RAND_AL'THOR
It's a cat wearing a tiny hat, and you can never unsee that.
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Jul 26, 2006 2:21:53 GMT
Post by RAND_AL'THOR on Jul 26, 2006 2:21:53 GMT
Interesting discussion, so far.
Something else, about dreams, that has come to mind. I can't think of the terminology for this, but the idea is that, if, during a dream, you can cognitively realize that you are dreaming, you can control what happens in a dream.
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Jul 26, 2006 4:20:02 GMT
Post by Richard El Britannia on Jul 26, 2006 4:20:02 GMT
That's partly something to do with astral projection, I think, Rand. A friend of mine is really interested in all that kinda thing.
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Jul 31, 2006 13:12:28 GMT
Post by Surreptitious Cardboard Box on Jul 31, 2006 13:12:28 GMT
I have a fear of burglars being in my room and get really paranoid about it so I'd be absolutely terrified if that sleep paralysis thing occured to me and I saw the dark, sinewy form.
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Otzlowe
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Aug 5, 2006 12:03:36 GMT
Post by Otzlowe on Aug 5, 2006 12:03:36 GMT
Heh, same with me. I jump at shadows waaaaay too much. Sleep paralysis would probably scare me completely out of my wits, and make me morbidly afraid of shadowy figures and the like. It doesn't sound like a very fun experience, especially if you saw the figure moving toward you or something.
I also heard that sleep paralysis is also most likely the reason for the stories about alien abduction. People see two shadowy figures, and lights outside their window, and they think it's aliens, or something like that. It's gotta be frigtening, if you could tell all that was there, and not be able to move, or even to see it clearly, so you know what it is/what it's doing.
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RAND_AL'THOR
It's a cat wearing a tiny hat, and you can never unsee that.
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Aug 5, 2006 21:36:28 GMT
Post by RAND_AL'THOR on Aug 5, 2006 21:36:28 GMT
Well, the following is not about sleep paralysis. But I was thinking about that when I woke up the other night at around 3:30 or so. I was glancing around my room, and, in the darkness, with the dim light from outside, the point where my box fan is next to the side of the window sort of formed the outline of a dark form and an arm. I uttered a brief scream, and realized what it was. Feeling quite foolish, I fell back asleep.
Hm. I had an odd dream the other night that, instead of walking, I rode a bicycle everywhere I went, even inside buildings. Rofl....
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elfenears
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Potential Futures, its all possible
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Aug 7, 2006 14:24:05 GMT
Post by elfenears on Aug 7, 2006 14:24:05 GMT
Well, the following is not about sleep paralysis. But I was thinking about that when I woke up the other night at around 3:30 or so. I was glancing around my room, and, in the darkness, with the dim light from outside, the point where my box fan is next to the side of the window sort of formed the outline of a dark form and an arm. I uttered a brief scream, and realized what it was. Feeling quite foolish, I fell back asleep. I used to get that loads when I was about 10... I had this mini Christmas tree on my desk and everytime I woke up I'd think it was like a witch's hat or something.... it took me quite a few days to work out what it was. Well scared me and all.... Last night I had this really weird dream that involved Brian Molko from Placebo asking me if I'd put out some singles on 7" for him.... and then I was running round London shouting something about £300-£400... quite odd.
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Aug 8, 2006 23:16:08 GMT
Post by Boss on Aug 8, 2006 23:16:08 GMT
I jump at the slightest noise or shadow late at night. I think my ears and eyes are especially tuned to allw my mind to play tricks on me, so that sleep paralysis thing would really freak me out.
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Otzlowe
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Aug 8, 2006 23:32:02 GMT
Post by Otzlowe on Aug 8, 2006 23:32:02 GMT
Hah, I'm the same way, though... I'm a moderate sleeper, so sometimes it takes more than just small stuff. When it comes to just being dark and late, I'm super paranoid that I'm constantly seeing stuff moving in the corner of my eye, or that a shadow isn't natural.
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Aug 12, 2006 18:15:08 GMT
Post by Chibi-Totoro on Aug 12, 2006 18:15:08 GMT
hmmm well few nights ago i had a sream about a hurricane in top vallley........welll first it start of me listening to the radio and the radio said something about a hurricane hitting england so on and so on......then my mom called me down to the back garden........i saw a huge hurricane over the woods....so i told mom to get the kids and run, she didnt.....she said that she staying in the house and am like "no ma!!! this is crasy quickly run" and she did.............with the kids, so i quickly got my moms purse bag and my bag then my house starting to tear up and then i woke up panting......went on the computer finding out about hurricanes.......
