The Bridge

kalina

6:00 PM

@OrigamiRobot this will be me, I will be properly late for work for at least a week

tiddy

DST happened on a saturday

FEichinger

@RonanForman uh ... huh?

tiddy

I don't understand why people just don't sleep in

Ben Brocka

I still haven't bothered to learn how to change the car's clock

Powerlord

@BenBrocka Mine's easy. Hold the left small button until the hours start changing.

tiddy

6:01 PM

or go to sleep an hour sooner

Coronus

@tiddy Always Sunday at 2AM here

tiddy

Same here

sunday morning

Powerlord

Then wait for it to go completely around again because you didn't let go soon enough.

Ben Brocka

Mine's an analog clock and I have no idea how it works

OrigamiRobot

@kalina My crazy hallucinations/dreams are getting more memorable.

Blem

6:01 PM

it is 19 now, so there is dinner, cu later people, and thanks for the upvotes

Powerlord

At least my latest alarm clock has an auto-time set feature!

tiddy

er I meant saturday night/sunday morning

OrigamiRobot

I dreamed that I was connected to a machine that pumped out tiredness and pumped in energy.

tiddy

I believe Russia doesn't use DST

kalina

@OrigamiRobot awww

Grace Note

6:02 PM

@BenBrocka Tick, tock, tick, tock~

kalina

ah, that thing that ever system admin hates

OrigamiRobot

When I woke up, I thought "I need more of those machines next time" for a good 10 minutes while I staggered about.

kalina

that user that breaks all of their security by using logmein to access their work PC

Grace Note

Hah, LogMeIn.

I remember when I had to deal with that.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Blem Why wait? There's no reason to delay! You should have copper now!

Ben Brocka

6:03 PM

@GraceNote Not quite that kind. It's silent, it's just analog so it looks like another dial, besides the revs/Speedometer

@GraceNote I hated TErraria so much for making me use that garbage

Grace Note

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Heeheeheehaahahahahahaaaheheheeeeheeeeheeee.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina What? Do they not know how to RDP?

kalina

@OrigamiRobot we aren't allowed to RDP into our network

we're not allowed any remote connections actually

Grace Note

@BenBrocka Does it look like Totoro?

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot I hate those super realistic dreams that it takes a while to figure out were impossible

fbueckert

6:04 PM

@kalina Shouldn't the admins have locked down that ability?

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Ohohoh to their work PC not from.

kalina

@fbueckert our sysadmins don't notice anything

Ben Brocka

@GraceNote I'm afraid to ask what sort of clocks you have now

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko That is every single morning for me.

fbueckert

@kalina I'd like a job where I don't have to actually do anything to justify my paycheck.

kalina

6:04 PM

like the 10mb email that has been bouncing around between all our implementation consultants and must equate to several gb of emails by now

@fbueckert shrug

if we had good sysadmins I'd have probably been fired by now

Grace Note

@BenBrocka I have several analog clocks that make a tick tock noise, plus an analog clock that looks like Totoro (it does tick, just very faintly), and then a bunch of digital clocks of varying boringness.

Ben Brocka

@SaintWacko I've had to check my email/twitter to see if something really happened or not before

tiddy

Well they can prevent known behavior or deny known IPs, but sysadmins aren't going to be watching live logs..

kalina

@tiddy I used to play WoW from work

Grace Note

@SaintWacko What if your dream convinces you that what you previously thought was impossible was, in fact, possible?

kalina

6:06 PM

I also have Steam and Ventrilo installed on my work pc

and downloaded RAGE via the company network when it was released

Grace Note

Basically, that you doubted that you were in reality and you thought, indeed, "I must be in a dream", but then you dream convinced you that you were not actually dreaming, but indeed, that things had happened.

tiddy

Is that a common occurrence or are you one of the few

fbueckert

@kalina You're like the user from hell.

kalina

+ frequently transfer movies and tv shows via rdp

FEichinger

@kalina You are that kind of person? ...

kalina

6:07 PM

and only use the web via RDP

SaintWacko

@GraceNote I've never doubted I was in reality during a dream

kalina

@FEichinger how rude

fbueckert

The type of user I'd frequently have to close holes for, just because you keep finding a way around them.

kalina

@fbueckert I definitely keep finding my way around them

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Do you like Full House?

fbueckert

6:08 PM

I'd probably just lock down your computer to hell and back, and have to whitelist everything.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot never heard of it

fbueckert

Less work in the long run.

kalina

@fbueckert not possible, I require unfettered access to do my job

tiddy

Then yeah, you should be fired

kalina

@tiddy I do more work than most people in my team, why should I be fired?

