dreams are better than vidya
sleep is better than vidya
the time between lying down and falling asleep where i can just autism daydream about having superpowers or having someone who loves me (they have super powers) is better than vidya
If I daydream before bed, my brain never goes to sleep. Like, technically I'm sleeping but I'm also conscious and my mind keeps processing stuff the same as usual and when I wake up it feels like I didn't rest at all. I have to consciously "turn off" my brain and not think about anything in order to sleep properly. I've never heard of anyone having problems like this
i've heard from some doctors that if your mind is active it's harder to sleep, i guess maybe you just gotta tire yourself out more before lying down or something
If I daydream before bed, my brain never goes to sleep. Like, technically I'm sleeping but I'm also conscious and my mind keeps processing stuff the same as usual and when I wake up it feels like I didn't rest at all. I have to consciously "turn off" my brain and not think about anything in order to sleep properly. I've never heard of anyone having problems like this
My guy I basically do the same exact thing
I'll go to bed at midnight but end up fantasizing or daydreaming about various things and all of a sudden it's 3am and I'm still awake despite being tired the entire time
You're not alone
I do the same damn thing. I also have the eeeee and I feel like daydreaming helps distract me from it when I'm trying to fall asleep, but sometimes it just keeps me awake.
My guy I basically do the same exact thing
I'll go to bed at midnight but end up fantasizing or daydreaming about various things and all of a sudden it's 3am and I'm still awake despite being tired the entire time
You're not alone
you're supposed to close your eyes (heh)
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i've heard from some doctors that if your mind is active it's harder to sleep, i guess maybe you just gotta tire yourself out more before lying down or something
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dang that's a big sleep
I feel like your brain needs a long period of reflecting time to process the thoughts of the day before it can shutdown to sleep. We don't get that in the modern world where we're all on screens until bedtime.
based. vidya is overrated.
fricks with your dopamine receptors too.
i think vidya is alright but the only two games i was interested in this year i didn't enjoy so back to shitposting and snoozing (and playing a little bit of old vidya)
Recently I've been daydreaming a lot about there being a heaven but it's just a place where everyone gets their own world that they can change/shape/create anything like god and you can visit other dead people's worlds and stuff. Normally i just imagine my world is just a small town where it never stops raining because I like the sound of rain, sometimes i imagine its a desert that's always night with a yellow aurora always in the sky. I'll daydream about different things happening like making other people to be my 'children' like god or having people I knew in life visit me.
It's very autistic
Honestly, I just lucid dream about being this cool wizard man with a cape in his castle in a world with a purple sky. My only real companion is this angel woman who calls me a homosexual and is intangible and immune to all magic so I can't rape her. I mainly just sit down and ponder things. Sometimes I go to a room with a bunch of empty space and try creating a world. I have a strong desire to create something, but I lack direction, so the worlds I create are always just some vidya I recently played and/or something about my weird fetishes.
I wish the castle was real. Despite the loneliness of being virtually all alone, it feels like its the one and only place where I'm truly myself.
i always thought lucid dreaming sounded so cool but i've never seriously tried to achieve it, i kinda feel like the best dreams are the ones that are completely absurd/make no sense but feel totally normal to your dream self anyways
still sounds neat tho anon
Since we're talking about dreams, I am curious about something. Can (you) continue a dream after waking up? For me, it came quite regularly, where I'd wake up, say "damn" that was an interesting dream" and continue it by willingly falling asleep again.
Thing is, don't know if most can do this or not, since most discussion for stronger dreams is lucid dreaming, not this staccated approach.
oh i swear i've had this happen when i was younger where i'd have the exact same thing
like i'd wake up from an interesting dream but it's still super early in the morning so i quickly fall back asleep and end up having the same dream (like a continuation or at least the same setting not a repeat of that dream)
I just want to take the opportunity to say frick the guys on this site who taught me how to lucid dream, all my dreams are boring as frick now that I have to fill the void it was much more exciting when things just happened to me
Wish I could sleep without the nightmares of me being still in school and forgetting assignments, courses or grades to pass to the next year. Shit is worse than paralysis nightmare.
>the time between lying down and falling asleep where i can just autism daydream about having superpowers or having someone who loves me (they have super powers)
This but I create a entire scenario in my head where my cuddle pillow is actually a cute girl.
>dream >alcoholic father is trying to kill me again >wake up screaming >real father comes into room >his face twists and he kills me again >wake up for real, in cold sweat >take a sip of water >go back to sleep >repeat 3x
That's really fun, sometimes instead of falling asleep I'll wake up (because of a loud sound or things like that) and I wonder how I even came up with the thoughts I was thinking 5 seconds ago
That's when I come up with some of my best concepts for art projects. A lot of the time during those moments I'll have to jump up and quickly get a few notes into a txt.
>Have had intense experiences with dreams my entire life >premonitions, lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis demons, astral projection, dreams of heaven/hell, death and rebirth etc. >couldn't even be an atheist during my rebellious phase. Everytime I would stand my ground on "lmao there's no le god" I would be humbled by whatever insane fricking dreams I would have the following nights, I am certain there is an afterlife and this place we call the "astral" realm
NOTHING has come close to the absolute, demonic, eldritch horror that is sleep paralysis demons. Holy fricking shit no matter how often it's happened, it still gets more horrifying than the last.
Lol git gud, when I had sleep paralysis almost every night I got so used to it I just opened my eyes and saw crazy shit. It was scary at first but then you just dream over irl.
The trick is to control your breathing first and relax and then open your eyes if you're in a good mental state. Of course as soon ad I was getting close to mastering it I haven't had sleep paralysis since.
Na man, it's not just oh spooky figure in the corner. They make screaming demonic noises, make the world around me fall apart (like literally crumble as if an earthquake or something), the most bizarre one was when suddenly dark patterns or sigils began appearing all over the walls. I also once tried to be "tough" to one, big fricking mistake.
That's tough Anon I wish you luck. The last Sleep paralysis I had I just opened my eyes and saw dragon ball z playing on my tv that was turned off. Of course I was in a good mental state too.
