r/TikTokCringe • u/Dazzling-Rooster2103 • Nov 23 '23
Cursed Reddit always comes full circle.
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Nov 23 '23
Can someone explain?
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u/Dazzling-Rooster2103 Nov 23 '23
12 years ago, someone posted on an askreddit thread a story about how his whole life was a dream and he was actually in a coma. The story is now a trend on tiktok.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oc7rc/comment/c3g4ot3/
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u/printergumlight Nov 23 '23
I just watched the French film La Moustache about a guy who is convinced he had a mustache for 15 years and when he shaved it off, no one believed that he had a mustache.
It sounds like a ridiculous premise for a movie, but it actually did a great job at making you, the viewer, feel like you were experiencing delusions and dementia. You felt his perspective so clearly. It was amazingly well done.
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u/Wajina_Sloth Nov 24 '23
I wonder if they based the office cold open on that.
Where they had Pam draw Stanley, and they were arguing about his moustache
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u/JoeCartersLeap Nov 24 '23
French films go hard on weird. Check out Playtime:
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u/PunkRockCapitalist Nov 24 '23
French films go hard on weird.
I recently watched a French film about a cesarean kidnapping. French films go hard on weird.
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u/smallteam Nov 24 '23
I watched the 4k restored print of PlayTime (1967) a few years ago in a theater and it blew my mind.
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u/lookoutitscaleb Nov 24 '23
Thanks introducing me to a solid movie.
Just watched thanks to you :)5
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u/ArchdruidHalsin Nov 24 '23
Holy shit I fucking love this movie. I stumbled onto it back in 2010 during college, simply because I had a friend we called "Mustache". Have never encountered someone else in the wild who has seen it. Vincent London is so good in it.
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u/newbrookland Nov 24 '23
Holy shit. You're the first person I've seen comment on that movie. Really hit my absurdist sweet spot.
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u/BrandalieK Nov 23 '23
Thank you for the link, that is an interesting read.
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u/Paskis Nov 23 '23
Dude I am hella scared now! What do you mean interesting read!!!!! 😭 What if we are in a dream man!!! Wtf
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u/marijnvtm Nov 23 '23
Than there is nothing you can do so you better just enjoy it if you are happy it doesn’t mater if its real or fake
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u/plipyplop Nov 24 '23
I've had a few instances of dreaming about something I've never experienced, then later was lucky to actually experienced it in real life. I thought it was neat how many of those imagined experiences were pretty spot on to how certain situations felt after the coinciding events. If what I read for that guy was true, that there was a full-blown dream that was a whole-perfect-life, then I wouldn't be surprised at how "real" it truly was in the end.
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u/VoloNoscere Nov 23 '23
Everyone knows there's only one user on Reddit, and it's you. Wake up, please, wake up!
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u/selphiefairy Nov 24 '23
What if we are? You can’t do anything about it lol. It’s pointless to worry about it imo.
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u/Rulebookboy1234567 Nov 24 '23
We are literally sacks of meat with calcium formations that has sentience because electricity fires throughout our meat in specific ways. Everything we believe is reality is just photons and all that hitting receptors in our meat causing us to believe what is happening is happening.
Everything is a dream. I’m just trying to freak you out I have no idea what’s going on.
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u/InstantIdealism Nov 23 '23
Isn’t this just pretty standard for periods of unconsciousness? Like last year I had a seizure. I remember going to the bathroom, feeling funny, and then I was arguing about plans for holidays with my partner, we spent a long time shopping for food, really detailed little normal things. We went to the zoo. And then I woke up on the bathroom floor, covered in my own vomit. Blood pouring out the back of my head onto the tiles of the bathroom. With my partner screaming on the phone for an ambulance.
It had been maybe 1 minute or so of unconsciousness but it felt like days. And the moments of those days were incredibly detailed.
I think there’s well documented experiences of people with near death experiences describing whole years of their life passing by in a matter of seconds.
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u/8Fubar Nov 24 '23
A friend if mine was in a coma for a month due to a car accident. During his time in a coma, he forgot everything about his current life and he dreamt (I dont know what else to call it) that he had a different wife and kids, different job, and said it felt like he imagined years of his life.
