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gwern comments on Halloween thread - rationalist's horrors. - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: wwa 01 November 2013 10:07PM

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Comment author: gwern 02 November 2013 01:58:30AM 16 points [-]

Man, I hate false awakenings. I would not infrequently have them in middle school and high school: I would dream about waking up ridiculously early, going to school, doing all the tests, suffering through the classes I didn't like, spending literally hours on the bus going to and from, and then I would wake up shortly before the bus came at 6:30AM and think to myself oh come onnnn...

Comment author: ikrase 02 November 2013 08:36:05PM -1 points [-]

Yvain has a pretty good story on his blog, too.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 November 2013 12:49:29AM 6 points [-]

How about this one?

Comment author: gwern 05 August 2014 11:50:00PM 0 points [-]