So...

I'm only posting this because I want to have the 4,500th post 😊

Pineconn wrote:The REALLY sad part is that this was your first thought after waking up. 😉

moocow wrote:I'm only posting this because I want to have the 4,500th post 😊

Speaking of milestones, it shouldn't be too long until I get a nice one for this thread.

Ya, I just looks and I saw I recently passes 2,700. I don't pay much attention to my post count.

Hopefully you'll notice when you hit 3000. Did you ever make threads for when you hit 1000 and 2000?

I did for 1,000. I just posted in here for 2,000.

Hopefully you'll notice when you hit 3000.

Lol, I guess somebody will notice it before you will then.

Only one month left until the playoffs. For baseball fans, who do you think will go all the way? Right now, I hope it's the Dodgers of course, but the Rays look best poised to do it. They've been beating everyone and the Angels can't touch them. The only team that seems to stand a chance in the NL is the Cubs, but I don't know if they can without Zambrano.

Hmm, looking for a new apartment is annoying. According to some apartment ratings sites, the only decent ones around all "terrible, don't meet minimum living standards, ghetto teenagers live there" what? I visited the place, and I didn't even see a single freaking person. [shrug]

Russadwan wrote:and noticed it was over 3,000.

According to some apartment ratings sites, the only decent ones around all "terrible, don't meet minimum living standards, ghetto teenagers live there" what? I visited the place, and I didn't even see a single freaking person. [shrug]

phattonez wrote:I know that there's someone here who's a lucid dreamer; do you have any tips on how to induce them?

:sly: Yeah, that's me.

...Aaaaaand Rock_nog pretty much said what I was gonna say. 😞

the easiers way is do to reality checks over the course of the day. Just stop, look around, and determine if you are awake or not. It will carry over inno your dreams, and voila. So question reality, young padawan!

As for STAYING lucid... Well, I find in my longer lucid dreams, I just unqestioningly accept my lucid dream as my new reality. Basically, I dont' keep telling myself "I'm dreaming. I'm going to do this." I just say "Ok, I'll do this", and don't think too much about it being a dream. If you do, or you get too excited, you will likely wake up.

...but if you're like me, and your first good LD involves firing off kamehamehas everywhere...It's a bit hard not to get excited... XD

Aegix Drakan wrote:
...but if you're like me, and your first good LD involves firing off kamehamehas everywhere...It's a bit hard not to get excited... XD

Sute tells me that she has dreams where she does that to tornadoes all the time. She apparently has really good control over her dreams. I've only once done that, and it was more of I have psychic powers I can move stuff, kinda deal. But I did make an energy ball thing and I moved it with my mind. Cool stuff.

I see that I haven't been around for about two weeks 😮

I wish I could do that to tornadoes. I used to have nightmares about tornadoes. Heck, I remember this one dream from when I was a kid where our whole family was in the car, going down the highway, and suddenly a tornado came out of nowhere. It hit the car and sent it sailing through the air - god, I can still remember the sickening feeling in my stomach as the car tumbled around. I also remember hitting my head on the ceiling, which hurt (I mean, whatever happened to you can't get hurt in dreams?). The worst part though was, I woke up, and I still felt like I was tumbling through the air, and I could still see the inside of the car with my eyes closed - I had to leap out of bed just to get my bearings.

YAY! I had a lucid dream! So I was in the back of my car, with a friend, and my mom was driving. She was also talking on the phone. I happened to glance at the clock, which said it was 9:28 PM. But it was daylight outside. I pointed it out to my friend. My mom whispered into her phone, "They know, head to the lake now!" So I started panicking. Then I though, "Hey, if it's just a dream, I can control it." So I made the car do all sorts of stuff, go around in circles, go down hills at extreme speeds, everything. When I though it was time for me to wake up, I simply drove down a steep hill at high speed and into a busy intersection. When I woke up, I felt like I had just gotten off a roller coaster.

Then, sleep paralysis. When I tried to go back to bed, I couldn't move. Couldn't talk. Couldn't scream. I heard noises. And the only feeling I had left was pure terror. It lasted for about five minutes. It was horrible. :shakeno:

But the lucid dream definitely made up for it. 😃

Talk about a high to a low. Was that your first time getting sleep paralysis? I used to get it all the time but it's gotten a lot better recently. Basically if I just stick to a normal sleeping schedule and don't wake up too late then I have no problem. If I do get it, though, the best thing to do is just wait it out especially if it is a bad one. Sometimes it's pretty light so I can just "roll" out of it.

so, I've been in Arizona for a week, got back today (about 11:30am). it was pretty fun, lots to do, and things to see. we went to the top of one of the mountains, I think it was like 2500 feet above ground level or somthing like that. also went to a water park, it was fun but seemed kinda dinky for AZ. when we got back today it was raining cats and dogs, and so dad says "welcome home!" lol so yeah I cant wait till we go back next year. (we went to Phoenix btw)

and on a side note for today - Phoenix has a high of 102, and Waterloo has a high of 61 😞

rock_nog wrote:I wish I could do that to tornadoes. I used to have nightmares about tornadoes. Heck, I remember this one dream from when I was a kid where our whole family was in the car, going down the highway, and suddenly a tornado came out of nowhere. It hit the car and sent it sailing through the air - god, I can still remember the sickening feeling in my stomach as the car tumbled around. I also remember hitting my head on the ceiling, which hurt (I mean, whatever happened to you can't get hurt in dreams?). The worst part though was, I woke up, and I still felt like I was tumbling through the air, and I could still see the inside of the car with my eyes closed - I had to leap out of bed just to get my bearings.

