h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Recent research shows that hearing voices is somewhat common. Not everyone who hears them seeks medical attention or admits it to anyone else...for obvious reasons.

I used to hear voices every night when I was a kid. I told them to shut up, I couldn't understand what they were saying, because I have tinnitis.

This apparently offended them, so they stopped.

I also get thinking-your-awake-when-you're-not from skipping a venlafaxine. It's notorious for its discontinuation effects. I can even wake up from the dream-awakeness and still be asleep, then wake up from that...and so on. I've had some freaky nights.

Have you ever seen the old film 'American Werewolf in London'? I found it truly frightening, due entirely to the false-awakening sequences.

Like that only more so. Not nice.

>> Not everyone who hears them seeks medical attention
or admits it to anyone else...for obvious reasons. <<

Yes this thread has been quite an eye-opener and a
bit of a relief to me. I have been talking here about
my voices and precognitive dreams for years and it's
not always been well rec'd or acknowledged. So I'm
awfully glad to see others are now 'fessing up.

Perhaps we can again soon have a thread where we can
speculate on meanings and causes. Not to ignore 2legs'
coalesences or Gnomon's repetitive geometries of anyone's
assimilation of noises or paulh's doggy briefcase but I'd
really love to know more about Dimitri's father's stool.


~jwf~

Me, too. Unfortunately, it never showed up again, although many other weird things did.

Does anybody besides me hallucinate disembodied URLs? No? Oh, well...

>> disembodied URLs <<

Y'mean just letters floating in the air?
Like the biblical reference of writing on the wall?
Gnomon had something going on with geometric patterns
that reminded me of a time when I would regularly see
random letters forming into short words on walls.

I have also been expanding (or becoming more aware of)
reading when dreaming, something I was seriously dissed
for in another thread. A few nights ago I read a long
posting on h2g2 in my dreams and thought I'd gotten up
to reply to it, but none of it was there in the morning.

<jwf~

, indeed. I can see that. We've got at least two AWW writers who keep pads by their beds for dream emergencies like that.

Yep, at times, I see strings of URLs on any surface light enough for them to show up - such as a pale wall. The funny thing is, they're erasing themselves and then re-writing themselves. Sort of like www.mene.mene.tekel, etc... Even more oddly, the print is too small for me to read, and I can't focus on it.

You know, Freud said the Irish were a lost cause. This must go for Scots-Irish Americans, as well.

>Perhaps we can again soon have a thread where we can
speculate on meanings and causes.<

please god no.

It'll just into one lot of people getting Dawkinesque..and another lot having all sorts of fixed spiritual type explanations.

Yes but now I see you said speculate...and if we can be playful about it...well and good..but I fear. Jesus you got dissed for dreaming reading.

I'm still quite wary of talking about certain things.

Squiggles:

>>that reminded me of a time when I would regularly see
random letters forming into short words on walls.

Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin?

You've been wading in the Balance, and found won-tons?

I frequently have amazinf dreams. I think I've had about every type of dream that's been mentioned in this thread. The most disturbing dreams have been the ones in which I win a klot of money, but can't take it with me when I wake up.

>> I win a klot of money, but can't take it with me when I wake up. <<

That's cuz ya cant take it with you... No wait it's
really cuz money cant buy happiness and be it ever so
humble there is no happiness like waking up to realise
there is yet another day to live.


~jwf~


*won-tons*

Damn. Now I'm hungry.

~jwf~

Yes I've had some pretty good dreams. Best was when I was about 18, and I was walking up this mountain beside two streams in very bright sunlight. One stream was very shallow with water weed..the water scooting over slabs rock. Right beside it was one that was a series of waterfalls and deep pools. In the pools were big fish...swimming round in the eddys.

I had this sense of some presence walking beside me. It was a brilliant feeling..and all the next day every time I thought about the dream I was filled with the same intense pleasurable feeling.

Fish and rivers have been recurring themes..but not so much these days..but the 'journey' moves on.

Defo these days I'm more interested in the subjective experience of these things..and have a more open mind..not fixed..that would be disingenuous on my part..but always learning and questioning..

Dreamt I was a penguin once. Only I owned a jet-ski. Me and the penguin Mrs were skidding round the ice floes, having a mint time, then I overturned the bugger and crashed it.

She got eaten by a seal.

Gutted.

Too much Pingu before bedtime?

Those skidoos are much heavier than they look. If he were to turn one over, I don't think a penguin would be able to lift it up again, not even an Emperor penguin.

An African emperor penguin or a European emperor penguin?

etc. etc.