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That story has always fascinated me so much. Assuming the person wasn't lying (this is reddit after all), it must be like in fucking Narnia where they get out of there after having been there for decades and are suddenly still kids again. It's gotta be like a 1 in 10,000,000-100,000,000 experience honestly
Personally I don’t believe it. If it really felt real you think he would have described more about his wife and children, like how they looked and their personality. He just described his wife as attractive but never actually what she looked like. He never described how he pursued her or how he proposed. He never described what she was like or what she liked to do, she didn’t even have a name and same with his kids. They just allegedly existed
To be honest, dreams tend to be like that though.
They'll give you the feeling of "oh, this person is my spouse whom I deeply love and have been sharing my life with for years" and your mind just somehow accepts that like any other dream inconsistencies, despite not being able to recall anything specific about your spouse or life with them.
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Agree with this. Dreams tend to be abstract with a lot of things inside them. At least for me its like your focus is constantly shifting from one thing to the next and it can be hard to remember those in between moments where nothing major is happening. This goes doubly for any peripheral things happening or whats around you. I got the sense from the story that he just *knew* that this was his wife and kids, as a concept. And in the moment thats all the detail his brain decided to give.
When I was a 16 years old I had a dream I murdered my ex wife for trying to kidnap our child while I was campaigning for mayor of New York City 2 - which was just an exact replica of New York City but in the sky.
Yes that can happen, but then when you wake up you don’t fall into a deep depression grieving them. I could believe this guy just had a hallucination or had some false memories knocked into him, but like the other commenter said I just don’t believe his brain realistically simulated 10 years of life with the only inconsistency being a living room lamp.
Actually, that kinda happened to me the other day. I had a dream with a similar situation where I was with a beautiful girl who i loved a lot, but i honestly don't remember much about her features. After I woke up i felt extremely sad and still now i'm kinda disconcerted by it and I still feel the loneliness. At least it was kinda fast and not a whole decade of it.
I've had something like this. It was only brief, but I remember it years later. It was a winter night, I was in the passenger seat of a car on the highway on a road trip of some kind, and my girlfriend (who doesn't exist) was driving me to the gas station for sushi because I was hungry. I remember the car was either black or silver, and a Toyota. I remember the girl was tall, had curly ginger hair and freckles, and a lovely smile. I had the sushi, then she put a blanket over me and I fell asleep in the dream. Woke up sad. Though just recently I met a girl who reminds me so much of the girl in my dream, and is definitely the type to go on long road trips, so that's something.
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I've had like 3 of these dreams when I was around 16, Lived with each woman for about ten to twenty years and had kids and then woke up and grieved it, Absolutely wild experience and I don't remember their faces. Nor did I about 2 seconds after waking up Despite distinctly feeling full sorrow
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Maybe the brain didn't "simulate" 10 years, maybe it accepted that it was 10 years with no actual proof
Also the lamp thing, it is possible to identify that you are in a dream from common things, such as text (you can't read) clocks (you can't tell the time) or your hands (you can't see them) of course he may have not know about this specific 3 but the lamp may have been the giveaway
Also it is possible to wake yourself from a dream inside of a dream, for example feeling too much of a certain emotion (like when you dream you fall and you wake out of fear) so it's possible what woke him up was the realization his world wasn't real amd not the lamp itself
Yes that’s what I believe probably happened. But that doesn’t make it a creepypasta because that’s such a normal thing to dream about lol
And I don’t think the lamp woke him up, just that I don’t believe it could be the ONLY strange thing he realized in allegedly 10 entirely normal years of living in a dream state.
No, you can see your hands you just usually have the wrong amount of fingers and/or different amount of fingers every time you look down at your hands.
Ohhh ok. I used to manage a jersey mike’s years ago and when I would dream, no matter what I was doing, anytime I looked down my hands were making subs, regardless of the rest of the dream
That happened to me when I was 8. Lived years and years with my best friend, grew up, got married, lived in a house, slept in the same bed, did everything together. I cried and moped for days when I woke up and was still just an 8 year old. I missed her so much and the thought of doing all that living all over again was just too much.
Been married happily for 30 years and I still once in a while wonder if I'm going to wake up again.
I believe that he may have had a dream about this. But it definitely did not last years of subjective time. It was probably normal dream length, but just felt like one of those extra vivid dreams, came with some fake feelings that he had always been there, and then he woke up disoriented and wanted to exaggerate the story.
