Is this sleep or what?

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So every so often I do this thing where it's like I go to sleep, usually for about 4-8hrs. But when it happens it's not like when I sleep at night, when it happens and I wake up I don't feel like I've gone to sleep at all, and while it happens my brain is still going. I think about things usually uni based, for example chemistry equations and I just run through them. I get up and know what I've been through in my head then look at the clock and it's hours later!
It's almost like my brain decided to shut off any physical input when everything gets too much.
Is this a shut down? Does it happen to anybody else?

I don't know, but it might be some kind of meditative or hypnotic state.

It happens to me. last night it kept me up 4 hours before I finally when to sleep fully.

This happened to me the other night. I closed my eyes around 12am. I still had a lot on my mind and was thinking about a lot of different things. I glanced at the clock again and it was 3:30am.

Sometimes we fall asleep without realising it.

I do that often though normally only for a short amount of time before someone/something gets my attention. I don't fully understand it but am currently thinking its got something to do with things being too much and sort of everything in my environment gets processed as background noise/visuals and thus gets filtered out. - how does that theory fit with your experiences?

Yes I was thinking along the same lines that it happens to me when everything gets too much. I go to my room when it happens and I'm usually left alone so I wonder if I got interrupted would it cut the experience short

What usually causes your experience to end?

When I'm really focused on some type of work and spending lots of time on it my dreams (I guess) will consist of continuing to think about it or "work on" it while I sleep. It is still recognizable to me as sleep, though.