When I'm laying down at night, or for a nap..my mind begins to drift into this thought process of things that don't even make sense. Once I realize that my mind is racing with things that aren't making sense, I snap out of it and I completely forget what it was I was thinking about....don't know if this is going to make sense to any of you.

This time I was actually able to remember a couple things my mind went through. For instance...just now, I was laying down for a nap. As I was laying there my mind started to drift and think about clicking on the Facebook symbol on the Facebook website...which is random..and then suddenly I found myself saying this in my head: "He was doing wheelies on a tricycle." What the heck?

Am I losing my mind? Or is my brain drifting off to sleep and cycling through thoughts before my body falls asleep? I know when your sleeping your mind kinda cycles through things..that's part of the reason we have dreams.

Weird.

To me that sounds just like the normal experience of drifting off to sleep. I wouldn't worry. Try not to 'snap out of it', it sounds like your brain is trying to go to sleep and you're just waking yourself up again!

This is normal.... please read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

Disrupted sleep, may place a person into these states more often. They are alarming if misunderstood. But I think everyone gets them from time to time.

My husband's aunt used to do this... repeat her unusual thinking during the day. One of her favorites was that "mice were biting on matches in the cupboard, and would set the house on fire"...

We knew she was odd... so we discounted it. And we dutifully put all matches in glass jars at our shared vacation home to appease her. Eventually we got rid of all matches..and now use those clicky thingies that start the stove or grill. Then we found a recent newspaper article that said " mice chewing on matches are a common cause of home fires, especially in older homes!" Duh?

But this example is illustrates how our mind may wander when 1/2 asleep~1/2 awake! Some great art and creative scientific thinking may have come from this state too!

Yeah, lol. It's probably just anxiety. I have this really bad obsession with every little thing that happens to me...and I over-analyze things. It's part of my anxiety disorder.

Thanks.

I found an article that I meant to put up on here but now can't find again, about a study showing how people with TBI's rate their lives before the injury as having been better than a 'healthy' control group.

The implication was that we idealise our lives before the injury, remembering only days when we were rested, alert and felt great. Any tiredness, worry or unusual happenings are likely to be attributed to the brain injury, when in fact they might just be part of normal life.

I think there's some truth in that - we get so used to analysing our every moment for signs of symptoms that we start seeing more than there actually are and then getting anxious about it....

Thank you for the article...that explains it.

Maybe I should I should start writing down the thoughts I have...and use them to draw pictures or write a book, lol. Maybe I'll become famous.

That is so true. Sometimes I have a hard time telling the difference between a symptom of my TBI and something that normally happens to me. There's a lot of things we never noticed before the injury and paid no attention too...and then after the injury, we start analyzing ourselves more.

A lot of the times you remember how you were before the injury, then recall how you are now after it. It's a strict comparison and if you didn't know yourself too well before the injury, it's no use trying to analyze yourself after it.

Also know that many of your attributes and personality can get amplified in ways you never thought of.

As of now, my colleagues tell me I'm more steadfast in my opinions. I do know I'm more direct and speak my mind more often - (before the TBI it was) something I saved by timing it instead of blurting it out.

Impulses are more difficult to control because of the broken filter - the same filter that is related to controlling your dreams.

So last night, I was never able to fall completely asleep. I stayed in this half asleep/half awake state for hours...and during this state I kept running through my head a conversation which seemed to be with a doctor or a nurse. I was telling them what kind of medicine I was taking.

I was even telling them I took Amitriptyline for sleep, which I've never had before. It went on for hours (the conversation in my head with the doctor) until about noon...and I finally just gave up on trying to go to sleep and started my day.

What's up with that? Anyone else experience something like this?