An HFY Story : You Weren't Supposed to Win & Human Nightmares are Scary | 2388

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

i do not have nightmares i have cthulian adventures lmfao

[@andrewerickson6690]

Ah yes the lucid dreaming of an Eldridge god

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

@@andrewerickson6690 🤣😂

[@JohnJBrowne11209]

I have to tell my girlfriend this on the occasions when I howl in the night.

[@ZM1306]

True... i have only had one, maybe two, nightmares in my life. It is all about perspective. The flesh devouring dinosaurs roaming the halls of the hotel were exciting, basically just a bunch of fetch quests from the people in the rooms, though.

[@lucidlythinking857]

That’s a shame.

[@TheLastRhapsody]

"She does not prepare to fight. She prepares to *win*." To paraphrase a certain well known philosopher general: Win before you go to war. If you go to war before you've won, you have already lost.

[@clintcarpentier2424]

Objective perspective matters. Left-wing winning strategy involves speaking words that you capitulate to out of... fear. Thus, the aliens should have won. I said "X", therefor you believe "X", therefore I win. There's no concept of "first contact with the enemy.

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

just realised the aliens do not have a first strike doctrine lmao. Nor a M.A.D doctrine .

[@JohnJBrowne11209]

This is why humans are better than AI. This man is a gem.

[@mattbrown5511]

1) Humans don't play war. We are war. 2) Your nightmares are our pleasant dreams. Crwal around in a sociopath's dreams for a while if you want true terror.

[@lumberluc]

I don't see Nightmares as Places of Fear. I see them as places of learning.

[@theshadyprotector8412]

Story #1: There are two ways to end a conflict. You either win, or you make your opponent lose. Story #2: If you think our nightmares are bad, wait until you see our kinky dreams.

[@christopherg2347]

"Killing you was the point. Living through it? That was a luxury." - Trevor Belmont.

[@zetaking2909]

o im pritty sure one did, and saved it to his.... homework folder

[@brentmartin6833]

Spousal Unit.... what is this package from "Ooh La La"?

[@erushi5503]

​@@brentmartin6833 Someone got their tra la la touched

[@kevincaruthers5412]

Enemy: "You can't win!" Human: "I don't have to win. I just have to make sure you lose."

[@dalemorgan8263]

Ever since I had a dream as a kid where I pulled out a lightsaber, I've never had any outright nightmares. Weird shit that was disturbing in hindsight, but nothing outright threatening.

[@dyxifltline]

What you did is the hardest part about controlling your dreams. I'm not talking woo or any mystic noise. But either recognizing it as a dream or taking direct is nearly impossible for most people. I did nearly the same thing, except it was an Uzi with silver bullets. 11:50

[@cheekymonkey2785]

@@dyxifltline imagine turning your nightmares into a wet dream, then having nightmares never again.

[@maingun07]

It's called lucid dreaming. I used to be able to do that on occasion as a kid, but it's been many years since I've done that. I did have a lightsaber dream as a teenager, but sadly it was not a lucid dream. In the dream, I was tinkering around on my dad's work bench and I accidentally built a lightsaber! I ran to my best friend's to show him what I built and he had built one too! Did we spar? No. Did we defend the helpless from those that would prey on them? Nope. Did we lead a small band of freedom fighters against a tyrannical government. Not exactly. We used these amazing lightsabers to rapidly cut, split, and stack the 5 cords of firewood that our dads told us take care of so we could head to the lake and drink beer. If ever I wished a dream to be lucid...

[@dyxifltline]

@@maingun07 not quite lucid dreaming it is more learning how to pull oneself out of a nightmare. I'm familiar with lucid dreaming that happens near the loss or the attainment of consciousness.

[@ianharrison5758]

@@dyxifltlineI tend to Lucid dream more often than most people, turns out my brain is weird and I learned from my sleep study I spend more time in that twilight phase of consciousness that tends to be where lucid dreaming occurs than most waking up or falling asleep. That’s lead to me suddenly becoming aware of the fact I’m dreaming midway through some nonsensical and ridiculous dream, like once I felt aware of myself in the dream as I was mid air on a dirt bike over a valley of peanut brittle that was running through an area that looked both flat and like a sphere(like 2d and 3D at once) and was surrounded by a white void. Thing is tho I may lucid dream more often but I’m not very good at actually influencing my dreams. Apparently you can control a dream somehow or at least change it to some extent but I’ve never been able to. I’m just aware so in that previous dirt bike dream I basically gained awareness right as my bike was falling into a lethal valley of sharp food. Like wtf even is that? How does a brain make itself see that and WHY?

