Is there a name for when

[comfritt]

You wake up in the middle of the night and your thoughts go round at 100mph, usually a very overwhelming feeling.

Then, possibly after a little sleep, when you are fully awake, those same thoughts that were causing worry or distress don't seem so huge any more?

I call it wake dreaming as it feels like, to me, that is your brain processing what it should be doing in a sleep state but instead it's doing it consciously or semi consciously.

I wonder if there is a proper term for it.

We call it monkey brains.

Nocturnal rumination?
Middle of the night anxiety?
Twilight state or hypnagogia?

Haha! I definitely had a case of the monkey brains last night.

Monkey brains is great - I’m stealing that!

Sounds like anxiety

Chattering monkeys.

For me, yes it's definitely anxiety related but it's the fact it is amplified at night when I'm awake and then doesn't feel anywhere near as bad when I'm fully awake, almost as if it's my brain sorting through it to make sense of it when I should be asleep,

I call it my brain chatting shit.

Does my head in. Go to bed as tired as hell, then lie there awake for HOURS!!!!!! 😖

I have this nightly. I'll wake up thinking I need to do 1000 things. What ifs etc. Morning I'm like nah sod it. It can wait ill just do what's needed.

I've just started magnesium as heard this can help.

I get this! I get it on repeat all night sometimes
So pointless.

I take magnesium too. Definitely helps me with energy levels.