War Room Lounge v53: Short Notice

[spin]

"Babe, there's something I need to tell you about me and Ron. Remember when I came home with pinkeye from that trip he and I took to Fort Lauderdale?"

"it was from this other guy that Ron and i tag teamed."

 

[tonni]

they manned the (girly voice) ampons

 

[spin]

 

[JDragon]

On the topic of the poll: if I sleep on my back, I have almost a 100% guarantee of getting a sleep paralysis episode.

Crazy. I just get super congested. Have had a couple episodes of sleep paralysis before though, scary af. Would hate to have that with any kind of regularity.

My wife has that, it's combined with all kinds of hallucinations (auditory, haptic, optic) while falling asleep. What she told me sounded like the creepiest thing ever. She did some exercises though and now occasionally is able to have lucid dreams, which I am pretty envious of.

 

[Prokofievian]

My wife has that, it's combined with all kinds of hallucinations (auditory, haptic, optic) while falling asleep. What she told me sounded like the creepiest thing ever. She did some exercises though and now occasionally is able to have lucid dreams, which I am pretty envious of.

Peekaboo!

 

[tonni]

My wife has that, it's combined with all kinds of hallucinations (auditory, haptic, optic) while falling asleep. What she told me sounded like the creepiest thing ever. She did some exercises though and now occasionally is able to have lucid dreams, which I am pretty envious of.

Sometimes, I wake up, fully paralyzed, at around 04:00. I can't move ANYTHING and I'm almost panicking because it feels like I'm gonna swallow my own tongue. I hear something in the corner of my room, I can't look at it all because I can't move my head. It's running around on 4 legs, sounds the size of a small dog. It's sniffing and grunting, like it's looking for something. It gets closer and closer and then it jumps on my chest, "waking" up my body.

 

[Prokofievian]

Steven Pinker was allegedly on the Lolita Express.

''Cheer up, child rape victim, I'll have you know, since the onset of Liberalism, instances of child rape have steadily decreased!''

 

[HockeyBjj]

@Fawlty @tonni @JDragon

I've got sleep paralysis as well, sounds like Toni's and I's are pretty similar. Happens on average about once per week, but can be 3 or 4 nights in a single week (which sucks royally) or not happen for a month and leave me wondering when it's going to strike again. Whenever I have an epsidoe, if I try to just fall back asleep, I fall right back into sleep paralysis. I have to go out to the living and do push-ups to fully wake up each time I get one.

I've seen some messed up things, but thankfully only rarely. Few times would see small humanoid creatures run out of and into my closet just past where my eyes could properly focus on them. The worst was a time I saw the bunny from Donny Darko (years after I'd seen the movie), but with glowing green eyes and black goat's legs and hooves. Extremely satanic. It slowly walked in from from my bedroom door, me unable to move or call for help. It stood next to me bed and looked over me, then reached out a paw and put it over my mouth. Suddenly, I couldn't breathe, and I could TASTE the fur! I snapped out of it and woke up screaming with college roommates actually coming to check on me. I was scared to sleep for a while after that.

It was sleep paralysis that kept me out of the naval academy (had congressional nomination) due to me going to the Dr. for it when I was 12. The first time it happened, I remember thinking "when they say someone dies in their sleep, this must be what it is". Tried to appeal the decision but denied due to (valid) concerns I wouldn't be able to wake up in an emergency.

After that, I often had extremely realistic dreams of someone almost waking me up when I was in sleep paralysis. I wanted to know so badly if I'd snap out of it if something happened that would have woken me up anyway. I'd hear my mom gently knocking on my door, me wanting her to just knock louder, and she'd go away. Never happened. I'd be in sleep paralysis, and see my dorm roommate quietly getting ready for the school day and leave, but never make a loud enough noise to wake me up. Wake up and he was still in his bunk. I'd see the girl I fell asleep with on the futon watching a movie very gently get up and leave without disturbing me, and sadly wouldn't. I'd eventually come out, and be very confused why she was still here because her getting up seemed so real. Lots of other types of things like that. Like my brain knew it couldn't trick me with something crazy, but if it was very plausible, it could fuck with my mind more.

