KnockBack, Episode 133: Dreams and Nightmares
Added 2020-08-27 18:29:22 +0000 UTCThe ethereal world of dreams has long fascinated humans (and our human-like ancestors) going back many millennia. In fact, when you really think about it, we kinda collectively take dreams for granted, as scholars and academics try to get to the bottom of why we (and seemingly all mammals, at the very least) dream while asleep. This episode of KnockBack isn't about the science, though. Instead, it's about experience. As kids, we all had dreams and nightmares that left indelible prints on us, and that's what we're going to discuss today. Really, though, we focus heavily on the nightmare aspect of dreaming, the uncontrollable horror that happens on the other side of closed eyes. So beware! The Tickley Monster approaches.
Comments
Ah, glad to hear it. =)
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-12 20:41:42 +0000 UTCAs someone who worked in the customer support industry, all be it in a different industry, the kind of email you sent to fence company would make my day.
Kam Wallis
2020-09-07 19:59:14 +0000 UTC=)
Colin Moriarty
2020-09-04 20:05:14 +0000 UTCWish I hadn't googled that terrifying looking Giraffe!
Martin
2020-09-03 12:26:24 +0000 UTCYes! That's the feeling of fear. =)
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-31 21:39:54 +0000 UTCThanks ma!
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-31 21:39:45 +0000 UTCI have to ask, with sleep paralysis do you ever see figures moving around your room? My sleep paralysis has progressed further and further as I’ve gotten older. I now see “beings” that always follow my eye line that get closer and closer. It is absolutely terrifying. And I now also feel pain sometimes during it. My fiancé always has to shake me out of it because she can hear me making basically yelps to be shaken awake. Sorry for the long post. But wondering if anyone else shares this style of sleep paralysis. I hope you don’t but my god I don’t wanna be alone in this haha.
kevin berger
2020-08-31 18:31:08 +0000 UTCGod, I’m old... 🙄
BettyAnn Moriarty
2020-08-31 18:07:23 +0000 UTCThe intro to this episode was amazing! Don’t make them shorter, bud. They’re usually hysterical! And, Fun to listen to! ❤️❤️
BettyAnn Moriarty
2020-08-31 14:35:59 +0000 UTCI don’t think I’ve ever seen a pogo stick in person before. 🤔
NeO JD
2020-08-31 14:31:23 +0000 UTCYeah, it's horrible. Glad you understand. =)
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:54:04 +0000 UTCThanks for listening. <3
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:53:51 +0000 UTCTornadoes are definitely scary.
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:53:40 +0000 UTCThanks. =)
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:53:32 +0000 UTCIt is THE WORST.
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:53:12 +0000 UTCI'm gonna do a full 10 hours on Generation Zero.
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:53:05 +0000 UTCFair enough.
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:52:50 +0000 UTC=D
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:52:46 +0000 UTCOkay. =)
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:52:42 +0000 UTCInteresting.
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-30 23:52:14 +0000 UTCHad to pause the episode and comment on the tickling thing. I really thought I was alone in the whole girlfriend situation. I always have to tell them that if they want to touch me it must be hard or done with force. Light touch tickles the hell out of me and forceful tickling sends a paralyzing shock through my body. I often play-wrestle with my current gf and although I completely dominate her all the time, my one weakness is tickling. She will use this against me literally all the time, even if I'm barely annoying her. I found it very funny how collin described exactly what I go through on the daily 😂
Castonian
2020-08-30 04:38:43 +0000 UTCLoved the part of your guys discussing Sleep Paralysis. I've experienced this for about 10 years now probably about 4-5 times a year. To add to what Colin said about it being when you fall asleep on your back that's only when it happens to me too. I remember my episodes of Sleep Paralysis very vividly and they're almost identical. Its an out of body experience, often times it's like I'm a camera in the top corner of a room seeing myself sleeping in bed and watching the door of my bedroom open slowly. Always, a dark figure sometimes with eyes sometimes not creeps into the room, this figure will either creep up to my bed or cling to walls. Eventually, this figure finds into way onto my chest and then my perspective changes to being in bed with the figure on my chest. While in this state I'll be trying to scream and feels like my mouth is wired shut, strange I know. I sometimes wake up sweating and with a pressure on chest. The first few times this happened was terrifying. Today, now when it happens oddly enough my mind being "awake" knows I'm actually having sleep paralysis and I rarely find them terrifying anymore. It's like my mind knows that this figure is fake and I'm just going to wake up and it's not a big deal. One caveat, is I would say probably once every 2-3 years I'll have one that for some reason becomes terrifying. I've read it happens when your brain creates extra chemicals similar to what the DMT drug would do to you, but I'm not sure. Something even crazier I have a close friend who used to have it happen to him and he too used to have a dark figure come into his room. Great episode guys!
