Random Rants LXXXVI: OH, FUDDLE-DUDDLE!

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I had a nasty migraine last night. I'm still feeling the leftovers.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I have three to four a week. Have had since I was a child.

Okay, now I'm worried.

I woke up from a nightmare once when I was a teenager. It sucked. Dreamed I was in a boat...there was this monster in the water with a big eye stalk looking at me that was like right there when for no apparent reason I turned and looked that way. Stalk like a tree trunk, big lidless eye the size of a beachball...more like socketless really, the whole thing draped with seaweed and dripping...and I was still in the startled that it was there instant when the boat tipped and threw me right at it. Actually made me scream, and I'm generally not a screamer.

It really struck me because I had no experience with having any kind of such dream before. And it sticks because I never have since. I thought two a week was obviously excessive because I haven't had two in my entire life, and now my favorite psychologist has even more than two a week?

Maybe I am just defining this wrong. What constitutes a nightmare?

 

[Synobun]

For me, a nightmare is a dream I can't make stop. I've always lucid dreamed, so not being able to stop it and being forced to see it through is when it transitions from dream to nightmare. I get this rarely; usually when I have a fever.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I find that my lucid dreams happen when I sleep on my back. For a great nights sleep, I sleep in my stomach.

 

[AdamCrock]

In short: Consider the possible consequences of your actions and have a plan to deal with them.

And if that fails, always wear a fedora and carry a whip

Thanks Valka. I'll give it a ponder

...there was this monster in the water with a big eye stalk looking at me

Cthulhu ? Or maybe "(...)... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you" thing ?

 

[The_J]

Maybe I am just defining this wrong. What constitutes a nightmare?

You wake up and you are kinda scared, minimum?

Last nightmare I had was 15 years ago, and I killed someone in it.
Hearing that there are people who have it every second night, that's a nightmare on its own.

 

[r16]

am pretty sure ı must have had two or three in my life .

 

[Synobun]

Damn, I missed the chance to say, "Every day is a nightmare."

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Damn, I missed the chance to say, "Every day is a nightmare."

You can still say it

 

[Synobun]

Every day is a nightmare.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Somebody burned their supper. The fire alarm on my apartment floor is going off.

Surprisingly, it wasn't my fault.

 

[Cutlass]

Not to be a downer here, but you guys do know that weird dreams are associated with the Covid fever, right? Check your temperatures please.

I had a dream the other night that I had been appointed to a post in the Trump administration. So a deadly disease explains that.

 

[Cutlass]

I have three to four a week. Have had since I was a child.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I had a dream the other night that I had been appointed to a post in the Trump administration. So a deadly disease explains that.

All things being equal, I'll take the sea monster with the eye on a stalk.

 

[Cutlass]

All things being equal, I'll take the sea monster with the eye on a stalk.

I very rarely remember dreams. So I know I've had a lot of nightmares, because of the way I wake up from them. But I rarely remember any details.

One that sticks with me is that critter from the Alien movie (which I saw on the big screen when I was like 13) chasing me around a village in Mexico. Had the same dream for years. Then Aliens (the sequel) came out, and I never dreamed about them again.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

One that sticks with me is that critter from the Alien movie (which I saw on the big screen when I was like 13) chasing me around a village in Mexico. Had the same dream for years. Then Aliens (the sequel) came out, and I never dreamed about them again.

Was the sequel really that bad

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Was the sequel really that bad

Objectively, it wasn't bad...but compared to the original it was like a fall off a cliff.

 

[Cutlass]

Was the sequel really that bad

No. Thing was, for me anyways, the first movie, that was a really scary monster. Maybe because I saw it when I was pretty young. Maybe because it was a pretty good movie, and really set the mood well and made the monster scary. But the second movie was a more or less run of the mill scifi action movie. So the monsters really weren't notably scary anymore. And I was older at the time.

 

[Cutlass]

Dammmit. I want a road trip. And there's nothing open, or likely to be open this summer.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Dammmit. I want a road trip. And there's nothing open, or likely to be open this summer.

I want a trip to the optometrist. I'm surrounded by so many things I can't do or deal with because I can't see properly, and I really need new glasses.

But are optometrists considered essential? Nope. It must be hell for the people who were supposed to get cataract surgery this year. Some of those people will end up blind, like I nearly did last year.