Very nice thing about being married now? If my wife is still awake when I have one, she can recognize my breathing change and shakes me out of it which works. So nice to be woken up in 10 seconds rather than suffering through a minute+ of it that feels like 20.

 

[tonni]

@Fawlty @tonni @JDragon

I've got sleep paralysis as well, sounds like Toni's and I's are pretty similar. Happens on average about once per week, but can be 3 or 4 nights in a single week (which sucks royally) or not happen for a month and leave me wondering when it's going to strike again. Whenever I have an epsidoe, if I try to just fall back asleep, I fall right back into sleep paralysis. I have to go out to the living and do push-ups to fully wake up each time I get one.

I've seen some messed up things, but thankfully only rarely. Few times would see small humanoid creatures run out of and into my closet just past where my eyes could properly focus on them. The worst was a time I saw the bunny from Donny Darko (years after I'd seen the movie), but with glowing green eyes and black goat's legs and hooves. Extremely satanic. It slowly walked in from from my bedroom door, me unable to move or call for help. It stood next to me bed and looked over me, then reached out a paw and put it over my mouth. Suddenly, I couldn't breathe, and I could TASTE the fur! I snapped out of it and woke up screaming with college roommates actually coming to check on me. I was scared to sleep for a while after that.

It was sleep paralysis that kept me out of the naval academy (had congressional nomination) due to me going to the Dr. for it when I was 12. The first time it happened, I remember thinking "when they say someone dies in their sleep, this must be what it is". Tried to appeal the decision but denied due to (valid) concerns I wouldn't be able to wake up in an emergency.

After that, I often had extremely realistic dreams of someone almost waking me up when I was in sleep paralysis. I wanted to know so badly if I'd snap out of it if something happened that would have woken me up anyway. I'd hear my mom gently knocking on my door, me wanting her to just knock louder, and she'd go away. Never happened. I'd be in sleep paralysis, and see my dorm roommate quietly getting ready for the school day and leave, but never make a loud enough noise to wake me up. Wake up and he was still in his bunk. I'd see the girl I fell asleep with on the futon watching a movie very gently get up and leave without disturbing me, and sadly wouldn't. I'd eventually come out, and be very confused why she was still here because her getting up seemed so real. Lots of other types of things like that. Like my brain knew it couldn't trick me with something crazy, but if it was very plausible, it could fuck with my mind more.

Very nice thing about being married now? If my wife is still awake when I have one, she can recognize my breathing change and shakes me out of it which works. So nice to be woken up in 10 seconds rather than suffering through a minute+ of it that feels like 20.

Haha, that’s eerily similar. All the stuff you said. The part where you see people ting up, walking away etc and it’s all just a hallucination. I almost have had everything you listed there.

My girlfriend is a life saver. She knows when I’m going in paralysis mode and pushes me. God bless.

When I read or see videos about sleep paralysis it all seems very tame, to be honest.

 

[Trotsky]

I’ve come to enjoy his diatribes on women. It’s like a sneak peek into a damaged mind that has been cucked by life itself too many times.

I might be a little sadistic.

He's a weird dude, but I have a soft spot for him. I don't think he's as malicious as some of the other posters who make similar points.

 

[Gregolian]

No sleep paralysis here.... just a back that cracks 90 times throughout the day if I sleep on my back.

 

[HockeyBjj]

Upon the news of Black Ariel, apparently Terry Crews has been campaigning about wanting to play King Triton. The shoopers are turning it into a viral campaign to happen

 

[Fawlty]

@Fawlty @tonni @JDragon

I've got sleep paralysis as well, sounds like Toni's and I's are pretty similar. Happens on average about once per week, but can be 3 or 4 nights in a single week (which sucks royally) or not happen for a month and leave me wondering when it's going to strike again. Whenever I have an epsidoe, if I try to just fall back asleep, I fall right back into sleep paralysis. I have to go out to the living and do push-ups to fully wake up each time I get one.

