zzz - dream

Not the most profound one since I have weird dreams almost everyday. only picked this one cause I had it saved in a text file. I had this other dream about watching a really fuarrrked up anime, and have some notes on it that I wrote after I woke up. I can post about it if anyone wants me to

>with (fake) internet friends, playing some sort of mmo
>on a computer I guess, kind of felt like I was in the game
>regular mmo like wow or something, we're in a place like a town
>soon we figure out some secret command, like /help and /cry actions like that
>it's /wake up
>we all do /wake up, and when you do it it sends you to a different part of the mmo, almost like another game
>the new area is kind of open world like minecraft, trees everywhere and mountains
>we try /wake up again, but it only seems to work once
>random cut in dream I guess, like time goes by
>I try the /wake up command again
>this time it works, and I'm sent to this house that's bleak and brown, and syringes all over the floor
>when I look outside the neighborhood looks fine, but the houses all look dirty and creepy
>talk to friends on skype about the wakeup command (I don't even fuarrrking use skype or keep in contact with anybody)
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Craziest dream I have ever had

>Driving in a bus talking to other people
>Look outside to see the moon looks like it is about to plummet towards the Earth
>Look up at the sky to see a soykaf load of celestial phenomena
>Stars racing across the sky, stars flashing, nebulas, blackholes, etc.
>No clue what is going on so I go into a Church

That is all I remember but I love having dreams about space.

I use one that I got on a Qantas flight a few years ago whenever I am on a red-eye flight or sleeping at the airport.

Yeah I got one recently. I never bought one because I thought I wouldn't like it on my face, but it's very light. Bothers me less than having blankets on my face. Light from outside, even during the night really bothers me. The first day I used it I went to sleep quickly at a normal time, and woke up just after the sun rose. It felt like my body aligned itself perfectly with the daylight.

My eyes finally feel so rested, and the Nidra sleep mask that I have now has space in front of the eyes so I can look around when I wake up and stretch my eyes or chill out and meditate. They're great for resting my eyes wherever I want. Even if you don't need them for sleeping.
But I don't like the strap on the back. I have to use a pillow (I usually sleep flat on the ground) because the velcro strap is very uncomfortable on the back of my head. I read a review and they said it leaves a mark in your head. I put the strap higher up on my head and tighten it, which I find works better to secure it without letting light in.
www.amazon.com/Rated-Patented-Sleep-Mask-Satisfaction/dp/B00M9BC1M8

So I also bought another mask from Etsy that has a double, thinner strap. It hasn't come yet, but I'm excited because it's hand made and uses real silk. That is, if you want. You can customize it endlessly with many different materials on the inside and outside, and a varying amount of materials depending on how thick you want it for softness versus airflow.
Different types of silk, cotton, and bamboo. I chose 3 layers of bamboo/cotton, with silk on my eyes, and a cotton print on the front. I figure the bamboo with only 3 layers will air out my airs more, and the silk is for comfort.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AllNaturalSleepShop

>>718
You can try that out first, but I heard they don't work so well for blocking out absolutely all of the light. The Nidra mask has free returns to Amazon, stays on well and is comfortable, even if you sleep on your side, and doesn't have issues with chemicals leaking on your face (some do). Plus you can open your eyes with it.

see my previous post for more info.

>>716
do they make these with lights you can schedule to come on at a certain time like an alarm? I can sleep through any number of audio and haptic alarms so I'm thinking using one of these like an artificial sunrise might do the trick.

cant sleep with my eyes closed, i open and close them constantly untill they get too heavy and i fall asleep

>>635
If this is literally true how come I saw this bait posted on 2 other chans with the same fuarrrking image.

>>801
How is this bait?
Why shouldn't it be true just because he posted it somewhere else?

>>801
he didn't even imply it was a nightmare or anything, he just commented how it was lame in contrast to his usual life.

read books

Recently my dreams become weirder every night, probably because I have poor sleep.

