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 Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:00 pm
From the looks of it, they still aren't available to current members. *tested it on one of her mules*
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:36 pm
*twirls* Oh, I like this umbrella and the outfit it inspired. whee Lady Evelyn Nyht I understand if you don't have the time, but I'll show you the test thread at the least. [link]
*ish excited about new eyes*
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:57 pm
I believe it would be the title banner, banners for the subject posts, and maybe signature. I'm not sure. You're more than welcome to PM Thornshield though.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:16 pm
grrr... That's the second time today that Word Bump's crashed on me. crying Both times it went down before I could even get far enough to get my doctorates.
My PMs are open too. Seeing as how I don't have a ton of free time right now and I don't even konw Thornshield I'd expect payment of some sort too.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:19 pm
Oh, where did that parasol come from?
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:33 pm
Malee Oh, where did that parasol come from?
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:52 pm
Jenannen grrr... That's the second time today that Word Bump's crashed on me. crying Both times it went down before I could even get far enough to get my doctorates.
My PMs are open too. Seeing as how I don't have a ton of free time right now and I don't even konw Thornshield I'd expect payment of some sort too. If he doesn't pay you, I will. ^^
I'll let him know to send you a PM with what he is wanting since I honestly don't know.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:23 pm
I'm sad sad
My mom made me babysit my brother all week because his school has a week off for some reason. But I ended up staying up all Sunday night/Monday morning working on a project, and only found out that I had to babysit him just as my mom was leaving for work at 7AM. So Instead of going to sleep, I had to be awake all morning and ended up crashing from exhaustion at 4PM when she came back home.
Now I've accidentally gotten myself suck on a 4PM-10PM sleep schedule, and no matter what I try, I can't get back into sleeping normal hours.
This whole no work/no school situation is making me miserable...
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:46 pm
Miriam The Bat This whole no work/no school situation is making me miserable... You can say that again. gonk I'm in the same situation. My sleeping also likes to get stuck at very irregular hours because of this. I find when it's really stuck, I take some melatonin and, while it knocks me out (makes me extremely tired) for about three days, my sleeping schedule gets corrected perfectly.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:04 pm
I can't take any kind of medicine that makes me sleepy. If I fall asleep too quickly when I lay in bed (either from being super exhausted, too comfortable, or on medicine), I have "wake-initiated lucid dreams", which in my case always end up being incredibly horrifying nightmares
I had one after crashing on Monday where I was lying in bed and unable to move, and it felt like I was dying. Seriously, it felt like some kind of unworldly presence was trying to suck my soul out of my body or something. Even though I was completely aware that it was a dream, I was still scared because I felt like I was suffocating and I had no idea if I actually was suffocating in the waking world or not. I had to mentally fight it off in order to wake myself up.
That was one of my least scary lucid nightmares, too...
Sleep is never an easy thing for me. Probably the main reason why I'm so unhealthy.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:08 pm
Yeah, melatonin is known for having increased lucid dreams and nightmares, so I guess that's a no-go for you. :sweat
All of my dreams have been lucid since I was six years old, but lucid in that not only do I realize it's a dream, but I can fully control every aspect of it. It's like I'm daydreaming but fully immersed in sleep.
I've even done scaffolding for a programming project in a dream once, then woke and did it all correctly in half the time it'd take if I had to scaffold it while awake. xd Yes, I'm a nerd. Yes, I love being one.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:25 pm
When I was a very young kid, my dreams were a mess. With all the lucid dreams I had, I had a hard time distinguishing between being asleep and awake. I thought that I had the ability to levitate because I could do it at will while I was dreaming, and I didn't feel the need to prove it to other people because I had already done so in my dreams.
I also remember once having what appeared to be two incredibly normal weeks of my life suddenly erased when I woke up from it and found myself in the dentist's office, not even remembering ever going to the dentist in the first place or what I had been doing at school earlier that day.
I also had night terrors, which drove my parents nuts.
Nowadays I use my "good" lucid dreams for writing stories. All of my best original stories have originated in one way or another from a lucid dream.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:32 pm
My childhood dreams (pre-lucidity) were a mess as well. My mother (on many occasions) found me with my eyes open, running through the house, screaming at the top of my lungs that a specific villian from some TV show or story was going to get me and kill me. I was still asleep, of course, but I'd wake up and not remember a thing, despite my mother talking to me while I was sleep-freaking-out.
My mother told me that when I had a nightmare I needed to "change the channel." Over time, I'd learned to change the channel to the point of having full lucidity over my dreams, but didn't realize that it was anything more than changing the channel until years later.
I can still have normal dreams or nightmares nowadays. Just, if I have a nightmare, I switch tracks to something else, and if I have a normal dream, if I find it interesting, I let it continue, otherwise I'll make it interesting by force.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:44 pm
Those "run around screaming and not remembering in the morning" things are Night Terrors. Lots of kids get them for some reason.
My mom is no help with anything sleep related. She blames my inability to sleep entirely on caffeine and the internet, which is ridiculous. I mean, I'd blame it on those things too if there wasn't significant evidence against it. I just went several weeks without drinking any caffeine and it didn't help me fall asleep one bit. And I frequently take 1-2 week breaks from using my computer (like when I go on geology trips) and that doesn't change anything either.
I need to find a decent sleep doctor to help me or something. I tried once before, but all he did was ask me if I snored and was convinced that I didn't have a real problem because I didn't.
On that note, I need health insurance so I can actually go to the doctors again...
Damn lack of job and lack of school...
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:52 pm
My father is a fan of "blame the computer for everything" since my computer is my source of fun, work, and communication (and thus, I'm usually on it).
I mean, even if I talk about how some takeout food had a disagreement with my stomach, my father will say "Oh that wasn't the food, maybe if you got off the computer you'd feel fine."
Of course, his lack of technological knowledge (in nearly any regard) is probably a major factor in why he thinks that way, but as it is, until he lets me teach him how to use a computer (past that of pushing the power button to turn it on), I don't see much I can do.
If I was hard pressed to get a job, I know I could... but after getting $25+/hr for computer work, I don't see myself wanting to go to McDonalds to apply. sweatdrop I suppose that's the pertinacity in me.
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