• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This sort of thing is exactly why I don’t take naps anymore. It happened a few too many times and it’s genuinely a horrible experience. Incredibly vivid. I got the sensation I could feel my actual body being unable to move. So no more naps no matter how tired I am.

    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I found I am way more likely to experience weird, nightmare-ish bs if I sleep on my back, or when I drank some alcohol. Maybe there are factors that control it for you as well.

      • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Napping is the factor in my control.

        Im on prazosin for nightmares/night terrors and it works fine for my full sleep cycle (because I take it before bed, probably) but it doesn’t seem to apply to naps.

      • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Sleeping on my back and extreme tiredness used to make it more likely for me to experience sleep paralysis.

        But I haven’t experienced those in a long time, even if often sleep on my back.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Did you know that if you smoke weed every day, you will stop dreaming entirely? It messes with REM sleep, but it’s the only way I can get any sleep at all; legalization was a quite a few years ago now where I live so I haven’t had a dream in forever.

      Just something to consider if you have easy access to cannabis in your jurisdiction.

      • Kalothar@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        I don’t think this is universal unfortunately, also legal where I live and I used daily for a couple years and I’d still have dreams.

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I have massive time dilation when I have dreams. I can have what feels like an 8 hour+ dream in a 30 minute nap. Also if I go back to sleep right away I can rejoin the last dream.

        • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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          3 months ago

          Mere The Matrix movie influence. Do you see code running along the walls in game glitches? No? Because simulating that is stupid (just like rendering the sea waves on the whole map in Crysis 2, because of a deal with Nvidia). And our reality is made of atoms anyway.

        • affenlehrer@feddit.org
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          3 months ago

          Are any of those people software developers? I’m curious what kind of code it is. I hope it’s not JavaScript.

          I took DMT once and it’s in my top ten worst experiences I ever had. Didn’t have a laser with me and even if I had I would’ve be unable to use it.

          However, I also had a common DMT experience: The “dial in” tone. I don’t know why it’s called like that, it has nothing to do with modem sounds. It’s just a really loud high pitched beep that distorts at the end.

            • affenlehrer@feddit.org
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              3 months ago

              My dislike for PHP is close to my dislike of JavaScript. As far as I know (don’t correct me if I’m wrong, I’d better not know) PHP doesn’t have such an insane community that reinvents every wheel in JS and builds the worst dependency hell one could imagine. Everything else is yanky as hell though.

          • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            If reality was spackled together with js and PHP, it would explain quite a few things

          • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            There is a really interesting experiment there, right? I guess we have all watched or heard of Matrix, wondered what if everything is a simulation, and seen code somewhere. What if you take a guy from some backwater place who has never seen any code, give the poor guy DMT and shine a laser at a wall? Is it a thing we imagine because the brain is wired that way? Or because we are culturally primed to imagine this? A guy who has never driven a car probably won’t have that classic “car with no/broken brakes” dream either, right? .

    • Skyline969@piefed.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ve had dreams that took place over years. An entire alternate lifetime in one of them. Always very disorienting to wake up from one of those.

      • TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I I completely understand, my dreams are so real. I can smell, feel the breeze, etc. Sometimes when I wake up I have to look around and remind myself I’m in bed and its a dream.

        Sometimes thats awesome, other times its a horror story. The last one was a mixed bag…

        • Skyline969@piefed.caEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I remember waking up after a lifetime-long dream, seeing my partner asleep beside me, and hugged her so hard she woke up and got mad at me. Didn’t care, in my mind I hadn’t seen her in decades.

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Thats terrifying, amazing, and so sweet I have the I and II diabeetus!

            Did you ever explain to your partner what happened?

            • Skyline969@piefed.caEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Right after, and then she hugged me back just as hard. Though perhaps a bit concerned as she’s never had a dream like that.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    So no one told you you would never find your way
    👏👏👏👏
    You’re trapped forever, you’re lost, your one life’s D.O.A.~
    It’s like you’re always stuck going down some stairs!
    When you’re stuck a day, a week, a month, or even a year~ but

    I’ll be coming for you! (When the rain starts to pour) I’ll be coming for you! (Cause you’ve been here before) I’ll be coming for you! (And there’s nothing you can do~) Dun da da di dum di di dum.

    • BrickEater@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Dude fuck you I think about that all the time. Much of my life lately has odd coincidences that feel as if they’re extrapolated from my comatose mind after I got shot in 2018. With on particular lamp I’ve managed to hold onto since then centering the re-occuring thought.

      And the fucked up part is I think I’d honestly be happy if I woke up then.

  • Hazmatastic@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    When I was in high school, I heard this thing about getting “high” through blood pressure and oxygen manipulation. The technique (don’t try at home):

    1. Be seated.

    2. Actively hyperventilate for 30s. Deeeeep breaths.

    3. Stand up quickly.

    4. Immediately stick thumb in mouth with full lungs and attempt to blow air out as hard as possible without actually letting any out.

    5. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

    So, feeling dubious, I tried it while hanging out with some friends. I stand up, do the thing, and in <5s boom. Dreamland. I had what felt like a full 6-hour experience, semi-lucid dreaming. I had some control and awareness that I was dreaming, flew around some giant yellow and pink mushrooms. I dont remember any other details at this point, but it was a whole day pretty much.

    Wake up to my head hitting my buddy’s guitar. I somehow had an hours-long experience in the time it took for me to pass out and hit the ground. Haven’t done it since, but man, I don’t think I’ll ever forget that. One hell of a ride.