I once got locked in a state of sleep paralysis and managed to call out for help. I said “please wake me up I’m having a nightmarrrre” but in a really scared voice and no air in my lungs, just forcing the sounds out with my diaphragm. It freaked my roommate THE FUCK out. Honestly it was a little embarrassing but they just think it’s a cool story now. It’s kinda funny how our emotional states flipped because they went from “hehe is he sleep talking?” to “WHAT THE FUCK HE NEEDS MY HELP!” and I went from “I’m trapped in an inescapable torment of my own unconscious mind!” to “ok I’m awake now. That’s better.” My eyes were already open but I couldn’t wake up. The instant I saw them open the door I was immediately awake and calm. Meanwhile they were dealing with a major adrenaline surge and took a long time to calm back down.
Dreams are fun eh? Also your concept of time gets wonky when you’re dreaming.
Did nobody tell him that life was going to be that way?
Anon knows their job’s a joke, they’re broke, their love life’s DOA.
it’s like they’re unable to drive due to a broken gearbox
Anon forgot they were watching cable TV not streaming. Reruns at 2 am? They just slept through a long commercial break. You may have had a nightmare but you avoided Yahel with the sad old jews, Sarah McLoughlan with the abused animals, 16 pharmaceuticals, 5 kind of insurance, and a financial advisor.
Don’t forget about reverse mortgage era Tom Selleck
And GGW.
The problem is that you watched Friends
I remember this one, it’s “The one with the C̶̫̪͇̳̀͝o̴̧͎̰͎͆̄͗͒͘f̷̢̖̮̆̐̽͝f̷̢̪̗͉͓͒̍̇͘e̶͖͔̒̉ḛ̷̛̹͎͐̕̕ ̴̗͈̝̽s̷̛̥͈̉̇͊͜͝h̸͓͕̲͇̪̉̀̓̀͝o̴̰̰̝̳͌̍͛ͅp̵̛̝͓̯̄͊͜ͅ ψ”
The come shop
Comé shopë. It’s French oui oui
Sleep paralysis
Once you’ve experienced sleep paralysis, nightmares are comforting.
It’s the “time has no meaning” aspect of it that’s terrifying.
How sweet, they are just a learner and almoust bot Anon for real. Next time you’ll trap Anon for eternity, Buddy!
Fake: you can’t actually read in your dreams
You can’t read coherently, but its sort of a visual association where you look at something that should have words and read those words simply by thinking. If you were lucid and do this, then you would be able to tell the words can’t be read, but when you are just on auto-pilot like most dreams then your dream tends to fill in the blanks that maintain the illusion. They became lucid around the time the words became indecipherable, which could be at the same time or just anxiety making the words lose meaning, but either way the pacing checks out.
Matches my experiences with lucid dreaming and the reading I’ve done on lucid dreaming at least.
I can definitely read text in some dreams. Not even lucid ones. Not like reading a novel, but signs or things I, “need to read” have words, and often legible, at least shorter words.
I’m inclined to think that when ‘reading’ in a dream, you’re actually just dreaming the concept as if having read it.
It’s your dream, you already ‘know’ what a sign says.
If that makes any sense at all…
Definitely happens both ways for me depending on the occurence.
Yeah this is what I mean with my comment. Your brain knows there should be something there and thus it fills in the blanks, maintaining the illusion of it being readable without it needing to be.
Sort of like when you wear glasses with a huge smudge on the edge of them for long enough. You don’t notice the smudge because your brain fills in the gap that it takes up in your peripheral.
Your brain is doing the whole thing.
It can imagine you have already read something it never actually “simulated”. It can imagine you going through the steps of reading without any written words in the dream being involved at all. It can imagine illegible text that you are conscious of being unable to read. It can imagine legible text that you can read. It can invent information, recall it, or fail to recall it for the contents of the text. The contents could stay consistent if you return to them later in the dream, they could change, or at that “later” point, your brain can invent the “memory” of having previously read that text.
And it isn’t really a simulator, which is why lucid dreaming might only experience a subset of these, possibly leaning more towards illegible text, because a lucid dreamer is probably either trying to read to find information (that the brain might not have and might not bother trying to make up because it knows what the conscious mind is up to) or testing what is possible in dreams (which I’d imagine the unconscious mind might think something like “dude, I’m just making this up as I go in the first place, and while it’s cool that this whole thing entertains and/or perplexes you, it’s just a hallucination that happens during routine housekeeping that you’re not even supposed to remember because it’s all meaningless. Don’t try to do science in it, just enjoy the show, laugh when you think about it when I’m fully online, and move on”).
Fake: you can’t read in dreams
Gay: anon tried to read, like some kind of nerd homo
But also, I have absolutely read in dreams. Most of the time it’s frustrating or terrifying nonsense (like, an imperative to read or something bad will happen, and suddenly I can’t, or dial a phone number or something bad will happen, but the numbers won’t display correctly, or whatever), but on more than one occasion dreaming normally and lucidly, I have successfully read text in a dream.
I tried to read, fail and thus realize I’m dreaming in an attempt to lucid dream. But my mind fucked me over and had made the text appear in Asian instead of Latin symbols so I went “ah ok, technically I could read but not that. So I’m not dreaming, carry on then.”
Oh that totally sounds like some of the shit my brain would do to me when I was into lucid dreaming haha
Isn’t it that you can read, but every time you look away it changes to something else?
I should note I’ve never had any vivid dreams or lucid dreams with which I could remember much of anything in the first place so… Idk
maybe idk I saw it on Batman
Forgot to pivot, noob
sounds like a Datura trip
