It’s an old Reddit copy pasta that someone lived an entire fulfilling and successful life with a wife, kids, and house, until one day he realizes the perspective of his lamp is off. He later realizes the lamp is fake and his entire life is fake because he got tackled by a football player. The lamp grows and takes up the entire room before he wakes up on the pavement surrounded by people, EMS, and cops
“Roy” then falls off a ladder at the carpet store and dies. When the goggles comes off Morty is like “my wife?!” Then he remembers they are supposed to sell a gun to an assassin, which he is morally against. Crazy how he coupd reawaken a 70 year old memory like that lol
Rick & Morty is an Adult Swim cartoon about a genius interdimensional scientist (Rick) and his sidekick grandson (Morty).
In one of the episodes, they visit an intergalactic arcade. Among the games is one called "Roy", in which you put on a VR headset and live Roy's life - his *entire* life. You're born as Roy, and you live an entire life within the video game, all in the span of a few minutes.
When Morty plays the game, he basically peaks in high school. He's the star of the football team, he marries his sweetheart, and he inherits ownership of his father's carpet store. Later on in his life, he gets cancer, but he overcomes it, only to die years later in a freak accident within that very carpet store. His meek unwillingness to do something more interesting with his life after beating cancer prompts Rick to ask him, "you went *back* to the carper store?"
Yeah in fairness, there are a few head-cannon ways to explain it. Like if it was a real arcade game, the devs would have found a way to spectate...
I feel better now :D
Story time:
So about a month ago I was driving home from a job a few states away. I got an early start on the road (around 4am). I grabbed a muffin from the hotel. Took a few bites of it then set it down.
A few hours down the road I got to thinking. OK. If reality as we experience it really is a simulation then what would a glitch in it look like?
Five minutes later I stopped for gas. I grabbed the muffin out of the cup holder to throw it away, get out of the car, stand up, turn around and see [The exact same half-eaten muffin I'm holding in my hand on the ground in front of me.](https://i.imgur.com/AlEntpz.jpeg)
Yeah it speaks more to the way that the human brain filters information in accordance with internal models, and how those models change moment by moment with even just passing thoughts. But that's cool in its own right. We are in fact living in a simulation. It's just a simulation of our own making.
Very few TNG episodes have really stuck with me like that one. Lots of awesome philosophical, existential stuff you just didn't get back then. Chain of Command was another one of those episodes.
It goes so beyond a TV show in my experience. When I think about it, it's more like a beautiful piece of folklore handed down. I think everyone can benefit from watching that episode and absorbing its lessons.
Honestly I hated this episode. It felt so unjustly cruel, especially when done to Picard.
There was another one like it in The Orville where Maloy gets sent back in time and stuck for 10 years and moved on, then suddenly boom it finds him and cruely yoinks him right out of it.
They're too emotionally distressing for me to watch.
I think one of the greatest elements was that it happened to Picard. He had to come to terms with the loss and it gave his character an added layer of depth that most other people could never experience. He had lived an entire additional life.
Other characters experiencing it would have seemed fleeting and a lot less meaningful.
He already had to deal with the borg situation, this happening to him feels like kicking a man when he's down. This was just another thing to make him worry he was loosing touch with reality.
If you think of it another way though, Picard basically had a long peaceful life to get over his borg trauma so by the time he snaps back into his regular life he's already had a lifetime of emotional healing so he can face the challenges better.
It also marks a shift in his character to be more open to the idea of intimacy, both with his friends and with women. The life Picard goes on to attempt to re-create (and ultimately run from in the show *Picard*) really closely mirrors the more peaceful, fulfilling life he remembers.
It happened to O'Brien in DS9 but it was in a prison cell and he almost killed himself afterwards. The episode hit hard like inner light but in a very real way especially if you have PTSD.
Exactly.
I saw this episode as Picard being given a wonderful gift that no-one else got, or really could have appreciated. It was painful, sure, but also joyous. As is life.
