeps.