I used to have nightmares all the time, and I kind of loved it. Not universally, but most of the time. The actual experience left me a bit shaken, but reflecting on them later and discussing them with my friends was very interesting.
How could I bring about such a thing again, without doing anything that would seriously screw me up?
I used to have nightmares all the time, and I kind of loved it. Not universally, but most of the time. The actual experience left me a bit shaken, but reflecting on them later and discussing them with my friends was very interesting.
How could I bring about such a thing again, without doing anything that would seriously screw me up?
Scary movies? Slenderman?
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"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
I'm not really scared by movies anymore. There are a few exceptions (such as Coraline and Fight Club), but for the most part, I am pretty desensitized.
Now find yourself a woman, get her pregnant two or three times, get an apartement and a family car. A dog is optional, but certainly helps.
Now just roll over and wait for nightmares to roll in, as you think for a way how to pay all your credits and debts away, while still have enough money to put food on table and trying to get kids through school. Hell, sometimes you won't even need to go to sleep.
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Ask Serpy to link you an online manga called "The Mystery of Amiere Gorge" or something like that. That gave me freaking nightmares for a week and put me off doing *anything* near a cave for life.
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Ask Serpy to link you an online manga called "The Mystery of Amiere Gorge" or something like that. That gave me freaking nightmares for a week and put me off doing *anything* near a cave for life.
Amigara Fault. I thought it was rather funny, actually. I guess you need to be claustrophobic for that.
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I used to have nightmares all the time, and I kind of loved it. Not universally, but most of the time. The actual experience left me a bit shaken, but reflecting on them later and discussing them with my friends was very interesting.
How could I bring about such a thing again, without doing anything that would seriously screw me up?
Hit 'Random SCP' for an hour or so, and read each article you get. Problem solved.
Or just track down a horror manga called Uzumaki.
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The Atlas is also goofy but it has that whole "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man" menacing smile thing going for it. The guy who drew that one up was obviously taken to the Nutcracker when he was a child... and he was screaming in terror the entire time.
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Glyphstone, out of all the playground I think you scare me the most...
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I found watching Supernatural right before bed gave me amazingly vivid dreams. Not nightmares, but very interesting nonetheless.
I think the best one was the time Dean was just opening his mouth to start exorcising a demon, when my alarm went off. Playing O Fortuna. That was terrifying.
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I find putting myself in the movies works. Meaning, I am the guy getting chased by zombies/mass murderer/monsters. Before I go to bed, I think all about it and how I would handle being a part of it. Thats all I think of as I fall asleep and I usually manage to dream about it. I hate nightmares personally. Not because they are scary, but because they involve lots of physical activity, fighting, running, barricades, whatever. And I always wake up exhausted!
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Traab is yelling everything that I'm thinking already.
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
Eat anything before bed. When I eat right before sleeping, it gives me either really bad heartburn or really weird dreams. Not usually nightmares, but bizarre ones.
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The Atlas is also goofy but it has that whole "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man" menacing smile thing going for it. The guy who drew that one up was obviously taken to the Nutcracker when he was a child... and he was screaming in terror the entire time.
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Glyphstone, out of all the playground I think you scare me the most...
I'm not sure why exactly this works, but it did for me: for about an hour or two before bed, make a constant effort to not look at your reflection. Go to the bathroom, wash your face, brush your teeth, the works. The important thing is to look into the mirror, but not so you can see yourself.
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My advice? DON'T. I consider people who don't have nightmares some of the luckiest on the planet; because (at least, in my experience) it's not the things you do to get the nightmares that screw you up. It's the nightmares themselves. You want my subconscious? I dream on a semi-regular (about once every other month or so) that I'm possessed and watch impotently from behind my own eyes as my body slaughters everyone I care about. If I could trade for a boring, nightmare-free life, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
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THIS aberrant, ancient evil ain't no playa! I'm gonna take care of my little Meduthids and my Spawnling Mama! Besides which--the Old Ones know the Elder Brain keeps pestering me about giving it some Grandspawnlings...
