internet funeral

6883 readers

90 users here now

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤart of the internet

What is this place?

• [email protected] with text and titles

• post obscure and surreal art with text

• nothing memetic, nothing boring

• unique textural art images

• Post only images or gifs (except for meta posts)

Guidlines

• no video posts are allowed

• No memes. Not even surreal ones. Post your memes on [email protected] instead

• If your submission can be posted to [email protected] (I.e. no text images), It should be posted there instead

This is a curated magazine. Post anything and everything. It will either stay up or be lost into the void.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

fucker

[email protected]

637

dreaming (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by daw to c/internetfuneral

80 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if you're in control enough to pinch and inhale, are you asleep enough to be really dreaming? Or is your mind just wandering half-awake?

Personally, if I can get to "I think/hope this is a dream" I'm already starting to wake up.

And it's usually because I suddenly recognize a familiar dream-trope, like "the reason I'm wandering this disgusting public bathroom looking for a toilet that's not overflowing with X-crements is because I need to wake up and go pee."

Or the one where I know I'm drowning and I can only hope it's a dream because I'm trapped and the only way out is to die and wake up gasping.

But I can't change my actions in the dream itself unless I'm already coming to the end of the natural sleep cycle, and then it's basically do I wrap this up or extend it a little?

Or sometimes I haven't fully fallen asleep and maybe I realize this scenario is at a beach or on a cruise ship or in a dock house or a half-lit indoor pool and I'm like, NOPE!

But pinch my nose, check my watch, look in a mirror? I might as well try to run.

[–] Fleshtrap 5 points 1 year ago

You pinch your nose while awake as well, let's say whenever I stop at a red light, I pinch my nose, can't breathe, if I dream and see a red light, I'll remember to pinch my nose based off the prior habit. The marker you leave to remind you while asleep is a habit built while awake.