Thank God I'm still alive! I have to write something about a disturbing experience just so I could preserve the lingering effect it had on me. Today, after eating lunch with my bf, I decided to take a nap - a nap that turned into a death-defying experience.
Have you ever experienced "urom"? It's a Cebuano term for its closest English counterpart "nightmare" but it's more than just a nightmare. If you've experienced this phenomenon, you're one of the lucky people who surpassed it. If it's been randomly recurring in your lifetime, then let me give you some notes so you could survive once more!
- a person undergoes a period of sleep paralysis so the body couldn't move for split seconds to even long agonizing minutes
- hyperventilation, sweating and irregular breathing pattern
- it's usually associated with great fear or other strong emotions
- you perceive things very vividly that you construe reality from mere perception (lucid dreaming may occur-you can control the things around you and the events that you want to happen in that distorted reality)
And the most difficult part is to realize that you're under a dream.
You must wake up before it's all too late!
So how do you check reality?
1. Try to navigate the place - go out and explore as much as you can!
2. We've been surrounded by technology, so check if your gadgets don't fail. My personal accounts: can't call or send text messages using mobile phone, can't send email or IM, light switch malfunctioned
If TECHNOLOGY fails in such circumstances, then there's 80-90% probability that you're dreaming!
3. Stare and concentrate on one object for seconds and if it changes while staring at it, then wake up because if you don't have a mental problem, you must be DREAMING!
If you've checked reality and you are strongly convinced that you're lost in a dream, the next problem would be to wake your body up before it physiologically shuts down and leave you in an infinite state of limbo - an understatement of DEATH!
Now, how do you push yourself to wake up?
1. Look at your hands and shake them as much as you can! Or move your pinky finger!
2. Stomp your feet to the ground with force!
3. Grab or reach anything around you with all your might until you get it!
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These tips will surely be of great help but you can never cheat DEATH! After all, no one knows when your time comes! To die while sleeping is better than to wake up in a hell-like Earth and eventually die because of humanity's animosity!
(PS: My death-defying experience is yet to be continued because I'm too sleepy and ready to experience another dream! Hopefully, it's something inspiring this time!)
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:12 pmasa man ka nakadungog ana ba? Kinsa man gasulti ana ba?
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:52 pmyep..blogging is not exhibitionism.im not a blogger but i bet,writers or bloggers get satisfied only when we get some feedback.a reality one can never deny.why not keep a personal diary instead if one does not intend to let others know our thoughts?then,bloggers must be somehow waitng for response..BUT that is way way far from exhibitionism..
June 24th, 2006 at 1:24 amthen again what is his/her definition of exhibitionism?hmmm..?
June 24th, 2006 at 2:12 amexhibitionism….
indecent and compulsive exposure of the genitals in public to acquire attention… saonz!!!
June 24th, 2006 at 4:42 amdamn!!! asa ka nkadungog ana cham? im a blogger although dli au ko maka post daily, still you know me to be the blogger na mu-share jud sa iya feelings bwt, almost everything…exhibitionism? haller?! i agree with grace, its way far from blogging…blogging is one way of expressing ourselves, not exposing ourselves!!!! duh?!!!?
June 24th, 2006 at 5:45 ammulang… pero sowee mara i cant tell u knsay nisulti anah…ahihi… i still respect her… bsag mean kaau iyang comment bout blogging…ahihihihi… ^_^
June 24th, 2006 at 8:06 pmi beg to disagree.
exhibitionism para nako, is deriving pleasure from showing a part of yourself to others, and not just on physical terms.
blogging is still part exhibitionism. i mean, why not? being an exhib doesnt have to be all about sex y’know. defy the borders of basic dictionary meaning. if you bare yourself for people to see, and actually get the kick out of it, that is exhibitionism.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:09 ampsychologically or psychiatrically speaking, exhibitionism is the incapability of the mind to control the compulsive exposure of oneself, not necessarily the genitals, to attract public attention. in short it’s an abnormal act… a deviation from the norm!
you can’t blame us, psych studs for perceiving things scientifically…or even if we try to defy the borders of basic dictionary meaning, we still couldnt get the negative impact of the term itself! it isnt just the appropriate term to describe blogging… it could have been sumthing that’s positive in its sense…
i have nothing against those who feel to disagree with me…everyone’s comment is respected… and im happy that we’re trying to exercise the art of argumentation…^_^
June 30th, 2006 at 6:54 amhey… ingna cya ha… pabasaha sa akong blog, basin ma.usab iyang definition sa ‘exhibitionism’… pero i’m not saying i’m ‘flashing’ something there… just tell her to visit natio… basin makasabot cya sa difference.
& if ngpatagad jud ang mga bloggers, so be it… with her mere comment, it just proves that she pays attention 2 d blogger’s alleged endeavor. hahaha!
July 2nd, 2006 at 9:10 pmi think that people react basically to what society is considered as a standard..and yes exhibitionism does have a sexual cum negative impact to the ears..but the nothing is, you go beyond the dictionary meaning, because really, its only a matter of perspective.
July 5th, 2006 at 7:38 amsoweee ass di ko ka dare mo ingon sa iyaha…
yeah it’s a matter of perspective rah… but may unta kung ang perspective sa mga taw kay positive… di mn gud nimo ma help kay ang nature sa word nega na gud… how wud u actually shift the perspective from negative to positive.
July 8th, 2006 at 4:51 amexhibitionism…hmmm… makadawat pa ko’s ksp nga word better than dat. however dependnt mn xa’s paggamit. remember meaning varies (possibly radically) upon the writer, the reader, and the dictionary.
i blv the word’s a bit harsh to descryb this act of self expression. we blog coz we wnt to share (hope that someone shares) our sentimnts w/ us. basta! the word’s just not the ryt one.
July 8th, 2006 at 8:56 ammu jed… wrong kaau ang word…^:)^
July 17th, 2006 at 1:11 amsory na jud cham nag kamali ra to si u know.. hehe… impulsive ra to oi… nyahahaha. maybe wala xa kasuway ug blog.. iya mistake ato kay iya cguro gi generalize, cguro kay naay mga blogger na nag exhibtion nyahahahaha
July 17th, 2006 at 9:49 ambtaw… i knw la jud to niya gi mean… la mn sad ko nasuko… im just trying to defend “US”… ahiihihi.. mga vlogers…^_^