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Demosthenes Assimilated Posts: 372 From: Boston, MA, USA Registered: Sep 2000	posted May 17, 2001 22:11 quote: Originally posted by Alien Investor: Sometimes I sleep like a vampire -- flat on my back with my hands crossed over my chest. you too?! that's always a fun way to freak people out at sleepover-type things... ------------------ demosthenes says "nurf." IP: Logged
Mr Bill Alpha Geek Posts: 315 From: currently in orbit Registered: Oct 2000	posted May 17, 2001 22:38 I turn over at least twice before falling asleep, no matter how tired I am. And I always end up in the same position: on my left side/stomach, my left arm under the pillow holding the corner of the mattress, legs apart, with my right foot over the end of the mattress. I also get better rest sleeping on the couch rather than the bed, but I rarely sleep on the couch. Startrekker: there is a lot of crap on the 'net about lucid dreaming, usually someone trying to sell their "scientifically proven" device to induce dreams, or mixed in with the new age crap. Look for articles or books with 'Jayne Gackenbach' in the authors list, she has been doing sleep and dream research since at least the 80s. I have one of her books (packed away somewhere, can't remember the title) and she outlined exercises to increase the odds of having a lucid dream. Apparently everyone has one from time to time, the real trick is being able to remember them after you wake up. Sweet dreams. IP: Logged
StarTrekker Super Geek Posts: 123 From: Registered: Mar 2001	posted May 17, 2001 22:42 it's very easy to get a nightgown all twisted up and backwards, if you wear nighties to bed. A t-shirt would be more difficult and boxers impossible though. StarTrekker IP: Logged
Eponine Highlie Posts: 726 From: Midwest, US Registered: Sep 2000	posted May 17, 2001 23:08 Not neccesarily, ST. I wear drawstring pants to bed, and often they're about as twisted as they can get... not totally backwards, but pretty darn close. IP: Logged
plastic Super Geek Posts: 158 From: Land of Lincoln Registered: Apr 2001	posted May 17, 2001 23:47 (I tried this earlier maybe this time it will work...) I've been told that one of my very odd quirks is that I sleep with my eyes open, and occasionally talk, weird huh? Lucid dreams? I can't get away from them, I wish I could. Almost every damn night I have them, wish I could forget them half the time they are so wierd. (As far as the clothes thing goes, if they're bunching and you don't like it, why you wearin them to bed....) IP: Logged
Eponine Highlie Posts: 726 From: Midwest, US Registered: Sep 2000	posted May 18, 2001 00:22 For me, it's cause I live in a dorm, and the girls on my hall already think I'm weird. I don't need to give them ammunition. Not to mention my roomie's bf frequently comes to spend the night, and so does mine... I'm not very modest, but I'm not going to sleep nekkid in a bed with my bf. Sorry. IP: Logged
StarTrekker Super Geek Posts: 123 From: Registered: Mar 2001	posted May 18, 2001 10:44 That's about the only time I would sleep nekkid is with my BF (if I had one). I much prefer to sleep clothed. My friends think it is weird that I sleep in socks and underwear. Apparently, they don't wear undies to bed, just pyjama bottoms, and never socks. And also, sometimes I sleep with the windows open and so I don't want to give the neighbors an eight-hour peek at unclothed me. StarTrekker IP: Logged
maxomai Geek Posts: 77 From: Portland, OR Registered: May 2001	posted May 18, 2001 15:23 I don't eat cheese, except on pizza. I collect stuffed animals. (This is quirky for a guy.) I've got more fricking Linux schtick (shirts, keychains, etc.) than most employees at Red Hat. Comes from going to an unholy number of conferences. I love watching spiders at work. I usually only listen to talk radio. That means I never hear about most top-40 music, much to the amazement of my friends. I used to eat peanuts in the shell. I do hand-puppet shows without the puppets. Usually not appropriate for children. And don't even ask me about the characters that my brother and I make up...Sheriff Barnum or Hans Kinderficken.... I sleep naked. All the time. I keep the thermostat on 60 degrees in the winter because I'm cheap and because it's more comfortable for me to sleep naked under a pile of blankets than for me to sleep in a room that's "room temperature". Hopefully if/when I get a GF this practise will also encourge spooning. I have a large collection of thrash metal and death metal CDs. Despite the stereotype, firearms don't give me a woody. However, encryption technology does. So does reading a clearly written graduate level math book. I put garlic in almost anything I cook for myself. I wear sneakers. All year long. I dream in mathematics a lot. ------------------ And the Goddess said to the God, "What do you mean it broke?!?!?" And thus was the Universe created. IP: Logged
