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izirasmessycorner · 2 months

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I used the SSILD Technique last night and this is how it went...

I was using the SSILD technique to make sure if it's really that good of an technique of if it's one of those methods everyone seems to hype up. I had no concrete assumptions for the method and just did as I was told in an informative post I've reblogged yesterday.

HOW IT WENT

After waking up 2-3 hours from my alarm I almost forgot to do the circles but luckily I wrote myself a reminder right next to the alarm clock I had. Tired as I was I performed it 2-3 times only - therefore less than it was intended - but for 15-30 minutes for each step in total. Then I immediately went back to sleep, affirming that I'm going to lucid dream.

And it pretty much worked?? I had a VERY vivid dream about me beefing around with the Winx Club Members and somehow Roxy turning into somone evil?😭 (I was on a small season 4 rewatch) - I can still remember like 90% of the dream and even some exact dialog she or other characters said. Sadly I was so focused on the dream itself it didn't even came to my mind to just -well tap into the void.

Tonight, I'm going to do the same with some modifications (more + shorter circles, listening to my affirmation tape, etc.) and see what happens!

#law of assumption #lucid dreaming #ld #ssild #ssild technique #reality checks #winx club #dreaming #vivid dreams #void state

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garnetrena · 5 months

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[Description d'image : Les toilettes dans les rêves be like. Image de trois toilettes sans portes dans le jeu vidéo Robocop. Sous-titre : "Pas mal, ces chiottes ouvertes où tout le monde peut te regarder chier !" Fin de la description.]

#upthebaguette #joueur du grenier #whatthefrance #french side of tumblr #uplarigolade #mes mèmes #my silly memes #dreams #weird dreams #dreams memes #dream meme #reality checks #architecture des rêves #toilet humor

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csuitebitches · 2 years

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10 Reality Checks You Probably Already Got but Forgot About

1. It’s ok if you skip a work out / don’t eat healthy 24/7 - don’t beat yourself up for it. Social media makes body types a trend. 7 years back it was “cool” to be skinny, today it’s “cool” to have a big ass and tits. Fuck society.

2. Time management is a soft skill that you only get from practice and execution. Sometimes you’ll put more on your plate and not be able to handle it and it’s okay to fuck up responsibilities at times. you’re not superman and you don’t have to be handle everything all the time. Forgive yourself for the mistakes you make.

3. Tell ur friends and family that u love them. Just because a friend may act distant doesn’t mean they hate you - usually a lot of people struggling with issues tend to distance themselves. Check up on them!

4. Do some small creative project a week. Doodling. Sketching. Sewing. Embroidery. Music. Cooking. It’ll make ur heart happy.

5. Emotions are very important. Don’t brush away your feeling. Address them even if they’re negative (jealousy, dislike, insecurity, etc.) - it’ll be easier to get over things and move on if you’re honest with yourself.

6. Not everyone needs to know your business. You are not google. Don’t advertise your life to people who don’t care. It’s okay to have lots of friends but a very small intimate circle you can share / vent things to.

7. Hustle culture is TOXIC. It’s okay to take breaks. (I’m learning this slowly too). You need to take care of your mental health to avoid a burnout later.

8. Be aware of what you’re NOT capable of. Don’t take on tasks / projects / jobs that you don’t have the skills to do nor have the headspace to learn. Two reasons why - 1) do something that you actually are interested in and you’re passionate to learn more about 2) don’t take someone else’s spot who’s more deserving!!

9. Don’t be stuck in relationships (platonic/ romantic/ fwb/ anything else) that you feel shit in. You guys could have been together /known each other for YEARS. Time is IRRELEVANT - if the person doesn’t make you happy, doesn’t add value to your life; whether it’s a 10 month or a 10 year relationship, it doesn’t matter.

10. There will always be someone better, prettier, hotter, smarter than you. To some people YOU are this person. Your destiny is not to be the #1 person in this world. Your destiny is to fulfil the purpose you have in your life - do what you love, help yourself and those around you, do your bit to give to society and to be a good influence to yourself and other people.

