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Polo-Rican
Jul 4, 2004

emptyquote my posts or die
What do aliens smell like? has anyone talked about this? do they use deodorants / perfumes or are they fine rocking a "natural smell?"

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my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Polo-Rican posted:

What do aliens smell like? has anyone talked about this? do they use deodorants / perfumes or are they fine rocking a "natural smell?"

peanuts

endocriminologist
May 17, 2021

SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

(inncntsoul has left the game)

ARCHON_MASTER:lol
MAMMON69:lol
Where do you think perfume comes from. we pay them for their piss

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

If nothing else these Monroe tapes really help with my anxiety. Feelin' good right now, thanks doc

That Spooky Witch
Jun 16, 2017

All hail the triune god

Barry Foster posted:

Do you find there's a tangible, bodily feeling/action to making yourself 'hover'? When I have those dreams it's a very specific proprociative effect, it feels a little like tensing my core, but not exactly. Like you have to keep yourself 'tight' so as not to sink back to the ground again. It's such that I can almost recreate that feeling/action irl, except of course I don't actually levitate lol

I like to fly in my lucid dreams, I jump, then glide/hover, and I haven't been able to put words to the thing I do for it, but its like tensing the core yeah! its like a firming focus that kinda harmonizes in a certain way when I do it right

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

Everyone here just having lucid dreams? Is this common?!?! This was my first one and I tried hard to do it!

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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Polo-Rican posted:

What do aliens smell like? has anyone talked about this? do they use deodorants / perfumes or are they fine rocking a "natural smell?"

in Communion, Strieber describes the scent of his contact experience:

Whitley Strieber posted:

The one to my right replied, "Oh, OK, I can do that," in a similar voice, speaking very rapidly, and held his hand against my face, cradling my head with his other hand. The odor was distinct, and gave me exactly what I needed, an anchor in reality. It remained the most convincing aspect of the whole memory, because that odor was completely indistinguishable from a real one. It did not seem in any way a dream experience or a hallucination. I remembered it as an actual smell.

There was a slight scent of cardboard to it, as if the sleeve of the coverall that was partly pressed against my face were made of some substance like paper. The hand itself had a faint but distinctly organic sourness in its odor. It was not a human smell, but it was unmistakably the smell of something alive. There was a subtle overtone that seemed a little like cinnamon.

so at least according to him they be stinky animals just like us.

Log082
Nov 8, 2008


skewetoo posted:

Everyone here just having lucid dreams? Is this common?!?! This was my first one and I tried hard to do it!

You're not alone, I've had a handful of lucid dreams over my life and immediately woken up.

The Chad Jihad
Feb 24, 2007


I get them every couple months, but I always waste them doing things that perhaps I shouldn't

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

skewetoo posted:

Everyone here just having lucid dreams? Is this common?!?! This was my first one and I tried hard to do it!

i had years and years of the same repeating nightmares from a traumatic childhood...had to train myself to wake up from them. the rest of it just came down the pipeline naturally. once you can reliably "get" that youre dreaming in the moment it gets easier.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

in Communion, Strieber describes the scent of his contact experience:

so at least according to him they be stinky animals just like us.

It's fun how often a sour milk smell comes up in relation to alien abductions. One of those weird details that seems to come up way more than random chance.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Sour milk and cinnamon smell, huh?

Sounds like these bastards are harvesting our PSLs

D-Pad
Jun 28, 2006

I had frequent lucid dreams when I was a kid. Now I only have them every few months. If I started doing a dream journal and the other recommended stuff I am sure I could have them quite frequently. I always either fly or gently caress.

One weird thing about my dreams is 99.9% of them never have people I know in them. It's almost always strangers. Often times people I know will feature in my dreams, but they won't be there. Like my wife will be mad at me or I lost my kid or something, but they are never actually in the same place as me. Most of the time not even that, just all strangers.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

The Saucer Hovers posted:

oh yeah, very similar feeling. this is crass and unhelpful if we dont share a gender, but for me its like clenching your vans deferens. its very much an in dream body thing, not dreamy brain thoughts.

this is not a joke answer im kinda wishing it was now that ive typed it.

