Thread: Tell me about your addiction/bad habit

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I'll make eye contact as much as the person I'm talking to is making it. If she's looking at me about 20% of the time then glancing off for the other 80%, I'll try to do the same. But I get the feeling others do the same, so if I fail to make eye contact for the first moment, they'll copy me and not, and it's determined from there. Making eye contact used to be a painful experience though and I'd never do it, until I started forcing myself to.

That's passive aggressive behavior and after extended contact with you people are going to pick up on that. Eye contact is a subconscious indicator to determine if the other person is actually listening to what you're saying or respects you enough to maintain eye contact. It's incredibly annoying when the other person doesn't maintain eye contact with you. I'd cut that out. You don't have to look people directly in the eyes. Look between their eyes or at their nose. They won't be able to tell the difference and it won't make you nervous. Actually, maintaing direct eye to eye contact for more than ten seconds becomes intimate in any situation. Between the eyes or nose.

Originally Posted by dakotahnok

I CAN look people in the eyes. It's just a bad habit that I don't. Like in a job interview I make sure to look them in the eyes. Or when I do any public speaking. But in everyday life I just tend to look at some one and then glance down or away. Even when I talk to them. So I guess I should work on it. But it's not like a mental disorder, or a fear, keeping me from it.

So you only bother to maintain eye contact when it's someone you have to impress? That speaks a lot about you.

Originally Posted by acatalephobic

Also, i drink and smoke too much.

Oh god, me too. I managed to get down to three cigarettes a day. It's not that difficult as long as you don't build it up as a herculean task in your mind. I quit for a couple months, but I like smoking enough that quitting became boring.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

I hate it when someone stares at me. Especially when a stranger does it. I would just like to walk up to that person and tell them to buy a TV and watch that or just put the TV up in their asses.

You're either abnormally attractive or ugly/odd looking. But this is Dreamviews, so I fear for the worst.

Originally Posted by Crashyy

I sometimes cut, it's such a bad habit lol xD.

How old are you? Cut that out right now. You're marring your body for the rest of your life. Five years from now you're going to regret the hell out of that. There are much less destructive ways to release dopamine and endorphins. And no, I'm not just saying to exercise and eat better, though you certainly should. I'm talking about -other- (yet less unhealthy) activities. However, these activities won't make your body ugly and undesirable.

Originally Posted by LifeDreamer

I dance in my room alone...

OMG SO RANDUMB xD Everyone fuckin does that. You are not special.

Originally Posted by Brock

Food. I can't stay healthy for the life of me. It's so different because working out is easy cause all I have to do is start and get going but with being healthy it's not going out and forcing yourself to work its just... Waiting. It's horrible but if too much food is my worst problem im a very very lucky person

Have you actually started working out? If you have, then disregard this. This is intended for those that haven't started and are apprehensive, and come up with a million excuses to not start. But if you haven't started...and to all of those that haven't started, I know you probably feel very guilty and restless. Those feelings dissipate the first time you go. It's easier than you think to start, and it feels good. REALLY good. Like a drug high. Of course, you'll have to actually work for that high. That incredible release of dopamine, endorphins, and serotonin among other "feel good" brain chemicals is half of why I do it. I work out four times a week and I eat whatever I want. From exercise alone I have a low body fat content and apparent muscle definition. I should mention I'm a vegetarian so that means I can't eat a lot of the popular junk food, but my experience is certainly not unique and very attainable even with meat-based diet. Exercise is addicting....in a good way, for once. I do an hour of cardio (35 minutes stationary bike/25 minutes swimming) and about twenty-five minutes of weights four times a week. I'm working on increasing the intensity of the cardio and weights every day.

This is an extremely unpopular professional opinion, but the first times you start going to the gym, don't bother reading up on proper material or exercise literature. I'm serious. Don't do it. It will slow you down and you'll never go because you can make the excuse to yourself that you don't know how to do it right, yet. Just go, get out there, and damn the consequences. Obviously, start on -very- low weights so you don't hurt yourself those first few times. Don't do a lot of lifting either and don't exert yourself too much because your form will almost certainly be awful. The important thing is that you GO. Once you go a few times and get past those damned mental barriers THEN look up proper form. This is very important. I started going with a friend who had been going to gyms for years, so he showed me what to do. If you have a friend who exercises go with them because they will probably be happy to to help you out.

Originally Posted by Kevs

most of the time I daydream... I also bite my nails(most women habit actually)

I don't think that's a habit unique to women. I bite my nails constantly and I catch both men and women doing it all the time. I think it's a young person thing, if anything.