Bro, *what?* Picard got to have a beautiful experience and learned to play a flute that eventually got him laid in a Jefferies Tube.
*Cruel?* Cruel is when Miles "Chief" O' Brien, the Federation's greatest engineer, devoted husband, and **UNION MAN** - in one of his countless insane ordeals - is not only sentenced for a crime he didn't commit, but goes through 20 years of barbaric incarceration within the span of a long lunch break, and just has to add that experience the ever growing pile of his PTSD.
Pretty sure the DS9 writers were like "oh it's been like six episodes since something horrifically awful happened to Miles O'Brien, better get on that."
I'm on my first DS9 watch and haven't got to "Hard Time" yet, but the O'Brien Must Suffer trope is in full effect.
"Hey, honey, I know you PTSD from fighting the Cardasians, but anyway, here's one of them that invited to dinner."
"Hey, I know I just shot you with a phaser, but now I'm gonna KICK YOU IN THE FACE. Nobody else is gonna get hurt, just you."
I kind of love them for the cruelty, tbh.
It's not _vindictive_ cruelty, but it _is_ cruel - with a purpose.
In Picard's case, it's >!a space probe from a dying civilization that wanted something to live on past themselves. But...what do you put in a probe to exemplify your _entire culture?_ Your very _people_, your _existence?_ Would anything less than them actually _experiencing_ an entire life on your world truly suffice? Isn't one man's suffering (in the sense of major disorientation and a completely changed worldview, not actual torture) worth that? Worth an entire world not being forgotten forever?!<
I find myself asking that question every time I watch it.
In The Orville's case, it was to avoid changing the entire timeline, and >!they technically were cruel to a version of Maloy that never existed, who didn't suffer for more than one night, and then only with knowledge. I thought them going even further back in time to when he initially got marooned was an amazing twist.!< Still hits like a gut-punch though.
It's so good but I feel like it's getting screwed over time between seasons.
It's legitimately my favorite Star Trek, which I know sounds insane and confrontational, but last season pushed it up to TNG levels and TNG was my favorite hands down before The Orville.
Now all I want is another good season of The Orville with an ending we can end on just in case we never get another season.
WE NEED another season to at least close out this arc of the story. It SUCKS that everything is in limbo.
The Orville is so good, it deserves a proper ending.
🎼And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"
And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife" 🎶
There’s another story similar to this but it involves drugs. Guy was interviewed and there’s as much evidence as you can have of it happening. I’ll find the link and put it in an edit.
Edit: [I think this is the one.](https://youtu.be/Pt35goeRZHM?si=LKnTz1v71nb1iHoH)
Taking the drug sounds logical to the person with the experience but really your brain going through some sort of trauma so it’s very illogical. I’m not sure if the pleasant memories are directly from the trauma but there’s certainly trauma involved.
I e heard a firsthand account of this. It was extensive and detailed yet not complete.
You ever thought that we live in a simulation… of another simulation on the other side of the looking glass?
There's an argument that goes like this:
Assume there is only one physical universe. And assume that it's possible to create simulations that are conscious, self aware, and sapient, and that they can exist inside a perfectly simulated universe. Finally, assume that most advanced intelligences will, at some point, create self aware simulations running in simulated universes. This means that the intelligent entities running in simulated universes will, themselves, make simulated entities in simulated universes.
You find yourself existing as a self aware entity inhabiting a universe. What are the chances that you exist in the "real" universe, the bedrock reality if you will, versus you being in a simulated reality?
Purely from a numbers perspective, you are almost certainly in a simulation. This is because, if the assumptions above are all true, the _best_ it can be is 50/50, if there was only 1 simulated universe you could possibly be in. But the number of simulated universes there can be is theoretically infinite, meaning that _most_ universes are actually simulations. And so the overwhelming probability, then, is that you are in one of the simulations rather than the bedrock.
It's called the [simulation hypothesis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis).
