[Cplus]

After 10pm if I decide to stay up I always have this terrified/disturbed emotion that’s overwhelming and I can’t figure out why! I mentally go over in my head why I feel like this but I come up empty, there is literally no reason for me to feel like this. Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts about this?

[Fractal Night]

My thought would be that maybe your brain is associating the time after 10pm with something negative that may have happened in the past, maybe even something you've observed secondhand or a particular fear you have. Then again it might just be your body's way of saying that you're not a night person.

I would try to build up positive experiences after 10pm to slowly train your brain to think about that time of day as a good thing, instead of something to be feared.

[Skeezyks]

Well... I really don't know. But one thing that occurs to me is your terrified / disturbed emotions might possibly be physiological if there's no reason for them you can discern. I recall reading an article in our local newspaper a while back. It talked about why people tend to crave sweets during the evening. The article said that the brain requires large amounts of energy to function. And sugar provides a quick burst of energy at a time when the brain has become worn down from the day's activities. So perhaps what you're experiencing has something to do with physiology & (possibly) what you are or aren't "feeding your brain", so to speak?

I know in my own case as it gets later in the evening, & during the night if I'm awake, my normal levels of generalized fear & paranoia (which aren't really of all that much consequence during the day most of the time) tend to become more noticeable. I do also think simply the fact that it's dark has an effect too though. That's why kids go trick-or-treating on Halloween after dark rather than at noon.

[Fuzzybear]