Dejavou Dream

[Goombatommy]

Strange dream I had last nite regarding HL 2 and the three SKU's. Ok, it took place at my local EBX, everything seemed fine and normal, and it showed me in line. Then I went to get the game, and the guy sayid for the SP version it is $39.99, and for the SP /MP version it is $49.99 . Deluxe was $59.99. It was strange, it felt so real...as tho as if It's gonna happen. I get these Dejavou's alot. I have a feeling those will be the retail prices.

 

[Ahnteis]

I believe that's called lucid dreaming? It's not dejavu

 

[FoB_Ed]

Dejavu happens when you're awake...it's happened to me a few times, i know it sounds weird but its so cool to. It's like I'll just be sitting there and I'll be like "whoa" :dork:

 

[shapeshifter]

Dejavu is the feeling you get when your doing something, and you feel like you have done the exact same thing before.

 

[scribblehead]

Originally posted by FoB_Ed
Dejavu happens when you're awake...it's happened to me a few times, i know it sounds weird but its so cool to. It's like I'll just be sitting there and I'll be like "whoa" :dork:

Yeah its happened to me a few times too, its really weird....but you get a good laugh afterwards :cheers:

 

[trantjd]

Originally posted by Ahnteis
I believe that's called lucid dreaming? It's not dejavu

I thought that lucid dreaming was where you're in control of your dream on an almost conscious level. It allows you to determine what happens in your dream. It's a pretty cool idea and supposedly possible for certain people.

I learned this from the tv show Ed, so don't say that tv isn't educational! Unless of course they got it wrong, in which case, I say "damn you TV!"

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by shapeshifter
Dejavu is the feeling you get when your doing something, and you feel like you have done the exact same thing before.

it gets even more interesting when you relate it to theories that the events taking place have taken place an infinite amount of times, and will again an infinite amount of times, because the fact that the universe will eventually contract back, big bang again, in the exact same fashion, create planets the exact same way, develop life just the same, and the same events will take place.. untill once again the mass of the universe begins to contract again...



-only a theory.

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by trantjd
I thought that lucid dreaming was where you're in control of your dream on an almost conscious level. It allows you to determine what happens in your dream. It's a pretty cool idea and supposedly possible for certain people.

I learned this from the tv show Ed, so don't say that tv isn't educational! Unless of course they got it wrong, in which case, I say "damn you TV!"

you should all watch the movie waking life... it was pretty interesting.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/

 

[@bel]

an actual dejá vu is when you see something and you think you've seen it before.

what scientifically happens is your brain registering it and then you actually notice it. so it's 'stored' in your brain in a second and after that you start to realize it, which is why it feels like you've already seen it.
at least, that's the story i've always heard.

it's cool how your own brain/mind can fool you.

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by @bel
an actual dejá vu is when you see something and you think you've seen it before.

what scientifically happens is your brain registering it and then you actually notice it. so it's 'stored' in your brain in a second and after that you start to realize it, which is why it feels like you've already seen it.
at least, that's the story i've always heard.

it's cool how your own brain/mind can fool you.

it's cooler trying to understand what thought actually is, what perception, life, and the universe are..

there's an unexplainable overwhelming feeling i get when i contemplate the inticacies of existence.

 

[JunkieXL]

I had a premenition dream once... that was cool..

 

[@bel]

i always get sick when i think of such stuff. literally.
it's interesting, though...
but maybe a little too offtopic for a half-life2 forum.

/EDIT: i think things that seem unexplainable, but are explainable after all (like the dejá vu example) are cooler than things that are just... well, unexplainable. :cheese:

 

[trantjd]

Originally posted by :>~
I had a premenition dream once... that was cool..

One of the coolest dreams I had told me how to find the book underneath the tree in the first Myst game...I was so stoked about it. My dream recreated the whole level and then I actually solved it in the dream, woke up and tried it out and it worked!

 

[@bel]

tratjd: wow! that IS cool!

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by @bel
i always get sick when i think of such stuff. literally.
it's interesting, though...
but maybe a little too offtopic for a half-life2 forum.

true. :thumbs:

one last thing.. tell me, where does the universe end? and even if this "end" is a stop of any planets or stars or space dust, still, what's after that? endless space? or is there a definitive end such as a wall or something? built by who and what's on the other side? or maybe it just loops into itself and if travelling fast enough.. you could travel in a straight path and cross the same space over and over through some kind of teleportation or looped space?

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by :>~
I had a premenition dream once... that was cool..

flcl is entertaining, but i think it's more entertaining when i don't waste my time trying to make sense of it.

 

[@bel]

i think the universe is expanding itself continuously (i just know thats spelled wrong), although that's not an answer to your question. i really don't want to think about something unexplainable right now... X(

 

[worldspawn]

heheh.. how can something infinite be expanding?

 

[Adam]

I've been mapping for Half-Life since it came out, alot of times I have a dream, and I can actualy see how the world im in was made up of textured brushes (walls for you non mappers). I even had dreams where I was inside maps that I have made, I guess thats what happens when you spend 8 hours in the middle of the night working on a map..

