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[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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 2 points 22 minutes ago

I would subscribe to your newsletter

[-] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 hours 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.

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 minutes ago

Maybe nightmares are what happen when you fall asleep scared.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

emergency markiplier

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 9 points 4 hours ago

Dream Life Rage Quit

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 21 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 9 minutes 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

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 20 points 4 hours ago

for me that's when the nightmare begins

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Keep opening your eyes until you escape

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours 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.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

This but it's the roblox leave game screen

[-] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 28 points 8 hours 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!

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 minutes 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.

[-] Adori@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 89 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 28 points 11 hours ago

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

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 6 hours ago

Is it possible to learn this power?

[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago

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)

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

Not from a ~~GDI~~Protoss

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours 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.

[-] CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours 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

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours 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 🤯

[-] jastyty@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Cooler Matt or regular temperament Matt?

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm pretty even-keeled most of the time so I guess ChillMatt

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago
[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours 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

[-] li10@feddit.uk 69 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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 🙂

[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 32 points 12 hours ago

Nothing scary than real life.

[-] Masta_Chief@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours 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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[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

Esc > E > S > Q

[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 35 points 12 hours ago
[-] JediTestPilot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 12 hours ago
[-] JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 hours ago

rustic yet spacey guitar twangs

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[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 hours ago

Shit! I hit Save by accident! shitshitshit

[-] GCanuck@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

I remember the first time I woke myself from a bad dream. I was pretty young, and in my dream I was being chased by a monster and I suddenly realized that it was a dream and I could chase the monster back. So I turned around (in my dream) and started to chase the fucker.

I recall waking up laughing.

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