And I don't even know why I modified this monster post halfway thru with that "request" at the top for any sort of serious answerz since I'm going to be gone at work all day and won;'t even be able to really read this shit.
So just...carry on. Ignore all that I guezz
Posting for an hour starting at 3 something AM and getting lost in your own ILXed head: dream or nightmare?
― Vichitravirya XI, Friday, 13 May 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
In this dream play, as in his former dream play "To Damascus," the Author has sought to reproduce the disconnected but apparently logical form of a dream. Anything can happen; everything is possible and probable. Time and space do not exist; on a slight groundwork of reality, the imagination spins and weaves new patterns made up of memories, experiences, unfettered fancies, absurdities and improvisations.The characters are split, double and multiply; they evaporate, crystallise, scatter and converge. But a single consciousness holds sway over them all- that of the dreamer. For him there are no secrets, no incongruities, no scruples and no law. He neither condemns nor acquits, but only relates, and since on the whole, there is more pain than pleasure in the dream, a tone of melancholy, and of compassion for all living things, runs through the swaying narrative. Sleep, the liberator, often appears as a torturer, but when pain is at its worst, the sufferer awakes- and is thus reconciled with reality. For however agonising real life may be, at this moment, compared with the tormenting dream, it is a joy.
― tzatziki n pita (steph jam), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link
No wait. I'm just summarizing Unfaithful.
I suggest some DMT. *shrug*
― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 4 June 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― kiki ramone, Sunday, 5 June 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
hurting, your girlfriend sounds cool.
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 5 June 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 5 June 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― moley, Sunday, 5 June 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link
...or wait, i mean to say that i have hairy nipples!! don't mock or denigrate me!!
― Vichitravirya XI, Sunday, 5 June 2005 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I hate reading virtually everything I've written in the past - except, for some reason, ILE posts.
― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 5 June 2005 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― moley, Sunday, 5 June 2005 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Haha, I'm in the kitchen, and I hear her calling out something that sounds like a question. I walk into the bedroom, and, appearing to be fully awake she asks "The P is poofy?" and I say "What?" and she says, grinning, "The P is poofy again?" and I say "What does that mean?" and she says "It's poofy!" looking like a happy toddler and goes back to sleep.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 6 August 2007 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
what the hell ever happened to Vichitravirya XI anyway
― deeznuts, Monday, 6 August 2007 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Got taken by aliens for having too much knowledge.
― stevienixed, Monday, 6 August 2007 06:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I still think the fibonacci furniture rearrangement thing is really damn awesome :D
― Trayce, Monday, 6 August 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i used to sleep walk/talk on a nightly basis when i was a kid, mostly (i think) due to stress. one time, my mum came into my room and found me at the foot of my bed and when she asked me what i was doing, i told her i was "trying to find the pictures for the tv". another time, i was sharing a room with my older bro and he had come home late one night only to find me sitting up in bed with my eyes wide open. he started talking to me but i didn't respond. he thought i was just being a goof but quickly realised something wasn't right. he went and got my parents, and they couldn't wake me up - i just sat there staring straight ahead and apparently not blinking (altho i think that's probably a gross exaggeration) for about 15mins. my parents thought i was possessed. eventually i just lay back down and closed my eyes.
another time, when i was a bit older, i woke up, standing naked under a cold shower with my mother screaming in my face. pretty traumatic. stupid woman never learned after all those years that you should NEVER try to wake someone while they'll sleepwalking - it's incredibly frightening. especially if you're in a cold shower.
― Rubyredd, Monday, 6 August 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I've always wanted to do the Linda Blair routine. Wouldn't that be utterly cool? Just y'know, go up 'n' down on the bed. Not necessarily spin my head or anything like that.
― stevienixed, Monday, 6 August 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
When she was conscious, she explained to me that she thought I had "rearranged the room according to the fibonacci sequence." -- Hurting (Hurtingchie...), May 13th, 2005 5:08 PM. (later)
No, THAT'S some fucked up shit. Like, I can't even get my head around the concept. -- Sasha
No, you're both wrong. It's unbelievably sexy. Hurting, you should marry her.
-- moley
hurting 2 - you DID end up marrying her, right?
― Rubyredd, Monday, 6 August 2007 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Sod the exorcism, record her rambles and use 'em as samples in some wikkid choons man! -- Trayce (trayce), Friday, May 13, 2005 3:43 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link
yes i love this
― Surmounter, Monday, 6 August 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck yeah I married her ; )
― Hurting 2, Monday, 6 August 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome :)
moley to thread: tell me who i'm gonna end up married to!