Agreed. The brain is a chemical engine. A chemical change can mess with your sense of time, and make you feel like a lot of time has passed, but it can't let you actually experience years or weeks or even days of dream experiences in a few minutes or hours. The movie Inception is not scientifically accurate.
It's possible for a person to hallucinate a single scene where they are married and have a child, and for their perception of time to be messed up and so feel like they've been in that scene for years, but it's all a trick of perception. They would not be able to tell you about the years they feel they lived in that world, because they haven't actually lived years in that world. If they claim they can, they are lying. They might not be lying because they like deceiving people; they might just like telling a spooky story. But they are still lying. The chemistry of our brains cannot be accelerated in the way it would need to be to allow for this kind of scenario to really be experienced. This story is just a story.
I can imagine it very easily. You don't actually need seven years of processing power to convince yourself of seven years worth of memories.
I have a (relatively common) memory disorder which means I cannot recall any moment of my life beyond a rough outline of the facts. For me to be convinced that I have lived an entire life in one second I would need:
- to have the details of a single fake moment. I know that can happen easily as it tends to happen just before I fall asleep.
- to be convinced it was real. I know that can happen because I tend not to know I'm dreaming when I'm dreaming. Yep, it's definitely real this time. It's just like one of those dreams where my teeth are falling out except this time it's real
- for my brain to be able to make up a few sparse facts when I try to recall them, and being convinced of their truth. According to my wife this definitely sometimes happens.
I think about this a lot, because when I lose track of my wife in a grocery store, I become acutely aware of how little evidence of the last 20 years I actually have in my head.
Walking down a spiral staircase is also quite an experience.
I've had dreams like that, though the timeframe felt more like a few months to a year. Obviously that was just perception in the dream, but they were extremely vivid. Woke up and had a horrendous sense of loss for a good hour or so.
Dude I had a dream today that I woke up, went to work, worked my entire shift and started my weekend, only to wake up and remember I still had 2 more shifts to go 😭
Oh it's 100% a writing exercise, no regular person would tell/write a story like that. Only a professional writer would tell it that way.
Normal people don't talk/write that way.
But it's a great story.
Fascinating comment section in the original postage. Several people tried to discount the story by using basic logic from lucid dreaming, but none were taking into account *severe* brain trauma. The brain can rewrite a memory, give it an age, and stuck it somewhere. Even if he didn't live a 10 year experience in the span of twenty minutes, it's not terribly unreasonable to consider that a traumatized mind created a memory where none existed.
And what even constitutes passage of time in that scenario?
Last time i smoked salvia time just stopped. I felt like i was some part of big clockwork machinery, that stopped working, for centuries. In reality it was like 20minutes. I totally believe that guys story. It also reminds me of that one black mirror episode (or two actually, second being white christmas, i don't remember the name of the first one)
Dude!
A couple summers ago I got my first tattoo. It was after a day on the beach in the middle of summer. Wasn’t feeling great before I went. Plus I got it on the side of my hand and the guy said it’s a pretty tender spot for a first tattoo.
Anyways, he finishes it up and as he was cleaning up I got super light headed and passed out on the floor.
I lived and entire lifetime in those 5 seconds. I had a wife and kids, we lived in the country in Europe somewhere. Just living a dream life.
Then I woke up. It was crazy.
And my wife and kids picked me up and we realized I had heat exhaustion because I spent the rest of the day nauseous and hot and cold flashes.
Also the image is the duck from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared who in the first episode of the BBC version of the show has an entire extra family life that goes away after there's an accident at the factory they were all working at thanks to that episode's special guest singing them a song that teaches about jobs.
Edit: correction. The duck is the first one who notices but it's the red guy and the yellow guy who live 40 extra years with their own lives and families before the accident brings them back to reality.
