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I had my worst (or best) nightmare when i was 13 years old. Everything statrs when I was feeling I sleep ... a round of 2 minutes everything disappeared

Thats's a hypnagogic hallucination, commonly experienced during sleep paralysis but also on its own without the paralysis when waking up/falling asleep. This is commonly experienced by all of us as hypnic jerks when falling asleep.

As for the octopus on the bookcase thing, I read it some "tales of the unexplained" encyclopedia thing years ago. Now I know it was a result of sleep paralysis.

Interestingly I was talking to a girl I know last night (when I was too scared to sleep, thank you guys and Wikipedia!) about this and she said she had experienced sleep paralysis and the hallucinations separately- the SP felt like someone had their hand round her neck and she couldn't move (typically it lasted a minute) and the hallucination was of a ghost girl which was gone when she looked again. It's more common than i thought. Fascinating stuff to read about but scares you when you get into bed!

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Fascinating. If I could get into lucid dreaming, I would be asleep much more often

There's plenty of ways to do it- what you were describing in the WILD method that involves sleep paralysis. There's less scary ways to do it than that, look on Wiki

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Where about do you live TJ?

Essex in a mid-sized town near Michael Barrymore's old(?) house.

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make a pole. i know what il vote for.

I'm worried that would make me a 'regular poster' and therefore gain a place on the sadness ratings. I'm only posting more because it's study leave I swear!

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the most disturbing dreams I remember having (not most 'scary') are the ones where your dreaming and you wake up, get up, start getting ready for the day etc. then weird shit starts happening and you freak out and wake up - again !... it's disturbing because it really screws with your perception of what reality is (at least it did when it happened to me)...

False awakenings? Never had 'em, but read about it on my travels of Wikipedia since this topic! Sounds scary...

Hint: Check your watch twice when awake and it should stay the same. If you think you're dreaming, check your watch twice. If you're dreaming it'll change. You can also check a mirror but I can imagine seeing a swirling mirror would be FAR scarier than seeing your watch change!

I find this stuff absolutely fascinating for some reason! Maybe because the greatest mystery of life is ourselves?

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Re sleep paralysis:

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Some reports read that various factors increase the likelihood of both paralysis and hallucinations. These include: [3]

• Sleeping in a supine position (facing upwards)

I was right!

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I used to get spooky awareness during sleep paralysis stuff going on practically every night, half-believed I was being abducted by aliens* and the whole shebang. Any one of those hundreds of experiences would be among the scariest things that have happened to me when I was asleep.

I read about that some time ago. Apparently it's caused partially by sleeping on your back. It's never happened to me but it sounds bloody scary (grim reaper walking into your room, octopus on your bookcase, alien on your chest etc) so I always make sure I sleep on my side!

So he's had training, so what? It's still amazing

And am I the only one who suddenly thinks Amanda Holden is rather attractive?

Thanks

These crashes weren't pre-planned- they just happened on a normal day. I didn't know at the time that some of the RB4 drivers were going to do stupid things.

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£2200 for insurance? christ on a bike thats a lot of cash.

It's also the cheapest quote I could find. First year, 17 year old guy with a hatchback (even if it is just a 51-plate Fiesta Zetec 1.25) in my own name = insurance companies don't want to know.

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Did you try them...any cheaper?

I've already paid this year's unfortunately (Pass Plus didn't bring it down either!), but next year I've seen quotes for £1600 fully comp in my name. This year I'm just sore because I'm paying £2200 for insurance that DOESN'T ACTUALLY COVER MY DAMN CAR! Bloody third party.

Ah well, in a few years (after uni) I'll hopefully get that MX-5 I want. Insurance on that will be £700-ish at 21

I'm currently halfway through my A2 exams, a bit scared as they're a one shot thing (hence the music I'm listening to right now- This Is It by Kenny Loggins).

Thank you!

Angry Angel: Glad you liked the freeze-frame. The accident happened so quickly, it was the only way I could think of showing the deformed tyre, smoke and the damage to the RB4.

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Funny vid, I wouldn't expect someone to brake in front of me on the long straight before the bridge too

Just my luck that the one time I decide to slipstream a bit closer instead of diving out for the overtake earlier, the guy in front brakes...

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Edit: 22degs in my room right now.

Lucky thing. I read your reply in "post your car" btw, you lucky lucky man. Insurance indeed works in mysterious ways

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20 degrees in my room with my window wide open

It's a balmy 26deg in my room NOW with the media centre PC on. Old Pentium 4 3GHz, Geforce 4 thing in a normal size tower. With a Hi Fi as well. Oh, if I was in the car where I have air con...

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nights are just another story ... i just really can't get comfortable and end up with very little sleep

Same. My SMS credit goes down quickly as I'm not the only one that can't sleep.

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I often wonder if I suffer from that seasonal depression thing when summer comes along

Same again, I love the sunshine.

To do a Sato- to overtake the former world champion. Or to crash regularly.

He too me by surprise when I saw him perform. Fantastic voice, could win it

I guess it'll be on the Wheels channel on TVUPlayer. I'm yet to look at Sopcast.

Corndog- Stay safe out there

He seems to be a very good racer (constant 3rd in FOX at BL1) also- doesn't take much to lap me though

General Lee, can I be cheeky and ask what your car insurance costs? My first car is a 51 plate Fiesta Zetec 1.25 and the insurance (third party) is just over £2000 in my name (year 1). I can't imagine how much a BMW would be to insure!

Seems like Fernando's in one of those 'bear with a sore head' moods this week. Last week Hamilton thought McLaren favoured Alonso and this week it's the other way round:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/h ... t/formula_one/6744297.stm

When will they just realise it's even?

Here's my first 100% from scratch personal BF1 skin. It's not meant to be any specific F1 team, rather a generic team that wouldn't look out of place on an F1 grid. The colour scheme is slightly inspired by McLaren

It is a personal skin but if someone else wants to use it or put their name on the rear wing, that's great too

Attached are a preview montage, a 2048 skinfile and a white version skinfile. Comments good and bad are welcome!

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Paul Bonhomme

I caught the Air Race at work for once and he couldn't hold a candle to the Hungarian!

I think Alonso let him pass because he was scared of Sato's unpredictability, just to be safe.