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January 6th, 2012
Waking up with insane racing thoughts/urges...

Has anyone ever had this? Twice in the past few years I've woken up with crazy urges. It feels like the same word/thought/phrase/feeling is battering inside my head at 1million miles per hour and it doesn't stop.

The first time it happened, I woke up in my bed and I had this insane urge, relentless in my head, that I had to fill my sister's room with suitcases. It seemed SO insane, there was NO way I would be able to do it and it would take ages.. Where would I get the cases from? I felt my brain going into meltdown and lay for I don't know how long with my hands against my temples until my mind slowed down and I was able to relax a bit more and eventually fall asleep.

The second time it was worse, I was dosing on the couch one night after just playing a game on my then I woke up with part of a dream still in my head. It was racing around again at ultra speed in my brain and since I had it it seems inconcievable to even explain... I had to somehow go under my for miles and do something, and this image of a strange cartoon guy was in my head and then it would flash to old boat... I got this horrible feeling of endlessness... You can compare it to the feeling of having to find a needle once you drop it into the middle of the atlantic ocean and then being told you MUST find it.. Think how impossible that would be to find. That was the feeling, during all of these absolutely weird segments of my dream racing around my head. I had to run upstairs where I paced around my room like a madman for about 5 minutes, and tried to rest on my bed. I was on the verge of running through to my mother to try and explain I needed some sort of help immediatly. Was at this insane 5 min period I understood why people would kill themself. I actually thought I was going properly insane and couldnt bare another second of this insanity smashing around my head. I hope someone can relate to this! I get smaller, less potent episodes every so often during the day when Im awake... I think it might be some sort of mania. Note: at no point was i actually hallucinating. Just thoughts.

Any help would be nice!
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Nina586
replied January 6th, 2012
You may have some sort of sleep disorder. This can make you feel like you are going insane and cause bizarre side effects. The brain does crazy things when it does not get enough rest.
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oopsagain
replied January 7th, 2012
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You may be waking to soon when you are coming out of your nightly dmt trip in your sleep.

Everynight when you sleep you do hallucinogens unconsciously, dmt to be exact.

could be involved.

Imagine that, the entire planet is on hallucinogens.
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lhart
replied June 29th, 2012
Yeah! Someone that has the same thing. I can't explain it either. I wake up and it's like someone is putting tons of information in my head and pulling it out. My brain is on overload. I try to explain it to people but there is no possible way to. It happens about 3 times a year when I wake up and I have to pace around the house and shake it out. I feel like I'm going insane.
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phillyavi
replied July 22nd, 2012
i've experience that same sense of emptiness, paired with a sensation that i would describe as "the loud din of silence", or even an "explosion" of silence. i'm not trying to sound poetic - i just can't think of any better way to describe the feeling. i agree with the "ocean pin-drop" description. i've been experiencing the sensation somewhat frequently since i was 9 or 10, now i'm 22.

i found this thread because i just woke up feeling some sort of awful anxiety/mania and couldn't slow my mind. a kid on a sugar-high screaming and jumping on the bed. my mind was SHOUTING random sht from all over the map. last night i watched 'my dinner with andre', a real trip if you invest the thought to follow it. it put me in a sort of bizarre meditative state. i bet that movie had a hand in the manic outburst.

Now for an eerie twist:
twice i've been in a situation where i was unoccupied and horrendously tired in an environment in which i couldnt fall asleep - once on a greyhound bus and once on a plane, i think. i was in an odd state that i'd describe as just barely between consciousness and sleep. i was in a bizarre psychological state, debilitatingly exhausted but not falling asleep. both times i had hallucinations of A CARTOON GUY ON A BOAT. BOOM. spooky as sht, no? i visualized the character walking around doing something as though i was watching a movie. i thought that the cartoon guy and boat seemed really arbitrary, and i'm amazed that someone else has had the same hallucination. crazy
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Donder
replied July 22nd, 2012
MY racing thought's are not when I just wake up but when I am trying to go to sleep. I have many night's when I don't sleep at all or just a few hour's. The only time I had anything like you are saying happens to you was when I was given some medication, that caused me some weird feeling's and scared the hell out of me.

I hope you are doing better and are seeking help and getting relief.
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abandonedfluff
replied October 24th, 2012
Hey, thought I'd just ass my 0.2c so you know you're not alone. I get the same feeling you describe; I'll usually wake up in the middle of the night and have one particular thought, phrase or small series of actions in my head, I'll then spend the next however long (time seems to be pretty meaningless at that point) tossing and turning, not quite asleep but not awake either. Finally I become more awake and begin to try and break away from the cycling thought, it just feels like its repeating it's actions so fast it's hard to interrupt with logical thought. These days, I'll get up ad drink a glass of cold water of I have the energy, or lay in bed and try to focus on my breathing while not allowing my thoughts to wonder...the getting out of bed one is more successful I guess.

I feel that I used to suffer with what some people have mentioned when I was a child, the feeling of the void, the explosion of silence, that sensation where you feel like you lose perspective of size and distance in you're environment. This is fairly common from what I've read, heard and it is not the same thing as what OP is explaining. In honesty, it's pleasant compared to the millions of thoughs per second issue, which makes you think you might genuinely have gone insane (and maybe, temporarily do).

So, this only started happening after I was 20+. In the few years prior to the first bout I'd suffered a severe head injury in a car crash, I had stopped smoking weed after doing so intensively for several years (due to paranoia) and I was a weekend user of MDMA, I also suffer from mild anxiety issues in general life. These are some potential causes for me, any similarities with you?
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Laser6p
replied February 2nd, 2013
You are not alone. This started occurring to me later in life. I started waking up every morning with a racing mind. Thoughts were literally going through my head so fast I could not recognize exactly what they were. My doctor first put me on Depakote and then change me to Topomate. I have had that particular problem since.
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Indy123
replied March 25th, 2013
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Hello there,
You don't have a sleep disorder. There are a lot of things we all have racing through our minds even when we feel very normal. This use to happen to me almost every week. The most crazy ridiculous things would be jumbled altogether and showing me visualizations. I would hate it! Because I had no control.

Meditation helped me completely. The most important thing we need is to silence our minds. Take control of our mind and the continuous chatter within it. Meditation and hypnosis will help you completely get rid of this.

I wish you all the best.
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Indy123
replied March 25th, 2013
Hello there,
You don't have a sleep disorder. There are a lot of things we all have racing through our minds even when we feel very normal. This use to happen to me almost every week. The most crazy ridiculous things would be jumbled altogether and showing me visualizations. I would hate it! Because I had no control.

Meditation helped me completely. The most important thing we need is to silence our minds. Take control of our mind and the continuous chatter within it. Meditation and hypnosis will help you completely get rid of this.

I wish you all the best.
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