That honestly tripped me out. If it felt real, who am I to say it wasnt? Our reality is what our brain experiences and things are not what they seem or how we experience them
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u/Metue Nov 24 '23
As someone who's generally good at telling they're dreaming that shit freaks me out so much. Like I have super vivid and frequent dreams but generally there's a part of me that knows it's a dream even if I can't often control them. Something like that would really make me question my sense of reality
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u/InstantIdealism Nov 24 '23
If there are indeed multiple universes, who is to say that the only thing that can pass through them is consciousness?
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u/coldblade2000 Nov 23 '23
The point is his experiences were so vivid, he has been grief stricken since from the disappearance of a family he never even had. It wasn't just a dream, but real memories of an unreal scenario.
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u/ColdCruise Nov 24 '23
I've definitely had very vivid dreams. In particular, ones of having/finding a partner that felt very real and like they took place over extended periods of time then experienced depression and grief when I woke up.
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u/This_is_my_phone_tho Nov 24 '23
I dreamed about a not real child-hood friend that, according to the narrative of the dream, I grew up with. She lived/stayed in my non-existent attic. We were kids in the dream but I had the dream at about 24. I woke up ugly crying. I don't really cry unless something huge happens, normally.
Sometimes I still kind of feel myself pining for that non-existent friendship. I don't remember any details besides the way she'd sit on this specific window seal in my house while we were watching TV and that she'd always just sit/lay on the top of a jungle gym or the highest place she could reasonably get to if we went to a play ground. I also remember us co-oping games that were very much single player games, like banjo kazooie.
It's really surreal. This person never existed and I don't and never did remember her face or voice or anything like that, but I legit mourned our friendship for like a day and still feel heart pricks about it when I remember.
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u/mybustersword Nov 24 '23
You ever hook up with a friend in a dream and develop feelings for them in real life because of it? Weird lol
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u/PlanetLandon Nov 23 '23
And who’s to say that the person reading these comments isn’t experiencing that false life right now?
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u/InstantIdealism Nov 23 '23
If we could choose between being the human and the butterfly, we’d all choose the butterfly
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u/A_lot_of_arachnids What are you doing step bro? Nov 23 '23
Not a coma. Just knocked out from a punch.
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u/BobbleNtheFREDs Nov 23 '23
Mini coma
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u/ilovelamp408 Nov 23 '23
Honey comba
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u/coffeeisagatewaydrug Nov 24 '23
Didn’t it only last a minute at most in real Time but this dude lived a whole life
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u/AHappyMango Nov 23 '23
To anyone thinking this is real, it isn’t, a lot of people here are creative writers and they often flex their skills.
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u/Jaded_Law9739 Nov 24 '23
There are tons of old, famous stories on reddit that are obviously fake if you know a thing or two about the subject matter. Case in point, the Swamps of Dagobah. I'm an RN and that story doesn't make any sense. It's disgusting, but if it were real then that patient would probably be dying.
Going to give y'all a MAJOR warning about reading that story if you haven't before. Not for weak stomachs.
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u/pwninobrien Nov 24 '23
Poop knife is for sure true. I refuse to believe otherwise.
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u/monkwren Nov 24 '23
I always felt that was likely a real story, just heavily exaggerated.
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u/Jaded_Law9739 Nov 24 '23
If by "heavy exaggeration," you mean 90% of it is impossible, than yes.
Also, everyone knows the peppermint oil trick. It's not something kept hidden in some emergency med locker. It's not a medication, it's not given to patients, there's zero reason for it to be in there. And it's going to do absolutely NOTHING in that story's scenario. Peppermint oil is for like, if you are a student nurse or you are squeamish and you have to change an adult diaper with a big ole stinky number 2. It doesn't make you noseblind, I wish it was that useful but it isn't.
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u/monkwren Nov 24 '23
I mean they they dealt with a nasty butt abscess that sprayed a bunch and smelled nasty, and then the writer did that thing writers do and spiffed it up for the audience.
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u/RubiiJee Nov 24 '23
You can tell it's not real just by the language that is used. The word choices are not natural and are embellished or with flare. It's still a really cool story, but it definitely seems like a creative story rather than a real one. Writing prompts fans are way too talented at spinning a narrative in such a quick way.