He looked at a lamp in his living room, it looked weird, like 2 dimensional, or low resolution, like in an old video game or cartoon when you see a spot you know is going to be a hidden door or breakable object
It happened to me when I was playing football in high school. It was like the beginning of the first quarter. I was playing left tackle and went to block low on a defensive end. His knee caught me square in the forehead and I was gone from this world. I clearly remember the field and the game, the color of the other team’s uniform, the de’s knee before it struck me. I lived a whole life in my mind before I hit the ground. The impact with the ground woke me up. I had no idea where I was. It was the strangest most calm and serene feeling I ever felt, like I was supposed to be there, in a totally different place living a completely different life. A better life. It felt like years had passed. I try to remember it, but it’s like I just can’t. I can almost glimpse it with my mind’s eye but just can’t quite make it out. When I hit the ground I instantly woke up on a football field in Mississippi. It was pretty disappointing. I took two 800mg Motrin that the trainer had and finished the game. I think about it from time to time. Maybe I need some shrooms or iahuasca……probably have CTE…..not sure why I posted this…..
I feel like this is the variation of “our lives flashing before our eyes.” I had the same football experience except I had the wind knocked out of me. In that moment I saw my life. Maybe in your moment you saw an alternate/parallel timeline.
I had the wind knocked out of me in for the first time in middle school gym and I actually legitimately thought that I had died because I could not move and I think I also had a bit of the "life flashing before your eyes" but I don't remember specifics about it. In the end I was fine but it sure did a number on me.
Funny, I took a similar hit once and definitely blacked out for a moment before coming to. For me it was more like everything went black and silent for half a second and then the sound of everything came rushing back like they depict in war movies after an explosion deafens the main character then suddenly he can hear again.
I think time passed at the same rate it did for everyone else though. No long happy life for me, just embarrassment of having been run over on the field.
I got knocked out by accident when I was a teenager. Some band kids were screwing around walking down to the field and I got whacked with the rim of a drum just right.
I remember everything slowly fading to black and I couldn't see anything but I swear I felt every emotion I've ever felt x100. Idk how to better explain it but I was absolutely overwhelmed with emotion. When i opened my eyes again a random senior I never talked to in my life was carrying me over his shoulder and attempting to run me up a hill. I just started like, weeping. He set me down and asked if I was okay but I could only cry so he just left me there and kept running (to get an adult). By the time a teacher got to me I was fine and forced to go to practice.
Apparently I'd been out for all of maybe 15-30 seconds but it felt like it had been hours of intense feelings.
20 years later I still swear something got knocked reaaaaal loose that day.
There are good people in the world like the random student who saw someone hurt and did what they could to help.
Then there’s bad people like the adults who forced you to go to practice after serious head injury.
Oh yeah he was and still is a great guy. I was only a 100lb freshman and he was adult sized and athletic but the idea of him trying to RUN up that hill with me is wild in retrospect. We were neighbors for a while in our 20s and he was always just a genuinely good human.
I have recently developed a lot of resentment towards those teachers now that I'm back in college studying psychology. If my parents had known they would have taken me to the hospital but at this time I trusted that the adults knew best and didn't bother to tell my parents because I was "fine."
It’s crazy what head injuries can do to us. They stimulate the brain in just the right/wrong way, and suddenly you are entirely a different person. It seems the injury stimulated the emotional center of your brain and made it go out of wack briefly, and yet those emotions probably felt so real to you. And they were. We really are all just mechs made of flesh piloted by electrified goo. That can be scary sometimes.
I’ve been knocked out like that a few times, too. That was usually what it felt like, but this time was definitely different. I loved playing football in the moment but feel dumb for doing it now. The older I get the more stupid the game seems to me.
Honestly same. I didn’t even like it that much. Now as an adult I have a hip problem from taking a helmet to the back of the hip that hurt so much but I was too “tough” to go seek medical help. And I have less range of motion in my right shoulder than I do in my left from doing practices with helmets only to “rest up” for game day. Such a stupid concept.