[@TheStarMachine2000]

My dreams have turned from terrifying to, "I can fight it, I am Master Chief." Seriously, Tron like Dream last night and just, made my way through what should have been an excruciating fight

[@Wastelandman7000]

I've had similar experiences. Though last night my dreams were REALLY weird. A voiced over COMIC BOOK. On dog eared newsprint no less.

[@ashleg8350]

"Si vis pacem, para bellum." A lot of people don't understand, that saying has 3 corollaries. "If you want peace, prepare for war": You cannot have peace if you cannot defend it. "If you want peace, prepare for peace.": If you do not have something for your peaceful society to be geared towards, the society will eventually collapse from economic pressures, or will conflict with itself or a neighbor out of inactivity. "If you want war, prepare for war.": Don't declare war if you cannot be assured of your own victory. Also, war is expensive. "If you want war, prepare for peace." The war will only last so long. You need to make sure your society, and especially your warriors, have something to strive for after the war is over. Latin's fun like that.

[@МихаилРозов-ю9п]

"If you do not have something for your peaceful society to be geared towards, the society will eventually collapse from economic pressures, or will conflict with itself or a neighbor out of inactivity." That statement is wrong. Because there is nothing to put pressure on the solitary system. "Don't declare war if you cannot be assured of your own victory. Also, war is expensive" That statement is wrong. Many wars have set their sole goal not be victorious but rather to: prolong the conflict/ weaken the enemy/ die in battle/ preserve dignity/ fulfill obligations an so on. And they were profitable. "The war will only last so long." That statement is also wrong. "For in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war." And THIS is an optimistic forecast. There is a bunch of rather hefty reasons for war communism to be the most effective socioeconomic model. "Si vis pacem, para bellum." That one is true though. The Murphy's law has not been cancelled yet.

[@ashleg8350]

@@МихаилРозов-ю9п I will not argue with or against any of the points that you countered, save two. A Warhammer 40,000 quote? I'm talking real world, here. Why would you involve a fantasy setting? Also, Murphy's Law is "Anything that can go wrong, WILL go wrong."

[@МихаилРозов-ю9п]

@@ashleg8350 I am a mathematician-economist, and I understand something about the forces that move this real world. When I said it was a forecast, I was also more than serious. And yes, this general law in relation to a particular case: If an undesirable war can happen, it will happen. Until humanity unites and build communism or another, as of yet undiscovered, more advanced socio-economic formation, wars will happen regularly, and over time (as the scale of space utilization increases), the gaps between wars will approach zero.

[@SergioMollari]

@@МихаилРозов-ю9п "Until humanity unites and build communism or another" And that is why it will NEVER happen. Communism would work if and only if humanity were a race of mindless drones.That is why Marxism hasn't worked so far, and why it will NEVER work in the future.Unity is a pipe dream you embrace in the face of all the evidence to the contrary. Communism is just another empty political faith that promises the world but delivers nothing. At least Capitalism allows you to better your lot in life. All Communism does is take, and take and take even more. It's a locust that is always hungry.

[@WingManFang1]

I used to have a lot of nightmares…I just learned to love them. There is only one I truely fear now but haven’t had it in years. Thankfully for every time my one really bad nightmare comes back I wake up coughing blood.

[@Jakes3130]

Thanks for the narration

[@kurtismiller9544]

For DA SKWERL and his Nest

[@boywonderrr71]

He is Admiral Agro D. Squirrel to you Sargent! Dont you forgot it!

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

damn agro your spoiling us today lol

[@yomogami4561]

two good stories the first sadly may have roots in today's news the second is very true. they should be thankful no one experienced a true 'night terror' thanks for the narration

[@chronus4421]

Thanks Buddy! I miss the series, for some reason our host no longer recommends the new channel to me, and sometimes I forget to go fishing for it.

