Last night, I had a strange dream. The gist of it was that I, along with the rest of a class, was given a day to wander around a huge, unfamiliar place, maybe a college campus, trying to determine what we needed to do in order to destroy an eerie glowing green stone that each of us had. Something horrifying would happen if we didn't figure it out by the end of the day. The sun was setting, and I began to panic as I realized I was running out of time and had no idea what to do, while everybody else seemed to have solved the problem. I spoke to someone who was smiling and laughing. She said something like "Don't you get what the stone is?" And then she explained it. I'm not sure how it worked, but the rock was somehow my own essence: my mind, or my soul, or something. As soon as I understood it, I woke up and wailed a full-throated wail of terror, feeling, for a split second, as if I were really going to die. Jesus Christ! Having my mortality bound up in a little green rock and the span of a day was just the thing to scare the wits out of me.
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I've definitely woken up from dreams with that "gasp" like you see people do on TV or in the movies, but I don't think I've ever full out screamed. Back during my sophomore year of college, my roommate would talk in his sleep and if I caught him doing it, I would reply back to try to continue the conversation to see what he was thinking about.
However, this backfired because I think I started to develop talking in my sleep as well, because there was one time he and I were both in the room (sleeping) and I woke up speaking mid-sentence. I have no idea what I was saying or what I was talking about, and it took me a good half a minute to realize what had just happened.
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I had a roommate who claimed I programmed in my sleep, speaking aloud the names of punctuation characters. I didn't believe him, although I wanted to.
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Not during a nightmare, I think not. I know a guy who has night terrors and screams at night, dead asleep, but those are distinctly different from nightmares.
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I woke up with a yelp last night. Not quite the bloodcurdling shriek of last time, but still, I hope this doesn't become a habit.
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"It's a handy thing, this experimental attitude," said Castle. "The scientist can be sure of himself before he knows anything. We philosophers should have thought of that."
Wait. I opened this topic, I think I got distracted by something, and then promptly just answered the topic title without reading anything else.
In fact, that's a really crazy dream. Really, really intense. I don't know what to say about it, so I will just say that much.
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I was once awoken by an unbearable clenching pain (charley horse) in both my calves and I yelled aloud all of a sudden. Never from a nightmare though. I've gotten these a few times in my life. Hadn't had one in years and then like three nights ago I got one. Ugh, worst pain I ever felt.
I once woke up and found myself humping the bedsheets... >_>
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To say that I'm outlandish and over-the-top doesn't even scrape the bottom.
I haven't. I have however suffered from sleep paralysis on occasion.
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Whoa, one of our own is a mod!
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"It's a handy thing, this experimental attitude," said Castle. "The scientist can be sure of himself before he knows anything. We philosophers should have thought of that."
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Whoa, one of our own is a mod!
I wouldn't call myself one of you, since it is very rare that I post here. Including years going by.
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Sleep paralysis is extreme. I have attempted on a few occasions to scream during that, but to no avail.
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Oh yeah, the first few times it happened to me, I tried to scream. However the more recent times, I have recognized that it is happening and just calm myself until I can move again.
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Ugh, there was this awful time last summer (this has only really occurred four or five times) where I woke up in paralysis because I felt and heard a tapping at the foot of my bed.
I thought "no, you're hallucinating, pay no attention to it" but then I was also like "but no, it's my housemate, he's tapping the foot of my bed to see if I'm awake". The tapping persisted, another time, then another time. I tried to call out to my housemate to tell him, but couldn't speak, so I wriggled my foot towards the tapping (it's unclear if I really moved it at all, or just a little bit) with extreme effort. Then, suddenly, something violently grabbed my foot. I tried to scream. Then the feeling went away, and I could move again. Not a happy occurrence.
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I don't think I have ever heard any sounds. Normally it is the feeling that there is an axe at my throat and the sense that something evil is nearby. Sounds would probably freak me out.
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Kodi, your dream sounds like it'd make a nifty short story of sorts, or maybe even video game.
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Fame is but a slow decay.
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I've tried to think of an existing work that captures the same kind of creepiness, and for some reason I keep thinking of this, although the punchline is essentially opposite.
http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/divided-by-infinity
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"It's a handy thing, this experimental attitude," said Castle. "The scientist can be sure of himself before he knows anything. We philosophers should have thought of that."