Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone ellse tend to have an overactive brain before they go to bed? Like if your staying some where different like at a relative's house you can't sleep well unless it's your own bed. Other people's houses freak me out at night time. I can literally here everything from pipes creeking to floor boards to the wind outside. Then my over imagination kikcs in and thinks there must be somone there when reality I do t beleive in ghosts but old Victorian propperties really creep me out. I sleep fine in my house but when we stay at families houses not so much.
It's cause our brains don't work that way lol like have you ever been to a therapist and they've tried to educate on you how to solve the issue. Autistic minds are more like does not compute and it never gets solved anyway. Therapists are dog trainers for NTs being autistic were more intelagent than a dog hence why they can't reprogram us like nurotypicals.
Yeah like even in my house I tend be up all night as my house backs on to a drive away so can here cats out on the gravel or other animals at night even neighbors getting back and late stuff. Then in the early hours cause there's a bush next to the drive I'm woken up by a flock of birds cherping which drive me nuts. It's got more annoying since our village has expanded into more suburb's as now there's more noise from both directions.
Yeah I use to hate sleeping over at mates houses when I was kid so never do anymore it's wiered in away cause when I 1st joined this site I was doubting weather I was ASD and maybe they assesed me wrong but the more I read others issues on here the more I can relate to them and the less I doubt it too.
When I was "smoking" I'd get hyper-focussed, but on random projects. I have maybe 8-10 cups of coffee a day...
Untoward said:wish I could switch my brain off
I understand what you mean. I often wish I could take a holiday from my mind. Sleep helps but it's not healthy to do that all the time. In my 20s when things were really tough, I used to sleep a lot to get respite from the thoughts. These days I just immerse myself in music or a special interest. You?
It's just annoying, wish I could switch my brain off but the thoughts go round and round.
Untoward said:cringing horribly and hating myself.
That must be really hard to cope with. I'd tell the thoughts to piss off. I was playing the smallest violin today and phoning samaritans but I can also take the piss out of myself for being so woah is me. Does that help you to do that?
reality does
Yes, it's real life serial killer stuff I watch because I'm fascinated but it also scares me.....
Yeah that would freak me out tbf lol
Same. I actually haven't ever had a nightmare even once in my life, and scary movies don't bother me.
But I will lie awake thinking about what I said 7 years ago, cringing horribly and hating myself.
Films and stuff don't give me nightmares but reality does I guess
I do that too! If I watch something about psychopaths, I wonder who I know is one and start to try to analyse behaviours. :-(
My problems with sleep are many, last night's TV affects me, worry about life and money, even books I'm reading come into my nightmares.
Last night I woke up at 4am and was unable to sleep. Today at 4pm I went to bed very sleepy for a short nap
Good advice,. Shame I never follow it.
Caffeine effects peak an hour after drinking and take around 10 hours to leave the system. That's a single cup. We don't drink instant, but we have three large cups of freshly ground coffee every morning, then don't drink it again for 24 hours. Seems to work for us.
I’ve also been having this trouble when alone recently. I started playing rain sounds and that has actually helped - I think sometimes it feels like the silence itself is too loud (or too quiet, I’m not sure). It plays for 45 minutes and I’ve been asleep by the time it finished which is around 2-3 hours better than I was doing without it! Might be worth a try if you haven’t already.
Paul said:I usually go back to sleep pretty quickly.
Your poor wife too, I hope that she sleeps okay despite the vivid dreams..... I've never let my daughter snuggle with me if she has a nightmare as I'm badly behaved in my sleep, I talk, punch, kick, get up and go to other rooms. As a teenager, I once woke up in my parents living room three times! Eventually I just thought, I obviously want to be here for some reason so I slept in the living room and stopped trying to go back to my own room......
it’s not so bad and luckily it’s not every night. I usually go back to sleep pretty quickly.
Paul said:giving her vivid dreams and sometimes she talks!
Oh no!!! That's very frustrating and exhausting! Could you sleep in different rooms or could you wear ear plugs? I can't as they irritate me but I don't need to as I sleep alone being single and all.