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Abelysk · 2015-12-02 02:00:35

Post what you did recently aside from Everybody Edits.

Pyromaniac · 2015-12-02 02:08:01

Recently ive-

Had auditions for orchestra placement at the music school I'm going to. Not to brag except actually to brag Im in the graduate orchestra. Im the only undergraduate player in my section and one of three freshman in the orchestra. Turn up.

Ive done multiple ad hoc orchestras. I did a couple masters recitals and whatever.

I played a composition piece that was written for me.

I began applying for summer music festivals which means recording tapes and sending in ****.

My chamber group just played a couple gigs, we did prokofiev bass quintet.

I just played in an opera with said orchestra, Die Fledermaus, it was so fun.

I actually have another composition recital tonight, we are doing a septet with percussion.

My orchestra began rehearsing for a recording contract that they have with the Chicago symphony (....? I'm a little fuzzy on all the details)

Ive been playing my instrument for about 6+ horus a day so thats a time suck.

I started community for the sixth time.

I pre ordered Xenoblade.

Null · 2015-12-02 02:28:59

Got sleep paralysis like 3 times this morning trying to sleep
It's also the gateway to lucid dreaming but I keep chickening out

JadElClemens, SilverStar, Insanity, Fastmapler

Stubby · 2015-12-02 02:40:49

Solved a Rubik's cube in under a minute.

Kirby, Anch

Kirby · 2015-12-02 02:41:03

Stubby wrote:

Solved a Rubik's cube in under a minute.

omg same

i was able to do it in 12 seconds the other day so i guess thats cool

Stubby · 2015-12-02 02:46:52

Kirby wrote:

Stubby wrote:
Solved a Rubik's cube in under a minute.
omg same
i was able to do it in 12 seconds the other day so i guess thats cool

That's impressive. I started learning how to solve the cube about a month ago, and I am practicing on ways to speed up. I might buy a new cube too, my current one gets stuck a lot.

Kirby · 2015-12-02 02:58:31

Stubby wrote:

Kirby wrote:
Stubby wrote:
Solved a Rubik's cube in under a minute.
omg same
i was able to do it in 12 seconds the other day so i guess thats cool
That's impressive. I started learning how to solve the cube about a month ago, and I am practicing on ways to speed up. I might buy a new cube too, my current one gets stuck a lot.

http://www.amazon.com/GuanLong-3x3x3-Ma … j+guanlong

thats a great, fast cheap one

http://www.amazon.com/MoYu-HuaLong-3x3x … yu+hualong

thats a better, but more expensive one.

as for a faster method,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzE7SyDB8vA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT5BPHEZGJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ltbjGIosU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMb7hOAgmng

Those four videos are the 4 steps in the CFOP method, top to bottom. It's pretty similar to the beginners method, and it's the method that the people with world records and stuff use.

so ye

Freckleface · 2015-12-02 03:35:17

I posted this reply

Krosis · 2015-12-02 06:40:00

Stubby wrote:

Kirby wrote:
Stubby wrote:
Solved a Rubik's cube in under a minute.
omg same
i was able to do it in 12 seconds the other day so i guess thats cool
That's impressive. I started learning how to solve the cube about a month ago, and I am practicing on ways to speed up. I might buy a new cube too, my current one gets stuck a lot.

now go for 5 seconds

JadElClemens · 2015-12-02 07:34:22

Null wrote:

Got sleep paralysis like 3 times this morning trying to sleep
It's also the gateway to lucid dreaming but I keep chickening out

Dude I freaking love the feeling though. It happens to me a lot when I nap between my morning classes and lunch.

I've never gone lucid but I've had an "infinite falling" feeling quite often. A lot of times my body just jerks awake and kinda kicks me out before my mind has a chance to freak out because of it.

Null

Abelysk · 2015-12-02 08:34:02

JadElClemens wrote:

I've never gone lucid but I've had an "infinite falling" feeling quite often. A lot of times my body just jerks awake and kinda kicks me out before my mind has a chance to freak out because of it.

I hate when that happens because it usually ends a really good dream I had. As for lucidity, never experienced it. From what I read, the feeling is literally having 100% consciousness in your dream, so when you wake up, you can't tell if you woke up in reality or not. There are ways of telling if you're in a lucid dream though - if you look in a mirror, you'll see an extremely distorted self image. Or, you can push your finger through your hand.

One way I've heard to make lucid dreams last longer is to look down on the ground and spin 10 times. Most people when lucid dreaming are so overwhelmed and excited in what they're seeing that their brain immediately wakes up. The lucid state is a very delicate-yet-powerful state that can easily be broken.

