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Why can't my mind stop thinking when I'm trying to sleep?

Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 5, 2015
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Close your eyes. Focus on the colors you see. All the pretty rainbows in the darkness no one else can fathom. Count the infinities. Focus on the impossible.
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Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 5, 2015
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It's because our mind is always on the move, it can't stop at one place - be it when we're sitting for an exam, going to propose to our special one, playing a certain sport or even while going to sleep. It's just everywhere. The best thing that you can do is face your thoughts, write them down on a piece of paper or just close your eyes and bring up a good, convivial memory. Interestingly, you can also keep your brain busy by thinking the name of an animal or an insect for every letter of the English alphabet.
Profile: SocialButterfly31
SocialButterfly31 on Jul 5, 2015
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You should try an hour before you want to go to bed relax your mind. By doing this you need to not do anything active with your mind like watching tv, or playing video games and drinking coffee anything that could stop you from sleeping.
Profile: peachysunny
peachysunny on Jul 5, 2015
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try eating something or reading a book or doing something to distact yourselfand then make up dreams
Profile: amiableLove11
amiableLove11 on Jul 5, 2015
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Your mind is racing throughout the day and you want it to stop so that you can get to sleep. I recommend writing down your thoughts and issues about the day on a sheet of paper or journal before you get in bed. that way you have thought about the day beforehand and can get right to falling asleep.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 8, 2015
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Too many distractions or anxiety about an upcoming event. Probably reliving an embarrassing moment.
Profile: PennyLaine
PennyLaine on Jul 8, 2015
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For most people, sleep tends to come relatively easily. They become sleepy, prepare for bed, and within moments of settling down and relaxing sufficiently, they are swiftly on their way to dreamland. Some of us though, particularly those with a propensity to be analytical, even to the point of being over-analytical, having all the lights out and nothing to distract us from our thoughts is the perfect time for gears to start turning and for processing of the day's events, or current life stressors, to make their way to the front of our brains, which may become quite burdensome when the thing we'd most like to do is just rest. I know that, personally, it's taken many years for me to control these thought processes to allow me to drop quickly and comfortably into sleep. It's not an easy thing to learn, particularly for those of us who have the over-analytical brain problem, or who have many stressors in life that are apt to keep us awake at night. Some people certainly have other reasons for having their sleeping time invaded by unwanted thoughts, but for me, and for a good many others, it's simply because we have issues that we feel are unresolved, and it's much easier to not continue to revisit these issues when we're busy with our day to day activities, but much more difficult to push them to the back of our minds when we're lying in the dark and quiet of our bedrooms, with nothing to stop us from diverting our full attention to the issues that are cause for stress, or just something that we feel we have to process sufficiently so that we can put them to bed, and therefore allow ourselves to go to bed. :)
Profile: AffableBeeListens
AffableBeeListens on Jul 8, 2015
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The brain is wired to process lots of information during the day. However, when the stresses of life get to us, this activates the limbic region of our brains that is responsible for emotional processing and memory. When we are stressed we cannot process our feelings in any logical way, so this ends up increasing our anxiety and can contribute to sleep problems. Try using strategies such as deep diaphragmatic breathing, visual imagery and mindfulness in order to calm the brain down and distract it from all your fears and worries.
Profile: nojudgment101
nojudgment101 on Jul 8, 2015
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Because everything and everyone around you remind you of what you don't want to think of.and a little part of you want to think.
Profile: NiceCrow
NiceCrow on Jul 8, 2015
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Probably it's because when everything is quiet your mind has time to think about everything, even if you don't want to do it.
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