My advice? DON'T. I consider people who don't have nightmares some of the luckiest on the planet; because (at least, in my experience) it's not the things you do to get the nightmares that screw you up. It's the nightmares themselves. You want my subconscious? I dream on a semi-regular (about once every other month or so) that I'm possessed and watch impotently from behind my own eyes as my body slaughters everyone I care about. If I could trade for a boring, nightmare-free life, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I've had those dreams before. I actually find them rather interesting (probably explains why I'm so crazy). If you could make it into a lucid dream, you may be able to figure out why you have these dreams. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to force a lucid dream. Perhaps you would have better luck?
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My advice? DON'T. I consider people who don't have nightmares some of the luckiest on the planet; because (at least, in my experience) it's not the things you do to get the nightmares that screw you up. It's the nightmares themselves. You want my subconscious? I dream on a semi-regular (about once every other month or so) that I'm possessed and watch impotently from behind my own eyes as my body slaughters everyone I care about. If I could trade for a boring, nightmare-free life, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I occasionally get nightmares where everyone important to me is taken away or killed and me powerless to stop it. That and there being a ledge I know I am predestined to fall off, and I spend the whole dream battling with my subconscious for that not to happen. It's a lot like not picturing a pink elephant, if the elephant was always just out of sight but you knew he'd pop in to view if you think about him.
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"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
I've had those dreams before. I actually find them rather interesting (probably explains why I'm so crazy). If you could make it into a lucid dream, you may be able to figure out why you have these dreams. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to force a lucid dream. Perhaps you would have better luck?
Oh, I've tried to force lucid dreaming as well, but I've also had no luck with that. And mine aren't remotely interesting - the look of horror on my mother's face when I stab her and can't stop myself from doing it haunts my waking hours as well. Seriously, it's hard work to not begin weeping as I type this.
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I occasionally get nightmares where everyone important to me is taken away or killed and me powerless to stop it. That and there being a ledge I know I am predestined to fall off, and I spend the whole dream battling with my subconscious for that not to happen. It's a lot like not picturing a pink elephant, if the elephant was always just out of sight but you knew he'd pop in to view if you think about him.
Yeah, I don't have the kind of nightmares where I wake up with a shout in a cold sweat. I have the kind of nightmares where I wake up sobbing. The example I gave was simply one of the more... forum-appropriate ones.
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THIS aberrant, ancient evil ain't no playa! I'm gonna take care of my little Meduthids and my Spawnling Mama! Besides which--the Old Ones know the Elder Brain keeps pestering me about giving it some Grandspawnlings...
Oh, I've tried to force lucid dreaming as well, but I've also had no luck with that. And mine aren't remotely interesting - the look of horror on my mother's face when I stab her and can't stop myself from doing it haunts my waking hours as well. Seriously, it's hard work to not begin weeping as I type this.
Oh. I'm sorry. I'm a little insane, and can turn my empathy off pretty much at will, so I sometimes can't relate that well to normal people.
Perhaps you could seek help for this?
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Don't worry, I like my characters the way I like my coffee: Strong, but with no cheese in it.
"I'm prepared for anything! Unless one continues to fight without succumbing to the pain of defeat, it is impossible to achieve victory!"
-Hanyuu
Oh. I'm sorry. I'm a little insane, and can turn my empathy off pretty much at will, so I sometimes can't relate that well to normal people.
Perhaps you could seek help for this?
I'm aware that I probably should be telling this stuff to a shrink instead of an internet forum... but I feel safer and more among friends here than I ever have talking to a counselor or therapist (I haven't talked to one for actual therapy, but I know a couple and with them EVERY conversation is a therapy opportunity). But this thread isn't really about my psychological issues - I'm just making a recommendation and delivering a warning.
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THIS aberrant, ancient evil ain't no playa! I'm gonna take care of my little Meduthids and my Spawnling Mama! Besides which--the Old Ones know the Elder Brain keeps pestering me about giving it some Grandspawnlings...
I cannot ever remember dreaming or having woken up with the feeling that I just dreamt something except for one very clear dream. My wife was pregnant and I was on deployment and I dreamt that I was sitting around a bonfire with some of my closest friends and I was singing and playing guitar w/a little blonde haired girl but I couldn't see her face. That next day I got an email from my wife that we were having a daughter.
Reading this has been interesting, since people seem to have such vastly differing nightmares.
Mine have always been about being dragged down to a cell deep beneath the earth where I pound against the walls and slowly starve to death, or have just been surreal, like something out of the fever hallucinations of H. R. Giger. Never have they involved any real people other than me.
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