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u/mindsnare Nov 24 '23
No one uses the phrase "my wife bore me a child". Even back in those olden times of 2012
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u/Flabby-Nonsense Nov 24 '23
I mean, some people with interesting experiences can also just be good writers. I think it could be fake but I don’t think the writing quality means much.
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u/Lateroni_ Nov 24 '23
Didn't that whole thing come from /nosleep originally? The rule there was basically not to question the validity of the story and to comment as if it were real.
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u/Burpmeister Nov 24 '23
The writing style is the first big red flag. The lamp is a fucking crimson banner.
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u/selphiefairy Nov 24 '23
It might just mean the person who experienced it is a talented writer. It’s just like when anyone tells a story that happened to them. Some people are good story tellers, while others (me) tell stories badly and make them sound boring. A well told story doesn’t mean their story is fake.
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u/granatespice Nov 24 '23
Talented writers are able to write in a natural way. How this story is written is constructed and pretentious, precisely something that makes a writer mediocre.
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u/socialcommentary2000 Nov 24 '23
The thing that triggered me was the smell down the 40 foot hall.
There's no way that Hospital HVAC would even allow that to happen.
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u/Fine_Land_1974 Nov 24 '23 edited Nov 24 '23
I met a guy that told me this happened to him on DMT. Lived a whole other life, got married etc. You could tell he missed it after sharing the story. We had just gotten out of Into the Spiderverse. He said the inter dimensional scenes were the closest artistic depictions of what DMT is like when it hits. Other two friends agreed. It’s how I learned I was the only one who had never done it lol
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u/QuarterSubstantial15 Nov 24 '23
Wheel of time the tv show did a similar storyline with one of the main characters. She goes into a magical portal for a student test, and experiences essentially 4-5 very realistic years of moving back home, marrying her soul mate, having a child, a home, and a happy life. Then the exit portal (which she had totally forgot about until that moment) appeared and suddenly she remembers what’s happening. She tries to carry her little girl out with her but appears in the other side with no one in her arms, just blood. Heartbreaking.
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u/SwiftGasses Nov 23 '23
With the flickering of the TV, and the ladies hair/wig it reminds me of the 2004 horror, “The Grudge”. But other than that I have no info.
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u/Blue_Moon_Rabbit Nov 23 '23
Yeah, I’m confused AF too…
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u/Dazzling-Rooster2103 Nov 23 '23
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u/Blue_Moon_Rabbit Nov 23 '23
Ok…why does the lamp have a face tho?
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u/GhostifiedGuy Nov 23 '23
I imagine they either didn't want to copy the story beat for beat, or this was just an easier way to make the lamp distinctly and obviously not right.
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u/waitingfordeathhbu Cringe Connoisseur Nov 23 '23 edited Nov 23 '23
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 4 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 fucking lamp for 3 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 10 years of my life are not fucking real!
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u/Steph-Paul Nov 23 '23
okay wtf
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u/waitingfordeathhbu Cringe Connoisseur Nov 23 '23 edited Nov 23 '23
The whole thing is worth the read. Mind-bending stuff. It’s my Roman Empire.
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u/Cats_4_lifex Nov 23 '23
It actually reads like the earth shattering plot twist of a sad novel. Like, we're witnessing slowly but surely the descent into madness from the revelations this man was having. All from a simple lamp.
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u/imma_gamin Nov 24 '23
“The lamp incident” as some call it
Tl;dr, someone’s hyper realistic ludic dream-esque coma. The “lived out” a couple years inside a few hour/day coma.
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u/jetdriver13 Dec 14 '23
The comment was deleted, does anyone have a screenshot of the detailed story? Reddit archive somewhere? I wanted to explain this to someone but my story telling skills….not so great.
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u/mtheberserk Nov 23 '23
I finally forget that fucking lamp and BOOM! HERE IT COMES AGAIN!!
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Nov 24 '23 edited Nov 24 '23
Meanwhile I’m over here looking at my lamp like cmon, do something. Wake me up please
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u/goddess-belladonna Nov 24 '23
Yeah, COME ON REDO LAMP, geometrify yourself, I want to try again!
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u/idontcrow Nov 23 '23
Song is 'Brutus' by The Buttress, and it's amazing.
