What goes through your mind just before you go to sleep at night?!

What goes through your mind just before you go to sleep at night?

Does this happen to others? When I lay down to sleep at night I get all kinds of random pictures going through my head. Some totally weird like sailing ships upside down. Totally normal fields of flowers then a second later a picture of rocks like druid stones. It's just vision after vision of seemingly unrelated things. When I try to focus on any one thing they usually slip away. If I am very tired the visions come rapid fire like a moving collage. Last night I went from stones skipping on a brook to a tidal wave coming at me to a person dressed in a black robe to giant flowers with faces in them to large face masks to children smiling as they cascaded by me walking, flying, doing somersaults, etc. I was tired last night and so many things came at me I can't begin to remember them all. Rarely, I'm not sure why, my mind is a total black void. I see nothing and it's unnerving. My husband says he rehashes the day/plans the next but he never had the "traffic" I seem to have.

2 weeks ago
Interesting thoughts-thanks everyone. A few comments. I do read quite a bit. Sometimes before I go to bed. I know at times my visions have elements of what I've read but I can pick those visions out of the rest-they are always a little out of sync with what I'm seeing - even though it's all random. This doesn't happen just when I'm tired it's all the time - it's when it doesn't happen that it unsettles me. It's a very important part of me - just not sure why. I am totally awake in when this starts then the visions get further and further away and I fall asleep. The visions may get weird but never scary. I've been doing this as long as I can remember. I thought everyone did until a few years ago. I've always dreamed in vivid color - again something I had thought everyone did. None of my siblings pre-sleep is any place close to mine so not sure if it's an inherited thing. Sometimes it bothers me when I see something that feels important but can't keep it in focus.

I take a long time to get to sleep and genrally think about lots of things, but i think what you have is probably pretty normal well maybe not normal but i just a part of who you are, and it is probably just a part of the time just befor eyou begin dreaming so you are half doing both, i used to see raspberries before i went to sleep r plenty of stragne things.