For some reason, almost all my dreams are lucid, which means I know I’m in a dream. They’re stupid, nonsensical, and usually have people I knew, but have not seen, or thought about in a long time. Occasionally I have a vivid one, which means it seems real. You all know this, just stating it for those who may not know what that means.
Most of my vivid dreams are me trying to find something, or someone in some urban environment, with a sense of urgency. Just me searching for something, someone, or trying to get to some undefined place. Sometimes there are other people, sometimes not, but they never end up helping in my search.
In one of the most vivid memorable ones, it was night, and I was outside of a motel, looking into one of the rooms that had glass walls facing outside. The lights in the room were off, but there were blue, purple, and pink neon business advertisement marquee lights behind me, faintly illuminating the room. I could see living room style furniture, a bar, stools, etc.
I walked around to the side of the building, there was a 2 lane highway, that stretched straight ahead as far as I could see, with multiple hills. Along the side of the highway, there were buildings, that were illuminated with typical white highway lights, but the dominant light was blue, purple, and pink neon marquee signs. The entire night sky was illuminated with them.
That one is burned into my memory, it was so vivid, and real. It probably represents loneliness. I’m sure it does.
Feel free to TL;DR.
He has joined the Khala.
I’m trying this right now but it doesn’t work. Am I not asleep? Is this shitty life real?
I remember in middle school I’d always come home with the worst headaches but then I’d just imagine what I did today and select what’s important and what’s not as if they were files in file manager and drag what I didn’t think was important to the recycling bin. It worked too
Title made me lose the game.
Damnit, I lost as well.
Let’s get you back to bed, gramps
“I was Zerg Champion of Bumfuck, '97, you little ingrate! My CPAP mask needs to be cleaned…”
I mean i just have to kill myself and hope it’s really just a dream. I would like a quit menu
happy 10 year anniversary to this
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One day, he’s going to try to log out, and the logout button will be missing.
Then the only way he’ll be able to wake up is by beating all 100 floors of his dream. But if he dies in the dream, he dies in real life.
Then the only way he’ll be able to wake up is by beating all 100 floors of his dream
Cheating in a duel against the game master in floor 75*
so basically real life
I would subscribe to your newsletter
You can also look for sword art online
You can look for sword art anywhere. I guarantee the library has some books.
you can listen for a glopping noise
It will definitely happen if someone tells him that :)
ESC>:q!Colon Q exclamation point? 6 keystrokes to leave? Sheesh.
If you wrote your dream to disk beforehand,
!might be unnecessary.4 keystrokes!!
If we’re not counting the shift key, ZZ to quit is only 2!
My nightmares largely stopped after being awake tired af and terrified of sleeping, when I said “damn you nightmares, you can’t scare me into sleep deprivation! I’m coming in there and I’m gonna fight back”, and then went right back to sleep. I don’t know what nightmare I had that drove me to get angry at my nightmares, I didn’t even have a plan to fight back. But that’s when it stopped, when I stopped being afraid of them.
Maybe nightmares are what happen when you fall asleep scared.
Sleep paralysis is the worst, you feel the presence of demons around you.
Never had that, but waking up and not being able to move for 10 or 15 seconds is annoying. It was frightening when I was child, not anymore, but still, the thought “Did I have a stroke in my sleep?” until you jerk into movement is annoying.
Thank god my nightmares are not viewed in vim. I can’t Google how to quit it while I’m sleeping!
Vim is the nightmare.
Vim, I wish I knew how to quit you! (/s obviously bc Vim is life)
:qHolding the power button on my PC until vim shuts down.
:q!if it’s urgentzzif you can’t be bothered to hold shift.Might have to hit escape first if you’re not in
visualnormal modeedit: I’m bad at remembering words
Escape puts you in normal mode, visual mode is v
It’s always urgent.
:x:o
Awake me can remember. Goodnight me can’t 😵💫
I prefer
ZQ
Would that mean your nightmare is all in ASCII?
Might be. Some unrecognizable, nightmarish UTF8 mixed in with the wrong encoding maybe?
That’s just Thursday
Click escape, which gets you out of the current write mode.
Type :q!
I just kinda open my eyes and that’s how I escape
for me that’s when the nightmare begins
Keep opening your eyes until you escape
You’ve heard of sleep paralysis?
Some of us get that dream effect (eyes open, dream reality overlaid over real reality) but without paralysis.
Opening your eyes? They’re already open and the dream is running
Getting out of bed? Touch hallucinations may become part of it
Usually turning on a light gets me out. That or time
Thankfully, I just occasionally get the not being able to move for 10 seconds, no residual dreams bleeding into consciousness.
It really sucks for nightmares. I heard about someone else with the same thing, they were prescribed sleeping tablets and told to use a sleeping bag if sleeping above ground floor (for fear that the dream might make him jump out of a window
I don’t think accidentally hurting oneself is a likely outcome though as these dreams only happen when you’re very close to full consciousness on the way to sleep or wakefulness, and they dispel quickly after you start being active
Speaking of hurting one’s self, the comedian Mike Birbiglia (?) has a condition where his brain doesn’t make the hormone, chemical, whatever, that paralyzes us in our sleep. He literally ran through a plate glass sliding door on a 2nd story motel room, and fell to the pavement. He survived, relatively unharmed, but has to sleep in a body bag like you describe to keep from hurting himself, or others, in his sleep.
Thanks for the reply. Have a good one.
Now that just sounds like garden variety psychosis lmao
I can’t really put it into words but I just randomly (?) have this thought of “certainly not” and have the feeling of “this has got to be a bad dream… Oh wait, it’s actually a bad dream, why am I still here at all”.
I just don’t always manage to.
That’s how my “I’m stuck in my own bed and can’t move or talk” nightmare usually begins.
That kind of sounds like a strategy to trigger lucid dreaming. I’ve heard that if you envision a specific thing while falling asleep, like for example the StarCraft menu screen, then it will appear somewhere in your dream. When it does, it’s supposed to sort of jostle you into consciousness but not wake you up.
It seems that what this person’s friend did with his free will in dream land is nope right out of there. He could have turned that nightmare into something awesome though!
My nightmares always turn into semi lucid dreams, it’s like “this is so horrible it must be a nightmare” and then I can choose to just nope out of sleeping.
My old man taught me that telling someone one is having a nightmare stops it from coming back. I’ve found that just saying it out aloud works as well.
I’ve used it quite a few times throughout my life, never fails. It’s supposedly pretty eerie for others though when I just sit up in bed in the middle of the night, proclaim “I’m having a nightmare” and then promptly going back to sleep.
Even if you are aware you are in a dream it can be difficult to control it, at least in my experience. More like I wake up on a roller coaster but I’m not sure if its a fun one or a scary one yet, but I can choose to stay and see how it goes.