[@ŇøuźəřFøŭņð]

Thank you for the story. Your narration is always the best 100x better than all these new soulless ai narrated channels that have popped up!

[@dragonwarrior1013]

Quality and quantity are two different things you beat almost anything with quality but if you have both you can beat anything

[@deussalt4479]

For The Agro-rythm!

[@leightondoswell453]

Thank you Argo and the authors you make my days bearable.

[@Runedragonx]

Nightmares are weird. One in particular that has stuck with me was incredibly vivid. I was simply laying in my bed staring at my open door, unable to move, knowing that I'm dreaming but unable to wake up, as a deer with massive, tattered antlers, wolves' teeth, and empty eye sockets that stared not just at me, but _through_ me. I sat in that state for what felt like an hour. It felt as though if I looked away it would rush forth and devour me. Now, I'm not full-blooded Native American, but the 1/16 in me says that's a fucking sign. Another dream that I guess you could call a nightmare occurred a few days after my mother passed. This one was also quite vivid. I was stuck in this glass bubble, perhaps more accurately a dome. A hammer lay before me as means of escape, and my mother stood on the other side of the glass waving goodbye. As she drifted backwards toward the light, my eyes kept flicking back and forth; Mom, hammer, Mom, hammer, Mom... I knew with 100% certainty that if I picked up that hammer and smashed the glass the follow after her, I would not wake the next morning. As I leant down to reach for the hammer, my eyes snapped open and I proceeded to sob uncontrollably. It's still tough to recall that dream.

[@blackg0076]

The Thomas the tank engine theme playing on the TV non stop from 0600 till 2030 every day . thats a nightmare.

[@syncringe1885]

I love the implications the second story has. Or rather what that tech could be used for. Imagine someone with some form of trauma. Imagine them always having nightmares. Now imagine using those machines for therapy. It may have some better results than some of our current methods.

[@cristiserban681]

Dude. Take a break. You look sick... Recover full. I'd rather have quality content later but for decades than now and for years.

[@nooneofimportance2110]

That 2nd story, about half of it kinda reminds me of the plot to Dreamscape. It's not a bad story, but just feels a little bit derivitive.

[@garysmith3037]

Yeah, they should have gone for the annoying dreams. The driving dreams, the having to use the bathroom dreams, the finding the object you have been wanting only to be severely disappointed to wake up without it dream, etc...

[@JensDüber]

thank you for the storys vou tell

[@barelyasurvivor1257]

Thank you for the great reads Agro

[@bloodcult5262]

Welcome my friend. Love your narrations

[@Alex.H.B.1970something]

Bravo Sir Encore!

[@RealArcalian]

Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo Glad to see two stories of relatively shorter length Story 1: Actually read this one. Glad to disrupt the alien hegemony. Story 2: That's the best you got? HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

The last story reminds me of "The Blood Red Game" by Michael Moorcock. Although it's only a small segement of the story, aliens who dominate one parallel universe offer to play a game for domination of that universe with humans who have just escaped "our" universe which was dying. Exactly how the game works isn't actually explained. It's just that each side connects their minds to machines which somehow arbitrate the game and the result is that players either die or go mad if they lose. (It seems to me that the idea of the game is actually to discover imagery which the other side finds either too disgusting or too mind-bending to absorb and then send it to them). Humans come close to losing, mainly due to an effect which is accompanied by "blood red" imagery, but they eventually discover some kind of imagery which is just too much for the aliens and the humans then quickly win despite being well behind in the game previously.

[@allenmorgan1007]

For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Holographic Voice!

[@Avigorus]

Hoping to see Humans are Omnivores (it has a more upbeat sequel linked in the post)

[@Uzzgub]

A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great stories; Excellent narration!

[@Renegadebane]

War does change, it gets additional features and a new soundtrack every few updates. Also, we forget around 90% of a dream because if we didn't, we'd have lifetimes worth of memories by the age of 25 and it would all be mostly illogical nonsense.

[@venoltar]

The worst nightmares I have are not horrific or visceral, but so absurd that I start yelling at them about proper plot development before I even get a chance to wake up. I think my sub-conscious might be a little scared since it really does try to stitch something coherent together these days, even if it still doesn't quite get the concept. I feel a bit sorry for it and try to put up with the rubbish for as long as I can at least.

