hit me up on X please…thanks!
I have two accounts, so don’t always check often. I kind of stopped using X to back up my stock stuff and now I just follow authors I like and fantasy football news.
-Dreamer
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.which means only authors you like and fantasy football news can send you messages. 
Followed you back…duh. My bad.
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FYI…in case this helps some of you…
Hulu + Disney Black Friday 1-year promotion end today.
I signed up for Hulu at $1/month and added Disney at $2/month. Both are ad tiers, but that works for me.
Today is the last day for this sale: Hulu Help
Enjoy!
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I saw this, too, a few days ago and almost bit. I just hate the commercials, though, in these services that cut to an ad right in the middle of viewing a key part of a movie or series so I didn’t subscribe.
If you can find an ad-free version for a good price, I’d be very appreciative!
Pete
“JUST IN - Users on X report mass cancellation of Disney subscriptions after Elon Musk’s interview”
Truth is that the interview is EPIC.
a bit of a different take on “Good Stuff” is that I ran across this headline and wanted to share.
My username is a spinoff of the original LucidDreamer username from 2000.
Why “lucid dreamer”? I always found the concept and practice of lucid dreaming interesting. Never have too many of them, but they are memorable when they did occur and almost always I wound up flying in my dream. Why not?!?!
I had a book from the 90s that called out being intentional when wanting to have a lucid dream. Think about it before bedtime. Keep a dream journal…even if just writing down words or scraps of sentences that encapsulate whatever the heck you remember from your night’s now-fleeting dream. Somehow that reinforces the brain to pay more attention, and even if not triggering lucid dreams, it often triggered more memorable and therefore what seems like “longer” dreams.
To have a lucid dream means to become aware that you are dreaming, yet walk that tricky line of not waking yourself up as a result.
And so the news blurb is some start up focused on a device to trigger more lucid dreams. Not sure I will buy this, but maybe something like it in the future if the tech gets more refined. You spend 1/3rd of your life dreaming. Makes sense to want to get more out of that time. Of course, I wouldn’t want to do that at the expense of actually getting rest, but I have no indication that lucid dreaming detracts from that, as it appears to happen during REM sleep. Either way, I may be spurred on to keep a journal again for a few weeks, and see what happens.
Dreamer
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Good stuff indeed. From your description, i think we read the same book in the 90s?
I did some flying also, then lent the book out and never got it back. I still use the 61 point relaxation technicque occasionally when I can’t fall asleep.
Greg
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I found the idea of having to do 61 things to relax funny for some reason.
The author name rings a bell, so might be same book, although that cover doesn’t seem familiar.
It might have been this one:
I am on day 3 of journal. Even if no lucid dreaming triggered, the journal does seem to help spur more interesting or simply better-remembered dreams. My handwriting is so bad (who really writes much by hand these days!?) but it is funny that I re-read my scrawls on day 1 and day 2 this morning, and immediately recalled the dream sequence I was referring to when I wrote it. So just the act of journaling seems to not only capture the short-term memory before one “forgets” their dream, but also helps commit it to longer-term memory.
I am no sleep scientist, but it is something I wouldn’t mind learning more about again. Got to think we have come up with more data behind what certain dreams, or feelings within dreams, mean.
Is it all just like random exhaust from a machine that has been running all day; and that you shouldn’t read any meaning into anything you dream really?
Not that I expect to uncover the meaning of life from my dreams, but I find stuff interesting. And some dreams feel so desired that they are like a sort of food you look forward to eating.
For example; I love rooms in dreams. I will come across a structure or building or house and in my dream I will know it represents:
- an old apartment I forgot about, with furniture and belongings I had forgotten about. I sometimes wonder about how the bills were paid and slight anxiety may kick in, but typically those negative feelings are overwhelmed by excitement and realizing all this stuff of mine still exists and I had simply forgotten about it.
- I am back in college/frat house. Sometimes I am merely late 20s and other times 30s/40s or current age (just over 50) and my emotions range from, again, excitement over having this place that is mine and filled with my stuff but contrasted with some slight embarrassment of being “back” at such an advanced age compared to the first time around.