Eponine Highlie Posts: 726 From: Midwest, US Registered: Sep 2000	posted May 18, 2001 17:38 Originally posted by maxomai: I love watching spiders at work. That's not weird. I do too. The thing that makes it a quirk to me, is that I'm terrified of spiders, and I still like to watch. IP: Logged
Xanthine Highlie Posts: 513 From: the lab Registered: Mar 2001	posted May 18, 2001 19:48 Best I can do as far as lucid dreaming goes is recognize that it's a dream and possibly wake myself up (if it's bad or way too weird). Sometimes, if it's a really wonderful dream, I encourage it along, or if I do end up waking up, go back to sleep so I can pick up where I left off. To be honest, I'm not sure if I want to control my dreams. Dreams are basically brain excrement. If that's how my mind lets off steam, I'm not going to get in the way. ------------------ Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance. - Tennesee Williams IP: Logged
Drasca Alpha Geek Posts: 344 From: Between Yin and Yang Registered: Jan 2000	posted May 19, 2001 10:36 Control? Dreams? Pish posh. Any change made in the dream is like throwing a pebble into a river. You'll have something extra, but it won't make a large difference. ------------------ -Drasca "To dream is the most wonderful and foolish thing there is" IP: Logged
bilbo unregistered	posted June 12, 2001 09:34 I too eat icecream with a fork or teaspoon. I havent worn a watch since I was 15 (21 now). If you don't know the time you can't be late. I got a really expensive one for my 18th, but I wont wear it because it'll break in a day. I always wear a coat out, even when theres a heatwave. I also carry a backpack with me. Usually to keep my walkman and extra tapes in. I can name every track number on every CD/Vinyl in my collection without looking. I love cooking for other people, but I rarely eat what I cook. I carry a notepad and pen with me at all times, just incase I have a brainwave(it has yet to happen... but I live in hope) Once I've read a book, I read it again stright away to see what I missed. Oh and I quote cartoons alot. I know there are more out there somewhere IP: Logged
MrMachineCode Super Geek Posts: 207 From: -, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Dec 2000	posted June 12, 2001 11:18 I've had lucid dreaming exactly twice in my life. Both times I realized I was dreaming because I noticed some subtle logical inconsistency. For instance, once I was dreaming that I was back in a place I lived in a few weeks before, but some object appeared in the dream that I did not come to possess until after I moved. I thought "Cool! I'm having a lucid dream! I can do anything I want here." But then I found out I had no more control over the dream world than I had over the real world! Everything simply followed the laws of physics. I could move things by walking over to them and physically moving them with my (dream) hand, but I couldn't do anything I wouldn't be able to do in real life. Not a damn thing. Have you ever noticed that in a dream, you can be up and walking around, but if you pay attention to it you can still feel the bed under you? If I wake up in the middle of the dream, I can get up and make breakfast but at the same time continue the dream. Sometimes I become concious while my body is still asleep. I'm told my grandfather used to experience it when he was younger. I'm not talking about lucid dreaming. I mean, concious as in fully aware of my surroundings with "wide awake" mental capacity, but with my body still asleep and still blocking the voluntary motor impulses. Scared the crap out of me the first time it happened--I thought I was paralyzed! But nothing was numb, I could still feel all my body parts, I just couldn't move anything. I could speed up or slow down my breathing, but I couldn't speak or make any vocalization. Can't remeber if I could control my eyes or not. I think not. See, I think that when you sleep, somewhere between the forebrain and the body the actions you think you're doing in the dream get blocked, otherwise you'd sleepwalk every time you dreamed. Well, this was the opposite situation: instead of that block not being up when it should be (which causes sleepwalking) the block was still up when it shouldn't be, as I was mentally awake. It's really very scary if you don't know what's going on. You can't call for help because your vocal cords are blocked too. You can hyperventilate until you're blue in the face, but it won't wake up your body (I've tried). You can't hold your breath because you can only control the