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Aug 12, 2006 18:41:21 GMT
Post by Richard El Britannia on Aug 12, 2006 18:41:21 GMT
Woah, hurricanes, eh? I've dreamed of similar things, well nature at least. I've dreamed of the world coming to an end many times. Usually meteors or comets hitting the planet.
I had a dream a few nights ago where I was in a weird old lab thing. It was very creepy and it reminded me of something like the Alien movies. Eventually, this dragon thing was born from loads of goo and then i just tried to run and tried to jump out of this window thing that lead out to a cliff drop. Just as i began falling, i awoke. i think the dragon part might've come from reading WoT since i was reading that when i went to bed.
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Otzlowe
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Aug 12, 2006 19:16:15 GMT
Post by Otzlowe on Aug 12, 2006 19:16:15 GMT
Last night I had a strange series of dreams that somehow wound themselves together. I've remembered bits, and I'm trying to remember the rest, but again... a lot of it was set in school. Now, it wasn't the school I go to now, it was a super neo-(Semi) futuristic school. Since my school is currently under construction and everything is being redone, this was basically supposed to represent what it would look like. It employed the use of a lot of green neon lights, and really strange construction. For a lot of the dream I felt like I was in it, because I remember it all quite well. How I got there... I think I remember, it was after I'd gone to some random old person's house for some holiday (in the summer, I remember there being fans and such to cool people off). Apparantly the old lady was my grandmother on my mom's side (I never met her, she died before I was born, and I've never seen a picture of her.). However, after that bit, I'd left the house and found people I knew from school there getting in their car. I ended up hitching a ride on top of their car, and ended up at school. Eventually I ended up finding an area where I could work without being spotted for being in the wrong place, it happened to be next to some random lady who did dishwashing. Somehow I came to have that job instead of her, and for some reason left, and went down to lunch. When I got there I was a student again, completely back to myself. There was some kind of gathering at the window, to look out on the new (huge) courtyard, or something, and I put my satchel down. When I went to get it back, it was gone (Somehow I ended up getting it back, by tracking two dropped hats which I recognized as my own to the person who had it..) I had to leave quickly from the cafeteria with my friend for some reason (I don't really remember who.) because of fear of some girl that apparantly ran the school (she was a student, supposed to be a butch girl, I guess.) That part got left behind when I went back down a familliar hallway I went down about 48573487 times that dream, following one of the people I know (name was Kat.) we got stopped by a teacher, apparantly telling us about our next class. At that point, all the other students started wearing Stormtrooper suits, I was jealous because I didn't have a nifty little comlink ( ). It then lead to the class being outside... where the dream shifted to an "Avatar The last airbender" type dream. Everyone suddenly became some kind of bender, and that girl who was in charge of the school became an evil fire bender. (XD) I ended up aquiring the air bender glider staff thinger, as I was supposed to catch her. From there, it became more like a ninja dream. I'd thought I spotted a kind of legendary ninja (who for some reason, carried a huge black sushi mat for a weapon (he resembled Kankurou, from Naruto). From there we fought her, she escaped, it ended, I think. Really weird, long dream.
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Aug 12, 2006 19:30:19 GMT
Post by Richard El Britannia on Aug 12, 2006 19:30:19 GMT
Now that is weird. Stormtroopers and Naruto style things in the same dream? I don't think I have such madcapped dreams as that, if I do, I don't remember them at any rate. My dreams are usually just dark and evil. even if they're nice, there's always an underlying theme.
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Otzlowe
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Aug 12, 2006 20:06:01 GMT
Post by Otzlowe on Aug 12, 2006 20:06:01 GMT
Yeah... there was no basis there at all... it just jumped from one thing to another. Very strange, it was interesting though. Understandable since I had a rather unique night. XD
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Aug 12, 2006 20:14:57 GMT
Post by Richard El Britannia on Aug 12, 2006 20:14:57 GMT
Unique? Did you meet Stormtroopers that did Ninjutsu?
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Aug 12, 2006 22:00:36 GMT
Post by Kommando on Aug 12, 2006 22:00:36 GMT
Heh, same with me. I jump at shadows waaaaay too much. Sleep paralysis would probably scare me completely out of my wits, and make me morbidly afraid of shadowy figures and the like. It doesn't sound like a very fun experience, especially if you saw the figure moving toward you or something. Reminds me of one time (not long ago) when I was almost to afraid to sleep because I was afraid of being abducted by aliens. I watched this show on TV and everyones story of being abducted was the same. They were asleep, then they woke up and they were paralized. Then this light came to their window (UFO) and there was shadowy figures (aliens) at the end of their bed. Then when they were in the ship there would be this one alien that would just stand there and stare at you. So I was afraid of that happening to me lol. But I did get to sleep that night ;D
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