I’ve done it. When I wake up like that, typically I’m freaked out a bit and need to calm down, plus I don’t want to get trapped in that nightmare again. Water splashing helps refresh.
Meyer6 said:
I do that. This isn’t any typical dream, this is a hypnopompic/hypnogogic hallucination type nightmare. These are freakishly real feeling and really get into your head. Add to it mine typically involve intruders sneaking up on me in bed and being paralyzed or waiting until they get close and then surprising them, so I’ll jerk awake and try to get out of the covers as fast as possible before I realize I’m actually safe.
The other bad one had a rattlesnake in bed next to me.
BrotherCadfael said:
This happens all the time, you just aren’t aware because they normally get away with it. It’s not like the guy wears a badge that says “hit man”.
Jerseyman said:
Dude, the thing’s a hose, not a tube. Unless you have a perpetual hardon, I don’t see the problem.
An Arky said:
Cartoons are stuck in a distant past. Those things became iconic, so everyone knew what they were, so they stayed in pop culture long after going away in real life. Another cartoon staple is an anvil. Anvils are the stereotypical cartoon “really heavy thing”, even though most urban and suburbanites have probably never seen one.
maladroit said:
I’ve never seen a murder, a murderer, a massive heart attack, a bank robbery, a stickup at gun point, a mugging, or any of probably a dozen other things that happen regularly on TV and movies. Of course, I know these things actually happen, they just aren’t a regular part of my life. So I don’t know how common petechial hemorrhaging is to those who actually deal with dead bodies, but it might be fairly common.
I was having that for a while a few years back, always while taking an afternoon nap (I think they were caused by “energy drink crash” - I worked very early mornings at the time and lived on energy drinks and Mountain Dew). While the actual content of the dreams themselves changed, the theme was always the same: I couldn’t breathe, and I was crawling on the floor struggling to get help, and I lacked the strength to reach the doorknob/telephone/oblivious bystander. I would always awaken from these dreams sweating profusely, heart pounding, gasping for breath, and I would practically leap out of bed while still not quite awake, not yet convinced I wasn’t dying and it was only a dream.
We still have it delivered in glass bottles. My mother says it’s dead slummy to put the bottle on the table, but I’ve ignored her for quite a few years now and even she doesn’t bother much with the jug anymore.
Here ya go. Apparently the practice didn’t die out with the old West, and all it required was for the tavern owner… uh, barkeep… to trust the customer to keep count or to mark the level of liquor before handing over the bottle.
There was a recent episode (from season 3) of Dexter where the bartender gave one of a characters a bottle to drink from. I was curious what kind of bars would still do that.
I just watched that episode the other night. It was a cop bar (not sure if Miami’s big enough to have an “all cop” bar but one that had a big cop clientele) and it was for an annual birthday drink for Dexter’s dad, so I figured it was probably not a regular bar policy but more of a “bartender knows these guys and what they’re there for” thing.
I’ve actually found that when I’m trying to find something, particularly smallish objects on the floor, that using a flashlight works better than having room lights. For one thing, changing the beam angle can cause the object to throw a shadow, making them easier to find.
Also, I thought the flashlights on these shows are supposedly throwing some additional wavelengths? For example, I have a light that makes cat piss fluoresce, and I don’t have to spray anything to get it to happen.
I, too, thought “bolting upright from a nightmare” was ridiculous and only for show, until the night I had a truly dreadful nightmare and found myself sitting straight in my bed, gasping.
Whenever they inevitably have an episode of a Detective show set in a TV/movie studio, there always seems to be actors dressed up as vikings/pirates/vampires walking around in the background, and a hell of a lot of props people carrying trees.
I suspect these things are rarer at a real TV studio.
I read an online list years ago that was written by a cop or ex cop about things TV shows get wrong. I can remember only two.
One was that on TV they show criminals in interrogation rooms with their hands cuffed in front. The author said it was bad procedure as you’ve basically given the suspect a weapon.
The other was the scene where the investigator would get frustrated with the case and emotionally act out. The author said that police learn detachment or they don’t last.
I don’t know if these tropes are still current because I don’t watch a lot of cop shows. I tried to find the article again and failed, but I did find a fairly interesting article on things CSI always gets wrong.
there are private bars in some dry areas where you bring in your own bottles and the barkeeps keep it in little lockers, or stored between visits.The bar gets its money from providing set ups and a member ship charge, and pub grub.
Howabout women giving birth in elevators, taxi cabs or some other confined area.
And speaking of that, how many women scream like a banshee and call their husbands names while in labor? I honestly don’t know. I don’t have any kids and I’ve never occasion to hang out in delivery rooms.