I've seen some messed up things, but thankfully only rarely. Few times would see small humanoid creatures run out of and into my closet just past where my eyes could properly focus on them. The worst was a time I saw the bunny from Donny Darko (years after I'd seen the movie), but with glowing green eyes and black goat's legs and hooves. Extremely satanic. It slowly walked in from from my bedroom door, me unable to move or call for help. It stood next to me bed and looked over me, then reached out a paw and put it over my mouth. Suddenly, I couldn't breathe, and I could TASTE the fur! I snapped out of it and woke up screaming with college roommates actually coming to check on me. I was scared to sleep for a while after that.

It was sleep paralysis that kept me out of the naval academy (had congressional nomination) due to me going to the Dr. for it when I was 12. The first time it happened, I remember thinking "when they say someone dies in their sleep, this must be what it is". Tried to appeal the decision but denied due to (valid) concerns I wouldn't be able to wake up in an emergency.

After that, I often had extremely realistic dreams of someone almost waking me up when I was in sleep paralysis. I wanted to know so badly if I'd snap out of it if something happened that would have woken me up anyway. I'd hear my mom gently knocking on my door, me wanting her to just knock louder, and she'd go away. Never happened. I'd be in sleep paralysis, and see my dorm roommate quietly getting ready for the school day and leave, but never make a loud enough noise to wake me up. Wake up and he was still in his bunk. I'd see the girl I fell asleep with on the futon watching a movie very gently get up and leave without disturbing me, and sadly wouldn't. I'd eventually come out, and be very confused why she was still here because her getting up seemed so real. Lots of other types of things like that. Like my brain knew it couldn't trick me with something crazy, but if it was very plausible, it could fuck with my mind more.

Very nice thing about being married now? If my wife is still awake when I have one, she can recognize my breathing change and shakes me out of it which works. So nice to be woken up in 10 seconds rather than suffering through a minute+ of it that feels like 20.

That's insane. I know just what you mean about thinking that this is how we die in our sleep, and "waking up" only to be paralyzed and aware of it as if it's perfectly real, without that dreamlike quality. But this stuff you and Tonni are talking about with other beings screwing with you like they're going to kill you, wow. That's too much.

 

[Fawlty]

He's a weird dude, but I have a soft spot for him. I don't think he's as malicious as some of the other posters who make similar points.

He takes the abuse in stride, that's for sure.

 

[Higus]

@Falsedawn I tried to laugh it off but this disrespect to the Orc race just can’t be tolerated tbh. Just fair warning you’ve been reported for racism.

I’m literally shaking right now, fam

You damn multi-realm snowflakes ruin everything. Pretty soon we'll have to dedicate a whole month to those spear chucking greenies.

 

[Gregolian]

You damn multi-realm snowflakes ruin everything. Pretty soon we'll have to dedicate a whole month to those spear chucking greenies.

Orcs are the Stormtroopers/Red Shirts of Fantasy

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

Orcs are the Stormtroopers/Red Shirts of Fantasy

More stereotypes and racism, I can’t even with this lounge

 

[Higus]

Orcs are the Stormtroopers/Red Shirts of Fantasy

Seriously though, orcs are cool as hell. Easily one of my favorite fantasy races.
Read Grunts by Mary Gentle. It's a fantasy satire about a war clan of orcs that discover an enchanted trove of modern military weapons and equipment. As they start to equip themselves with M-16s and Apache Helicopters, their personalities change to be more like stereotypical US Marines. It's LotR combined with Full Metal Jacket.

 

[BarryDillon]

I don't have sleep paralysis, but sometimes I wake up early and can't get back to sleep.

That's pretty rough too, imo.

 

[Gregolian]

More stereotypes and racism, I can’t even with this lounge

Deal with it

Spoiler

Seriously though, orcs are cool as hell. Easily one of my favorite fantasy races.
Read Grunts by Mary Gentle. It's a fantasy satire about a war clan of orcs that discover an enchanted trove of modern military weapons and equipment. As they start to equip themselves with M-16s and Apache Helicopters, their personalities change to be more like stereotypical US Marines. It's LotR combined with Full Metal Jacket.

Will keep in mind.