- often my parents’ “house” as it looks nothing like their place, but in the dream I know it is, and they have sooooooo many more rooms and separate wings of the house and living rooms and dens and I just love being able to explore these new/old rooms I either forgot about or perhaps they are new.
- similar to #3, it will be another common place from earlier, like the frat house common room, which is suddenly as big and vast as an entire mall with all these side rooms. Almost like a Vegas bar I went in once that seemed to have really different decor/themes in each section/room of the bar.
I read up on this once, and while this isn’t the same link it mentions same concepts, which I generally agree with that these extra rooms or forgotten or realized places represent either ongoing or desired change/growth you want to have in your waking life. Maybe you are exploring new things or trying new things or just simply broadening your horizons intellectually or emotionally, etc…
That is just one example of what I find so interesting about dreams.
Many of us, or so the literature seems to show, have anxiety-related dreams;
- loose/missing teeth before a meeting/date/gathering
- I often have been in high school or college and realize I haven’t gone to my (blank) class for months and will not graduate, and I either don’t know where my locker is or even if I do I don’t know the combination to get in, etc… Then I wake and remember I graduated and the anxiety fades away.
- I struggle to move at some point in the dream, usually before waking. I feel trapped in molasses practically. Whether trying to walk up the aisle in a movie theater or trying to run or move away and feeling unable to. Not a terror dream (which I thankfully don’t ever have) but more like frustrating/claustrophobic in being unable to move.
Anyway - talking about my dreams is like having to listen to other people talk about their kids; no one cares unless it is their own. I totally get that. So not mentioning any of this because I expect people to find my dreams interesting, just sharing bc I imagine many have similar underlying recurring themes or interpreted meaning that they take away from their own dreams, no matter what manner they manifest in.
Nerdy stuff. And most people don’t really examine their dreams bc they just view it like the machine exhaust and/or just feel embarrassed about it…like we dreamt when we were kids and somehow it is still just childish stuff. Reality, imo, is that we spend 1/3rd of our life doing this. If the unexamined life is not worth living, what about the unexamined dreams?
Dreamer
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A real nightmare: Tech that lets you work in your sleep
You know that recurring nightmare — the one where you find out there’s a math test worth 90% of your grade, but you didn’t even know about the class?
Unfortunately, we have a scarier scenario: working… while you’re asleep.
The worst part about this one? It might be real.
Tech startup Prophetic has already raised $1m+ to develop a headpiece called the Halo, which the company says could one day allow users to control their dreams.
‘Scuse me?
It’s as weird as it sounds. A lucid dream is a state between wake and sleep, where an individual is aware they’re dreaming.
If tech could help individuals harness lucid dreams, they would — in theory — be able to induce them on demand and use that time productively (e.g., on a work project).
Per Fortune, Prophetic is on it:
- The headband is worn like a crown and releases sound waves into the region of the brain responsible for lucid dreams.
- The beams will then activate parts of the brain that control our awareness and decision-making.
The product’s tech is based on ongoing research from the Donders Institute in the Netherlands.
And there’s a familiar brain behind the operation: Afshin Mehin, who designed the N1 brain implant for Elon Musk’s Neuralink, is working on the Halo.
Halos will cost ~$1.5k-$2k each, and customers can reserve one ahead of time with a $100 down payment.
Inducing lucid dreams…
… has been attempted before. There are a handful of products — headbands, eye masks, and supplements — that promise to give you control of your dreams.
And the demand is there:
- Neuroscientists estimate that ~70% of people experience lucid dreaming at least once in their lifetime.
- We spend about one-third of our lives asleep.
Enthusiasts believe lucid dreams can help people solve complex problems and access untapped creativity.
Whether that’s true remains to be seen, but we’d like our day jobs to stay out of our dreams.
Watched the 3 seasons of Slow Horses on Apple TV.
Gary Oldman is the main star you have heard of. Set in Britain and around MI-5 and separate retread branch nicknamed the “slow horses” because they are where the rejects are sent either due to bad performance or personal issues, etc…
Each season has its own storyline. Enjoyable, with good stories (based off books, apparently) and has humor injected here and there to go with the espionage/killings.
