Unusual Thoughts.

[Jorja70]

I have an unusual plague of something when I am trying to go to sleep at night. I've never heard anyone talk about it so it makes me worried that something in my brain wiring is wrong. I've had this happen a couple of thousand times over the last 25 years. I am trying to go to sleep and my mind jumps from one thing or another. But the weird part is Like I'm thinking of driving a car and as I'm going down the road I start to cross a bridge. Then I'm crashing thru the rail and into the water. My eyes fly open and my heart is racing. I have had thoughts of just running off the road into a group of trees and before I hit, I open my eyes and am in a panic, That is usually the theme of it. Last night it was me driving and I started up an incline and at the very top, the road has broken off and there's nothing up open space and a valley down below. It's always me driving somewhere and then disaster. I don't know why and I can't stop it until right at the disaster starts to happen. I've tried sleep music, like rain or the oven or night sounds even tried listening to Enya. But it still comes. And it is just as I'm drifting off to sleep. Any suggestions?

[Starrlight]

It has happened to me too. I wonder what it is all about too. It feels like I’m watching a movie. For some reason it doesn’t happen any longer. I would try to deep breathe when it starts up.

[Hidden]

The feeling of falling used to happen to me and then jolted awake just as you are about to hit the ground. Has got better now thankfully. I haven't looked into it so will be interesting to see if anyone can explain!

[Jorja70 in reply to Hidden]

It hasn't stopped for me. Like I said, a few 1000 times in the last 25 years. But it always seems to be when I'm driving. Years ago I visited this rock that was an overlook close to where I lived. I peered over and the view was fantastic but afterwards I would dream about falling from it in my sleep. This now happens just as I'm going to sleep. The scene is getting scarier each time now it seems. But I'm always driving. And it doesn't occur to me to stop before something can happen but plays out till the disaster is THERE. I am calm when I'm driving in this event, looking at eh scenery and then WHAM! My calmness is why I am not stopping my mind from this journey.