To ask if your brain ever gets quiet

136 replies

thatsalad · 27/05/2025 22:44

As in, you literally are not thinking any thoughts?

YABU - yes
YANBU - no

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PermanentTemporary · 27/05/2025 22:59

Yes quite often. More often since on weight loss jabs. Also when I was on Sertraline for 6 months, in the early days after id just started it I could sit and stare into space with my head full of pink clouds. Loved it.

arethereanyleftatall · 27/05/2025 22:58

No. But also I don’t really understand how anyone’s brain could ever be. Surely everyone is always thinking ‘something’?

SweetSound · 27/05/2025 22:57

It never used to be, but I’ve learnt how to quieten it now.

DustyMaiden · 27/05/2025 22:56

No I didn’t think that was possible unless I was dead.

Picklechicken · 27/05/2025 22:55

Not empty as such but I find mindlessly watching reels on instagram of all sorts of random crap very therapeutic as I’m not thinking about all the other 28374744 things that are usually bothering me at the same time. Shopping has the same effect, but more costly!

Discombobble · 27/05/2025 22:55

When I get up to speak in front of others it goes deathly quiet, as soon as I lie down in bed it starts chattering away non stop

BuffaloCauliflower · 27/05/2025 22:50

Never, I do have diagnosed ADHD though. Bloody exhausting, and it’s never linear thoughts either.

Sux2buthen · 27/05/2025 22:50

From the moment I wake up to the second I fall asleep it’s non stop. Many different things at once and as I get out of bed and walk down the stairs a random song in my head that will get stuck on a loop from absolutely nowhere. I brows me my phone to fall asleep because my brain won’t let me just be anymore

Boxingshibes · 27/05/2025 22:48

Nope it can be a nightmare especially when trying to get to sleep. But I have adhd ( diagnosed nearly 30 years ago)
Typing this i can hear the words in my brain. Trying to go to sleep i usually focus my brain on a story/daydream or think of a picture and focus on that.

TheyreLikeUsButRichAndThin · 27/05/2025 22:47

Absolutely never. Ever ever. And things like yoga/mediation where you attempt to do so make me physically panic.

DH though often has not a thought in his brain. If I ask him what he’s thinking about if he’s watching telly, he’s only thinking of what he’s watching on telly. Wish I could do that!

Hennibg · 27/05/2025 22:46

My mind is racing after an evening out where I think I probably upset someone as I talk too much, wish I could turn my brain and mouth off sometimes but it just never happens . Makes me miserable

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