approximate speed of your breathing, not each breath individually. You could of course sit there until you wake up naturally, which will happen. Eventually. Fortunately, you can force a motor impulse through the block by sheer willpower, but it takes only a little bit less than telekinectically bending a spoon. That was how I got out of it the first time it happened: I happened to be sleeping on a narrow couch, so it only took a little bit on leaning to cause myself to fall off the couch. Once I started to fall, my body instantly woke up, and I regained motor control with such dispatch that I was even able to save myself from falling. The concious-while-asleep thing still happens to me occasionally (about twice a year). Almost always it happens if I doze off in an uncomfortable position after having stayed up for too long (>36 hours). IP: Logged
Alien Investor Alpha Geek Posts: 349 From: New York City Registered: Jan 2000	posted June 12, 2001 15:07 This "mind awake, body still switched off" phenomenon happens to me once or twice a year. It terrifies me. Every time, I'm sure that I'm blind and paralyzed. I fight really hard to move my eyelids, my hands, anything at all, and it never works. IP: Logged
Xanthine Highlie Posts: 513 From: the lab Registered: Mar 2001	posted June 12, 2001 16:46 Happens to me too, but not often. It's never scared me though - I knew what was happening. What freaks me out is dreams within dreams. That's about the nly time I'm actually happy to hear my alarm go off. ------------------ Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance. - Tennesee Williams IP: Logged
Alien Investor Alpha Geek Posts: 349 From: New York City Registered: Jan 2000	posted June 14, 2001 04:14 I had recursive "dream-within-a-dream" nightmares when I was younger, too. This is the same as "eternal waking" in issue #1 of The Sandman (but I didn't know it at the time). They were frustrating, but not any worse to me than an ordinary nightmare. I got a really bad case when I was working on a C compiler. I went to my boss and told him that I had to quit working on the compiler and do something else for a few days because whenever I worked on recursive code, I'd go home and have a recursive nightmare. Conversely, if I stay up way too many hours, and then I have some blissful experience like a really good contra dance, I start losing my grip on external reality and I start thinking that if I just concentrate hard enough, I could WAKE UP. This happened to me just last Saturday. I chickened out, though. My partner was just too beautiful! I did not want to WAKE UP. IP: Logged
RichTeaBiscuit Neat Newbie Posts: 14 From: Somewhere in the south of England Registered: May 2001	posted June 14, 2001 05:13 Had the dreaming-while-dreaming thing a lot when I was really tired and really upset when a teenager. Haven't had that for a while. My favourite dream is lucid "flying" dreams. I realise that I'm in a dream, then I think "hey, I could have fun with this," so I throw myself at the floor or out of a window. Wheee! I take off. It's ever so much fun. When I had a new chimney put on the side of our house, I went up the ladder to the top of the scaffold. I'm fortunate enough to live where the tree canopy is pretty much even over the area, and by doing this I was above the trees -- that image comes back quite often to kick off the whole dreaming episode. It's ever so much fun. Odd habits: I still bite my toenails. I get crushes on women that I work with (and have to force myself to stop). There's probably more... IP: Logged
MrMachineCode Super Geek Posts: 207 From: -, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Dec 2000	posted June 14, 2001 06:56 ROFL about the recurse compiler/recursive dreams Alien Investor. It's nice to know I'm not the only person who experiences the mind on/body off phenomenon. I wonder why I've never heard anyone else mention it (except of course when I asked my mother about it and she mentioned my grandfather). Is it yet another geek trait? Is it actually caused by lack of sleep? Is there a way to reproduce the effects at will? It absolutely terrified me the first time it happened, but at the same time my scientific interest was so piqued that I was almost more interested in analyzing what was going on and coming up with explanations for how it was occurring than I was with my personal safety. I'm the sort of person who, instead of saying "Oh my God! My hand's glowing green! I have to get to a doctor quick!", would say, "Oh my God! My hand's glowing green! Quick, where's my lab equipment? I have to record and analyze this!" Edit: Actually, the other lucid dream I had was one in which I was flying. I was flying about 6 feet off the ground. The moment I realized I was dreaming, I plummeted like a rock and "fell awake" just before I reached the ground. IP: Logged
