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No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

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Re: No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

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Post by mna_ »

jsiepkes wrote: post #18
actionfromafar wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TIL Tucker Carlson was mauled by a daemon. Another gem: https://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html

Tucker Carlson quite clearly just had a sleep paralysis [1]. I had one too. Scared the shit out of me when it happened. Since you can't move or breath and the hallucination of a robed figure sitting on top of you is really vivid. Quite interesting the human brain chooses to conjecture a hallucination which is about the same for everyone who experiences it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

When I get sleep paralysis, I either see shadows or aliens (the typical Hollywood grey ones with big heads) surrounding my bed.

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Post by vinceguidry »

arkensaw wrote: post #28
vinceguidry wrote: post #14

I had a... weird night at the bar once, it ended early, I wasn't all that tipsy but if I kept going I definitely would have called the uber. I get to the gate and my keys fall to the floor of my car. The last thing I remember is thinking "fuck it." I wake up the next morning in my bed, feels like a normal morning, but I can't find my keys. After scouring my apartment for half an hour, I get the feeling to go check my…

you drove home drunk?

If you must know, I got my second DUI last year. I no longer drink and drive. The concept of fun is a distant one these days. Uber costs three times the dinner and drinks. So I stay home.

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Post by Rendello »

jsiepkes wrote: post #18
actionfromafar wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TIL Tucker Carlson was mauled by a daemon. Another gem: https://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html

Tucker Carlson quite clearly just had a sleep paralysis [1]. I had one too. Scared the shit out of me when it happened. Since you can't move or breath and the hallucination of a robed figure sitting on top of you is really vivid. Quite interesting the human brain chooses to conjecture a hallucination which is about the same for everyone who experiences it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

I only (rarely) get it in the morning, right before I'm about to fully wake up. I always panic because I'm desperate to move on my own, even though I know I shouldn't. But I've never seen a demon or anything, just my room – though it's an imagined version because my eyes aren't actually open yet, and usually when I wake up the room and lighting look quite different.

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Post by HK-NC »

mna_ wrote: post #31
jsiepkes wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tucker Carlson quite clearly just had a sleep paralysis [1]. I had one too. Scared the shit out of me when it happened. Since you can't move or breath and the hallucination of a robed figure sitting on top of you is really vivid. Quite interesting the human brain chooses to conjecture a hallucination which is about the same for everyone who experiences it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

When I get sleep paralysis, I either see shadows or aliens (the typical Hollywood grey ones with big heads) surrounding my bed.

Greys for me too, thanks to tv shows about abduction on tv as a kid no doubt

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Post by IAmBroom »

snickerbockers wrote: post #23

Ive always wondered how the motion of the earth would factor into instantaneous teleportation between to points on the same planet. Do you need to account for that to prevent yourself from being beamed underground or into space? Or does the fact that the source and destination are within the same inertial frame of reference make this one of those physics problems where the most complicated part turns out to be entire…

Was it Asimov or Heinlein who wrote about the kinetic-energy problem of teleporting around the globe? I think one proposal that the enormous losses accrued in some directions could be somehow banked against the enormous gains in reverse trips (reverse in energy flow, not in location - a 12-hour visit would mean both trips had the same "polarity").
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