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Brain Ruins Your Attempt To Sleep

This is a 4-panel comic meme that jokes about the extremely relatable experience of trying to fall asleep at night, only for your own brain to derail your attempt with intrusive, anxiety-inducing thoughts. Panel 1: A personified pink cartoon brain asks the woman 'Are you trying to sleep?'. Panel 2: The tired woman lying in bed responds 'Yes, so please shut the fuck up'. Panel 3: The brain ignores her request and drops a disturbing intrusive thought: 'You've probably encountered someone who has secretly wanted to kill you'. Panel 4: The woman is now completely wide awake, staring wide-eyed in the dark, unable to fall asleep anymore after the unsettling thought. The meme perfectly captures how overactive brains ruin sleep for many people.
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Are you trying to sleep?
Yes, so please shut the fuck up
You've probably encountered someone who has secretly wanted to kill you

Overview

This is a 4-panel comic meme that jokes about the extremely relatable experience of trying to fall asleep at night, only for your own brain to derail your attempt with intrusive, anxiety-inducing thoughts. Panel 1: A personified pink cartoon brain asks the woman 'Are you trying to sleep?'. Panel 2: The tired woman lying in bed responds 'Yes, so please shut the fuck up'. Panel 3: The brain ignores her request and drops a disturbing intrusive thought: 'You've probably encountered someone who has secretly wanted to kill you'. Panel 4: The woman is now completely wide awake, staring wide-eyed in the dark, unable to fall asleep anymore after the unsettling thought. The meme perfectly captures how overactive brains ruin sleep for many people.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit as a viral relatable comic, with the original provided title being 'Odds are this…'. It has been reposted across many social media platforms, and this specific version has an imgflip.com watermark from being shared via the imgflip meme creation platform. It went viral due to how accurately it captures the common experience of intrusive thoughts ruining attempts to sleep.

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