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Ed222
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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 17:08
I had the scarest dream last night I was playing on my computer and doing some thing...some thing I don't know after a while my computer sunddly started to act funny then downloaded a file all by it self it turns out it was a virus I tried to stop it but it was already installed then I got this message "Enjoy!!" and then I woke up...I think I had a simlar dream to this before..do any of you ever get one of these dreams?

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 17:19
What the hell...

Geek culture is being ruined. MODs need to do an overhaul and start fresh.

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 17:23 Edited at: 10th Feb 2008 17:23
Quote: "playing on my computer and doing some thing..."

Downloading p0rn?
Quote: "virus I tried to stop it but it was already installed then I got this message "Enjoy!!" "

guilty thoughts?

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 17:24
I think the first thing they should do is lock all of the games. That'd cut down on a lot of crap (or maybe all the crap people post in there would spill into useful threads?).

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They should just stick everyone back on post aproval.

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 18:06
I put Google Ad on approval

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 18:20
Quote: "I put Google Ad on approval"

Hahaha, can you do that? Then keep doing do!

I've been having really, really weird dreams recently too.. I think I may be stressed, but I can't really tell However I'm not sad enough to have "scary" dreams about getting computer viruses.. Mine usually involve dying or getting eaten, etc

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 18:25
If you start dreaming about your PC going haywire... Yeah...


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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 19:06
Quote: "I had the scarest dream last night"


Quote: "my computer sunddly started to act funny then downloaded a file all by it self it turns out it was a virus"


That's the 'scarest' dream?


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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 19:40
Wow... I will probably have nightmares just reading about your dream... Gosh... This thread is pretty sad LOL.

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 19:44
Funny, my nightmares usually involved horrendous deaths or an apocalyptic world. But if I ever dreamed about my computer acting haywire, well, I would just not be able to sleep for weeks.
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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 19:50
Something similar happened in real life, instead of saying 'Enjoy' it came up with messages saying 'you've downloaded illegal pron' and it started downloading loads of pron...super scary stuff when you're a naive teen, wipe your HD, and problem solved (it wouldn't remove itself) This was a time when I was running Norton anti-virus, that was my mistake. (And the fact I opened up an anonymous email and fell for the oldest trick on the net)

As for nightmares...well they're never any good, they involve the deaths of people I care about. Dreams, I only remember one, meeting James Hetfield from Metallica in a card shop, lame I know.

But computer nightmares, you need to get out more.

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 21:15
Quote: "Quote: "I put Google Ad on approval"
Hahaha, can you do that? Then keep doing do!"


hehe, actually no I was joking, but ironically enough Google Ad posted right after I said that, lol

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 22:09
I had a good dream last night, I dreamed I got married! (And I have to say after I dreamed that it was the most relaxed I've ever felt! I want a girlfriend!)

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 22:24
Woha.... I swear I didn't have a dream about pron..

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:07
Quote: " I dreamed I got married! (And I have to say after I dreamed that it was the most relaxed I've ever felt!"

you must be dreaming

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:22
Quote: "you must be dreaming "


Haha, so true


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 06:30 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 06:33
Quote: "I had a good dream last night, I dreamed I got married! (And I have to say after I dreamed that it was the most relaxed I've ever felt! I want a girlfriend!)"


1) There is something seriously wrong with the result you got.
2) No you don't.



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PS: I once had a dream about a demon that had an uncanny resemblance to E.T. Earlier in the dream--before E.T. showed up, at the end--I remember me and my family watching a demon version of Home Improvement. They were all blue or green and scary looking. I think I also remember something about a goose in that dream at one point. It scared the living bacteria out of my digestive organs for a week.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 07:43 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 07:43
@Ed222,

ever have a dream where you are in it but don't know
its a dream and everything is going fine and okay.
And then you are shocked awake and the realities and problems of this life fill you up again.
Now, thats scary!

maybe you should keep a journal or record of your dreams. Ya never know, you might wind up with some kind of game, story or perhaps an idea for a movie.

"_"
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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 09:57
Last night I dreamed that I was in prison, but it was a really terrible prison. There was a window that you could escape out of, you were allowed to do anything you wanted in the cell (which was shared by everyone) and the switch to open the door to the cell was on the inside of the cell

Lucid Dreams are always quite interesting, but they're quite the rarity.
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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 11:16
Lucid Dreaming

It's a good read.