― Rubyredd, Monday, 6 August 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is so cute. your wife sounds rad, hurting!
― bell_labs, Monday, 6 August 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I can totally understand the concept now. What a difference two years makes.
― S-, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, I used to do something like this. My dad would sometimes pass room at night and find me sitting up in bed, eyes open with a crazed grin on my face. He'd tell me to lie down and go back to sleep and I would.
I also had a habit of laughing in my sleep. I guess it runs in the family because I've heard my little brother do it. It's both adorable and creepy.
― lindseykai, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I am glad there's a witness to the poofiness! P was getting overlooked for real.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I forgot to add that a couple of weeks ago she woke up and said, "Mar Mar Mar...SHMAR!" She then told me, "That's what the kids say."
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 24 January 2008 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, didn't really *wake up* obv
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 24 January 2008 04:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Har Mar Supershmar?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 January 2008 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Mar Mar Mar...SHMAR!" She then told me, "That's what the kids say."
"Cloning. Lots of it."
awesome
― latebloomer, Thursday, 24 January 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
never let this woman go
― latebloomer, Thursday, 24 January 2008 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
For a minute I really thought that her Bronx first graders had started saying "mar mar mar...shmar!"
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 24 January 2008 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha I'm gonna get killed for this if he reads it, but my bf is a notorious sleep talker (and sleep um.. other things but lets not go there). The other night we'd dozed off while Aphex was still on the stereo in the other room and, thinking he was still half awake, I mumbled we should maybe turn it off and sleep properly.
He then proceeded to grab his shirt and try to put his feet through it like it was a pair of pants. He kept at it for some time while I giggled and said "wtf are you doing, thats a shirt not your pants", and he just got frustrated and kept trying. Eventually he gave up and put the shirt on properly, but then told me it was like a metaphor, or something equally nonsensical as an explanation. When I said I still didnt get wtf he was on about he goes "oh this is so frustrating! *sigh!*" and went back to sleep. Tee hee.
― Trayce, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
omg abbott to thread.
― kenan, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i have also done weird shit in my sleep, but i don't think i hold a candle to my friend jeff, who is a sometime ilxor, so i'll let him tell you himself if he wants to.
― kenan, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link
This sounds like the beginning of a Twilight Zone episode about a record producer with an uncanny ability to uncover new sounds that the kids will like. (multi xpost)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link
jackballs.
― kenan, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think I can compete with the crocfarmer/hogbutcher tmi/cio tag team so I'm out.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:10 (sixteen years ago) link
oh god i'm going to MISS HIM!
― kenan, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahaha kenan I have woken my boyfriend up by SCREAMING random shit and jumping out of bed. As you know. But I don't think I ever mentioned the v endearing thing he did once in his sleep: he started by doing this rapid air smooching, like kissing the air ultra fast 30 times in as many seconds. Then he started making these sweet, satisfied sounding descending pitches: "Hu-um, hah-hum, ha-hum, hmm-um," and then the same thing an octave higher: he did like a whole scale of them & started over!
― Abbott, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i want to watch a youtube video of that so bad
― kenan, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I ran really fast out of bed once at 3 am or so, expecting to see a Christmas tree and stockings and gifts. But there weren't any. I was so baffled. Where did they all go? What were we going to do for Christmas morning?
It turns out it was MARCH. I was 22 at the time.
― Abbott, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
one of the reasons you rock: you go TOTALLY FUCKING NUTS every night in your sleep.
YOU'RE ON THE LOOSE WIG!
― kenan, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Me? Or the generic "you" as in 'you guys' or 'the human race'?
My dad has a lot of dreams about Saved By The Bell! Seriously, talking about dreams with him is like getting crap fanfic read out loud.
― Abbott, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link
the loose wig
― kenan, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link
That is the best fucking thing I've ever heard!
― Abbott, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:29 (sixteen years ago) link
a friend of mine from work takes zombie movies too seriously and has had dreams that her mom tried to eat her...
nowhere near as cool as what you guys are talking about but blah....
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a whole record. Del Close. Allegedly one of Brian Wilson's favorites. I'll sendspace it to you.
