Anyone here have an overactive mind?

[Superman]

I am one of those people whose minds never seem to shut off. When I do routine things like go to the store, go to school, etc, I always hear music or cannot help but think about other things. Not that I think I actually HEAR music, it's just that my brain never seems to shut up. I never enjoy silence.

Falling to sleep at night is a nightmare. I usually have to be exhausted and even then, I see images in my mind until I can finally get to sleep. Does anyone else here have these problems?

Yes, I know this would be considered ADHD.

[Gandalf]

I have the same thing, really quite annoying, I too never get to sleep till the beyond- wee hours.

[SirNitram]

Constant hassel to my life. I've actually gone and started calculating my normal caloric/energy input in a day(The results always scare me, really..).

[Exonerate]

I'm always thinking, unless I'm extremely tired... Even then, I often just lie on the bed thinking "This is so comfortable."

[Sea Skimmer]

I have long periods in which I'm constantly thinking of things totally devoiced from what I'm currently doing. In one school day I think I refought seven or eight battles in my head complete with sound effects, 3-D map effects and some other stuff.

[DPDarkPrimus]

It's what prevents me from falling asleep a lot, and also what prevents me from ever being able to develop story ideas well. I think of a ton of cool shit, but never have the time to be able to figure out how to put it all together.

[Cyborg Stan]

Yes. Keeps me up at night, even if I didn't toss and turn so much.

On the other hand, I can slap together some ideas fast. They might not be too coherant, but still. I used to make up one story-universe per day.

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

Happens to me a lot, and just like Sea Skimmer, I often fight giant space battles in my head, complete with disco-rific weapons effects and thundering explosions. Just like Babylon 5 Meets Star Wars!

I've also woken up more than once dreaming I capped the flag in Quake, as well as dreaming about sex with gay vampires and Goths in a black City...

[Sriad]

Having an overactive mind is better than the other end of the spectrum... And I do sometimes. I don't know what exactly the criteria are for this, but I've had nights (few and far between) where I'm unable to fall asleep for hours for all the thinking I do. It's exciting when it happens during the day though. Inducing that state is one of the best things that marijuana can do for me, though when I get it artificially I'm a bit dumber that the naturally occuring sort... usually when I've read something really exciting and have a "cosmic buzz."

[Alferd Packer]

Insomniac for three years now. My brain will not shut up, unless I go to sleep right after sex.

[Hamel]

Right now I have Monkey D. Luffy shouting "GOMU GOMU NO - BAZOOKA!!" in my head over and over and over again

It's mildly funny right now but i'll be driven insane in a few hours

[Frank Hipper]

*wipes drool off chin* Nope.

[Raxmei]

You mean that isn't normal? My mind's always been a clutter. I've never really thought about how it could be different. Like you, I also have difficulty sleeping. Left to my own devices I will revert to constant, rapid forwards phase shifting.

[Darth Garden Gnome]

Nope. In fact, I think I'll go to bed now, almost immediately drifting off into dream land and enjoying the wonderful relaxation of a good night's sleep.

And of course, because of MEAP tests, I get a late start day for school tommarow through Thursday. I'm gonna be getting alot of good sleep in this week.

[aphexmonster]

Yeah, ive always got something on the brain.... weather it be sex, video games, or just something simply retarded. I surely have a hard time falling asleep.

[Sokar]

Its a constant stream of noise and/or chatter about almost anything and everything, movies, music, game I've played........its slowly driving me mad I think. Easy sleep comes only with exhaustion, or after sex, otherwise I lay there for an hour+ trying to sleep, and then the dreams come, vivid, wildly realistic dreams that leave me feeling drained in the morning as if I hadn't bothered to sleep at all.

I'm seriously thinking of seeing a psychologist, its really beginning to bother me....

[Enforcer Talen]

Im always thinking. or thinking about thinking.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

I am one of those people whose minds never seem to shut off. When I do routine things like go to the store, go to school, etc, I always hear music or cannot help but think about other things. Not that I think I actually HEAR music, it's just that my brain never seems to shut up. I never enjoy silence.

Falling to sleep at night is a nightmare. I usually have to be exhausted and even then, I see images in my mind until I can finally get to sleep. Does anyone else here have these problems?

Yes, I know this would be considered ADHD.

