[Misc] Has the Coronavirus Started to Infect Your Dreams While you Sleep?

Swansman said:

No, I'm a stoner so I dont dream.

But if you get issues with reoccuring nightmares of any kind, try this:

1. Pinch yourself once you notice something is feeling unreal. If you think about this advice a few times a day, it will enter your subconcius and you'll be able to do it in your dreams if you dream frequently. If you dont feel anything physically when pinching yourself, you're dreaming.

2. Once you know you are in a dream, remember that your fantasy is ruling it. If you can convince the mind that everything is fine, try it. If you can defeat your enemy/enemies, in this case embarrasement and fear, do it. You can in example make everyone laugh at someone else.

Sometimes this is easy, sometimes very hard - you're playing chess with your own brain. You know it wants to worry you and put you through shit, so its not always easy to convince it to actually believe/imagine a better scenario.

If this is the case and you feel the dream is too much, you can suicide it. In the dream, just throw yourself off some stairs or a roof or something, and you will wake up.

3. Notice that you shouldnt try to suicide yourself out of every dream every time, because your mind will at some point catch up with your trick and you're not going to be allowed to escape that easily. Plus, if you suicide your way out of the nightmare, it will be back, so its just solving the immediate problem of a uncomfortable dream.

If you instead beat the problem in your dream, your middle state - subconcious-concious - is going to fear the issue less, and you will dream more and more infrequently about it until its gone. But it generally needs to be defeated a few times.

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Swansman said:

No, I'm a stoner so I dont dream.

But if you get issues with reoccuring nightmares of any kind, try this:

1. Pinch yourself once you notice something is feeling unreal. If you think about this advice a few times a day, it will enter your subconcius and you'll be able to do it in your dreams if you dream frequently. If you dont feel anything physically when pinching yourself, you're dreaming.

2. Once you know you are in a dream, remember that your fantasy is ruling it. If you can convince the mind that everything is fine, try it. If you can defeat your enemy/enemies, in this case embarrasement and fear, do it. You can in example make everyone laugh at someone else.

Sometimes this is easy, sometimes very hard - you're playing chess with your own brain. You know it wants to worry you and put you through shit, so its not always easy to convince it to actually believe/imagine a better scenario.

If this is the case and you feel the dream is too much, you can suicide it. In the dream, just throw yourself off some stairs or a roof or something, and you will wake up.

3. Notice that you shouldnt try to suicide yourself out of every dream every time, because your mind will at some point catch up with your trick and you're not going to be allowed to escape that easily. Plus, if you suicide your way out of the nightmare, it will be back, so its just solving the immediate problem of a uncomfortable dream.

4. Punch yourself in the face, if you're dreaming of emailing Paul Barber.

If you instead beat the problem in your dream, your middle state - subconcious-concious - is going to fear the issue less, and you will dream more and more infrequently about it until its gone. But it generally needs to be defeated a few times.

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marlowe said:

Last night I dreamed I was standing in a supermarket queue by the fresh bakery counter. I wasn't practicing social distancing and was stood up close to the person in front of me. Then I absent mindedly started to cough in the general direction of an uncovered loaf of bread on the fresh loaf shelf. Because my hands were full with bags I also neglected to cover my mouth while I coughed. Then I realised what I was doing and felt somewhat embarassed and hoped no one in the queue had noticed. Fortunately it appeared they hadn't, or they were too polite to say anything.

It was all a bit of a nightmate really.

Has anyone else started having coronavirus themed dreams?

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marlowe said:

I actually quite enjoy nightmares (possibly not while I am actually having them) but having woken up you have a memory of an exciting adventure of dread and peril without having been exposed to actual danger or suffered any harm.

The sense of relief of waking up from a nightmare and realising it was all a dream can also be quite satisfying and relieving.

Conversly the realisation upon waking that you weren't really getting down and dirty with (insert name of your sexual fantasy) can be extremely devastating and disappointing and can totally ruin your morning.

Having said this if I am to be exposed to dread and peril in a nightmare I would prefer it to be a bit more thrilling than having a coughing fit at the fresh bakery counter.

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studio150 said:

Unfortunately last night it did for the first time.

I had a nightmare where my wife caught the virus and didn't survive, with only myself and my wife's sister able to attend the funeral.

Hopefully this was a one off and doesn't reoccur.

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marlowe said:

I actually quite enjoy nightmares (possibly not while I am actually having them) but having woken up you have a memory of an exciting adventure of dread and peril without having been exposed to actual danger or suffered any harm.

The sense of relief of waking up from a nightmare and realising it was all a dream can also be quite satisfying and relieving.

Conversly the realisation upon waking that you weren't really getting down and dirty with (insert name of your sexual fantasy) can be extremely devastating and disappointing and can totally ruin your morning.

Having said this if I am to be exposed to dread and peril in a nightmare I would prefer it to be a bit more thrilling than having a coughing fit at the fresh bakery counter.

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