Hello, I’ve Recently Gone Through A Tough Stretch As A

Question: Hello,

I’ve recently gone through a tough stretch as a hypochondriac as you can see if you see my question history. A few weeks ago I developed a huge fear of schizophrenia because I had a XXXXXXX vu/mind pop moment and searched it and saw schizophrenia as a cause. I’m a 26 year old male with no history of issues like that, but my anxiety caused me to fear it. This caused insomnia that I often go through as well.

I’ve gotten a bit better in the last few days, but I am having an experience related to sleep that I wanted to ask about and ease my mind on.

For many years now when I close my eyes to fall asleep, within a minute I start to experience what I call jumble brain. I’m still very much awake during this as I can open my eyes and be completely awake. But during this time I experience things like random scenes I can see in my mind that make no sense, random images, jumbled thoughts that make no sense, and the most worrisome, voices that could be from people I know to random people playing in my mind saying nonsensical things. To be clear these voices are in my mind as I try to go to sleep, I don’t physically hear them and I know they aren’t real.

But they’re still annoying and when I’m anxious they cause stress and bad sleep as I often open my eyes and try to restart going to sleep anytime I catch myself having jumble brain.

Is this common or normal or is it something to be worried about related to schizophrenia or something serious.