• Sleep and Dreams Megathread V3
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the last dream i remembered was I was in class and I could hear my ipods music even though it was off and nothing was in my ear. then all of a sudden i was at a party then my alarm woke me up [editline]12th December 2011[/editline] not to mention everyone in the class could hear it too.
i rarely have dreams, but when i do have dreams i usual get kicked out of it in a instant and wake up
[QUOTE=Frostnorn;33703868]I rarely remember my dreams, but when I do have dreams I usually get kicked out of it in a instant and wake up.[/QUOTE] Fixed that for you. Welcome to Facepunch.
Okay so first night was a failure, had a worse feeling than the other time I got sleep paralysis however last night I managed to get to the point of awareness that I was in a dream, enough so that I felt extremely paranoid when someone stared at me in a way similar to [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAOooKkWp4w]the opening scene of men who stare at goats'[/url] :v: little steps, but I'll get there ;)
[QUOTE=Birdman101;33704781] Incomplete proofreading. [/QUOTE] No you didn't. I remember my dreams, but when I do have dreams I usually get kicked out of it in [b]an[/b] instant and wake up. That sentence didn't make much sense anyway, so be it. I appreciate your value of proper capitalization, but you were being an asshole about it.
the point was that he changed "have" to "remember my", not that he fixed the capitalization
Last night was rerun night. Plenty of scary or generally creepy dreams that I remember having before! Including one where there was some sort of reflection of the real world but it was all magical and spiritual, and any injuries there were permanent for some reason Then creepy vines started growing into the real world and eating people.
Had a zombie dream last night, or well more like infected. There was some kind of virus that turned everyone into murderous lunatics, it was horrible. Even babies. No one was spared except for a lucky few (like me) who were trying to survive. We looted places, like old military bunker complexes and normal houses, while killing infected and running like fuck. The dream then suddenly reset. To the time before the infection. But I knew it was coming. And there was nothing I could do to stop it. I took my time stocking up on guns and ammo, and warning people who didn't believe me anyways. And then I saw it, a huge black tornado that struck the town center and started off the disease that would end the world. And I woke up.
[QUOTE=Krinkels;33707617]No you didn't. I remember my dreams, but when I do have dreams I usually get kicked out of it in [b]an[/b] instant and wake up. That sentence didn't make much sense anyway, so be it. I appreciate your value of proper capitalization, but you were being an asshole about it.[/QUOTE] Jesus schitt way to blow it out of proportion
[QUOTE=Orkel;33694339]Figured out a way that helps me WILD. Wake up several hours earlier before you usually do, and switch on the lights bright enough to be annoying but not too bright. Or open the curtains a little to let the light in. I'm the type of sleeper that has trouble sleeping if the room isn't totally dark so it keeps me awake just enough to not go completely under and instead stay conscious into SP and lucid.[/QUOTE] I'd try that if I wasn't such a heavy sleeper. :v: If I woke up early, I'd immediately fall asleep. [editline]14th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Krinkels;33707617]No you didn't. I remember my dreams, but when I do have dreams I usually get kicked out of it in [b]an[/b] instant and wake up. That sentence didn't make much sense anyway, so be it. I appreciate your value of proper capitalization, but you were being an asshole about it.[/QUOTE] His grammar was wrong, his correction was right.
I once had a dream where I saw a digital clock with a plain red display, like many in my house, that read 2:06 or something close to that. I woke up and thought it was funny, seeing a clock in a dream. I got up to go to the bathroom, and looked at the clock I saw in my dream... 2:06 am.