 

[Guest]

when i dream, sometime i can control myself and control things that happen in my dream, isn't it great?!!!

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by Adam
I've been mapping for Half-Life since it came out, alot of times I have a dream, and I can actualy see how the world im in was made up of textured brushes (walls for you non mappers). I even had dreams where I was inside maps that I have made, I guess thats what happens when you spend 8 hours in the middle of the night working on a map..

heh.. i hope mapping for hl2 is made easier.

 

[Adam]

Originally posted by worldspawn
heheh.. how can something infinite be expanding?

When he says 'universe' its in relation to the galaxys and nebulas etc.
The dimension this universe exists in can not expand because it is infinite.

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by gamevoodoo
when i dream, sometime i can control myself and control things that happen in my dream, isn't it great?!!!

it's possible the same is for me.. it's just i'd never know it.. i think most dreams i have i don't remember.. and if i do .. i'm just remembering what happened, not if i controlled myself all of the dream or nothing.

 

[@bel]

when i've been playing a game for some days straight then when i'm outside and see the world i think "yeah they could render this... hey this would be cool to do! hey this just looks like the HL2 bumpmapping thing!"

about the dreams: once one night i dreamed some story but it was clearly unended, and then the next night i picked it up again and dreamed an end to it.

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by Adam
When he says 'universe' its in relation to the galaxys and nebulas etc.
The dimension this universe exists in can not expand because it is infinite.

i understand.. i label the "dimension" the "universe" .. as i think most people do.. and i do realize he was talking about things like planets stars, (basically everything we know about that has matter) spreading out. .... but what if they are also infinite? i don't know if the dimension would be full of empty (relatively) space forever after the planets stop.. though i also don't know why there would be matter EVERYWHERE if the big bang was singular.

 

[FoB_Ed]

it's cooler trying to understand what thought actually is, what perception, life, and the universe are..

I know exactly what you're talking about...the thing thats scary is when you think about oblivion, I mean dying and not existing anymore at all, that really freaks me out, and makes me glad I believe in God :dozey:

 

[Guest]

i used to controll myself to touch girls in my class, but whenever i did that, i ended up to wet my pants with sperm, so i try not to do that now

 

[@bel]

erm... the expansion thing comes of the idea that the whole universe is created from the 'big bang'. some stone that exploded or something and then spreaded out, expanding itself...
(damn i'm bad at formulating such things...)

 

[@bel]

Fob_Ed:
my own death doesn't mean much to me... i don't think it's scary at all. maybe it's because i DON'T believe in god.
just other people's deaths... people you care about... that's one thing i don't wanna think about.

 

[A2597]

My BEST...
Some may have heard of a Game called "Babylon 5: Into the Fire" it was a revolutionary (Even by todays standards) space flight sim...

Sierra canned it, spawning a fairly huge boycott of sierra, I myself still haven't bought a Sierra product since 1999.

Anyhoo, I drempt I was playing that game...Damn, now I'm all POed at Sierra again...

 

[Ahnteis]

Well, aleph (not sure how to spell that and I can't draw the symbol for it on the forum) not is less then aleph 1 but both are considered infinite....

 

[worldspawn]

last night's dream i had was one of the most intense of my life. i think it might have had to do with my first experience with a certain drug two days ago.

anyways the dream was insane: the only things i can remember is being escorted from a treehouse type hide out where i had been running to with a group of friends (they seemed as well as i can remember to be middle-aged people, not people i actually know irl) anyways, after being stopped and detained, we were being escorted back to a giant field i could see through the trees with what seemed like was large group of people also brought there (us being prisoners perhaps).. being held in this large field full of short dried grass .. hundreds and hundreds of people lined up in a sort of rectangular shaped group... i remember people attempting to get away and a group of black teenagers running up and over this small hill with trees on it, then seconds later running back over the hill being chased by a car (looked like the bloodring racer car from vice city) ... (strangely, one of the guys looked to be naked, but also blurred out as if i was watching a censored movie or something)then the car started coming towards me.. i ran up this road to the right of the large field from my point of view.. the road inclined and the hill which the road was built on was covered in bushes, large and small.. when it seemed that i was to the crest of this hill.. i could start to see over off to the right side of the road (which was untill that point just more hill)... i remember looking off to my right to the large valley.. looking left.. seeing all the people in the group on the field, seeing the car further down the OTHER road which was parallel to the one i was on but not on the hill, it was down by the field, i remember seeing a few of the "detainees" but can't remember what i looked like.. then i remember turning to my right, facing the valley.. then looking left, seeing a more than anything else in the dream normal family (as if they were going for a walk or a hike) then i look back to the slope infront of me.. the rolling hills ahead of me.. and all the shrubs, and jumping.. trying to curl up into a ball, and rolling down the hill... i remember the bushes snapping and hitting against me.. i remember getting scratched and the smell of dirt and the breaking shrubs.. than i woke up. it was VERY strange and hard to explain if you didn't see it yourself (or have the dream rather)

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by FoB_Ed
I know exactly what you're talking about...the thing thats scary is when you think about oblivion, I mean dying and not existing anymore at all, that really freaks me out, and makes me glad I believe in God :dozey:

i realize even though i can't understand something i can believe it better than a cop out like "God just created it" without an explanation. or "You just go to heaven" .. i do believe when you die, their is oblivion, because after all, your brain would no longer be functioning, therefore there would be no perception, no you, no thought.. you're dead, you're not in some cloud filled wonderland.


you do realize that if heaven existed, and your thought pattern was anything like it was here, that in heaven with endless joy and enjoyment, you'd eventually go insane, existing and thinking for ALL OF ETERNITY doesn't seem as enjoyable to me as it might be made out by preacher joe.

