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[–] li10@feddit.uk 81 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 39 points 1 week ago

Nothing scary than real life.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You should try flying instead.

[–] Masta_Chief@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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

I would subscribe to your newsletter

[–] Spider2013@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can also look for sword art online

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

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

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[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

It will definitely happen if someone tells him that :)

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (11 children)
[–] JediTestPilot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

rustic yet spacey guitar twangs

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Somebody order an exterminator

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

We’re In the pipe, 5 by 5.

[–] four@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Additional supply depots required

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[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 34 points 1 week 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!

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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

[–] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

for me that's when the nightmare begins

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[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Starcraft 2 is seriously the only game that's ever given me performance anxiety. There were days when I'd sit down to play and I'd already have nerves and just nope right out and watch GSL VODs of pro players instead. Seeing your rating and all that, Platinum to Diamond, then Diamond to Master, that game was rough and you were always at risk of cheese and basically getting harassed to death playing a traditional build order

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Up towards Masters people would get really creative and it was a shitshow, like you'd scout and see 1 rax and think you're getting rushed but they actually went two rax expo and tucked the rax and base in some corner, so you lost the macro game anticipating an early attack (or you'd do that same thing to them). It was just weird mindfuck stuff like that left and right lol. Basically hyper aggressive deception every other game and you'd have to play like that in order to survive

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week 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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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Title made me lose the game.

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

Let’s get you back to bed, gramps

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

Damnit, I lost as well.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week 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 week 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 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 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.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

Shit! I hit Save by accident! shitshitshit

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

Computer! Arch.

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

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

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago

This is my new answer to the "what super power would you like" question.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Gotta type "gg" first or you're BMing the Sandman.

[–] Adori@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago

Dream Life Rage Quit

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Anyone else do an image search just to get a good look at that menu again?

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

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

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm old, so I always got up out of the dream and turned the knob to switch channels.

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[–] itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

It's just you trying to break out of the Matrix, but you keep waking up back inside it.

I usually quit by dying.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week 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

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

This but it's the roblox leave game screen

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it possible to learn this power?

[–] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, there are practices you can adopt in every day life that make you more likely to experience lucid dreaming.

Certain mindfulness exercises to do during the day that essentially give your consciousness muscle memory that you later kicks in when you're dreaming and helps you you pull a bit of control into the dream.

If you have a Circadian rhythm disorder it helps.

As a kid I learned I could "rewind" my nightmares and go back and do things differently the second time. Lots of nightmares where I couldn't run fast enough to save myself I was able to rewind and run faster the second time around.

As a teen I learned that I could just deux ex machina my way out of any dream.

I was having one of my recurring stress dreams about not meeting societal expectations due to lacking resources. I'd had this dream a million times before, I'm desperate to pee and I'm in a labyrinth of broken toilets. Other people are coming and I going and seemingly peeing just fine and not getting lost in the labyrinth at all. but I can't figure out how they're using these broken toilets. Usually in the dream I just wander around anxiously looking to pee until I wake up (and notably, I don't actually need to pee). But this time I was lucid enough to decide, fucking this, the ceiling had been made of glass the whole time, and a dragon burst through to pick me up on the her back and burn the whole Loo-byrinth down.

So now I do that a lot. I was dreaming I was in a house slowly filling with green water and I may or may not have been a snake, but never fear, I summoned a goat from the thin air and gave it wings and we flew away.

I had a dream where the fat bastard from Austin Powers was roomates with Oscar the grouch and I'd been sold to them as a indentured maid and for some reason they were naked and I was deeply uncomfortable with the arrangement, that's when the lucidity kicked in, so I froze time and just walked away from the weird dream, deciding once I turned onto the main road I'd wake up because this was too bizarre to even come up with something better (I haven't even seen Austin Powers)

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