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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 17 hours ago

Imagine doing this but then having to stare at the main menu for 8 hours lmao

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You'll know you're in trouble if you're arguing and he stares blankly and starts jabbing his finger at the air.

[–] Hestkuk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

For me its the menu from 1999 driver sound effects and all.

I usually quit by dying.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Title made me lose the game.

[–] abaddon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Damnit, I lost as well.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let’s get you back to bed, gramps

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"I was Zerg Champion of Bumfuck, '97, you little ingrate! My CPAP mask needs to be cleaned..."

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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*

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would subscribe to your newsletter

[–] Spider2013@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can also look for sword art online

[–] tmyakal@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

You can look for sword art anywhere. I guarantee the library has some books.

[–] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

you can listen for a glopping noise

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I'm trying this right now but it doesn't work. Am I not asleep? Is this shitty life real?

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 both sides 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.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

He has joined the Khala.

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Disgracefulone@discuss.online 1 points 23 hours ago

Good that you can but the severity of this condition varies and some people are not able to do this.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 111 points 2 days ago (18 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 41 points 2 days ago

Vim, I wish I knew how to quit you! (/s obviously bc Vim is life)

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[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

I mean i just have to kill myself and hope it's really just a dream. I would like a quit menu

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 15 points 1 day ago

Computer! Arch.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (12 children)

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.

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day 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@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago

Wut? 😂 Never heard of such a correlation, but it's surely funny

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[–] li10@feddit.uk 81 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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 🙂

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Nothing scary than real life.

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My newest objective is to lessen to the background people and write as much of their conversations down as i can. As soon as I'm lucid I stop and start to lessen. Depending on where I am I turn and get as close as I can to people. I've yet to succeed but I got the idea from someone who said it's one of the biggest trips.

[–] theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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!

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day 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.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I just kinda open my eyes and that's how I escape

[–] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

for me that's when the nightmare begins

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