Season 4 later this year and already a season 5 ordered too…good to hear.
Finished latest season of For All Mankind. Still solid, but maybe not their best season, although I thought it finished strong after a slowish buildup. Next season, if made, appears set for 2012 in the alternate history of space travel series.
Fargo latest season has been very good. Enjoyed seasons 1-2 a lot, season 3 was ok, then blah. This season is chaotic and crazy and brings back the vibes of the earlier seasons.
Also found Monarch on Apple TV to be entertaining. It is spinoff of the Godzilla/Kong world from the movies. Kurt Russell and his son (playing younger version of him) do a good job, and I like most of cast in general. It sets itself up for future seasons.
Dreamer
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“Where a story ends is nothing more than a snapshot in time, a brief flash of emotion, a pause. How and if it continues is up to us.”
— Hugh Howey, Dust
Dreamer, ‘so long and thanks for all the fish.’”!
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Good stuff recently:
The Gentlemen series on Netflix. Guy Ritchie crime/british/gypies. General craziness.
Wonka movie - i actually quite enjoyed it. Much more in spirit of original film vs johnny depp tragedy.
Did I already mention Foundation on apple tv? Slow start, but grew on me.
Same w Severance on apple tv. Took 2 episodes to start getting hooked into the story and invested in the characters.
Peacock - Ted the series. Like the movie but when characters were in high school. Very well done 80s vibe. Well acted. The mom sounds like edith bunker. Funny show.
Random 2009 monty python documentary was great. Netflix.
The Patriots dynasty series is addictive. Much like The Last Dance was a few years back. Believe it was on Apple.
Looking forward to:
Fallout series…Amazon Prime i think.
Dune 2 movie. Havent seen anything in theater lately. Might be a good one.
best,
Dreamer
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3 hours I am reminded by friend best seen in IMAX theater. Or sit in front row of local theater . . .
Got a list of good books to read/watch from this thread. Kicking myself for not spending this time on writing my own book(s).
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“Fallout” (after seeing the trailer I´m not too optimistic) and also “3 Body Problem” (based on the novel written by CIxin Liu; won the Hugo Award for Best Novel a couple of yers ago). The other 2 books “The Dark Forest” and “Death´s End” complete the trilogy.
Two weeks ago I watched 2 wonderful movies: “Fallen Leaves” by Aki Kaurismäki and “Perfect Days” by Wim Wenders.
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Jodie Foster and season 4 of True Detective was great!
Trying to give Toyko Vice a shot.
House of Dragons starts up again soon!
New Audiobook series I love: Dungeon Crawler Carl, read by Jeff Hays.
-Dreamer
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Just stumbled upon Netflix “The Greatest Day in Music”.
Story of the “We Are the World” song.
Man, when they showed the individual’s contributions. . . those people can sing!
And . . . Bob Dylan choking and moseying over to Stevie Wonder to have him do a Bob Dylan impersonation so he could figure out how to sing it. . . priceless.
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“Tokyo Vice” - I gave up after ther first 4-5 episodes.
Ken Watanabe is a great actor though.
“The Gentlemen” - I saw the movie, which was huge, but I can’t say the same thing about the series after watching the first 3 episodes. Not funny, but nevertheless seeing Vinnie Jones is always a pleasure.
I stopped watching True Detective after the second season.
The last good book I read recently is “The Chaos Agent” by Mark Greaney (it reminded me of Daniel Suarez and his “Deamon”).
Tomorrow I’ll probably start watching “3 Body Problem” which might be a bit more accessible than the book (many Chinese names have been changed in the series to make it easier to watch).
A movie to avoid: the remake of the Road House (I thought Jake Gyllenhaal had more dignity).
“We Are the World” and “Do they Know It´s Christmas” are two of the most powerful songs ever.
Dylan reminds me of Jimi Hendrix´s version of “All Along the Watchtower”.
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I’m reading Broken Money by Lyn Alden. Somewhat timely as Fed stumbles back and forth with transitory (er, sticky) inflation and strong (er, feels weak) economy. Good section on various ways that money is created.
KC