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
Goliath onlineAdditional supply depots required
Lost in chaos!
Systems : Functional
We’re In the pipe, 5 by 5.
Build more overlords
Spawn*
Funny thing is I said spawn in my head but my fingers didn’t get the memo
Need a light?
Battlecruiser operational
Somebody order an exterminator
Are you trying to get invited to my next barbeque?
rustic yet spacey guitar twangs
I’m old, so I always got up out of the dream and turned the knob to switch channels.
That is really fucking cool
ESC>:q!Colon Q exclamation point? 6 keystrokes to leave? Sheesh.
If you wrote your dream to disk beforehand,
!might be unnecessary.4 keystrokes!!
If we’re not counting the shift key, ZZ to quit is only 2!
Thank god my nightmares are not viewed in vim. I can’t Google how to quit it while I’m sleeping!
Vim, I wish I knew how to quit you! (/s obviously bc Vim is life)
Click escape, which gets you out of the current write mode.
Type :q!
:qHolding the power button on my PC until vim shuts down.
Awake me can remember. Goodnight me can’t 😵💫
:x:o
I prefer
ZQ:q! if it’s urgent
It’s always urgent.
Might have to hit escape first if you’re not in visual mode
Escape puts you in normal mode, visual mode is v
Would that mean your nightmare is all in ASCII?
Might be. Some unrecognizable, nightmarish UTF8 mixed in with the wrong encoding maybe?
That’s just Thursday
Vim is the nightmare.
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 🙂
Nothing scary than real life.
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
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.
You should try flying instead.
Shit! I hit Save by accident! shitshitshit
I’ve woken myself up from several unpleasant dreams and nightmares before by literally just going “fuck this, I’m out.”
I think I’m often aware that I’m dreaming, but I don’t really lucid dream because my dreams are generally more interesting than anything I could consciously come up with anyway. So more often than not I’m just content to be along for the ride.
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
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.
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
Everybody talking about lucid dreaming in this thread while this person figured out how to play lucid Starcraft.
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.
I can’t really put my finger on it but it’s almost like the game gave me imposter syndrome, as if by some fluke I was where I was at, and everyone was probably much more knowledgable about timings and map awareness. Felt a little more risky than it should have, trying risky things, that kinda thing.
There wasn’t any sort of MMR-based practice mode where I could just fuck around and not be a tryhard against similarly-rated players and I think that kind of fed into that, like if you want an even matchup it’s gonna be on the book so you gotta play to win at all times.
At some point I just felt committed to trying to win every match, eventual weird vibes from it
I had that in WoW PvP. A buddy and I were in the top 50 of the second largest server and it was work. Even solo, we’d often wait for each other to come online before hitting ranked PvP so there was at least someone to talk to. It made losing not seem so bad, and if you started flunking, the other would say to stop and pick it up later.
Otherwise, pressure as hell. And for no reason other than trying to be the top rank of my class which was some pointless goal I put on myself.
Anyone else do an image search just to get a good look at that menu again?
I did! That took me back. LAN party with my huge CRT monitor eating takeout at 2 in the morning that we purchased on the way to the LAN
I miss LAN parties. I miss the atmosphere in those sweltering bedrooms/livingrooms in the quiet hours of the morning. I’ll never forget that LAN party vibe. Big one for my cousins and I was the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942. Also Starcraft, Diablo 2, and later on it shifted to WoW.
Dammit, now I can hear his dream.
EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjbTVQL0g8 in case you don’t.
Lost and ragequit so many times that he related anguish to quitting out through the menu xD
Awesome ! mine is blinking real fast, it wakes me up in about two seconds of in-dream time.
I roll my eyes up until the “pain” and my eyes open.
Try it, roll your eyes up as much as you can, your eyes will open slightly.
Super power unlocked!
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!
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.
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.
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.
This is my new answer to the “what super power would you like” question.