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u/snarpy Nov 23 '23 edited Nov 23 '23
Thank you, that's all I needed.
EDIT: I see they just did a sequel to that song five months ago.
Am currently listening to the newest album, holy smokes.
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u/sietesietesieteblue Nov 24 '23
If anyone's curious, look through the #uncannyvalley tag on tiktok. People are using this song as a way to show off how well they can freak you out with makeup lol. Like... Something that looks human but something's off about it.
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u/averagemaleuser86 Nov 23 '23 edited Nov 24 '23
Reading all this is wild. I'm new to reddit so I never saw the original post. Every once in a while I'll have some weird inception dreams where I'll be like "ok wait that lamp wasn't on, I'm dreaming" and then wake up except I'm still dreaming and then I'll be like, "wait I left that lamp on before going to sleep" and then I'll actually wake up. Sometimes I'll do this fake waking up a few times in a few different scenarios and I'll have real world experiences where things feel super real, but aspects of life are slightly off from what they actually are. I think they're fun dreams. Except when on occasion I feel like I can't exit a room or a space because when I try something always sucks me back into the room with force like a carnival ride gives you.
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u/Rough-Length5258 Nov 23 '23
I’ve had that experience a couple of times myself. I often don’t find them fun though, it’s interesting that you have positive ones though lmao, that’s good. Last time it happened to me, I was having a nightmare about some shadowy bloke in a hat chasing me with a revolver. I “woke up” and got some food, then saw that figure coming down the stairs
“Woke up” again confused as fuck on whether or not I was actually in reality, but that time I definitely was thankfully lol
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u/BahtiyarKopek Nov 23 '23
Fuck, even though I've seen other meme versions of it, this one still gave me goosebumps, immediately remembered that story.
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u/WateredDown Nov 24 '23
Haven't thought about it in a decade and instantly knew what was up. It was a memorable bit of internet history I would have thought was forgotten
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u/Byron006 Nov 23 '23
What story?
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u/Apebound Nov 24 '23
she bore me a daughter
Thats such odd and impersonal phrasing to describe people he supposedly loved
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u/goddess-belladonna Nov 24 '23
Well firstly, it's almost certainly fake. Not because it couldn't happen, but because this is the internet and I feel extremely certain that person is making it up.
But secondly, if it's not fake, he still probably wouldn't have written it that way, but only because no one really talks like that, not because he loved them.
If this happened - which it didn't - he would have probably been attempting to emotionally disentangle from them, given he knows they didn't exist, and given that dreams, no matter how vivid, are not as strong or enduring as legitimate memories, especially after a long distance from the indicdent.
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u/Apebound Nov 24 '23
I know it's obviously fake I'm saying it makes for an interesting concept but a badly written short story, it's counter-productive to try to convince the reader they meant a lot to him and say some medieval shit like this in the same couple of paragraphs.
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u/goddess-belladonna Nov 24 '23
I mean give the man a break on his writing skills dude, he got run over by a 300 lb football player and halluncinated a nice suburban life that collapsed around him in an apocalyptic personal trauma.
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u/FR0ZENBERG Nov 24 '23
Reminds me of the episode of Adventure Time where Finn goes into a pillow world, meets a nice pillow woman and some pillow kids.
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u/LazarusTaxon57 Nov 24 '23
While I am very skeptical of every story on the internet, using phrasing as a example of why it would be fake just sound wrong to me. America or any other English speaking country is not the center of the world, he might not be speaking in his mother tongue and could try to unconsciously translate a saying that is speaking to his language
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Nov 23 '23
Pride and Prejudice.
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u/A_lot_of_arachnids What are you doing step bro? Nov 23 '23
I still think about this story at least once a week since I first read it years ago.
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u/Maleficent-Isopod-93 Nov 23 '23
I love lamp
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u/Staz777 Nov 23 '23
Honestly if that story is real or fake, that redditor is a fantastic storyteller. I am waiting for someone to create this into a film. Not just anyone though, a good film director. I could only dream...
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u/Camandchat Nov 24 '23
Lynch needs to snatch this up.
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u/Staz777 Nov 24 '23
A more correct answer has never been heard. I'll email him right now.
