• @RamblingPanda
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    1202 months ago

    Thank god my nightmares are not viewed in vim. I can’t Google how to quit it while I’m sleeping!

  • @[email protected]
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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.

  • ShaunaTheDead
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    352 months ago

    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!

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      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

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          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

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      That’s how my “I’m stuck in my own bed and can’t move or talk” nightmare usually begins.

    • @[email protected]
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      142 months ago

      On the other hand I enjoyed that game for years without ever touching multiplayer…

      It’s always weird because everyone talks about how stressful it was, but it never was to me because I could just pause/save and walk away.

    • @[email protected]
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      Personally i didn’t really have performance anxiety, but I would get really pumped every match with my pulse racing and sometimes even my hands shaking afterwards. I always had to take breaks in between ladder games, only after an hour or two it would normalize enough to queue repeatedly.

      The cheese didnt bother me much, I always loved macro and did that every game behind good scouting, often leading to some timing attack I built up to like a stim bio timing or tank marine drop.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      I had that in WoW PvP. A buddy and I were in the top 50 of the second largest server and it was work. Even solo, we’d often wait for each other to come online before hitting ranked PvP so there was at least someone to talk to. It made losing not seem so bad, and if you started flunking, the other would say to stop and pick it up later.

      Otherwise, pressure as hell. And for no reason other than trying to be the top rank of my class which was some pointless goal I put on myself.

  • @[email protected]
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    232 months ago

    That’s hilarious because I’ve done the same exact thing before except it was the watch menu from the Goldeneye Nintendo64 James Bond game. It worked for several years as a young lad.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Dude i kept having fucmin dreams where i kept getting shot and my red health and blue armour would appear in my vision, and go down. Then I’d try to look at my watch to quit to menu, but it would be blown up just sitting there on my wrist blackened and falling apart so I had ti ride it out and die.

      It would be me on the ground and then the grenade landing in front if my face and then going BANG that woke me up and got me out of there

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        That’s crazy. I have told that story to a couple people and they just looked at me like I’m nuts.

        You know what’s even weirder? My name is Matt too 🤯

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          22 months ago

          I’ve been waiting since I was like 12 to tell that story to someone who would get it, and when I read your comment, I thought “Finally today’s the day!”

          No way! It’s always great to meet another Matt. Hey Matt!

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            Funny stuff. I would use it as a sort of dream test as well. If I could open the menu then I knew it was a dream. If it was an OK dream I’d just go back to it. Hasn’t happened in a long time though

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            I think so but I’m pretty sure most people think too highly of themselves so I don’t know how much that opinion is worth lol

  • @[email protected]
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    202 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    182 months ago

    I just don’t dream… anything. I remember having dreams as a kid, and I remember what it felt like waking up, knowing I’d had a dream, but forgetting it. But anymore, I just don’t have any dreams anymore.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 months ago

      You probably have dreams but are not aware because you do not wake up during a dream anymore. Maybe your sleep habits changed. You can remember dreaming only if you wake up during REM sleep. I know it is not possible probably, but if you have someone watch you while you are sleeping and wake you up a few seconds after they see your eyes moving, you’d probably remember your dream.

    • Dyskolos
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      You might have got sleep apnoea. If you also happen to not really feel rested in the morning. I know people that haven’t had it diagnosed for decades and it turned their life around and they also finally dreamed again. As a “byproduct” of not nearly dying every night, but resting.

      IF there is a pathological reason. Can also just be you don’t stand up shortly after your last REM-sleep and go into deep or light again. Might wanna just check with some smartwatch or just an alarm mid-sleep to check if you then remember stuff.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Hmm do you perhaps watch some streams or listen to podcast before sleep ( or even during sleep technicaly speaking ) ,beacuse i also dont dream when i do this.

      But i on the other hand also dream vwry vividly and intensly when i think about stuff before sleep ( whatewer it is , book idea , aliens, power fantasy about conquest of russia, imagining the layout of pipes around my house ).

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Are you a stoner? That kills the recall of your dreams but not the actual dreaming. You just never remember

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        Huh…

        I share a similar experience to the person you replied to, but recently I’ve been doing the “wake up knowing you had a dream but can’t remember it” thing again, and I’ve also been eating more bananas recently.

        Coincidence?!

  • Adori
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    132 months ago

    Lost and ragequit so many times that he related anguish to quitting out through the menu xD