My internal clock used to do awesome shit like that, but recently my alarm clock hasn't woken me up at all. [editline]14th December 2011[/editline] I think I was sleepwalking last night, because when I woke up my belt was undone, my fly was open, and there was piss all over the toilet seat. [editline]14th December 2011[/editline] Anyhoo, I dreamed that earth was a war-torn wasteland and they had discovered a habitable planet in the kepler zone, conveniently close to a wormhole. I woke up on a ship that was just landing at the settlement there. I didn't remember anything since present-day. They diagnosed me with cryogenics amnesia and said my memories would return eventually. We landed, and I soon realized how terrible of an idea coming here was. On this planet, sleep was rationed. Sleep was the currency. Since minimum wage laws didn't apply to sleep, you had to work all day long just to earn 6 hours sleep. The sleep to money exchange rate was through the roof, so if you worked 24 hours straight with no sleep for months you still wouldn't have nearly enough to buy a return ticket to earth. Tickets were 40$, but due to future inflation, it was about 4,000$ in today's money. They didn't let you bring extra money from earth because they didn't want it to "crash the fragile new economy". The work was terrible. It was all on the computer. All worthless accounting work. Punching numbers ALL. DAY. LONG. Plus, they didn't even tell you what to do. They just expected you to know. Which is hard enough without major amnesia. After 3 days of barely sleeping, I was about ready to kill myself and end it all, because from what I heard of earth, most of it was reduced to third-world status. There was a bit of a way out, but it was pretty much to enroll in the station police and become an oppressive law-bending douche and make everybody hate you. After 2 days of trying to survive on my police recruit sleep rations, I had given up again and frankly didn't care if I lived or died. It was pretty much the same mindset as all the workers. Some people spoke out against the oppression and claimed they still had their rights, but the chief of police (doucheyest hard-ass of the year) told them this wasn't america and they actually had no rights, then he forced us to arrest them. Arresting was pretty much a death sentence because you couldn't work, and in return, couldn't sleep. I found a group of rebels outside the outpost and helped them break in because I was sick and tired of this shit and didn't care what happened. We were spotted and they opened up the mounted machine guns on us. I remember geting shot, and then I woke up.
Had a pretty weird event today, the dream itself was fairly nonsensical and seemed designed to piss me off, and I now realise it was an alternative reality of the city I live in during Uni semesters, with the exact same landmarks as a dream I had a year ago, also somewhat lucid. ANYWAY, point being me getting pissed off must have triggered the realisation this could be a dream, but I forgot some of the tests you do to see if it is. I tried scratching a red brick with my finger, and felt the grains of dust under my fingernail, which was kind of cool. When I started thinking about trying to change the colour of the red brick to blue it did, which of course made me start to wake up. But here's the fucking kicker, it was a god damn dream within a dream. I've never had one so I always assumed it was pretty much bullshit, but I woke up and went about my day as I usually would preparing for my lectures. Only then the doorbell started ringing, and as I went to answer it in my dream I woke up for real. Boy was I confused for the next few minutes.
False awakening. Fairly common, actually.
ok so today I could sleep in so I set my alarm for 8:20 instead of 6 naturally I wake up at like 5:55, which is perfectly reasonable because I get up at 6 every single day, so I go back to sleep but then I wake up at 8:15 as well... how the hell did I know to wake up at 8:15
[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;33722083]ok so today I could sleep in so I set my alarm for 8:20 instead of 6 naturally I wake up at like 5:55, which is perfectly reasonable because I get up at 6 every single day, so I go back to sleep but then I wake up at 8:15 as well... how the hell did I know to wake up at 8:15[/QUOTE] That's a difficult question to answer, actually. Technically, it revolves around what's referred to as your "internal clock", which I'm sure you've heard before. Personally, I like the scientific name better. The SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEI. DUN DUN DUUUUUUN. Anywho. So your "internal clock" refers to the part of your brain controlling circadian rhythms, which you also may have heard of before. No one really knows how they work, so I can't explain it very well. Basically, it maintains the flow of time in your body. That sounds like magic, but it's the best way to describe it. It's more or less mentally contained, but it's adjusted by external triggers (called zietgebers, if you were curious), one of which (and the most important, generally) is sunlight. In humans, we control the flow with chemicals flowing through our body. And this is important, because these chemicals also control our dreams and sleep cycles. I don't remember all of them off the top of my head, but GABA is an important inhibitor because it slows down muscle reactions. I just like the name. GABA. Heh. The important chemical is melatonin, which is released by our pituary glands at night (again, cued by the lack of sunlight) which basically tells us to sleep. The flow of melatonin peaks at night and ebbs or falls back during the day, which is also a way we mentally keep track of the time. Some people have abnormally accurate internal clocks. Mine is not particularly good, although I can generally guess the time within 20 minutes. No one really knows why this happens, but most people believe it's just a subconscious process. It's like counting seconds accurately, except you subconsciously do it all day without realizing it. you knew you wanted to get up at 8:15, so your brain basically kept track of the time and woke you up when you needed to get up. That was FAR more information than you needed, but I love flaunting my knowledge like an asshole. ACKNOWLEDGE MEEEEEE.