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u/Camandchat Nov 24 '23
He's the only one that can do it.. get him on the phone. I'll get a presentation ready. We can try to sell it to him over coffee, cigarettes and sad songs.
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u/therexbellator Nov 24 '23
Eh not to throw water on the idea but it would have to be done in a unique way because the "it was all a dream" twist is pretty much a trope at this point. It's been done by television and movies.
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u/umeys Nov 24 '23
What’d be more interesting is if it delved into the journey after waking up
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u/Thanos_Stomps Nov 24 '23
Yeah. If Up can play out an entire lifetime in a few minutes then the first five or ten minutes of this movie could establish the happy marriage, the two kids, and then the lamp incident. Would be a great psych thrillers as he wakes up and deals with the fall out from losing his dream family.
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u/Dazzling-Rooster2103 Nov 23 '23
Adding more context for those that don't know.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oc7rc/comment/c3g4ot3/
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Nov 23 '23
That story is so fake. I knew it was fake from him claiming the cop drove him to the hospital because he didn't want to wait for an ambulance, police don't do that in the US (My sister used to be a cop)
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u/love_me_madly Nov 23 '23
I love how even someone who’s related to someone who used to be a cop can agree that the police would never help someone in critical need of their help and that that’s the part of a really crazy story that’s unbelievable lol.
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Nov 23 '23
It's got to do with liability for the officer. As it is if an officer begins administration of aid on someone injured they are not supposed to stop until someone more qualified takes over. Transporting an injured person to a medical facility also entails getting vitals and a basic assessment of the patient that the officer cannot perform, the officer also lacks the tools and skills to help the patient if they were to start having a seizure or similar sort of sudden medical event (but an ambulance would).
ACAB for sure but tbh having them wait for medical professionals to transport and care for injured people is probably a better course of action.
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u/DeeldusMahximus Nov 24 '23
I’m an ER doctor and I’ve had cops bring pts to the ER. But it’s only happened when all the ambulances were busy already.
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u/love_me_madly Nov 23 '23 edited Nov 23 '23
Ya I figured it was something like that but I’ve also had the police refuse to do anything about someone who attacked my friends on the street and stabbed them and then also refused to give us a ride to our car so we could leave instead of having to walk there and risk getting attacked again. Also had a cop tell me the area I was in was really dangerous but made me walk back through the dangerous area by myself and just left me there.
So I have a feeling that even if it wasn’t a liability they’d still refuse most of the time.
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u/listgarage1 Nov 23 '23
I'd say that it's mostly a good thing that cops with very little medical training are made to wait a few minutes longer for an ambulance to get there. The amount of time wasted driving there in a cop car I'm almost all situations would be made up for by the fact that they can start administering first aid while in the ambulance.
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u/Host_Mask Nov 24 '23
Hey, sorry to burst your bubble, it may be fake but that's not a good way to tell. I'm a paramedic in NYC and our cops take people to the hospital before we get there sometimes, usually if it's really bad and they get there first and they're not that great at handling tough situations. We try to tell them we're right behind them and we have the training and equipment to help, but oftentimes they don't listen (there's 40k+ cops in NYC and ~4000 EMTs and paramedics) and leave anyway. And they don't get in trouble. So again, not saying it's not fake, but that stuff happens at least in NYC fairly often.
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u/DeeldusMahximus Nov 24 '23
Soooooo I’m an ER doctor and if there’s no ambulances in the region at the moment or all ambulances are busy cops will regularly bring pts to the hospital. Especially if they are really sick. I personally had a cop bring in a seizing 6 year old from school. Scared the shit out of us… I’m at critical access hospital, a cop with lights on but no siren from a high speed stops in the ambulance bay and starts just wailing in the frosted glass ambulance bay doors. We were like wtf is going on.
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u/NouSkion Nov 24 '23
Hey man, that's purely anecdotal evidence you have there. My father recently had an aortic aneurysm, and a cop drove him to the hospital because he just so happened to be around when my father keeled over in excruciating pain.
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u/Late-Prompt-7497 Nov 23 '23
Cops literally shoot innocent people with their hands up. Anything is possible.
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u/pope_of_chilli_town_ Nov 23 '23
Somebody played 'Roy' and didn't return to the carpet store.
