Thanks for the reply. As a college professor I have had the summer off and for the first time in my career I am super excited about classes starting again in a week. I have that distraction on the horizon.

Silly little kitten guy.

I play dead by daylight semi regularly and I am often taking on the role of survivor in my nightmares. I have been killed by ghostface and the huntress in nightmares before.

On doing something scary…

“We could go to bed early and be alone with our thoughts.”

This line always hit hard.

It’s in my top three for sure.

Plane crash.

CJ and Mord for sure. I was sad when they broke up.

Yeah that’s a weird one for me too

She does this long over the top fake laugh at Howard.

Hey man I’m a 41M and just had to leave a relationship with someone I’m still in love with. I sincerely thought she was the one I’d spend the rest of my life with. We couldn’t make it work. I’ve cried a lot about her as well over the last few weeks. I know exactly what you mean when you say you don’t wanna hear “let her go” etc because it’s the last thing we want to do. My advice is to remember she’s a person too and you have to respect her decision. It’s okay to feel lonely and it’s definitely okay to cry. But go through the motions, let yourself feel the grief cause it’s real, and most importantly let yourself learn from it. You’ll be better prepared for the next potential partner. Hopefully you have a friend or two that you can text or call or game with when it’s really bad. If you need to vent feel free to dm me. I’m a big gamer too.

Stumbled on this post and love it. I discovered Diesel Boy the exact same way in 1996. I am super excited to see them return.

I know there’s probably a bunch and everyone has preferences but I used A Transition to Advanced Mathematics by Smith Eggen and Standre in undergrad and thought it was well done.

I’d be texting my parents or bff. Anyone but Reddit.

Yeah as I was reading the first I was like there’s no way. It was too well written for someone under that stress.

Am I only the only that thinks this is fake ?

If this real and not staged. I hate it. Even if it is staged I hate it.

Can you’d link the news article? I’d love to read an actual gaming reporter’s take on the subject instead of just all the ranting on Reddit.

Square Root

Also I occasionally die in my nightmares. The first time I remember dying in a dream was when I was probably about 10 or 11 years old. You ever die in yours ?

Not all my dreams are nightmares, the nightmares have just become very frequent lately.

Several of my nightmares are reoccurring themes. There’s two that I’ve had since my teens (41 now) they always very slightly but the general idea and fear is always there.

I often am several dreams deep. By that I mean I have to wake up from a dream in a dream. I’ve been three deep before as well.

I have had lucid dreams as well. Sometimes I can take complete control of the dream where I am fully aware I am dreaming and do just about anything I want, like fly. I cannot control the environment though.

As I’ve done more research I have seen things about PTSD and nightmares. Since, I have always been a very vivid and constant dreamer I just thought it was tied to that. However, I recently ended a relationship with a woman that ideally I didn’t want to end but it just wasn’t a healthy relationship. I don’t know a lot about PTSD but I’m starting to feel like maybe the relationship itself combined with the fact that I love this person deeply but just couldn’t keep putting myself through the dark sides of the relationship did actually cause me some form PTSD. Add in my lifelong history of dreaming it’s starting to make sense about the nightmares.

Aside: Most people in my life also think my dreaming is rare and sometimes I think they don’t believe me. I’m happy to discuss more about the dreaming in general any time. 🙂

Thanks. I’ve always been an intense dreamer but the nightmares lately are just out of control. Weed does help and has helped me in the past but the problem is when I am high I get extreme paranoia so I’m not willing take the trade off right now. I will ask my doc about this medication.