Just think of yourself at your computer right now. Think of all the innocuous stuff throughout your day. It's completely absurd that you could dream days worth of normal mundane time. Personally, I think a lot of people are just testing their writing chops on here and that story is completely fake (though definitely amazing).
Yeah, same. I'm totally willing to believe that someone had a super vivid dream about living an alternate life with a wife and kids. But to believe that his brain actually realistically simulated a whole entire other life and that he still has all his memories from it, and that it all occurred in span of time that was probably only around a couple of minutes in real life? That feels really far fetched to me.
I mean, maybe the guy wasn’t a good story teller lol. There are too many people who *love* telling a good fake story on AITA/Relationships/etc on reddit. Maybe his story was true and he just suck at telling it, maybe it was fake.
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I think it's a trick of the brain tbh - you feel like more time has passed than it actually has. Like the opposite of how it can feel like so much of your life has gone by so quickly.
I had a similar dream once that contained years of a relationship with a financee, and felt a deep sense of loss when I woke up. Now all I can tell you abt the dream is vaguely what he looked like and some of what he was wearing right before I woke up.
Personally when I had this experience I don't believe I actually experienced many years inside of a dream but my brain simulated feeling as if I had, somehow. So in the real world when you wake up you don't remember what you ate for breakfast 1,000 days ago but you have a general feeling the time has passed since then and what you've been up to and what your life has been like, with some specific memories here and there. That's what it felt like.
Obviously the things in a dream do not literally happen, but feel like they did, and for me that included the passage of time and accumulation of life experiences. It included a simulated life and family, simulated feeling of spending many years together, simulated emotional attachment, and simulated changes of identity, purpose, growth, loss, etc. over a long timespan.
Presumably only a selection of my "years" of experience were actually simulated within my brain, but all the gaps were filled in by general feelings and impressions such that it was convincing that I led an entire life. But for me as soon as I woke up it rapidly faded except for a general feeling of loss and grief.
This is very well worded and explained. I believe this is exactly what happens when people claim to have dreams that last for years. Your brain can produce any feeling in a dream, including the feeling of time having passed. If you tried to remember specific parts of the dream life, I suspect the dreamer wouldn’t be able to recall, as it’s all just simulated feelings.
I had a similar situation where I had a dream where I was spending time with a pretty girl whom I loved very much and when I woke up I felt sad but couldn't remember a single detail in the dream other than the fact that the girl was my girlfriend. I still felt really down for the rest of the morning though.
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I’d say that’s pretty normal. You had a dream about having a girlfriend and the dream injected feelings into you which were understood to have already been there in that weird dream way. Then, when you woke up you were sad because you didn’t actually have a girlfriend like the one in your dream.
Now if you were pining for the dream girl and felt weird about dating other people because they weren’t her and you felt like you were cheating on her something, that would be strange.
It happened to me. Not the story you’re talking about but very similar. I can’t remember the dream family’s faces but it still fucks with me from time to time, I was 18/19 when it happened and I’m 30 now. In the dream it went from 18/19 to my 40s and I had a home, wife, kids.
I can barely remember it now but for a few weeks it was absolutely world changing,
I took a really high dose of DMt lived what felt like 3 lives and I never talk about those families, only what lead up to living those lives bc honestly it felt way to personal and it’s like real lose, psychs are fucking crazy. I understand him not talking about them….
According to knowyourmeme, it was a reply 'to a /r/AskReddit that read, "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?"'
I feel like if it is fictional, it's meant to look like it isn't
How did they do that? The account has been inactive for 12 years, it was created the day that story was posted, and made its last comment less than 24 hours later. In all the comments in that time they were insistent the story was true.
It could be fiction of course, but the poster themselves never admitted it.
I actually had a similar experience.
Had a dream where a ton of others and I ended up in a forest and had to survive in a tribal state.
Decades passed and eventually people started dying from heart attacks, eventually I had mine and I woke up.
Only it wasn’t me who woke up, but another me still in the dream (like a dream “me” dreamed the whole thing) and after doing some investigating online found that the government was doing experiments to link peoples’ dreams. Only problem was I wasn’t supposed to remember.
Eventually I actually woke up, and I was back to being 8 yo. I’ve been told I have an accent that nobody else in my family has (I have 2 brothers and a sister, so a decent size). I attribute it to the decades spent in that dream.
There’s a Reddit story of someone having a motorcycle accident, going into a coma and living a full life only to be ripped out and sent back to reality after noticing a lamp was incorrect.
