Effects/Nightmares

[Andrea1204]

Don't remember any dreams after reading HOL it was so long ago (After I'm done with this book I'm reading now I plan on reading HOL again...it's addictive). But I have this reocurring dream where I can't find my sneakers. I search everywhere in different places and I can't find them and I'm freaking out because my father just bought me new sneakers and he'd get pissed if I lost them.

What the hell does that mean?

BTW: How do make the word :house: appear in blue text here? I looked everywhere, perhaps I'm dumb?

[fatwoul]

quote:

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Originally posted by Andrea1204:
...How do make the word :house: appear in blue text here? I looked everywhere, perhaps I'm dumb?

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Yes, you are dumb. However, because I am so fucking generous I will help you.

House

OK. Now if you click the "reply with quote" button, you will see everything I just typed. Copy and paste the bit above, including the code each side of House for the desired effect. "font size=1-7" alter the size of the text if put in similar pointy brackets. "u","i" and "b" all have the obvious effects in pointy brackets.

always remember that if you start a coded word or passage with an instruction, you must cancel the instruction at the end. For example, if you want House written in blue, you need to start with "font color=blue", and end with "/font color". The / cancels again so the following text returns to normal default colour (this grey).

Some other useful UBB codes can be found here.

I might act like a child, but I am also useful. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[JuggaloStatix]

Fatwoul...the amazing generous child actor...okay that was lame....lemme try again...pants...like shorts...only longer....okay that was also lame...i want to know why you all started using code...

[Ra-ra]

Because they add

emphasis

and

Colour

to posts

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[ July 30, 2003: Message edited by: Ra-ra ]

[Themnoria]

quote:

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Originally posted by Ellacia:


This is the guy I'm being compared to? Oh shit....

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Perhaps you ARE that guy.

[fatwoul]

With reference to your ill-judged comments recently, Themnoria, I would draw your attention to this:

like your opinion will be taken seriously. ugly, ugly bitch.

...she has tiny tits.

...Crass hates me, I'm okay with that. He thinks I have tiny boobs, okay. He thinks I'm crazy, fine. I have a cheap scanner and all my pictures are hideous, fine. Can we just forget this and get on to HoL? It's just getting funny now.

Odd that the very person who has once criticised YOUR appearance is the same person whose behaviour you seem to tolerate now.

Like I said. Twisted.

Also worthy of note is that despite your claims that "everyone" in the thread hated you and said you were ugly, the only person who actually said anything close to that was crass.

Am I to understand that you accept gross insults with respect to appearance, provided they are directed at you?

[thppp]

The first time I read the book I kept having waking dreams that I was being chased. At night I'd have this constant fear that there was something right behind me. But, of course, when I turned to look there was nothing there.

Of course that was the summer I didn't sleep, too.

[Bonemaster3000]

The first time I read the book I kept having waking dreams that I was being chased. At night I'd have this constant fear that there was something right behind me. But, of course, when I turned to look there was nothing there.

Of course that was the summer I didn't sleep, too.

I didn't sleep properly for days, couldn't leave the room while I was reading it and was certain that something in the book was about to inspire horrific hallucinantions. I, uh, had a few issues at the time. No hallucinations though, although that would've been cool to reminise on.

[thppp]

When I first read the book I was doing my first year's worth of (interior) design studio in about 12 weeks. That equaled about two projects a week for the first 6 weeks and one project a week for the last 6 weeks. No time to sleep.

I wasn't really hallucinating, because a lot of the time I wasn't really awake. But I wasn't asleep either. The waking dreams could have been a combination of one of my favorite passages in the book (pp 26-27 - don't look.) and the fact that campus was deserted.

[Ellimist]

I am almost envious of everyone with their stories about nightmares, hallucinations, etc. Besides being almost completely infatuated with HOL, I have to have the book near me where I read or work. I am in college now, and my copy is not 6 inches from me right now, sitting at my computer, next to my textbooks. The rest of my books are in a drawer. Just this one I keep out, because I feel like I need it near me. Less odd than others, but odd nonetheless.

[Bonemaster3000]

I have nightmares about my teeth being cracked/ falling out/ crushing eachother. It's not a specific nightmare, it just happens in different forms in different dreams. It's very fucking unpleasant.

This dream refers to sexual insecurity. Or maybe it's just general insecurity and I added the sexual part to be risque, I forget. But definately an insecurity of some kind or another. Although this is a rather vague analysis, so I'm gonna go with sexual insecurity.

[fatwoul]

...definately...

Heh. Them has a thing about spelling mistakes. You're just trying to turn her on.

[Bonemaster3000]

...definately...

Heh. Them has a thing about spelling mistakes. You're just trying to turn her on.

I can defiantly say that I am definetly not triing to trn her on, havng just seen her picture. jesus. could you imagine the kids we'd have?

[Admiral_Shanks]

Hey! Bad spelling is the ONE thing I have here! Dont take that away from me

[DeliriumXV]

I have nightmares about my teeth being cracked/ falling out/ crushing eachother. It's not a specific nightmare, it just happens in different forms in different dreams. It's very fucking unpleasant.

This dream refers to sexual insecurity. Or maybe it's just general insecurity and I added the sexual part to be risque, I forget. But definately an insecurity of some kind or another. Although this is a rather vague analysis, so I'm gonna go with sexual insecurity.

You were close...dreams about teeth falling out, etc., usually signify that there are things going on in your life that you feel you have no control over. Feeling helpless definitely makes people feel insecure. I'm not sure where you got the sex part of it, so I'll leave that to you.

