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[Doppelmonger]

On topic of childhood trauma: one of my names is an amalgamation of the first two letters of all of my 4 grandparents's first names

 

[William Tyndale]

I'm named after a random book character my parents liked

I have a friend who named one of his kids after his favorite author.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I learned how to lucid dream because of the nightmares I'd have when my dad would leave for work (he traveled for weeks at a time for his job)

 

[Shidoen]

I race fast zoom zoom hotrods but my mechanic knowledge is very limited. Flirting with Rally Girls was pretty fun though.

 

[glass_houses]

On topic of childhood trauma: one of my names is an amalgamation of the first two letters of all of my 4 grandparents's first names

I'm named after both of my grandmothers. I'm the fourth generation to have "xxxxx" as my middle name. I feel really guilty about not having a daughter to pass the name onto, but me having a kid would be such an almighty shitshow due to various health issues that I'd probably lose legal custody while they're still a toddler.

 

[Rick's Beef Wellington]

When I was a toddler I had one on Betty Boop

My imaginary girlfriend when I was 4 was the excited to have just being dealt blackjack redhead from the cover art of Atari Casino.

 

[glass_houses]

My imaginary girlfriend when I was 4 was the excited to have just being dealt blackjack redhead from the cover art of Atari Casino.

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She has a nice figure, but she kind of looks like she wants to eat your face.

 

[Rockin da Worm]

I have a friend who named one of his kids after his favorite author.

I was named after my dad's favourite band, and when I was a baby he apparently forced me to listen to one of their albums. I don't remember it, I take his word on it though.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Longest I've gone without sleep was about a week.



I started hallucinating like a motherfucker.

 

[glass_houses]

Longest I've gone without sleep was about a week.



I started hallucinating like a motherfucker.

That's really impressive. I think the longest I've gone is five days. Slept for 48 hours afterwards.

 

[The Cunting Death]

That's really impressive. I think the longest I've gone is five days. Slept for 48 hours afterwards.

Tbf the sleep I did get after that week was the best sleep I ever had

 

[glass_houses]

Tbf the sleep I did get after that week was the best sleep I ever had

I was a screaming insomniacs until I was eighteen and put on meds for something else entirely, but those meds had the happy side effect of putting me to sleep. When I was a kid I'd just lie there in the dark until the rest of the family were snoring, and then I'd get up and just walk around the house in the dark. I wasn't being creepy, I was just so bored. For some reason my mother had the psychic ability of knowing when I turned on my bedroom light on even though us kids and our parents slept on the opposite sides of the house, and she'd be out of bed and at my door to rouse on me in three seconds flat, but she never woke up while I was taking my 3am walks. No one did. To this day my brother says I must have dreamed them because he's convinced that he would have heard me and woken up. The reason he never heard me is because what little noise I made was drowned out by his impressive snore volume. God, I wish there'd been such a thing as a Kindle back then. Being able to at least read would have saved me from that crushing boredom.

 

[Shidoen]

I don't thin i've ever gone a night without a vivid nightmare since I was 10.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I was a screaming insomniacs until I was eighteen and put on meds for something else entirely, but those meds had the happy side effect of putting me to sleep. When I was a kid I'd just lie there in the dark until the rest of the family were snoring, and then I'd get up and just walk around the house in the dark. I wasn't being creepy, I was just so bored. For some reason my mother had the psychic ability of knowing when I turned on my bedroom light on even though us kids and our parents slept on the opposite sides of the house, and she'd be out of bed and at my door to rouse on me in three seconds flat, but she never woke up while I was taking my 3am walks. No one did. To this day my brother says I must have dreamed them because he's convinced that he would have heard me and woken up. The reason he never heard me is because what little noise I made was drowned out by his impressive snore volume. God, I wish there'd been such a thing as a Kindle back then. Being able to at least read would have saved me from that crushing boredom.

Yeah I was a Big insomniac too. Part of the reason I developed a Xanax addiction in my teens is because I had chronic panic attacks and issues with sleeping so I took two 5 mgs a day.

 

[glass_houses]

I don't thin i've ever gone a night without a vivid nightmare since I was 10.

I don't get nearly as many night terrors as I used to, but I still refuse to share a bed in case I wake in the middle of the night to find myself strangling my bed mate. I think I've been forced to share a bed maybe twice in the past twenty four years. I used to when i was a kid and early teenager, but when I got to my late teens it suddenly clicked that if I wasn't careful, I could do someone a great deal of violence and be effectively still asleep when I did so. I'm slightly over halfway through my statistical lifespan and I haven't hurt anyone... yet.

 

[Shidoen]

I don't get nearly as many night terrors as I used to, but I still refuse to share a bed in case I wake in the middle of the night to find myself strangling my bed mate. I think I've been forced to share a bed maybe twice in the past twenty four years. I used to when i was a kid and early teenager, but when I got to my late teens it suddenly clicked that if I wasn't careful, I could do someone a great deal of violence and be effectively still asleep when I did so. I'm slightly over halfway through my statistical lifespan and I haven't hurt anyone... yet.

Same deal with me, it’s why I keep my gun inside my nightstand and not on top of it anymore.

 

[skjora]

The most mentally relaxing thing I know of is to do manual labor while listening to an audiobook. The former helps me focus on the latter and vice versa. I just exist in this bubble of work and narrative.

 

[The Cunting Death]

My grandpa fought in World War 2, Korea, and Vietnam. He volunteered for World War 2 when he was underage and spent 30 years of his life in the Marines, then sat on his ass for the rest of his life, watching cartoons and eating candy.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I used to be really good at Dance Dance Revolution

One time at a game works I ended up to a Full Combo heavy on the song Captain Jack Grandale Mix, by the end of the song I put so much energy into the song I actually passed out. My brother was playing with me and he caught me just as I almost hit my head on the hand rail on the Dance pad. The shock from that got me to wake up

 

[Steam Deck Verified]

I haven't thrown up since 2006. I don't drink and never have, and I haven't had the stomach flu since then, so it's just never happened. And for some reason I can still remember exactly what I was thinking and in the middle of doing that day in 2006 unlike actually important or historically significant flashbulb memories where I can only remember where I was at.