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After Living 10 Years Of A Happy Life Man Wakes Up And Realizes He Was Unconscious And Dreamt It All
One of the most daunting experiences a human can endure is being close to dying. While some escape the claws of death without experiencing any changes in them, others come back just not the same. There are many theories trying to explain what happens to us when we are dying. However, there is no definite answer. Yet, many people candidly share what they felt during their near-death experiences and what effect they had on them.
When somebody created a thread on Reddit asking “Have you ever felt a deep personal connection to a person you met in a dream only to wake up feeling terrible because you realize they never existed?” one user found a perfect place to share his chilling experience. He said that his near-death experience was so strange that it took him three years to recover. Scroll below to read his story and find out why. (Facebook cover image: Guian Bolisay)
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“Throw away account cause this is really personal.
My last semester at a certain college I was assaulted by a football player for walking where he was trying to drive (note he was 325lbs I was 120lbs), while unconscious on the ground I lived a dream life.
I met a wonderful young lady, she made my heart skip and my face red, I pursued her for months and dispatched a few jerk boyfriends before I finally won her over, after two years we got married, and almost immediately she bore me a daughter.
I had a great job, and my wife didn’t have to work outside of the house when my daughter was two; she [my wife] bore me a son. My son was the joy of my life, and I would walk into his room every morning before I left for work and doted on him and my daughter. I was living the best life possible.
One day while sitting on the couch I noticed that the perspective of the lamp was odd, like inverted. It was still in 3D but… just… wrong. (It was a square lamp base, red with gold trim on four legs and a white square shade). I was transfixed. I couldn’t look away from it. I stayed up all night staring at it, the next morning I didn’t go to work, something was just not right about that lamp.
I stopped eating, I left the couch only to use the bathroom at first, soon I stopped that too as I wasn’t eating or drinking. I stared at the lamp for three days before my wife got really worried, she had someone come and try to talk to me, by this time my cognizance was breaking up and my wife was freaking out. She took the kids to her mother’s house just before I had my epiphany…. the lamp is not real…. the house is not real, my wife, my kids… none of that is real… the last ten years of living the life are not real!
The lamp started to grow wider and deeper, it was still inverted dimensions, it took up my entire perspective and all I could see was red, I heard voices, screams, all kinds of weird noises and I became aware of pain…. a s**t ton of pain… the first words I said were “I’m missing teeth” and opened my eyes. I was laying on my back on the sidewalk surrounded by people that I didn’t know, and lots were freaking out, I was completely confused.
at some point a cop scooped me up, dragged/walked me across the sidewalk and grass and threw me face down in the back of a cop car, I was still confused.
I was taken to the hospital by the cop (seems he didn’t want to wait for the ambulance to arrive) and give CT scans and s**t.
I went through about three years of horrid depression, I was grieving the loss of my wife and children and dealing with the knowledge that this life experience never existed, I was scared that I was going insane as I would cry myself to sleep hoping I would see her in vivid dreams. I never have, but sometimes I see my son, usually just a glimpse out of my peripheral vision, he is perpetually five years old, and I can never hear what he says.
EDIT (24 hours after post): never thought anyone would read this life story, I changed a line so that it no longer seems that my 2-year-old daughter bore a child.
I have never seen Inception or the Star Trek episode so many have mentioned (but I will eventually)
I will not do an AMA
I’ve had many PM’s describing similar experiences while being in a coma and three posters stating such experiences are impossible, I’d say more research needs to be done on brain functions. Pre-med students don’t assume you know everything.
A few have asked if they can write a book/screenplay/stage play/rage comic etcetera, please consider this tale open source and have fun with it.”
Image credits: Eric Perez (not an actual photo)
While some people were completely blown away by the story, others tried to find an explanation
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Arietis 6 years ago
He could have made his story up, but I think it's possible he actually did experience something like this. There's lot we don't know about the human brain/consciousness yet. Plus, it's possible to get attatched to people who aren't real. In my teens I experienced abuse at home for a couple of years and lost my social circle outside of home at the same time. At some point I made up an elaborate second, imaginary life for myself and whenever my mind was at leisure (like riding the bus or waiting for something or when I couldn't sleep), I would withdraw into my own mind and just imagine my life there. I made up a kind of different family and friends and even problems I had to deal with and overcome. I got quite attachted to the world inside my head. Eventually my real life got better and I phased the imaginary one out, but that was a slow process. Your brain will go to some length to preserve your sanity/wellbeing.
Stina Kolling 6 years ago
Honey, it's been over 20 years since I've spent any time with my abusive mother, and I *still* go into my fantasyland every time I'm bored or not otherwise engaged. It's a lovely place. No shame!
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KatHat 6 years ago
Grieving something that never existed is still grief. What a difficult thing to experience.