Nick Amato
2020-08-29 22:01:46 +0000 UTCReally interesting episode. I have recurring dreams of tornadoes on the mountains in the distance. I live in West Virginia where there's been 7 tornadoes ever. Makes no sense, but they creep me out.
bk200jj
2020-08-29 07:11:33 +0000 UTCThe venting about life intros are the best part, honestly. lol.
Brandon Soto
2020-08-28 23:08:44 +0000 UTCCan’t wait for that Generation Zero Knockback episode, Col’.
Brandon Soto
2020-08-28 21:56:47 +0000 UTCWe’ll need an episode on The Sandman sometime soon haha
Angel Urbina
2020-08-28 19:05:21 +0000 UTCI've never felt so vindicated by the whole tickling thing. I HATE being tickled, to the point where I'm afraid I'll hurt someone involuntarily if they brush off the wrong spot. I thought I was alone in the struggle
Andrew Bradley
2020-08-28 16:06:52 +0000 UTCI like the intro , people always have the option to fast forward
JimmyTwoFace
2020-08-28 12:22:31 +0000 UTCDon't speed up the intros. I love the bants. That email was gold 😂
Reuben Barrett
2020-08-28 05:54:37 +0000 UTCHey Colin don't get bent out of shape about getting into the topic quicker I happen to enjoy the first 3 hours of the podcast and happen to think it's genuinely the best part of every episode, but what do I know.
Empty Symbol
2020-08-28 05:35:53 +0000 UTCSaid the same thing. It’s good therapy.
Brandon Soto
2020-08-28 03:01:06 +0000 UTCI think these are the types of episodes I like best. The general ones about life, like this one, childhood homes, malls in the 80s, the video store, saturday mornings, childhood memories, the interviews with your parents, etc.
CrispyBacon
2020-08-27 22:08:43 +0000 UTCI have to say I like how inception was two episodes ago, and then boom you hit us with an episode about dreams and nightmares. Super excited.
Kenneth Oms
2020-08-27 20:49:08 +0000 UTCI once had a dream where I was endlessly falling off of a sky skyscraper... when I woke up I was on my bedroom floor.
Nik Kovacs
2020-08-27 20:06:05 +0000 UTCI'm sorry to see you go! Thank you for your support.
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-27 19:23:21 +0000 UTCBaby, this is what you came for.
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-27 19:23:13 +0000 UTC=)
Colin Moriarty
2020-08-27 19:23:07 +0000 UTCThis is what we’ve been waiting for.
Conor Wilson
2020-08-27 18:52:39 +0000 UTCI just wanted to let you know that I’m not supporting you on Patreon any longer due to one of Chris’s tweets. Talking about rural America being incest ridden farmlands. I live in this area and you say put your money where your mouth is so I will. Thanks Colin I due enjoy your content tho.
Jason Moss
2020-08-27 18:46:16 +0000 UTCYes the tickley monster 😂😂😂 can't wait to hear Dagan tell that story again, this is gonna be good!
Alex Bolton
2020-08-27 18:31:17 +0000 UTC
