3AM Thoughts: The Nighttime Gremlins

🧠 What Are 3AM Thoughts? Those relentless nighttime mind-streams that transform your cozy bedroom into a “Greatest Hits of Your Embarrassing Moments” PowerPoint. You’re lying there ready to sleep, and suddenly you’re back in 7th grade, calling your teacher “mom,” or panicking about a forgotten email from 2021.

🎭 Storytime Moment Raheesh shares the legendary “Toothpaste Catastrophe”—that time he ate toothpaste at age 7, lied about it, and then found himself Googling “what happens if you eat toothpaste” at 1% phone brightness in the dead of night. Cue the 45-minute spiral of existential dread.

📜 Quote Break

“The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.” – Prasad Mahes Great quote—unless your brain loves to churn up whirlpools right before lights out.

💥 Why Night Makes It Worse No daytime distractions. Early sleep-cycle cortisol spikes. A brain that thinks its job is to “protect” you by replaying every cringe-worthy moment in high-definition.

🔄 How to Handle It

1. Write it down. Offload the midnight monologue onto paper or your notes app.
2. Talk it out. Tell your brain, “Thanks, but it’s bedtime.”
3. Box breathe. In 4, hold 4, out 4, hold 4—repeat.
4. Imagine release. Picture your thought as a balloon drifting away.

➡️ Tune In Now to Episode 4 of CareForBrains: “3AM Thoughts: The Nighttime Gremlins” and learn how to quiet those after-hours mind gremlins so you can finally catch some Z’s.