Random thoughts thread

Sakuya Izayoi wrote

Wonder what is in Lewd's future now

Hopefully 2lewd.

:^)

Had a scary nightmare, when I woke up everything felt dangerous.

Turned on the lights, now everything is peaceful and safe.

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gtswaifuism wrote

Had a scary nightmare, when I woke up everything felt dangerous.

Turned on the lights, now everything is peaceful and safe.

That's sleep paralysis. A very, very scary phenomenon happens as soon as you reach REM sleep phase (not always), where dreams typically occur. You can't have dreams without being completely still. Normally, when you dream, your body has to go into paralysis so you can't thrash around while you're dreaming and by the time you wake up from a dream, paralysis ends immediately.

However, sleep paralysis blurs a bit of reality and fantasy into focus temporarily, meaning you wake up but stuck in place, and the fear mechanism kicks into high gear. You won't die from it whatsoever because your mind's consciousness is aware of it and treats it as benign, but it can mess up your sanity if it persists, and is 100% preventable.

It could be a false awakening, a more frustrating, but very convincing alternative that completely blurs reality and fantasy for a short duration. You wake up to get ready for the day only to restart the cycle and find yourself suddenly back in bed. Again, it is nothing life threatening and 100% preventable, just your mind messing with you.

You can use your nightmares to conquer your fears and even as a launching pad to your dreams to your advantage.

LucianDreamer wrote
gtswaifuism wrote

Had a scary nightmare, when I woke up everything felt dangerous.

Turned on the lights, now everything is peaceful and safe.

That's sleep paralysis. A very, very scary phenomenon happens as soon as you reach REM sleep phase (not always), where dreams typically occur. You can't have dreams without being completely still. Normally, when you dream, your body has to go into paralysis so you can't thrash around while you're dreaming and by the time you wake up from a dream, paralysis ends immediately.

However, sleep paralysis blurs a bit of reality and fantasy into focus temporarily, meaning you wake up but stuck in place, and the fear mechanism kicks into high gear. You won't die from it whatsoever because your mind's consciousness is aware of it and treats it as benign, but it can mess up your sanity if it persists, and is 100% preventable.

It could be a false awakening, a more frustrating, but very convincing alternative that completely blurs reality and fantasy for a short duration. You wake up to get ready for the day only to restart the cycle and find yourself suddenly back in bed. Again, it is nothing life threatening and 100% preventable, just your mind messing with you.

You can use your nightmares to conquer your fears and even as a launching pad to your dreams to your advantage.

When I woke up I didn't see anything from the dream and could move freely, but what I feared was exactly encountering them(the characters from the dream) since it was dark and the nightmare was enough to put me in alert mode, so in my mind I thought they might still be there.
I knew that logically it was impossible, but I wasn't thinking rationally during that short timespan after waking up.

A bit more detail about the nightmare

It was a weird dream, I was in a sad world where nobody, except me, smiled or had any emotion, then I was invited to a secret organization that knew how to actually use emotions

Inside this organization, people apparently lived happily inside a beautiful land, but later I discovered their method to actually harnessing these emotions was based on violence against innocent people they randomly picked to fuel this power. I managed to flee from there and came back to the emotionless world.

I learned in the secret organization that clapping one's hands was enough to give people emotions temporarily, so I went to a crowded building and clapped my hands to try and give people there emotions, but after attaining them, they got mad and tried to get me(like zombies), then I woke up.

This night I actually had 2 nightmares, had one less vividly first before this one(already forgot it)

That said, it wasn't that bad and I wish to have more nightmares someday in the future since it was a nice change (though not very frequently, hopefully)

I miss when anime used to make boobs bounce independently of each other in opposite directions.

Too much realism in boob physics these days. Is it because of normies? I will rail against it without rest as a defender of the old guard.

Right after I turn on my PC: "To skip disk checking, press any key within 3 seconds"

Me:

Luckily I managed to press it in time, felt a sensation of victory afterwards.

gtswaifuism wrote

Right after I turn on my PC: "To skip disk checking, press any key within 3 seconds"

Me:

Luckily I managed to press it in time, felt a sensation of victory afterwards.

You miiiight want to check your drive

One thing that annoys me of computers. Is wanting to play games in Steam....and windows hits you with windows updates..

gtswaifuism wrote

Right after I turn on my PC: "To skip disk checking, press any key within 3 seconds"

Me:

Luckily I managed to press it in time, felt a sensation of victory afterwards.

yeah you might want to let it do that when you have time

lol I own this shit and I don't even have the sparkles on my username what am I doing

RX14 wrote

lol I own this shit and I don't even have the sparkles on my username what am I doing

I don't know, but if you wanna feel accomplished or something you can hmu with some sparkles. :^)

RX14 wrote

lol I own this shit and I don't even have the sparkles on my username what am I doing

Check the Groups tab on your panel and see if you have the Admin display group available and if it is you can click on it, since you are now one. It turns your borders white, and your name will turn white with a subtle glow effect as well once it takes effect. Then everyone in here will recognize you as admin.

RX14 wrote

lol I own this shit and I don't even have the sparkles on my username what am I doing

Why stop at sparkles? The sky's the limit.

malmon wrote
gtswaifuism wrote

Right after I turn on my PC: "To skip disk checking, press any key within 3 seconds"

Me:

Luckily I managed to press it in time, felt a sensation of victory afterwards.

You miiiight want to check your drive

I know it's important, otherwise they wouldn't force it like that, but it takes too long, and on my old computer if I remember correctly I had to reinstall Windows after disk checking because of errors.

The problem is probably already fixed, my disk was full because I didn't want to delete episodes from my 1080p anime collection, already deleted some now.

Lokorfi wrote

yes, add fireworks to our usernames thx

With the upcoming Integrated Personal Theme Picker*, anyone will be able to have sparklies! Or just your usergroup. Or  your friends. Or just you. You vain cutie, you. ヾ(๑╹ヮ╹๑)ﾉ”

*Coming Soon(TM)

Also, on the subject of back-burner improvements, I'd reckon it's high time we introduced s'more creature-comforts 'round here. Naturally everything's up in the air, but once we've got the new forum deployed, I'm personally angling to implement the Gallery, add a "Waifu" stat a la Kitsu, and maybe even draft up some awards for people.

I don't really have an idea for what kinda awards we'd give out, though I'd personally appreciate if they weren't meaningless and didn't introduce any impression of hierarchy. (No "2K Posts", no "Member for Three Years".) As for what they'd look like? I'd reckon we could tear one offa AnimeBytes and make 'em candy. Lollipops, cookies, cakes, all that jazz.

But naturally, all this depends on what you guys would like. :3