Quote Originally Posted by Noblejanobii View Post
Haha yeah I’d like to stick around as long as possible. This place has been a great influence on my life and it’d feel weird to abandon it especially after something like a ban.

I sleep on my side so I’m a wild card. XD I can try the stomach thing though that might work. I have been trying to relax before bed but I think the main reason I haven’t been able to lately is because I got assigned a lot of homework in addition to final projects and exams, so I’m spending most of my waking hours trying to complete those. And of course there’s been a couple early morning or late night arguments online and with my parents that had made things worse for sure.
Same, this place keeps pushing me to be creative and a lot of the leadership and project management skills I've been learning from here have actually come in handy when it comes to staying organized, focused, and prepared for my real life job. I probably wouldn't be as well-composed and prepared if I just played video games instead.

Also, I feel bad your parents have been so relentlessly imposing and controlling. It bothers me how much some parents try to keep their kids locked in a protective bubble of control dependence for way too long when there comes a time when people have to be independent and explore the world on their own. That and being overburdened and burnt out from school work is always sucky. I sure don't miss those days. But when things ease up and hopefully soon, try it and hopefully the number of nightmares diminishes. I'll admit that I still have really awful nightmares from time to time so they're not unavoidable, but I maybe only get one of those like once a month.

Most of my dreams are usually just weird. Like how the other night, I had a dream my dad and I were at a hardware store, but when we wanted to get back to the car, we tried taking a "shortcut" through the back of the building to get to the parking lot, but then we ended up in some random people's backyards, had to go over barbed wire fences, kept getting sidetracked, and we kept straying miles away and further and further from where we wanted to be. I woke up just kind of laughing to myself about how much easier it would have been to go out the normal way into the parking lot. And you know, that might help, too. Next time you have a nightmare, write it down, but in a way that makes the whole thing sound stupid and absurd. Nail it hard where it becomes totally illogical and make it suffer from trying to go against reality and how you think things would really happen. Be a fact-checking and logic-enforcing nightmare to your own nightmares. >:3