That Spooky Witch posted:

I like to fly in my lucid dreams, I jump, then glide/hover, and I haven't been able to put words to the thing I do for it, but its like tensing the core yeah! its like a firming focus that kinda harmonizes in a certain way when I do it right

Haha, far out! :D I really wasn't expecting other people to have had the same experience/sensation, that's wild


D-Pad posted:

I had frequent lucid dreams when I was a kid. Now I only have them every few months. If I started doing a dream journal and the other recommended stuff I am sure I could have them quite frequently. I always either fly or gently caress.

One weird thing about my dreams is 99.9% of them never have people I know in them. It's almost always strangers. Often times people I know will feature in my dreams, but they won't be there. Like my wife will be mad at me or I lost my kid or something, but they are never actually in the same place as me. Most of the time not even that, just all strangers.

Yeah, my more vivid dreams are usually about people I don't know but know really well in my dreams. I've never been more in love than I have been in dreams with people I've never met. Absolute soul mate stuff.

This makes me feel obscurely guilty. I treasure the memories but have never told my partner.

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Sour milk and cinnamon smell, huh?

Sounds like these bastards are harvesting our PSLs

pinealgland sucking lips

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

Sucking and loving on the astral. Makes sense

A Spherical Sponge
Nov 28, 2010

D-Pad posted:

I had frequent lucid dreams when I was a kid. Now I only have them every few months. If I started doing a dream journal and the other recommended stuff I am sure I could have them quite frequently. I always either fly or gently caress.

One weird thing about my dreams is 99.9% of them never have people I know in them. It's almost always strangers. Often times people I know will feature in my dreams, but they won't be there. Like my wife will be mad at me or I lost my kid or something, but they are never actually in the same place as me. Most of the time not even that, just all strangers.

I get lucid dreams every few months. One of the more memorable ones involved me walking down a promenade lined with trees with my dad and brother, in a sort of early summer setting. There were black helicopters hovering in the distance, behind me, which I could feel. I achieved a measure of lucidity and I started noticing that the structure of my perception was different to how it usually is in conscious experience; as in, my vision didn't vary smoothly from one moment to the next, but was structured in sort of short periods of movement followed by a total restructuring of the scene, a bit further along. My proprioception would flutter between embodiment and a sort of 'eye in the sky' omniscient viewpoint of the scene.

Eventually, I turned to my dad, who up until now I had been interacting with normally as he had been in character, and I asked him, if this is a dream, and everything here is a projection of my consciousness, then who are you? Instead of replying, he just sort of stared at me with an incredibly unsettling smile on his face, and his eyes, though they looked normal on the surface, took on the quality of a dark pit, and I began to feel a deep sense of dread as I pressed him for a response and the black helicopters circling overhead began to get louder. I decided I didn't want to stay there any longer and woke myself up. I don't ask those sorts of questions any more, and generally try to avoid people who look like people I know in my dreams if I become lucid.

The Demilich
Apr 9, 2020

The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.



Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Sour milk and cinnamon smell, huh?

Sounds like these bastards are harvesting our PSLs

So bad horchata, got it.

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


I have a dreamscape that is very regular that I can map out to a degree, based on an assembly of various places I have lived. It has a subway system as well, although that is rather chaotic. Within this dreamscape are various regular smaller settings in which specific dreams take place. The thing about it is that this "town" varies in time, from its earliest construction in a mostly open landscape, to an abandoned ruin, and with everything in between. Apparently this is common to people from the times I have searched.

I also have my anxiety dreams in which I am in a room of neglected pets (mostly fish and reptiles in tanks) or absolutely filthy washrooms with open piping spraying water all over. Again, these are apparently common themes (although the last is often the result of a bladder needing attention rather than processing some deep trauma).