OrigamiRobot

6:08 PM

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FEichinger

@kalina Then that'd be a daily call to IT, or a meeting with HR.

fbueckert

@kalina Too bad, you're not getting it.

tiddy

You're a security risk

Grace Note

@SaintWacko Excluding lucid dreaming, there was a particular dream that I had a vague inclination of it. Up until I went to sleep in the dream, had a dream about my bed at home with my scarf on it (I was at college at this time, so I knew that it wasn't reality but instead a dream about reality), woke back up, and the lady of the house I was staying at had this smirk as she commented on the fact that she told me so.

kalina

@tiddy I am not a security risk

tiddy

6:09 PM

I'd assume you're violating a bunch of work policies

kalina

@tiddy this is debatable, the wording is vague and inconsistent

It only says I'm not allowed to install pirated software, and I've never done that

tiddy

I'm not making this personal, objectively, it sounds like your activities give them grounds for termination

kalina

@tiddy I don't disagree with this

tiddy

So at least be careful

kalina

@tiddy I am

FEichinger

6:10 PM

"vague and inconsistent" = "HR says 'Get the hell out!'"

kalina

I'm also exceptionally good at what I do

@FEichinger my last run in with HR wasn't pretty

for them, I mean

fbueckert

@kalina You sit there and browse the web all day, and let the scripts run.

kalina

@fbueckert pff

I wrote the scripts

I think you're giving me too little credit here

Grace Note

I think that dream is actually one of the only times I've ever, in-character, considered anything remotely like "I wonder if this is all a dream".

fbueckert

@kalina I'm not saying you didn't write them. I'm saying that doesn't mean you're doing a good job.

Kudos to you for being able to do what you do and get paid for it. Sometimes, I wish I could do that.

kalina

6:12 PM

@fbueckert The statistics state otherwise, I make the least mistakes per install or upgrade I do, my installations are always 100% consistent with the process, I do them faster than everybody else and I'm flexible with what I do and when

fbueckert

But if I'm not doing something productive, I tend to go stir-crazy.

kalina

do you mainly only use chat at work?

OrigamiRobot

@kalina The Hawkeye Pierce Job Security Method

Grace Note

You see in a lot of writing and scripting, characters confronted with terrible realities that their first conclusion is "I must be dreaming, this can't be happening", in the sort of expectation that it is in fact a dream, but it's like, does anyone actually do that kind of thing when they actually dream?

fbueckert

@kalina Mostly at work.

Home is gaming time.

kalina

6:13 PM

@fbueckert we chat as much per day on average, if I'm skiving off on chat/arqade then so are you by your own standards

Ullallulloo

@Blem There?

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote Yes, I have.

SaintWacko

@kalina I keep all my personal stuff installed on my flash drive

Don't actually install any of that on the computer

kalina

@SaintWacko I've seen other employee's laptops, mine is fine by every standard you could think of

fbueckert

@kalina How much of what you currently do is scripted?

SaintWacko

6:14 PM

Actually, Solar 2 is installed here, because its installer is broken

kalina

All of my non-work stuff is in a folder called 'Nonwork' on the root of the drive and visible to anybody who looks

I don't hide the fact

I can also justify it for the various times I'm in hotels

Grace Note

With the aforementioned exception, personally, I've never done it, and with good reason. The occurrences in the dream are the reality of the setting, so nothing ever comes across as out-of-the-ordinary to warrant such a response. Even in the case that I did have doubts that ended up being quelled, I can't even think of anything in that sequence that would've made me think twice about it.

kalina

@fbueckert ranges on the activity, between 20% and 90%

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot A regular occurrence for you or just now and then, out of curiosity?

fbueckert

@kalina On average, I mean. My impression from what you've told me is that for the most part, your job is, "Click this script I wrote, it does 95% of my job."

kalina

6:16 PM

ok so today, I upgraded a site that had a bunch of database issues, all of the "upgrading" part was done with scripts (everybody else would have done it manually) and the fixing part was done by me

...using more scripts

that everybody else would have done by hand

tiddy

I'm just happy if I have a good app-generator script that gets me to "starting app-neutral" fast

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote It has only happened to me once before, but learning and developing dream trigger recognition is a crucial step to lucid dreaming for a lot of people who can do it.