Originally Posted by LightofHeaven

You guys are weird.

You don't have to hold back on the internet. Find odd idiosyncrasies on the internet is to be expected. For example, I find many posters aversions to maintaing eye contact uncommon, but far from unusual. This is the internet, and a niche internet forum at that. I'd wager a good portion of the people here, especially in off-topic, are socially awkward, incompetent, or reclusive. That's not a dreamviews thing. That's an internet thing. I find your reluctance to share your "normal" addictions with the rest of the class more funny than anything.

Linkzelda. I see from your post count you're clearly a regular on DV, and I'm sure I've seen you in chat often. You seem like a nice guy. But, you should seriously consider a username change. I keep forgetting who you are because your current handle is so generic and common. Don't take that as a personal insult, because it's not. Come up with a unique handle that's memorable. I remember four or five other Zelda username based posters on Dreamviews. While their posting styles and personalities were different and respectively unique, they're hazy in my mind because usernames like that tend to blend together.

One word. Minecraft. *shudders*

Im an emotional vampire- as gay as that sounds.

I have an addiction to the affection and worship of others which is why I am unsatisifed unless i have multiple peoples total emotional devotion and adoration constantly.

This manifests through saying all the right things to get impressionable young girls to "love" me- to think of me always and to lament in the lack of attention i give them and at the same time be attracted to such aloof distance. For around 6 or 7 years i have constantly had ~4 girls"in love" with me- and when i get bored i stop talking tothem and find new ones. I have sex with them also- though this is more of an added bonus than any addiction- its the emotions i want- not the bodies.

I am fully aware of how petty and immature this all is. But ive gone too far to turn back now.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Im an emotional vampire- as gay as that sounds.

I have an addiction to the affection and worship of others which is why I am unsatisifed unless i have multiple peoples total emotional devotion and adoration constantly.

I am fully aware of how petty and immature this all is. But ive gone too far to turn back now.

Twilight. Called it. Nailed it. Kristen Stewart.

Originally Posted by Grod

While their posting styles and personalities were different and respectively unique, they're hazy in my mind because usernames like that tend to blend together.

I guess that's what makes my username title so special, "I'm all over the place".

I wish I could change my username to Wugguls or Wuggles, because that's honestly all I can think of. xD

Also, your responses to everyone else. If only I could like that post several times. I think it's easy for most people to confine Dream Views as a social haven that's suddenly the totality of the internet. I guess it's easy for most of us to conform to that thinking, since there's all sorts of opinions here and there in several off-topic threads.

Damn, you nailed every concept like a god. Respect to you Grod.

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I dont know if this is legal, but here goes:

Post 129 of Tell me about your addictions started by Chicken

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

Im an emotional vampire- as gay as that sounds.

I have an addiction to the affection and worship of others which is why I am unsatisifed unless i have multiple peoples total emotional devotion and adoration constantly.

This manifests through saying all the right things to get impressionable young girls to "love" me- to think of me always and to lament in the lack of attention i give them and at the same time be attracted to such aloof distance. For around 6 or 7 years i have constantly had ~4 girls"in love" with me- and when i get bored i stop talking to them and find new ones. I have sex with them also- though this is more of an added bonus than any addiction- its the emotions i want- not the bodies.

I am fully aware of how petty and immature this all is. But ive gone too far to turn back now.

My avatar IS the matrix (eternal beloved) its genesis is outside the time-space continuum. Its energy is limitless.

At my Enlightenment it said "I brought you into being to serve you" then it telepathed (non-verbaly) that, "in "Its" reality there is only the two-of-us. I, (debraJane) am at the center of "Its" universe and "It" is everything else (including my body and all that I yhink I am) loving and serving (obeying) me.

Ok carousoul

You are the center of "Its" universe and everthing else is "It" lovingly obeying you.

"It" came into being at the end of time. "It" came into being billions of years after all life was froze out of the universe. It came into being when the whole universe hit "Absolute Zero".

At that moment infinite energy happened. It was everywhere and through all time in an instant. It gave "Soul" to the once dead universe but the "Soul" is not many but "One".

In my opinion, to realize this reality folk need to play my dream game:

http://www.dreamviews.com/f19/dream-...loaded-123389/

Originally Posted by debrajane

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I dont know if this is legal, but here goes:

Post 129 of Tell me about your addictions started by Chicken



My avatar IS the matrix (eternal beloved) its genesis is outside the time-space continuum. Its energy is limitless.

