SuperBacon Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 18 minutes ago, scratchdj said: In said dreams, I feel in total control That's part of it, but a lucid dream becomes 'lucid' when you know you're dreaming, I believe. That's pretty handy though. Maybe practice and then you can dream of perfecting the 'hat' code Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted July 4, 2020 Author Moderators Share Posted July 4, 2020 1 hour ago, scratchdj said: I’ve never really thought too much about this until seeing the video above, but in my job as a software developer I’ll often have a particular puzzle to crack that I sometimes can’t solve immediately. On more than a few occasions, I’ve gone to bed having not solved a problem and then had a dream in which I write the exact code needed to do what I need to do. In said dreams, I feel in total control, as if I’m at my desk writing code for real. When I wake up, I’ll turn my PC on and write line-for-line the exact code from my dream and it always works. So that’s a bit odd now I think more about it. I'm constantly writing stuff in my sleep. I've sat bolt upright like in a movie before, suddenly having the perfect plot contrivance I've been struggling with (while awake) for months. I find this really sinister, like my brain's in control, even when I'm not conscious? It's too like Fight Club. What else is it getting up to? I leave notepads next to the bed, and often there's something scrawled in them I've no recollection of writing in the middle of the night; ideas for things I'm working on, ideas for new things to work on, jokes. Half the jokes I post on Twitter are jokes I dreamed I posted on Twitter. No wonder I'm so tired all the time, if I'm working while I'm asleep too. I do have a history of sleepwalking and weird sleep activity anyway, but I once found a message I'd left on the notes app of my Kindle that said "here in the future, we shake farts instead of hands." When I was writing my Charles Manson novel, I got up one morning to find a detailed suggestion I'd left myself on the computer in the middle of the night, about adding in some plot detail that had never occured to me when I was awake. "Sorry, officer, I must've been sleep-novel-writing again!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chris B Posted July 4, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted July 4, 2020 3 hours ago, Astro Hollywood said: "here in the future, we shake farts instead of hands." That is fucking phenomenal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CavemanLynn Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 4 hours ago, Astro Hollywood said: "here in the future, we shake farts instead of hands." Pretty sure that's on page one of the UKFF manifesto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 (edited) Shake hands and compare shits. Edited July 5, 2020 by The King Of Swing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CavemanLynn Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 13 minutes ago, The King Of Swing said: Shake hands and compare shits. ..., leave a good-looking corpse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Decided to dip back into the conspiracy side of YouTube and came across a Vice doc about "crisis actor" nutters. I managed four minutes, basically until it go to the couple in the thumbnail. Absolute goons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted September 30, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted September 30, 2020 "Crisis actors" and "false flags" is where I fell off the conspiracy theory train. I used to find them all fascinating, and at one point had plans with a mate to start a podcast looking at some of the wackier ones, but it was around the Boston bombing that I just couldn't do it any more. I used to find them fun, but there was something about seeing it all unfold in real time that made it profoundly depressing - seeing Twitter detectives circulating photos of innocent people as the "real" bomber, drawing red circles around arbitrary people on grainy photos and asking "why aren't the police arresting this man?!"....and then that soon grew into "this person looks vaguely like someone who was at another event, therefore it's an actor", and the whole false flag thing kicked in. It's so depressing, and infuriating, and I can't imagine being in the position of having lived through something horrific, or lost loved ones, and then having complete strangers on the internet insist that it never happened - and, not only that, but that there's some nefarious reason to pretend otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 30, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted September 30, 2020 i had the same feelings after the Boston Bombings, i remember a specific group of people i work who loved a joint and a conspiracy theory turning into internet detectives and dissecting photos for clues then sharing what they 'found' on facebook, it was all really weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 1 hour ago, BomberPat said: Crisis actors" and "false flags" is where I fell off the conspiracy theory train. Have you read “The Psychopath Test” by Jon Ronson? The bit about David Shayler and Rachel North is amazing. She was on the tube on 7/7 but he and his followers said she didn’t exist, so she went to one of their meetings. Long read in the link. Shayler could probably get a seat on Bournemouth council these days. https://erenow.net/biographies/the-psychopath-test-a-journey-through-the-madness-industry/8.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators neil Posted September 30, 2020 Moderators Share Posted September 30, 2020 The worst for me are the Sandy Hook false flag/crisis actors lot -Â claiming that the parents who lost their children to a fucking nut job shooting them up are "in on it" and the kids are alive and well. Overall the people who buy into those "theories" are a sick lot, but it takes a whole other level to goad parents with shit like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted September 30, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted September 30, 2020 the Jon Ronson thing gets it exactly right when it says the complete lack of empathy is utterly staggering. I try and remind myself, when encountering a lot of this stuff online, that a lot of the people involved are probably idiot kids and trolls. But there's always stark reminders that there are grown, otherwise intelligent, adults with real jobs, who can vote, that 100% believe in this shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 3 minutes ago, neil said: The worst for me are the Sandy Hook false flag/crisis actors lot - claiming that the parents who lost their children to a fucking nut job shooting them up are "in on it" and the kids are alive and well. Overall the people who buy into those "theories" are a sick lot, but it takes a whole other level to goad parents with shit like that. I know it’s separate the performer from the character onscreen and all that but this is why I could never cheer on Ronda Rousey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 2 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: Have you read “The Psychopath Test” by Jon Ronson? The bit about David Shayler and Rachel North is amazing. She was on the tube on 7/7 but he and his followers said she didn’t exist, so she went to one of their meetings. Long read in the link. Shayler could probably get a seat on Bournemouth council these days. https://erenow.net/biographies/the-psychopath-test-a-journey-through-the-madness-industry/8.php He also did this episode of This American Life about it too.  https://www.thisamericanlife.org/338/the-spokesman/act-one-0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndiRush Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 On 9/30/2020 at 1:24 PM, neil said: The worst for me are the Sandy Hook false flag/crisis actors lot -Â claiming that the parents who lost their children to a fucking nut job shooting them up are "in on it" and the kids are alive and well. Overall the people who buy into those "theories" are a sick lot, but it takes a whole other level to goad parents with shit like that. I seen this unfold the other day on twitter in regards to covid-19. Some 'covid is a hoax' people started telling someone that nobody dies from covid because it doesn't exist, the person said their mother had just died. The covid hoax gang then said she died of something else and the hospital are in on it framing it as a covid death. I think wrestling suffers from this with fans and performers alike in that the 'everything is a work' mindset can just spiral out of hand because the person is scared to admit they're wrong or can't face the reality of the situation being real so this becomes a coping mechanism for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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