To ask if your brain ever gets quiet

This is exactly what I came on to post… my DH lies in bed and I say what are you thinking about and he just says “oh the ceiling” meanwhile in the 5 minutes I’ve been here I’ve fully renovated the house, planed the next 3 months events had fake conversations with friends and family, organised entire weekends away and decided what to eat for lunch.

I had a lady try to do reki on me after a massage and I leapt off the bed in a panic as she said empty your mind. It was like she was asking me to close my tabs!!

no no no thanks… the thought of having no thoughts is terrifying what happens!

I wish mine helped me! I keep hearing people say this, but it seems to have passed me by, sadly.

@Tunnocksmallow you have just described my brain exactly! DD has ASD and ADHD and DS is waiting for an adult ADHD assessment.

I find that reading or watching something gripping on telly helps absorb me enough to give my poor brain some relief!

When I was young I used to do something called dissociative daydreaming, which I think was my way of coping. The interesting thing is my DD also does it!

How have the weight loss jabs helped with this please

Constant thoughts. Found magnesium helps to quieten them down a bit for sleep which is nice. Interesting to see others say ear plugs helps! I’ll try that.

had interesting conversation with my son recently about thinking in pictures as well as hearing your thoughts - I do both but apparently some people don’t see anything?? I see whole scenes, pictures/images, even the word I’m trying to spell- helped when I was at school as could imagine my text book page with the answers on!!

Yes, in meditation. Not in every meditation I do but my capacity improves the more I do it. And I am quite ‘adhd-ish’ - not diagnosed.

I’m leaning towards all the ADHD stuff actually being normal and it’s the other version that is ND!!!

Never ever ever. I’m really really obsessed with music and lyrics, and my head is constantly playing music. Constantly. I wake up with songs in my head any time of the night.

I've not got ADHD and still I'm always thinking of something - sometimes linear thoughts, sometimes jumping from one thing to another. I don't understand the concept of a quiet brain - what's the point? Surely you'd at least think that you're not thinking of anything?

Never. My brain has 2 loops. Always has some form of music playing. Constantly. It can be a whole song, the same line over and over and over… a jingle, anything.
Thw other loop is constant stream of thoughts. Conversation with myself. What I have to do, what I should’ve done. Comments people have said. The paint colours I need to pick. The appointments I need to sort. Past conversations with people. Shopping lists. Everything.
what I am writing, reading. Etc etc etc.
I always thought it was normal, and everyone was the same until I asked people at work one day and most of them looked at me in horror. They have silence.
I’m now awaiting my ADHD diagnosis. I have been told it’s definitely there!

I would love to switch off my brain for just 5 minutes peace.

Erm, people have quiet brains?

Quiet as in it’s possible not to think about anything at all?

No I always have a song in my head

Mine doesn't shut up ever I wish it did! But I have adhd and asd I fa exhausting. Kind of like an annoying shadow constantly in your ear

Weirdly wearing earplugs makes my brain a bit quieter, not sure why or how!

I tried a beta blocker for the first time last week and that was LOVELY. Peace and quiet and stillness and calm. I wish I could take them every day!

Never and always thinking of several things at once

No. There is always a voice chattering away. Except for once on a car journey when there was nothing for several minutes and I couldn't even think a single thought. That was very scary and panic inducing.

😂 Sorry, nothing ominous at all. Just boring stuff. I use exercise, meditation and journalling and it’s been life changing for me.

Last week had a lot of post-Eurovision background noise of Swedish Sauna and Cha Cha Cha Euro-Dab earworming on loop through my head along with all the other semi-concious crap chuntering along and looping.

I'm never sure what's background noise, tinitus or my imagination. I like constant radio to give my brain some varied distraction therapy.

DH says his brain goes quiet. Weirdo!

Literally never, but I'm fairly sure I have ADHD so I guess it's par for the course.

Me and my husband were talking about this the other day. Our brains are always on the go. Not just thinking but actual noise. Reliving conversations, what was said, what should have been said, conversations we are going to have and our brain talking through how it would go. Songs. Thinking about what we’ve done that day or what we are going to do tomorrow…but with a narration. Sometimes randoms tv/film scenes…..it’s constant. Our son has ADD and we are wondering if we do too! The more we learn about him and how his brain works, the more it seems to ring true for us!

Mine never stops and recently I have been having really vivid dreams so I don't even get peace and quiet when I'm sleeping 😂

Whenever the ADHD things come up on tiktok I always both think that I do all of them but that also surely everyone does. But maybe they don’t, who knew!

Yes, but it’s taken 30+ years of meditation practice to get it that way.