If hexbear, or anything else online, ever enters my dream space I will log off entirely for a calendar year. Done it before to break myself away from spending too much time online and even then my dreams were uncorrupted by the net.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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Easier said than done...
My suggestion is to have a book of bullshit on hand. Literally anything that has information you can look up. Whenever you open a tab to the thing you're trying to avoid, look something up in the book instead. A word in a dictionary, or some book about nature.
Incidentally, lately I have been really wanting a physical kanji dictionary and Norwegian-Japanese translation dictionary. I've also been handwriting a lot of notes in a physical notebook.
Really not that hard. Just have deliberately to fill the time with something more fulfilling which is pretty much everything else in existence tbh. During my year offline I started learning classical piano, got in better shape, read a shit ton of books, and became a pretty good cook. Once you break the habit it's honestly very easy to keep internet usage in check because it feels like a boring waste of time compared to whatever else you direct your energy towards. That's how it worked for me at least and why I'll always advocate for spending less time online whenever it comes up.
No, I do try to reduce my screen time in the ways I can, because those types of things absolutely are a lot more fulfilling — but the same obstacles that keep me from becoming a vegan also keep me from going offline. I don't know how precise I really could or should be, but to be as vague as possible, things would be considerably easier for me if there were a door immediately to my right.
If you have dreams of 1. Hexbear, and 2. Getting banned off Hexbear, no matter what they contain it's a sign to :logout: immediately.
One time I dreamed that I logged into Hexbear and it was full of liberals
only I wasn't dreaming 
I have dreamt of people from bearzone, I will admit. Not the site itself though...
Nah I'm not that far gone.
One day I hope to be but Hexbear refuses to rise to the required level of revolutionary discipline
My dreams frequently have game rules /settings but I don't think I've ever had 9ne where I'm just browsing the internet.
No that happens shortly before I go to bed if the posting has been really good
Simply do not dream and you can't be banned, ezpz.