Xanthine Highlie Posts: 513 From: the lab Registered: Mar 2001	posted June 14, 2001 15:57 Yeah, my recursive dreams stopped after a brief period of time. Now they only happen under certain circumstances, such as those rare occassions when I'm under a lot of stress but still getting enough sleep to actually HAVE dreams. ------------------ Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance. - Tennesee Williams IP: Logged
Cleophus Newbie Posts: 6 From: Registered: Aug 2000	posted June 14, 2001 20:41 I don't tolerate incorrect grammar or syntax very well. Plus, when I have a paper I've written returned to me with grammar errors I get upset at myself. If I start a project, especially a collection of some type, I have an overwhelming drive to fully complete the project, almost to an obsessive point. I bring my laptop to school every day, and take notes with it. I'm the only one in my high school who does this. The laptop? A PowerBook 540c. For some strange reason, I like to install an operating system. Linux, MacOS, even Windows. It doesn't matter. IP: Logged
MrMachineCode Super Geek Posts: 207 From: -, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Dec 2000	posted June 14, 2001 21:38 When I was still in school, I wanted to bring a laptop to take notes with, and to use on my trig. But the local school here is so technologically backwards that they can't understand what use a computer would be, and actually forbid me from bringing a computer to class! (My vo-tech teacher said, "Tell them I said, 'What? Are you people anti-education?'") IP: Logged
ComradeBri Newbie Posts: 7 From: Philadelphia, PA, USA Registered: May 2001	posted June 21, 2001 00:16 Recently I realized that when watching a movie I try to pick out supporting characters that I've seen in other movies. A good friend of mine does the same thing which is how I noticed that I was doing it. We are both big fans of Michael Dudikoff movies, especially when Brion James is also in them. Brion James is one of those actors who rarely has the starring role, but always seems to pop up in movies that I'm watching. I also eat my food one item at a time. AND I have to eat it in order of which item cools off the fastest. There is an optimum temperature for each food where it has the best taste. If I eat something that has cooled off too much I just don't enjoy it as much. I have almost completely stopped going to chat rooms because I can't stand that people can't tell the difference between your(possessive) and you're(contraction). It irks me to read "Your right. Your not kidding." Argh! I always make up my own lyrics to songs i hear. AND I have to sing them. This drives my friends crazy since they always remember the lyrics I make up instead of the real lyrics. I have ruined many a song for people this way. Plus I've come up with a few hits such as "I'm the lyrical jock strap." Look for my cd's in the bargain bin next to Yanni. Heh. When I'm on my computer I always have to have the TV or radio on since silence breaks my concentration. Whenever someone says something that warrants a bad joke I have to say the joke. No matter how stupid or bad it may be. If someone says something that reminds me of the lyrics to a song I have to sing the song. Whenever a new sci-fi movie comes out I HAVE to go see it. No matter how bad I know it is going to be. There are a lot more...unfortunatly I can't think of them right now. ------------------ Every jumbled pile of a person has a part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of - T.M.B.G. IP: Logged
zorgon Super Geek Posts: 238 From: Beautiful Uptown Goleta Registered: Sep 2000	posted June 21, 2001 01:06 quote: Originally posted by ComradeBri: We are both big fans of Michael Dudikoff movies, especially when Brion James is also in them. Brion James is one of those actors who rarely has the starring role, but always seems to pop up in movies that I'm watching. ... the same Brion James who played the replicant Leon in Blade Runner, one of the best movies of all time? Cool. ------------------ cogito ergo something. IP: Logged
The Chump Super Geek Posts: 102 From: In my chair, in front of my laptop, at my desk, in my kitchen, in my aprtment, on my street, in kent, in ohio, in the US, yadda yadda yadda Registered: Dec 2000	posted June 21, 2001 07:49 For no particular reason, I cannot shower in the morning, I take one after work, I take one before bed, but I can never take one in the morning. I cannot eat anything but breakfast food after I wake up (that includes after naps) without throwing it all back up again. That's about it. IP: Logged

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