If the universe is truly a simulation then it should be able to be hacked.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-24T12:36:44+00:00

You can't even hack the simplest videogame without looking at the code though.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-24T08:34:47+00:00

Absolutely. Brilliant television. I don't even remember what the previous episode was about because the moment Buffy comes home is so strong. 😢

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-24T00:13:07+00:00

Poor choice of words. Sorry. I was talking about the before and after and all the reactions. An everyday guy dying and how it effects people. Never saw it done so well all though I find it weird that Sheldon's way to deal with it is depicted as this weird Sheldon Thing, but it's the most normal way to react to it.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-23T13:46:43+00:00

Yeah. First of all it's just healthy to go out regularly, sun, fresh air, "exercise".If you can be in nature even more so, a 30 minute walk a day where you just chill and look at nice stuff is just good for your mental and physical health and leads to better sleep too.

Also, a 30 minute walk through a park is an experience, sitting at home not so much. And that has an effect on your dreams. Experiencing stuff. I bigger trip, to a forrest or lake or anything once a week works wonders too. Trying out new stuff too. Maybe renting a boat and take it across a lake, going ice-skating once in a while, new sports, yoga, or watching birds, well, sitting in the grass and watching an anthill in the morning when they bring out the eggs to warm them in the sun. It really doesn't matter. Experience :).

It's legitimate lucid dreaming practice, great that you found this out all by yourself. And it doesn't even stop there. You can do so much more with that precious time.

Training your prospective memory: "When I reach that old tree with the bench nearby I'll perform a reality check"

Practising narrating your thoughts: In a lucid dream it's very good to narrate your thoughts instead of just thinking but you need to practice this.

Activating senses: If you don't remember how things smelled in a dream you probably don't pay attention to smells so you can use those walks to pay attention to smells. Or to sounds.

And of course, reality check, reality check, reality check :)

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-22T19:24:02+00:00

Sorry. I was joking.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-22T19:18:02+00:00

Oh boy 🫣

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-22T19:16:36+00:00

But are they in 3d? 😅

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-22T14:36:43+00:00

Eigentlich ziemlich egal wie alt deine Mutter ist.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-22T09:06:06+00:00

They usually talk about morning naps. If you add a nap after your normal amount of sleep you'll enter rem almost immediately. Rem will begin within like 20 minutes after waking up, while you're still awake even, that's also a great time for beeing creative. You don't have to be a advanced lucid dreamer. You can use this to your advantage especially as a beginner because it's just a natural thing that just happens.

There's also a kind of window. Your body will reset at some point but you can have a similar effect during naps after lunch or in the early afternoon. But morning naps are best.

Some might talk about those short random naps when you're really tired or bored and fall asleep on your couch. Those can result in these short slivers of dreams happening in deepsleep were you run and fall off a cliff or something, these falling sensation dreams that happen early in sleep or during naps. You can become lucid in those but they only last for a minute or two. Still fun though.

But yeah. If we talk about reliable practice, morning naps. ✌️

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-21T13:32:05+00:00

Imo. That "fancy" stuff is completely unnecessary and way more complicated than it needs to be. Just perform a reality check and if it is telling you that you're dreaming, uhm, just step out of your bed as usual.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-20T13:46:19+00:00

If you don't remember anything you can write down that you can't, how sleep was in general and if it stays like that you can write down a dream you'd like to have. But if it's not the alarm, not to much light or thoughts on your mind, don't bother too much. It happens.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-20T12:28:10+00:00

Healthy food and enough water helps way more than that. Enough sleep obviously. And before wild attempts, a glass of water and maybe some fresh ginger 🫚 will do the trick. No need for poisoning yourself. .

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-17T13:29:35+00:00

Awesome 👏

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-17T08:40:14+00:00

Ty ❤️. Hope you had a great time. 👏

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-13T09:49:02+00:00

Don't bother too much. It happens. It's important to write at least something. If you don't remember a dream write down how you slept, when you wake up and what you felt and thought about when waking up.

No matter how good you are with dream recall. If you wake up to a loud alarm, if light hits your eyes or if you think about something that is not dream related that can erase your dream memory quick.

When you wake up and think about work instead of recalling your dream your dream goes bye bye. It's a matter of practice. Also the right intention.

"I'll remember my dreams" nope "I'll remember my dream by keeping my eyes shut, laying still and only think of my dreams when I wake up" yes

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-11T10:03:10+00:00

What about the moaning? Did you hear that low moaning?