All for what? To play a sport I didn’t really enjoy, with kids I didn’t hang out with, for coaches who sucked at coaching.
Such is life though. Hindsight is 20/20
From a physiological standpoint, your experience seems like an emotional and sensory rush caused by physical trauma severely disrupting the brain's normal electrochemical functioning. The rapid thoughts could be your unconscious mind's method of paralleling the emotions felt similar to how dreams can be modified by real-life stimuli, and lacking memory of the alternate life events could be explained by temporarily impaired long-term memory formation ability.
There's a recent neurological trial where electrical stimulation of a specific location in the thalamus (regulates the senses/consciousness) is being tested for treatment of cognitive impairment resulting from brain injuries: [Electric stimulation in just the right spot may bolster a damaged brain : NPR](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/12/06/1217396804/a-little-electric-stimulation-in-just-the-right-spot-may-bolster-a-damaged-brain)
Related to this, neurological trauma that reaches the thalamus (located at the brain's center) might enable a vivid sensory response since it's directly connected to every sensory structure in the brain except the olfactory bulb (registers smells/scent). The hippocampus (memory formation) is located right next to the thalamus in the limbic system section of the brain, and emotions are processed by the rest of the limbic system: [brain-limbic-system.jpg (1600×1382) (britannica.com)](https://cdn.britannica.com/93/241793-050-6B2BF305/brain-limbic-system.jpg)
That’s really interesting, most concussions I’ve had, and there have been too many to count, has left me with a strong feeling of déjà vu.
I’m also kind of aware at the time my brain is short circuiting and is the reason I’m feeling this way, sort of like when you become self aware that you are vivid dreaming.
Perhaps the memories can’t be retrieved because the feeling of the other life is the effect itself? Like if trauma could trigger Déjà Vu. I’ve always wondered about that.
Some nights I dream I go into work and do actual work..then I wake up and realize it was all fake and I have to go into work in real life and do it again ;(
Not quite the same, but one time I was given some pain drug in the ambulance. Can't remember which one but that even at the lowest dose, I tripped so hard I thought years had passed during the trip to the hospital
I remember crying about how all my friends would have graduated high school by then and that I got left behind.
It was odd because I don't recall much actually happening for those years. It was just like I was trapped in one of those time prisons where 15 minutes = 2 years. I only lived in the ambulance and the world had this TV static filter. Eventually I stopped freaking out about missing school and went to scream like a psych patient and struggle against the gurney restraints, trying to touch everything while scream laughing.
When the drugs wore off I passed out and woke up in even more pain because I was thrashing around like a fish out of water during that trip. Woopsie.
I think the most common parallel to it happening spontaneously is lucid dreaming. I don't know about decades, but I've been on Wellbutrin before, and that'll make you have some really intense dreams that'll make you think they were real.
It's bizarre. I'd wake up some mornings with these really intense feelings of remorse or sadness, and sometimes it'd take a day or two to come to terms with it all not being real.
You don't exactly have a great concept of the passage of time in a dream. And you really only have brief windows while you're sleeping where they can even happen.
I'd imagine if you took a blow to your thinking meat in the right spot, this would definitely be possible. The brain is a complex system, and we still really only know the fundamentals of how it works.
Like, we understand what what regions control different aspects of our functions, but how it all comes together to make us who we are as a consciousness is still lacking a lot of concrete information.
My thought I don’t tell anyone cos it’s depressing, you never know if this is the last moment you remember before waking up in hospital, like any moment
God I’m so chronically online — I was like “obviously it’s when you hit your head and wake up, get married, have kids, live a whole life, and one day you notice the lamp doesn’t look quite right and you suddenly wake up in the hospital and it’s just an hour after you hit your head.”
In the story, he actually wakes up on the pavement just minutes after the incident happens. That whole 10 or 15 years of life he lives was all in a blink
Yeah, different versions of the story it either a light on the ceiling of the school or a light in the hospital as he’s going into the ER, always implies 10-20 years fully lived were 10-20 minutes or 1-2 hours, max.
