[dx211]

I have this thing where I wake up at 5:00 AM and my internal monologue sounds like someone twisting the tuning knob back and forth on a radio. Anyone know a name for that?

[ashark]

Kind of a horrifying cacophony? Mind is racing but unfocused, and you can't force it to focus? Makes it difficult to go back to sleep?

Yeah, I get that every so often. Every couple months, maybe. No idea what it might be called.

[pavel_lishin]

I think have that multiple times a week; almost feels like a waterfall in my head. Sometimes a song gets stuck in my head, and I just hum it until I'm "done waking up".

[ashark]

Oof, the times when it's one or more songs are the worst. I'd forgotten about that one.

[SCHiM]

But isn't that just called 'having a song stuck in your head?'

I almost always have a song running in the background, never the same, but I wake up to a song and I go to sleep with a song.

[Riseed]

Having a song stuck in your head is like having a working player stuck on repeat-1.

Sometimes "one or more songs" manifests not as one song at a time, but instead like a cacophony of players all stuck on repeat-1.

[grubles]

Sugar crash. Blood sugar levels drop to the point that your body wakes you up and you have racing (and sometimes negative) thoughts which, from my experience, is your body saying it needs to eat some carbs.

[denom]

It could be hypnagogia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

[DonaldFisk]

If you're waking up it's a hypnopompic state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnopompic).

[HenryTheHorse]

In Buddhist meditative practice terminology, it's known as the "monkey-mind" and the practice involves watching the "mind-stream" flow, from thought to sensation to feeling to thought...

[leviathant]

I don't know the name for this, but it sounds like something I sometimes encounter during a good float session in a sensory deprivation tank.

[throwawayornot]

"Reddit"?

[grubles]

Sugar crash.