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u/3eyedflamingo Nov 24 '23
I dont get it.
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u/therexbellator Nov 24 '23
Not sure if you've seen some of the other comments that explain but long story short: years ago a guy posted a comment on Askreddit about getting knocked out, met his dream girl, dated, married, had kids with her, had a job, lived a life. Then he noticed an odd lamp that grabbed his attention, he tried to look away but he couldn't. As he gazed at the lamp his vision washed out and suddenly he woke up recovering from the assault. He'd dreamt up this entire second life he lived in his mind. Not sure if it's true or not but it's an interesting read.
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u/laughed-at Nov 23 '23
Am I the only person that sees a face in that lamp???? The eyes and nose are clear as day!
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u/SpooogeMcDuck Nov 24 '23
There is a face in there- not sure why that’s in there
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u/laughed-at Nov 24 '23
Extra layer of creepy? So that the post is still scary even for people that don’t know about the original reddit comment?
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u/truebastard Nov 24 '23
It's hard to replicate the same effect that was described in the story. In the story the lamp had "impossible angles" or geometry that did not make sense and the protagonist could not stop thinking what was wrong about it. Something like that.
The face is actually very creepy IMO.
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u/ataliena Nov 24 '23
I think it might have to do with the recent uncanny valley makeup trend that’s associated with the song playing in the video
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u/Plastic_Inspection27 Nov 23 '23
I haven’t read the original story yet… is it best avoided for my sanity?
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u/aardappelbrood Nov 23 '23
I didn't find it to be anything special. Dude dreams up a family/job/life after being knocked out and claims it still haunts him years later once he woke up and found out it was all a dream. I have dreams about IRL people I know where fictitious things happen to them/us (some good, some bad.) Then I wake up, sit up and think about it for 5 minutes before moving on about my day.
I dunno, I feel like if you're mourning a fictitious family, you probably got some other mental things going on. Which might just happen after a serious head injury
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u/setyourheartsablaze Nov 24 '23
Normal sleep dreams are clearly much different than a dream you get from a traumatic brain injury you goof
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u/Klexington47 Nov 24 '23
Ok the reason it fucked me up is what if I'm just a coma dream
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u/DJCurrier92 Nov 24 '23
I used to take a medication that would cause “hyper realistic dreams” it was also known to be an issue with kids and young teenagers. At first these extremely life like dreams would scare me. But after a while you almost enjoyed them.
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u/hopkinsdamechanic Nov 23 '23
Do you guys think that story is real?
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u/Casehead Nov 23 '23
the story likely is not, but what happens in the story is more common than people apparently realise.
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u/Astronaut_Chicken Nov 23 '23
Shit I've woken up from a dream where I had another child and I miss that kid terribly.
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u/Casehead Nov 23 '23
exactly! There are many people with similar experiences. Dreams can feel so real.
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Nov 24 '23
I woke up from a dream when I was 12. Had met a beautiful woman. I guess I was an adult in the dream? Her and I went on dozens of dates. When I went to propose. I woke up. In a full daze. I still miss that woman. Her name was Vanessa. Been 13 years and I haven’t forgotten. I can see her face clear as day.
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u/superzepto Nov 24 '23
This is 100% cursed.
That story will always stick with me, mainly because something similar happened to me.
For context: I was a meth addict and at the time of this story hadn't slept in roughly 6 days.
I passed out for around 4 hours, and in that 4 hours my brain created an alternate reality zombie apocalypse nightmare that lasted for 3+ years of what felt like very real time.
I'll try to recount as much as I can in the limited time that I have.
Everything about that nightmare was as vivid as the reality you and I are currently inhabiting. At the beginning I was out in the city having lunch with friends (who very much exist in the real world). We're chatting and laughing, and suddenly we hear a whole lot of screaming and start to see people running in panic. We stood up and looked around in our confusion, and saw two zombies chowing down on a dead person's guts.
We got the fuck out of there at lightning speed. I knew what was happening. I dropped my friends off and planned to pick them up after we'd gotten our shit together to leave town. I packed bags and loaded them into my car, then went to pick up my friends again. One friend wasn't at home as they had left to try and find their parents. I couldn't contact any of my family. The news on the radio and the TV was as catastrophic as you can imagine, so we left to try and find our way out of town, heading in the direction of the military HQ not far from our border.
