Is it normal to have completly random thoughts when trying to sleep?

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When i close my eyes to sleep i can get completly random thoughts in my head, often the thoughts are in voices of friends.
for example:
''Nice that you bought icecream, now we can ride a horse''
It can be either in my own voice, in a friend or family's voice, or in a complete random voice.

I do know that it is only a thought, but its kind of like i dont control it myself - its always words / sentences.

This happens everytime im gonna go to sleep, while it happens im wide awake, it's not like im half-sleeping, but im having my eyes closed and trying to sleep.

Im super hypochondriac and been scared of schizophrenia etc, been to a psycholog who said that im not schizo, and that i shouldnt worry about it.
Anyone who gets the same or who got something to say about it?

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  • Britneywolf
    6 years ago

    A lot of times when I'm going to sleep, I like to try to think about something I want to dream about (since I lucid dream about half the time and it helps) but that topic will conpletely change to something irrelevant in a minute. For example, I'll go from thinking about what I might do tomorrow to what would happen if we lived in a world where dogs took over and what dog breed would Trump be?

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  • rayb12
    6 years ago

    The standards other people have for "random" make me feel like I'm of a different species

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    • drbre
      6 years ago

      This happens for you too?

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      • rayb12
        6 years ago

        Lol if it did it would be the most "not random" thought of my life

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  • Boojum
    6 years ago

    You're talking about what happens in the "hypnagogic state": the transition from wakefulness to sleep.

    It's completely normal.

    I usually do a very annoying full-body jerk just as I drift off, which wakes me up, then I go to sleep.

    Once, I had a very unpleasant sleep-paralysis experience: I couldn't move, but I was certain some intruder was creeping up the stairs, and heading for the bedroom. There wasn't actually anyone there, and I slipped into sleep, but the feeling of utter terror I experienced is still vivid more than thirty years after the event.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

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    • drbre
      6 years ago

      is it still the hypnagogic state then?

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    • drbre
      6 years ago

      Yeah, but i can get this directly after i close my eyes? Im fully awake.

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      • fakeaccount2
        6 years ago

        Yep. You only think you're "fully awake". But when you focus on the voices sometimes you can wake up completely because you're only in the very beginning stages. Happens to me all the time

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        • drbre
          6 years ago

          Well, i closed my eyes earlier today and literally like 10 seconds later these thoughts came up haha... i felt very much awake.. still normal? :S

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          • fakeaccount2
            6 years ago

            I'm not sure I would say yes cuz sometimes it seems like only 10 seconds but could be more, I've actually fell into this state just as quickly (at work for example, I remember closing my eyes about 10 seconds then full body jerked awake as if catching myself from falling - I wasn't really) but that's just me

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            • drbre
              6 years ago

              I see, but im not sure that im even in this state haha.. maybe its my just my thoughts racing when im relaxing my mind?
              notice that i dont HEAR it, i think it.
              It pops up in my head, not that i acctualy hear it with my ears :)

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