Though my craziest experience was when I finally decided to see what would happen if I fell asleep instead of shaking my limbs and waking up. I just had a very vivid dream of walking around my house while everything was backwards like in a mirror while something was talking to me, it was interesting.
I've had similar super vivid sleep paralysis. I've had my body moved around and then in the blink of an eye everything goes back too normal. really fricking creepy
My homie you were born in the wrong era im sorry
You would have been a seer or druid or prophet had you been born in any other time than the shitzone we're in now
Na man, it's not just oh spooky figure in the corner. They make screaming demonic noises, make the world around me fall apart (like literally crumble as if an earthquake or something), the most bizarre one was when suddenly dark patterns or sigils began appearing all over the walls. I also once tried to be "tough" to one, big fricking mistake.
>my schizophrenia induced dreams means there's a le god! look at how special i am!
This but I usually just fantasize I'm in a Namoro Harukawa-esque situation where I'm a little man being dominated by huge Amazon women who get their way with me and force me to be their bed slave, eating their pussies all night and cleaning their buttholes on demand. Gosh, I'm powerless to do anything and sometimes end up with broken bones, I have to be really careful moving around between them or I might end up squashes.
At least that's what I've been fantasizing for as long as I remember existing (20+ years)
Is your breathing normal?
My breathing improved after removing both inflamed tonsils some years ago and I started dreaming for the first time in many years.
Everyone dreams every night. It's a normal part of sleep. You will only remember them if you wake up mid dream and then think about what happened in the dream over and over
I'd have 40 more hours a week to play vidya if I didn't spend it all shitposting on Ganker. Damn, if only I had more time so that I could spend it all on shitposting even more.
If you know you have work in the morning you should be paying attention to the time a little more closely than not at all.
Set a fricking timer or alarm if it's really that hard for you to look at the clock every once in a while.
>sleep at 1 and wake up at 9 everyday during uni >keep living like this after being employed thanks to covid >covid fear dies down and bosses force everyone back to office despite previously presenting as a hybrid work environment >start having to wake up earlier to get to work >now even on weekends my body wakes up at 630am and won't go back to sleep
>work for government >never allowed to work remote because emergency services >government freaking out because overtime budget is getting blown up from COVID >government offers compensatory time in lieu of overtime (time off) >compensatory time off is given at 1.5 times the hours work >I elect compensatory time for every instance of overtime since June 2020 >August 2023, government gets nervous because I have exceeded the maximum compensatory time allowed under FLSA (480 hours) >government gets additionally nervous because my maximum compensatory time off allowed per city policy is 200 hours >government says I have to use-it-or-lose-it >labor attorney tells me the government owes me pay for excess hours (use it or get paid for it) >government gets event MORE nervous when the labor attorney tells them that every hour over the maximum in the labor contract must be paid at my current rate ($40/hr) rather than my previous rate ($25/hr) >government says they're "looking into it"
I have 1,273.75 compensatory hours.
I can take 30 weeks off whenever I want.
FLSA covers all employees in the US, inclusive of local, county, or state governments. Compensatory time is included and defined in the law.
They've additionally agreed to a collective bargaining agreement between the Union I'm in and their executive leadership, which also includes the compensatory time arrangement in lieu of immediate overtime pay and states that all time accrued in excess must be paid as overtime payment instead.
If they have to compensate me for hours worked (compensatory time) beyond the maximum, they have to write me a check for:
1,275 hours - 200 maximum hours = 1,075 hours
1,075 hours * $40/hour = $43,000
They don't want to pay the cash over the maximum because it's a massive hit they did not budget for
I'm not demanding cash payment, I would rather have the time off in a bank.
No one is moving: there's blood on the floor and everyone is trying to figure out what to do about it.
8 months ago
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Damn, happy to hear it. Hope you can enjoy your time
Once my wife gives birth, I'm dumping every hour I can.
Since it's not considered FMLA, I can still take other working (overtime) opportunities from my employer while using compensatory time for my regular working hours.
>stories like this exist >people still question why others hate the government for their incompetence >people still argue in favor of the government running healthcare and the like
Baffling
You can chalk it up to the blind leading the blind for the incompetence part, but what they did is no different than writing an IOU to someone who has never cashed it in.
It's the same thing as a loan: I give you $100 and in six months you give me $150 because that's what we agreed to.
They just didn't anticipate someone like myself would attain such a high IOU.
>stories like this exist >people still question why others hate the government for their incompetence >people still argue in favor of the government running healthcare and the like
Baffling
Private sector isn't massively different. Company response to leave liability is always brain damage.
Place I used to work at was horrible at retaining staff so the handful that did stick around were all mission critical which inevitably lead to no one being able to take leave. All of a sudden one day they started shitting themselves over the liability and forced these people who couldn't take leave due to work responsibilities to take leave and brow beating them for allowing it to accrue. Trying to make people take it as a day a week for a few months which obviously they didn't take kindly to. Of course the result was people who couldn't take leave in half a decade due to being under the pump the whole damn time disappearing for months on end. We had mission critical servers getting decommissioned out of the blue because the only people as contact points for them were on leave and the people doing the server changes apparently just shrugged and pulled the plug on these things.
Absolutely insane.
>wake up >jerk off >eat breakfast >jerk off >go to work >jerk off >arrive at work >jerk off >do work(jerk off) >go home >jerk off >arrive home >jerk off >make food >jerk off >eat food >jerk off >finish food >jerk off >arrive at computer desk >jerk off >get my lol on Ganker >jerk off >play video game >jerk off >finish video game >go to bed >jerk off >sleep >jerk off >sleep >repeat
I don't even know why I work.
I won't have a family. I don't like talking to people in real life. What am I suppose to do with money other than rent and eat? I just want more time to sleep, and maybe dream.
same, it's really weird looking at my bank account and seeing so much money that I literally have no use for, which I earn from a job that makes me feel nothing, and doesn't really accomplish anything, it's purely bureaucratic work
Wish I could sleep without the nightmares of me being still in school and forgetting assignments, courses or grades to pass to the next year. Shit is worse than paralysis nightmare.
yeah, I sometimes get those too, but it also happens with my most recent classes in uni, which actually feels worse, since most of these nightmares involve me being "unmasked" as this lazy, unreliable and manipulative individual in front of my classmates, it always makes me feel like shit
i daydream a lot but one thing i "dream" of is being reincarnated on an entirely different planet/timeline/universe as a new person and being when i die. in other words frick this gay earth
Literally set a specific bedtime for yourself, as if you were a 5 year old. If you don't have the capacity to know when its too late to be playing games anymore then you need to keep a schedule.