― kenan, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I only go nuts if I fall asleep sitting up
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:33 (sixteen years ago) link
abbott, check yr email
― kenan, Thursday, 24 January 2008 05:49 (sixteen years ago) link
[rod dreher voice] Chelsea Manning is deluded, as there’s no such thing as “being trans”. now plz excuse me, I need to go cast some Harry Potter spells on my friend’s wife so she will poop out the fearsome demon Belphegor pic.twitter.com/1IbTzzmlLV— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) November 15, 2018
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
krang otm as ever
― the Stanley Kubrick of testicular torsion (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
how long does an exorcism take?
http://imgur.com/BBzdsiNl.png
― mick signals, Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
The book Hostage to the Devil is crammed with useful info. How can you tell if you have a demon? "Violent physical transformations seem sometimes to make the lives of the possessed akind of hell on earth. Their normal processes of secretion and elimination are saturated with inexplicable wrackings and exaggeration."
― mick signals, Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
sounds like my teenage years
― the Stanley Kubrick of testicular torsion (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Actually thinking about how fucked this exorcism shit is. This is most likely a woman with schizophrenia or some other mental condition that leads to her not sharing consensus reality, shall we say, and they're telling her "it's because you're possessed by a malevolent supernatural force", should be criminalized tbh.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
to be fair exorcisims are exceedingly rare, plus how the fuck do you know
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
dreher seems to have recounted the story of the couple in question before:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/nathan-story-occult-sabrina/
a sick, sick man
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 November 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
Mind you, Nathan is one of the least woo-woo friends I have. Again, he works as what you might call a “symbolic analyst” in a very worldly occupation, and lives in one of the biggest and most secular cities in America. He’s been a faithful Catholic for as long as I’ve known him, but not especially interested in that mystical side of the faith.“Once you’ve seen reality through the eyes of spiritual warfare,” he told me yesterday, “you can’t go back. It’s everywhere.”He told me other detailed stories, including accounts of bizarre, poltergeisty things happening in their apartment, and his wife being unable to stand the presence of blessed objects (a classic sign of possession). Again, readers: if you knew these people, Nathan and his wife, you would be even more shocked by all this than you are now. This is the kind of family that takes European vacations, and lives a sophisticated cosmopolitan life. And yet this horror has overtaken them. The wife goes through periods in which she hears foul blasphemies, and feels compelled to commit suicide. In the exorcism sessions, Nathan says the demons, under compulsion from the exorcist, speak of these things — in particular, how they intend to destroy Nathan’s wife, and her family life.
“Once you’ve seen reality through the eyes of spiritual warfare,” he told me yesterday, “you can’t go back. It’s everywhere.”
He told me other detailed stories, including accounts of bizarre, poltergeisty things happening in their apartment, and his wife being unable to stand the presence of blessed objects (a classic sign of possession). Again, readers: if you knew these people, Nathan and his wife, you would be even more shocked by all this than you are now. This is the kind of family that takes European vacations, and lives a sophisticated cosmopolitan life. And yet this horror has overtaken them. The wife goes through periods in which she hears foul blasphemies, and feels compelled to commit suicide. In the exorcism sessions, Nathan says the demons, under compulsion from the exorcist, speak of these things — in particular, how they intend to destroy Nathan’s wife, and her family life.
― omar little, Thursday, 15 November 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
Kronsteen1963 says:October 3, 2018 at 2:00 pmIn the summer of 2000, my father-in law passed away. He was a devout Christian and spent the last 6 weeks of his life at his home under Hospice care. The day after we brought him home, he began to see things. He would look out his bedroom window and complain that he saw 3 men standing in his garden. They weren’t doing anything except staring at his house. We looked out the window and saw nothing. He insisted that they were there and asked us to chase them away because they frightened him.Later that day, we had some friends over to his house to visit him. During dinner, he pointed towards a friend and asked, “Who is he? I don’t recognize him.” We replied, “That’s our friend Kyle, you know him.” He replied, “Yes, I know Kyle. But who is standing next to him?” There was no one there. We told Dad that we couldn’t see anyone. I asked Dad if this person frightened like the three in the garden. He replied, “No, he doesn’t frighten me at all.”What did my father-in-law see? I’m sure rationalists have an easy explanation – a dying old man who is having hallucinations. But, he wasn’t drugged up or losing his mind. Until the last two weeks, he was a lucid as you or I, and we had numerous conversations about all sorts of issues.As a Christian, I have my own ideas of what my father-in-law saw. I believe this stuff is real. The Bible says it is. Jesus, his disciples, and Paul all cast out demons. I fully understand why an atheist would think this is nonsense, but have a tough time understanding why a Christian would.[NFR: It is common for people in the last days of life to see figures who are invisible to the rest of us — usually people they knew in life, who have since died. Talk to hospice nurses. It’s also in the literature. I don’t think there is necessarily anything sinister about this stuff. Though my father’s hospice nurse did tell me that once she had a patient who screamed in his final moments that demons were dragging him to Hell. It unnerved her. He was an Episcopal priest, she said. — RD]
Later that day, we had some friends over to his house to visit him. During dinner, he pointed towards a friend and asked, “Who is he? I don’t recognize him.” We replied, “That’s our friend Kyle, you know him.” He replied, “Yes, I know Kyle. But who is standing next to him?” There was no one there. We told Dad that we couldn’t see anyone. I asked Dad if this person frightened like the three in the garden. He replied, “No, he doesn’t frighten me at all.”
