Game Theory: Death by NIGHTMARE! (Try To Fall Asleep)

go to sleep no peep go to sleep little victim close your eyes say goodbye he comes in your dreams you can't run you can't hide he's here hello internet welcome to

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the only thing to look at considering everything else has been cancelled. Today, with gas prices at an all-time low, I'm here to make sure that nightmarish fuel gauge is flowing strong too Before you lay your head on the pillow tonight, today we're talking about try to

fall

asleep

, it's a

game

that you should bother your favorite youtuber to play because well, it circulated about two years ago, a new version just came out this year and it's much better than two years ago, it has more nights, it has a lot . more monsters and it's just terrifying, it's also incredibly well done for a project that no one has really heard of and I mean right now I think our game on GT Life is the only channel so far that has played this new version of the Lo which i must say is a shame because it's really worth your time so go ahead jacksepticeye, markiplier, super horror bro, 8 bit ryan, fusion Z gamer and all the other indie horror bros this game needs some attention and Honestly, We all just need content that is non-problem related and also enjoyable.

The premise of trying to

fall

asleep

seems simple enough at first. He plays the role of John Heron, who survived a terrible accident that left both his brain and memories of it. damaged, does he have memory loss and brain damage that could cause him to lose dr. Richard Norburg and his friendly robot assistant a bee who prescribed a treatment for these problems a good night's rest fortunately for you all that damage can be easily cured to cure your brain damage you will just have to sleep and rest sleep is the best medicine for your Brain From there, the game is divided into two parts, falling asleep and then dreaming.

Seriously, how hard can it be? You see, the first phase is to fall asleep, close your eyes long enough to help John slip into unconsciousness and that's it. Which separates this from your usual nap style of play. Napping is all about managing meters and being aware of your entire surroundings at all times. Here you are actually forced to close your eyes, you are forced to be unaware of your surroundings and who knows what horrible creature. He will be standing over you when you open them again and the thing is, not even your closed eyes are safe because the faded monsters and lost memory fragments, mostly monsters, attacked you even in the dark.

There's this incredible detail that the designers included. It's very smart and if you make it through phase one and get a good night's sleep, then you'll move on to the second style of play. Dreams allow me to begin to uncover your lost memories by replaying the traumatic events of John's past through some intense mini-games that you lose. here and you collapse in real life your dreams have literally killed you now I don't know about you, but it's a game about trying to fall asleep while lying in bed and facing all your fears and anxieties. I feel seen, but how fatal it can be. lack of sleep and your own dreams really are and, if anything, that information can tell us anything about the events we are seeing in the game, the answer to that, my friends, begins with a story from April 1987 in Chicago, A man cries in his sleep and dies.

He is middle-aged. He has no medical problems. His autopsy gives no clues as to what happened, and yet he is the one hundred and thirtieth victim of what they call baingan. 'It ends the

nightmare

s when it happens. They are always men with a average age 33 and it always happens at night, when they sleep, most are among refugees, men from Laos who fought for the United States during the Vietnam War, men who became targets when the U.S. The area left and the Lao Xien government fell under the communist regime. These were men who were driven from their homes, forced to escape a living

nightmare

only to end up in the US still being haunted by a different kind of nightmare one that would turn out to be all too real only in 1981 26 men will succumb to the nightmare

death

a story about a younger victim of the nightmare

death

says this is how you should sleep his family says he says no you don't understand i have had nightmares before this is different he told his parents he was afraid of that if he slept, something chasing him would catch him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time, in desperation, the family even tried. giving him sleeping pills finally while watching tv with the family he fell asleep on the couch thankful that the crisis was finally over they literally carried him upstairs to the bed and then they heard the screams when they got to his room he was already dead.

He died in the middle of a nightmare. They found a Mr. in his closet. coffee pot full of hot coffee that he had been using to try to stay awake, as well as all the sleeping pills he had been spinning, the autopsy revealed that there was no heart attack, he had just died, for another story this time. from a survivor first I was surprised but immediately I was very scared I was lying in bed a dark shadow in the night I woke up because I was thinking a lot about my problems I heard a noise when I turned I tried I couldn't move my bedroom it looked the same I could see in the corner a dark shape was coming towards me it came to the bed on my feet my legs were very heavy like a heavy weight all over my body my legs my chest my chest was frozen like I was drowning I had no air I tried to scream for someone sleeping Very close to me I heard myself I tried to move using a strength that I can a strength that I can have I thought What if I died after a long time?