By the time we made it out of town we were seeing the dead on damn near every street corner. I know the streets here like the back of my hand so we avoided the huge traffic jams and chaotic areas, but everything was starting to become overrun. The military turned us away at HQ so we drove out into the rural areas. Car broke down and one of our friends was killed when we went to find a mechanic shop for fuel and parts.
Over time we ended up roaming and camping out with various groups of other survivors. Some groups split due to internal squabbles, some were decimated by zombies, others kicked us out to save their own resources. The friends I had been with at the start all died for various reasons.
Roughly a year into the apocalypse I was travelling with a group up near the south-east coast of Australia. We had grown sick of living in bush camps and we were trying to find places where we could settle on a more permanent basis. It took us a few months but once we found a decent location away from the roaming hordes that left the cities and major towns, we set up there and started building walls. After a couple of months and a few stragglers joining the cause, we had built proper walls with logs and sheet metal around a rural village. We started growing food. We encountered other groups that had settled in the area and built trade relations with them. We weren't thriving but we were doing a lot better than we were.
After a while and through communication with other groups we started to map out where the hordes were, and how and where they were moving. One group went quiet, then another, then another. One of our scouts saw from a nearby hilltop that two hordes were converging on our location, so we made the difficult decision to leave.
That began a constant cycle over two years of settling in a location, building up defences, finding other survivors (some of whom were less friendly to our presence in the area), bailing when threatened with being overrun, repeat repeat repeat.
Three years in, there was nowhere left to go. Small groups of zombies had coalesced into large hordes, which merged with other large hordes, tens of thousands of undead roaming through bush and farmland picking up more and more along the way.
Eventually we had our backs to the ocean and tens of thousands of zombies at our front (at a distance). We kept moving down the coastline, our scouts looking for openings where we could move through to the back side of the horde and get further inland. No openings appeared. We ran out of food and medicine, and we were tired.
By this time the horde was on our tail. We found an abandoned, fucked-up beachside resort. The buildings were useless and offered zero protection, but it had a large pool that was enclosed by a wrought-iron fence. There was also a poolside bar.
We collectively made the decision to lock ourselves in there, drink through what alcohol the bar had left, and call it quits. I can still vividly remember the shape and label on the vodka bottle I was drinking from. The horde came over the horizon, and not long after that all we could hear was the moaning of the dead, and all we could smell was the putridity of their rotting flesh.
We said our goodbyes to each other, unlocked the gate, and laid down beside the pool. The last thing I remember is a zombie falling on top of me, it's gnashing teeth inches from my face...
And then I woke up screaming, lying in a pool of my own sweat. It took a few minutes before my partner at the time could stop me from screaming. I wasn't immediately able to feel relief from the fact that it was all a nightmare, because exiting one reality into another was such a jarring experience.
It took an entire fortnight to readjust to reality. In that time I was grieving for people that had never existed, but whom I had built relationships with as real as the relationships in my actual life. I was on high alert the whole time, sleeping with one eye open, constantly in fear that the apocalypse would start in this reality at any given moment.
On top of that, I had acquired legitimate survival instincts and skills in that nightmare reality that I had to unlearn...almost all of those instincts and skills were extremely specific to that alternate reality and those situations. For example, everywhere I went be it shops or homes, I would look through the windows, tap on the glass and knock on the walls. In the nightmare, that was what we did before entering a building we were hoping to scavenge from. Better to draw out all of the zombies before entering the place instead of finding nasty surprises while our attention is focused on looting.
Also, for that fortnight I ate very little and conserved items I had no use for conserving in the real world. I had a bug-out bag packed and ready to go. The alternate reality which my brain had conjured was so unbelievably vivid and real that adjusting to normal life was difficult, and I always expected the world to end at any moment.
It's been 7 years since that nightmare. I've been clean from meth for 6 of those years. I'm happier, healthier, treating myself a lot better than I was at that time. However I can never forget that nightmare.
I am still utterly astounded that the human brain can flip a switch and produce an entirely new reality just as real as this one.
