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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Thank god my nightmares are not viewed in vim. I can't Google how to quit it while I'm sleeping!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

Vim, I wish I knew how to quit you! (/s obviously bc Vim is life)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Might have to hit escape first if you’re not in ~~visual~~ normal mode

edit: I’m bad at remembering words

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Would that mean your nightmare is all in ASCII?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Might be. Some unrecognizable, nightmarish UTF8 mixed in with the wrong encoding maybe?

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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 🙂

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

Nothing scary than real life.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

You should try flying instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

One day, he's going to try to log out, and the logout button will be missing.

Then the only way he'll be able to wake up is by beating all 100 floors of his dream. But if he dies in the dream, he dies in real life.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would subscribe to your newsletter

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can also look for sword art online

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It will definitely happen if someone tells him that :)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

rustic yet spacey guitar twangs

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somebody order an exterminator

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

We’re In the pipe, 5 by 5.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Additional supply depots required

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I just kinda open my eyes and that's how I escape

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

for me that's when the nightmare begins

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (8 children)

That's hilarious because I've done the same exact thing before except it was the watch menu from the Goldeneye Nintendo64 James Bond game. It worked for several years as a young lad.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Title made me lose the game.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let’s get you back to bed, gramps

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My nightmares largely stopped after being awake tired af and terrified of sleeping, when I said "damn you nightmares, you can't scare me into sleep deprivation! I'm coming in there and I'm gonna fight back", and then went right back to sleep. I don't know what nightmare I had that drove me to get angry at my nightmares, I didn't even have a plan to fight back. But that's when it stopped, when I stopped being afraid of them.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Shit! I hit Save by accident! shitshitshit

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (14 children)

I just don’t dream… anything. I remember having dreams as a kid, and I remember what it felt like waking up, knowing I’d had a dream, but forgetting it. But anymore, I just don’t have any dreams anymore.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

You probably have dreams but are not aware because you do not wake up during a dream anymore. Maybe your sleep habits changed. You can remember dreaming only if you wake up during REM sleep. I know it is not possible probably, but if you have someone watch you while you are sleeping and wake you up a few seconds after they see your eyes moving, you'd probably remember your dream.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Computer! Arch.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Gotta type "gg" first or you're BMing the Sandman.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I mean i just have to kill myself and hope it's really just a dream. I would like a quit menu

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

This is my new answer to the "what super power would you like" question.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Lost and ragequit so many times that he related anguish to quitting out through the menu xD

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You'll know you're in trouble if you're arguing and he stares blankly and starts jabbing his finger at the air.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Dream Life Rage Quit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm old, so I always got up out of the dream and turned the knob to switch channels.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Anyone else do an image search just to get a good look at that menu again?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It's just you trying to break out of the Matrix, but you keep waking up back inside it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm trying this right now but it doesn't work. Am I not asleep? Is this shitty life real?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I usually quit by dying.

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