Grace Note

I guess sometimes for me, it helps that I'm not really around to think or do anything in some of those dreams, so naturally it wouldn't be useful for me to think about what is reality.

fbueckert

@kalina Do you keep these scripts to yourself? Or have you tried to get the rest of your colleagues to use them?

tiddy

That wouldn't make much.....business sense

kalina

6:17 PM

@fbueckert some of them have been given out and some are used by others

some more have been offered but rejected due to lack of confidence

fbueckert

@kalina Oh, right, you work in a huge company.

kalina

not "huge"

~200 maybe

fbueckert

@kalina Do you need to fill out paperwork for everything?

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot I still have no idea what triggered my singular episode of lucid dreaming. I enjoyed that dream all the same, but sometimes I wonder if my conscious acknowledgement of the situation, while serving to be as non-interfering as possible, still altered the fundamental narrative that would've otherwise occurred.

kalina

we're supposed to, but I took a copy of the document and did some VBA to automate it

so I don't really do documentation

fbueckert

6:19 PM

@kalina Big company.

kalina

they have a fetish for spreadsheets

fbueckert

When you need to paper trail everything you do, it's a big company.

user15026

I took my hat off just now and it created so much static that my head now bears a great resemblance to Sonic the Hedgehog.

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OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I've had two episodes. One was wholly by accident, the other was me saying "I wonder if I'm dreaming" and doing a test.

tiddy

I work in a 500+ company and don't complete any paperwork

OrigamiRobot

6:20 PM

@kalina See? I'm totally not starring this.

Grace Note

The one episode of mine, just the thought crossed my mind and I decided to jump off a building and see if I could fly. The execution of the whole bit was very reminiscent of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

Ben Brocka

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kalina

@OrigamiRobot rolleyes

Ben Brocka

@AshleyNunn gotta hair fast

tugs

I've worked in a ~20 person company with the need for hourly time tracking.

user15026

6:21 PM

@BenBrocka rolls eyes

fbueckert

@tugs I also do hourly time tracking, and that's about the size of the company I work for.

Grace Note

I did in fact fly, by the by.

fbueckert

But that's because I get billed out on an hourly basis.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote That's quite the dangerous dream test.

tugs

For us it was just project management

tiddy

6:22 PM

I don't have any late nights or "overtime" so I'm happy to be salaried

FEichinger

@GraceNote You seem like a weird, weird person.

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot There were other inconsistencies (like the whole part where Robin Hood, as played by Picard, and the Sheriff of Nottingham, as played by Q, were having a go at it), but more relevantly my glasses frames were too boxy and my skirt length was too short for it to be real.

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kalina

@tiddy this, but saying that, I'm currently doing some additional work from home

or at least, waiting to get the go ahead to start

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/reality-checks.html

kalina

anybody would think that level of dedication deserves getting fired

FEichinger

6:24 PM

@GraceNote Sooo ... the skirt length? ... Okay.

kalina

@GraceNote you have some weird dreams

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn I recently discovered that my new comforter is very staticky. I can run my hands over it at night and see sparks jumping around

Grace Note

@kalina This barely even touches on the surface of it all. ♪

SaintWacko

@FEichinger Yeah, the Picard and Q stuff was perfectly normal

kalina

@GraceNote international woman of mystery

OrigamiRobot

6:26 PM

@GraceNote Tell her about me and the gorilla suit

FEichinger

@SaintWacko Oh, that made sense.