[@ToggBott]

Alien: "we haz big boom boom weapons... gives us yer stuffs" Humans : nukes Aliens Other Aliens:... "Whut"?

[@carldooley9344]

Story number one is a perfect reason why the first starships should be arks, not warships or exploratory vessels. Arks capable of turning around.

[@johannesnoneoftheabove9957]

story #1: Si vis pacem, para bellum.

[@guacamoleman3253]

Imagine if one of the people having their dreams went lucid lol

[@Shinzann2007]

I was hoping to hear more about this Relativistic War...

[@ricardbabot]

thanks for your time, and stories! ^-^

[@verilyheld]

'Also, once we realise we are dreaming, we can control our dreams.' 'You . . . can control your dreams?' 'Well, yes, though the degree varies from person to person. Also, if we don't like the dream, we can just wake up.' ' . . . . . you're sure you even need our technology?'

[@black1917]

Imagine what they would have seen if they used that on a vet, or a rape victim.

[@robertstoneking7916]

As a veteran I will say that it's sometimes hard to tell which dreams were intended to be nightmares. The worst ones I've gotten are the ones where my job at the time has followed me home with a factory production line set up in the front yard. Most things people would consider nightmares are just " I must have finally gotten a PlayStation 9." Look up playstation9 commercial if you don't know.

[@darwinskeeper421]

Somehow my least favorite nightmares either involved getting back with my ex, or being in college and not being able to keep up with everything.

[@Inferryu]

NOOO!!! YOU FOOLS!!! DON'T GIVE COMPANYES THE ABILITY TO PUT ADS IN OUR DREAMS!!!

[@brentmartin6833]

Story #1: the Aliens declared war and told us what they had. *Didn't* field any of it and expected to win? Have they *not* heard of star wars? We probably had some "Ray Gun" stuff to shoot their Relativistic Missiles if needed. Story #2. Ah yes night mares. Pet pet, here's a carrot and some sugar now go along and frolic in some other corner of my mind. Well, now I'm awake let's see if I can finish the internet tonight.

[@boywonderrr71]

Marriage is a living nightmare!

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

Sacary

[@FuzzyMarineVet]

Sorry I missed the live premere.

[@Gh05tk3y]

For the algorithm

[@genericuser984]

cool

[@merlinathrawes746]

MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) was never a viable doctrine. Someone somewhere is going to push that button and the consequences be damned. You either destroy your enemy's ability to fight or be prepared to die. Quite often after a threat of destruction your only viable option is to "strike first". Yep, nightmares are one of the ways the sleeping brain processes pain, fear and trauma. It's a normal part of life.

[@domingovibar8193]

Love you channel, but quick question: why are all of your characters British?

[@billcook7285]

A nightmare is just a peaceful vacation from The real world. 😐

[@Ohwhin]

I swear every author who writes that humans teeth are scary have never seen so much as a cat. We are anatomically fruit eaters, biologists are still trying to figure out how we live so long on the things we do because in the animal kingdom humans are weird.

[@SuperRoboPopoto]

Except we’re not. We’re omnivores descended from primarily fruit eating apes. Subtle difference.

[@TheRealInscrutable]

200K

[@merlinwizard1000]

6th, 7 May 2024

[@MidnightSmoke]

Here is a like and comment for the stories, for entertaining me, to help your channel grow, to appease the great and powerful KZbin algorithm demon, and get you the recognition you deserve.

[@QuakeMidaro]

Meanwhile there's thosemlike me who when we dream it's f*ckin apocalyptic bubble gun hunger games style dreams like why the f*ck do Inhave a recurring dream of this the sky burns the earth turns into solid bubbles and each bubble has 10,000 people each who must fight with bubble guns until only 10 remain I've had this dream twice a month fir the past 10 years I've won twice and like any true souls gamer died to gravity and poorly tied shoes more times than I care to admit

[@iamcurious9541]

Oh man, that poor author of the second story who made one uncorrectable spelling mistake and now you pronounce it as written

[@t.p.3456]

For the algorithm 👽👾🤖🌌🛰🚀🛸🌠

[@GR3YD3ATH]

boo