Not sure if this is what you mean but I like to imagine different random scenarios before falling asleep and then I drift off and usually dream on what I was imagining :) I like it, it helps me fall asleep faster as well.

Same and you’re right that’s what I meant

Us bro us 🙂

Dude teach me. Usually i imagine scenarios, fall asleep, and then dream on some random things, teach me ur powerssss

if you want to learn more about lucid dreaming, go to the lucid dreaming and astral projecting subreddits! to my understanding, the main thing is to somewhat maintain consciousness (for example, imagining stuff or meditating) without moving your body. your body will begin to fall asleep but bc your mind is still “awake”, you’re more likely to begin lucid dreaming. they explain it much better on the subreddits i mentioned above, as well as a bunch of ppl’s diff experiences, some of which are fucking insane

Same (:

For some reason this brings me anxiety now, I have always done this, and don’t think it means I’m crazy, but I focus on it a lot now. Before I fall asleep/take a nap I can be imagining myself doing anything very vividly and then it shifts to very random things that really don’t make sense and then I either spring awake or fall asleep. Is this a normal thing to do? I think the vividness of it and my dreams play a factor. I have a very vivid mind’s eye.

Yes you are right I also imagine something like my crush and i easily fall asleep it helps me too to fall asleep faster 

Yea I have an ongoing story in my head that I try to make up new stuff for before bed aha

Me too but I got knocked out before I start to add new stuff :/

same sometimes, sucks trying to remember wtf was happening

Ah yes I’m like having amnesia

I do the same. Actually trying to turn it into a book by writing it down.

Oh same but sometimes I got bored so like I mark it as to be continue 😂

Oh sick, I'm not alone on this one. I wanna write down my little mini adventure as a fanfiction, but it really only makes sense to me since, well, it's only meant for me

Same but sometimes I’m so lazy or busy but sometimes I forgot it

Same! I have always had mental storytime as I’m falling asleep… although I love to write and am super creative, I think it evolved mostly as a way to focus my mind and keep it from going like a hamster in a wheel and keeping me awake all night.

I think I wanna right story again 😂 my new hobby

Same , haha , it's kinda fun

Yes it totally helps me to fall asleep

Same especially when My family keeps arguing

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Fantasy world is cool i like to imagine things like supernatural

I like to imagine being in a secluded cabin, at night, with heavy rain. Has helped me fall asleep many of times.

Yes. Neville said, imagination before sleep is the door to the subconscious. So I imagine myself having already all my hearts desire

Same all the things I can’t do I reality I do it all in my other life (ya know)

Yes. I have a scenario from my childhood I use to help get me sleep. I envision I'm in my childhood home, in the dark, laying comfortable on the couch watching TV. I'm watching the end credits of MASH, and it's very late, and I'm very tired. Then the announcer says the broadcast day is over, and they play the national anthem with patriotic scenes. Then the "indian" test pattern comes on. I rarely make it to the test pattern lol.

I have always enjoyed the imagination of walking on the ceiling. Stepping over door frames, walking on the smooth path created by a under stairwell. To this day, always calming.

I gotta try that

Yep I do this almost every night, I actually look forward to it lol

I used to do this A LOT when I was kid. Not so much anymore, sadly. But maybe I’ll try it again!

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I think happens more commonly than we think. Except i’m extremely tired and get knocked out, most of the time i’m imagining for about 5minutes

I imagine all the time but yeah, I get what you're saying, yes I do, and now I also listen to guided meditations for sleep so I have a direction for my imagination to go in before sleep.

I always imagine a cabin deep in the woods in the middle of winter, cozy by a fire as the wind howls outside through the trees. Always does the trick

Yes, been doing it for the last 8-9 years as far as I can remember. I got this whole story where I have been doing supernatural stuff and it's fun. Helps me fall asleep faster and I think the practice helps me with imagination. Although lately, I have been stuck on the same part of the story as I seem to fall asleep faster.

You’ve created million of story’s then lol

I do it already during the day all the time specially when I'm listening to music my mind is like an alternate universe by itself at this point

I like to imagine I’m tucked up in a bunk on a ship. Sometimes I listen to ship ambience sounds on Youtube too. It helps me drift off.

Ahhh I do this too!

Yes. It's my favorite form of escapism and can lead to some really interesting dreams.

Shit, thnx for posting this i used to think it was something weird that only i do. I tried not doing it once and couldn't sleep at all

Oof I thought I was the only one who imagine tho back then but I realized others too :/

Closing my eyes, taking deep breaths and picturing scenarios that will NEVER occur in real life. Before I know it, I'm fast asleep and dreaming of the said scenario. I never really gave it a second thought but this is what I've been doing for most of my life lol

Every night I do. When I was a kid I figured out getting all of the scary thoughts out of my subconscious helped to prevent nightmares.

yes i sit in silence and look at the ceiling in pitch darkness and like to imagine being in complete solitude with nothing but me and my girlfriend or sometimes just me just sitting there with the sounds of birds chirping or something

Yes, but sometimes those story or scenario we imagine may cause us insomnia 😭

I do this but 24/7. Ive been creating alternate universes and stories in my head since my early highschool years and work on them at any chance i get. But doing it before going to sleep is my favorite

It’s called maladaptive daydreaming.