OrigamiRobot

Feb 13 at 20:40, by OrigamiRobot

One time, I had a fever dream that I was a ping pong ball factory.

tiddy

Off topic, but if anyone wants to see what, imo, is the worst fate on the planet - Watch Russia's Toughest Prisons on Netflix. Particularly the first segment "Black Dolphin Prison"

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Grace Note

I had a dream that took place in a school building of sorts. There was a lot going on that I didn't really remember well, and that I didn't write down. Some points I did write down were that I was invited to hide in a teacher's lounge, where a friendly teacher gave me a bag of cans of Pringles, two of which were Crazy Jalapeño flavor. And, as Origami notes, he was in the dream as a man dancing in front of the school wearing a gorilla suit (minus the mask).

tugs

6:31 PM

@GraceNote You keep a dream journal?

Grace Note

Yes, I do.

fbueckert

@GraceNote If I did that, I'd get hauled off to the loony bin, no question asked.

Grace Note

No one's hauled me off to a loony bin.

Powerlord

@GraceNote Or so you think.

Grace Note

Really, the only common responses I get about it are "STOP TELLING ME THESE THINGS" from my brother, and "Share whatever it is you're smoking", from most anyone else.

tugs

6:32 PM

I never dream except when I was in Psych in university we did dream journals... Craziest stuff ever.

OrigamiRobot

I'm too grumpy in the mornings to keep a dream journal.

Grace Note

@tugs I had a movie made about the time I robbed my own afterlife after faking my death.

FEichinger

@GraceNote o.O

Ben Brocka

@tugs I've been meaning to keep a dream journal, for the most part I just record interesting bits of nightmares in case I ever write a horror something or other

Grace Note

@FEichinger The subject matter only came up because I felt a little bad for taking a "Shoot first, ask questions later" approach with a shotgun to a pair of mall thieves who apparently started shacking up in the trunk of my van.

Coronus

6:34 PM

@GraceNote o.O

Grace Note

Which, recommendation. If you rob a mall with someone with whom you are intimate with, the best thing to do is get away with your ill gotten goods, instead of starting to make out in the back of a completely random car in the parking lot.

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fbueckert

@GraceNote Dreams. They never make sense, except while you're living them.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I'll write that down.

tugs

@GraceNote Did you ask them if it was worth it?

OrigamiRobot

"No random cars during a mall robbery" Got it.

Grace Note

6:37 PM

@OrigamiRobot You can file it next to another piece of sage advice, "If you and another individual are capable of taking down Satan in combat, the right thing to do is team up, not duel to see who gets the honor of killing Satan and thus weakening the survivor for Satan to just finish off"

OrigamiRobot

I am usually alone in my dreams or with people I don't know.

Grace Note

@tugs No, but again, I felt bad, so I joined them on a trip to the afterlife so I could give them tips on how to make the most of it.

OrigamiRobot

Though they say you can only dream about faces you've seen.

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot I find this true and false. I have seen (and worn) many faces that are completely fabricated just off of conceptual structure, but at the same time, the majority of important people will be modelled off of people who I know in real life. Meaningless of who the person is at all.

kalina

@GraceNote what are you smoking?

Grace Note

6:41 PM

@kalina I don't smoke.

kalina

ok

FAE

@OrigamiRobot They also say you can't read in dreams but I've done that plenty.

kalina

I'll just keep this to myself then!

Ronan Forman

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Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Ultimately, this is actually the logic that told me that dreams don't hold any deeper meaning or subconscious revelations of one's internal person. It really is just your mind picking out random faces from what you've seen in the past, and assigning them whatever roles, bit or critical, that it needs.

fbueckert

6:42 PM

Most of my dreaming is lucid; no matter how hard I try to fly, my active brain goes, "Uh, it doesn't work like that."

OrigamiRobot

@FAE Reading is a common reality check because it is uncommon to be able to read properly in dreams.

@fbueckert That sounds boring.

FAE

@fbueckert I'm not often able to fly in dreams, but I do have what pretty much amounts to Superjump

fbueckert

@OrigamiRobot Alternatively, when the active brain checks out, the whiplash makes for some crazy awesome dreams.

Grace Note

I allegedly read in dreams, but it's in the same kind of process that anything else happens, so it's not really a reality check for me. For example, the time I found my house on fire, there was a French newspaper on the ground that I picked up and found an article about my house being on fire, in which reading the article also caused the house to explode into an even larger inferno. For the record, I can't actually read French, I merely "read" the newspaper.