I can’t fall asleep unless I’m absolutely exhausted. If I try going to bed early I just spend most of the night laying awake in bed tossing and turning.
>Lay down >Close my eyes >Pretend I'm back home and I'm 16 again >Wake up to a nightmareish alarm >Realize I'm 30, I'm not home, I'm alone and I've got to get ready for another soul crushing day at my deadend job
Imagine the place you want to wake up in, in the time between being awake and asleep as vividly as possible. Regular reality checks never worked for me, I forget and have trouble establishing consistent routine.
Connecting this with sounds also works well. I used to imagine being at a station, looking at the parallel track and hearing the sounds of a distant train entering the station. It's the only reality check I could ever pull off, snapping fingers waiting for the trains in real life on the way to work. You just really need to believe in the effects while you do it, or it won't work in a dream. Also important to not go crazy and try something like flying right away. Do not get too excited or you will lose control. Turn 360° and go from there.
>that feel when dream about actually being with the girl I like >not even anything sexual just spending time with her
why does my subconscious do this to me
>months ago >had a dream about a girl who I realized years after hs might have had a crush on me >was too blinded by my oneitis at the time to realize >in the dream she looked sad and said "it should have been me" >i said "i know" then woke up
Year ruined
>have 3-4 hours until work >can't play vidya or do anything else for that matter because i think about how i'm going to work in 3-4 hours
how the frick do i beat this?
Cool, anon. I hope you can find some relaxation in your time off. I’m still a student, studying corporate finance. I work in aquatics in the meantime (I teach lifeguarding courses/train speed swimmers). my girlfriend is a med student, I don’t know how you people do that shit. Good on you.
thanks anon, i hope you find some relaxation as well >that spoiler
[spoileri found it interesting since i was a kid, but it can definitely be harsh on your psyche at times[/spoiler] is your gf hot?
>Go to bed at around 10:30pm >shut all my lights off, turn my computer off, leave my phone at my desk, don't play handhelds, just get under the covers and shut my eyes >wake up at 5am, just before my alarm goes off, fully refreshed
People like you piss me off. Either improve your situation or jump off a bridge already. Your pathetic life won't change just because you wish for it to.
I can't go to sleep at a reasonable time anymore.
When I lay down I start thinking about work and start worrying, I think everybody there hates me and thinks that I am incompetent.
So I end up in bed for 4 hours without being able to fall asleep and 2 hours before work I start getting tired.
I've always had that problem I just get caught in a loop of thinking of innane shit
Between that and working nights for a few years I'm pretty sure my sleep rhythm is permanently fricked
That got so bad for me that I quit. I went a week on maybe 3 hours of sleep and felt like I was going to have a heart attack so I said frick you and your bullshit schedule, clocked out and never came back. Still haven't gone back to work since that happened.
I'm looking into working from home because the workplace environment is a joke and I enjoy seeing companies cry about nobody wanting to work when society offers little to no incentive to do so.
Them little zoomies I saw at work that called in sick once a week and watched videos on their phone for hours in the break room had it figured out.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>nobody wanting to work when society offers little to no incentive to do so
well money to put food on the plate is an incentive. I would have just killed myself if my parents weren't here. I need to figure out some way to make money while not hating my work as soon as I can just to survive.
>Relationship has been rocky as hell because her mother's dying, stepdad just died and grandad died too in a few months suddenly and she's extremely depressed. >My best friend since we were 6-7, born same day, a year apart had his funeral last Monday.
Kek he played so many videogames while going through chemo amongst other shit and I was thinking wtf I can't even bring myself to play anything.
So for me it's like >I'll play my game, I'll just chill out and fricking play games for once and not just sit around depressed. >Suddenly it's 3am
I also have a daughter I'm looking after on my own until she sleeps at 7pm. I really do just want to find it in me to play videogames or even watch scary movies for October, but I just don't do a thing kek. I'll get through it though. It could be worse OP, all my friends play a thousand times better than me in games I used to play everyday with them now
depends on what country you live in, the best options seem to exist in UK and very progressive european countries, in burgerland some have successfully received bennies using autism and bipolar diagnoses, better to live in a state with better social programs because in the US the states control lots of benefits programs
Why do I keep hearing weird vibrating noises in my bedroom every day
I don't know what's causing it I wish it would stop I'm tired of there always being something horrible I have to deal with
i wish i had an endless money income without doing shit. time is so incredibly valuable and i can't believe i have to waste it at work just so i can stay alive
waste it playing vidya. joining several competitive scenes and getting hardcore at it. traveling to other locals to meet more talented players. fulfil the desire for other hobbies. for instance learn how to draw so i can start my own manga series. or skateboarding. i really wish i had the will or power to go outside and learn skateboarding but with work in my way i'm always energy-drained.
Don't say that, you might rile him up into a geriatric tirade about how the yoof don't have "meaningful" lives anymore and should be grateful for the opportunity to make rich strangers even richer
I had to stop playing games at night because I need to go to bed at least 10 hours before having to wake up, since the dogs in my neighbourhood go absolutely insane at night and I get to sleep maybe 6 hours when I'm lucky. Most nights I get barely 4 hours of sleep.
That's fricked. Life has taken an irrecoverable downward spiral for me since 2020 or so and I've been forced to use earplugs to sleep ever since then. I've become hopelessly dependent on them so I can't even imagine not being able to use them.
My only suggestions for you now are all probably things you've already thought of.
I slept with earplugs in all the time when I lived in an apartment. People who live in apartments are such inconsiderate fricks.
But man was it satisfying to tell my fat neighbor to turn down his fricking t.v. and embarrass him right in front of his wife.
>People who live in apartments are such inconsiderate fricks.