He went away. I just came out, got up and turned on all the lights. I was afraid to go back to sleep. Now the nightmare of death and that final story is something very real, a tragic story without a series of still unsolved deaths among this very specific group of refugees. In a span of 10 years, one hundred and thirty men died, the final explanation that medical professionals decided on was a combination of stress from being a refugee from their home country and having to assimilate into a new culture, along with possible genetics in what deepest in the heart, it was not a perfect explanation, it did not explain all the cases, but it was the closest they could come in the meantime, this story about the boy and his coffee maker, the one that I cannot officially validate, is actually a story told by the master of horror wes craven.

Based on the first time he read about the nightmarish deaths in the Los Angeles era, he said in interviews that it was an actual article published on the subject, but from what I could see, I reviewed all the LA Times articles about Hmong refugees and the mysterious, nocturnal deaths and I couldn't find any specific reference to a child in his coffee pots, so it could be more of a fabrication that his head made up after reading the story that said it was powerful enough for him to create what what is it. perhaps one of Horror's most iconic monsters, Freddy Krueger, the dream killer, but what takes away all these stories is the idea that your dreams kill you, it seems like it should be the kind of thing you would only find in a movie horror or horror game but it's scary Lee reel is affecting real people for reasons we still don't understand to this day the concept we see and try to fall into the dream where Jon Heron experiences some kind of terrible accident and then dies in his dreams afterwards, as he tries to recover, that actually parallels the real life cases of Nightmare, death, surprisingly, horrible tragedy, extreme stress, murderous dreams, but know that we have talked about the dreams, let's go back to the first half of every game night and let's explore.

The basic premise of the game is to try to fall asleep. We're told that Jon's heron hallucinations, the creepy monsters that make it difficult for him to relax long enough to close his eyes and fall asleep, are caused by the damage that was done to his brain and the incident that left him hospitalized and that if he cannot sleep he will die of insomnia and in this case, reality ends up being more terrifying than the game's fiction. One of the most famous case studies on sleep deprivation involves a 17-year-old boy named Randy Gardner, who in 1964 set a world record by going 11 days and 25 minutes without sleep.

His record has since been surpassed, but Randy Gardner remains one of the most famous cases due to how well-documented his experiment was throughout the sleeping process. Stanford researcher and a lieutenant commander at the US Navy Neurological Center monitored like hell things started slow on day 2 Randy had difficulty recognizing objects by touch three he was having extreme mood swings it wasn't until the On day four I started having full hallucinations, but once they started, things got crazy. He started when he saw a sign on the street and thought he was a person. Later that day, he suddenly believed that he was a famous soccer player.

By day five, the hallucinations were becoming much more vivid, including that he saw a path through a quiet forest even though he was inside the entire time, by day ten he was experiencing paranoia because a radio host was trying to embarrass him. live and Randy is not alone with these types of symptoms, his symptoms are similar. like those of a New York disc jockey, Peter Tripp, who endured a 200-hour sleepless marathon to raise money for charity, on the fourth day he thought the stains on the table around him were spiders crawling around his booth. radio, even complaining that they were weaving cloth into his shoes at the end of his eighth days of insomnia a neurologist came to examine Peter and give him the all-clear but when he saw the doctor dressed in a dark suit he thought he was an undertaker coming to bury him alive it all ended with him screaming in fear and running towards the door half naked searching online for other stories about the effects of lack of sleep you see common features like pulsating walls shadow people animals or insects moving along your peripheral vision cars floating and a lot of paranoia in short The effects of lack of sleep, especially from the fourth day onwards, are very similar to the symptoms of psychosis.