My uncle had a lucid dream and controlled it. He built himself a mansion out of thin air, and as soon as he had finished all he wanted, he said UFO flew over the mansion and destroyed it.

Regular dreams feel like a normal thing. They feel like movies. Lucid dreams feel like you are you. Imagine actually being Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, rather than sitting behind a screen. That's the incredible power of lucid dreams.

Some people live in their lucid dreams - they find methods of forcing lucidity upon themselves every night (or most nights) including method acronyms that go along the lines of WILDs, MILDs, DILDs, etc. I tried lucid induction, but I fail to do reality checks all the time. Everytime I get interest in these phenomena are right before I go to bed. Hopefully I start doing practices for a higher induction rate.

Then there are out of body experiences. Won't talk about that.

JadElClemens, Null

Minimania · 2015-12-02 08:38:08

I got betrayed by my friends, kicked out of a community, and had my life threatened

Great, I know

Null · 2015-12-02 08:47:25

@Kefka

I've gone lucid only three times in my life I believe, two of those barely memorable, third.. kinda good, but extremely short.
memorable one was a DILD.. Realized I was dreaming, ended up on my driveway barefeet. All my senses were strong - the pavement looked so sharp and I think every plant around was growing at a fast rate.. And for touch, I could feel my feet on the tarmac so vividly. I then decided to try to fly. And just like you said, too excited, woke up.
Unfortunately that was a long while ago, so now it seems so distant, and I'm unsure how aware I actually was.

I want to try the WILD technique, but my fear always overtakes that when I start to feel the paralysis.
That's the main part of my lucid / paralysis fear - in my mind I'm constantly hoping nothing disturbing's gonna happen, and I feel if I think it too much my brain will actually bring that idea into reality. Eh, bad schema.

Check out dreamviews.com for who hasn't already. It's an awesome site, all the info you need.

@Minimania

Dude, what happened? :\

2015-12-02 15:25:32

Just got an opportunity for an internship at a small company in my neighborhood. Not anything big, but if it works at least I can have quite some spare money for next year.

Zoey2070 · 2015-12-02 16:25:15

Nothing. I've done nothing outside of EE since August except play video games.

Freckleface, Anch, Pingohits

Anch · 2015-12-02 22:06:43

Kirby wrote:

Stubby wrote:
Kirby wrote:
Stubby wrote:
Solved a Rubik's cube in under a minute.
omg same
i was able to do it in 12 seconds the other day so i guess thats cool
That's impressive. I started learning how to solve the cube about a month ago, and I am practicing on ways to speed up. I might buy a new cube too, my current one gets stuck a lot.
http://www.amazon.com/GuanLong-3x3x3-Ma … j+guanlong
thats a great, fast cheap one
http://www.amazon.com/MoYu-HuaLong-3x3x … yu+hualong
thats a better, but more expensive one.
as for a faster method,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzE7SyDB8vA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT5BPHEZGJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ltbjGIosU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMb7hOAgmng
Those four videos are the 4 steps in the CFOP method, top to bottom. It's pretty similar to the beginners method, and it's the method that the people with world records and stuff use.
so ye

I use this one. It's really smooth, and can cut corners pretty easily, but it gets not-as-smooth as you use it more. (It's good though because it's kind of TOO smooth when you first buy it)

Abelysk · 2015-12-03 00:41:25

Null wrote:

Check out dreamviews.com for who hasn't already. It's an awesome site, all the info you need.

I've checked this one before, along with worldofluciddreaming.com. Very great websites.

Freckleface · 2015-12-03 01:09:30

I started this....

Insanity · 2015-12-03 01:27:19

Convinced our neighbors not to call the cops on us for stealing all of their beer kegs

Pingohits

Minimania · 2015-12-03 01:28:00

I almost got shot today, not going to lie

Xfrogman43 · 2015-12-03 02:39:52

I got a 103 on a geometry test. Missed a bonus question :/ I wanted 104

AmdS · 2015-12-03 02:51:10

Go to EEForums.

always

Abelysk · 2015-12-03 04:59:08

minimania wrote:

I almost got shot today, not going to lie

Wow... Glad you're safe

Null wrote:

Got sleep paralysis like 3 times this morning trying to sleep
It's also the gateway to lucid dreaming but I keep chickening out

The WILD method. So I researched some methods and apparently there's an EXTREMELY easy method called the "FILD" method. Read it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/ … everytime/

Watch about it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5bQCk2QKF4

a3person · 2015-12-03 12:38:38

I woke up from an awesome dream!

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