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

:q

Would that mean your nightmare is all in ASCII?

Vim is the nightmare.

Click escape, which gets you out of the current write mode.

Type :q!

Nothing scary than real life.

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

You should try flying instead.

At least you don’t go through a series of false awakenings when it happens. Those are generally not the most fun, since at best they ruin lucid dreams (it’s sort of a way for your mind to go back to sleep, and typically resets your awareness of being in a dream), and at worst it fucks with your sense of reality big time.

That’s why I don’t nap anymore… I lucid dream sometimes, but usually not with naps. Those are just hyper realistic emotion bombs with full physical sensation.

So one day I was having one of my awful nap dreams, and it was super negative, so I decided to wake up. So I did. And then I realized I was still sleeping, and tried again… Dozens and dozens of times, every trick I could think of. I could feel my actual body unable to move (thanks sleep paralysis!), and I kept cycling back to dreaming, starting the whole thing over again.

I would subscribe to your newsletter

It will definitely happen if someone tells him that :)

Then the only way he’ll be able to wake up is by beating all 100 floors of his dream

Cheating in a duel against the game master in floor 75*

so basically real life

We’re In the pipe, 5 by 5.

Additional supply depots required

Lost in chaos!

Need a light?

Systems : Functional

Build more overlords

Colon Q exclamation point? 6 keystrokes to leave? Sheesh.

Even if you are aware you are in a dream it can be difficult to control it, at least in my experience. More like I wake up on a roller coaster but I’m not sure if its a fun one or a scary one yet, but I can choose to stay and see how it goes.

My nightmares always turn into semi lucid dreams, it’s like “this is so horrible it must be a nightmare” and then I can choose to just nope out of sleeping.

My old man taught me that telling someone one is having a nightmare stops it from coming back. I’ve found that just saying it out aloud works as well.

I’ve used it quite a few times throughout my life, never fails. It’s supposedly pretty eerie for others though when I just sit up in bed in the middle of the night, proclaim “I’m having a nightmare” and then promptly going back to sleep.

for me that’s when the nightmare begins

You’ve heard of sleep paralysis?

Some of us get that dream effect (eyes open, dream reality overlaid over real reality) but without paralysis.

Opening your eyes? They’re already open and the dream is running

Getting out of bed? Touch hallucinations may become part of it

Usually turning on a light gets me out. That or time

I can’t really put it into words but I just randomly (?) have this thought of “certainly not” and have the feeling of “this has got to be a bad dream… Oh wait, it’s actually a bad dream, why am I still here at all”.

I just don’t always manage to.

That’s how my “I’m stuck in my own bed and can’t move or talk” nightmare usually begins.

Dude i kept having fucmin dreams where i kept getting shot and my red health and blue armour would appear in my vision, and go down. Then I’d try to look at my watch to quit to menu, but it would be blown up just sitting there on my wrist blackened and falling apart so I had ti ride it out and die.

It would be me on the ground and then the grenade landing in front if my face and then going BANG that woke me up and got me out of there

On the other hand I enjoyed that game for years without ever touching multiplayer…

It’s always weird because everyone talks about how stressful it was, but it never was to me because I could just pause/save and walk away.

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.

I had that in WoW PvP. A buddy and I were in the top 50 of the second largest server and it was work. Even solo, we’d often wait for each other to come online before hitting ranked PvP so there was at least someone to talk to. It made losing not seem so bad, and if you started flunking, the other would say to stop and pick it up later.

Otherwise, pressure as hell. And for no reason other than trying to be the top rank of my class which was some pointless goal I put on myself.

Let’s get you back to bed, gramps

Damnit, I lost as well.

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.

You might have got sleep apnoea. If you also happen to not really feel rested in the morning. I know people that haven’t had it diagnosed for decades and it turned their life around and they also finally dreamed again. As a “byproduct” of not nearly dying every night, but resting.

IF there is a pathological reason. Can also just be you don’t stand up shortly after your last REM-sleep and go into deep or light again. Might wanna just check with some smartwatch or just an alarm mid-sleep to check if you then remember stuff.

Eat more bananas !

Idk, i remember reading that banana makes your dream more lucid.

Hmm do you perhaps watch some streams or listen to podcast before sleep ( or even during sleep technicaly speaking ) ,beacuse i also dont dream when i do this.

But i on the other hand also dream vwry vividly and intensly when i think about stuff before sleep ( whatewer it is , book idea , aliens, power fantasy about conquest of russia, imagining the layout of pipes around my house ).

Start taking ssri and every night is an adventure