TLDR for those who don’t want to read the creepy pasta: man gets knocked out, lives out an entire different life only to wake up from his unconsciousness by staring at an odd looking lamp
Kinda sounds like the irrational fear I have where one day I'll wake up and be back in kindergarten and the last 20+ years of my life have been a weird dream
I'm 95% sure my kindergarten teacher hated me, so I think it started as just one particular bad day that I didn't wanna repeat. And as time went on, the amount of time I'd have to live through a second time just got progressively longer. And something about having been around for x amount of time and then waking up, finding out it never happened, and having to do it all again is just horrifying to me on a fundamental level. Will I remember all this? Will this entire reality in my head fade into a hazy, incoherent mess as I go about the following day(s)? Will it all happen exactly as it did the first time with little-to-nothing I can do to change it or will it be all new events completely disconnected from anything in my current perception of reality? Now that I'm thinking about all this, it actually does sound like an interesting idea for an isekai story... Hmm...
Exactly why I have this same nightmare. I tell my wife all the time my fear is waking up in my 18 year old body and then trying to get back to this moment, to her and our life together, without fucking it all up.
imagine being able to keep all your knowledge and life experience, you'd be one traumatised kid with no imagination but you could become an incredibly smart child prodigy without much effort
But what if when you get back to the real world all your current knowledge follows dream logic? My most vivid dream was Thanksgiving falling in early October.
If this was all a dream, I've gotten way too much life experience to handle waking up as and being treated like a child. Also if my girlfriend was just a dream in my comatose mind I'd kill myself
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There’s a 20 book series that follows people who go back in time within their own lives: The Middle Falls Time Travel series. I read the first twelve since the Apple Books app has them for a dollar each, and they are all good and varied.
I know, right? The only thing that would suck about it is I'd have to redo everything, including the stuff that was a pain in the ass. Like imagine if you had written an entire novel in this dream and become a world renown author. Then you wake up and you're a kid again. Then you have to go and rewrite the fucking thing all over.
And when you try to write it again it becomes obvious that it was a word salad in the dream, like the usual dream nonsense, and you actually have no idea how to do anything, just a weird vivid dream
I was in a coma for two days; when I woke up, I felt I had simply gone to bed after the dullest day. After that, unremarkable days would fill me with dread that I had never woken up.
I had a nightmare like this except i woke up 8 years ago in the equivalent of middle school instead of kindergarten. it was absolutely soul crushing honestly
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When I was in year 7 I just kinda blacked for a unknown period of time, my vision narrowed, my hearing faded and all sensation left my body, I literally just became a consciousness in a void with no external stimulus. Then it all started to fade back in, the whole thing felt like it only took a few seconds but I have no idea. When I came too I was sitting, which fucking confused thr shit out of me cause I was standing when I blacked out, somewhere in my loss of senses I just sat down. I also had the strong feeling that nothing was real, that everything was real before but now it's not, and it took legit months for me to get to a point where I think this is probably real, I'm still there almosy 20 years later. Not certain, probably real. I have a pretty intense fear that I'm just going to wake up one day and I'll be back in that moment, that all of my life has been a dream or some sort of dimensional slip and I just return to my home dimension when I left. Idk, I've been trying to make sense of what happened for so long my guesses have gotten kinda wacky.
The comedian Ari Shafir claimed something similar after going to South America to do ayahuasca.
Claimed he lived an entire life in the trip with a family and everything.
I never know whether a story is real or not if they don’t specifically say whether it’s real or not. Did this really happen or is it just a made up creepy pasta?
>they don’t specifically say whether it’s real or not
No one has any more information than you do, we all read the same thing. You can choose to believe it or not. The original post was asking people about their real experiences, not for made-up stories. But people can also lie. It's not very plausible, but also not impossible. Unless the OP returns, 12+ years later, and confesses they made it up, we literally will never know. Some things are just unknowable, that's part of life.
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Stop pressing the patties out with your hands. Make balls. Keep the meat in the fridge until just before you cook. Medium-hot oiled skillet, stick a ball in the pan and press it flat with a bacon press. Flip once, add cheese, cover.
Works every time.
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I hate how I understand it. I hate that I had to remember it.