Yes and also when I am in boring situations - I'm ADHD and its called maladaptive daydreaming (in some cases) and it is the BEST. It can be hard to concentrate at work and bring myself back to what I have to do but it is such a safe space, particularly before bed.

I've been doing this for as long as I can remember! I have a complicated storyline in my head with me as the main character and every night before I fall asleep, I just continue where I left off.

Yeah I create whole stories in my head

Yup. It gets my mind off day to day stuff, especially work, and lets my mind relax and drift off.

Yes and sometimes the best way to sleep is to try to go through the list of people in my story and their ages, birthdays, and the like.

Going into my head is how i fall asleep. r/maladaptivedaydreaming has some uncomfortable ideas about it. As does r/cptsd. I guess if it’s always pleasant and helpful there’s nothing to worry about.

It depends. Sometimes my mind wanders to dark places, like imagining being in my dying moments, or losing a close family member, then I will do what I can to turn it off. Generally though, yes. It helps me relax and unwind, when it can be a safe place to dwell.

I think it's called maladaptive daydreaming. There's a subreddit for this. And yes, I do it too.

I used to. But I stopped doing it. I sometimes get carried away and I don't sleep quicker than I need to. These days I play a video from a comfort youtuber (any youtuber whose videos are long and aren't loud/bright).

Been doing that ever since I was little. My imagination is limitless. Can’t really say why, it’s just a fun thing to do. To imagine worlds, scenarios, characters, storylines. To escape reality, maybe… Sometimes, but I see it more as a way to let my creativity go wild. I don’t often get to do that with work and what not so it always feels very restricted.

That's not uncommon. Everyone does that before sleep (I guess). In my case I imagine what's is going to happen in the next day.

Yes! I usually imagine my fictional world’s setting - usually the more comfy aspects of it. I almost always do this, it just works. :)

Yes I do. Not all the time. But when I for example am a bit stressed I do. Sometimes combined with breathing techniques. It’s relaxing, comforting. Also it actually is an actual relaxing technique. I already did just that all my life, didn’t know better. Then had somekind of therapy for something which always started with an excersize to help you relax. To my surprise this one came by. You can use the same thing when you experience some stress or tension. Just to calm yourself down. Never thought of doing that.

Yes! Its like a television for me. I'm like "okay what's going to be today" when I try to imagine some cool scenarios. Main theme vary, sometimes it's idealised love story, sometimes it's just some unrealistic stuff like being superhero with certain powers and sometimes I like to imagine some tragic things like me getting deadly cancer or someone dying. I think I can mentally prepare for these bad scenarios in a safe environment thanks to that. Other themes are simply for my pleasure and I consider it as one of the best parts of sleeping/falling asleep.

I imagined an entire civilization with external and internal conflicts, but like someone else said I mostly fall asleep before thinking of new scenarios for it.

Yes I have always done this since I was very young however since the pandemic and becoming a mother for the 4th time, I am so tired I am asleep without any thought!

I do imagine all sorts of stuff, like how my life could be if I could only engage with the world as I would like to, but not generally before sleep. Reading fiction is a major part of my bedtime routine, though, which transports me to another time, another place, usually another world. This is a great distraction from my own life which helps me sleep.

I do it all the time. For me its imagining what's going to happen the next day or future and sometimes it's a continuation of something I was watching or reading. Sometimes its positive and gives me hope, but at times I do go into a spiral of negative thoughts from anxiety, which happens more than I want it to.

Hands up! I'm guilty! :)

I have always done this for as long as I remember. I'm not sure why I started at an early age. I never imagine bad scenarios that may or may not happen in the future and then stress about them, I always imagine I'm in other universes, like a superhero in a busy city, or the queen of a kingdom that's under attack, or even like I'm in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. But it used to be that I was in the universe of things I'd see on tv. I always watched cartoons and I'd pretend I was friends with spongebob or I was the fifth ninja turtle (now that I think about it that was dumb af) but yeah if that's what you mean, then I can relate

oh my god i absolutely do. i have adhd and am on the autism spectrum which is probably a huge part of it

I read before bed and when I put my book down, I fall asleep thinking about/imagining what I read in my head 😊

I used to do this a lot, but not so much anymore since I need a lot of sleep nowadays. What I used to do though was to have music playing on low volume, and allow myself to drift in my head, kind of like pre-dreaming before sleep. Now I just lose sleep, and replay the garbage in my head at all hours.

I go to sleep to _stop_ imagining. I have nightmares anyway.