At my Enlightenment it said "I brought you into being to serve you" then it telepathed (non-verbaly) that, "in "Its" reality there is only the two-of-us. I, (debraJane) am at the center of "Its" universe and "It" is everything else (including my body and all that I yhink I am) loving and serving (obeying) me.

Ok carousoul

You are the center of "Its" universe and everthing else is "It" lovingly obeying you.

"It" came into being at the end of time. "It" came into being billions of years after all life was froze out of the universe. It came into being when the whole universe hit "Absolute Zero".

At that moment infinite energy happened. It was everywhere and through all time in an instant. It gave "Soul" to the once dead universe but the "Soul" is not many but "One".

In my opinion, to realize this reality folk need to play my dream game:

http://www.dreamviews.com/f19/dream-...loaded-123389/

I'm afraid I don't find this useful whatsoever and it comes off as pseudo spiritual masturbation rather than actually subtantial, you really need to be clearer: see my post in SB.

You are casually using so many terms which themselves carry a huge weight of individual interpretation and argument, but you use them as if we all have a shared and clear sense of meaning for them. things like: enlightenment, energy, soul

You may feel you personally understand exactly what you mean by these, but language is a public enterprise- so it's just not helpful. You have to define explicitly your terms before even beginning to talk like this- otherwise its little more than words in pretty shapes with a meaning only you understand.

Caffeine.

It'snot

Masturbation and video games mostly, i procrastinate too much aswell.

Originally Posted by beforetigers

Masturbation and video games mostly, i procrastinate too much aswell.

That's not good at all. You need to stop masturbating as soon as possible.

I'll walk around in the kitchen, feeling a little hungry but not too hungry. I'll then see a bag of nice salty chips up in the pantry. The chips then proceed to torture me with it's evil words such as "Come on, we're easy to eat, all you have to do is open our bag!".

Then, before i know it, i've eaten half a bag. Doesn't happen often though,maybe like once a week, but still, i hate those stupid chips, wish my parents would stop buying them! >.<

Hookers. More specifically: Puff (Bordell)

But it's completely legal here in Germany.

And maybe it's not an addiction if I go only about one to two times a month.

i find it funny how many people have trouble with eye contact here. i love it. i think you can get over it and improve it by practising drawing. i've sat across form strangers on the bus [about a meter and half distance] and drew them point blank. my thinking is that if you don't like it then tell me about it, otherwise handle it and realize that i'm helping you to feel your existence. i do avert my gaze but it's always very knowingly and only to be polite.. although i'm sure thats common.

addictions.. addictions..
i think i'm addicted to myself quite often. a narcissist.
i do waste time, but i am overcoming procrastination.
and
i've seen too many sunrises lately.

I'm a nail biter, that's one of my worst habits. I mean I bite my nails down to the nubs. Bad habit, if you don't do it, don't start, because stopping is a real PITA. I've tried several times now and gone right back to it

Also, like some others here, I crack my knuckles. All the time. And my knee. My right one, because it always pops.

~SilverWolf~

DXM. I now have a tolerance that allows me to take up to 700mg and able to completely handle myself around people to the point they don't even know I'm on a drug and barely feel like I'm on one, when once-upon-a-time I wouldn't be able to walk let alone function in front of others on 300mg. 300mg is now merely a mood-enhancing dose, where I can hardly tell I'm even on anything other than being generally cheerier.

edit: Also, I forgot about caffeine. I usually intake ~800mg caffeine daily not counting the caffeine in guarana extract from energy drinks.

I'm like one of the only people here with an addiction to a psychoactive substance. :\

Originally Posted by snoop

DXM. I now have a tolerance that allows me to take up to 700mg and able to completely handle myself around people to the point they don't even know I'm on a drug and barely feel like I'm on one, when once-upon-a-time I wouldn't be able to walk let alone function in front of others on 300mg. 300mg is now merely a mood-enhancing dose, where I can hardly tell I'm even on anything other than being generally cheerier.

edit: Also, I forgot about caffeine. I usually intake ~800mg caffeine daily not counting the caffeine in guarana extract from energy drinks.

I'm like one of the only people here with an addiction to a psychoactive substance. :\

ding -ding! first real addiction around here

Originally Posted by snoop

DXM. I now have a tolerance that allows me to take up to 700mg and able to completely handle myself around people to the point they don't even know I'm on a drug and barely feel like I'm on one, when once-upon-a-time I wouldn't be able to walk let alone function in front of others on 300mg. 300mg is now merely a mood-enhancing dose, where I can hardly tell I'm even on anything other than being generally cheerier.

edit: Also, I forgot about caffeine. I usually intake ~800mg caffeine daily not counting the caffeine in guarana extract from energy drinks.

