Racing Thoughts Quotes

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

It seems like I'm thinking 400 hours a day; that's kind of how it feels.

It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.

Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin

Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.

My mind is always going.

I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

I have insomnia, and it's hard for me to sit still for a long time. My mind is always "tick, tick, tick."

I've one of those brains that doesn't quieten down.

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.

My mind is always racing with ideas or things I should be doing.

My mind is always racing.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

My mind runs I can never catch it even if I got a head start.

Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.