online.wsj.com— We spend a third of our lives asleep, yet no one really knows why. We do know that people simply don't perform as well when they don't sleep enough...
Jan 18, 2008View in Crawl 4
We have been sleeping differently than our ancestors have ever since the invention of the light bulb. It's been well documented that before the industrial age people went to sleep early because they had to (due to darkness), semi-awoke a few hours later, and slept a second time until dawn. Even Homer's Odyssey makes mention of this "first sleep" and "second sleep."
Lucid dreams are real. Some people have them early on, some people never have them. When you have one, you'll know. If you can have one and not get too excited an wake up immediately, you can walk around a room, feel the texture on the wall, or whatever you want. Specifically, the sense of touch will be extremely realistic and therefore, you NEVER want to become aware in the middle of a nightmare before you have a chance to get a hold on the real world. I got stabbed one time in a lucid dream and it was possibly one of the most terrifying nightmares I've ever had, even counting the falling ones, just because the panic is so real and it felt like there was a good 10 or 15 seconds before I fully woke up where I was just standing there with a knife in my stomache feeling warm sticky blood. I'm sure it would've hurt worse in real life since it was imagined with no frame of reference, but there was definitely a realness to the brain processing it as if it were an actual event.
My mom was yelling at me from my bedroom door once for falling asleep with the lights on and I had an episode of sleep paralysis. What made it worse was that she thought I was ignoring her and kept yelling.
This happened to me one time also. It was so freaky I was sure I was awake each time and then I started doing tests to see if I was really awake, but my tests were stupid and didn't prove anything so I kept remaining in that cycle of thinking I woke up until I eventually did. Scary stuff.
I used to have lucid dreams. The method that worked for me was to get in the habit of checking myself throughout the day to see if I was dreaming. It may take a while, but eventually the habit carries over into your dreams, and voila, ludic dreams!
:)Maybe you need a garbage collector,I always call "free" manualy when I don't need the buffer anymore or it's called via the constructor when the object gets out of scope.I support the defrag analogy.
dofeJan 18, 2008
We have been sleeping differently than our ancestors have ever since the invention of the light bulb. It's been well documented that before the industrial age people went to sleep early because they had to (due to darkness), semi-awoke a few hours later, and slept a second time until dawn. Even Homer's Odyssey makes mention of this "first sleep" and "second sleep."
dafragstaJan 19, 2008
Lucid dreams are real. Some people have them early on, some people never have them. When you have one, you'll know. If you can have one and not get too excited an wake up immediately, you can walk around a room, feel the texture on the wall, or whatever you want. Specifically, the sense of touch will be extremely realistic and therefore, you NEVER want to become aware in the middle of a nightmare before you have a chance to get a hold on the real world. I got stabbed one time in a lucid dream and it was possibly one of the most terrifying nightmares I've ever had, even counting the falling ones, just because the panic is so real and it felt like there was a good 10 or 15 seconds before I fully woke up where I was just standing there with a knife in my stomache feeling warm sticky blood. I'm sure it would've hurt worse in real life since it was imagined with no frame of reference, but there was definitely a realness to the brain processing it as if it were an actual event.
Closed AccountJan 19, 2008
More likely that's due to more magnetic activity closer to the poles.
dafragstaJan 19, 2008
My mom was yelling at me from my bedroom door once for falling asleep with the lights on and I had an episode of sleep paralysis. What made it worse was that she thought I was ignoring her and kept yelling.
phazon88Jan 19, 2008
This happened to me one time also. It was so freaky I was sure I was awake each time and then I started doing tests to see if I was really awake, but my tests were stupid and didn't prove anything so I kept remaining in that cycle of thinking I woke up until I eventually did. Scary stuff.
texasgrl27526Jan 19, 2008
I loved those papers. I did that one or two times. Sleeplessness and finals make for a very bizarre two or three days!
tanathJan 27, 2008
I used to have lucid dreams. The method that worked for me was to get in the habit of checking myself throughout the day to see if I was dreaming. It may take a while, but eventually the habit carries over into your dreams, and voila, ludic dreams!
karapuzMay 21, 2008
:)Maybe you need a garbage collector,I always call "free" manualy when I don't need the buffer anymore or it's called via the constructor when the object gets out of scope.I support the defrag analogy.
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