Quitting the game

Thank god my nightmares are not viewed in vim. I can't Google how to quit it while I'm sleeping!
- Vim, I wish I knew how to quit you! (/s obviously bc Vim is life)
- :q
  
  :q! if it's urgent
  
  Holding the power button on my PC until vim shuts down.
  
  :x
  
  Awake me can remember. Goodnight me can't 😵‍💫
  
  I prefer ZQ
- Would that mean your nightmare is all in ASCII?
  
  Might be. Some unrecognizable, nightmarish UTF8 mixed in with the wrong encoding maybe?
- Vim is the nightmare.
  
  Vim is the dream
- Click escape, which gets you out of the current write mode.
  Type :q!

The second I realise I’m dreaming I wake up.
I think it’s because the second I am some level of conscious the deep rooted anxiety starts again and jolts me up 🙂
- Nothing scary than real life.
- You should try flying instead.
- Try spinning around in place in the dream! Sometimes it can help keep me dreaming cause I focus on my dream body and not my asleep body
- At least you don’t go through a series of false awakenings when it happens. Those are generally not the most fun, since at best they ruin lucid dreams (it’s sort of a way for your mind to go back to sleep, and typically resets your awareness of being in a dream), and at worst it fucks with your sense of reality big time.
  That’s why I don’t nap anymore… I lucid dream sometimes, but usually not with naps. Those are just hyper realistic emotion bombs with full physical sensation.
  So one day I was having one of my awful nap dreams, and it was super negative, so I decided to wake up. So I did. And then I realized I was still sleeping, and tried again.. Dozens and dozens of times, every trick I could think of. I could feel my actual body unable to move (thanks sleep paralysis!), and I kept cycling back to dreaming, starting the whole thing over again.

One day, he's going to try to log out, and the logout button will be missing.
Then the only way he'll be able to wake up is by beating all 100 floors of his dream. But if he dies in the dream, he dies in real life.
- I would subscribe to your newsletter
  
  You can also look for sword art online
- It will definitely happen if someone tells him that :)
- Then the only way he'll be able to wake up is by beating all 100 floors of his dream
  Cheating in a duel against the game master in floor 75*
- so basically real life

ESC > :q!
- Colon Q exclamation point? 6 keystrokes to leave? Sheesh.
  
  If you wrote your dream to disk beforehand, ! might be unnecessary.

Goliath online

That kind of sounds like a strategy to trigger lucid dreaming. I've heard that if you envision a specific thing while falling asleep, like for example the StarCraft menu screen, then it will appear somewhere in your dream. When it does, it's supposed to sort of jostle you into consciousness but not wake you up.
It seems that what this person's friend did with his free will in dream land is nope right out of there. He could have turned that nightmare into something awesome though!
- Even if you are aware you are in a dream it can be difficult to control it, at least in my experience. More like I wake up on a roller coaster but I'm not sure if its a fun one or a scary one yet, but I can choose to stay and see how it goes.
- My nightmares always turn into semi lucid dreams, it's like "this is so horrible it must be a nightmare" and then I can choose to just nope out of sleeping.
  My old man taught me that telling someone one is having a nightmare stops it from coming back. I've found that just saying it out aloud works as well.
  I've used it quite a few times throughout my life, never fails. It's supposedly pretty eerie for others though when I just sit up in bed in the middle of the night, proclaim "I'm having a nightmare" and then promptly going back to sleep.

I just kinda open my eyes and that's how I escape
- for me that's when the nightmare begins
  
  Keep opening your eyes until you escape
- I can't really put it into words but I just randomly (?) have this thought of "certainly not" and have the feeling of "this has got to be a bad dream... Oh wait, it's actually a bad dream, why am I still here at all".
  I just don't always manage to.
- You've heard of sleep paralysis?
  Some of us get that dream effect (eyes open, dream reality overlaid over real reality) but without paralysis.
  Opening your eyes? They're already open and the dream is running
  Getting out of bed? Touch hallucinations may become part of it
  Usually turning on a light gets me out. That or time
  
  Now that just sounds like garden variety psychosis lmao
- That's how my "I'm stuck in my own bed and can't move or talk" nightmare usually begins.

- On the other hand I enjoyed that game for years without ever touching multiplayer....
  It's always weird because everyone talks about how stressful it was, but it never was to me because I could just pause/save and walk away.
  
