Comments on: Tools for dream typing http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/ The blag of the webcomic Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:20:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: yalvac http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-23195 yalvac Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:07:24 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-23195 thanks thanks

]]> By: video http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-23156 video Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:52:20 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-23156 So, I don’t think I’ve ever dream-typed (well, maybe that would explain some college papers), but I have definitely been reading a book and dreamed several pages of text. I’ve also fallen asleep during movies, with my own plot line continuing in my dream, only to wake up later to be quite surprised. So, I don’t think I’ve ever dream-typed (well, maybe that would explain some college papers), but I have definitely been reading a book and dreamed several pages of text. I’ve also fallen asleep during movies, with my own plot line continuing in my dream, only to wake up later to be quite surprised.

]]> By: fun flicks http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-19228 fun flicks Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:09:14 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-19228 <strong>fun flicks...</strong> As you seem to know what your doing blogging wise, do you know what the best time of the week is to blog and have them read?... fun flicks…

As you seem to know what your doing blogging wise, do you know what the best time of the week is to blog and have them read?…

]]> By: Lee http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-17192 Lee Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:24:59 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-17192 I'm not sure if I could sleep-type, even in the shallow dream states outside REM, where the neurotransmitter paths to muscle action are not shut off. I think it would be interesting to map emotional states while I sleep and see if I could find ways of guiding my thoughts while asleep toward imagining enjoyable things. I have found it too easy in life during difficult times to have sleep become not an escape, but perhaps a practice ground for bad thoughts. I have used one of my own inventions to monitor and record nighttime <a href="http://HolisticTechLLC.com" rel="nofollow">teeth grinding and clenching</a>, which I assume is an emotional indicator. Are there EEG emotional indicators? It would be cool to be able to track emotions in REM, when the physical muscle manifestations are not available. I’m not sure if I could sleep-type, even in the shallow dream states outside REM, where the neurotransmitter paths to muscle action are not shut off. I think it would be interesting to map emotional states while I sleep and see if I could find ways of guiding my thoughts while asleep toward imagining enjoyable things. I have found it too easy in life during difficult times to have sleep become not an escape, but perhaps a practice ground for bad thoughts. I have used one of my own inventions to monitor and record nighttime teeth grinding and clenching, which I assume is an emotional indicator. Are there EEG emotional indicators? It would be cool to be able to track emotions in REM, when the physical muscle manifestations are not available.

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]]> By: wave2wave http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10716 wave2wave Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:02:03 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10716 I used to do a lot of mapping of small objects from aerial images into a GIS database, which meant clicking many points on polygons. It was pretty tedious and a couple of times I fell asleep while still clicking and would draw silly shapes. Sadly I deleted them as soon as I realized i was dreaming (usually by the fact that I was having a conversation with someone who shouldn't be there) and woke up. I used to do a lot of mapping of small objects from aerial images into a GIS database, which meant clicking many points on polygons. It was pretty tedious and a couple of times I fell asleep while still clicking and would draw silly shapes.

Sadly I deleted them as soon as I realized i was dreaming (usually by the fact that I was having a conversation with someone who shouldn’t be there) and woke up.

]]> By: tofer http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10693 tofer Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:04:31 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10693 woh... munroe... i hope you check these comments... i freaked out for a little, because i had a dream about jeanene garofalo, and that was the most random thing ever, and i thought it might have been a coincident occurence, but yours happened in may, and mine on january 10 (i was keeping a dream journal at the time) anyway, it's probably nothing magical, probably just chance, but it was at least worth mentioning. i think it would be an interesting experiment, though, to work on getting lucid (according to many, a dream journal helps, in which one rights down one's previous night's dreams), and then learning to type in the dream... maybe it could even be productive - getting work done while sleeping! how sweet... woh… munroe… i hope you check these comments…

i freaked out for a little, because i had a dream about jeanene garofalo, and that was the most random thing ever, and i thought it might have been a coincident occurence, but yours happened in may, and mine on january 10 (i was keeping a dream journal at the time)

anyway, it’s probably nothing magical, probably just chance, but it was at least worth mentioning.

i think it would be an interesting experiment, though, to work on getting lucid (according to many, a dream journal helps, in which one rights down one’s previous night’s dreams), and then learning to type in the dream… maybe it could even be productive - getting work done while sleeping! how sweet…

]]> By: How To Start A Blog http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10676 How To Start A Blog Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:00:42 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10676 <strong>How To Start A Blog...</strong> I couldn't understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting... How To Start A Blog…

