Surreal Situations

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During the story Arthur Dent recounts a story of something that once happened to him at a train station. He bought a packet of biscuits and sat down to wait for the train. Then a man, who was already sitting there at the opposite side of the table, opened the packet, took one biscuit and ate it. So Arthur took one, saying nothing, and they went through the whole packet like that. After the man had left, Arthur looks under his newspaper and discovers his packet of biscuits.

Douglas Adams claimed this story actually happened to him, although a similar urban legend had been in circulation for years before the book was published. Adams' version of the tale is recounted in its original context in The Salmon of Doubt.


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So the actual question is. Has anything like this happened to you before, as in, otherwise normal situations just being a little on the side of surreal.
 
The Salmon of Doubt is a great book. Interesting, anyhow.

I've got to give some thought about this one. Life itself is just a bit surreal sometimes.
 
Sometimes when im stoned, ill be really sad that i ate all my sandwich/candy/other food
And then a few minutse later ill find its right next to me on my desk :O
Its both awesome and surreal. I'm not sure if this is what you meant though :|
 
I often act on reflex faster than I think about what's happening. It's very surreal. Say, someone bounces a ball near me, and without even thinking about it I reach down and grab it right before it goes out of reaching distance.

Probably not surreal, but it's quirky.
 
Sometimes I go to a room in the house and forget how I got there and why I went there, It's sureal for about half a second, It's like "How the hell did I get here?" Sometimes I even am in a very familiar place and forget what it is for a millisecond.
 
I wrestled a viscount admiral in front of Buckingham Palace. That was pretty weird.
 
Pesmerga said:
I often act on reflex faster than I think about what's happening. It's very surreal. Say, someone bounces a ball near me, and without even thinking about it I reach down and grab it right before it goes out of reaching distance.

Probably not surreal, but it's quirky.
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I played blind ping pong yesterday..... lol.


It was dark and I was slightly intoxicated and I could barely see the ball at all... so I was judgeing how to hit it back by my mates movements. We both got a good rally going somehow!?! :p




But yeah, If I think of something better I'll post it. I'm there something....
 
I woke up and I saw my eyelashes.

Then realized that that's an impossibility.
 
When I did grammar classes I had to recite poems and when I was saying them I would black out, say them perfectly and when I finished I would wake up, I got first prize in a competition, it was seriously wierd.
 
ríomhaire said:
When I did grammar classes I had to recite poems and when I was saying them I would black out, say them perfectly and when I finished I would wake up, I got first prize in a competition, it was seriously wierd.
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Are you serious?
 
i wake up at someones house and i truely believe im in my own bed,

i answer questions in my sleep

i forget things ive done moments before and as i hard as i try i can recollect what i did

thats the scariest thing :S
 
I had an out of body experience type thing on stage one time. It felt like a couple of minutes had past, and I was supposed to say my line, but it turned out it had just been a second or two, and the other person in my scene was still just starting her line.

It was really wierd too, I felt like I could see everything, like the stuff behind me, my muscles, my skeleton. Not a good thing to experience in the middle of a play, especially not during The Universal Language, if anyone's heard of that
 
once when i was walking to the corner store i had an out of body experience, it last pretty much all of 1.5 seconds but it completely threw me off, i saw myself walking but i couldn't control anything. very weird.
 
ive never experienced it but - apparently i can sleep walk, talk to people and find my way around my house - wake up in the morning and not remember anything (and thats without having anything to drink)

Also - all my dreams are gone surreal at this point, im dreaming of my life (bad way to put down a night and confuses me then)
 
i travelled back in time once, i woke up in the morning and decided to stay in bed for a few minutes before getting ready for school and i decided to watch the clock and as i watched it it went back one minute, then, a minute later, went back to the minute it had started at, then a minute later continued to the next minute like nothing had happened
i just wish i had done something cool with that extra minute instead of pondering how it could be possible
 
Sometimes I dream almost an entire day - then live the day (things go differently for the most part of course)

For example, I'd dream of today, then wake up and actually live today...it's weird when it happens.

Sometimes my reactions when I'm in any kind of danger are surprisingly fast. I almost got nailed in the face by a side mirror on a truck in Minneapolis once but I barely threw my head back - the guy took a right when I had the crosswalk light.

I posted this a long time ago, but back in like 8th grade I got into a mini-fight with a kid that was pissed at me for some reason. I was walking out of class and he tried punching me in the back of the head. I don't know how or why, but I felt that he was gonna hit me in the back of the head so I grabbed his hand with both hands behind my head as it was about to hit me. I turned around and twisted his arm so he turned with it facing away from me and I just pushed him at a locker. I was zoned out in the rest of class that day thinking about how that happened. I've never really been in a fight besides that.
 
I 'twist' my body into a dream state while at school to make the day go faster. Works pretty well actually.

There was this one time where I perfectly answered multiple questions to some English analysis of some story whilst being asleep.

Amazing.
 
AmishSlayer said:
Sometimes I dream almost an entire day - then live the day (things go differently for the most part of course)

For example, I'd dream of today, then wake up and actually live today...it's weird when it happens.
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Done that a few time. When I was a little kid, a few times i dreamed i found a cool toy or something, then hid it, and went back to bed, then I'd wake up for real and look everywhere for it in the ensuing months.
 
Shens said:
I 'twist' my body into a dream state while at school to make the day go faster. Works pretty well actually.

