Do you also sometimes wake up at two or three in the morning and find that there is a random piece of music playing in your head on endless repeat and you cannot even remember that your heard this particular song at all over the last five years??

I get that....always a random song that I don't particularly like or dislike. I'm terrible at remembering lyrics usually but my nighttime brain plays them all fully. Weird.

OK I'm jealous you have music!!

HA flickflacking...love it....stealing it...lol OK I am picturing that old creepy cymbal clacking monkey now.,... F U K ING FABULOUS!!!!! Cfknmnkye-...ecde7d.png

I have bad ADHD, and my mind is also always zooming. My (unwarranted, I know lol) advice is, instead of trying to block the text, which is pushing back against it, maybe try working *with* the words, instead. You can't block them. But maybe you could use them, to your benefit. Try to turn that text into a narrative. Think about something you're interested in, like, idk, if you like bike rides. Picture the text saying stuff about how one day you took this incredible bike ride. The sun was warm, the wind was cool, and the trees were so green. Then you came around a bend in the road and saw... And so on. Tell yourself a story. That's how I put myself to sleep, anyway. I don't see words. I picture mine. But it's sort of the same thing. It focuses the chaos in my mind, into something enjoyable and relaxing. And it really does help me fall asleep. Just a suggestion. 🤷 Best wishes. 😊

Rachel Adams: Your mom doesn’t REMEMBER her dreams…we all dream. Cats and dogs definitely dream as well, and I wouldn’t be surprised if all mammals dream.

I had to picture myself eating an apple to see if I could hear it and I could! Lol

i tried the apple thing. yeah, i can hear the crunch. lol

I'm ADHD, & I do this stuff, too. I can also hear & see the sounds of certain words, when I read or think them. I don't mean onomatopoeia like honk, bang, or crash. I mean real words like...crunchy is stepping on or crumbling dry autumn leaves. The word sounds like that, to me. I can even smell the leaves. Like, that's what I see, hear, smell, just by reading the word. It's not a memory association. It's not conscious association. It's just what the word IS, to me. Fried is the crackling & popping of an egg in a hot skillet. Sizzling is bacon cooking. Crispy is something thin & brittle cracking and flaking, like breaking the sugar crust on creme brulee. The word crispy, SOUNDS crispy, to me. There's many more I can't think of, offhand. And sometimes I don't even realize a word does that to me, til it does. I really can't explain it any better than this. But please tell me I'm not the only one. And, is there a name for this?? It doesn't bother me at all. But I've always really wondered.

As a few posted, it's called " synesthesia" Some people actually see, projected in the air around them, something like floating green circles in the air if they hear the word "cool", for example. It can get to be very overpowering to some. People who have this are e called "synesthetes. It's not a mental illness or flaw - just one of the things that make humans different. There are 60 types of it! All due to one little difference in our brain. Think of the combinations! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Welcome fellow mutant! :)

Hi K! We should all go out for pizza. Seriously.

Sounds good to me!

Yes it wasn't clear the way I wrote it. Yeah if I picture a wisteria flower I can smell it

synesthesia

The best way I can describe it is like silent film. Pictures and objects apear and can be changed or put together in any way I want.

Wow thanks Stephanie

Becky- That's funny. I can't meditate because I can't turn off the dialogue. Also, upvote for your first sentence.

Same here - trying to meditate with all that chatter in my head...

It’s freaky to know that people can see things. Sometimes it makes me sad that I can’t bring back pictures in my head of people that I love and are gone. But then I wonder if my brain makes up for it somehow by remembering detailed qualities about them…more intrinsic qualities.

I also have a terrible memory for faces and now I wonder if this is why. It certainly isn’t anything like face blindness. But I certainly have to link qualities of the person to their name in order to remember them. Masking has been so hard! Because I have to look at the person fully and remember even little things like the shape of their eyes or their teeth so that I can tell myself in my head and attach it to their name. It makes a lot of sense for me now as to why I don’t remember people and less I have a strong relationship with them.