I should probably chill the gently caress out sometime.

staticman
Sep 12, 2008

Be gay
Death to America
Suck my dick Israel
Mess with Texas
and remember to lmao
uhhhhhhh
https://twitter.com/Tweetie72380220/status/1454047716493774849

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


skewetoo posted:

I did it!!!! I broke through into the dream world!!!! Can say with confidence that hemi sync works. Took about a month of practice.

Was in a dream (the mall dream) when I suddenly realized I was dreaming. I then purposefully tried not to get too hyped about it so that I don’t excite myself and wake myself up. Tried to manipulate the dream world with some success. Feels like I could mould or push and pull the dream in certain directions but not like directly controlling what is happening or the outcome. I was a character with some control, not a director.

A character (entity?) in the dream world was trying to be all nightmarish and scary maybe not realizing I was in control of the dream and when I challenged it by being scary and powerful myself it appeared to hesitate and take a step back and I got the impression of surprise from whatever I was interacting with. Then I immediately woke up.

:stoked:

Watch out nightmares. I’m coming for you!

that's cool. count me in as another person who just randomly has lucid dreams at times, despite never having gone to bed with the intention of having lucid dreams.

brains are weird


Bilirubin posted:

I have a dreamscape that is very regular that I can map out to a degree, based on an assembly of various places I have lived. It has a subway system as well, although that is rather chaotic. Within this dreamscape are various regular smaller settings in which specific dreams take place. The thing about it is that this "town" varies in time, from its earliest construction in a mostly open landscape, to an abandoned ruin, and with everything in between. Apparently this is common to people from the times I have searched.

I have a similar thing going on sometimes. My most recent one is an alternate reality version of the bay area, with a very specific street that i always end up walking down, lined with commercial buildings. It's always the middle of the night, and the end goal is always the same: take a bus home. But the details of what i do are different every time (sometime i'll go inside a building, get some food, whatever), and while dreaming i remember the previous dreams in the same setting and think "oh i'm here again". So far I always wake up from that dream world before i get home.

also i remember having multiple dreams as a kid where i was flying over my neighborhood, and was aware that i was dreaming. It was so long ago i cant remember much detail about them, aside from the weightless flying feeling and looking down on rows of houses and my elementary school, and the fact that i could make myself wake up by doing something specific...clenching my hands maybe?

a great way to trigger vivid/lucid dreams is to smoke a poo poo ton of weed (mostly kills ur ability to dream) and then take a lil break, which makes the dream part of ur brain freak out for a few days. I've had random lucid dreams throughout my life, but maybe that would also work for someone who rarely/never has them.

D-Pad posted:

I had frequent lucid dreams when I was a kid. Now I only have them every few months. If I started doing a dream journal and the other recommended stuff I am sure I could have them quite frequently. I always either fly or gently caress.

One weird thing about my dreams is 99.9% of them never have people I know in them. It's almost always strangers. Often times people I know will feature in my dreams, but they won't be there. Like my wife will be mad at me or I lost my kid or something, but they are never actually in the same place as me. Most of the time not even that, just all strangers.

I often see people i know in my dreams. Though i guess in the lucid ones they tend to be in the background or unseen (they're on the phone maybe, or i'm going to visit them), and i don't interact directly with them.

brains and dreams are hella cool. Makes me wish there is a UFO connection to all of this. i wanna traverse the astral plane with some bird buddies

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Barry Foster posted:

Do you find there's a tangible, bodily feeling/action to making yourself 'hover'? When I have those dreams it's a very specific proprociative effect, it feels a little like tensing my core, but not exactly. Like you have to keep yourself 'tight' so as not to sink back to the ground again. It's such that I can almost recreate that feeling/action irl, except of course I don't actually levitate lol

yeah, it's like flexing muscles, flying for me is kind of awkward to be super honest. the g-forces get disorienting even in a dream or sleep paralysis. The act of careening up into the sky rapidly, decellerating, turning , and all that, is pretty wild and it feels like... systematic? it doesn't feel like my brain is just justifying my presence in the air, but that in order to be there I had to manipulate a system that allows me to create force/lift such that i can throw my body through the sky.

