Insomnia (side effect)

Insomnia is the inability to sleep. When I wrote my previous post about dreams I knew that I had to also point this factory out because avoiding does not do anyone justice. Just how your brain can select which dreams to show based from your inner most thoughts, your inner most thoughts may also be the reason why you can't get sleep. This need to drown in ones thought leads to a pattern that cause you to lose sleep , as an article said "Pondering over one thing leads to another, past events are visualized, the pain suffered in the past is re-experienced and future similar happenings are re-enacted in the mind as a person lays there on the bed." If this person sounds like you then I won't ask you to take a chill pill, but rather re evaluate life and what needs to be done in need to better ones health, note you are not alone. However the only person who knows you better than anyone else is yourself.

Inconclusive Conclusions

This is my list of the unlikely ideals/conclusions we overthink about :
~If anyone is late, you consider if they might have died, total exaggeration
~If a car or person follows your same direction you believe they're intentionally trying to follow you.
~"we need to talk text" apparently leads to bad news, not always will this be the case.
~People who believe happiness is suppose to stay, emotion is suppose to change.
~The phrase what would your past self say , who you are now does not compare to the person before , humans are constantly changing , nobody remains the same forever.

Dreams

Sometimes you wake up and probably didn't dream anything, which is normal. Other times you wake up mesmerized by the dreams you've had in your head and you lay in your bed, scratch your head and think, why did that feel so real? This all goes hand in hand with the way your brain functions, most likely the things you overthink show up in dreams. Psychologists say everything that you sense comes from external input; the things that you see, smell, and hear. According to several articles it is said dreams don't serve a true purpose, but multiple theories have been made. The theory I find the most interesting and in my opinion, true, states "the dreamer is able to make connections between different thoughts and emotions in a safe environment." Reality makes us subdued to speak our minds or fight our fears. In our dreams we can and although some may be the kinds we don't exactly want, we all have the chance to wake up and realize the phrase your parents say after a nightmare 'it was all a dream".

Budgeting

At some point the loose change in  pants or purses won't be enough to satisfy needs and necessities , things like: food, flashy clothes, best technology is costing more and more. Yes I might be a teenager and I don't have to worry over things like budgeting, but I have been thinking a lot lately , if I don't start now I will always see it as a chore. Knowing what you have and where you spend things can help with one of the major overthought problems...Money! Budgeting is a solution to that, people who keep a plan tend to worry and overthink less on matters such as, Do I have enough money to pay my bills?

Signs You Overthink Everything

I was searching videos that can show overthinking rather than explain it and this in my opinion could not have showed it any better. It was funny , relatable and not remotely long like other videos.

Trivia

Do you know the game Trivia Quack? It's actually a game worth downloading. The point of the game is to answer questions within the categories of Art, Entertainment, Sports, Geography and History. You get to challenge your friends and people around the world , each question is timed which makes the wheels of your brain turn faster. During lunch me and my friends love to play the game, but as you know by now I am a nerve wreck when it comes to thinking, however that won't stop me.
My problem always with trivia or fast paced puzzle games is I am not preciously a very fast thinker, so I second guess my self and I doubtfully consider myself intelligent . The question can honestly be the most easiest thing and I would still manage to think they might be tricking me. Which sucks because you would be surprise to know your brain stores a lot of information, as a teacher once told me "You have the information you just need to put the effort to retrieve it", I wonder how much things has this brain of mine stored. Long story short if you're like me then , relax, challenge your brain learn more things and one day we will be able to retrieve it faster than we think.

Musical State of Mind

A brain can store over hundreds of songs and in some ways trigger different feelings connected with it. Think of it this way, you're driving and decide to change the radio, it changes to one of your favorite songs, this can instantly change your mood. One of the reasons why most of us turn to music in a time of need is for those feelings; to be able crank up the music after a long day  in order to take you to a different state of mind. The same goes for songs that hold a similar place in your heart , the ones that bring you to an emotional side, the ones that take you back to a place you might never want to revisit.In times it can also make you overthink why that song makes you feel the way it does, what specifically connect you to that song and not others. Scientifically its not known why people connect to music in certain ways, theoretically a sad song is suppose to make you sad , but this might not always be the case.

100 Day illustration of Overthinking

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/14/100-days-of-overthinking-maria-sanoja/

It's indescribable the amount of accuracy Author Maria Popova represents with her illustrations of Overthinking.

Personally the illustration above was my favorite within the article, take in-count the question "Why can't I let go?" this image of bricks go beyond representing the weight of everything, maybe its the world, society, someone/something or overall her life. Sometimes we prefer to be weighed down because at times the things we believe to hate are the thing that can make us the most happiest, inaddition everyone has their own baggage that seems impossible to let go of.