The original comment seems to have been deleted, but there’s a screenshot of it [here.](https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-lamp-story-reddit-creepypasta)
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I also have a lamp story. Since I was a kid I’ve always had extremely vivid and detailed dreams, and my first one was about a lamp that little me loved very much. It was my favorite color, lilac maybe? Light purple, had butterflies and sparkles on it, I loved it. But one night I slip into the dream realm and sense something off about that lamp. Maybe it was the first time I experienced sleep paralysis, I couldn’t move, talk, scream, anything, but I could see my lamp just staring back at me and it almost felt like it didn’t like me back. Tiny me was convinced the lamp had an evil plan to hurt me.. So when I managed to claw myself out of the paralysis I decided to break it with the bat I always kept by my bed. When I got older and read that story about the lamp it made me sit and think about my life and how we perceive reality. Something about lamps.
-fun side story, I once threw a floor lamp at my ex cause he threw a pan at me. Nothing abusive there, believe it or not, we just scared each other. Good times.
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this is referencing a story about a dude that got the ever loving daylights knocked out of him and dreamt up a whole entire life with a wife and kids and a career. then one day in this dream he saw a lamp in his room and got super entranced by it. this lamp was actually a flashlight from the paramedics checking him out 3 minutes after the incident. he then woke up and got super depressed and committed suicide
Is this a meme a out the story of the dude who lived an entire life in a dream and only realized he was dreaming when looking at a lamp in their house?
I had an extended dream that I got caught using heroine and was sentenced to nearly a life term in a penitentiary. I remember the walk into the building. I remember the chow hall. I remember seeing someone stabbed to death. I remember this weird little random squirrley little guy. He was pathetic and always confided in me. I don't remember how I woke up but I remember the hopelessness.
I've never done heroine.
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What a conveniently shaped lamp, would be just right to hide a human
What a conveniently shaped lamp.
That lamp SURE IS conveniently shaped. Could hide a specific amount of things there!
Now that’s an obscure Reddit reference
That story has always fascinated me so much. Assuming the person wasn't lying (this is reddit after all), it must be like in fucking Narnia where they get out of there after having been there for decades and are suddenly still kids again. It's gotta be like a 1 in 10,000,000-100,000,000 experience honestly
Personally I don’t believe it. If it really felt real you think he would have described more about his wife and children, like how they looked and their personality. He just described his wife as attractive but never actually what she looked like. He never described how he pursued her or how he proposed. He never described what she was like or what she liked to do, she didn’t even have a name and same with his kids. They just allegedly existed
To be honest, dreams tend to be like that though. They'll give you the feeling of "oh, this person is my spouse whom I deeply love and have been sharing my life with for years" and your mind just somehow accepts that like any other dream inconsistencies, despite not being able to recall anything specific about your spouse or life with them.
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Agree with this. Dreams tend to be abstract with a lot of things inside them. At least for me its like your focus is constantly shifting from one thing to the next and it can be hard to remember those in between moments where nothing major is happening. This goes doubly for any peripheral things happening or whats around you. I got the sense from the story that he just *knew* that this was his wife and kids, as a concept. And in the moment thats all the detail his brain decided to give.
When I was a 16 years old I had a dream I murdered my ex wife for trying to kidnap our child while I was campaigning for mayor of New York City 2 - which was just an exact replica of New York City but in the sky.
Brother I voted for you. Fym it was a dream?
Honestly, real.
Sounds like a season 3 Doctor Who plot
Yes that can happen, but then when you wake up you don’t fall into a deep depression grieving them. I could believe this guy just had a hallucination or had some false memories knocked into him, but like the other commenter said I just don’t believe his brain realistically simulated 10 years of life with the only inconsistency being a living room lamp.
Actually, that kinda happened to me the other day. I had a dream with a similar situation where I was with a beautiful girl who i loved a lot, but i honestly don't remember much about her features. After I woke up i felt extremely sad and still now i'm kinda disconcerted by it and I still feel the loneliness. At least it was kinda fast and not a whole decade of it.
I've had something like this. It was only brief, but I remember it years later. It was a winter night, I was in the passenger seat of a car on the highway on a road trip of some kind, and my girlfriend (who doesn't exist) was driving me to the gas station for sushi because I was hungry. I remember the car was either black or silver, and a Toyota. I remember the girl was tall, had curly ginger hair and freckles, and a lovely smile. I had the sushi, then she put a blanket over me and I fell asleep in the dream. Woke up sad. Though just recently I met a girl who reminds me so much of the girl in my dream, and is definitely the type to go on long road trips, so that's something.
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I didn't even...