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

]]> By: cybermom http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10120 cybermom Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:44:11 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10120 To Steph and a few others who mentioned paralysis during REM - you're right, almost. While we are paralyzed, sleepwalking can be an exception, as can Hypnogogic hallucinations. The deal is, REM is its own stage of sleep, and is supposed to kick in after deep sleep to ensure that paralysis takes place. Narcolepsy for instance, we can fall asleep anywhere from 1 to 100 times a day for various lengths of time, but we can drop into REM before that happens, and may be awake. Also, during periods of automatic behavior, while we are unconscious, we have passed the 'falling asleep' stage, straight to the unconscious stage just before REM, but still able to move. It's sucky, and yet fun. Gotta take the good with the bad I suppose. But no - you can move while you dream. It's unheard of because all the facts of narcolepsy and other sleep disorders are still rare. And nobody does any studies on it yet - because nobody understands it yet. Sigh... To Steph and a few others who mentioned paralysis during REM - you’re right, almost. While we are paralyzed, sleepwalking can be an exception, as can Hypnogogic hallucinations. The deal is, REM is its own stage of sleep, and is supposed to kick in after deep sleep to ensure that paralysis takes place. Narcolepsy for instance, we can fall asleep anywhere from 1 to 100 times a day for various lengths of time, but we can drop into REM before that happens, and may be awake. Also, during periods of automatic behavior, while we are unconscious, we have passed the ‘falling asleep’ stage, straight to the unconscious stage just before REM, but still able to move. It’s sucky, and yet fun. Gotta take the good with the bad I suppose. But no - you can move while you dream. It’s unheard of because all the facts of narcolepsy and other sleep disorders are still rare. And nobody does any studies on it yet - because nobody understands it yet. Sigh…

]]> By: cybermom http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10119 cybermom Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:37:57 +0000 http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/05/28/tools-for-dream-typing/#comment-10119 This was kind of cool. I've recently had issues with sleeptyping, being a pwn for 13 years. While it's not new to me.. I've learned recently that if you type a message you don't mean.. or are hallucinating about.. or in the middle of... and send it to someone you shouldn't - you are still responsible.. sigh. I highly recommend adding to your picture by locking up the mouse. That will allow the typing and you CAN'T hit send!! woohoo. Just more food for thought. Hey - Emporer Z - let me please tell you - NO - you DON'T. I've had what's known as hypnogogic hallucinations for 13 years - all 5 senses are active during the dream state, and I am awake and dreaming simultaneously, sometimes for a moment, sometimes for an entire 4 or 5 hour dream sequence. And, I can assure you, while some of it is cool (I LOVE flying), be very sure to understand that lucid dreaming is more realistic than what schizophrenics go through..... imagine being trapped in a nightmare. Imagine waking up from a nightmare, into a nightmare, into a nightmare - and at each stage, when you're sure you're finally awake and you get up to move around - and the unthinkable happens to you- and just before the most frightening thing you can imagine occurs, you wake up again.. lay there... and wonder if you're actually awake. Imagine hearing voices of those you love call out, talk to them... and nobody's there. Wake up and wonder why your family's in the living room making a dang rackit when you're trying to sleep - and you look at the clock to see it's 3:00 am... plus, now you have to lock every door and window air tight - because you can hear them open, witness someone coming in - and there may be no one there at all. It's fun sometimes - but i don't think you oughtta try it. GHB can cause it better than any other drug, and it is legal - but you gotta have a dang good reason to get it, since it's also known as the date rape drug and foundation for ecstasy. This was kind of cool. I’ve recently had issues with sleeptyping, being a pwn for 13 years. While it’s not new to me.. I’ve learned recently that if you type a message you don’t mean.. or are hallucinating about.. or in the middle of… and send it to someone you shouldn’t - you are still responsible.. sigh. I highly recommend adding to your picture by locking up the mouse. That will allow the typing and you CAN’T hit send!! woohoo. Just more food for thought.
Hey - Emporer Z - let me please tell you - NO - you DON’T. I’ve had what’s known as hypnogogic hallucinations for 13 years - all 5 senses are active during the dream state, and I am awake and dreaming simultaneously, sometimes for a moment, sometimes for an entire 4 or 5 hour dream sequence. And, I can assure you, while some of it is cool (I LOVE flying), be very sure to understand that lucid dreaming is more realistic than what schizophrenics go through….. imagine being trapped in a nightmare. Imagine waking up from a nightmare, into a nightmare, into a nightmare - and at each stage, when you’re sure you’re finally awake and you get up to move around - and the unthinkable happens to you- and just before the most frightening thing you can imagine occurs, you wake up again.. lay there… and wonder if you’re actually awake. Imagine hearing voices of those you love call out, talk to them… and nobody’s there. Wake up and wonder why your family’s in the living room making a dang rackit when you’re trying to sleep - and you look at the clock to see it’s 3:00 am… plus, now you have to lock every door and window air tight - because you can hear them open, witness someone coming in - and there may be no one there at all.
It’s fun sometimes - but i don’t think you oughtta try it. GHB can cause it better than any other drug, and it is legal - but you gotta have a dang good reason to get it, since it’s also known as the date rape drug and foundation for ecstasy.

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