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So im drunk....m Just watch pies smash blues in rnd 1 and we smacked em with Russell in the team. .lol geez carlton shite me as an afl team always trying to buy a premiership never want to win one by trying to recruit and train their own always have to buy a player rather than create one......it really grinds my gears......and whats with that lindsay lohan...purple monkey dishwasher. ...im out...peace!

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I would like to apologize for making you feel bad yesterday.

I have just awoken from a nightmare, and it was me being expelled from school for fighting with too many people. After that dream, I had another which was me being in a horror movie. It was in a torture room with this girl who was really bl*ody. None of this was lucid so I was struggling and sweating the whole time. So I thought my brain was telling me that I was truly the offender yesterday, which some assholes tried to show by liking your posts and not mine.

After I woke up (a minute ago) I thought I needed to apologize for yesterday. I am also currently moody because of the results I will receive on Monday, which is making me stressed and anxious. But once again, I'm sorry.

Although I still do think air horning is not has worse as the usual knick knocking and other jokes. Anyway, back to sleep.

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Wow, that is a powerful story, TheFreshBanana. Please, please, please seek help if you are still going through this, or if you go through it again in the future. You don't have to struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts in silence. We'll always be here for you if you need someone to talk to.:hearts:
 

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I would like to apologize for making you feel bad yesterday.

I have just awoken from a nightmare, and it was me being expelled from school for fighting with too many people. After that dream, I had another which was me being in a horror movie. It was in a torture room with this girl who was really bl*ody. None of this was lucid so I was struggling and sweating the whole time. So I thought my brain was telling me that I was truly the offender yesterday, which some assholes tried to show by liking your posts and not mine.

After I woke up (a minute ago) I thought I needed to apologize for yesterday. I am also currently moody because of the results I will receive on Monday, which is making me stressed and anxious. But once again, I'm sorry.

Although I still do think air horning is not has worse as the usual knick knocking and other jokes. Anyway, back to sleep.

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I literally just woke up from a jump where I just snapped and started breaking stuff for no apparent reason. That was weird, because I'm not an aggressive person at all, but it felt kind of therapeutic in a way. Man, I love some of the crazy shit I dream about.:p

And now I'm curious as to what the deleted discussion was, but I probably shouldn't bring it up again.
 

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Also, in regards to the religious discussion, I personally don't believe in God, but I don't really care if others do, as long as it isn't hurting anybody. As soon as crosses into Westboro Baptist Church territory, where they're saying hateful things like "God hates fags" and picketing dead soldiers funerals and claiming that natural disasters were a message from God against homosexual people, then I regard those people as absolute scum. The human race is incredibly diverse, so why the f*ck do you care if two men or two women love each other? No amount of attacking them is going to ever change that.

I also don't like when people try to push religion onto me. I didn't come from a religious background, so it's always been kind of odd when I've known someone from a religious family. I remember being friends with someone that was from a massively Christian family and he wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons because they often poke fun at religion (and that's only occasionally too). Every other kid watched it, so when he came over for a sleepover once I decided to show him The Simpsons. When his mum found out, she went off her nut.

Looking back on it, if your faith in God was so strong, then surely you can handle a lighthearted jab at religion? Your faith couldn't be that strong if you feel challenged by a little joke on a cartoon show. It seems kind of hypocritical to push your religion on someone else and then not being able to handle someone having a different idea to you. The only thing not watching The Simpsons was doing to this kid was alienating him everybody else, because everybody used to quote the previous night's episode at school the next day.

Anyway, this is a really complex topic with a lot of different angles to consider.
 
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I literally just woke up from a jump where I just snapped and started breaking stuff for no apparent reason. That was weird, because I'm not an aggressive person at all, but it felt kind of therapeutic in a way. Man, I love some of the crazy shit I dream about.:p

And now I'm curious as to what the deleted discussion was, but I probably shouldn't bring it up again.
Sometimes I get feelings in dreams. Eg, once I dreamt of a really obese person sitting on me, and I felt the pressure on my shoulders and felt pain. I woke up full on sweating and hurt.
 
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Also, I'll share a personal story about how I officially considered myself atheist, and how this has empowered me in my own way. Note, this is a very long, very personal and very dark story that is 100% true. Which is why I've put it in spoilers, if you don't want to read it, you don't have to. If you think I'm an idiot for posting it, then you are probably right.

Up to, maybe 3 months ago, I had always considered myself Agnostic. Although, I had never really believed God to be real, and had always thought that if he was, then he's just a massive douche and when I see him I'd probably give him a big **** you, I always found myself praying to God in extremely tough times, so there always that little bit of faith inside me, which is why I had considered myself Agnostic.