Last night I dreamed about a Chinese girl named Xiao Xiang, who stomped on the tongue of a man, so he died due to loss of blood. She later shot some black spray in her face and became blind. Afterwards she got bullied and I felt pity for her.

This was food for thought as a breakfast.

>>218

Fuck reoccurring dreams, especially if they're creepy. I feel you OP, your friend also having the same dream makes it even creepier. Especially the part about having a different perspective, maybe other people you see in your dreams are dreaming from other parts of the world?

I used to have one reoccuring for a few nights myself, but it wasn't as scary as yours, just weird. I'd always start out in the same mall, and the further in I went the more strange and abstract it got. At some point the floors would get sandy and it'd slowly turn into a desert, the room growing wider and taller until it was too far to see the edges of, with the shops growing farther and farther apart. Spent many nights exploring the mall, even tried walking out into the desert but after a while the shops would end up being miles apart so I gave up.

From what knowledge I've on dream interpretation, it is said that dream characters typically represent yourself or an aspect of yourself (the latter being more common). Being that you- or how you view yourself as a whole- is killed by the dream characters and they then riot could mean that different aspects of yourself are "killing" your self image or changing who you view yourself to be.
>He told me he had that exact dream a few nights ago, and explained the exact scenario in what he said, yet his was in a different
perspective.
Sounds like dream sharing. Typically only occurs when people have somewhat a strong bond.

>>553
would you mind interpret my dream too? I had it like a week ago and didn't re-occure, but I'm still curious.

In this dream I'm still a child (6-9 years old) and me and my family(all normal age) go on vacation. We go into a hotel, and inside this hotel are all the people i know from work. Somehow I discover that i can fly and break stuff with my mind 'n soykaf, but there is one catch to this superpower. I can only use it when I'm aspleep inside my dream, so i cannot controle it.

Do you know what that could mean?

>>218
Bull, your friend is toying with you.

>>1127

I'd echo that sentiment. I experienced an episode fairly recently where I was completely obsessed with someone - I thought that they were a physical manifestation of my mind, born of my psyche and living in the real world. I concluded that this person was my "designated partner". Of course we were meant to be together, I can feel it! It must be true!

Looking back, I can now see that my then-increasing anxiety and stress was the source of this temporary (2-3 months or so) insanity. Mental illness is kind of gorgeous in it's ability to completely rewrite your perception of what is rational and what is irrational.

That said, I wouldn't go so far as to call everyone interested in tulpas insane. I'm sure there are a handful of people with mental issues, but I'm also sure that there are just as many people who are just interested.

>>1128
Cool, I was afraid I would be taken for a trouble maker here. I should add that despite the hell some schizophrenics go through, there are occasional episodes when they enjoy visits from "friends" and the thing is, being around them it almost becomes convincing. One girl I knew had a little faerie that lived in her closet and she would sit in there when she was depressed and the faerie would cry along with her and she felt less alone. She even had a name for the creature. She talked about it enough times that I started to feel like the faerie was there myself, like there was a third person in the room I couldn't see. Being in her world and adjusting to her way of speaking and of seeing things, I began to enter a mindset which allowed for phenomena like this to exist but looking back it seems naive or something. Like I went through something tulpa training by osmosis.

The thought occurs that this tulpa stuff might be a useful toolkit for schizophrenics, to control their delusions and their ego splinters rather than being haunted by them. Maybe I'll look for some articles about this. I definitely know some people who would be interested.

>>1129

I would hope that opposing viewpoints would at least be considered, especially with something as potentially damaging and delusion-inducing as tulpamancing.

The faerie tulpa sounds nice though, tbh I wish that I had something like that when I was going through severe bouts of depression up until fairly recently. At the same time though I think I'd rather just have conversations with myself - act as a self-therapist, work out and get to the source of my issues on my own. I don't want to go down that potentially slippery-as-fuarrrk slope again after the episode I had. But it'd be nice if the practice of tulpamancing could legitimately help people like your friend.