Kim Chandler 6 years ago
Very true... When my husband and I spent 10 years trying to conceive, I would sometimes have what I call "baby dreams". It was always the end of my pregnancy or right after birth, either way baby would be born shortly before I woke up. I could spend either hours or days with this perfect little girl, fall in love with her, then wake up to reality. It broke my heart over and over again.
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Mo0O 6 years ago
I can't believe someone else had this happen. I have had a very similar experience. I didn't do therapy though. It's been years and I have thought about it literally every single day since it happened. I know how he feels. It is very devastating. Back when I still believed in heaven, I always prayed that that's where I would go when I die.
Mo0O 6 years ago
I mean for real. It changed my entire life and I can't forget it. I used to be very energetic and always played basketball and football with my friends and after it happened I went into a deep depression and I still suffer from the depression. I don't even talk with people anymore. It f****d me up. I still can't believe I've found someone else like me.
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christopher milligan 6 years ago
I had a similar experience back when I was 22, though mine took place while I slept one night. It ended when I passed at the age of 83 with my family around me. I woke up and rolled over to tell my wife about the messed up dream and remembered that she had passed five years earlier. Then when I realized where I was it dawned on me that she was part of the dream too. I'm now married with kids and whole it been almost twenty years I'll still occasionally have a little pang of fear before falling asleep. It would be interesting to get an update from the original poster.
Ryan teah 3 years ago (edited)
So you dreamed you were 83 and your family was around you..including your wife, then you woke up and was going to tell your wife then you remembered she died 5 years ago.. is that it?? What's so scary about it?
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Tyler Duffy 6 years ago
You know....... at one point I was coming of heroin (had been an addict for a fee years) and hadn't slept in about 7 or 8 days. Eventually had a mental breakdown and at some point slipped into a dream like state but was walking around doing some crazy s**t. Eventually woke up in the hospital after my family had to call the cops on me because attacked them believing they had kidnapped me for my organs. This whole set of hallucinations roughly accounted for 4 months of experience in my head and is extremely detailed. Yet it all happened in about 2 days. It was absolutely the scariest experience of my life. I wouldn't leave the hospital for days because I couldn't distinguish between reality and the hallucinations from the days before. I was keeping a tally on the expiration date of the little milk containers they serve at lunch in a attempt to prove to myself I was back in the real world. Can't go into full details about what was happening in my head but it was so real to me that even now thinking about what was happening in my head can send me into a panic attack. I know it wasn't real , but to my brain and body it was real. It's like a lived experience that just never happened.
Person2638 6 years ago
Once when I was asleep, I dreamt that I had grown up, was a successful CEO of a company and made a ton of money. It was so liifelike that when I woke up, I was disorriented for a few minutes then I wrote everything down. Since then, I have kept a dream journal in hopes of dreaming as realistic as that dream was.
Jim Hunt 6 years ago
I always give a mental snort and shake of my head, when i hear people say something is impossible... like they know everything that has ever been or could ever could be, in this universe or another... they would have to be omniscient, which is generally associated with being God (with a big G).
Meowton Mewsk 6 years ago
There are impossible things though. Like a married bachelor or a round square. Or a benevolent omnipresent omniscient being.
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BusLady 6 years ago
When my Grandfather died many years ago, I was devastated. For about 3 years, I had frequent dreams where I would go over to my Grandparent's house to visit my Grandmother. I would start talking about Grampa dying, and she would say "What? Your Grandfather is not dead, he's just napping in the bedroom." Then, Grampa would come walking into the living room and he was perfectly fine. When I woke up from these dreams, I truly believed that he was still living. I would decide to go visit him that day. Then it would hit me, that it was just a dream. I still can feel the horrible grief of that realisation.
Moon Child 6 years ago
a late reply, but I too had the same experience about my grandmother that passed away in 2013. there is no week/month without me dreaming about her. In my dream I was always proved wrong either by my family or herself whenever I remember that she passed away. they will say something like "she's not dead, she just went to the store," etc. and I would feel so relieved when she came home. I believe we dreamt about that because we hope it is what's true.
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PandaLover 6 years ago
Maybe he caught a glimpse of his past life? If any of you believe in reincarnation that is. There are many stories out there about people seeing their past life they lived before their current one.
Arietis 6 years ago
He could have made his story up, but I think it's possible he actually did experience something like this. There's lot we don't know about the human brain/consciousness yet. Plus, it's possible to get attatched to people who aren't real. In my teens I experienced abuse at home for a couple of years and lost my social circle outside of home at the same time. At some point I made up an elaborate second, imaginary life for myself and whenever my mind was at leisure (like riding the bus or waiting for something or when I couldn't sleep), I would withdraw into my own mind and just imagine my life there. I made up a kind of different family and friends and even problems I had to deal with and overcome. I got quite attachted to the world inside my head. Eventually my real life got better and I phased the imaginary one out, but that was a slow process. Your brain will go to some length to preserve your sanity/wellbeing.