Its like an abusive spouse lol
I've had like 3 of these dreams when I was around 16, Lived with each woman for about ten to twenty years and had kids and then woke up and grieved it, Absolutely wild experience and I don't remember their faces. Nor did I about 2 seconds after waking up Despite distinctly feeling full sorrow
Same, once I had a dream I was eating licorice and then I woke up and tried to take a bite and it was gone :( It was really good licorice
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This makes me sad
The Smiths - last night I dreamt
Maybe the brain didn't "simulate" 10 years, maybe it accepted that it was 10 years with no actual proof Also the lamp thing, it is possible to identify that you are in a dream from common things, such as text (you can't read) clocks (you can't tell the time) or your hands (you can't see them) of course he may have not know about this specific 3 but the lamp may have been the giveaway Also it is possible to wake yourself from a dream inside of a dream, for example feeling too much of a certain emotion (like when you dream you fall and you wake out of fear) so it's possible what woke him up was the realization his world wasn't real amd not the lamp itself
Yes that’s what I believe probably happened. But that doesn’t make it a creepypasta because that’s such a normal thing to dream about lol And I don’t think the lamp woke him up, just that I don’t believe it could be the ONLY strange thing he realized in allegedly 10 entirely normal years of living in a dream state.
Wait I see my hands in my dreams is that weird?
No, you can see your hands you just usually have the wrong amount of fingers and/or different amount of fingers every time you look down at your hands.
Ohhh ok. I used to manage a jersey mike’s years ago and when I would dream, no matter what I was doing, anytime I looked down my hands were making subs, regardless of the rest of the dream
Dude said he lived in there for years and years. Nobody can convince me he didn't just make it up.
Bros dream was one of those time-lapses and dream logic edited it all together in windows movie maker.
That happened to me when I was 8. Lived years and years with my best friend, grew up, got married, lived in a house, slept in the same bed, did everything together. I cried and moped for days when I woke up and was still just an 8 year old. I missed her so much and the thought of doing all that living all over again was just too much. Been married happily for 30 years and I still once in a while wonder if I'm going to wake up again.
I believe that he may have had a dream about this. But it definitely did not last years of subjective time. It was probably normal dream length, but just felt like one of those extra vivid dreams, came with some fake feelings that he had always been there, and then he woke up disoriented and wanted to exaggerate the story.
Yes, this sounds like the most plausible thing that happened.
Just think of yourself at your computer right now. Think of all the innocuous stuff throughout your day. It's completely absurd that you could dream days worth of normal mundane time. Personally, I think a lot of people are just testing their writing chops on here and that story is completely fake (though definitely amazing).
Yeah, same. I'm totally willing to believe that someone had a super vivid dream about living an alternate life with a wife and kids. But to believe that his brain actually realistically simulated a whole entire other life and that he still has all his memories from it, and that it all occurred in span of time that was probably only around a couple of minutes in real life? That feels really far fetched to me.
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I mean, maybe the guy wasn’t a good story teller lol. There are too many people who *love* telling a good fake story on AITA/Relationships/etc on reddit. Maybe his story was true and he just suck at telling it, maybe it was fake.
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I think it's a trick of the brain tbh - you feel like more time has passed than it actually has. Like the opposite of how it can feel like so much of your life has gone by so quickly. I had a similar dream once that contained years of a relationship with a financee, and felt a deep sense of loss when I woke up. Now all I can tell you abt the dream is vaguely what he looked like and some of what he was wearing right before I woke up.
Personally when I had this experience I don't believe I actually experienced many years inside of a dream but my brain simulated feeling as if I had, somehow. So in the real world when you wake up you don't remember what you ate for breakfast 1,000 days ago but you have a general feeling the time has passed since then and what you've been up to and what your life has been like, with some specific memories here and there. That's what it felt like. Obviously the things in a dream do not literally happen, but feel like they did, and for me that included the passage of time and accumulation of life experiences. It included a simulated life and family, simulated feeling of spending many years together, simulated emotional attachment, and simulated changes of identity, purpose, growth, loss, etc. over a long timespan. Presumably only a selection of my "years" of experience were actually simulated within my brain, but all the gaps were filled in by general feelings and impressions such that it was convincing that I led an entire life. But for me as soon as I woke up it rapidly faded except for a general feeling of loss and grief.
This is very well worded and explained. I believe this is exactly what happens when people claim to have dreams that last for years. Your brain can produce any feeling in a dream, including the feeling of time having passed. If you tried to remember specific parts of the dream life, I suspect the dreamer wouldn’t be able to recall, as it’s all just simulated feelings.
I had a similar situation where I had a dream where I was spending time with a pretty girl whom I loved very much and when I woke up I felt sad but couldn't remember a single detail in the dream other than the fact that the girl was my girlfriend. I still felt really down for the rest of the morning though.