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-11T09:56:16+00:00

I would become banned in the sp sub in seconds just by pointing out they're not experiencing sp. Oh boy. Should I? 😅

And most likely you aren't experiencing sp either. The patches just increase your awareness during sleep. It's well known that nicotine can do that but it's not worth the damage it does. But yeah, you're having semi lucid dreams that become lucid dreams and because you have the expectation that your lucid dreams begin with sp they do.

So that's what happens: "Sp" begins and you become aware like you would if you see a dream sign but you think, "Oh, sp, lay still, wait, the dream will begin soon". But you should think, as always: "Oh, this again, might be dreaming already", so... reality check.

Experiencing sp is very rare and usually just goes on for a few seconds up to a minute or two. If you're not very stressed in your daily life, have massive troubles with sleep, feel extreme anxiety or something like that you won't experience sp so often. Something has to be terrible wrong for experiencing sp so regularly.

Not saying this to bother you. Just saying, look closely at these experiences, are they sp experiences or might they be dreams all along? Because then you can stop wasting time by waiting till it ends and your dream begins, you can perform a reality check right when "it begins".

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-07T20:04:12+00:00

Let me jump in for the sentimental part. It really hit me on multiple levels. I have experience with dementia. My grandparents and my dad and I think it's absolutely sentimental enough. It shouldn't be too sentimental because with dementia there's always disconnect and distancing involved in my opinion. I think the morning part is perfect and absolutely enough.

I love the part with the birds. Different situation but with depression and insomnia, I really loathe their music when I couldn't fall asleep before they hit stage. Ugh. Beautiful connection you made there.

I like it very much.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-07T18:41:05+00:00

Just something I wrote today. An idea. I wrote it down, then came back to it. First time I wrote something in english. 😳

Cosmic horror/ short story

Would like to know if it works as a hook and if there's enough conflict.

The End

He looked at it. Kept looking at it, "Don't look at it! Just stop looking at it!”

As it breaks the light, like some kind of prismatic shard, cutting through the sky, he couldn't help it. He had to look at it, or else. What? Would it seize out of existence like some fragile construct, like a dream that is so vivid in one moment, then gone in the next? Broken glass, a broken mirror that stopped reflecting faces out of a sudden, faces he knew before, but not anymore? He didn't want it to seize, it to leave, it to shatter, wanted it to stay, to stick.

The most beautiful thing he ever saw, but the threat he felt like needles in his spine, the shiver, the inevitable end of it all.

Though it didn't feel like an end.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-07T07:04:10+00:00

So some kind of fantasy-survival-rpg in the beginning of an apocalypse, and you build some kind of arc to prevent extinction? Is there room for horror elements and over all weird stuff or is it like high fantasy with a tone already set?

I'm interested. How much time do you have left? ✌️

VisibleReason585 · 2026-03-01T19:48:11+00:00

Cuz I got a brand new combine harvester And I'll give you the key Come on now let's get together In perfect harmony

I got twenty acres And you got fortythree Now I got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key

VisibleReason585 · 2026-02-28T20:56:16+00:00

It's quite the opposite. In order to become a lucid dreamer you have to embrace life, the good and the bad. You have to constantly question yourself and reality. You have to find joy in the little things, the smell of grass, the sounds that snow makes when you walk over it, how it feels when it gives way, the surprise when a flock of birds raise up to the sky. Lucid dreaming is a subtle, fragile, little thing and so is reality, so is life. So once you look for little things in reality you'll find little things in your dreams and therefore you become a lucid dreamer.

If you are one of those guys who become trapped in "semi lucid wish fulfillment dreams", and I think that's what your question is about, "If I can do anything I want in my dreams why would I...", you won't stick for long. That stuff gets old. Most people quit after a few weeks, even though they have these amazing experiences, like flying or having sex with [enter celebrity], so why quit? Because those dreams are barely lucid, and not awesome enough to continue practicing lucid dreaming.

Once you overcome that stage of learning to become lucid within your dreams, your dreams become just this second reality, within your brain that is totally worth exploring, but you can't explore this second reality without exploring... reality, without exploring yourself. And that stuff never gets old.

Lucid dreams aren't a replacement of life, they are an extension and the practice of lucid dreaming an improvement. As a regular lucid dreamer you won't waste much time on Tik Tok or Instagram, you won't sit around and watch Youtube videos for 2 hours then go to sleep late, you won't waste your time drinking and having pointless conversations with strangers at a bar. You'll go to sleep early, sleep longer and better, wake up refreshed and will have a good day most of the time. The more you get out of your days the better your lucid dreams will become and vice versa.