What did my father-in-law see? I’m sure rationalists have an easy explanation – a dying old man who is having hallucinations. But, he wasn’t drugged up or losing his mind. Until the last two weeks, he was a lucid as you or I, and we had numerous conversations about all sorts of issues.
As a Christian, I have my own ideas of what my father-in-law saw. I believe this stuff is real. The Bible says it is. Jesus, his disciples, and Paul all cast out demons. I fully understand why an atheist would think this is nonsense, but have a tough time understanding why a Christian would.
[NFR: It is common for people in the last days of life to see figures who are invisible to the rest of us — usually people they knew in life, who have since died. Talk to hospice nurses. It’s also in the literature. I don’t think there is necessarily anything sinister about this stuff. Though my father’s hospice nurse did tell me that once she had a patient who screamed in his final moments that demons were dragging him to Hell. It unnerved her. He was an Episcopal priest, she said. — RD]
― omar little, Thursday, 15 November 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
Mind you, Nathan is one of the least woo-woo friends I have. Again, he works as what you might call a “symbolic analyst” in a very worldly occupation, and lives in one of the biggest and most secular cities in America.
love these bits he always puts as a preamble that are implicitly saying "this person isn't a bumbling rube from buttfuck nowhere therefore this deeply superstitious and irrational behaviour of his can't be put down to lack of sophistication, but must instead be grounded in fact"
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 November 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
fuck i shouldnt have opened this thread in the dark
― unproven (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 November 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
u kno wut they say
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 15 November 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
This is the kind of family that takes European vacations
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 16 November 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
Probably picked up some kind of evil infection when they were over there.
― mick signals, Friday, 16 November 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
Love the use of “Again, readers” there — it really adds to the atmosphere and sense that this is an insane man who believes he’s privy to insider occult intel.
― omar little, Friday, 16 November 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link
Did I never outline the time B sleepwalked into the kitchen one morning (there had, to be fair, been a LOT of drinking the night before) and proceed to ramble to me in a flawless Irish accent about how he had to be sure they'd cut the RED wire, and not the BLUE wire, or else the whole thing would blow up, and we had to hurry or the others'd be after us.
It was like he was channeling someone else and was reaaaally disconcerting.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 16 November 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
Did he pee on the rug right after that?
― pplains, Friday, 16 November 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
Thankfully no.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 16 November 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
before, then
― mh, Friday, 16 November 2018 05:31 (five years ago) link
Probably my favourite ILX thread, the phrases "did the envelope pengalope" and "is there bingling", will never leave me.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:36 (three years ago) link
the fibonacci sequence is my fav
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:46 (three years ago) link
Days when i wonder whether i need to summon a demon for my wife but that's another thread
― cpt otm (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
ive a couple sleep-talking stories i hadn't recounted itt
my ex-wife, still sleeping, once woke me up at about 6am to ask me "can i taunt (sic) you to a chicken pizza?"
my friend jonny, sleeping in a travel lodge while the rest of us were still awake from all the drugs, turned over in bed, sat up, and shouted "Kelly Clarkson".
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
didn't sleep talk, and i never have night terrors, but a few times in dreams where it appears i'm going to get stung, bitten, etc by an animal (which happens a lot), i've actually thrown myself out of bed.
one of these times i was dreaming I was fleeing a shitload of bees (enough to kill me) and I was jumping into the water to escape them and in the process I actually rolled out of my bed and faceplanted my cheek onto the oak dresser next to me, woke up bleeding.
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 February 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
I'd forgotten about B being sad about catbus leaving the bed, hahahaa.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 5 February 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
B, in his sleep: “I think I’m going to go lie down now”.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link