• radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      16 days ago

      I remember this one, it’s “The one with the C̶̫̪͇̳̀͝o̴̧͎̰͎͆̄͗͒͘f̷̢̖̮̆̐̽͝f̷̢̪̗͉͓͒̍̇͘e̶͖͔̒̉ḛ̷̛̹͎͐̕̕ ̴̗͈̝̽s̷̛̥͈̉̇͊͜͝h̸͓͕̲͇̪̉̀̓̀͝o̴̰̰̝̳͌̍͛ͅp̵̛̝͓̯̄͊͜ͅ ψ”

  • raspirate@lemmy.world
    6·
    16 days ago

    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.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    16 days ago

    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.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    15 days ago

    Mine was an abandoned mall with half the lights dead and people shambling around aimlessly. There was a guy sitting by a door with a curtain on it and he asked if I would go in and help him with some math problems. Seemed sus as hell but I was kinda curious so I peeked behind the curtain and it was just a black void no floor or anything. Wished him luck and went back towards the lobby. There was a giant upside down cross on the wall and I was like oh hey it’s the cross of St Peter and everybody turned to me suddenly looking really pissed off and then I woke up.

    The sleep paralysis moment was just a shadow man standing at the foot of the bed until I managed to yell for my husband and it disappeared when he ran in.

    More recently I ran out of clonidine and had a dream I was being stalked by a weird blurry outline of a human. When it finally caught me I felt this vibrating stiffness go through me like being lowkey electrocuted so like not as painful but rather alarming at which point I woke up. Bizarrely, my immediate thought was to force myself back to sleep and go fight the asshole and I did exactly that and kept chasing it down and grabbing it and holding on as long and as hard as I could and getting shocked awake repeatedly. I must have done that 3-5 times before I stopped being able to find it. I remember my jaw being a little sore from grinding my teeth.

    I’m also pretty sure I saw my actual death at some point. I got stopped at a traffic checkpoint during some kind of mass exodus by highway from somewhere. We were told we tested positive for some kind of infectious disease and I remember knowing that was a ruse but they were armed. They took us all to a sports stadium and once everybody was there (100 people or so?) they told us we needed to get in line to get on some trucks that were gonna take us to a more long-term housing situation. Once they had us in line on the field they started shooting and that’s when I woke up. At least part of the reason I haven’t tried to kill myself again is the distinct impression that if I try to evade that fate something way worse will happen.

      • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        15 days ago

        I’ve got a pretty long post history here if you’re that interested and I’m on masto but I do periodically delete everything but the last six months or so for privacy reasons.

    • ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip
      2·
      16 days ago

      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.

    • Denvil@piefed.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

      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

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
      1·
      16 days ago

      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.

      • dbx12@programming.dev
        1·
        16 days ago

        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.”