The Nonsense Thread

I believe if one travels fast enough around the earth then one goes back in time. I saw it in the movies.
 
nanoboy said:
Same goes for all men really. :D

Has anyone experienced a dream within a dream like the movie 'Inception'? I have them from time to time, and those are the freakiest dreams of all!
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I've had that a couple of times. Usually it's kind of scary though. Does anyone else have that feeling where you're fully awake but you can't move? It's a really panicky feeling because you can't open your eyes. The first few times I thought I was just dreaming but then one time I could hear my housemate talking to her mum on the phone and when I woke up properly I could repeat her whole conversation back to her.
 
PAT said:
Does anyone else have that feeling where you're fully awake but you can't move? It's a really panicky feeling because you can't open your eyes. The first few times I thought I was just dreaming but then one time I could hear my housemate talking to her mum on the phone and when I woke up properly I could repeat her whole conversation back to her.
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that sounds like sleep paralysis. Apparently it can be a terrifying experience, especially because it is often accompanied by the feeling of there being another presence in the room (words such as nightmare and hag-ridden derive from experiences of sleep paralysis, and it is suggested that alien abduction stories also do so).
 
In my late teens I recall my one and only experience of sleep paralysis, it only lasted a short time, but my memory to this day 20 odd years on is clear, I was awake, and couldn't move anything, I remember starting to panic and trying to move my neck, then everything relaxed and I could move, I reckon in reality it lasted less than 10 seconds, but it was an experience alright.

I have some pretty wacky dreams, some great, some worrying, I recurring one is an exam that I have next day and know I am going mess it up, great feeling to wake up and know it was a dream. I have the usual dreams when I try to run, I am about as fast as a sloth and cannot move quickly for the life of me. Then occasionally I get the falling dreams. When I was watching The Walking Dead series I enjoyed some cracking dreams!

Cheese and wine before bed certainly helps turn the dreamometer up a notch or two.
 
Chlidonias said:
that sounds like sleep paralysis. Apparently it can be a terrifying experience, especially because it is often accompanied by the feeling of there being another presence in the room (words such as nightmare and hag-ridden derive from experiences of sleep paralysis, and it is suggested that alien abduction stories also do so).
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So I just googled it and sleep paralysis sounds exactly like what i experience. The part about someone else being in the room is especially true.
 
PAT said:
So I just googled it and sleep paralysis sounds exactly like what i experience. The part about someone else being in the room is especially true.
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By the power of suggestion, I am so going to experience that tonight...
 
I have had sleep paralysis once or twice - the freakiest time is when it happened on a train!
 
I experienced sleep paralysis once when I was pretty little. Scared the life out of me and I couldn't move and it did feel like someone was watching me. The worst bit is that, since I was a little kid and couldn't think of anything else to do, I tried to yell out for someone but then I couldn't get any sound out!

Really spooky experience.

~Thylo:cool:
 
Pootle said:
In my late teens I recall my one and only experience of sleep paralysis, it only lasted a short time, but my memory to this day 20 odd years on is clear, I was awake, and couldn't move anything, I remember starting to panic and trying to move my neck, then everything relaxed and I could move, I reckon in reality it lasted less than 10 seconds, but it was an experience alright.

I have some pretty wacky dreams, some great, some worrying, I recurring one is an exam that I have next day and know I am going mess it up, great feeling to wake up and know it was a dream. I have the usual dreams when I try to run, I am about as fast as a sloth and cannot move quickly for the life of me. Then occasionally I get the falling dreams. When I was watching The Walking Dead series I enjoyed some cracking dreams!

Cheese and wine before bed certainly helps turn the dreamometer up a notch or two.
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You got grabbed by the Hag, as my cousins in Newfoundland would call it.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
I experienced sleep paralysis once when I was pretty little. Scared the life out of me and I couldn't move and it did feel like someone was watching me. The worst bit is that, since I was a little kid and couldn't think of anything else to do, I tried to yell out for someone but then I couldn't get any sound out!

