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There's a reddit story of a dude who had the mirror experience. After some blunt trauma, he fell on ground unconscious, during that time he experienced a lifeli

There's a reddit story of a dude who had the mirror experience. After some blunt trauma, he fell on ground unconscious, during that time he experienced a lifelike dream of a whole existence (job, meeting a girl, getting married, buying a house, etc). Unrelated: but he was traumatized waking up realizing his dream reality was gone. World of memories and dream is strange.

nathias 5y ago
This is a very well known and documented phenomenon, it's called lies on the internet.
mrleinad 5y ago
It sounds too similar to certain sci-fi stories [1][2] that it warrants taking it with a grain of salt, I have to say. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_Th... [2] https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Roy:_A_Life_Well_Lived https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Roy:_A_Life_Well_Lived
Mezzie 5y ago
I know other people think it's a lie, but I think it's possible albeit embellished. I lucid dream regularly (about 90 percent of dreams I remember, I"m lucid; easily a few times a week for a couple of decades), and visit the same places and people fairly often. I also have a more 'complete' dream experience than a lot of people (apparently) in that it's a full sensory experience and I can read/write in my dreams. I definitely have had dreams I don't want to leave (or, vice versa, there are some dreams + recurring locations I ALWAYS leave), and some that make me feel very sad when I wake up because of the loss. If I were in a coma, I could see something like that happening.
- agumonkey 5y ago
  Grief is often a loss of future that won't happen.
- dom96 5y ago
  Honestly surprised there isn't a religion that revolves around the belief that we are transported to an alternate reality/parallel universe when we dream. Certainly a much more fun belief than any of the other major religions out there now.
  - tsukurimashou 5y ago
    For a while I thought exactly that when I was a kid
  - cesarb 5y ago
    > Honestly surprised there isn't a religion that revolves around the belief that we are transported to an alternate reality/parallel universe when we dream. Spiritism has that. When you sleep, your spirit separates from your body, and goes meet other spirits (some of them of other alive people, some of them of people between one life and the next; reincarnation is a central belief of Spiritism); the place where these spirits are could be considered an "alternate reality/parallel universe" of sorts. Dreams are mostly partial recollections of these experiences. For a longer and more detailed explanation, see https://www.febnet.org.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/O-Livro-dos-Esp%C3%ADritos-Ingl%C3%AAs.pdf https://www.febnet.org.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/... starting at page 267.
  - Mezzie 5y ago
    Same, especially given that some of my repeating places are this, at least in dream logic. There's a 'timeline' where my sister and I live in a different apartment, a timeline where I stayed in/returned to the town I went to college in, one where I didn't go to undergrad after high school and went a lot later, one where my dad's investments saw fruit and we live in a house he left us, one where I stayed in my hometown and work there... The creepy part is that they're accurate down to things like what cats we have.
  - sydbarrett74 5y ago
  - vmoore 5y ago
    Dreams are someone or some entity hacking your mind and stealing information from you so they can help you or the world out afterwards

nathias 5y ago

This is a very well known and documented phenomenon, it's called lies on the internet.

mrleinad 5y ago

It sounds too similar to certain sci-fi stories [1][2] that it warrants taking it with a grain of salt, I have to say. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_Th... [2] https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Roy:_A_Life_Well_Lived https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Roy:_A_Life_Well_Lived

Mezzie 5y ago

I know other people think it's a lie, but I think it's possible albeit embellished. I lucid dream regularly (about 90 percent of dreams I remember, I"m lucid; easily a few times a week for a couple of decades), and visit the same places and people fairly often. I also have a more 'complete' dream experience than a lot of people (apparently) in that it's a full sensory experience and I can read/write in my dreams. I definitely have had dreams I don't want to leave (or, vice versa, there are some dreams + recurring locations I ALWAYS leave), and some that make me feel very sad when I wake up because of the loss. If I were in a coma, I could see something like that happening.

agumonkey 5y ago
Grief is often a loss of future that won't happen.
dom96 5y ago
Honestly surprised there isn't a religion that revolves around the belief that we are transported to an alternate reality/parallel universe when we dream. Certainly a much more fun belief than any of the other major religions out there now.
- tsukurimashou 5y ago
  For a while I thought exactly that when I was a kid
- cesarb 5y ago
  > Honestly surprised there isn't a religion that revolves around the belief that we are transported to an alternate reality/parallel universe when we dream. Spiritism has that. When you sleep, your spirit separates from your body, and goes meet other spirits (some of them of other alive people, some of them of people between one life and the next; reincarnation is a central belief of Spiritism); the place where these spirits are could be considered an "alternate reality/parallel universe" of sorts. Dreams are mostly partial recollections of these experiences. For a longer and more detailed explanation, see https://www.febnet.org.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/O-Livro-dos-Esp%C3%ADritos-Ingl%C3%AAs.pdf https://www.febnet.org.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/... starting at page 267.
- Mezzie 5y ago
  Same, especially given that some of my repeating places are this, at least in dream logic. There's a 'timeline' where my sister and I live in a different apartment, a timeline where I stayed in/returned to the town I went to college in, one where I didn't go to undergrad after high school and went a lot later, one where my dad's investments saw fruit and we live in a house he left us, one where I stayed in my hometown and work there... The creepy part is that they're accurate down to things like what cats we have.
- sydbarrett74 5y ago
- vmoore 5y ago
  Dreams are someone or some entity hacking your mind and stealing information from you so they can help you or the world out afterwards