  Everybody talking about lucid dreaming in this thread while this person figured out how to play lucid Starcraft.
- Personally i didn't really have performance anxiety, but I would get really pumped every match with my pulse racing and sometimes even my hands shaking afterwards. I always had to take breaks in between ladder games, only after an hour or two it would normalize enough to queue repeatedly.
  The cheese didnt bother me much, I always loved macro and did that every game behind good scouting, often leading to some timing attack I built up to like a stim bio timing or tank marine drop.
- I had that in WoW PvP. A buddy and I were in the top 50 of the second largest server and it was work. Even solo, we'd often wait for each other to come online before hitting ranked PvP so there was at least someone to talk to. It made losing not seem so bad, and if you started flunking, the other would say to stop and pick it up later.
  Otherwise, pressure as hell. And for no reason other than trying to be the top rank of my class which was some pointless goal I put on myself.

That's hilarious because I've done the same exact thing before except it was the watch menu from the Goldeneye Nintendo64 James Bond game. It worked for several years as a young lad.
- Dude i kept having fucmin dreams where i kept getting shot and my red health and blue armour would appear in my vision, and go down. Then I'd try to look at my watch to quit to menu, but it would be blown up just sitting there on my wrist blackened and falling apart so I had ti ride it out and die.
  It would be me on the ground and then the grenade landing in front if my face and then going BANG that woke me up and got me out of there
  
  That's crazy. I have told that story to a couple people and they just looked at me like I'm nuts.
  You know what's even weirder? My name is Matt too 🤯

My nightmares largely stopped after being awake tired af and terrified of sleeping, when I said "damn you nightmares, you can't scare me into sleep deprivation! I'm coming in there and I'm gonna fight back", and then went right back to sleep. I don't know what nightmare I had that drove me to get angry at my nightmares, I didn't even have a plan to fight back. But that's when it stopped, when I stopped being afraid of them.
- Maybe nightmares are what happen when you fall asleep scared.

Title made me lose the game.
- Let’s get you back to bed, gramps
- Damnit, I lost as well.

Shit! I hit Save by accident! shitshitshit

I just don’t dream… anything. I remember having dreams as a kid, and I remember what it felt like waking up, knowing I’d had a dream, but forgetting it. But anymore, I just don’t have any dreams anymore.
- You probably have dreams but are not aware because you do not wake up during a dream anymore. Maybe your sleep habits changed. You can remember dreaming only if you wake up during REM sleep. I know it is not possible probably, but if you have someone watch you while you are sleeping and wake you up a few seconds after they see your eyes moving, you'd probably remember your dream.
- You might have got sleep apnoea. If you also happen to not really feel rested in the morning. I know people that haven't had it diagnosed for decades and it turned their life around and they also finally dreamed again. As a "byproduct" of not nearly dying every night, but resting.
  IF there is a pathological reason. Can also just be you don't stand up shortly after your last REM-sleep and go into deep or light again. Might wanna just check with some smartwatch or just an alarm mid-sleep to check if you then remember stuff.
- Hmm do you perhaps watch some streams or listen to podcast before sleep ( or even during sleep technicaly speaking ) ,beacuse i also dont dream when i do this.
  But i on the other hand also dream vwry vividly and intensly when i think about stuff before sleep ( whatewer it is , book idea , aliens, power fantasy about conquest of russia, imagining the layout of pipes around my house ).
- Eat more bananas !
  Idk, i remember reading that banana makes your dream more lucid.
  
  Huh..
  I share a similar experience to the person you replied to, but recently I've been doing the "wake up knowing you had a dream but can't remember it" thing again, and I've also been eating more bananas recently.
  Coincidence?!
  
  Sugar makes me dream.
- Are you a stoner? That kills the recall of your dreams but not the actual dreaming. You just never remember
  
  No, cannabis is understood to decrease REM sleep, and that "kills" the actual dreaming.
  
  Decades ago I used to smoke “regularly”, but even at my height I never smoked that heavily
- Start taking ssri and every night is an adventure

Computer! Arch.

Gotta type "gg" first or you're BMing the Sandman.

I mean i just have to kill myself and hope it's really just a dream. I would like a quit menu

This is my new answer to the "what super power would you like" question.

Lost and ragequit so many times that he related anguish to quitting out through the menu xD

You'll know you're in trouble if you're arguing and he stares blankly and starts jabbing his finger at the air.

I'm old, so I always got up out of the dream and turned the knob to switch channels.
- That is really fucking cool

Anyone else do an image search just to get a good look at that menu again?
- I did! That took me back. LAN party with my huge CRT monitor eating takeout at 2 in the morning that we purchased on the way to the LAN
  
  I miss LAN parties. I miss the atmosphere in those sweltering bedrooms/livingrooms in the quiet hours of the morning. I'll never forget that LAN party vibe. Big one for my cousins and I was the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942. Also Starcraft, Diablo 2, and later on it shifted to WoW.
- Dammit, now I can hear his dream.