Tornadoes are a recurring theme in my nightmares. Its really weird. Always when my dreams turn sour, tornadoes show up.

I had a dream during my last deployment that we were receiving mortar fire on the FOB, so I went with a bunch of other guys to lay low in a bunker. It was so intensely real that I thought it was all really happening. All the sudden, a mortar landed right next to the bunker and exploded. I could even feel the heat of it. I was so sure that I had really died that when I woke up, I thought I was waking up in the afterlife. I slowly opened my eyes to see it was just my room and I had fallen asleep in the middle of the day while I was waiting to get the word to start gearing up to head home.

I still have dreams like that, but tornadoes usually show up, and then I know its just a dream.

How come it seems that I'm the only one that doesn't seem to remember his dreams?

I usually just wake up feeling "meh".

Most of the time, I can only remember fragments of my dreams. Like, I'll remember doing something in my dream, but I don't remember why I was doing it. :S

@ Anthony: Oh gosh... >_< That must have really really freaked you out. I feel for you, man.

My lucid dreams only let me do stuff that makes sense for the setting. For example, if I'm on a spaceship I can cause aliens to attack, but I cant make a giant stuffed giraffe pop through the wall, say.

DAMMIT!

😡 A week ago, I sent my CV to a graphic design company, and they only replied last night. ...I wasn't able to check my email last night. ...Oh, and they said they wanted an interview...TODAY AT 10 AM. ...I found out at 6PM.

...:sweat: Jeez, a little warning? OY...

Dude! That sucks. Are you going to call them up and explain, see if you can reschedle?

MasterSwordUltima wrote:How come it seems that I'm the only one that doesn't seem to remember his dreams?

I usually just wake up feeling "meh".

This describes me for at least 20 years of my life. I can remember like one or two dreams I had when I was little, and then I never remembered any of my dreams until very recently. And then in the past week I've remembered some weird dream I've had every night. The dreams are kinda borderline freaky, but since I never remember dreams, I am actually intrigued/excited that I can remember them rather than worried or freaked out.

The more I try to think about my dreams, the more I tend to forget them. ...Which is why I never post them. I do dream... I think. :sweat:

The most vivid dream I remember is from when I was 4-years-old or so. The evil guy from the Inspector Gadget cartoon asked if he could borrow a pen.

My dreams tend to fade as well, and my most vivid is from early childhood also. The kids from Magic Schoolbus and I found a cabin in the woods, and when we entered it was like some fortune tellers hut. I was talking to a perfume bottle on a shelf that thought it was a pschycologist, when a witch came down the stairs, jumped over my living room couch, and began hurling green goop at us. We fled into the next room, which was made entirely of teal honeycomb. Then Mrs. Frizzle armed us with butterfly nets before revealing herself as the witch and chasing us down. And...I woke up.

phattonez wrote:Talk about a high to a low. Was that your first time getting sleep paralysis? I used to get it all the time but it's gotten a lot better recently. Basically if I just stick to a normal sleeping schedule and don't wake up too late then I have no problem. If I do get it, though, the best thing to do is just wait it out especially if it is a bad one. Sometimes it's pretty light so I can just "roll" out of it.

russadwan wrote:Well, I just got me wisdom teeth pulled today. They also dug out my twelve year molars, which were stuck under the gum. Just thought I'd let you guys know.

You're kinda young to get wisdom teeth. D:

I just got it today, and it was strange because I had woken up and thought about being paralyzed and then it happens. Hopefully you don't get attacks like I do where you get the paralysis, then wake up, then fall back asleep because you're so exhausted and then the whole process repeats over and over until you can finally break out of it. No way that a lucid dream ever makes up for that.

I've never had my teeth pulled (thanks to my orthodontists who may have made space in the gum line for my wisdom teeth), but I've heard terrible stories. How does it feel Russ?

I had to get two teeth pulled once when I was younger. When I was five I hit my upper lip on a plank of wood on our boat while we were over a huge wave, and although there was no immediete damage, a couple years later the two front teeth began to ache and it turns out hey had been subtley dislodged from the gums or something.

Yeah, getting them pulled was not fun for a seven-year old.

Okay, I'm currently torn. GLaDOS and HAL 9000 are two of my favorite fictional characters of all time. However, I can't decide which is my favorite, and if possible I'd like to add a third to the list because I could treat all three equally, because I'm OCD like that. I'm considering SHODAN, but I'd much prefer an actual physical computer with AI then simply a program. Any ideas?
Maybe Multivac, or Holly *shrugs*