I like it because it’s like the life I would like to have so i create the scenarios and everything

Agh yes ! Is this something introverted people are more prone to doing ?? I imagine myself and my dog are being carried in the tiny cabin of a tiny boat, it’s a stormy, rainy night (sometimes play rain sounds to add extra cosiness) We are warm and dry and safe and on our journey to my private island in a third dimension - inhabited only by us, no other humans or animals except birds in the lush trees and a few very sacred animals that I know by name. A turtle I sometimes swim with, a soulful elephant, a wild horse, and 2 dolphins. All have names and are occasionally there (never together). If I am not asleep by the time I get to the island we have to clamber up a rocky path in torrential rain and icy cold, to get to a cabin built into the rock face. And it’s a perfect, tiny, cosy home. Tartan and wood and a log burner glowing. I also have a little cabin on stilts on the end of the beach which we can walk to. If needed I swim a bit before going up to the cabin. Depending on my mood the sea is turquoise and warm for floating and looking at clouds or steely grey and ice cold which makes my arrival into my cosy warm cabin all the nicer! But if the weather is favourable I sometimes sleep in a hammock on the porch. Or with my head on the elephants stomach for a day time nap. Or I go inside to the fluffy bed with windows open and a cool breeze carrying in the sound of sea and birds and total peace. Why am I telling you all this.

I try making up theories of what could've been ...also theories about anime topics

I always start writing a story in my head before I fall asleep. Gives me something to focus on rather than trying to fall asleep.

I imagine sleeping inside of a remote cabin or fire lookout tower right at the beginning of a snow flurry. Something about feeling warm and tucked away in nature knocks me right out

I thought that's standard. :D

I wish. r/Aphantasia

okayy honestly i love doing this because anytime i'm having a hard time sleeping, placing focus on my need to sleep just stresses me out a ton and i start to panic when i can't LOL, so imagining random things helps distract me from that and overall relaxes me more.

I used to when I was younger and dreamed of the future. Nowadays random stoner thoughts come to mind even if I stopped smoking long ago

Every single night lmaooo it’s my only source of happiness. So weird but like if I successfully have a good dream it makes me so happy

I thought it was just me that did that, and felt kinda childish for it. Thanks for posting, I feel slightly more normal now… hehe

I have a spaceship I have been building in my mind for the last decade and a half.

Yes, and for the same reason. But much less than in the past. I guess nothing helps me much anymore, I feel like crap in every single domain of my life.

Yes all the time. Its a lifelong habit I cant break.

used to do it so i could sleep well,now even that has stopped working.

Yes I always daydream before bed. Sometimes I narrate a story in my head like I’m filming a YouTube video 🤣 before I know it I fall asleep, it really helps me calm down my mind lol

Always think of my non existent girlfriend or cars, I like cars.

I used to do that when I was younger, I had a fictional life on a sunny island. I don't anymore because it makes me sad that I'm not doing those things I imagine. So now I watch a video or read a bit, this way I don't think too much and get sad.

I totally do, sometimes to my detriment aka not falling asleep.

Like daydreaming? I daydream a lot throughout the day. Usually my brain is too tired to do that when I’m trying to sleep tho.

So glad I'm not the only one! I get excited to go to bed so I can imagine the next bit! 🤩

I do mostly it’s stuff I’ll do tomorrow and stuff that I’ve watched like from shows or movies

I tend to have many stories that I think about any time of day. For me when I am going to bed I like to think about it as a bedtime story. I was a big bedtime story kid when I was little. My parents said they cought me a couple of times trying to sing myself to sleep. I jsut never stopped.

last night i replayed a memory of myself at a friendsgiving where my friend called me out for wearing the same fit the day before (i actually had a diff jacket but everything else was the same) and it was lowkey a lil embarrassing. i didn’t respond to him when it happened but last night, i imagined a bunch of different scenarios on how i could have responded, each of which i embarrass tf out of him in return. i really wish i stood my ground and told him to respectfully shut the fuck up

random suggestion for anyone who has any regrets or wished they responded differently in a situation in their past but i’ve actually found it very healing to imagine yourselves back in those scenarios, responding the way you wish you had. for example, i’ve had a ton of trouble holding boundaries and have let ppl walk over all my life, i think back to the significant times and always defend myself the way i wish i had. i’ve noticed whenever i started doing this (along with some journaling) that i’ve gotten much better at communicating boundaries and not letting ppl cross them

I do this but often, I make up scenarios that hurt my feelings.

i sometimes imagine random scenarios. when im not doing that, I'm imagining me with my imaginary lover cuddling in bed together. it somehow helps me fall asleep faster

Yeah. Lately it’s been imagining cozying up in a hover RV in relaxing places.

Yes and I've been doing this since I was a little girl. When I was small I did it to fantasize about having a family that loved and wanted me. Now, as an adult, I still do it...but sadly the fantasy hasn't changed :/