Oh neat. You're the god type. But for some reason, I ALWAYS know that I'm in a dream. So I can always abort. So it's feels like a really realistic video game.Vrex360 said:
What do you do during a nightmare?
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The conscious mind is really fucked up while I'm dreaming, sometimes I know it's a dream, but I still don't act on it. It's like one half of me knows what's going on and it's just silently observing, while the other is completely unaware and is the one making all the decisions. I can force myself awake by well... Kinda hard to describe, I just push myself to open my eyes and wake up.
These are the dreams I remember, I suspect that I have a lot more where I'm not aware at all
These are the dreams I remember, I suspect that I have a lot more where I'm not aware at all
So like watching a movie of yourself?jultub said:The conscious mind is really fucked up while I'm dreaming, sometimes I know it's a dream, but I still don't act on it. It's like one half of me knows what's going on and it's just silently observing, while the other is completely unaware and is the one making all the decisions. I can force myself awake by well... Kinda hard to describe, I just push myself to open my eyes and wake up.
These are the dreams I remember, I suspect that I have a lot more where I'm not aware at all
I have a lot of nightmares =/ I move around a lot, and break out into a sweat (waking up is gross), and I have a horrible habit of venturing just far enough into lucidity to be aware that it's a dream, but not far enough to be able to wake up.
So it either has to be morning time (when I'll be woken), or it has to get really bad.
They also continue through dreams, so if I wake up cause it's really bad, and fall asleep 45 minutes later, it'll pick up right where it left off ^_^ And that sucks really hard.
So it either has to be morning time (when I'll be woken), or it has to get really bad.
They also continue through dreams, so if I wake up cause it's really bad, and fall asleep 45 minutes later, it'll pick up right where it left off ^_^ And that sucks really hard.
I can control them. Its kwl cause i can rewind if i dont like what i see or make sumthing disappear if i dont like it
Yay 4 virtual reality!
Yay 4 virtual reality!
When my particularly bad nightmares flared up as a child, in the dreamworld I used to close my eyes, and then when I opened them again, I was awake. I remember one when I was sitting in a dark concert-hall type place full of chairs and desks (like for an exam) with my eyes closed, and I opened them, and I woke up.
I have nightmares nowadays but they don't disturb me anymore.
I have nightmares nowadays but they don't disturb me anymore.
Since I got fairly good at lucid dreaming, nightmares lost pretty much all foothold. They are not very scary when you are in reasonably good control of your dreamscape. What I usually do in what could be a nightmare, is split the nightmare environment in half, vertically, and fly out of it. If it persists I examine and destroy it.
Ah, another lucid dreamer. High fives all around.
I turn into a werewolf and eat something. I'm serious.
I turn into a werewolf and eat something. I'm serious.
i usually dont have nightmares about horror that shit dont scare me anymore but the most occurring and strangest nightmare is when some guy steals my boat and hoes
I more or less have full control over my dreams and nightmares. I sort of mentally force the nightmare to go away, then replace it with some other dream, like beating Uwe Boll to death.
Depends on the circumstances.
When I was a kid, I had nightmares quite often. Eventually I was able to recognize nightmares and wake myself up from them. Nowadays, my subconscious mind is a lot harder to deal with when it tries to scare me.
The most frequent kind of nightmare I have is the performance anxiety nightmare - the one where you forget to study for a test, or in my case, where you make a fool of yourself and your boss during a presentation by not being prepared or are caught looking at porn (or worse) at work. These are typically just believable enough for me to not realize I'm dreaming.
I had a dream once where I was apparently SUPPOSED to be masturbating at work, in my office, in front of all my co-workers of course (apparently they needed some jizzum for something). That was probably the most bizarre semi-realistic dream I've ever had.
The other kind is what I like to call the Unexpected Instant Death dream. The dreams I've had from this range from a meteor hitting the Earth, to the Earth falling into the Sun, or aliens blowing the Earth up Independence-Day style. These usually bring an abrupt, unpleasant end to otherwise normal dreams.
My approach to nightmares is typically to preempt them. Most often I have nightmares when my bed or room gets too hot during the night or if I'm thinking about something I'm anxious about in real life. Solution, climate control, and positive, relaxing thoughts before bedtime.
When I was a kid, I had nightmares quite often. Eventually I was able to recognize nightmares and wake myself up from them. Nowadays, my subconscious mind is a lot harder to deal with when it tries to scare me.
The most frequent kind of nightmare I have is the performance anxiety nightmare - the one where you forget to study for a test, or in my case, where you make a fool of yourself and your boss during a presentation by not being prepared or are caught looking at porn (or worse) at work. These are typically just believable enough for me to not realize I'm dreaming.
I had a dream once where I was apparently SUPPOSED to be masturbating at work, in my office, in front of all my co-workers of course (apparently they needed some jizzum for something). That was probably the most bizarre semi-realistic dream I've ever had.
The other kind is what I like to call the Unexpected Instant Death dream. The dreams I've had from this range from a meteor hitting the Earth, to the Earth falling into the Sun, or aliens blowing the Earth up Independence-Day style. These usually bring an abrupt, unpleasant end to otherwise normal dreams.
My approach to nightmares is typically to preempt them. Most often I have nightmares when my bed or room gets too hot during the night or if I'm thinking about something I'm anxious about in real life. Solution, climate control, and positive, relaxing thoughts before bedtime.
In a nightmare, rather then bump myself out which could be an unpleasant experience between this world and the waking one for several minutes, I changed the channel by "blinking." Always worked for me.
Side note, I had a reoccurring nightmare where I or a friend was being attacked and I promptly resolved to do away with the assaulter by punching him. And while all my other actions never translate to physical motion, I have thus far in my sleep punched my brother, a wall and myself.
Side note, I had a reoccurring nightmare where I or a friend was being attacked and I promptly resolved to do away with the assaulter by punching him. And while all my other actions never translate to physical motion, I have thus far in my sleep punched my brother, a wall and myself.
You shit bricks!
Meh, I don't get dreams too often, and when I do they're usually pretty cool and deep/weird.
Nightmares, I haven't had any for the past few years, although my philosophical view point doesn't really give me a reason to be afraid of anything. The worst thing that can happen to you is death, and if you die you won't care because the circuits fit for caring would be too busy rotting. Anything less is just a flesh wound.
Same logic applies to all the nightmares. There's no reason to be afraid of anything on a bigger picture when you're a nihilist with a very rational and logical mindset when it comes to bullshit like spirituality.
Meh, I don't get dreams too often, and when I do they're usually pretty cool and deep/weird.
Nightmares, I haven't had any for the past few years, although my philosophical view point doesn't really give me a reason to be afraid of anything. The worst thing that can happen to you is death, and if you die you won't care because the circuits fit for caring would be too busy rotting. Anything less is just a flesh wound.
Same logic applies to all the nightmares. There's no reason to be afraid of anything on a bigger picture when you're a nihilist with a very rational and logical mindset when it comes to bullshit like spirituality.
I dream pretty lucidly, so I'll take control of my world if I have to. It's sometimes hard depending on the situation in my dream, but I know that in a zombie-based nightmare I can always conjure up the Iron Man suit and blast away
See I usually punch myself in the head but that rarely works. Oh, or sometimes I'll kill myself depending on the setting of the dream; throw myself into water, fire, jump off a cliff, piss off a dangerous animal, etc.mrhappyface said:
But to answer the OP, I usually die.