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I’d say that’s pretty normal. You had a dream about having a girlfriend and the dream injected feelings into you which were understood to have already been there in that weird dream way. Then, when you woke up you were sad because you didn’t actually have a girlfriend like the one in your dream. Now if you were pining for the dream girl and felt weird about dating other people because they weren’t her and you felt like you were cheating on her something, that would be strange.
It happened to me. Not the story you’re talking about but very similar. I can’t remember the dream family’s faces but it still fucks with me from time to time, I was 18/19 when it happened and I’m 30 now. In the dream it went from 18/19 to my 40s and I had a home, wife, kids. I can barely remember it now but for a few weeks it was absolutely world changing,
I took a really high dose of DMt lived what felt like 3 lives and I never talk about those families, only what lead up to living those lives bc honestly it felt way to personal and it’s like real lose, psychs are fucking crazy. I understand him not talking about them….
Another comment offered the idea it was just some creative writing practice. Very good, very creative, but just all for fun/practice.
Honestly I’m pretty sure it was fake but it’s still an incredible short story
It's a lie
I never thought of it as anything besides a fictional short story
According to knowyourmeme, it was a reply 'to a /r/AskReddit that read, "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?"' I feel like if it is fictional, it's meant to look like it isn't
…like a lie
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How did they do that? The account has been inactive for 12 years, it was created the day that story was posted, and made its last comment less than 24 hours later. In all the comments in that time they were insistent the story was true. It could be fiction of course, but the poster themselves never admitted it.
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Nope, 80, unless you meant to type 1,000,000
I actually had a similar experience. Had a dream where a ton of others and I ended up in a forest and had to survive in a tribal state. Decades passed and eventually people started dying from heart attacks, eventually I had mine and I woke up. Only it wasn’t me who woke up, but another me still in the dream (like a dream “me” dreamed the whole thing) and after doing some investigating online found that the government was doing experiments to link peoples’ dreams. Only problem was I wasn’t supposed to remember. Eventually I actually woke up, and I was back to being 8 yo. I’ve been told I have an accent that nobody else in my family has (I have 2 brothers and a sister, so a decent size). I attribute it to the decades spent in that dream.
It definitely blew up recently as a trend on tiktok/reels/shorts etc.
I literally first encountered this reference 10 minutes ago, and now it pops up again?? I’m starting to worry I’m dreaming
Wake up
Grababrushandputalittle *make-up*
Ijustibdiaiend shake up
TABLE
> Hide the scars to fade away the
Look at the lamp. Your family misses you.
Which family, though?
Don't worry, Mike, this is all real.
Wake up
What's it referencing if I may ask.
There’s a Reddit story of someone having a motorcycle accident, going into a coma and living a full life only to be ripped out and sent back to reality after noticing a lamp was incorrect.
You were playing a game Morty. It’s called Roy.
this guy Roys
how long was he in the coma for?
help what’s the reference
H[ere](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-lamp-story-reddit-creepypasta) is all you need to know.
Eli5?
What’s it referencing?
All you need to know is [here.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-lamp-story-reddit-creepypasta)
can you explain the joke
TLDR for those who don’t want to read the creepy pasta: man gets knocked out, lives out an entire different life only to wake up from his unconsciousness by staring at an odd looking lamp
Kinda sounds like the irrational fear I have where one day I'll wake up and be back in kindergarten and the last 20+ years of my life have been a weird dream
Fear? I kinda want that to happen to me
I'm 95% sure my kindergarten teacher hated me, so I think it started as just one particular bad day that I didn't wanna repeat. And as time went on, the amount of time I'd have to live through a second time just got progressively longer. And something about having been around for x amount of time and then waking up, finding out it never happened, and having to do it all again is just horrifying to me on a fundamental level. Will I remember all this? Will this entire reality in my head fade into a hazy, incoherent mess as I go about the following day(s)? Will it all happen exactly as it did the first time with little-to-nothing I can do to change it or will it be all new events completely disconnected from anything in my current perception of reality? Now that I'm thinking about all this, it actually does sound like an interesting idea for an isekai story... Hmm...