Really spooky experience.

~Thylo:cool:
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When I was younger, I had the same nightmare repeatedly over the span of 6 months, and almost every time I woke up from it, I experienced sleep paralysis. I always tried to call for my parents, but no sound came out for 10 seconds, and that was what really scared me.
I remember many of my notable dreams vividly, and this particular nightmare was no expection. It was of two kids who were in my class at the time and a man in a gorilla suit coming out of my closet at night, gagged me, and tied me up in ropes. Then the gorilla-man started laughing and beating me up... weird, like most my childhood nightmares.
 
I've never knowingly experienced sleep paralysis, and I am extremely grateful for this. Coming out of general anesthesia was bad enough...
 
I like Cracked.com. Anyone who doesn't like Cracked.com is wrong, frankly. While browsing through the many many many amusing articles on the site I came across this particular one which I then felt compelled to share. Enjoy. Or not. I don't care.

What if Kanye West is Retarded? | Cracked.com
 
So, as you may have heard, Robin Williams is dead. A lot of my family and friends and I loved his movies, so we're all going on about how big of a shock this news is and how upset we are, etc.

And of course, when there's a large outpouring of grief over someone's death, there's a large number of people who respond by saying things like "Oh, suddenly everyone cares about Robin Williams" or "None of you were talking about him yesterday..."

Now this has got me thinking. I don't really know how/what to feel when I see things like this being said. I feel like there's no need for these comments and that they're a little inappropriate to say at such a time (because these types of comments typically offend fans and are viewed as disrespectful), but looking at it, it's actually pretty true.

This post is pretty pointless as I don't really have complete thoughts on it, but I'm just throwing it out there. I just find it weird that we talk so much about people the moment they die, but there's little to no attention paid to them while they're alive. I myself hadn't even thought about Robin Williams for weeks until I'd heard he'd died. Obviously I'm not saying you have to obsess over him daily, constantly watch his films/shows and pray to him or anything ridiculous like that, no... but, hm... Is this just a case of "You don't know what you have until it's gone?"
 
AnaheimZoo said:
So, as you may have heard, Robin Williams is dead. A lot of my family and friends and I loved his movies, so we're all going on about how big of a shock this news is and how upset we are, etc.

And of course, when there's a large outpouring of grief over someone's death, there's a large number of people who respond by saying things like "Oh, suddenly everyone cares about Robin Williams" or "None of you were talking about him yesterday..."

Now this has got me thinking. I don't really know how/what to feel when I see things like this being said. I feel like there's no need for these comments and that they're a little inappropriate to say at such a time (because these types of comments typically offend fans and are viewed as disrespectful), but looking at it, it's actually pretty true.

This post is pretty pointless as I don't really have complete thoughts on it, but I'm just throwing it out there. I just find it weird that we talk so much about people the moment they die, but there's little to no attention paid to them while they're alive. I myself hadn't even thought about Robin Williams for weeks until I'd heard he'd died. Obviously I'm not saying you have to obsess over him daily, constantly watch his films/shows and pray to him or anything ridiculous like that, no... but, hm... Is this just a case of "You don't know what you have until it's gone?"
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He committed suicide no?
 
AnaheimZoo said:
And of course, when there's a large outpouring of grief over someone's death, there's a large number of people who respond by saying things like "Oh, suddenly everyone cares about Robin Williams" or "None of you were talking about him yesterday..."
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What a ridiculous thing for people to say. He didn't do anything last week, so we didn't talk about him. If he had done something (like been in a movie that was released), then we would be talking about him. Just because we weren't talking about him doesn't mean we don't care.

Obviously the people making that statement didn't care much for him and are surprised at the amount of attention the media is giving to his death. And there will be lots of attention, as he was reasonably young, still working, and committed suicide.

RIP

Hix
 
Yes, I'm sorry. I'm not sure what I was thinking - they're obviously in the wrong for making such insensitive comments. Do you think it's just jealousy, and/or, as you said, just a lack of care for him?
 
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