We're all so obsessed with our dreams. I guess we feel compelled to try to define them and give them meaning. Maybe dreams about teeth falling out are just dreams about teeth falling out.

[fatwoul]

...You were close...

He can't read that.

[TheElusiveX]

Now that I think about it I'm re-reading the book again, and I'm at the Evacuation/Escape chapter and last night I had a not so different dream of trying to escape my house (in Tom's case) yet unable too, and (unlike the book) I reach a window yet the pane slams down severing my fingers form my hands, yet as I look at them they are not severed, but seem to have never been...it gets hazy from there on but after reading the initial posts it sparked the memory and similarity of the book.

[Miss September]

I normally don't have nightmares, but a few weeks ago I had a dream some kind of reptile-monster was cutting holes in my stomach with his claws, and then raping the holes. Not very fun. Usually my dreams are hilarous and absurd, filled with handsome Communist spies and cookies. But not that night. Geez.

[fatwoul]

...his claws...

Lobster claws?

[helarctos]

I just read of Leaves for the first time a few days ago. In response to the original post, I think my dream of last night counts, sort of:

I dreamed I had gone for a year of language study at a university overseas. I was housed in a strange dormitory. All the rooms were very small and closetlike, and instead of opening onto a hallway, each room opened onto its adjoining rooms and onto a central room, like a courtyard but indoors. This central room was rather nondescript; the two things I remember are that it was carpeted in a sort of unlovely industrial-style carpet, and that it could not be traversed straight across due to a corral/maze shape of metal barriers coated with blue paint. (The sort of barriers that are used to direct the forming of lines at, say, a theme park.) I wanted to find the communal shower room but instead I chose the wrong door and barged into the room adjoining my own room. In this room was a man who seemed very genial and did not mind my intrusion. He said his name was Karl (I don't know why I know how he spelled his name), and he approached me and kissed me. I noticed his mustache, black and coarse, was unpleasantly scratchy. I was also repulsed by his skin, which seemed to me to have the texture of an oiled paper bag. I felt that he was friendly, though.

The alarm clock awoke me, which is probably why I can remember the dream. I tried to figure out who Karl was, and I came to the conclusion that he is probably Groucho Marx.

[julie]

Oh, i'm so happy! I had my first Hol nightmare!! I know it sounds strange to be so excited about it, but I was allways a little jealous because everybody had these cool side effects and nightmares and I didn't, even when I was in the middle of the book. It just occured a couple of days ago, and I don'y know why, because I haven't touched the book in a long while. Some of my friends and I had to explore the house. The entrance was a single door in the end wall of a very large room (like a gymnasium). When standing in the room, I could feel the darkness oozing from the closed door. One of us (not me) was designated to enter the house, holding a long cable and another person stayed in the gym to hold the other end. He accidently let go of the cable not long after he was in and got lost, but he found his way back. We all decided to try to go in again but much more prepared this time. We had a bunch of equipment, (computers etc) all set up in the gym and the media was there. Just as he entered, I woke up. It kinda sounds like the actual progression of the explorations in the book, but in my dream it was totally different. It was pretty cool

[overcame]

I've had quite a few dreams that have definately originated from HOL. The most prominent one, and the most disturbing for some reason, is that I'm in a Labyrinth and I'm lost, just searching and searching for a way out and the growling starts. I wake up when the growling is almost upon me. Now what makes this really bad is that I'm in the navy and have this dream a lot when I'm out to sea, so I wake up in my rack, which it is always pitch black in, and I'm surrounded by darkness just like I was in the dream. The other thing is that when I'm walking around on the ship late at night all by myself, there have been quite a few times when I 'feel' that presence behind me. That "silent pocket" always scares the piss out of me.

[fearful_syzygy]

Now what makes this really bad is that I'm in the navy...

Scary shit!

(Welcome aboard! )

[overcame]

You know, that is the first time anyone has ever made a reference to the song 'In the Navy' when I told them that I was in the navy. You are so smart and witty it makes me want to piss myself. Your mother must be so proud.

[Miss September]

I had to slice off parts of my tongue with a razorblade, and then I had to go to a lighthouse to find a box for someone, and there was a man waiting for me who cut off my head.

I did a lot of bleeding last night.

[1exist]

You know, that is the first time anyone has ever made a reference to the song 'In the Navy' when I told them that I was in the navy. You are so smart and witty it makes me want to piss myself. Your mother must be so proud.

heh

[fearful_syzygy]

...Your mother must be so proud.

Look mate, if you choose to interpret a light-hearted quip as an attack on your virility, profession, moral fibre, or anything else you care to get offended about, that's your business; but I assure you that I meant no disrespect, and there was really no need to bring my mother into this, now was there?

However, I think I still have a piece of papersails's peace-cake left over, if that'll make you feel better.

[Centaure]

Now what makes this really bad is that I'm in the navy...

Scary shit!

(Welcome aboard! )

To overcame :

EMERGENCY ! ABANDON SHIP ! ](*,)


QUIIIIIICK ! :o

[overcame]

Hey Fearful, I was just returning the 'light-hearted quip". I noticed the 'welcome aboard' that I attributed to that being my first post. Anyway, trust me, I had the sensitivity beaten out of me long ago. I took what you said as a joke and returned it. As far as the mother comment, I said nothing bad about her. So there is no need for the peace-cake, although if you wouldn't mind sharing, I do like sweets.

[P.]

i have trouble walking through my house when it is dark. and when i turn out the lights in my room i run to my bed as fast as i can. i've also had trouble keeping a conversation with friends because im thinking about HoL. Hoping i can get over it soon.