Lying awake at night, thinking about everything.

[Droopy]

Maybe not directly realted to AS/Autism, but does anyone lie awake at night just thinking about things. For example, thinking about your socail life and how you can improve it, imagining yourself in different social situations, pretending in your mind that your are popular and how that would look or just thinking about life and general and how everything works?

I tend to do this quite a lot.

 

[benjaminba78]

yes i do this alot I lie wake at night thinking about work stuff like that or do something right or wrong etc.

 

[GhettoButterFly]

Maybe not directly realted to AS/Autism, but does anyone lie awake at night just thinking about things. For example, thinking about your socail life and how you can improve it, imagining yourself in different social situations, pretending in your mind that your are popular and how that would look or just thinking about life and general and how everything works?

I tend to do this quite a lot.

I do this a lot as well. I think about the day, think about things that will happen tomorrow, aw heck, I even think about random stuff.

This could be a bipolar thing. But who really knows. :S

 

[superboyian]

Sometimes I do it, but normally it would happen when something bad or good as happened that I get to a stage where I'm thinking about everything what happened in the past.

 

[Mz_Yokka]

Sounds like me alright.

 

[Kempy]

This is something I do a lot. I often think about particular social situations I have been in and what I should have said at the time. I have imaginary arguments with people I dislike and then I can lay in bed thinking about the best comebacks ( normally use these at a later date).

 

[visnofskygirl]

This is something I do a lot. I often think about particular social situations I have been in and what I should have said at the time. I have imaginary arguments with people I dislike and then I can lay in bed thinking about the best comebacks ( normally use these at a later date).

Same here but I have imaginary friends to share ideas with.

 

[Kempy]

Having an imaginary friend seems like a strange and childish idea and one that I have rejected in the past. Now I am more content with who I am, I might try to create an imaginary friend. I fantasize about things when I'm laying in bed. It might be nice to have a fantasy person to share these fantasies with.

 

[Geordie]

I really lay awake at night and think about everything that I wished that had happened to me.

I wished I had been a straight A student so much that whenever I sleep, I cannot think of everything else except me stepping into the columns of Princeton/Dartmouth/Michigan/USC/Brandeis and again, do so well there that I get academic prizes every year.

I wished my family could have more money so that we can spend on more things like nicer shoes, nicer clothes and so on.

I wished I am sleeping in my own air-con bed instead of sharing a room with my parents.

I really cannot sleep while I think of these!

 

[142857]

That sounds like me.

When I was a teenager I used to spend hours trying to solve the mysteries of the universe. Simple stuff like the nature of time, the nature of space, the nature of God. It was a lot less depressing than thinking about how screwed up my life was at the time.

Over the years I find myself doing it less and less.

And yes, I do think that it is directly related to AS/Autism, as it is rare to find anyone on an aspies forum who doesn't identify with it.

 

[Geordie]

I really hope someone will think of an idea to help reduce the incidence of lying awake at night --- yoga and meditation, so far, failed on me.

 

[visnofskygirl]

Having an imaginary friend seems like a strange and childish idea and one that I have rejected in the past. Now I am more content with who I am, I might try to create an imaginary friend. I fantasize about things when I'm laying in bed. It might be nice to have a fantasy person to share these fantasies with.

Yes, it is but atleast I have friends near me..they're just imaginary though :no:

 

[xrobertxdavisx]

every night I do this. no matter what time I go to bed I fall asleepabout 4 or 5 am each night.

 

[NickN3ro]

That would be me thats why I used to take sleeping pills to get over it but Id still wake up and think.

 

[whale_bone]

Yeah! I cure my insomnia by telling my cat everything. He's very understanding haha.

 

[Geordie]

Yeah! I cure my insomnia by telling my cat everything. He's very understanding haha.

I wished I can find a substitute for 'cats', someone trustworthy to divulge my secrets.

 

[Kempy]

I enjoy laying awake in bed thinking about things. I don't seem to get time to do much thinking during the day, unless I walk some stupidly long distance.

 

[Sipe]

If I`m awake in the middle of the night I start to think: "Come on! I need to sleep damn it!" And if I`m really desperate I start to count lambs.

But, yeah. I also those kinds of "mind practice" about social skills once in a while. But not during night tho. I want to sleep during night. I also meditate and then my head really starts to fill many different kinds of thoughts.

 

[Kempy]

I used to try and count to 1000. Not only did this keep me awake, I would purposely try to stay awake until I reached 1000.

 

[Geordie]

I just close my eyes and let my thoughts run over me --- sometimes, they can be scary and they can really run all over my head --- but then, I calmed down soon after.