Dream Life Rage Quit

I remember in middle school I'd always come home with the worst headaches but then I'd just imagine what I did today and select what's important and what's not as if they were files in file manager and drag what I didn't think was important to the recycling bin. It worked too

I'm trying this right now but it doesn't work. Am I not asleep? Is this shitty life real?

I usually quit by dying.

It's just you trying to break out of the Matrix, but you keep waking up back inside it.

Is it possible to learn this power?
- Yes, there are practices you can adopt in every day life that make you more likely to experience lucid dreaming.
  Certain mindfulness exercises to do during the day that essentially give your consciousness muscle memory that you later kicks in when you're dreaming and helps you you pull a bit of control into the dream.
  If you have a Circadian rhythm disorder it helps.
  As a kid I learned I could "rewind" my nightmares and go back and do things differently the second time. Lots of nightmares where I couldn't run fast enough to save myself I was able to rewind and run faster the second time around.
  As a teen I learned that I could just deux ex machina my way out of any dream.
  I was having one of my recurring stress dreams about not meeting societal expectations due to lacking resources. I'd had this dream a million times before, I'm desperate to pee and I'm in a labyrinth of broken toilets. Other people are coming and I going and seemingly peeing just fine and not getting lost in the labyrinth at all. but I can't figure out how they're using these broken toilets. Usually in the dream I just wander around anxiously looking to pee until I wake up (and notably, I don't actually need to pee). But this time I was lucid enough to decide, fucking this, the ceiling had been made of glass the whole time, and a dragon burst through to pick me up on the her back and burn the whole Loo-byrinth down.
  So now I do that a lot. I was dreaming I was in a house slowly filling with green water and I may or may not have been a snake, but never fear, I summoned a goat from the thin air and gave it wings and we flew away.
  I had a dream where the fat bastard from Austin Powers was roomates with Oscar the grouch and I'd been sold to them as a indentured maid and for some reason they were naked and I was deeply uncomfortable with the arrangement, that's when the lucidity kicked in, so I froze time and just walked away from the weird dream, deciding once I turned onto the main road I'd wake up because this was too bizarre to even come up with something better (I haven't even seen Austin Powers)
  
  Omg, is the labyrinth of broken toilets thing a common stress dream? That’s the kind of “nightmare” that messes with me — filled with plausible mundane stuff that makes it seem 100% real and 0% fantasy. It’s like having a panic attack while you aren’t even conscious.
- Not from a ~~GDI~~Protoss

Imagine doing this but then having to stare at the main menu for 8 hours lmao

This but it's the roblox leave game screen

Sleep paralysis is the worst, you feel the presence of demons around you.
- That's interesting, my sleep paralysis episodes were always a VR horror movie experience

I've woken myself up from several unpleasant dreams and nightmares before by literally just going "fuck this, I'm out."
I think I'm often aware that I'm dreaming, but I don't really lucid dream because my dreams are generally more interesting than anything I could consciously come up with anyway. So more often than not I'm just content to be along for the ride.
- Mine is “This is fucking stupid”, then I wake up pretty much instantly.
  I find the idea that I’m going to be randomly attacked by unknown/evil forces so ridiculous, that I can’t suspend disbelief. So I wake up.

Esc > E > S > Q

I remember the first time I woke myself from a bad dream. I was pretty young, and in my dream I was being chased by a monster and I suddenly realized that it was a dream and I could chase the monster back. So I turned around (in my dream) and started to chase the fucker.
I recall waking up laughing.

happy 10 year anniversary to this ~~tweet~~ toot

emergency markiplier

My newest objective is to lessen to the background people and write as much of their conversations down as i can. As soon as I'm lucid I stop and start to lessen. Depending on where I am I turn and get as close as I can to people. I've yet to succeed but I got the idea from someone who said it's one of the biggest trips.

Awesome ! mine is blinking real fast, it wakes me up in about two seconds of in-dream time.
- I roll my eyes up until the "pain" and my eyes open.
  Try it, roll your eyes up as much as you can, your eyes will open slightly.
  Super power unlocked!
  
  I'll try it !!!

clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick

For me its the menu from 1999 driver sound effects and all.

im almost like that exactly

Now that is a real superpower.
I also manage to annoy TF out of my wife at being able to go from fully asleep to bouncing out of the bed like a piece of toast in under 10 seconds.
About the only thing that can impact this is severe sleep deficit, which - years ago - mean less than 3-4hrs in a night, but these days (in my sixth decade) means anything less than 5hrs of sleep in a night or less than 7 after multiple days of a sleep deficit.

I had sleep paralysis three times in my 43 years. It feels like someone is in the room and you try to scream but nothing comes out. You just have to force yourself back to sleep.
- Good that you can but the severity of this condition varies and some people are not able to do this.