• li10@feddit.ukEnglish
    821·
    18 days ago

    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 🙂

    • Masta_Chief@lemmy.world
      71·
      17 days 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

    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      17 days ago

      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.

  • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
    77·
    17 days ago

    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.

  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io
    35·
    17 days ago

    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!

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      17 days ago

      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.

    • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      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.

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      4·
      17 days ago

      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.

    • psud@aussie.zone
      3·
      17 days ago

      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

      • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
        1·
        16 days ago

        Thankfully, I just occasionally get the not being able to move for 10 seconds, no residual dreams bleeding into consciousness.

        • psud@aussie.zone
          2·
          16 days ago

          It really sucks for nightmares. I heard about someone else with the same thing, they were prescribed sleeping tablets and told to use a sleeping bag if sleeping above ground floor (for fear that the dream might make him jump out of a window

          I don’t think accidentally hurting oneself is a likely outcome though as these dreams only happen when you’re very close to full consciousness on the way to sleep or wakefulness, and they dispel quickly after you start being active

          • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
            2·
            16 days ago

            Speaking of hurting one’s self, the comedian Mike Birbiglia (?) has a condition where his brain doesn’t make the hormone, chemical, whatever, that paralyzes us in our sleep. He literally ran through a plate glass sliding door on a 2nd story motel room, and fell to the pavement. He survived, relatively unharmed, but has to sleep in a body bag like you describe to keep from hurting himself, or others, in his sleep.

            Thanks for the reply. Have a good one.

            https://gazette.com/news/a-case-of-near-deadly-sleepwalking-for-comedian-mike-birbiglia/article_e4af044f-4037-5890-a222-932fdec60e09.html

              • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
                3·
                16 days ago

                Me, too. I’m glad I don’t have that, or the version where you wake up but you’re still in the dream, I have the mild “I can’t move for 10 seconds” version. And it happens rarely.

                Speaking of, I don’t know if you know, but the sleep drug Ambien accumulates over time, saturates, and when it reaches saturation, can have effects like Birgiblia’s condition. People driving, eating, doing things in their sleep with no recollection. Awful drug.

                My elderly mother with dementia, who I’m the caretaker of, was prescribed it a couple of years ago, old people have insomnia. I found her at 3 AM vacuuming. I asked her “Why are you doing this now…,” She looked at me, with a blank face, and wide zombie eyes, the went back to vacuuming. The next morning, she didn’t remember shit. And not because of dementia. We stopped the Ambien.

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      17 days ago

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

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    241·
    17 days ago

    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

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      17 days ago

      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.

      • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        17 days ago

        Up towards Masters people would get really creative and it was a shitshow, like you’d scout and see 1 rax and think you’re getting rushed but they actually went two rax expo and tucked the rax and base in some corner, so you lost the macro game anticipating an early attack (or you’d do that same thing to them). It was just weird mindfuck stuff like that left and right lol. Basically hyper aggressive deception every other game and you’d have to play like that in order to survive

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
      101·
      17 days ago

      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.

      • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        17 days 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

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      31·
      17 days ago

      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.

  • krashmo@lemmy.world
    231·
    17 days ago

    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.

    • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca
      61·
      17 days ago

      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

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
        3·
        17 days ago

        That’s crazy. I have told that story to a couple people and they just looked at me like I’m nuts.

        You know what’s even weirder? My name is Matt too 🤯

        • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca
          2·
          17 days ago

          I’ve been waiting since I was like 12 to tell that story to someone who would get it, and when I read your comment, I thought “Finally today’s the day!”

          No way! It’s always great to meet another Matt. Hey Matt!

          • krashmo@lemmy.world
            2·
            17 days ago

            Funny stuff. I would use it as a sort of dream test as well. If I could open the menu then I knew it was a dream. If it was an OK dream I’d just go back to it. Hasn’t happened in a long time though

          • krashmo@lemmy.world
            1·
            17 days ago

            I think so but I’m pretty sure most people think too highly of themselves so I don’t know how much that opinion is worth lol

  • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    20·
    17 days ago

    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.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    17 days ago

    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.

    • kureta@lemmy.ml
      161·
      17 days 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.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
      7·
      16 days ago

      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.

      • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
        5·
        16 days ago

        Off on a tangent, but I dated a woman who had sleep apnea, and wore the CPAP mask at night.

        In the morning, because of being pumped full of air all night, she would fart the most deepest, longest, most glorious farts for like 2 or 3 minutes straight. We would just laugh, and laugh…

    • szczuroarturo@programming.dev
      3·
      17 days ago

      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 ).

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        17 days ago

        Huh…

        I share a similar experience to the person you replied to, but recently I’ve been doing the “wake up knowing you had a dream but can’t remember it” thing again, and I’ve also been eating more bananas recently.

        Coincidence?!

    • lostinfog@reddthat.comEnglish
      21·
      17 days ago

      Are you a stoner? That kills the recall of your dreams but not the actual dreaming. You just never remember