• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 days ago

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

  • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
    68·
    4 days 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.

  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
    791·
    4 days 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.netEnglish
      5·
      4 days 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.

    • Masta_Chief@lemmy.world
      41·
      4 days 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

  • Hestkuk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    3 days 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.

  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io
    32·
    4 days 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!

    • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
      4·
      3 days 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.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      3 days 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.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    3 days ago

    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
      161·
      3 days 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·
      3 days ago

      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·
        3 days ago

        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…

    • szczuroarturo@programming.dev
      3·
      3 days ago

      Hmm do you perhaps watch some streams or listen to podcast before sleep ( or even during sleep technicaly speaking ) ,beacuse i also dont dream when i do this.

      But i on the other hand also dream vwry vividly and intensly when i think about stuff before sleep ( whatewer it is , book idea , aliens, power fantasy about conquest of russia, imagining the layout of pipes around my house ).

    • lostinfog@reddthat.comEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      Are you a stoner? That kills the recall of your dreams but not the actual dreaming. You just never remember

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        3 days ago

        Huh…

        I share a similar experience to the person you replied to, but recently I’ve been doing the “wake up knowing you had a dream but can’t remember it” thing again, and I’ve also been eating more bananas recently.

        Coincidence?!

  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
    13·
    3 days ago

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

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 days 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.

    • psud@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 days 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

      • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        Thankfully, I just occasionally get the not being able to move for 10 seconds, no residual dreams bleeding into consciousness.

        • psud@aussie.zone
          1·
          3 days ago

          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

          • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 days ago

            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.

            https://gazette.com/news/a-case-of-near-deadly-sleepwalking-for-comedian-mike-birbiglia/article_e4af044f-4037-5890-a222-932fdec60e09.html

              • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
                3·
                3 days ago

                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.

                Speaking of, I don’t know if you know, but the sleep drug Ambien accumulates over time, saturrates, 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.

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

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