There was this one time where I perfectly answered multiple questions to some English analysis of some story whilst being asleep.

Amazing.
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Ive managed to fall asleep with my eyes open in the past. However, I had a dream I was falling, and i slipped, and woke up as my face was halfway to my desk, so I yelled and jumped. Was rather awkward.
 
Once I was in a fight in school (well after school just outside the gates) and I was winning, I then just walked away, no reason my brain just said to and a few seconds later a teacher walk out of the school.
 
Every time I wake up it's surreal. I'm very clueless when my alarm clock goes off, I get out of bed, and think I can go back in time by setting the time back on it, and crawl into bed again. Or I'm still dreaming while I'm awake, and then the clock becomes something from my dream, and I fiddle with the time a lot on it too, most often to accomplish an objective from my dream. Hard to explain, it's f*cking weird though.

And yes, I oversleep a lot.
 
Oh, I've had massive deja-vu... dreamed of some major event to happen in my life exactly as it happened... except I dreamed it about three years beforehand.

Also, sleeping in school, where you fall in the dream... You twitch, freak out, leap up and yell, then wonder why everyone's staring at you.
 
dying in dreams is rather scary :(

it feels so weird when you wake up
 
When ever I nap in public (on a bus, in class) I will always wake myself up in a stupid way. For instance, I was at a state championship swim meet when i fell asleep (We had to get there really early, and I wasnt swimming till late afternoon) and I dreamed I was about to dive in off the blocks, and I woke up right as I pushed off with both feet, and mule kicked the girl sitting next to me.
 
I frequently drive for miles without being aware of any of it.
 
I once woke up, got out of bed, took a shower, made breakfast only to wake up having to do it all over again. Was so frustrated the whole day since to me it seemed as if I had woken up twice :(
 
I remember once a long time ago, I fell asleep in my bed, and woke up on the couch. Whats wierd is that I just got up like everything was normal and went back to my room.
 
I have this strong memory of this row of houses that I'm not sure where. I think their from London, however a remeber driving past them once (not sure where I was only small) and reconsising them. Fair weird actually, might try and remember through hypnosis one day. I just get such a warm feeling from remebering them though, really wierd.
 
I once dreamt that I was in the forum, but we were just sitting around at a coffeeshop with bliink walking around enforcing stuff. I was disapointed when I logged back on and found there was no coffee shop. (I found out in that dream that Hectic Glen was my cousin, wierd)

Not very sureal but I though I might just say it. I was reading Lord of The Rings: The Twin Towers (before the films came out) and I fell asleep reading it and dreamt that I was fighting in Helms Deep. I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep so I read some more before nodding off again.
 
the two towers ***

such an amazing set of books, tho the ending of the film dragged on for sooo long
 
thats happened to me too...the whole waking up really early and doing stuff before you have to ...i can identify with a lot of stuff like pi mu rho said about driving miles and not realising it, its kind of like that for me on the bus in the morning...its so mundane and i've been doing it for about a decade now that ...it just seems to pass by and i don't realise it...really odd

one morning aswell, i fell asleep before going outside to catch me bus, woke up and was REALLY cabbaged...walked out me house and down the street and had no idea what i was doing, where i was going or ANYTHING...it came back to me in about 5 minutes...it slightly worried me aswell

i also hate it when people look at you on the bus when your taking a bit of a nap...its natural to sleep isn't it?
 
Hmmmm sureal experiences, don't tend to get them that often, when i do it is usually self caused.
I have done some very strange things that are appealing to do because of their unique strangeness.

Btw the talk on the "out of body experience", i have had such feelings too, i always get them in interviews for things....i'm not too sure what causes it but it seems like the mind trying to shut itself off from the body or something, like deep thought.
I don't know if any of you have ever started thinking about something and you realise you are just sat there staring into space not taking in anything, usually it requires someone to call your name a few times and you "snap out of it"

So really it is just deep thought, it is possible to achieve it in "meditation" .....and i don't mean sitting in the lotus position humming.
 
Pi Mu Rho said:
I frequently drive for miles without being aware of any of it.
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I do that too, mostly because I drive a particular 10 miles at least 3x a day so I can navigate the road in my sleep/daydream.

Also, I once almost kicked my girlfriend out of her bed at her house because I thought I was in my own house and I thought she came over to wake me up. Yeah, that was hell to explain. I was slightly hungover at the time so that worked in my defense.
 
I have not really experienced a surreal moment but heard a really surreal story.
An old boy was experiencing chest pains and collapsed, in his desperation he tried to phone his daughter and misdialled. A pay phone started to ring in the local hospital. A nurse who happened to be walking by answered the phone and recognised his voice. She was his second daughter.
 
Sometimes I wake up with all my clothes on, or half way through a text message (or in the bathtub). It's such a confusing moment when you roll out of bed and find yourself fully clothed and ready to go out, or lying in the bathtub. My girlfriend's brother did similar, only he climbed out a window and found himself naked and locked out of his flat at 7:30am :/
 
I once had a dream that I flew down my steps, and when I woke up I was curled up at their base.

I used to sleepwalk a lot. I would find myself in the weirdest positions when I actually woke up. I've found myself outside in the gazebo, in the garage, and in the car. This morning I woke up to my new alarm clock (it's a very shrill bell) scared out of my mind and convinced it was going to eat me, so I attacked it and ended up throwing it across the room. I went back to sleep after.
 
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