Living in an apartment has made me realize how much better I am than other people. I don't understand why everyone can't be like me. Quiet, respectful, clean, minds his own business.
I really hate Black folk a lot.
8 months ago
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I don't even want to imagine what it's like to live around lots of blacks. There were a few near where my apartment was and big surprise that's where I always heard gunshots, loud music and saw police at night.
There was a fat black chick that shamelessly ogled me when I jogged which was hilarious.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>ogled
I assume that means you have a decent body. I really need to start working out if I want to threaten people to stop being such sub-human slobs, huh?
8 months ago
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Tall, white and nice face but still skinnyfat. Shaniqua didn't care though, she was craving my french vanilla. >see her getting out of her car with a huge bag of fast food >she turns around and pulls her glasses down >Hey~ >my voice cracks as I reply, "FINE" and run inside and close the door
How do you guys stand working? I've been a neet pretty much since graduating high school but I worked for a year recently and after a year I was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown and wanted to an hero.
>and after a year I was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown and wanted to an hero.
Sounds like retail, in which I also wanted to fricking kill myself. I took on a night shift warehouse job out of desperation two years ago and I've never been happier. Drive my little forklift, put parcels where they need to go. No rush hour traffic, stores are always freshly stocked and borderline empty when I go into them. Best decision I ever made.
Yeah that sounds legit. I was stocking in a grocery store but the worst days were when they stuck me in the check stand. I hate checking with a fiery passion and will never do it again. It's bizarre to me that there are people who actually like it. Seems like you have to be an NPC to do it well.
I got along well with the night crew guys and their job seemed pretty nice. Show up at 9 when nobody is in the store and you're out of there by 6 at the latest. Stocking in the daytime was cool though, good exercise too.
Each one of those jobs is terrifying for a different reason but I choose poopsmith out of the three because there's no interaction with customers or risk of a warehouse disaster where you and all of your coworkers die.
I was in a bad place mentally for a long time but I realized I was doing it to myself. Quit drinking and smoking and started working out and feel so much better. Now most days I'm happy to be healthy and alive. Getting up early for a bike ride is a far cry from where I was 7 years ago, barely able to drag my ass out of bed to eat then pass out again.
>dream about the children that I don't have almost every night
God I want to have kids so bad. I'm going to have to figure out how to talk to women just so I can have kids.
Pussy. Im 33 and will sometimes just game all night and stay up until my work from home shift at 9 am. Then I take naps during the day, and pass out at 5 pm when I finish. Then I wake up at midnight and game for 8 hours before work again.
how can you be so fricking bad at planning your life?
he's working sundays
I used to do that to get out of going to church.
dreams are better than vidya
sleep is better than vidya
the time between lying down and falling asleep where i can just autism daydream about having superpowers or having someone who loves me (they have super powers) is better than vidya
Based dreamer.
sleep is great bros, wish i could hibernate
dang maybe you need to sleep longer, rem cycles or some shit idk
I've slept for 11 hours today
That's not sleep bro that's depression.
homie is depressed
based snoozer
Isn't this "alpha" youtuber a complete manlet? I heard he was like 5'3
I dunno about 5'3 but yeah he's pretty short. It should be obvious guys only get into this "alpha" stuff to compensate for their insecurities.
>don't have any
>don't feel like I actually had sleep after waking up
>is like 5 mins for me
Thanks, I'll stick to the vidya.
True lad very true mate you've opened me eyes now...............
you're supposed to close your eyes (heh)
i've heard from some doctors that if your mind is active it's harder to sleep, i guess maybe you just gotta tire yourself out more before lying down or something
dang that's a big sleep
4u
If I daydream before bed, my brain never goes to sleep. Like, technically I'm sleeping but I'm also conscious and my mind keeps processing stuff the same as usual and when I wake up it feels like I didn't rest at all. I have to consciously "turn off" my brain and not think about anything in order to sleep properly. I've never heard of anyone having problems like this
My guy I basically do the same exact thing
I'll go to bed at midnight but end up fantasizing or daydreaming about various things and all of a sudden it's 3am and I'm still awake despite being tired the entire time
You're not alone
I do the same damn thing. I also have the eeeee and I feel like daydreaming helps distract me from it when I'm trying to fall asleep, but sometimes it just keeps me awake.
Set up a fan for white noise while you sleep.
I feel like your brain needs a long period of reflecting time to process the thoughts of the day before it can shutdown to sleep. We don't get that in the modern world where we're all on screens until bedtime.
Maybe turn your phone off and touch grass?
No.
Based, daydreaming is what keep me from ending it all
daydreaming is the best
i think vidya is alright but the only two games i was interested in this year i didn't enjoy so back to shitposting and snoozing (and playing a little bit of old vidya)
What's your favorite daydream anon?
Recently I've been daydreaming a lot about there being a heaven but it's just a place where everyone gets their own world that they can change/shape/create anything like god and you can visit other dead people's worlds and stuff. Normally i just imagine my world is just a small town where it never stops raining because I like the sound of rain, sometimes i imagine its a desert that's always night with a yellow aurora always in the sky. I'll daydream about different things happening like making other people to be my 'children' like god or having people I knew in life visit me.
It's very autistic
It's really nice and comfy, I like your daydreams anon. I hope that I can visit your little world when I die
thanks, if the afterlife is anything like that then come visit anytime it'll be fun
now it's time for me to go daydream and fall asleep
Have a good time anon, bonne nuit.
it's beautiful.
very similar to my idea of heaven
based. vidya is overrated.
fricks with your dopamine receptors too.
Honestly, I just lucid dream about being this cool wizard man with a cape in his castle in a world with a purple sky. My only real companion is this angel woman who calls me a homosexual and is intangible and immune to all magic so I can't rape her. I mainly just sit down and ponder things. Sometimes I go to a room with a bunch of empty space and try creating a world. I have a strong desire to create something, but I lack direction, so the worlds I create are always just some vidya I recently played and/or something about my weird fetishes.