Stina Kolling 6 years ago
Honey, it's been over 20 years since I've spent any time with my abusive mother, and I *still* go into my fantasyland every time I'm bored or not otherwise engaged. It's a lovely place. No shame!
Load More Replies... KatHat 6 years ago
Grieving something that never existed is still grief. What a difficult thing to experience.
Kim Chandler 6 years ago
Very true... When my husband and I spent 10 years trying to conceive, I would sometimes have what I call "baby dreams". It was always the end of my pregnancy or right after birth, either way baby would be born shortly before I woke up. I could spend either hours or days with this perfect little girl, fall in love with her, then wake up to reality. It broke my heart over and over again.
Load More Replies... Mo0O 6 years ago
I can't believe someone else had this happen. I have had a very similar experience. I didn't do therapy though. It's been years and I have thought about it literally every single day since it happened. I know how he feels. It is very devastating. Back when I still believed in heaven, I always prayed that that's where I would go when I die.
Mo0O 6 years ago
I mean for real. It changed my entire life and I can't forget it. I used to be very energetic and always played basketball and football with my friends and after it happened I went into a deep depression and I still suffer from the depression. I don't even talk with people anymore. It f****d me up. I still can't believe I've found someone else like me.
Load More Replies... christopher milligan 6 years ago
I had a similar experience back when I was 22, though mine took place while I slept one night. It ended when I passed at the age of 83 with my family around me. I woke up and rolled over to tell my wife about the messed up dream and remembered that she had passed five years earlier. Then when I realized where I was it dawned on me that she was part of the dream too. I'm now married with kids and whole it been almost twenty years I'll still occasionally have a little pang of fear before falling asleep. It would be interesting to get an update from the original poster.
Ryan teah 3 years ago (edited)
So you dreamed you were 83 and your family was around you..including your wife, then you woke up and was going to tell your wife then you remembered she died 5 years ago.. is that it?? What's so scary about it?
Load More Replies... Tyler Duffy 6 years ago
You know....... at one point I was coming of heroin (had been an addict for a fee years) and hadn't slept in about 7 or 8 days. Eventually had a mental breakdown and at some point slipped into a dream like state but was walking around doing some crazy s**t. Eventually woke up in the hospital after my family had to call the cops on me because attacked them believing they had kidnapped me for my organs. This whole set of hallucinations roughly accounted for 4 months of experience in my head and is extremely detailed. Yet it all happened in about 2 days. It was absolutely the scariest experience of my life. I wouldn't leave the hospital for days because I couldn't distinguish between reality and the hallucinations from the days before. I was keeping a tally on the expiration date of the little milk containers they serve at lunch in a attempt to prove to myself I was back in the real world. Can't go into full details about what was happening in my head but it was so real to me that even now thinking about what was happening in my head can send me into a panic attack. I know it wasn't real , but to my brain and body it was real. It's like a lived experience that just never happened.
Person2638 6 years ago
Once when I was asleep, I dreamt that I had grown up, was a successful CEO of a company and made a ton of money. It was so liifelike that when I woke up, I was disorriented for a few minutes then I wrote everything down. Since then, I have kept a dream journal in hopes of dreaming as realistic as that dream was.
Jim Hunt 6 years ago
I always give a mental snort and shake of my head, when i hear people say something is impossible... like they know everything that has ever been or could ever could be, in this universe or another... they would have to be omniscient, which is generally associated with being God (with a big G).
Meowton Mewsk 6 years ago
There are impossible things though. Like a married bachelor or a round square. Or a benevolent omnipresent omniscient being.
Load More Replies... BusLady 6 years ago
When my Grandfather died many years ago, I was devastated. For about 3 years, I had frequent dreams where I would go over to my Grandparent's house to visit my Grandmother. I would start talking about Grampa dying, and she would say "What? Your Grandfather is not dead, he's just napping in the bedroom." Then, Grampa would come walking into the living room and he was perfectly fine. When I woke up from these dreams, I truly believed that he was still living. I would decide to go visit him that day. Then it would hit me, that it was just a dream. I still can feel the horrible grief of that realisation.
Moon Child 6 years ago
a late reply, but I too had the same experience about my grandmother that passed away in 2013. there is no week/month without me dreaming about her. In my dream I was always proved wrong either by my family or herself whenever I remember that she passed away. they will say something like "she's not dead, she just went to the store," etc. and I would feel so relieved when she came home. I believe we dreamt about that because we hope it is what's true.
Load More Replies... PandaLover 6 years ago
Maybe he caught a glimpse of his past life? If any of you believe in reincarnation that is. There are many stories out there about people seeing their past life they lived before their current one.
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