Going back down is... interesting. The g-forces make it hard to focus but it's mostly a controlled crash?

Sometimes I manage to do these things with some grace, but I always feel awkward when whatever is happening is making me take off, land, or hell even fighting in the sky. Doing goku poo poo while managing your exact position in the air is loving hard lol

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

What if uaps are manifestations of our dream bodies
:hmmyes:

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


skewetoo posted:

What if waps are manifestations of our dream bodies
:hmmyes:

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1463279743961378821

salisbury shake
Dec 27, 2011
This thread would probably enjoy New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove. The guy does interviews with strange experts on strange topics. He's done a lot of videos on parapsychology and related things over the years.

It's my opinion that it's a grift, but the videos are produced well and so are the interviews, so someone here might find some value in them: https://www.youtube.com/c/NewThinkingAllowed/videos

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

We really need to do more to try and break this 'grift/op vs real' dichotomy people have in their heads. It is both real AND a grift and/or op, that's like, the key to actually understanding any of this.

Kind of like: dowsing is a grift, but also there very much is water under the ground you can dig down to and drink, and we knew this long before geological surveys existed.

Rickshaw
Apr 11, 2004

just a coconut going for a stroll

salisbury shake posted:

This thread would probably enjoy New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove. The guy does interviews with strange experts on strange topics. He's done a lot of videos on parapsychology and related things over the years.

It's my opinion that it's a grift, but the videos are produced well and so are the interviews, so someone here might find some value in them: https://www.youtube.com/c/NewThinkingAllowed/videos

Quality varies wildly but his early public access stuff is great

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Slavvy posted:

We really need to do more to try and break this 'grift/op vs real' dichotomy people have in their heads. It is both real AND a grift and/or op, that's like, the key to actually understanding any of this.

Kind of like: dowsing is a grift, but also there very much is water under the ground you can dig down to and drink, and we knew this long before geological surveys existed.

yeah the only people who aren't grifting are independently wealthy guys like Bigelow or Delonge, even UFO disclosure advocates have to pay the bills

are there pure grifters who are only in it for that? sure. does the grift get in the way of the desire for disclosure? no doubt. but I'd like the believe Greer really does believe in his heart of hearts

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

who will grift the grifters themselves?

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

excited for trumps 2024 campaign during which he just blurts out everything he knows mid campaign speech because he can’t control himself

Sleekly
Aug 21, 2008



Wheeee posted:

excited for trumps 2024 campaign during which he just blurts out everything he knows mid campaign speech because he can’t control himself

if someone showed him "comms" from the galactic fed calling him strong and poo poo he 100% would spill it publicly

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Wheeee posted:

excited for trumps 2024 campaign during which he just blurts out everything he knows mid campaign speech because he can’t control himself

gives a longwinded yet vague description of majestic12 as if it really happened, followed by "well, thats what they say. i don't believe it. what a country, right folks!?"

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


skewetoo posted:

What if uaps are manifestations of our dream bodies
:hmmyes:

my dream body is not nearly mobile enough to do that

i can hardly walk when that giant crab is chasing me let alone zip around trolling fighter jets

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Sleekly posted:

if someone showed him "comms" from the galactic fed calling him strong and poo poo he 100% would spill it publicly

i still love that one anecdote where it was clear that people were trying to tell him some poo poo and he was just like "nah that's boring go away"

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Rah! posted:

brains and dreams are hella cool. Makes me wish there is a UFO connection to all of this. i wanna traverse the astral plane with some bird buddies
I would be 110% up for a goon UFO meetup. couple of nights down in the Nevada desert looking at Area 51, chilling out with people from this thread, and eventually being chased off by black helicopters, what's not to like?

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

GWBBQ posted:

what's not to like?

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

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WEH
Feb 22, 2009

lmfao

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