Oh wow, I'm glad your friend is interesting in how you use a computer. Nothing like spreading awareness by just living!
Sorry I have no idea who Freddy Kreuger is or what the movie "Nightmare on Elm Street" is about.
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Oh wow, I'm glad your friend is interesting in how you use a computer. Nothing like spreading awareness by just living!
Sorry I have no idea who Freddy Kreuger is or what the movie "Nightmare on Elm Street" is about.
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she's fascinated by the technology and is amazed at how i can read posts using my braille display. she also doesn't know how i can understand speech via jaws or window-eyes. <giggle>
freddy kreuger was a character in the 80s movie, "nightmare on elm street." there were several teenagers in the movie who experienced nightmares in which freddy appeared and threatened to kill them. from what i've been told, freddy has wrinkly skin and his fingers are made of long, sharp knife blades. it's been a long time since i've seen the movie, so if i am wrong about the plot, hopefully someone will correct me.
It's a multi sequel movie about Krueger haunting those who live on Elm Street in their dreams. Here's a song I loved that countered this character.
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With your 110 wpm braille reading speed, you must have really impressed your sighted-hearing friend! <laugh> I can sort of understand it. I keep my text-to-speech software on the fastest speaking speed so I can minimize time and it took me a while to understand it perfectly.
So Aghori was trying to make fun of the thread topic?
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i know alot of blind people who listen to their screen readers at a very fast speed. i keep mine at a moderate speed using a male voice.
yes, i think aghori was trying to make fun of this thread.
I keep mine on a male voice too. The female voice sounds way too canned. Do you use voice and braille display at the same time or switch back and forth?
Aghori -- I'm not entirely sure of your intentions but if you were making fun of the thread, I just want to let you know that nightmares are a real problem for a lot of people. Not really a laughing matter. <sad>
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i use the braille display to read message boards, forums or text on websites and speech when navigating windows and menus. it's much faster to use speech for the latter instead of trying to give commands to the braille display to open a certain window, etc.
i also don't know what aghori's intentions are, but if they were to make fun of this thread, i'm not amused.
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I REALLY dont think thats a good idea to put that image in this kind of thread...
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he doesn't threaten to kill them.... he kills them in a sick twisted cruel way.... i was scared when i was little
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he doesn't threaten to kill them.... he kills them in a sick twisted cruel way.... i was scared when i was little
thanks for correcting me. as i said, i haven't seen any of the "nightmare on elm street" movies since my teens and that was back in the 80s, so a long time ago.
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THANK YOU, steel.
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Let me tell you about the first nightmare I ever had, and the last I ever had.
It may help you, it has helped others.
I was a little kid when I had it. I had just received my first bicycle. As with most children on their first bike I ran off curbs, fell over, and slammed into telephone poles.
That night I had a dream. In that dream I was on the bicycle and it was out of control. I could not stop the bike and I was having one hair's breath escape after another. Cars were chasing me, dogs were chasing me, people were chasing me. Tree limbs reached down to deliberately knock me over.
I was one scared little kid.
I took a turn that sent me right out of the city and into the woods where I narrowly missed one tree after another. Dogs, cars, kids, adults, were still hot on my trail.
The final terror: I went over a cliff and I was falling and falling and falling...
I had no doubt. I knew once I hit the ground I would die and no one could help me.
When a voice came out of the sky and said, "This is my dream and I will do what I damn please."
For a second I thought how mad Mommy would be if she heard me yell the word damn at myself, but then I remembered I was in more trouble than Mommy would give me so I started asking myself desperately "What do I want to do? What Do I Want To Do? WHAT DO I WANT TO DO?"
Preferably before I hit the ground.
I decided I wanted to fly. Suddenly I was flying, not falling, but flying. So the rest of the dream was my flying up in the clouds with the birds happy, happy, happy. Below I saw the dogs, cars, and people that had been scaring me, so I dive bombed down out of the sky and scared them and chased them all away.
From that day on I have spent a lot of time flying in my dreams, and I have never had a night mare since.
Remember: This is your dream; you are in control; you can do what you please.
It may help you, it has helped others.
I was a little kid when I had it. I had just received my first bicycle. As with most children on their first bike I ran off curbs, fell over, and slammed into telephone poles.
That night I had a dream. In that dream I was on the bicycle and it was out of control. I could not stop the bike and I was having one hair's breath escape after another. Cars were chasing me, dogs were chasing me, people were chasing me. Tree limbs reached down to deliberately knock me over.
I was one scared little kid.