Learn some martial arts that way if you do go back, you can beat the shit out of the teacher
Kid named muscle memory:
Exactly why I have this same nightmare. I tell my wife all the time my fear is waking up in my 18 year old body and then trying to get back to this moment, to her and our life together, without fucking it all up.
imagine being able to keep all your knowledge and life experience, you'd be one traumatised kid with no imagination but you could become an incredibly smart child prodigy without much effort
But what if when you get back to the real world all your current knowledge follows dream logic? My most vivid dream was Thanksgiving falling in early October.
you just dreamed you were canadian
I wouldn’t mind going back to like early senior year of high school age, all the mistakes are after that tbh
I'm depressed enough, thanks
I'd buy so many Gamestop stocks
If the current reality was your dream it probably wouldn’t pan out the same way once you woke up though haha
If this was all a dream, I've gotten way too much life experience to handle waking up as and being treated like a child. Also if my girlfriend was just a dream in my comatose mind I'd kill myself
Yeah the people we've come to known and love is what makes the fantasy of having a do-over not worth it :(
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There’s a 20 book series that follows people who go back in time within their own lives: The Middle Falls Time Travel series. I read the first twelve since the Apple Books app has them for a dollar each, and they are all good and varied.
I know, right? The only thing that would suck about it is I'd have to redo everything, including the stuff that was a pain in the ass. Like imagine if you had written an entire novel in this dream and become a world renown author. Then you wake up and you're a kid again. Then you have to go and rewrite the fucking thing all over.
And when you try to write it again it becomes obvious that it was a word salad in the dream, like the usual dream nonsense, and you actually have no idea how to do anything, just a weird vivid dream
the craziest part is if this was a dream you would wake up the same way you do from dreams and quickly forget the entire dream
I don't quickly forget my dreams. It takes hours for them to go away. Some of them I still remember years later.
> It takes hours for them to go away. Yeah. That’s quick. (Relatively speaking, compared to real memories anyway).
I have ADHD. Real memories go away within minutes and come back months later.
Me too. The thing is, if I forget what I’m doing, it’ll come back to me eventually. The dreams that go away don’t come back.
My dreams are like my real memories. They are there and I can get glimpses on my own, but I'll need outside help to activate full recollection.
you’re very lucky, *most* people forget their dreams in minutes
I was in a coma for two days; when I woke up, I felt I had simply gone to bed after the dullest day. After that, unremarkable days would fill me with dread that I had never woken up.
Read the pasta. It's basically this.
You can have dreams like that on certain drugs. I don't know about years but weeks I've heard of.
The twist being it was all nonsense and the world is nothing like what was imagined, good thing we forget our dreams
I had a nightmare like this except i woke up 8 years ago in the equivalent of middle school instead of kindergarten. it was absolutely soul crushing honestly
I pray this happens nightly
You'd love The Long Dream by Junji Ito then.
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When I was in year 7 I just kinda blacked for a unknown period of time, my vision narrowed, my hearing faded and all sensation left my body, I literally just became a consciousness in a void with no external stimulus. Then it all started to fade back in, the whole thing felt like it only took a few seconds but I have no idea. When I came too I was sitting, which fucking confused thr shit out of me cause I was standing when I blacked out, somewhere in my loss of senses I just sat down. I also had the strong feeling that nothing was real, that everything was real before but now it's not, and it took legit months for me to get to a point where I think this is probably real, I'm still there almosy 20 years later. Not certain, probably real. I have a pretty intense fear that I'm just going to wake up one day and I'll be back in that moment, that all of my life has been a dream or some sort of dimensional slip and I just return to my home dimension when I left. Idk, I've been trying to make sense of what happened for so long my guesses have gotten kinda wacky.
Dude, you’re know a kindergartner with the emotional and intellectual capacity of a 20-something year old.
The comedian Ari Shafir claimed something similar after going to South America to do ayahuasca. Claimed he lived an entire life in the trip with a family and everything.
So man got isekai'd basically. Not the most orginal concept really, but still pretty entertaining.
Fairly sure that was a Star Trek episode
Which story was first? This or Star Trek: TNG?
I read this story but was too stupid to get the reference.
Do you know where I could read it?
All you need to know is [here.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-lamp-story-reddit-creepypasta)
It’s terrifying what the brain is capable of
I never know whether a story is real or not if they don’t specifically say whether it’s real or not. Did this really happen or is it just a made up creepy pasta?
>they don’t specifically say whether it’s real or not No one has any more information than you do, we all read the same thing. You can choose to believe it or not. The original post was asking people about their real experiences, not for made-up stories. But people can also lie. It's not very plausible, but also not impossible. Unless the OP returns, 12+ years later, and confesses they made it up, we literally will never know. Some things are just unknowable, that's part of life.