This is something that was actually confirmed by researchers at the Grayling Hospital Clinical Research Center in Perth, Australia, who conducted a meta-study. A meta-study is basically a study that looks at a lot of other existing research and attempts to identify broader patterns in those studies and found that going without sleep for long periods of time can produce a variety of experiences including perceptual distortions and hallucinations, so of the quote, and those hallucinations are also not just visual many times their auditory hallucinations and even in some rare cases olfactory, in short, all symptoms of acute psychosis, so again in our game trying to fall asleep, it seems very appropriate that John Heron , whose problems relate to an apparent inability to fall asleep, begin experiencing exactly these types of visual and auditory hallucinations that are associated with loss of sleep in the real world, but that's not where the game stops, obviously, try fall asleep, it moves beyond the realm of table spiders and street signs, and goes straight to the most important question about them. all good long term sleep deprivation kills you now obviously there hasn't been any clinical trial forcing people to stay awake for weeks and weeks to see if they literally die from lack of sleep for very obvious reasons but ethical standards They are a little more lax when As far as laboratory rats are concerned, in a study conducted at the department of psychiatry at the University of Chicago in 1989, ten rats were subjected to total sleep deprivation from day eleven to day thirty. and two.

All those rats died, the researchers found nothing. anatomical causes of their death the rats were not dehydrated the rats were not starving they just died with no apparent cause let me tell you again you don't know what killed these rats you just don't know they have a couple of theories rat death theories it could have been the drop in body temperature, it could have been bacteria that is usually in the gut starting to leak into the rest of the body, as the insomnia allowed the body to relax and release the dogs, it could have been brain damage or again, like us.

We saw with nightmares, deaths, stress and in humans there is this super rare condition known as fatal insomnia. It is a genetic condition in which, over the course of 18 months, a person begins to experience progressively worse levels of insomnia which eventually leads to hallucinations, panic attacks, paranoia, rapid weight loss. and finally death, don't worry, although there have only been 24 cases in theworld, so it's not like we had to torture a bunch of poor lab rats to find out, but scientific research has confirmed that sleep is actually very important, even though science itself doesn't. I don't really know what it does, but you could literally die without it, but trying to fall asleep is more than just trying to avoid death from lack of sleep or death from nightmares in the game.

Jon Herron tries to fall asleep specifically because it's supposed to help. He recovers from his brain injuries and recovers his lost memories, so sleep is really the best medicine for Jon's brain to recover his memories and his brain function, it's actually something that sleep can do well. There appears to be a relationship between recovery from a traumatic brain injury such as John experiencing improved sleep according to a study published in the academic journal Neurology. The researchers found that there were, in fact, associations between mindfulness, cognitive functioning, and measures of healthy sleep, so does that mean dr.

Rick Norburg is right when he says that sleep heals all wounds well. At first it might seem like that, after all, recovery from traumatic brain injuries seems to be associated with improved sleep, however, just looking at the association doesn't tell us the whole story as they say correlation doesn't always mean causation and sometimes it is easy to go back cause and effect; In fact, looking at this study more closely, the results showed that when the brain has not sufficiently recovered to a certain level of consciousness it also cannot generate a 24-hour sleep-wake cycle and consolidated nighttime sleep, blablabla, Why does science always overcomplicate the way things are said?

That's the hypothetical question. I know the answer. The answer is actually to make sure the words. They are precise enough so that people do not extrapolate erroneous conclusions from their research. I understand well, let me translate this into simple terms. Okay, people who suffered a traumatic brain injury were often unable to experience healthy sleep because their brain trauma interfered with their normal sleep cycle. In other words, this is not a case of people sleeping more while their brains shut down. recover from a traumatic injury; It's actually a case of people recovering from a traumatic brain injury and their improved brain function making them sleep better, in short, if dr.

Norburg's goal is to restore John Herren to full health as quickly and safely as possible in the game dr. Rick is not doing a good job, not only does he fail some of the basic scientific knowledge about the interactions between traumatic brain injury and sleep, but his belief that sleep is all John needs to recover his memories is depriving John of real treatments that would really help him in his recovery, it's almost as if this doctor really doesn't want the best for his patient, maybe dr. Norbert has other reasons up his sleeve to keep John terrified instead of following the right path to recovery.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this become the game's big twist as things continue to unfold over the next two nights until then. We'll have to wait and see, as trying to get to sleep is still in its early access phase with many nights and hopefully there are still many more answers to come as we unravel more of the mystery of John Heron's pass and perhaps the most important of your present. I think we're going to learn that there's more to this Dr. Norberg and his robotic assistant than meets the eye, but hey, that's just a

theory

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