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

For many people the end of the day is a time for reflection and processing of our day. Then there are those of us who process many thoughts rapidly causing emotional discomfort and trouble falling asleep. I started going to a Buddhist Temple to take a meditation class to help me clear my mind and relax. You know what? It actually helped a ton. Having a structured meditation routine really helped me clear my mind and worked wonders. I also make lunar tea, tea brewed in the moonlight which is said to bring cooling and restorative effects on the body. For me it works. What is your meditation and lunar tea?

When I'm trying to sleep, my mind is the exact opposite. When we lay down at night in the dark and quiet, we are forced to listed to our loud minds because that is all we are left with. Once it starts, it's like a snowball rolling down a hill, making it very hard to sleep.

Often we are so busy throughout the day, and our thoughts are so focused on the task at hand that we don't often have a lot of time, to plan, and think, and worry. So naturally, when you've stopped for the day and want to sleep, your brain has decided it will use this down time to process all the things it didnt get to process throughout the day! This still, thinking time is important! But now when it can jeopardise a good nights sleep, thats where meditation and mindfullness can be helpful to give your mind something else to focus on that is calming and hopefully sleep inducing.

I have this same problem. I think the reason is that when you're trying to sleep, your mind tends to wander because there's nothing else to do. It can get annoying, but there's some things that I've learned to do that help a lot. I suggest listening to music while you're trying to sleep, even if it's just classical music. If you can't sleep with music, try counting from 1-100. Usually you will be asleep before you reach 100!

Many people have this problem. The best solution is imagining. You should start imagining about something so that you cannot think about anything except this. You can fall asleep easily with this. This worked for me . So i hope this helps you too. :)

because you like to think about some stuff winch are more important from sleeping or you want those stuff to happen

Because, at night, it´s when our brain is the most active (scientifically proven), i´d say it´s not a big issue, yeah, it can be at times, when it doesn´t let you sleep, but that way you can think of what´ll happen´ tomorrow :P

This is usually because your brain is focused on something that is troubling you or something your excited about. Its often hard to sleep if you're worried about something or angry about whats happened during your day. For example you maybe worried about a job interview the next day and all you do when in bed is keep rerunning possible conversations in your head. Its very annoying and I find listening to music is often a good way to distract yourself, I usually listen to rain music or birds.

From personal experience, I find that it's because during the day there's so much stuff going around and you don't tend to think about certain things that may be troubling you. Then, during night it all rushes in your mind and overwhelms you.

It is normal for your brain's activity to increase because your body is not doing anything which makes you think about things that happened that day or the whole year or your whole life