Happened to me like a couple of days ago. I’m trying to sleep right? But my brain is just simulating me playing a game I got into recently. But like, not imagining it, actually simulating it. Half realistic too!
But it’s such an overload, like I have no control over it. It’s as if I’m actually playing the game and payin attention to every single detail irl and the only thing that prevents me from actually thinking I’m playing the game are my senses. This goes on for like 3 HOURS or something and then I get up from my bed in frustration and go “wtf am I doing? I’m not actually playing the game why can’t I just think calmer toughts instead?”
And then lay down again and GOTCHA BITCH WE’RE NOT DONE YET
this happens VERY rarely to me. Like that day I was kind of sick too, but I also remember like a couple of years ago when I had a similar thing where my mind was “solving” some equation rhat didn’t actually exist. I was half asleep after waking up and spend like a good half an hour or somehing while sitting on a toilet doing calculations in my mind until I snapped like “wait, wtf am I even doing???”
So yea anyone else experience that or is it just me
Hypnogogic hallucinations!
I just looked into it and these are NOT brief I cant lie to you
Tho I can give myself auditory hallucinations while trying to sleep semi-consistently. Even remember getting up and looking around to see wtf that “noise” was when I was little lol.
Is this like, bad or?
I think I don’t have those briefly too? I’m used to the fact that before sleep my brain does random shit idk
But these aren’t like normal daydreams melting into actual dreams. These are more like my brain is locked in on one singular thing and it will not stop until it completes the tought which doesn’t end by nature. It’s as elaborate and energy consuming as conscious toughts are but also as involuntary as actual dreams are.
I don’t even know how many of those 3+ hours was spent sleeping but I do remember what it was like more or less.
Unless I’m just describing what you are thinking of then idk
I think I had shit like that, but it’s kinda rare so I don’t pay attention. I don’t really know what else it could be :/
It’s fine I’m not that worried about it anyways (tho ever since someone in here said I might be schizotypal I have been more self conscious about possible symptoms icl)