#c suite #powerful woman #ceo aesthetic #personal growth #that girl #productivity #strong women #getting your life together #feminine energy #balance #advice #relationships #hustle culture #workouts #reminder #reality checks #advice for girls #advice for teenagers

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subtlesolitude-tailoredtaste · 3 months

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#luka modric #World Cup #documentary #perspective #leadership #honesty #respect #perseverance #football culture #advice #reality checks #mentors #good people #teammates #sportsmanship

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digitalc0quetted0lly · 5 months

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I hate it here😍😍😍 i wish I could open some portal to a perfect world with no negativity 😘😘

#reality sucks #reality checks #this world is cruel #this is what makes us girls

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shadowtraveled · 2 months

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"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

#dungeon meshi spoilers #mithrun #dungeon meshi #this has been rotating for a while but i wanted to check my evidence before getting into it thanks user angelspenance for posting that meme #half of this is just the text and the other half i'm sure has been said before but it's making my brain [radio static] so here this is #someone did for sure mention this but i do find it very cute that in his fucked up conjured world meant to portray his ideal reality #his teammates came to visit him. like part of the fantasy was then explicitly that they cared about him and were his friends. even though #he says he tried to see the worst in them.#hm it does feel important to note that i do also believe 100% in mithrun suicidality--his desire to be eaten does seem to focus a lot on #wanting it to be Over. wanting not to be left incomplete and empty anymore.#but that loops back around a bit to the hole in your heart that appears when you feel unloved. it's many things and the same thing at once #snakes #long post #severe problems #meshy

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grouchydairy · 1 year

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throwback to when i was all up in the medblr space but then someone spammed the tag with severed limbs and eyeballs and fingers and then I decidedly left forever

#reality checks #but also a bit unnecessary to be this extreme lol #71674

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weirdlookindog · 7 months

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"Life is one darned thing after another!"

#life is...#reality check #black cats #1940s #vintage postcards

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ups3tti · 12 days

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Sometimes I think about how Kai made his way out of an inferno by accepting that being the green ninja wasn't meant for him but that didn't make him any lesser while Morro died in an inferno because he couldn't let go of the idea of being the green ninja and viewed it as his only source of worth. And then I lose it a little

#i lose it even more because kai only made it out because Lloyd functioned as a reality check to him but to Morro he acted as a catalyst into #more of a spiral #kai and morro have so many parallels and sometimes i imagine them switching places #what if morro had been made to grow past his anger and envy instead #and kai was stunted before he could discover his loyalty and resilience #morro wu #morro ninjago #kai ninjago #kai smith #ninjago #sketti rambles

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garnetrena · 1 year

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#dreams #dreams memes #dream meme #clocks #funny #my silly memes #fun fact: you can lucid dream if you recognize this kind of clock bullshit bc usually it only happens in dreams #reality checks #architecture des rêves

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overthinks-stuff · 2 years

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why do you feel the need to be the reason behind the smile on their face?

why do you try so hard to be seen and are in constant need of validation?

why does it matter so much how they feel about you or if they approve of you?

why do you need a bloody report card on how nice you were to someone today?

why can't you simply just be yourself unapologetically with no fear of even being left alone in the end, if it comes to that?

#reality checks #to whom it may concern.#mostly for me #spilled words #my thoughts #spilled thoughts #excerpt from a book i'll never write

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tomfrogisblue · 1 month

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thinking about how ever since their qsmp characters finally admitted their feelings, cc!Fit and cc!Pac's way in which they treat the fictional relationship has done a complete 180

Now the huevitos cannot relax because at any second FitMC might declare HIS BRAZILIAN BOYFRIEND to anyone in his general vicinity and my poor ratinho ass was just chilling when Pactw pulls up his desktop for a split second to reveal ONE OF FIT'S PICS AS HIS DESKTOP BACKGROUND

#please help i am being bullied /j #we complained about baby steps and slowburn - now look at us lmao #like a hideduo jumpscare #qsmp #fitmc #pactw #hideduo #fitpac #the ship is characters not ccs - i will come 2 ur house w/ a powerpoint explaining the difference between reality and fiction for five hours #they def check twitter and giggle to themselves

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terymlxyrstdus · 7 months

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james: i honestly think regulus might like me

remus: yeah…not likely

james: but we even talk sometimes

remus: so do we and he certainly doesn’t like me that way

james: but he even calls me by special nickname potter

remus: that’s your surname