My mind functions at astonishingly high clock rates as well. I'm always theorizing on something, computing something, dreaming up soundtracks for my own sci-fi universe, to completely working out entire scenes from the back history. And I can talk to all the varied voices/aspects of my mind. It's quite a zoo in there, I kid you not. And yes, it can be rather annoying at times. Quiet down-time listening to music tends to help sometimes though.

[Superman]

Wow, we are all just text book cases of ADD, aren't we?

[Enforcer Talen]

maybe its normal.

[Hethrir]

Exactly the same. Insomniac as long as i can remember.

[Captain tycho]

My job requires constant calculation and thinking, and even when Im not working, my brain is going a hundred miles an hour.

[Johonebesus]

The music never stops. Twenty four hours a day, every day, some tune is going through my head. Even my dreams have soundtracks.

[Cyborg Stan]

Wow, we are all just text book cases of ADD, aren't we?

It would seem that people matching this trait would be more likely to post in this thread. In addition, it's not like that this board is 'normal' in terms of personality distribution. Here's an example :

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Darth Wong - ENTJ
beyond hope - INFP
Master of Ossus - INTJ
Mad - INTJ
SirNitram - INTJ
Ghost Rider - INTJ
Hotfoot - INTP
Seggybop - IN(T/F)P
Frank Hipper - INTJ (EQ 50, SQ 53)
Red Knight - INTP
Icehawk - INT(J/P)
Crayz9000 - INTP (EQ 43, SQ 51)
Phil Skayhan - ISTJ
Robert Treder - ENTJ/ESTP
Tsyroc - ISTJ (EQ 31, SQ 24)
His Divine Shadow - INTJ (EQ 34, SQ 21)
Mr Bean - INTJ (HS & College)
Stuart Mackey - iNTj
Edi - ISTJ (11 1 44 33) / ENTJ (22 11 11 11)
Pcm979 - IST(J/P)
Warspite - INTJ
Sir Sirius - INTJ (EQ 11, SQ 54)
Mr Flibble - INTJ (22 11 44 33) /  ISTP
Crazy_Vasey - ISTJ
Dargos - INTJ (56 11 44 78
Slartibartfast - INTP
Pu-239 - INTP
HemlockGrey - ENT(P/J)
Faram - iStP / ISTJ
TrailerParkJawa ISTJ (67 11 56 22)
IG-88E - INTJ
kheegan - INTJ
aerius - INTJ
Larz - INTP
God Emperor - INTJ (EQ 25, SQ 19(
weemadando - ENTP (two years ago INTP)
Cal Wright - INTP
jaeger115 - ESTJ
The Dark - INTP (56 11 1 33) (Borderline T/F)
Shinova - INFP (89 22 33 44)
Durran Korr - ISTJ
Spanky The Dolphin - ISTP
Drewcifer - IN(T/F)P
Zaia - INFP (ENFJ retake)
unigolyn - INTJ
Keevan_Colton - INTP (11 56 33 11)
Cpt_Frank - ENTP (EQ 34, SQ 50)
David - INFJ
SWPIGWANG - INTP (78 44 1 44)
Arthur_Tuxedo - ENTJ (56 22 44 1)
Alex Moon - ISTP (EQ 25, SQ 34)
innerbrat - EN(F/T)P, DEAF(spark)
Thunderfire - ENTJ
Kelly Antilles - ISFJ
TheDarkOne - Forgot ("always wanting new challenges, and getting easilly board old ones")
Cyborg Stan - INTP (always test strongly but stronger in the past, 100 78 78 89, EQ 12, SQ 47, suspected Ausberger's(sp?))
Sonnenburg - INTP (was ISFP)
Alyrium Denryle - INTJ (EQ 40, SQ 56)
3rd Impact - (EQ 42, SQ 34)
XaLEv - (EQ 34, SQ 35)
Enforcer Talen - (EQ 35, SQ 37)
Gandalf - (EQ 34, SQ 42)
Archaic` - (EQ 7, SQ 29, "Aspergers plus a really inverted nature")
Jadeite - (EQ 17, SQ 19)
Yogi - (EQ 22, SQ 32)
GrandMasterTerwynn - (EQ 22, SQ 48)
verilon - (EQ 48, SQ 31)
Exonerate - (EQ 29, SQ 31)

Taken from the Personality types and debating thread and the Systemizing/Empathizing Quotient Test Thread

[Gandalf]

Perhaps there's a link between sci-fi and ADD?