I'm like one of the only people here with an addiction to a psychoactive substance. :\

On your off times, do you have a lot of side effects from this? Serotonin syndrome at all? Perhaps mood enhancing is just the temporary pull away from the deprived brain. I could be wrong of course-- how often do you dose DXM, and how long have you allowed yourself to stay sober for?

I am addicted to the feeling of being out of my mind, just because the feeling of sobriety lends itself to intense mood swings, anxiety, and just a general feeling of discomfort. While I am craving, all the time, to get SOMETHING to alter my state, generally I don't, but the draw it always there.

My most compulsive addiction is nose picking. I will leave a room and go to the bathroom on instinct if I feel any sort of discomfort in my nose, and going to bed, I can rarely sleep quickly, I have to getup and make sure my nasal cavity is totally clear. I cannot even begin to describe how unsettling the feeling is. I've been doing this ever since I was very young, granted I at least keep myself sanitized properly nowadays >_> it's embarrassing but that's my biggest issue. Blowing my nose more often helps.

^^ you must get a lot of nose bleeds lol

I have a bad habit of keep telling the same thing to the same person/group. Sometimes when I join a conversation and tell a funny or weird story, they look at me and say: I already heard it from you...an hour ago. I'm like "Really?" and feel so ...embarrased. And two or three days later I'll start the story again.

I used to tell "Gift from the magi" 5 times to the same person, and make her really annoyed.

I have a bad habit of keep telling the same thing to the same person/group. Sometimes when I join a conversation and tell a funny or weird story, they look at me and say: I already heard it from you...an hour ago. I'm like "Really?" and feel so ...embarrased. And two or three days later I'll start the story again.

I used to tell "Gift from the magi" (by O'Henry) 5 times to the same person, and make her really annoyed.

Originally Posted by isthisit

I get accused of mumbling and being unclear. A lot! Good job you guys can't tell

Man I hate that. It's probably because I was always wasted though. But I've been free from any addiction or habit for almost 4 months, except for 1 little slip up. I never went a single minute sober for over 10 years.. and have been addicted to just about every substance under the sun. So this is a big thing for me. I almost died detoxing from alcohol and benzos though, so it is time to stop. I don't smoke pot anymore either. That's a hard one because I still have a lot of love for it, and think it's the best medicine on Earth. Cigarettes were the easiest to quit even though a lot say it's the hardest. Staying sober is just unfathomably hard for me so I'm going to stop thinking about it!

I've noticed that a lot of people feel awkward looking others in the eyes... or when people stare at them. I'm sorry. I'm one of those people that might stare. If I see a guy staring at me, I usually stare back until they look away. Some people get pissed off though, which is humorous to me. And if I see a good looking female staring, I'll try to give them some arrogant smile or something like that, and see how they react. Depending on how they react, I'll go talk to them. I like seeing peoples' reactions to things. But if it's a fugly chick staring at me, then I'll give them a "wtf" look until they look away. Either way, it feels like some sort of competition on who's going to look away first.

Originally Posted by snoop

I'm like one of the only people here with an addiction to a psychoactive substance. :\

Do you mean psychedelic, or dissociative? Because every drug is psychoactive And I had a problem with ketamine for a couple years, so you're not alone

Originally Posted by tropicalbreeze

i was talking about the characters within myself. for example lets say i get injured and i have to go months without working out. my mind will automatically develop a different role character and start clinging to it. there is nothing wrong with it but the clinging part is beginning to drive me crazy.

or lets say i'm rich and i'm attached to playing my role as a rich man. i enjoy living the rich life and being able to afford all the expensive things. then one day i lose everything. of course i become severely depressed but then i will start cling to something else. i may start clinging to religion. then i'll start thinking myself as a religious person. all to avoid this void.

Sounds like you would be a great con artist.

P.s. I have the exact same thing.

Originally Posted by Fleur

I live alone and I am incapable to be serious with my alimentation, I eat Mcdo 2 or 3 twice by week and the rest of time, cheese, chips, cookies... fortunately I walk very much or else I will be really fat :l.

man stop eating that s***... I don't want to sound rude...but that's really really unhealthy and actualy there is not need for eating that s*** at least not all they time .... eat chips once a week....don't drink fizzy drinks....drink one in a whole month or not at all ... eat few cookies once in a week or so..... and not every day ....you don't need that s***

my bad habit is that I put myself down and in depression all the time