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09 Jan 2006, 10:06 am

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Sometimes when I sleep, I keep my perception time active and when I sleep four or five hours, it feels like that amount of time has passed.


I know people who can decide they want to wake up at a certain time, and they'll wake up at that exact time without an alarm, or they'll decide to sleep for an hour and wake up after an hour with no alarm. I can't do that. When I'm just asleep (not dreaming) I'm asleep. But if I'm dreaming, then I'm consciously aware that I'm asleep and dreaming, and I can even wake myself up. I might suddenly wonder in the middle of the dream something like, "What time is it? Did my alarm go off yet?" And I can choose to either stay asleep or else wake myself up to check the clock or whatever.



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09 Jan 2006, 6:24 pm

Still, no one quoting my greatness in posting. :evil:

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I know people who can decide they want to wake up at a certain time, and they'll wake up at that exact time without an alarm, or they'll decide to sleep for an hour and wake up after an hour with no alarm. I can't do that.


GOOD FOR YOU. Except for the fact that everyone knows someone like that.

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Unfortunately, I dream almost every night, and I start seeing things the moment I close my eyes.


Everyone dreams. Every night. So you aren't as special as you think.



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09 Jan 2006, 6:37 pm

Steve_Cory wrote:
Still, no one quoting my greatness in posting. :evil:

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I know people who can decide they want to wake up at a certain time, and they'll wake up at that exact time without an alarm, or they'll decide to sleep for an hour and wake up after an hour with no alarm. I can't do that.


GOOD FOR YOU. Except for the fact that everyone knows someone like that.

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Unfortunately, I dream almost every night, and I start seeing things the moment I close my eyes.


Everyone dreams. Every night. So you aren't as special as you think.


Who wrote that last quote you've mentioned? Gracias.



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09 Jan 2006, 6:42 pm

danlo did. Ugh. :x



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09 Jan 2006, 8:30 pm

Steve, buddy, stop being an a**hole. Probably the reason why noone is quoting your 'greatness in posting' is because you have no 'greatness in posting'. No surprise there. For most people, dreams are indicative of deep sleep, they enter that only when experiencing REM sleep. What I said, was that my dreams aren't indicative of that refreshing deep sleep, and then I proceeded to say that I have those unrefreshing dreams most nights, hence all I am saying is that I never wake up refreshed from sleep. Hardly the "I'm special because I dream" you seem to think I was saying. Can't you get it through your thick skull? You don't take things in seclusion, you read them with an eye to the context and all that preceeds it! You take ignorance to all new highs, my friend.



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09 Jan 2006, 9:17 pm

You're heading towards personal insults, and I won't put up with it.

The way you said it, was impossible to take out of context. Go read your own post again.

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It's always the opposite for me. If I go to sleep at night and dream, I always wake up dog tired. Unfortunately, I dream almost every night, and I start seeing things the moment I close my eyes. It's as if my visual cortex goes into hyperdrive when trying to get to sleep and in the sleep state. I know its not real dreaming, because I'll go to sleep/nap for like 5 minutes and in that time I fall into these dreams. It's all very disturbing.


Pad agrees with me, eh? I never went out of my way to actually call you names, I was just mocking the post, not he poster. If anyone is 'ignorant', it is most likely you.



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09 Jan 2006, 10:22 pm

Steve, cut the pedantic bullcrap. It is accepted that when you talk about dreams, you are talking about dreams you remember. As for heading towards insults, one only needs to look at your post to see that you are insulting both Aylissa and myself. All of this leads to one simple and irrefutable fact: You think you're smart and intelligent, and you don't like it that noone agrees with your view of yourself. You don't have to put up with anything, you can leave at any time.

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I never went out of my way to actually call you names, I was just mocking the post, not he poster.

Your pretense that your post wasn't intended to belittle us, in order to inflate your injured ego, just won't fly. Your comment "GOOD FOR YOU" literally drips with sarcasm and is not directed at her post, and the other comment "you aren't as special as you think" in no way makes reference to the post, and is blatantly directed at the poster. And sorry to pop your reinflating ego, but Pad didn't agree with you at all, but merely asked where you got that quote from. It is a sign of your desperation, or possibly just your poor attempt to be manipulative, to see someone agreeing with you where they say no such thing.