Are there any threads on lainchain about this kinda thing btw? Self-therapy, dealing with mental illness, etc.

>>547
>as you said many people experience tulpa getting out of control or even getting angry at their own host trying to fuarrrk with them and even in some cases trying to kill them.

Perhaps, if we look at tulpas as not separate entities but embodiments of portions of their creator, could this effect just be the manifestation of some form of self hatred the creator of a tulpa might have? Or perhaps self fear?

>Most of tulpaforcers(in my opinion) have experienced this "taking over" in some degree

Is it that they're being "taken over" or merely realizing that they "are" the tulpa? (Again, assuming personal manifestation rather than a separate entity.)

I'm a regular insomniac, but I never went more than 36 hours. My regular pattern is something like 3-4 hrs per night with weekend recuperation periods.

Not for that long honestly, although I've often gone a few days on at most 3h of constant sleep, with a few hours there and there during it. Once innna woods when I tried LARP for my first (and only time) and I seriously started to wonder if would get frostbite - and for long periods of time when I was a kid during summers, spend entire day on the beach and the entire night soykaf drinking on /tg/.

48hrs
My eyes felt really fuarrrking dry and I'm pretty sure I was hearing sounds that didn't real.

>>167
related:
http://www.stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-1

probably 30 hours, tops. I always make sure to get some sleep, even if it isn't the regular 8 hours. Even so, there are days when I'm too energetic to fall asleep.

>>1164
Btw, anybody have stories similar to mine? Does melatonin give you tripped out dreams like it gives me?

That's such a weird description... really hope when I wake up tomorrow you've written a detailed post of what came next for you...

Why not Galantamine?

This guy have some tips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sV5EyiYdLw

>>1166

So I went to sleep at hour 30. By the end, I felt like I wasn't me. I didn't felt fatigue, but I went to sleep only because I felt the obligation to. You know how you feel when you sit down for too long and when you stand up, your blood pressure drops suddenly and you feel dizzy? It felt like that but a little more pleasant and a little less intense. I couldn't see very sharply, but I could see enough to function. I could feel my body, but it felt detached, like what I was feeling was what someone else was feeling. It was kind of like watching a movie. It was strange but not unpleasant.

This has definitely happened to me before. If I fall asleep during a lecture, I sometimes begin to dream and if I fall down during that dream, my arms (irl) will flinch out in front of me a bit and I will wake up. Fortunately, usually nobody notices.

This is quite common. The explanation I was given, [citation needed] was that the spasms cause the dream and not the other way around. Like your muscles twitch involuntary and then your brain invents a dream to explain what's happening. It might seem like a minute but it all plays out in a split second.

I've heard these mini-dreams referred to as "dreamlets" also.

It happen with me too.
My hypothesis is that your unconscious mind think you will die when you fall a sleep. It's like the Celtic way to think: You die every night when you sleep. And rebirth at the dawn.
Too much spiritual for me.

The term for this is a hypnic jerk. I think most people experience it from time to time. Wiki article says there's a hypothesis that it is a vestigial reflex that prevented early hominids from falling out of trees while sleeping.

I taught you liked boys

how were your social relationships in high school?

>>369
This is perfectly normal

>>958
Oh hell, I know that feel too well.

I've also hallucinated insects when half asleep when I was a kid.

Back when I was a kid I used to have nightmares about petroleum.

Like, falling and drowning in a tank of petroleum, or showering and the water suddenly turned into oil.

I'm scared as soykaf of spiders but never dream about them. What usually happens is I'll be seconds away from falling asleep and thing about a huge tarantula and wake up and not be able to fall asleep.

I don't have recurring nightmares, the one thing that is recurrent is that when they happen, they're pretty much movie tier.

I remember when I was younger, I'd sometimes have dreams where I vomited up spiders.

I still have no idea what the meant and I've never had them since.

>>777
Get over your sissy fear of spiders and watch this problem melt away.