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;33723593]That's a difficult question to answer, actually. Technically, it revolves around what's referred to as your "internal clock", which I'm sure you've heard before. Personally, I like the scientific name better. The SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEI. DUN DUN DUUUUUUN. Anywho. So your "internal clock" refers to the part of your brain controlling circadian rhythms, which you also may have heard of before. No one really knows how they work, so I can't explain it very well. Basically, it maintains the flow of time in your body. That sounds like magic, but it's the best way to describe it. It's more or less mentally contained, but it's adjusted by external triggers (called zietgebers, if you were curious), one of which (and the most important, generally) is sunlight. In humans, we control the flow with chemicals flowing through our body. And this is important, because these chemicals also control our dreams and sleep cycles. I don't remember all of them off the top of my head, but GABA is an important inhibitor because it slows down muscle reactions. I just like the name. GABA. Heh. The important chemical is melatonin, which is released by our pituary glands at night (again, cued by the lack of sunlight) which basically tells us to sleep. The flow of melatonin peaks at night and ebbs or falls back during the day, which is also a way we mentally keep track of the time. Some people have abnormally accurate internal clocks. Mine is not particularly good, although I can generally guess the time within 20 minutes. No one really knows why this happens, but most people believe it's just a subconscious process. It's like counting seconds accurately, except you subconsciously do it all day without realizing it. you knew you wanted to get up at 8:15, so your brain basically kept track of the time and woke you up when you needed to get up. That was FAR more information than you needed, but I love flaunting my knowledge like an asshole. ACKNOWLEDGE MEEEEEE.[/QUOTE] Thread needs more knowledge.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;33724124]Thread needs more knowledge.[/QUOTE] I have far too much knowledge on the subject, quite frankly. Usually no one cares, though. And most of it is never relevant anyway.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;33723593]That's a difficult question to answer, actually. Technically, it revolves around what's referred to as your "internal clock", which I'm sure you've heard before. Personally, I like the scientific name better. The SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEI. DUN DUN DUUUUUUN. Anywho. So your "internal clock" refers to the part of your brain controlling circadian rhythms, which you also may have heard of before. No one really knows how they work, so I can't explain it very well. Basically, it maintains the flow of time in your body. That sounds like magic, but it's the best way to describe it. It's more or less mentally contained, but it's adjusted by external triggers (called zietgebers, if you were curious), one of which (and the most important, generally) is sunlight. In humans, we control the flow with chemicals flowing through our body. And this is important, because these chemicals also control our dreams and sleep cycles. I don't remember all of them off the top of my head, but GABA is an important inhibitor because it slows down muscle reactions. I just like the name. GABA. Heh. The important chemical is melatonin, which is released by our pituary glands at night (again, cued by the lack of sunlight) which basically tells us to sleep. The flow of melatonin peaks at night and ebbs or falls back during the day, which is also a way we mentally keep track of the time. Some people have abnormally accurate internal clocks. Mine is not particularly good, although I can generally guess the time within 20 minutes. No one really knows why this happens, but most people believe it's just a subconscious process. It's like counting seconds accurately, except you subconsciously do it all day without realizing it. you knew you wanted to get up at 8:15, so your brain basically kept track of the time and woke you up when you needed to get up. That was FAR more information than you needed, but I love flaunting my knowledge like an asshole. ACKNOWLEDGE MEEEEEE.[/QUOTE] I'll make sure to ask you next time I need wikipedia summarized in order to answer my rhetorical questions
my clock is incredibly accurate and i love it because i freak people out with it
[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;33724618]I'll make sure to ask you next time I need wikipedia summarized in order to answer my rhetorical questions[/QUOTE] I'm a neuroscience major, motherfucker.
