Week 26 Results

A room with an alarm clock constantly going off

A room where you constantly have bad dreams?

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Most of us would agree that sleep is a good thing. Well usually sleep goes pretty well. But I can think of a couple scenarios where it does not.
Imagine that you just want to go to sleep, but there is an alarm clock that goes off all the time. Whatever type of alarm clock you find most annoying, that's what kind it is. And it is protected in a case so that you can't unplug or destroy it (although you can press snooze.)
Now imagine another room - where you can sleep just fine. But every time you do, you have the most awful dreams imaginable. The kind that make you wake up screaming with a cold sweat (like on T.V.) The kind that make you wonder if you should get up that day. You know, zombies and skeletons, and spiders, and atomic detonations, and crooks breaking in and mean dogs and people dying (especially people you know and love) and teeth falling out and bones breaking and cars wrecking and people yelling and banging on the bedroom windows and hands rising up from graves and meteor collisions and an extremely deadly, horribly painful disease that infects you (or maybe everybody,) and devils and demons and such. The Real Deal (whatever scares you.)

Name: Mac-muh-han
Choice: Alarm clock
Comments: The sound of an alarm clock is one of the things I HATE most in life, but I can ignore it over time (just like I did with my brother's annoying alarm clock). Bad dreams, while they don't do you much physical harm, are very traumatic. The realm of bad dreams is where I've fallen down flights of stairs...found out two of my unwed friends were pregnant...been sent to the principal for a paddling because I jumped on the bed (figure that one out)...found out that my sister had died...went to school naked...gone to classes expecting a normal day only to find out that the most important exam--that I hadn't studied for--was that day and I had even forgotten what the class was about...spent days perpetually working on a computer program (wait that's real life)...spent days with a press run from "Heck" (wait that's real life, too)...been left alone to experience the end of the world...experienced dog bites, snake bites, and gunshots...wandered around the same place aimlessly and not getting anywhere...discovered I've got [insert your exotic fatal disease of choice here]...had things I wouldn't want anyone to know about me exposed publically...gone through ENTIRE bad days of school just before waking up...just to name a few. No, bad dreams are harmless on the surface, but some of them stick with you. One demonic dream, and you could really be messed up. I'd rather just sleep through the alarm.

Name: Allison
Choice: Alarm clock
Comments: I have had HARRIBLE bad dreams in the past that I would never wish to relive or wish upon anyone else. So I would prefer the alarm clock--Jess can attest to the fact that I can sleep through alarm clocks going off with no problem. I can even hit the snooze and not even remember it. Yes, I am a woman of rare talent.

Name: Cleophus T. Jenkins(Taylor)
Choice: Alarm clock
Comments: Well this one is pretty easy, at least to me. When I was young.....(slips into long disjointed(word?) story) Well one day my alarm went off at the normal time, and you see me and my dad lived in a really big house so you couldn't hear the alarm or anything in rooms on the other side of the house. Well my dad came up stairs to get me so I could go to school when it was time but discovered me still in bed with my alarm going off. I had stayed in bed almost 1.5 hours with my alarm going off. And when I was in High School I used to sleep walk and turn my alarm off and always ended up running late for school. But anyway both alarms I had were exceptionably loud and would case a normal person to jump out of bed and almost have a heartattack, but me I just sleep through them. So the whole point of the story is that even if my alarm was going off, there's a good chance that I wouldn't hear it going off and would just peacefully sleep anyway. Even if I did hear it I probably would, if I realised I could only reset it and not turn off, just go back to sleep with the alarm going off(I've done that too). So obviously the better choice would be to have the friggin alarm, I don't need no stinkin' bad dreams(not that they particularly scare me either). That reminds me of something too... Once one of my friend had a dream about a friend we had in common's father's death. That dream seeemed to disturb him quite a bit so that's another reason I wouldn't want to dream bad dreams...................

Name: well....jean...yeah...
Choice: Bad dreams
Comments: well, you see i have bad dreams anyway and so that wouldn't be a problem. all of the horrible things you described pretty much tell about the dreams i've had in the past few years almost every night. i've developed a sort of immunity to the emotional trauma one would usually suffer from this sort of continuous sleep problem. kevin, let me say that you're digging your way out of the ol' proverbial "scenario rut". hey, could you play my drum for my in atlanta on march 24th???? please?????

Name: Anne
Choice: Bad dreams
Comments: Well, I figure that if I am asleep, than none of that stuff really happens anyway. But, if my philosophy prof is right when refering to Descartes, than we don't exist and everything is a dream anyways, but if everything is a dream, than maybe those nightmares are reality, and maybe I should just go with the alarm clock.

Name: Noremac
Choice: Alarm clock
Comments: I can usually get some restful sleep inbetween each time the alarm goes off in the morning when I constantly hit the snooze alarm...where as with the bad dreams I don't have that luxury and end up very tired and disturbed the next day.

Name: Kevin
Choice: Bad dreams
Comments: The threat of my alarm going off makes me jumpier than any nightmare could, and somebody ELSE'S alarm going unattended makes me extremely angry. My brother often lets his alarm go off for upwards of thirty minutes or an hour. His lack of response once made me so angry that I punched a wall with all my strength in hopes of waking him up. Well it damaged the wall, didn't wake him up, and didn't do miracles for my hand either. I have yet to point out this wall damage to my mother. In contrast, whenever I have bad dreams and wake up to find out that they were not true, I am extremely grateful and it gives me a new appreciation for my circumstance in life.

Name: ryan hardister
Choice: Bad dreams
Comments: dreams are just interesting to me, the good and the bad