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This device would use biological signs of distress such as
altered breathing patterns, breath chemistry, and skin
temperature to detect a nightmare state and wake you up.
The opposite idea
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[normzone, Jul 25 2010]
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How would the user be awoken ? A clammy hand, cold as the grave, on their arm ? The sound of a bat fluttering round the room, which suddenly changes to the soft step of patent leather shoes ? Groaning, clanking chains and rattling bones ? |
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If one had those signs, I'm wondering if they would already be started on their nightmare, therefore showing those signs...so rather than preventing them, you are waking them during it... or am I misunderstanding? |
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my thoughts exactly [xandram] |
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Why would anyone want to interrupt a perfectly good
nightmare?? |
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Anything preventing one from using this wonderful device during the day? I'm just saying... |
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//...pour noise on them...// So if I WERE to use it during the day, could I have my choice of noise, then? |
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(Things Not Going Well in a Staff Meeting <<< FIRE ALARM) |
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(Scary Movie <<< LOUD FARTING NOISES) |
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The paradox of the Arabian Nightmare: If you suffer in your
sleep, and have no memory of it in the morning, have you
really suffered? |
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The question is important, in the context of this idea,
because waking someone up in the middle of a dream* is the
best way to ensure they remember it. |
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*and keeping them awake for a while afterwards. |
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Personally, I miss nightmares, which I haven't had (or at least
remembered) for years. People go on rollercoasters and
jump out of aircraft specifically to feel terrified without
dying. Nightmares are the same. |
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LSD might help. More of a 'lost it in the wash' type
strategy, but hey why not? |
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is there a difference between a nightmare and a bad dream? I have weird dreams all of the time and enjoy remembering them all. still tasting the great chocolate I ate in last night's and wondering why I was frying eggs and putting them in plastic boxes... |
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Maybe your definition of a 'bad dream' is, well, bad. |
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My last nightmare involved hiding in a hospital with
Anthony Hopkins ala Silence of the Lambs, him forcing
me with a short blade to lie adjacent to a dead body
under the covers so that the nurse could take a real
pulse, then jumping out of the only window in the room
and running to a nearby gas station where the zombie
attendant jumped at my face with a bloody dog-like
mouth of teeth and eating my face until I woke up. |
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Sorry if the visuals impart any likewise dream states. |
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makes my eggs look tame. LOL |
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I still dream vividly and have the occasional nightmare, but I never have nightmares like the ones I had as a child. I would wake up from those ones absolutely livid, but still half-asleep so I would see ghostly figures in my room like a headless woman going through various movements, or a young girl who would stand there staring then move abruptly towards my bed. Sometimes I would completely wake up when this happened and stare bug-eyed into the darkness hoping they wouldn't reappear. Other times I would close my eyes tightly and then fall back asleep into the nightmare I was having. Those were probably night terrors, rather than nightmares, but I'd like to experience them again. |
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that kind of experience could explain ghosts. |
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What [rcarty] said is true for me, also. As a kid, the nightmares scared me, as an adult, I find them entertaining!! |
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//wondering why I was frying eggs and putting them in
plastic boxes...// |
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That's strange. I was wondering who left all these fried eggs
in boxes. |
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