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I don't think this is the same thing as "noisy brain", but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this before since it sounded similar. Sometimes, typical
by idbehold 3y ago
I don't think this is the same thing as "noisy brain", but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this before since it sounded similar. Sometimes, typically when I'm sick and I'm trying to sleep through the symptoms (e.g. sleep all night and all day), it seems like my brain gets bored or something and suddenly I cannot stop thinking/dreaming about something. That something is different every time it happens, but it's the same thing over and over repeating in my head. Eventually my head starts to hurt and I'm seemingly forced to be awake as it is the only way to stop this.
- GuardianCaveman 3y agoThat happened to me a lot more as a child but i think still sometimes as an adult. I remember a dream just bouncing a basketball over and over. It's weird.
- tkcranny 3y agoNot uncommon at all, it sounds like you’re describing the literal “Fever Dream” phenomena, where you have strange and intense dreams and thoughts while asleep and drifting off.
- idbehold 3y agoBrilliant! I finally have a term for it. Though, while it does happen more often when I'm sick, it still sometimes happens when I'm not. Maybe I just have a hot-running brain. Anyways, thank you again for an actual term I can search with.
- mcmoor 3y agoIt's what I actually look forward to when I have fever. My brain is more malleable to imagine strange things that I can manipulate.
- mFixman 3y agoI found that podcasts help a lot with noisy brain at night, particularly long-form multi-episode podcasts that force you to pay attention. Podcasts flood my brain with non-anxious information and, unlike books, you don't stop "reading" them when you are dozing off and in the early phases of sleep.