It’s going to hit -12°F (-24.4°C) tomorrow here. I have 4 extra blankets and 6 hot chocolate packs ready.

🎶Demver, the last painted whore, she real long and alive no more🎶

Being an entrepreneur in a new country with a different culture and set of laws

You’re the one that installed the app.

Phew! Thanks for letting me know

Hi! I used to live in a US city with lots of recent Venezuelan immigrants. They would tell me about how difficult things were in Venezuela, but that they missed it a lot. Their faces would light up when I would ask them about things they liked about home. They also seemed to have hope that things in Venezuela would improve and they could move back. It must be really difficult to leave one’s country to another for economic and political reasons. They didn’t truly want to leave, so they miss home, never really acculturate, and feel alienated. I have been to several other countries myself for extended periods. Many of them were well-developed and welcoming of Americans. Some even had characteristics that I found better than in the US. Regardless, I found myself missing home a lot.

I don’t know if it makes any difference what I tell you, but wanted you to know that the recent Venezuelan immigrants I’ve met in the US still have their heart in Venezuela.

A colonial powers in the Americas were real douchebags. They genocided the natives, then went to another continent to enslave people and bring them over. All this was for sugar and tobacco. Millions of deaths and enslaved so some people in Europe could smoke cigarettes while they have sweets. It couldn’t get much worse than that.

Maybe pay for the service?

Damn it. I just switched over from Google about a month ago. Worked on creating lots of aliases for my signs-in throughout the internet. I’m not leaving this easily, but now it’s something that I’m thinking about and will bounce if things get worse.

Maybe they were looking for someone that looks like you with long hair.

I’ll give it a shot. Thank you!

The thing is that in the dream I think that my real-awake body is in physical danger, so I need to wake up to protect myself from the real danger, but I can’t wake up. It’s like I’m paralyzed and can’t do anything to protect myself from the impending doom that feels very real in the dream. If it was just normal nightmares, I would generally be fine with them except for the poor sleep. These new ones are something else because they feel so real since they involve my real-awake body.

The thing is that the dream is so realistic, that in the dream I think I’m in danger in real life. I think I need to wake up because what is happening in my dream is actually happening in real life. Waking up from my dream will help me respond to the danger I believe is present in real life.

Like imagine you are sleeping in a hammock in the jungle. While sleeping, you dream of your real situation. During the dream, you suddenly think that in real life, there is a gorilla coming for you so you need to wake up. No matter how much you try to wake up, you can’t. Throughout the dream, you think you finally woke up only to realize that you’re still really sleeping. That is what keeps happening. It’s terrifying and exhausting. I almost didn’t go to sleep last night, but a friend agreed to stay over.

I had a friend stay the night. They kept pushing me to lay on my side when I would snore. I didn’t have any vivid intense nightmares that I remember, and I awoke feeling much better than usual. I think it could be a combination of a lot of things, but that seemed to help. I tend to be near people I trust when I’m scared. It’s how I feel safer. I have a thing where I overlook a lot of factors, so having someone nearby that can cover those areas intuitively helps with safety. Having them around may have helped with the fear in the dreams. They also pushed me onto my side whenever I would snore, so maybe that prevented me from having as much difficulty breathing. I want to order one of those long maternity pillows that keeps women on their side to see if that helps. If it’s only sleep apnea, then that would be a nice remedy. But I’m certain there are some psychological and situational factors influencing this as well.

When you run away, never look back. Don’t visit, don’t call, don’t keep numbers, don’t give out your number. Just disappear and start a fresh new life. Find someone that you admire and start figuring out how to be like them.

Between another comment and yours, I think what my dreams are representing are how little control I feel I have over anything in my life. I just have to prepare for the worst. That’s what I’m feeling.

I like this idea. It will help me realize if I woke up or I’m still in a dream and need to prepare for the upcoming doom. I already have a book on my nightstand. I’ll start the habit of reading it every time I wake up. Thank you!

I’m starting these wake checks today! Hopefully, I can get them to happen in a dream before it goes into nightmare mode. Once in nightmare mode, I can’t tell if I’m in a dream or not because they seem so real and I’m overwhelmed with fear which makes thinking difficult. Appreciate the response and hopefully you’re doing better with your sleep!

Yep, I’m going to look into learning about lucid dreaming. Thank you!

Yep! It’s that scary doom feeling that no matter what you do, you can’t avoid the fear. It’s exhausting.

So id caution against resorting to extreme measures, especially if you are unsure of what is reality. That can have very permanent consequences.

Exactly! I think this is why I only employ them when the outcome is the same, so I choose a favorable method in which I am in control…ooh, maybe there’s something related to control that I need to think about. Thank you!