Tonight I became conscious of my dream, but it was in third-person so I couldn't do any reality checks D: what do you do when that happens?
Did a spontaneous reality check in a dream last night. But too bad it happened when I was brushing my teeth in front of a mirror. My image in the mirror turned abnormally large, the eyes became bright white and it started flashing in old fashioned black and white pretty fast, and then a scream became audible, louder and louder until I woke up in chills. Fucking mirrors.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;33731444]I'm a neuroscience major, motherfucker.[/QUOTE] haha, didn't you switch majors a while back?
Had a dream that the GMF was a physical place where you had lucid-dream-like powers Sometime I wonder if my subconscious has fun messing with me Also, in the dream I had massive wart recurrence. Nononononnononononononnonoo
Had a dream where I was on Facepunch and they had introduced a 'the fuck?' rating.
I use to have lucid dreams when I go to bed with a full stomach and have stomach aches during the night. They are like a combination of those feverish dreams and really intense realistic dreams. It went like this: I was half asleep and was starting dreaming. At the same time I was feeling stomach aches and had to get up, sudently real world mixed with dream world and I was in my bed with my arms all wrapped up around my blankets and my hand was grabbing my bedroom lamp. I thought it was real so I thought "how the fuck did my bedside table lamp got on my hand?". And then I realized I couldn't drop it, it was stuck in the grip of my hand. And then puft, I awoke and there was no lamp on my hand and I had to get up while my head was in a mixture of half dream half lucid and did my business in the bathroom. But everytime I feel nauseated during my sleep I wake up like that. Half Awake, half dreaming. Everything is kind of confusing in that state. It's like being nuts cause it's hard to stay lucid while lingering in a mixture of sleepiness, dreams and a strugle to awake and take a shit. And then as funny as it may look, after taking a crap everything starts to go normal again and I can sleep soundly without feeling bad from my stomach. Another thing I have and I learned to cope with is sleep paralysis. My grandmother had it and I have it too. Now I can control it and release myself from it but back when I was a kid it was really scary because I used to be stuck in that scary state of paralysis in what seemed an eternity. It feels strange and happens to me a lot when I sleep with my belly facing the ceiling, specially when my hands are resting on top of my belly (that gives me nightmares too). It happens when I wake myself from a dream or sudently i stop dreaming and realize I stop dreaming. Then I can move my eyes, I can breathe but I can't move nor talk. When I try to move my body seems heavy and impossible to move. It usually wakes me up if someone touches me or talks to me, like my mom knocking on my door, but if I'm alone I usually try to count 1.. 2.. 3... and then try to roll over until somehow I start to move gradually. First my arms of a leg, and then suddenly I feel like a shock and I can move. Now I can predict it before it happens and everytime I wake up from a dream I instantly try to move or roll over in my bed. It happens with less frequency now.
[QUOTE=Fiskepudding;33731529]Tonight I became conscious of my dream, but it was in third-person so I couldn't do ant reality checks D: what do you do when that happens?[/QUOTE] Well if it was in third person... Have you ever seen yourself in third person in real life?
reality checks normally help me stabilize my dream, as well as rubbing my hands together, so I know what you mean by a third person dream sorta messing that up. I normally just focus really hard on having a body, and eventually my dream goes back into first person
[QUOTE=Birdman101;33739438]haha, didn't you switch majors a while back?[/QUOTE] Couple times, actually. I'm still not really sure what I want to do, but i figure I should focus on sleep, because it's super interesting and I know it better than I know most things.
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