I wish the castle was real. Despite the loneliness of being virtually all alone, it feels like its the one and only place where I'm truly myself.
i always thought lucid dreaming sounded so cool but i've never seriously tried to achieve it, i kinda feel like the best dreams are the ones that are completely absurd/make no sense but feel totally normal to your dream self anyways
still sounds neat tho anon
Since we're talking about dreams, I am curious about something. Can (you) continue a dream after waking up? For me, it came quite regularly, where I'd wake up, say "damn" that was an interesting dream" and continue it by willingly falling asleep again.
Thing is, don't know if most can do this or not, since most discussion for stronger dreams is lucid dreaming, not this staccated approach.
oh i swear i've had this happen when i was younger where i'd have the exact same thing
like i'd wake up from an interesting dream but it's still super early in the morning so i quickly fall back asleep and end up having the same dream (like a continuation or at least the same setting not a repeat of that dream)
Sometimes I do but most of time it doesn't feel right and it devolves into a degenerate mess
Waking up is worse than vidya.
>the time between lying down and falling asleep where i can just daydream
if you do this its gonna be harder for you to fall asleep
>had a dream where i was a glowie agent
>woke up after the prologue
fuark
same
i can sleep for 20 hours straight and can lucid dream
on the bad side, i slept for most of my teenage years
I just want to take the opportunity to say frick the guys on this site who taught me how to lucid dream, all my dreams are boring as frick now that I have to fill the void it was much more exciting when things just happened to me
Entering lucidity is time consuming and exhausting. I'd do it a lot more if it wasn't so difficult.
Wish I could sleep without the nightmares of me being still in school and forgetting assignments, courses or grades to pass to the next year. Shit is worse than paralysis nightmare.
>the time between lying down and falling asleep where i can just autism daydream about having superpowers or having someone who loves me (they have super powers)
This but I create a entire scenario in my head where my cuddle pillow is actually a cute girl.
I am 26 years old.
Sleep is so fricking good but unfortunately waking up is the worst thing ever.
I've heard there's a way to sleep forever
>dream
>alcoholic father is trying to kill me again
>wake up screaming
>real father comes into room
>his face twists and he kills me again
>wake up for real, in cold sweat
>take a sip of water
>go back to sleep
>repeat 3x
should have taken your meds instead of water
>the time between lying down and falling asleep where i can just autism daydream
That's really fun, sometimes instead of falling asleep I'll wake up (because of a loud sound or things like that) and I wonder how I even came up with the thoughts I was thinking 5 seconds ago
That's when I come up with some of my best concepts for art projects. A lot of the time during those moments I'll have to jump up and quickly get a few notes into a txt.
>Have had intense experiences with dreams my entire life
>premonitions, lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis demons, astral projection, dreams of heaven/hell, death and rebirth etc.
>couldn't even be an atheist during my rebellious phase. Everytime I would stand my ground on "lmao there's no le god" I would be humbled by whatever insane fricking dreams I would have the following nights, I am certain there is an afterlife and this place we call the "astral" realm
NOTHING has come close to the absolute, demonic, eldritch horror that is sleep paralysis demons. Holy fricking shit no matter how often it's happened, it still gets more horrifying than the last.
Lol git gud, when I had sleep paralysis almost every night I got so used to it I just opened my eyes and saw crazy shit. It was scary at first but then you just dream over irl.
The trick is to control your breathing first and relax and then open your eyes if you're in a good mental state. Of course as soon ad I was getting close to mastering it I haven't had sleep paralysis since.
Na man, it's not just oh spooky figure in the corner. They make screaming demonic noises, make the world around me fall apart (like literally crumble as if an earthquake or something), the most bizarre one was when suddenly dark patterns or sigils began appearing all over the walls. I also once tried to be "tough" to one, big fricking mistake.
That's tough Anon I wish you luck. The last Sleep paralysis I had I just opened my eyes and saw dragon ball z playing on my tv that was turned off. Of course I was in a good mental state too.
Though my craziest experience was when I finally decided to see what would happen if I fell asleep instead of shaking my limbs and waking up. I just had a very vivid dream of walking around my house while everything was backwards like in a mirror while something was talking to me, it was interesting.
I've had similar super vivid sleep paralysis. I've had my body moved around and then in the blink of an eye everything goes back too normal. really fricking creepy
My homie you were born in the wrong era im sorry
You would have been a seer or druid or prophet had you been born in any other time than the shitzone we're in now
>my schizophrenia induced dreams means there's a le god! look at how special i am!
This but I usually just fantasize I'm in a Namoro Harukawa-esque situation where I'm a little man being dominated by huge Amazon women who get their way with me and force me to be their bed slave, eating their pussies all night and cleaning their buttholes on demand. Gosh, I'm powerless to do anything and sometimes end up with broken bones, I have to be really careful moving around between them or I might end up squashes.
At least that's what I've been fantasizing for as long as I remember existing (20+ years)
I smoke weed all day long so I don't have dreams no more.
Based, I sleep really fast too, I just imagine I'm sinking in water except I can breathe, and then I pass...
Ah, a fellow snooze king.
Dreams suck though because you have to wake up to the harsh reality
>the snoozer
>does nothing, just sleeps all day
>"in my dreams, I can be anything!"
>sleeps through all alarms, turns up late to every meeting
then what the frick are you ding in Ganker? >>>>>>>>>>>>>/x/
I can never remember my dreams 🙁
My dreams kind of suck right now so I only sleep when I have to or when I'm really tired
I haven’t had a legitimate dream I can recall that wasn’t a night terror for over a decade now…
I’m 23
Just keep going back to sleep. Eventually you get in a state of half sleep where your dreaming but aware of it.
Kinda like super day dreaming
Is your breathing normal?
My breathing improved after removing both inflamed tonsils some years ago and I started dreaming for the first time in many years.
Everyone dreams every night. It's a normal part of sleep. You will only remember them if you wake up mid dream and then think about what happened in the dream over and over
Based. Sleeping while some japanese lady with with low, velvety voice massages my ears is great.
>having someone who loves me (they have super powers)
Very based
Is lucid dreaming really possible or is it all just a meme?
wish I would value sleep more and prioritize it over shit like vidya or youtube
Didn't you make this exact same thread yesterday?
I'd have 40 more hours a week to play vidya if I didn't spend it all shitposting on Ganker. Damn, if only I had more time so that I could spend it all on shitposting even more.
