From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 11:20:52 AM UTC-5, blinking...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > "Although it's a shade ambiguous here, I'm hoping the glove slap occurred IN   
   THE DREAM rather than reality"   
   >    
   > Yes, it did occur in the dream. I always had a fear when I am looking at   
   objects, in very dim light they appear to dance and morph because of both the   
   night time dim making it hard for the eyes to sense and process what I am   
   seeing, and the floaters    
   inside of the human eyeball that further distorts vision and causes the   
   animation effect.   
      
   I suspect such nighttime imagination is common for young kids.  I remember   
   having similar stories running through my mind at that age, although there   
   were different in plot / danger / action / outcome.  One of the common   
   solutions was to simply cover    
   completely up except for just enough of a gap for my nostrils to get fresh   
   air.  I suppose one could say I was "focusing on my breathing" from "a very   
   young age." :)  All the "evil" was "outside."  "I" was "safe" on the "inside."   
       
   > It got to the point that I just unplugged everything and moved my dresser in   
   front of the outlet so I wouldn't see it. This solved the problem.   
      
   I only moved a dresser once for aesthetic purposes, but I distinctly recall   
   that it blocked an outlet.  I can't recall *why*, exactly, I did this.  But   
   sometimes there *are* simple solutions to nagging issues :)   
      
   > I have to arrange stuff in my bedroom so in order to not be triggered this   
   way at night.   
      
   Hm... I once had a worry-based problem regarding which eye should I close   
   first at night before going to bed?  I know, it seems silly, but at the time,   
   it was a thought that simply wouldn't stop bothering me.  So I made a kind of   
   ritual:  always close    
   right eye first (then left); always open right eye first (then left.)  IF for   
   some reason I needed to take a peek around for a brief instant, I could always   
   use the left eye for that purpose while leaving the right eye at rest.  The   
   interesting side-   
   effect of all this, was that by doing so, I discovered a method to "trigger"   
   nearly-instant REM!  Also, the problem of dream recall had been bothering me,   
   so I figured "if I can reduce my sleep phase to merely one blink, then surely   
   I can remember    
   whatever transpires during the time it takes to blink!"  My dream recall shot   
   up dramatically as a result as well.   
      
   You can search on "right eye" or "right-eye" first technique here in this   
   group, or try this link: tinyurl.com/RightEyeFirstTechnique   
      
   There have been some *interesting* results posted by folk over the years!   
      
   NOTE that it's kind of a recursive process.  Say you've closed your right eye,   
   then left, and you have a kind of inner impulse, one that might cause a   
   "twitch" within your eyelid or eyeball muscles.  Simply reapply the rule,   
   "close right eye first, then    
   left, then relax right eye first, then left" and the REM experience is   
   practically unavoidable.   
      
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