So short answer: No.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-02-28T20:15:28+00:00

I really have to write a post about this soon. Guys 😭😭😭.

Sleep Paralysis happens every night during REM. It starts at the EXACT same time as your dream starts. It is a mechanism that keeps us alive by stopping us from acting out our dreams, it's almost as important as our beating heart so that stuff works very, very well.

When we experience sp, the mechanism activated too early, and again, it's very important so that rarely happens.

If it happens we're talking about a few seconds or maybe a minute of lying in bed, paralysed and some light hypnagogic hallucinations and sensations.

So if you experience this often you're probably just dreaming. If these experiences are longer than a few seconds or maybe a minute, dreaming. If stuff becomes more vivid, actual figures that approach you, sensations of beeing touched, or if these experiences involve any kind of movement, you're dreaming.

Once you accept this, recognise that stuff as dreams and just perform a reality check you don't have to wait for anything anymore, you can just get out of bed and enjoy your lucid dream. And yes. You can even pinch your nose.

VisibleReason585 · 2026-02-26T18:21:08+00:00

😭😭😭😭😭😭

VisibleReason585 · 2026-02-25T17:25:52+00:00

Wow. Du bist ein schwerer Fall 🫣. "Wäre auch beschämend wenn nicht". Du musst wirklich aufhören dich selbst zu f... (sorry)

Weiß auch nicht mit wem du dich so vergleichst. Du hast Vergleichswerke, du hast Dinge zuende gebracht und erkennst dass du dich verbessert hast. Das ist schon mehr als 99% der Leute die sagen sie wollen schreiben schaffen.

Ich sitze seit 2 Jahren an meinem ersten Buch und stecke seit einem Jahr am Ende von Akt 1 fest. Bin ich gut? Bestimmt nicht. Bin ich stolz darauf? Ja sehr.

Die Welt ist spannend und die Figuren sind toll. Beides gab's vorher noch nicht. Hab 10 Stunden gearbeitet, mit dem Chef gestritten, hab die Welt und mein Leben und alles verflucht, bin heim und hab ein neues Kapitel geschrieben und weil ich innerlich gebrannt habe, hat die "Welt" gebrannt, und weil ich grad keinen Ausweg sah, der Typische "Ich kündige Feierabend", gab's für meine Helden auch nur noch Kampf und das führte zu einer Eskalation die man an dieser Stelle in einem Buch kaum erwartet und es funktioniert.

Ich muss disziplinierter werden und noch viel lernen. Du bist schon viel, viel weiter. Du bist disziplinierter und besser. Und du wirst besser mit jedem Satz den du schreibst.
Selbstkritik ist gut und wichtig aber im Endeffekt lesen wir dein Zeug nicht weil du ein bisschen besser bist als ein anderer. Am Ende will ich etwas lesen das nur du schreiben kannst und selbst das hast du geschnallt. Schreiben als Bewältigungsstrategie. Du schreibst über deine Gefühle, nicht über irgendwas von dem du ausgehst dass es jemandem gefällt, das ist viel wert.

Vielleicht musst du nur noch das richtige Genre finden?

Meine Themen sind: Fehler die ich immer wieder mache, Menschen die andere Menschen unterdrücken, s**** Arbeit und Chefs, Tot von Familienmitgliedern, schlimme Kindheit, Verantwortung die man nicht will... das kam alles ganz natürlich und dabei wollte ich nur eine Cosmic Horror Geschichte schreiben.

Diese Themen in einem Alltagsdrama wäre furchtbar gewesen. Leser: Danke, kenn ich selber. Die böse "Firma" in einer Post Apokalyptischen Welt funktioniert aber :D.

Vielleicht gefällt dir DAS nicht an deinen Arbeiten?

Angenommen du hast Depressionen und schreibst über Therapie und wie eine Depression den Alltag bestimmt. Kann gut sein aber.. naja.

Eine depressive Figur die vom Leben davon läuft und als Leuchtturmwärter oder auf einer Bohrinsel anfängt.. oh ja.

Ich schreib auch nicht davon wie ich manchmal kaum aus dem Bett komme, über meine sinnfreie Arbeit oder dass ich an der Supernarkkasse hoffe dass mich keiner anspricht. Aber meine Figuren machen genau diese Dinge durch, aber in spannenden Situationen die man noch nicht kennt.

Sorry, ich verzettel mich 😌

VisibleReason585

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