If you know you have work in the morning you should be paying attention to the time a little more closely than not at all.
Set a fricking timer or alarm if it's really that hard for you to look at the clock every once in a while.
>sleep has been all over the place past week
>diarrhea all week too
lovely
hope your feel better soon dude
thanks anon
you might have AIDS.
impossibru
The lowest I'm willing to sacrifice my sleep is getting 7 hours and 30 minutes of sleep a night
>sleep at 1 and wake up at 9 everyday during uni
>keep living like this after being employed thanks to covid
>covid fear dies down and bosses force everyone back to office despite previously presenting as a hybrid work environment
>start having to wake up earlier to get to work
>now even on weekends my body wakes up at 630am and won't go back to sleep
I HATE BEING EMPLOYED!!!!!!!!!!
>work for government
>never allowed to work remote because emergency services
>government freaking out because overtime budget is getting blown up from COVID
>government offers compensatory time in lieu of overtime (time off)
>compensatory time off is given at 1.5 times the hours work
>I elect compensatory time for every instance of overtime since June 2020
>August 2023, government gets nervous because I have exceeded the maximum compensatory time allowed under FLSA (480 hours)
>government gets additionally nervous because my maximum compensatory time off allowed per city policy is 200 hours
>government says I have to use-it-or-lose-it
>labor attorney tells me the government owes me pay for excess hours (use it or get paid for it)
>government gets event MORE nervous when the labor attorney tells them that every hour over the maximum in the labor contract must be paid at my current rate ($40/hr) rather than my previous rate ($25/hr)
>government says they're "looking into it"
I have 1,273.75 compensatory hours.
I can take 30 weeks off whenever I want.
if I were you I'd just start taking every wednesday off
I already work four-day weeks and can select whatever day I choose to have off Monday - Friday.
Where do you live anon?
Florida, United States
And gouv doesn't frick you over?
They can't.
FLSA covers all employees in the US, inclusive of local, county, or state governments. Compensatory time is included and defined in the law.
They've additionally agreed to a collective bargaining agreement between the Union I'm in and their executive leadership, which also includes the compensatory time arrangement in lieu of immediate overtime pay and states that all time accrued in excess must be paid as overtime payment instead.
If they have to compensate me for hours worked (compensatory time) beyond the maximum, they have to write me a check for:
1,275 hours - 200 maximum hours = 1,075 hours
1,075 hours * $40/hour = $43,000
They don't want to pay the cash over the maximum because it's a massive hit they did not budget for
I'm not demanding cash payment, I would rather have the time off in a bank.
No one is moving: there's blood on the floor and everyone is trying to figure out what to do about it.
Damn, happy to hear it. Hope you can enjoy your time
I'd take it all at once
Once my wife gives birth, I'm dumping every hour I can.
Since it's not considered FMLA, I can still take other working (overtime) opportunities from my employer while using compensatory time for my regular working hours.
You can chalk it up to the blind leading the blind for the incompetence part, but what they did is no different than writing an IOU to someone who has never cashed it in.
It's the same thing as a loan: I give you $100 and in six months you give me $150 because that's what we agreed to.
They just didn't anticipate someone like myself would attain such a high IOU.
>stories like this exist
>people still question why others hate the government for their incompetence
>people still argue in favor of the government running healthcare and the like
Baffling
yea but if you take 30 weeks off, your promotion will be delayed and the leave will never be approved in the first place.
Private sector isn't massively different. Company response to leave liability is always brain damage.
Place I used to work at was horrible at retaining staff so the handful that did stick around were all mission critical which inevitably lead to no one being able to take leave. All of a sudden one day they started shitting themselves over the liability and forced these people who couldn't take leave due to work responsibilities to take leave and brow beating them for allowing it to accrue. Trying to make people take it as a day a week for a few months which obviously they didn't take kindly to. Of course the result was people who couldn't take leave in half a decade due to being under the pump the whole damn time disappearing for months on end. We had mission critical servers getting decommissioned out of the blue because the only people as contact points for them were on leave and the people doing the server changes apparently just shrugged and pulled the plug on these things.
Absolutely insane.
>wake up
>jerk off
>eat breakfast
>jerk off
>go to work
>jerk off
>arrive at work
>jerk off
>do work(jerk off)
>go home
>jerk off
>arrive home
>jerk off
>make food
>jerk off
>eat food
>jerk off
>finish food
>jerk off
>arrive at computer desk
>jerk off
>get my lol on Ganker
>jerk off
>play video game
>jerk off
>finish video game
>go to bed
>jerk off
>sleep
>jerk off
>sleep
>repeat
You're dumping buckets of your testosterone away and making myself depressed in the process. So stop it.
Well maybe my dick should stop getting hard at every small glimpse of titty and ass. I'm almost fricking 30 and I still get random fricking boners.
>Didn't jerk off between finishing video game and going to bed
Low T
Yesterday I probably played 5 hours of midnight club games. It passed by real fricking fast.
>don't have job
>sit at home lifting weights and drawing hentai all day
bro its 2 pm sunday
do some people live in the future?
why does op feel the need to post this thread again?
I don't even know why I work.
I won't have a family. I don't like talking to people in real life. What am I suppose to do with money other than rent and eat? I just want more time to sleep, and maybe dream.
same, it's really weird looking at my bank account and seeing so much money that I literally have no use for, which I earn from a job that makes me feel nothing, and doesn't really accomplish anything, it's purely bureaucratic work
yeah, I sometimes get those too, but it also happens with my most recent classes in uni, which actually feels worse, since most of these nightmares involve me being "unmasked" as this lazy, unreliable and manipulative individual in front of my classmates, it always makes me feel like shit
Honestly waiting for my parents to die so I can buy a cabin from the countryside and just stay there unbothered by other people.
Just do the bare minimum work to have savings and enjoy what you want to enjoy then.
i daydream a lot but one thing i "dream" of is being reincarnated on an entirely different planet/timeline/universe as a new person and being when i die. in other words frick this gay earth
Literally set a specific bedtime for yourself, as if you were a 5 year old. If you don't have the capacity to know when its too late to be playing games anymore then you need to keep a schedule.