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by @bel
Fob_Ed:
my own death doesn't mean much to me... i don't think it's scary at all. maybe it's because i DON'T believe in god.
just other people's deaths... people you care about... that's one thing i don't wanna think about.

agree.. the only negative things i see of my death : is i realize i will no longer be able to interact how i do as living, although it won't be "bad" in the sense that i will be bored or anything, just that i know this experience IS enjoyable sometimes, and i don't necessarily need to end it now.

also how my death will effect those which continue to live. Those who'd be affected by it, i wouldn't want them to be hurt emotionally for great periods of time, i'd want them to realize i am only a mammal of the species, i died because whatever reason, but it's not the end of the world.


though.. my death might ultimately have no bad consequences if everything i percieve is not real, and instead just created by myself. (you'd say than how can i learn things i do not already know.. well obviously the answer would be.. others are not teaching me.. i'm only revealing the things to myself in this existence) ... but yeah i don't believe that is the fact.. and don't have anyway to think what REAL reality would be like if this life isn't what it's like.

 

[trantjd]

A friend of mine had an interesting dream a while back where he was in some big square with a really intricate cathedral wrapped around it. Well, he somehow realized he was in a dream and decided to test his brains capabilities. So, he described how he would move around and whip his head around really quickly to see how quickly it would "render" in his dream. He said it was pretty amazing. He's a psych major too, so it meant that much more for him as a cool test.

Of course his brain was probably only running at 640 x 480, but I can pretty much guarantee that AA and FSAF was cranked up! :cheese:

 

[worldspawn]

Originally posted by trantjd
A friend of mine had an interesting dream a while back where he was in some big square with a really intricate cathedral wrapped around it. Well, he somehow realized he was in a dream and decided to test his brains capabilities. So, he described how he would move around and whip his head around really quickly to see how quickly it would "render" in his dream. He said it was pretty amazing. He's a psych major too, so it meant that much more for him as a cool test.

Of course his brain was probably only running at 640 x 480, but I can pretty much guarantee that AA and FSAF was cranked up! :cheese:

the interesting thing is that he wasn't actually "seeing" anything.. he was only really testing how well his brain could process the information, not the actual visual input.

 

[OCybrManO]

Whenever I get one of those interactive dreams I like to use them to try to find where I left stuff like the TV remote or my keys... it has worked several times.

 

[Ryotsu72730]

Originally posted by Adam
I've been mapping for Half-Life since it came out, alot of times I have a dream, and I can actualy see how the world im in was made up of textured brushes (walls for you non mappers). I even had dreams where I was inside maps that I have made, I guess thats what happens when you spend 8 hours in the middle of the night working on a map..

That reminds me of a dream I had a while back. It was in the days when I played old school GLQuake CTF. I had this really vivid dream that there was an amusement place (sorta like a laser tag or paintball arena) that was just like a Quake map! I was running around with a rocket launcher, it had the green moldy torchlit castle architechture, the gooey pools of slime, etc. I never got to actually shoot anybody in the dream, so I don't know what would have happened there. :cheese:

It was a really cool dream, though. By the way, I'm new to these forums. Hi.

 

[Rilcon]

Every single dream I'm in I can control myself, my avatar or whatever, tho sometimes I 'rewind' th dream to change a certain outcome. I also haven't had a nightmare since I was around seven years old. It's not that bad things don't happen in my dreams, it's just that they aren't 'scary' (getting chased and eaten by some big alien is a bummer, but all I do is start some other dream).

On the universe thingy, my personla theory is that the universe we know is like the inner surface of a ball, it's connected in only 2 dimensions, and in a way both finite and infinite. The inner part of the ball is that big load of physics mumbo jumbo people like Hawkins como up with, wormholes, quantom thigies, etc..

And when I die, It'll be just like before I was born, nothing, without consciousness of their being nothing.

 

[Thadius Dean]

well on the whole deja'vu thing, its just when agents change something within the matrix, everyone should know that

and sense were on the whole universe topic, i would like to tell an article i read a little while back. it had 3 "new" theories, and two of them were pretty cool.

one was that the universe was sorta shaped like a dohnut, and that the somehow the particles in space create a type of mirror, so you would be able to look at... a star for example, that you think is 20000 light years away, when it could actually be 20000000 light years away.

the other one, which is about the coolest one ive ever heard of, is that there are more than one universe, and within the other universes, there would be the exact same thing in ours, only time would be different. so every single possible path of time would be played out. so right now, hitler may rule the world, and al gore won the election.