The Pointless but funny links-thread

[winterfate]

And how is telling your kid that monsters aren't real gonna make her stop having bad dreams?!

Well, it goes like this.

If you believe the monsters are real, that's what you'll think about...a lot (at least that's how I work).

When you think about something a lot, you end up dreaming about it.
So...if you know they're not real, you won't pay them mind, and you shouldn't be getting bad dreams about them.

Of course, that only applies to those dreams in specific.

that's equal parts disturbing and amusing

Indeed it is...but I'm surprised that strategy actually helped the girl out...I don't think it would've helped me out back then...and boy was I a scaredy-cat (perhaps I still am...).

[asandir]

it might help her now, but i shudder to think of the future

[Caradoc]

Dreaming about monsters has something to do with development of the brain. It's a natural part of growing up -- really part of understanding what is 'real.'

[winterfate]

@Caradoc: Then I guess I had a rather overactive brain.

Then again, I've always had an overactive imagination...must be the reason why I'm so good at making up stories and stuff.

[asandir]

perhaps .... did your parents get you to play some game to kill the bad, bad monsters?

does this story remind anyone of Major Payne?

[Elvin]

Dreaming about monsters has something to do with development of the brain. It's a natural part of growing up -- really part of understanding what is 'real.'

Hmm I don't often see monsters in my sleep and I didn't when I was a kid. Maybe I see more of that now at least in which few dreams have me chased by ugly things But believe me, right then they feel and act pretty real. Once I was even outsmarted and they were laughing

Btw I don't usually play such games and what I see has nothing to do with them. Maybe I have a random creature generator!

[asandir]

get real scared when you see the MGW in your dreams!!!

[Elvin]

Though there have been some dreams influenced by games.
I was once stalked by an H3 vamp(Nosferatu style ) which scared the **** out of me. Well if there are woods around, your friends are gone in the blink of an eye and you see that thing when you turn around you are likely to freak out a bit
In another it was Max Payne style and I had slow motion They had no chance Not sure if I got their boss though!

But generally such dreams are scarce and I never see something about a specific game more than a few times at most.

[asandir]

I don't really dream about games, I don't think that I ever have, and it's actually quite rare that I remember my dreams at all .... but then having three small children around means that every minute of sleep is treasured and perhaps I have no time for the dreams

[Elvin]

You probably forget them when you wake up seeing the faces of your little ones The only reason I remember my dreams is because I consciously try to when I get up. Not that it has helped me since I don't get any prophetic or even meaningful ones

[asandir]

nope, more like forgetting them when I hear my little kids

[ThunderTitan]

Colbert interviews the wikipedia guy


And the result:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... mething.3F
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarians

[Corribus]

I was absolutely convinced when I was a kid that monsters lived in my closet. I absolutely would not go to sleep if the closet door was open, even a crack. I never actually managed to reason that if the monsters were in the closet and they were as terrible as I thought they were, that they would probably be able to open the closet door, but that didn't make my terror any less real.

Funny thing is, to this day I cannot go to sleep with a closet door open. I obviously don't still believe there are monsters in there, but nevertheless I cannot fall asleep with a closet door open, no matter how tired I am, and so I still have a reflex of closing closet doors before I go to sleep.

Strange...

[ThunderTitan]

And yet you argue that the kid would have been better off being told monsters aren't real.... now that's STRANGE.

.....

The first nightmare i remember had me being bathed by one of the 3 little pigs, with the wolf lurking around outside in a huge corridor... then i started running before waking up. Years after i couldn't fall asleep with my face to the wall because that's how i woke up.

Fear isn't rational!

[Elvin]

After all it's not how you think about it but how you feel about it

At least I don't have a phobia anymore, except maybe diving from a good height.
One nasty thing that would happen to me when I was a kid was all the ugly or violent images I had seen during the day coming in my mind after the lights went out. I absolutely hated that...
Also I was afraid to keep my head out of the blankets for fear of seeing something that should not be there It went away on its own when I began challenging myself not to cover my face at all.

Heh imagine if these things had remained

[Angelspit]

The first nightmare i remember had me being bathed by one of the 3 little pigs, with the wolf lurking around outside in a huge corridor... then i started running before waking up.

For me it was a huge gorilla juggling my four-year old body with his huge hands and threatening to eat me. It was a recurring thing, so I was very happy when it finally ended.

[asandir]

worst nightmare I ever had was not bad cause it was duper scary, more cause of the consequences ....

I had just injured my knee (ruptured anterior cruciate ligament, partial tear of medial ligament, and major bruising of the bone - to give you a nice mental picture, my lower leg was bent at right angles to the upper leg, but to the side, not front or back) anyway, I was asleep in my girlfriends bed (g/f at the time, long gone now) and dreamt that a red and black lizard .... a big one, with sharp teeth, leapt at me, instinctive reaction was a full body flinch, and I jarred the sh!t out of my knee. I was in agony for ages!

[ThunderTitan]

Lets have a game with this one too: how many can you guess? NSFW btw.

[Elvin]

10 Easy Paths to Self Destruction

How are you managing with that? Hope you are not too good in it.

[ThunderTitan]

Bunch of pussies... self-destruction deserves taking the hard path.