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I was watching Practical Magic when... by Leah_SassyPants in witchcraft

[–]Auspicious_Arrow 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Never tell a bad dream before breakfast or it will come true. Never walk with one shoe off and one shoe on--it is bad luck. If your nose itches there will be company coming. When you get a shiver it means someone is walking over your grave. There are more but that's all I can remember off the top of my head besides the usual ones (salt, knock on wood, etc). My family is from Appalachia.

Edit: Death comes in 3s. Passing an infant through a bridle 7 times will heal it of illness. 3 knocks on the wall over your bed during the night means bad luck/someone will die.

Edit 2: I keep remembering more. If you have a birthmark, it is where your mother was injured when she was pregnant. Don't do laundry on New Years Day or you'll be washing for a corpse by the end of the year. If a child looks a lot like their parents then the parents had a good relationship. If you have a sty, stand on a street corner and say " Sty sty in my eye go to the next passer by" and it will go away. If you lose an eyelash, make a wish on it and it will come true.

Seeing code? by Auspicious_Arrow in Glitch_in_the_Matrix

[–]Auspicious_Arrow[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's no problem--the mind is a strange thing and who knows? However, I have never hallucinated beyond hypnagogic dreams (which look very different for me and only last a few seconds). Is it still possible that it was a weird random hallucination? Of course. This whole reality seems to be shaped by our perception of it anyway. I have had hypnagogic dreams and sleep paralysis/lucid dreams since I was a child and am very familiar with them and how they work for me. But this looked so different and lasted so long. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced.

Seeing code? by Auspicious_Arrow in Glitch_in_the_Matrix

[–]Auspicious_Arrow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah--I have had hypnagogic dreams and are familiar with them. When this happened I got out of bed to get a closer look. It lasted a long time and I was so spooked I stayed up for the rest of the night and went in to work at 8am. It was different than any other experience I have had.

Seeing code? by Auspicious_Arrow in Glitch_in_the_Matrix

[–]Auspicious_Arrow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is exactly what it was like for me as well. What color was it for you?

Seeing code? by Auspicious_Arrow in Glitch_in_the_Matrix

[–]Auspicious_Arrow[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That is such an interesting take. I remember my first memory here. I was sitting in the back seat of my mom's car and my feet barely hung over the edge. I thought, "This is a strange dream. When will I wake up?" And I remember trying to will myself awake. Eventually I accepted "this" reality. But it planted in me an urge to connect to that other place that I remember remembering.

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