GET BEHIND ME DOKTOR
I can’t fall asleep unless I’m absolutely exhausted. If I try going to bed early I just spend most of the night laying awake in bed tossing and turning.
>Lay down
>Close my eyes
>Pretend I'm back home and I'm 16 again
>Wake up to a nightmareish alarm
>Realize I'm 30, I'm not home, I'm alone and I've got to get ready for another soul crushing day at my deadend job
>buy fitness smart watch
>it judges your poor sleep quality
>go to bed early to dream about my intricate fantasy world and anime gf
>tf2
titanfall 2?
>go to bed
>wake up 4 hour later and can't sleep
does anyone else wish they wound up in a permanent coma? life isn't getting any better and sleep is at least interesting
i'd prefer ending it completely
Any tips for lucid dreaming? I've never been able to do it properly.
Imagine the place you want to wake up in, in the time between being awake and asleep as vividly as possible. Regular reality checks never worked for me, I forget and have trouble establishing consistent routine.
Connecting this with sounds also works well. I used to imagine being at a station, looking at the parallel track and hearing the sounds of a distant train entering the station. It's the only reality check I could ever pull off, snapping fingers waiting for the trains in real life on the way to work. You just really need to believe in the effects while you do it, or it won't work in a dream. Also important to not go crazy and try something like flying right away. Do not get too excited or you will lose control. Turn 360° and go from there.
>that feel when dream about actually being with the girl I like
>not even anything sexual just spending time with her
why does my subconscious do this to me
>Had a dream being married in a mansion holding hands with a QT in bed, non sexually
>Feel content and happy
>Wake up
>PAIN
I know that feel, brother
>months ago
>had a dream about a girl who I realized years after hs might have had a crush on me
>was too blinded by my oneitis at the time to realize
>in the dream she looked sad and said "it should have been me"
>i said "i know" then woke up
Year ruined
I simply don't play games during my days on anymore. I work 4 10s though, so there's plenty of time on the weekend to play vidya.
>have 3-4 hours until work
>can't play vidya or do anything else for that matter because i think about how i'm going to work in 3-4 hours
how the frick do i beat this?
become neet
that isn't an option, i'm afraid
This is my problem too. It’s some form of anxiety I suppose. Is your work demanding?
i guess it is
i'm a doctor, not a specialist but GP can be demanding as well
what's your job?
Cool, anon. I hope you can find some relaxation in your time off. I’m still a student, studying corporate finance. I work in aquatics in the meantime (I teach lifeguarding courses/train speed swimmers). my girlfriend is a med student, I don’t know how you people do that shit. Good on you.
thanks anon, i hope you find some relaxation as well
>that spoiler
[spoileri found it interesting since i was a kid, but it can definitely be harsh on your psyche at times[/spoiler]
is your gf hot?
Yes, she is hot
>Go to bed at around 10:30pm
>shut all my lights off, turn my computer off, leave my phone at my desk, don't play handhelds, just get under the covers and shut my eyes
>wake up at 5am, just before my alarm goes off, fully refreshed
>fall asleep
>feel no pain
>wake up
>the nightmare continues
i want to quit
People like you piss me off. Either improve your situation or jump off a bridge already. Your pathetic life won't change just because you wish for it to.
you sound like a major c**t
projection isnt healthy, anon
I can't go to sleep at a reasonable time anymore.
When I lay down I start thinking about work and start worrying, I think everybody there hates me and thinks that I am incompetent.
So I end up in bed for 4 hours without being able to fall asleep and 2 hours before work I start getting tired.
I've always had that problem I just get caught in a loop of thinking of innane shit
Between that and working nights for a few years I'm pretty sure my sleep rhythm is permanently fricked
That got so bad for me that I quit. I went a week on maybe 3 hours of sleep and felt like I was going to have a heart attack so I said frick you and your bullshit schedule, clocked out and never came back. Still haven't gone back to work since that happened.
how do you pay your bills?
I don't have any because I'm in mom's basement.
I am living with parents too. I quit 8 months ago I just don't like working, i want to go to college again though.
I'm looking into working from home because the workplace environment is a joke and I enjoy seeing companies cry about nobody wanting to work when society offers little to no incentive to do so.
Them little zoomies I saw at work that called in sick once a week and watched videos on their phone for hours in the break room had it figured out.
>nobody wanting to work when society offers little to no incentive to do so
well money to put food on the plate is an incentive. I would have just killed myself if my parents weren't here. I need to figure out some way to make money while not hating my work as soon as I can just to survive.
>Relationship has been rocky as hell because her mother's dying, stepdad just died and grandad died too in a few months suddenly and she's extremely depressed.
>My best friend since we were 6-7, born same day, a year apart had his funeral last Monday.
Kek he played so many videogames while going through chemo amongst other shit and I was thinking wtf I can't even bring myself to play anything.
So for me it's like
>I'll play my game, I'll just chill out and fricking play games for once and not just sit around depressed.
>Suddenly it's 3am
I also have a daughter I'm looking after on my own until she sleeps at 7pm. I really do just want to find it in me to play videogames or even watch scary movies for October, but I just don't do a thing kek. I'll get through it though. It could be worse OP, all my friends play a thousand times better than me in games I used to play everyday with them now
Help your wife dude
Stop thinking about vidya and help her through her depression
>wife's family is dying and all he can think about is playing video games
>I'll get through it
Damn you are a self centered c**t.
Video games?
>he didn't max out with sleep stat
NGMI
call in and use sick time
>but what if i get si-
trust me, going to work tired is way worse than going to work sick
>play TF2
>Zombie Infection
>1 hour later still in the same match
>acquire disability/neetbux
>never have to sleep with a deadline ever again
ggez
What disability? Honestly considering this. I've already checked out of society for over a decade so I might as well get paid to jerk off to hentai.
depends on what country you live in, the best options seem to exist in UK and very progressive european countries, in burgerland some have successfully received bennies using autism and bipolar diagnoses, better to live in a state with better social programs because in the US the states control lots of benefits programs
Are you literally me?
Just call in sick, sleep in, try to play games only to repeat the cycle and end up accomplishing nothing.
