jay pettitt on 31/1/2012 at 10:16
Yucky.
Apparently REM sleep involves some paralysis - the bits of brain that normally send signals to your limbs are heavily subdued in dream sleep (which is dead handy, when you think about it). If you start coming round before those neurotransmitters are back on line (or the other way around - if they shut down early) you're going to find it odd - queue semi lucid brain panic while you try and work out why you can't move.
If it persists you can get sleep training from a doctor / sleep lab.
Alternatively... Stop playing D&D and dedicate your life to Jesus.
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http://youtu.be/DHaL7szTKXo)
june gloom on 31/1/2012 at 12:26
Quote Posted by PigLick
join the queue
ahahaha this is why i stay up 'til 7:30
thanks piglick, i can go to bed now
Neb on 31/1/2012 at 14:59
I discovered that the paralysis passes faster when you give in, but it's more fun to try and fight back. Being woken by malevolent creatures is there entirely for your entertainment.
Sg3 on 31/1/2012 at 15:55
Quote Posted by demagogue
I just happened to be making a mission at the time and I mapped it out as soon as I woke up, trying to recreated it as close to how I remembered it as I could... It ended up like this -- which is actually a spoiler if you ever want to play my (
http://www.thedarkmod.com/missiondetails/?id=6) mission; it's probably better experienced playing it than watching the video, too, but if you just want to see it (also background info to set the scene:
Hey, that's really cool! I didn't finish the video, because I'm unsure if I'll ever be able to play this mission, and don't want to spoil the experience if I do. I'm definitely interested. Just the first minute or so is so
Thief-like that I want to play it. I'm gonna have to go check out
Dark Mod sometime and see if it's compatible with my weird installation policies.
Quote Posted by Kolya
Something sitting on your chest and the resulting feeling of pressure is THE traditional idea of what is (causing) a nightmare. In German known as Albtraum ("elf-dream") or Albdruck ("elf-pressure").
Johann Heinrich Füssli created several iconic images from this idea. Here's his "Der Alp" from
Huh. I've never had a feeling like that before. Most of my usual nightmares (on the very rare occasions I have them--I only have a dream I can remember long enough to write it down about once a year) are either mundane*, nonsensical/surreal-ish, or too silly to be truly nightmarish (but still moderately disturbing at the time).
* "Did I forget to clock in today? Damn, I'm not getting paid for all these hours. Wait, why am I still working at this hole? I could swear I quit five years ago." Also the common and ever-popular "I missed this big assignment/am in the wrong class" one which tends to plague people for decades after they graduate college.
Quote Posted by Neb
I discovered that the paralysis passes faster when you give in, but it's more fun to try and fight back. Being woken by malevolent creatures is there entirely for your entertainment.
I have quite enough of malevolent creatures when I'm awake, thank you!
Tocky on 2/2/2012 at 05:27
Damn it guys, why couldn't this sort of thing be put in a Halloween thread at a traditionallly spooky time of year? It's because I'm accusitory isn't it? If I were less insistent and more coy you would respond but no, just because I'm shrill and threatening you clam up. Answer me!
Truely creepy dream, Sg3. Never had that one. I had a succubus crawl into bed behind me but a lame one who just wanted to cuddle. I could feel the ice cold nipples and scratchy bush and everything. It was sort of tender really, maybe an emotional succubus.
I've had the auditory one of hearing a window break and glass crunching underfoot in my kids rooms down the hall and had to struggle up out of mud, fumble with tearing the lock off the headboard and jacking a shell into the chamber, lowering the hammer on my finger and easing it the rest of the way to the pin just in case while my heart is slaming and my ears straining for every clue of movement. That strange floaty walk across living room with nerves jangling electric waves into my skin at every sound to stand outside the room with hand on knob just to awaken back in bed and know it was a dream yet have to get up and check every window and closet corner to be sure now. I don't miss those nightmares at all.
demagogue on 2/2/2012 at 05:32
Nightmares don't happen on your schedule pendejo.
Tocky on 2/2/2012 at 05:41
Just a self aware jab at self. Go back to doing Queues mom or something.
Mr.Duck on 2/2/2012 at 06:50
I once had a fever nightmare where the left side of my body waged war, in front of my eyes, with the right side. Hair, skin, bloodcells, zits, you name it. All grabbing guns, knives, machine guns, a tank or two. Hell, I think one side had hets dropping bombs....shit....and then my body was full of holes and I could push bones in and out of'em.
Bleh....
Sg3 on 2/2/2012 at 20:39
Freaky, Ducko. I think that's unsettlingly close to what our bodies are doing to us when we get cancer or some nasty autoimmune disease.
