The Lowlight Of Your Day

[Coulrophobic]

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I just had a terrible nightmare. The complexities of the plot are too complicated and abstract to be explained but the end result was paralysis... i mean the kind that makes the leap from dream to RL... where you lay there completely unable to move with eyes half-way open... stuck in some powerless, crippled hell between sleep and conciousness... thankfully i had some limited command of my vocal chords and was able to generate enough irritating noise to provoke a swift elbow to the chest from my wife, which was just enough to jolt me back into reality.

has that ever happened to you, gentle reader?

its the most terrifying and helpless feeling in the world. i wish i could kick my own ass for putting myself through it.

and im ever so tired now, but im afraid to go back to sleep :x
a right shitty way to start the day i reckon

anyway, this bored needs more negativism so post something bad that has happened to you today

[Yoyodyner]

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Heh - good ol' sleep paralysis. Fun for the whole family. ;) Sleeping on your back exacerbates the problem. Try to sleep in some other position and it will really help.

[Coulrophobic]

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hey Yo whats shakin

man i thought i was the only one this kind of thing happened to (though it doesnt happen often i remember every instance intensely)

the latter half of the second paragraph in THIS is spot on... being "observed" by someone/something with ill intent just in the periphery of your vision but not being able to turn and face it... man, that just totally sucks

more info on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

i guess the education on this topic, and its demystification, brought on by the initial incident is a subject truelly worthy of the hilight of your day thread that this thread is gently mocking... oh the irony

[Lexxicon]

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I'm torn up that you woke up to such a hell, dear one. And you say you've experienced this more than once.........how monstrous, how lonely........:cry: Yet what a relief to find that you're not as alone in this as you thought thanks to Yo. Hope tonight is better. :smt056




Well, speaking of lowlights -


No, I have never had a paralysis nightmare of the subconscious kind, but I have experienced a paralysis nightmare of the waking, poor decision-making kind.

When I was twenty five and in a very experimental phase when it came to mind-altering substances, I was offered a pipe filled with powdered qualude and subsequently told it would be an experience unlike any other.

Believe me..........it was.................the most frightening, self-inflicted trauma I ever have experienced. How anyone can think that being unable to move for two hours straight is an experience to be embraced, I will never know.

Consequently, I never saw those low-lifes again and, it goes without saying, that I never again took anyone else's word regarding alternate experiences without doing my homework.

[RIII]

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Coul - what an awful experience. :smt056 I hope you get a great sleep tonight - one uninterrupted by dreams (unless they be good ones). :smack

Yoyo - what a timely intervention. I remember you and Karuba talking about this once, but can't find using the search key, so I think it may have been on the old bored.


Lexxicon, what a breach of trust. I'm glad you are wiser now.

[cloaked]

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Pulling out of a parking space today, and suddenly my sunroof tray decided to dump its payload of water down my back. :? I've really got to get my sunroof fixed, but a new gasket is about 70 dollars and I've already tried sealing it up so that it doesn't even pop up anymore. :?

[Cesare]

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I just learned that a good friend of mine was attacked and beaten by some drunken idiots yesterday...
And you know why? He was in Prague (of course, as he's been living there for a couple of years now) - in a pub - and those dickheads overheard him saying that he was from North Bohemia - and they disliked his dialect.
So that's why. That's why he got beaten and kicked.
That such scum walks the Earth is simply beyond me. I don't get it.

[Elizabeth]

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A licensing inspector from hell, has asked our sounds engineer to turn down the dB from 125-106. It?s a large venue for heaven sake. (one of many in the street) Drummers are at 110dB...without speakers. Bands are in an uproar, and just when we thought the day couldn?t get any worse, our manager, and friend was just caught on tape waltzing in at noon, (after hours) with about a dozen people?all helping themselves to the bar. The owners of the caf? next door, tell us it?s not the first time.

Cesare, it?s horrible that your friend was beaten over something so insignificant. I?ve witnessed many a bar room brawl, over absolutely nothing. The bouncers at my establishment try to keep a watchful eye? up stairs, downstairs, and in the toilets. It?s very difficult trying to judge the tolerance level of someone that?s intoxicated. You really don?t know when they?re going to snap. Generally, people are well behaved, or they?re out the door. I must say, we?ve had our moments over the years?



~Elizabeth

[RIII]

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ACesare, it?s horrible that your friend was beaten over something so insignificant.


~Elizabeth

Indeed it's horrible that your friend was beaten at all. :(

[ILyekkaKai]

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Reading some of the posts in here would be my lowlight of the day. :(