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 12:29 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 12:34
http://www.dreamviews.com/

It's quite interesting. With some practice you can have several lucid dreams per week. Practiced it last summer and ended up having quite a lot of them, they're fun Although it takes some practice to keep the dreams under control so they don't fade away or stop right when you enter the lucid state. You should try to use a technique called WILD, which is basically just to stay awake while your body falls asleep, that's a weird, weird experience and makes you enter a lucid dream right when that process ends.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 13:18
Well...I'm jealous of you all. I consider it a rare treat when I manage to dream or have a nightmare...


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 14:09 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 14:12
It can be pretty easy for you to bump up your dream recall Try to keep a dreamlog (simply write down anything you remember from dreams) and your dream recall should raise. Before I started keeping a dreamlog I would never remember any dream, but now I remember atleast 1 dream per night, sometimes more. At the same time you could also try to use autosuggestion. Simply repeat to yourself while you fall asleep that you will remember a dream.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 15:24
eat something for dinner loaded with preservatives like a frozen crap dinner, or takeout chinese with msg. you'll have a trippy dream that night

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 17:27
I prefer to have nightmares, just so I can remember it the next day. My only "lucid" ability is that I can skip annoying parts, i.e. trying to find a key to open a lock, etc. I just fast forward a bit or jump ahead outside the locked door. It's neat


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 17:47
Quote: "Lucid Dreaming

It's a good read."

I've only had about 1 or 2 in my life that I can remember, but it sounds fun, I think I'll try some of the techniques .


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Yeah I occasionally get Lucid dreams, it's very interesting.

I had one "very" lucid dream once, I was able to fly around and change anything I wanted, very cool.

Most often I can only do little things, like if something inconvenient happens (even little things like breaking something or going down a wrong street) then I just go back in time and redo it with a different result. In some cases I can change a nightmare I'm having into a different dream.

Weird stuff anyways.
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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 19:11
Quote: "I prefer to have nightmares,"


Seriously?


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 19:48
Nightmares are the most fun. I have experienced Lucid dreaming before. It's really cool.

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Yes, I love them. Once in a while I'll be breathing really hard and wake myself up from a nightmare. The next day I enjoy thinking about the nightmare and unraveling everything that happened. Nobody else here likes them?


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 21:29
They sort of terrify me, to be honest


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 21:57
Thats a pretty interesting wiki INH.

My worst nightmare was colerfull blocks droped one by one making a sharp noise when stacking on one another, I have no idea why but this used to terrify me.


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i like nightmares. exept the ones which are truly scary. a bit where you go in a car and someone gets in behind is O.K

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Well maybe I'm strange, but sometimes when I go to sleep I try to think of creepy things to kickstart a nightmare.


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 22:29 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 22:35
I have had a few lucid dreams in the past few years, and I could control them fairly easily... The only thing I can't control yet, or predict, are the actions of other people. When I fly to escape, they end up flying right after me. I also need to learn to get past this feeling of not wanting to hurt anyone, because sometimes there are really evil people that are trying to do really evil things, and I'm at a turret shooting at them, but because I have this subconscious cling to morality the bullets just bounce off. Lucky for me that they can't harm me either, because I'm a super matrix dude. =P

Other cases I can fly and have minor telekinetic powers. I still need to completely grasp this "no spoon" crap, because when I do, it works better. Basically every superhuman ability I have in dreams comes straight out of The Matrix so naturally I need to understand its concepts, because that's the way my subconscious wants to work...I can fly, jump high, levitate, dodge bullets (when I don't I feel this sharp tingling where it hit, kind of cool) and fight like a super-freaky kung-fu king taking what I learn in MA class with me. There was even this one guy that I met in a dream who was trying to teach me a few fancy tricks, and I could remember them for a few days, but didn't bother to practice them in reality so I forgot.

Which brings me to another weird thing about dreams... Sometimes I get in the realm of realizing that I'm in a dream, though not understanding that I can completely control it. And when I try to predict or control the actions of other people, they can tend to actually do something or say something really unexpected, concise and completely apart from anything I would ever predict or do myself in reality. I once had quite a tough argument in a dream... Other times the things that the demon figures in my dreams do are pretty hard to /evade, on top of being really scary and unpredicted.

Usually when I enter the state of lucid dreaming there are the undead and the demons to deal with. Sometimes I can just avoid them, but mostly I have to ask stupid questions that get them in the mind to "have at meh". Other times when I have un-lucid dreams with the undead in them they act like other people, as long as I don't look at them (because they're ugly )

Quote: "My worst nightmare was colerfull blocks droped one by one making a sharp noise when stacking on one another, I have no idea why but this used to terrify me."

Do you play Tetris?

