Imagine doing this but then having to stare at the main menu for 8 hours lmao
Now that is a real superpower.
I also manage to annoy TF out of my wife at being able to go from fully asleep to bouncing out of the bed like a piece of toast in under 10 seconds.
About the only thing that can impact this is severe sleep deficit, which - years ago - mean less than 3-4hrs in a night, but these days (in my sixth decade) means anything less than 5hrs of sleep in a night or less than 7 after multiple days of a sleep deficit.
For me its the menu from 1999 driver sound effects and all.
I started lucid dreaming when I was about 8 years old. This was before google, and when I asked my parents about it, they had no idea what I was talking about. So I didn’t know what exactly was happening, but I did know it was super gay to be conscious while sleeping, so I spent a few weeks figuring out how to forget I was dreaming. I eventually succeeded, but ever since I’ve had the ability to think “Oh, this is a nightmare, I need to wake up.” and open my eyes, wide awake.
You’ll know you’re in trouble if you’re arguing and he stares blankly and starts jabbing his finger at the air.
I usually quit by dying.
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.
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.
It will definitely happen if someone tells him that :)
Thank god my nightmares are not viewed in vim. I can’t Google how to quit it while I’m sleeping!
Vim, I wish I knew how to quit you! (/s obviously bc Vim is life)
:q:q! if it’s urgent
zzif 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!
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!
I had sleep paralysis three times in my 43 years. It feels like someone is in the room and you try to scream but nothing comes out. You just have to force yourself back to sleep.
The second I realise I’m dreaming I wake up.
I think it’s because the second I am some level of conscious the deep rooted anxiety starts again and jolts me up 🙂
Nothing scary than real life.
You should try flying instead.
At least you don’t go through a series of false awakenings when it happens. Those are generally not the most fun, since at best they ruin lucid dreams (it’s sort of a way for your mind to go back to sleep, and typically resets your awareness of being in a dream), and at worst it fucks with your sense of reality big time.
That’s why I don’t nap anymore… I lucid dream sometimes, but usually not with naps. Those are just hyper realistic emotion bombs with full physical sensation.
So one day I was having one of my awful nap dreams, and it was super negative, so I decided to wake up. So I did. And then I realized I was still sleeping, and tried again… Dozens and dozens of times, every trick I could think of. I could feel my actual body unable to move (thanks sleep paralysis!), and I kept cycling back to dreaming, starting the whole thing over again.
Try spinning around in place in the dream! Sometimes it can help keep me dreaming cause I focus on my dream body and not my asleep body
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.
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.
I don’t remember dreams because I smoke pot to sleep. When I don’t smoke for a while the dreams return.
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.
Off on a tangent, but I dated a woman who had sleep apnea, and wore the CPAP mask at night.
In the morning, because of being pumped full of air all night, she would fart the most deepest, longest, most glorious farts for like 2 or 3 minutes straight. We would just laugh, and laugh…
Wut? 😂 Never heard of such a correlation, but it’s surely funny
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.
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
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.
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.
I’m glad I’m not as bad of as him or the one on the podcast
Me, too. I’m glad I don’t have that, or the version where you wake up but you’re still in the dream, I have the mild “I can’t move for 10 seconds” version. And it happens rarely.
Speaking of, I don’t know if you know, but the sleep drug Ambien accumulates over time, saturates, and when it reaches saturation, can have effects like Birgiblia’s condition. People driving, eating, doing things in their sleep with no recollection. Awful drug.
My elderly mother with dementia, who I’m the caretaker of, was prescribed it a couple of years ago, old people have insomnia. I found her at 3 AM vacuuming. I asked her “Why are you doing this now…,” She looked at me, with a blank face, and wide zombie eyes, the went back to vacuuming. The next morning, she didn’t remember shit. And not because of dementia. We stopped the Ambien.
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!
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.
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.
