Things I Hate

[jaztermareal]

what do you guys see during sleep paralysis? do you hang a predator poster on the ceiling?

Luckily I didn't see anything during (did occasionally hear something though that might have been family members pottering around). I learned to just relax and go back to sleep so I could wake up again without the paralysis. Scariest times were when I would wake up 3 times in a row paralysed. I was afraid it was permanent. Luckily it wasn't but in those moments... scary.


As for what people see, it is usually down to what is in their cultural consciousness. In the days when people feared witches, they saw the old hag. In more modern times with aliens on TV people see aliens. In other cultures with different myths they see different things. The hallucinations are waking nightmares triggered by the fear you experience when semi waking while still in sleep state so really whatever you fear your mind creates usually.


It is usually triggered more commonly while sleeping on your back. Might be part of why I havent had it in years (touch wood). Being a belly sleeper has one advantage I guess.

 

[Lejuan]

I don't see anything, it's more just a dark sense of foreboding. It was more extreme in my 20s... nowadays on the rare occasion it happens, my subconscious seems to be wise to it and I just kick back til it passes.

 

[Solidus]

Wow, this topic blew up! Anyways, I think it’s likely that at least some 1/6 dollies will be featured on paranormal shows, TikTok or a haunted museum somewhere. This hobby is way too low-brow for that not to happen.

 

[Remembermyname]

People who do bad things to others.

 

[Solidus]

People who do bad things to others.

 

[devilof76]

what do you guys see during sleep paralysis? do you hang a predator poster on the ceiling?

You see a dream version of the room you’re sleeping in. You can’t see the thing you know is in the room with you.

They make predator posters?

 

[Lejuan]

You see a dream version of the room you’re sleeping in. You can’t see the thing you know is in the room with you.

They make predator posters?

I still remember one I had when I was a teenager - I thought I'd woken up, room was the same and whatever the fk it was was on the other side of a thin-paned external glass door calling my name.

 

[devilof76]

I still remember one I had when I was a teenager - I thought I'd woken up, room was the same and whatever the fk it was was on the other side of a thin-paned external glass door calling my name.

The human subconscious is a twisted machine. It’ll scare the hell out of you while peacefully sleeping in your bed, but it’ll completely ignore an alarm clock when you’re already late.

 

[jaztermareal]

The human subconscious is a twisted machine. It’ll scare the hell out of you while peacefully sleeping in your bed, but it’ll completely ignore an alarm clock when you’re already late.

Well, in my case I wake up to the alarm, get up, shower, brush teeth, head out to work, sign in, work for hours, go to lunch, return to work, eventually finish then start heading to finally go home then BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP I am shocked awake by the alarm and realise I spent my rest time dreaming I was at work all day and it is now time to go to work.

 

[Lejuan]

The human subconscious is twisted alright. I am eternally frustrated by the wasted potential of my dreams. Last night I was being spooned by the office hag instead of Margot Robbie.

 

[a-dev]

Unnecessary change. Hello Windows 11.

 

[Lejuan]

The Simpsons Tapped Out, a town-building game I’ve been playing for over ten years, is being shut down in January.

Likely because the 20-year license is up for renewal. What a bummer.

 

[pixletwin]

The Simpsons Tapped Out, a town-building game I’ve been playing for over ten years, is being shut down in January.

Likely because the 20-year license is up for renewal. What a bummer.

I am so glad to read someone else is in the same boat. I’ve been almost depressed by the news (and disappointed that it affects me so much )

I look forward to the Halloween and Christmas updates as much as the actual holidays.

 

[Lejuan]

...(and disappointed that it affects me so much )

yup. My wife doesn't give a **** but my teenage daughter, who lost a corrupted My Little Pony kingdom a couple years back, has shown a touching degree of sympathy.

 

[pixletwin]

Twitter. It’s all become porn and fight videos. Deleted from all my devices.

 

[Lejuan]

Twitter. It’s all become porn and fight videos. Deleted from all my devices.

Unfortunately it’s my go-to for news. A while back a mutual follower said she didn’t think things would change much with Elon taking over. I remember thinking yeah, we’ll see how long that lasts…

 

[lordnastrond]

Twitter. It’s all become porn and fight videos. Deleted from all my devices.

Don't forget Nazis and Russian trolls.
Sincerely I only use it for porn now, every other aspect of the site is unusable.

 

[ZE_501]

Twitter. It’s all become porn and fight videos. Deleted from all my devices.

As soon as I left tech (freelance work, nothing exciting) I deleted my Twitter account. As the insanity on Facebook (pandemic, Trump, etc etc etc) ratcheted up during the first lockdown I deleted *that* account and my life immediately improved.

As far as I'm concerned social media is a failed experiment.

 

[Solidus]

I still use Facebook and Twitter, but mainly for contests, and to watch Hideo Kojima flex his millionaire lifestyle.

 

[BANE.]

I hate it when a company releases an updated 2.0 figure and someone says "I'm so pleased I didn't get the other one that was released 25 years ago".