Oh hey, looking at my cat just now I remember this weird dream about him that I had when I had a cold once. He was really big though, fat probably, but he was like four feet long and two feet fat. My bedroom door was partially cracked open, and he came in looking quite malevolent, and jumped at me to attack. I just held his puny little head in my hands to keep him back (which worked just the same as it would with some little kid trying to punch you) until I woke up. I was afraid of my cat the next day.

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Not really, it was when I was younger but it still terrified me. Then theres the dream when a door would open just a crack and then close and keep repeating that also used to scare me. I have wierd nightmares


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I like having nightmares too, though its been ages since I last had a dream I could remember. Will have to try some of the techniques mentioned in that web site.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 22:44 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 22:45
Quote: "but because I have this subconscious cling to morality the bullets just bounce off."


Haha, that used to happen to me. Now-a-days in those types of nightmares I can fend for myself.. usually rather violently.. not sure which is worse

I blame it on video games


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 22:49 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 22:49
Quote: "I blame it on video games"

Hurry edit before...

Now reporting, Video Games cause violents in dreams. We have some quotes from somone admitting that video games cause them to act violently in dreams.

Quote: "Now-a-days in nightmares I can... ...violently... ...fend for myself"


So remember don't play videogames because you might hurt a monster lurking in your dream.


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 22:51 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 22:52
You know how some people say if you ever have a dream when you're falling in a pit, if you reach the bottom you die? Apparently they say that the mind is so powerful that it can cause a heart attack or sumat due to the psychological effect of thinking you fell and died. My father had this falling dream once...he hit the bottom. Guess what happened.






































He bounced. Boing!

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The myth goes that if you die in your sleep, you die in real life. At least that's the way I've heard it.

I've died in my dreams, but I usually end up being a ghost and walk around

As a side note, one time one of my friends ended up being death, that kind of freaked me out. (Cuz if you knew him, you'd think it totally fits)


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I've drown in dreams before. Occasionally though, right as I'm running out of air and it starts blacking out I can suddenly breathe underwater. I bet this is because I'm like not breathing in real life because my mind thinks I'm really underwater, otherwise I'm suffocating myself under blankets the pillow or something and I suddenly change positions and can breathe again. Kinda odd

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I've died so many times in my dreams that when i finally going to die for real, i won't be a bit scared. "Meh, done this plenty o' times, it'll be over soon". Thinking i'll just wake up some other place after i die. Who knows though? I might just do that.

Mostly i die from falling down a mountain for some reason. I tend to die by drowning a couple of times too. Also death by katanas do occur. In the last nightmare i had, i was on the kid's playground near my house and i was there all alone crawling around with a bullet wound to my stomach and were losing alot of blood. I crawled nearer to my house and things started getting blurry and i had very little strenght left. Fade to black -> wake up.

Oh! One time i died by being aboard a space station plummeting down to earth. Best death ever. The view was amazing!

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I died one while being chased by zombies...too many video games before bed time...guess moms know whats best.

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Quote: "Oh! One time i died by being aboard a space station plummeting down to earth. Best death ever. The view was amazing!"


I lol-ed at that

Quote: "Thinking i'll just wake up some other place after i die. Who knows though? I might just do that."


Your being a satanist and all, I wouldn't be so confident about where that might be

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Quote: "Oh! One time i died by being aboard a space station plummeting down to earth. Best death ever. The view was amazing!"


Man, how come I can't have nightmares like that


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I don't die in nightmares. My friends and loved ones tend to do that.


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Posted: 12th Feb 2008 01:19 Edited at: 12th Feb 2008 01:20
Quote: "Your being a satanist and all, I wouldn't be so confident about where that might be"


Haha oh wow.....

You mean Sweden right? Man, that would suck. It's full of swedes.

Seriously though, i don't worship satan. I'm not that kind of satanist. I'm the LaVeyan kind, the kind that helps old ladies across the street.

Quote: "Man, how come I can't have nightmares like that"

I totally wished i would have that one again. It's been almost 2 years ago now, still remember it like it was yesterday. It was probably a result of playing too much Unreal Tournament though. That's how the dream started. I was on blue team and we totally ruined that station. Everyone left in their escape-pods, there was none left for me.

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Quote: "Seriously though, i don't worship satan. I'm not that kind of satanist. I'm the LaVeyan kind, the kind that helps old ladies across the street."

I can figure out several ways to respond to that:
- By methods of torture and explosives?
- You need to help yourself across the street?
- You're an egoist by only helping yourself across the street.

LaVeyan basically means you believe in yourself, right, not really in Satan as God - as that would mean worshipping something?

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