>dream of dying
>at last the end is here
>wake up
dying in the sleep is the best way to go. I've never been more disappointed.
>have dream I'm about to have sex with a woman
>about to put it in
>suddenly she has a penis
>being the docking procedure
Every fricking time.
I think you might be gae anoen
Why do I keep hearing weird vibrating noises in my bedroom every day
I don't know what's causing it I wish it would stop I'm tired of there always being something horrible I have to deal with
I can't concentrate on vidya like this
Tinnitus?
No.
That's just HAARP, nothing to concern yourself with.
air pressure. Open a door or window
>air pressure. Open a door or window
I currently have the bedroom door cracked open and I still hear the noises but I'll try opening the window.
Apartment complex with central air. Maybe it's that?
do you have aircon?
i wish i had an endless money income without doing shit. time is so incredibly valuable and i can't believe i have to waste it at work just so i can stay alive
>i can't believe i have to waste it at work
so you want to waste time playing video games instead?
waste it playing vidya. joining several competitive scenes and getting hardcore at it. traveling to other locals to meet more talented players. fulfil the desire for other hobbies. for instance learn how to draw so i can start my own manga series. or skateboarding. i really wish i had the will or power to go outside and learn skateboarding but with work in my way i'm always energy-drained.
>so you want to enjoy your life instead of hating it?
Uhhh.... yeah?
Don't say that, you might rile him up into a geriatric tirade about how the yoof don't have "meaningful" lives anymore and should be grateful for the opportunity to make rich strangers even richer
>time is so incredibly valuable
You are but a cog in the machine.
How I envy you, NEETbuxchads.
The invention of the mechanical clock ushered in horrors beyond our comprehension.
I had to stop playing games at night because I need to go to bed at least 10 hours before having to wake up, since the dogs in my neighbourhood go absolutely insane at night and I get to sleep maybe 6 hours when I'm lucky. Most nights I get barely 4 hours of sleep.
Have you tried wearing earplugs to bed?
Yes, but sleeping so little for years destroyed my immune system and I got an ear infection from them
That's fricked. Life has taken an irrecoverable downward spiral for me since 2020 or so and I've been forced to use earplugs to sleep ever since then. I've become hopelessly dependent on them so I can't even imagine not being able to use them.
My only suggestions for you now are all probably things you've already thought of.
I slept with earplugs in all the time when I lived in an apartment. People who live in apartments are such inconsiderate fricks.
But man was it satisfying to tell my fat neighbor to turn down his fricking t.v. and embarrass him right in front of his wife.
>People who live in apartments are such inconsiderate fricks.
Living in an apartment has made me realize how much better I am than other people. I don't understand why everyone can't be like me. Quiet, respectful, clean, minds his own business.
I really hate Black folk a lot.
I don't even want to imagine what it's like to live around lots of blacks. There were a few near where my apartment was and big surprise that's where I always heard gunshots, loud music and saw police at night.
There was a fat black chick that shamelessly ogled me when I jogged which was hilarious.
>ogled
I assume that means you have a decent body. I really need to start working out if I want to threaten people to stop being such sub-human slobs, huh?
Tall, white and nice face but still skinnyfat. Shaniqua didn't care though, she was craving my french vanilla.
>see her getting out of her car with a huge bag of fast food
>she turns around and pulls her glasses down
>Hey~
>my voice cracks as I reply, "FINE" and run inside and close the door
How's the sleep shifts going, fellow honkshoos?
>mfw put in 22 hours of sleep in the last two days
How do you guys stand working? I've been a neet pretty much since graduating high school but I worked for a year recently and after a year I was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown and wanted to an hero.
that's how I felt when I was NEET for 3 months between finishing grad school and starting my first job
I personally can't stand it, I need to be doing something or I feel like I'm wasting away mentally
>and after a year I was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown and wanted to an hero.
Sounds like retail, in which I also wanted to fricking kill myself. I took on a night shift warehouse job out of desperation two years ago and I've never been happier. Drive my little forklift, put parcels where they need to go. No rush hour traffic, stores are always freshly stocked and borderline empty when I go into them. Best decision I ever made.
Yeah that sounds legit. I was stocking in a grocery store but the worst days were when they stuck me in the check stand. I hate checking with a fiery passion and will never do it again. It's bizarre to me that there are people who actually like it. Seems like you have to be an NPC to do it well.
I got along well with the night crew guys and their job seemed pretty nice. Show up at 9 when nobody is in the store and you're out of there by 6 at the latest. Stocking in the daytime was cool though, good exercise too.
how do you get a job
no, working retail/warehouse/janitor crap does not count as a job
>How do you get a job but I won't accept jobs as an answer
Janitors these days get paid more than teachers.
Each one of those jobs is terrifying for a different reason but I choose poopsmith out of the three because there's no interaction with customers or risk of a warehouse disaster where you and all of your coworkers die.
Apply and show up for the interview.
It's piss easy to find work because everyone is understaffed because the jobs suck and nobody wants to work.
Janitor is definitely a real job, an under appreciated one at that. Keeping things tidy is a basic tenet of civilization
>Try to do the Halloween contracts in TF2
>Bots everywhere
I went into a match with five identically-named bots and we managed to kick all of them.
I was in a bad place mentally for a long time but I realized I was doing it to myself. Quit drinking and smoking and started working out and feel so much better. Now most days I'm happy to be healthy and alive. Getting up early for a bike ride is a far cry from where I was 7 years ago, barely able to drag my ass out of bed to eat then pass out again.
It's too cold to bike in the morning
>dream about the children that I don't have almost every night
God I want to have kids so bad. I'm going to have to figure out how to talk to women just so I can have kids.
Just did this and woke up to messages from 5 different people asking why I'm not at work. Frick
How bout you stop letting other people control your life and stop working wagey jobs?
Not everybody can live off welfare or rich parents.
I sleep 1 to 6:30. How long before it becomes a health issue?
Pussy. Im 33 and will sometimes just game all night and stay up until my work from home shift at 9 am. Then I take naps during the day, and pass out at 5 pm when I finish. Then I wake up at midnight and game for 8 hours before work again.