Kolya on 6/9/2010 at 09:51
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Briareos H on 6/9/2010 at 10:05
Speaking of jaws, I sometimes have irrational terrors while falling asleep about gaping jaws or wide grins with unnaturally long and sharp teeth. Bonus horror points if they are not "monster teeth" but dozens of perfectly aligned shiny, square teeth. Brr.
june gloom on 6/9/2010 at 18:19
When I'm awake, I ain't afraid of no ghosts.
When I'm asleep and I have a dream about ghosts, especially if they're the life-draining kind, I wake up to find my pillow damp with tears.
Thief13x on 6/9/2010 at 18:55
Speaking of dreams, this one has come around every few months for as long as I can remember - the physical reaction when waking up is what I hate.
I'm walking either down some stairs or elsewhere and my heal slips as I take a step. I always wake up violently kicking my legs into the air and half sitting up at the same time to try to recover. I hate when this happens but it's been once every few months for as long as I can remember.
Matthew on 6/9/2010 at 18:56
Ahhh, I do that too.
Renzatic on 6/9/2010 at 19:09
Same here. It's a pretty common manifestation of hypnagogia. With me, I usually think I'm falling backwards off a swing or slipping off a skateboard.
Between that and my constant suffering from Exploding Head Syndrome (I love that name), falling asleep can sometimes be as weird as all fuckity.
Thief13x on 6/9/2010 at 19:12
Pizza before bed for me guarantees some weird shit happening in my head. Those nights are always so damn long...
SubJeff on 6/9/2010 at 19:30
I quite enjoy hypnagogic experiences. A few months ago I kept waking up at about 3am and the clear white walls in my bedroom were... no longer... clear. There were... things crawling all over them :erg:
It was so bizarre and potentially scary but somehow it was a weirdly pleasant window into some "other" place. The only downside was I wasn't as well rested in the morning, but caffeine soon sorted that out.
I'm a firm believer in Jungian "dreams as a reflection of the subconscious" school of thought since I don't have that much trouble analysing my dreams in terms of my waking life (and it's often enlightening and refreshing). This was just out there though. :thumb:
Zygoptera on 6/9/2010 at 22:23
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
As to some of the more medical fears here; local anaesthetic to the eye and awake surgery doesn't seem to upset people much. I've obviously seen a bunch of these surgeries and despite it being the eye (THE EYE!!) no one stresses about it once it's numbed. People freak out much more about having a general anaesthetic or even just having veins cannulated! One of the awesome things about awake eye surgery is that the minute it's done the result is instant. Replacing lenses is great to watch as one second they can't see at all and the next they're all "OMG, I can see normally again!".
Yeah, when I said it's not that bad it wasn't bravado or anything, it really isn't that bad and sounds far worse than it is. The most disturbing thing was when they were testing the lens (?) thickness prior to the operation and even that was more the weird feeling of your eyeball vibrating than anything seriously unpleasant. If my experience was typical then they do give you a relaxant as well (Valium) as the local, and the anticipation was far worse than the experience itself- and in my case they took ages to get the spreader working properly because my eyes are very deep set which would not be typical at all.
You can see it working as well though I'd suspected it might have been psychosomatic, you can actually see the lights on the apparatus come into focus.
demagogue on 6/9/2010 at 23:27
I can't believe some of you pussies are afraid of water. O holy shit it's a beach careful or you'll fall in and the water will have you in its clutches o god no...