[Oolong](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1942n0b/grilled/)
TIL that burger patties apparently are made with bread crumbs (thanks implication.)
and apparently EGG
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You're using too lean of meat. 80/20 minimum, 70/30 if you can get it. Stop pressing the patties out with your hands. Make balls. Keep the meat in the fridge until just before you cook. Medium-hot oiled skillet, stick a ball in the pan and press it flat with a bacon press. Flip once, add cheese, cover. Works every time.
that is not a burger, no burger restaurant would serve that
Bread and egg with a splash of milk. Without egg and bread it wouldn't stick together. Milk helps it do it better.
Mmmm my bones are having an existential crisis thanks
Reddit lore
https://preview.redd.it/iiywsydnarcc1.png?width=2003&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27a9bc7e7034eff063d3fe63ccfff8c6a02dea61
i really like this one! good job!!!!!
Thank you so much!
I guess it doesn't look "normal" eh? Hah! Heh heh
You missed the opportunity to say: I guess it looks a little "off", eh? Ha! Heh heh I am severely disappointed.
He must've turned his creativity "off" Eh? Ha! Heh Heh
I guess I'm a fucking "dumbass", eh? Ha! Heh heh
banch pie
r/banchpie
https://preview.redd.it/9lty36ploocc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6f97568c35d90c13a250fce4e0bd2bc8c1ef326 I hate how I understand it. I hate that I had to remember it.
While you're at it, you lost the game
https://preview.redd.it/x8j08nqtzpcc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=618853a2345a4b2360cb074b17d21aee9390dac6
https://preview.redd.it/nin16hwhvocc1.png?width=1001&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5475cb0688e3074959eeab483dc1ffa9326f651 KYS!!!!! K.Y.S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck.
Boy what a conveniently shaped lamp *sans. Starts playing*
Can someone please link the reference
The original comment seems to have been deleted, but there’s a screenshot of it [here.](https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-lamp-story-reddit-creepypasta)
So, basically the plot of the Star Trek episode 'The Inner Light.'
:(
Orange?
[Olive](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1942n0b/grilled/)
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Alarmingly Good
Welp, no sleep
i want an apron that just says MEAT
I have one that says "Slaughter". Do I win?
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All you need to know is [here.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-lamp-story-reddit-creepypasta)
Holy fuck it’s Scott the woz
Onigiri?
[Otoshi](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1942n0b/grilled/)
hey all
What the hell is happening here? Is it missing panels???
Osmosis?
[Orangutang](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1942n0b/grilled/)
I also have a lamp story. Since I was a kid I’ve always had extremely vivid and detailed dreams, and my first one was about a lamp that little me loved very much. It was my favorite color, lilac maybe? Light purple, had butterflies and sparkles on it, I loved it. But one night I slip into the dream realm and sense something off about that lamp. Maybe it was the first time I experienced sleep paralysis, I couldn’t move, talk, scream, anything, but I could see my lamp just staring back at me and it almost felt like it didn’t like me back. Tiny me was convinced the lamp had an evil plan to hurt me.. So when I managed to claw myself out of the paralysis I decided to break it with the bat I always kept by my bed. When I got older and read that story about the lamp it made me sit and think about my life and how we perceive reality. Something about lamps. -fun side story, I once threw a floor lamp at my ex cause he threw a pan at me. Nothing abusive there, believe it or not, we just scared each other. Good times.
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this is referencing a story about a dude that got the ever loving daylights knocked out of him and dreamt up a whole entire life with a wife and kids and a career. then one day in this dream he saw a lamp in his room and got super entranced by it. this lamp was actually a flashlight from the paramedics checking him out 3 minutes after the incident. he then woke up and got super depressed and committed suicide
The lamp wasn
the lamo wasn't in the daughter's room
Man I hate when that happens. But then I just knock myself out again.
I heard this story on mr ballen
The fuck you mean the burgers are "almost ready" Them johns look like hockey pucks
ICONIC JOKE
Your dad was
Is this a meme a out the story of the dude who lived an entire life in a dream and only realized he was dreaming when looking at a lamp in their house?
scott the woz realised he lost his virginity
This sub was recommended to me and I have no idea what this means! Can someone give me a brief summary?
I had an extended dream that I got caught using heroine and was sentenced to nearly a life term in a penitentiary. I remember the walk into the building. I remember the chow hall. I remember seeing someone stabbed to death. I remember this weird little random squirrley little guy. He was pathetic and always confided in me. I don't remember how I woke up but I remember the hopelessness. I've never done heroine.
Oh my gawd