I took a turn that sent me right out of the city and into the woods where I narrowly missed one tree after another. Dogs, cars, kids, adults, were still hot on my trail.
The final terror: I went over a cliff and I was falling and falling and falling...
I had no doubt. I knew once I hit the ground I would die and no one could help me.
When a voice came out of the sky and said, "This is my dream and I will do what I damn please."
For a second I thought how mad Mommy would be if she heard me yell the word damn at myself, but then I remembered I was in more trouble than Mommy would give me so I started asking myself desperately "What do I want to do? What Do I Want To Do? WHAT DO I WANT TO DO?"
Preferably before I hit the ground.
I decided I wanted to fly. Suddenly I was flying, not falling, but flying. So the rest of the dream was my flying up in the clouds with the birds happy, happy, happy. Below I saw the dogs, cars, and people that had been scaring me, so I dive bombed down out of the sky and scared them and chased them all away.
From that day on I have spent a lot of time flying in my dreams, and I have never had a night mare since.
Remember: This is your dream; you are in control; you can do what you please.
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this was the *only* nightmare you've ever had? wow.
i can't control my dreams like that. then again, most of my nightmares center around the traumas i experienced so whenever i have one, it's as if i'm experiencing those traumas all over again.
if i had the ability to control my dreams and flashbacks, i would be the happiest person alive.
Same. I can't remember the last night I didn't have a nightmare.
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My aunt has to hook herself up to a machine at night with an oxygen mask and an alarm. When she goes in REM or deep sleep she actually stops breathing at times. When she stops the alarm blares and pushes oxygen in her causing her to wake up.
I think it is called "Sleep Apnea". Not sure.
I think it is called "Sleep Apnea". Not sure.
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yes, it sounds like your aunt does have sleep apnea. the machine you described is called a c-pap (continuous positive airway pressure) machine.
my doctor suspects that i might have sleep apnea because there are times where i wake up in the middle of the night unable to breathe, feel like i'm going to die and feel extremely tired during the day. she suggested i have a sleep study done, but i've been too busy with school to make an appointment. perhaps that's something i'll look into before classes resume later this month.
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i know how you feel, nika. nightmares for me are a daily occurrence. my therapist is hoping though that once i begin to address my traumas, my nightmares will decrease or at the very least, not be so intense.
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Flashbacks and dreams -- I've had mini flashbacks, but never while asleep -- And the sensations are no where near alike for me. For instance when my wife died I literally relived every tragic death I had ever experienced before. My mother, my friends, even my pet cat that got ran over when I was a little kid.
It was like the complete reliving of an event -- When it happened I forced myself to relive a happy event with that person. I don't know if it helped but it gave me the feeling of being in control -- And I believe the feeling of being in control precedes the act of being in control.
As for dreams. I can't say my subconscious mind has never fed me material for a nightmare. But in my dreams I can fly, I can walk through walls, I can swim in the ground as though it were water, I can skim over any surface as though it were ice and I were wearing skates. I love my dreams. When I was a kid I would go to sleep every night thinking of all the marvelous things I could do in them. (This was after my nightmare, btw.)
Nothing can touch me in my dreams and anything that tries is laughed at and teased while I stay safely out of reach.
I believe anyone can achieve this degree of control over their dreams.
Before you go to sleep at night decide on a treat you will reward yourself with in the morning if you remember dreaming what you are going to think of. As you go to sleep think of one wonderful thing you are going to do while dreaming.
When I was a kid I gave myself a cookie for being a good dream boy.
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unfortunately, i had 4 tramautic events happen to me repeatedly from childhood until age 18 and can't think of ONE happy moment i've ever experienced with the 3 people who were responsible for them. one of these people threatened my life and that's the incident that causes most of my nightmares.
i disagree. if a person has experienced traumatic events which cause nightmares, the feeling of control is beyond them because there is no way to prevent a nightmare from happening -- especially if the nightmares are caused by flashbacks during the day (as often happens in my case).
again, i can't do that because my nightmares are caused by my flashbacks and center around the traumas i experienced. very rarely do i ever have a happy dream. doing what you suggested just isn't possible for me.
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From a professional perspective, I would say that Berry's nightmare was ocurring because, as a child, he was having difficulty controlling that new bike as he learned to ride it. The voice telling him it as his dream and he could do what he wanted was the subconscious way of working through his worries over being unable to control the bike, and could be easily translated to "This is my damn bike, and I will control it. I won't let it control me." I would venture a guess that his bike riding skills also improved after than nightmare.
His was a perfect example of dreams being our way of working through our conscious problems.