@FAE My methods in flight have ranged from arm-gliding (the lucid one, actually), having wings, air pressure walking, Rush Jet, and telekinesis.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote Yea that's the tricky part. You "performed" an action and received the expected result of that action. But none of the actual processing took place.

Ben Brocka

6:46 PM

@OrigamiRobot I can read in dreams sometimes

OrigamiRobot

I've never paid attention to my ability to read in dreams.

fbueckert

I had one where I was destroying moons part of the end of the world. Some crazy flying and power being flung everywhere ensued.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@GraceNote Hmmm, my dreams seem comparatively boring. Then again maybe it's because I can't remember all the exciting ones

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Exactly.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I do remember one in which I was absolutely convinced that the world was going to come to an end soon (though through what means I can't quite remember), and I was just sitting in bed waiting for it to happen. That was a weird one.

SaintWacko

6:48 PM

I don't remember many dreams

Maybe once or twice a year

OrigamiRobot

Wow

SaintWacko

I'm not sure what that says about my subconscious :P

Grace Note

> However, I needed to go to the moon to save my girlfriend. From the moon.

Sometimes I regret the lack of detail I put in some of these, when I can't completely remember it like some of the more iconic dreams, just because then I run into lines like this and ask myself "As in, my girlfriend is from the moon? Or am I saving her from the moon? Argh."

Also apparently on the moon they make chocolate out of Moon Cheese. Just thought you ought to know.

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Coronus

@GraceNote Is she on the moon and needs to be saved, or is the moon threatening her?

@SaintWacko This is me.

Grace Note

@Coronus I'm guessing that she is from the moon natively. There's no implication that the moon, itself, is threatening her, and whoever had her in their grimy meathooks wasn't a group that I would identify as "the moon".

Powerlord

6:52 PM

Moons are evil.

Look at the one above Clock Town in Termina!

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote If you throw rocks at a turkey, it will turn into a giant demon and kill the man who used to be a saint bernard.

Coronus

I had a space of 3 weeks where I remembered dreaming every night. It was terrible. I felt like I never slept, and started confusing what I was remembering, if it was reality or a dream...

Grace Note

@SaintWacko My brother doesn't remember dreams often, and used to go through a phase in which he basically believed he didn't dream. He has had the occasional dream, which to him is very memorable.

Powerlord

Also, don't forget to return Skelly's parts while in Termina.

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot We have a lot of facts and advice that we can share with each other.

OrigamiRobot

6:53 PM

@GraceNote The best place to hide in this circumstance is wedge between a storm door and the actual door.

Also, the dog/man's name is Peaches, in case you need to call for him.

Grace Note

Ooh, naming is always amusing.

OrigamiRobot

Have you ever hit the ground after falling in a dream?

FEichinger

@GraceNote I am not sure if I think "You are awesome!" or "You are insane!" ...

fbueckert

@FEichinger Just go with, "You are awesomely insane!"

FEichinger

@fbueckert Not "insanely awesome"?

Grace Note

6:56 PM

@OrigamiRobot I can't recall many instances that I've fallen uncontrollably. I have been thrown at the ground from a pretty long distance, though.

Powerlord

> The sign said 'Do not touch,' not 'Donuts'!

Name that game!

fbueckert

@FEichinger Nope. @Grace is insane. Just doesn't know it yet.

FAE

@GraceNote I'm almost never able to completely fly, it's usually the superjump/less gravity thing for me

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Oh, here we go. Yes. I was thrown out of a building and broke my leg for the rest of the dream, once.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote I fell out of a helicopter (which was more like a see-saw with propellers on both ends) and when I hit the ground, I kept dreaming. It was like looking through broken glass.

Grace Note

6:59 PM

@OrigamiRobot The one time I actually died in a dream (someone who was allegedly my best friend stabbed me in the back. With a knife. Then fed me to a bunch of gigantic paper moths), it was a very weird experience, and indeed did persist for quite a while.

OrigamiRobot

@GraceNote Hah, that would make more sense if you were a paper robot.

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