Now, when I actually told someone who believed in God, this, they came up with a decent point that God probably never came to my calls, because of these opinions of him. True, but what a massive douche, eh?

Anyway, 3 months ago, I went through a massive depressive episode at my uni, Australian Catholic University (ACU). So bad, that I decided to seek God for guidance. I went to their church, and sat there for about half an hour to an hour, just praying, begging, for help or just a reason to live. You know what happened? My best friend called me. I literally sat there, with my mouth open, absolutely shocked at the turn of events. However, I didn't tell him anything. But I still wasn't a believer, and I hadn't been saved yet. I knew who I wanted to talk to about it, a girl who I had been attending lectures with all semester, and I knew she was still at uni and I knew I needed her support. It was imperative. So, I texted her, to have a chat and she knew it was something serious too, because we were in a lecture before this. I told God, just give me this, let me have this chat, and I'll forever be in your thanks. Basically, this was my turning point whether or not I was to believe in God. And I thought what I was asking, was a small thing to ask, just a coffee with a friend. She agreed, we would meet after her class. I got up, left to go meet her, and on the way there, I receive a text saying "sorry, I have to go see a friend of mine", and that was that.

In the end, I spent the rest of the night thinking about that experience and came with 2 conclusions. Either 1) There is no God or 2) there is no God for me.

That night, I tried to kill myself. I didn't succeed because I'm too weak to do it and there always was that shred of will to live I suppose. However, the pain was still there. So, if I was unable to end the pain by suicide, I had to figure out another way. I had decided that there was no God, and that the pain, depression and etc. will not just magically go away. I decided that if I were to live in this world, I have to do all that I can to make myself strong enough to withstand anything.
I couldn't be stuffed reading this at first, but then after reactions from other posters I had to read it. I too have had succumbed to depression due to family reasons. I grew up seeing a lot of shit and violence domestically that no child should be exposed too. If you have ever read the novel 1984 (dont know why I said bb), well that's how I think I am treated within my family, very isolated and being watched most times. What I did is I spoke to MANY friends personally, which helped me a lot. Try and find friends that are going through the same stuff as you and it helps more. I love annoying people, even do it online if you are too embarassed to speak to friends, eg I annoy the shit out of DThomas and Magpie Girl when asking them for advice for overcoming personal issues. They are helping me resolve them and are helping me become an adult. If that doesn't work, call headspace, I didn't call them but they would help you.

All the best
 
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Sometimes I get feelings in dreams. Eg, once I dreamt of a really obese person sitting on me, and I felt the pressure on my shoulders and felt pain. I woke up full on sweating and hurt.
I dreamt about falling and I woke up before I hit the ground but I swear I was floating above the bed because felt the impact while awake !
 

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I dreamt about falling and I woke up before I hit the ground but I swear I was floating above the bed because felt the impact while awake !
I just watched a doco about that.. it's a reflex from when we were monkeys and living in trees..

When we fall asleep our muscles relax and sometimes the body perceives it as falling and jerks us awake lest we fall out of the tree from a great height

Oh and hiccupping is from when we were fish and learning to breath air as well, a reflex that changed from one mode (air or water) to the other.. completely useless now and flat out annoying o_O
 
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I dreamt about falling and I woke up before I hit the ground but I swear I was floating above the bed because felt the impact while awake !
Yeah hinequaters is right. It happens to 5% of people in the world apparently, you and I are two of them. It is just a reflex, apparently when you are about to sleep your brain tries to relax all your muscles but suddenly you get a reflex or something because you are relaxing too much
 
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I just watched a doco about that.. it's a reflex from when we were monkeys and living in trees..

When we fall asleep our muscles relax and sometimes the body perceives it as falling and jerks us awake lest we fall out of the tree from a great height

Oh and hiccupping is from when we were fish and learning to breath air as well, a reflex that changed from one mode (air or water) to the other.. completely useless now and flat out annoying o_O
There's another theory on this - that sometimes when we fall asleep we leave our body, and that jerking is coming back into the body:)
 

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I just watched a doco about that.. it's a reflex from when we were monkeys and living in trees..

When we fall asleep our muscles relax and sometimes the body perceives it as falling and jerks us awake lest we fall out of the tree from a great height

Oh and hiccupping is from when we were fish and learning to breath air as well, a reflex that changed from one mode (air or water) to the other.. completely useless now and flat out annoying o_O
I get that sometimes, just about to fall asleep then in my dream-like state I trip or fall inside the dream and I jerk awake :oops: quiet annoying !

Interesting to find out why it occurs
 
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