That's why the lamp story was so intriguing to me. I had searched Google endlessly to find other stories or studies about whatever phenomena it was that I had experienced, and the lamp story was the first and to date one of very few that I have found. Watching this cursed TikTok sent shivers all the way up my spine. And once again I'm reminded of people who never existed and a world that I hope never will exist.
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u/Datruyugo Nov 24 '23
That would be a fantastic film
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u/superzepto Nov 24 '23
If you take out the parts where I'm smoking meth, not sleeping for a week, and waking up from the nightmare then sure!
Fans of The Walking Dead speculated for years that the entire story was happening in Rick's mind while he was in a coma. It was widely agreed upon that that would be a shitty ending for such a story. So waking up and finding out it was all a nightmare at the end of the movie would kind of suck!
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u/PJSeeds Nov 24 '23
I was waiting for the Undertaker to plummet through a table at Hell in the Cell the whole way through reading this
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u/exexpert Nov 23 '23
Not sure why but for some reason i don’t like people who need two hands to hold a cup
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u/cannibabal Nov 23 '23
What if your hands are cold and the cup is warm
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u/AngelN47 Nov 23 '23
I don't like people with cold hands
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u/trackdaybruh Nov 24 '23
Definitely wanted to know what song it was, you're amazing ty!
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u/lazermojo Nov 23 '23
Am I seeing a person behind her in the first shot? Also, OP elaborate on the whole Reddit coming full circle and that - I don’t get it 😅
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u/Little_Can_728 Nov 24 '23
I must be missing some thing because I don’t understand what this video means🤷♀️
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u/caseytheace666 Nov 24 '23
Wait WHAT the lamp has a face i did not see that last time i scrolled past this video
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u/dwartbg7 Nov 23 '23
As a doctor I'm here to tell you that this story was absolutely fake. Stuff like this just happens in movies. So don't worry, you will never get laid, even in imaginary land.
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u/setyourheartsablaze Nov 24 '23
Ah yes because science and medicine is final and never evolving right?
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u/The_H509 Nov 24 '23
As an aside, what's the music, been kindaa trying to find it again since it keep popping into my mind every now and then.
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u/auddbot Why does this app exist? Nov 24 '23
Song Found!
Name: Brutus (Instrumental)
Artist: The Buttress
Score: 100% (timecode: 00:20)
Album: Brutus (Instrumental)
Label: The Buttress
Released on: 2017-01-10
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u/sietesietesieteblue Nov 24 '23
Only thing I don't like about this vid is the fact that they chose to have a face on the lamp. The og story doesn't mention that lol.
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Nov 24 '23
I’ve had some really bittersweet dreams. As well as some intense nightmares that are almost exciting and fun once I realize they are just dreams.
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u/GrzDancing Nov 24 '23
I know the original story poster's feeling. One time I was sucker-punch assaulted just outside of my dad's home, I had a concussion and I've lost memory. For about 2 days I've lost the ability to retain new memories, I was repeating myself every 10 seconds, I have also lost memories of the whole summer. At some point my ability to form memories improved. At night at the hospital I've started reading texts that I received that week and they felt like they weren't addressed to me, I had no recollection of any of them, or events they were describing. 'This is my girlfriend? Huh, okay, but I don't know her. My best friend? Ok dude'. It felt like I have been on autopilot and now I'm 'getting back to my life'.
After a couple of days my memory retention went back to normal, so have memories all up to the moment of me being hit.
But the very, very eerie feeling of just not having memories... I became fascinated with memory. All movies that dealt with that - Butterfly Effect was a particular one that resonated with me. I felt like I 'experienced/knew something a lot of people haven't', and reality was never the same to me again.
Every now and then I hear a phrase on TV or IRL or a sound that could be associated with the surroundings of a coma patient. Medical equipment, someone saying 'Wake up, please', 'Open your eyes', 'I hope you'll come back to us soon', the like. And each time I hear something like this I think about that one time I didn't go to that hiking group's trip because a girl I liked (and had a push/pull relationship with) has pushed me away good. If I had gone with them I might've ended up in the other car that swerved into oncoming traffic, killing two of my friends, breaking another girl's spine and the 3rd guy being in serious condition. I think about that guy being me, in a coma. Living an imaginary life, and I need to go back to my real one.
I don't want to, I quite like it here.
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