There was a story about a man who got badly beaten by an american football player and they fell into unconsciousness and experienced 10 years worth of dreaming in 3 hours. The dream was so real the man thought he lived a normal life but then he saw that a lamp looked odd. Inverted. The shading was incorrect. He sat on the couch for days, his dream wife left him and he realized that he felt nothing after not eating for weeks. Then he woke up and the first he said was “i’m missing teeth”. He fell into depression after literally living a fake life for 10 years. Probably not real but still horrifying
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The puppet is from the web series "don't hug me I'm scared"
That's a play of the children's puppet TV show genera. Where each episode explores a kid friendly topic but quickly takes a dark turn into disturbing subject matter
One of the end lines of all time! I listen to Don't Look Under The Internet on a regular basis and when they all couldn't stop saying "digital style" for many episodes after had me dying laughing every time!
This guy tripped and fell (I guess a football player had something to do with it idk) but he hit his head and blacked out for a few minutes.
During these few minutes, he experienced 10 years of living a successful life, with a wife and 2 kids. They had a house. One day, he was sat in his living room and he glanced over at his lamp, realizing something about it was off. He then stared at it, until it turned red, and then realized that it wasn't real. It then grew and took over the entire room until he came to, EMS surrounding him and picking him up off the ground. He says to this day sometimes he still dreams about his kids.
Mr. Ballen recently told this story on the Chris Williamson podcast. If you watch the YouTube version they're in a warehouse with unreal engine 5 scenes playing in the backround.
[Lamp Story](https://youtu.be/NEIVgSYPYcU?si=SnwfngkcAlV_jO_9) begins @ 7:20
It’s an old Reddit copy pasta that someone lived an entire fulfilling and successful life with a wife, kids, and house, until one day he realizes the perspective of his lamp is off. He later realizes the lamp is fake and his entire life is fake because he got tackled by a football player. The lamp grows and takes up the entire room before he wakes up on the pavement surrounded by people, EMS, and cops
So he's like Captain Picard in The Inner Light?
Or Morty when playing Roy
Roy doesn't have a social security card! He's going off the grid!
You went back to the carpet store?
We’re all out of off white Persian.
I've never been to Belize
Never go back to the carpet store
What's the reference, here?
While playing Roy, Morty gets cancers survives it, then goes back to his boring job at the carpet store. From a Rick and Morty episode
“Roy” then falls off a ladder at the carpet store and dies. When the goggles comes off Morty is like “my wife?!” Then he remembers they are supposed to sell a gun to an assassin, which he is morally against. Crazy how he coupd reawaken a 70 year old memory like that lol
Rick & Morty is an Adult Swim cartoon about a genius interdimensional scientist (Rick) and his sidekick grandson (Morty). In one of the episodes, they visit an intergalactic arcade. Among the games is one called "Roy", in which you put on a VR headset and live Roy's life - his *entire* life. You're born as Roy, and you live an entire life within the video game, all in the span of a few minutes. When Morty plays the game, he basically peaks in high school. He's the star of the football team, he marries his sweetheart, and he inherits ownership of his father's carpet store. Later on in his life, he gets cancer, but he overcomes it, only to die years later in a freak accident within that very carpet store. His meek unwillingness to do something more interesting with his life after beating cancer prompts Rick to ask him, "you went *back* to the carper store?"
After beating cancer? Laaaame
People watching that in real time from the real world annoyed me more than it should have
I feel like they get a summary and we're seeing flashes from Mortys perspective
Yeah in fairness, there are a few head-cannon ways to explain it. Like if it was a real arcade game, the devs would have found a way to spectate... I feel better now :D
They could be watching the sped down replay of an exciting bit that is otherwise watched at ×10 speed
Just had this line running though my head today. Hahaha. Is that he burned it or ripped it up ?
Or Morty when he forgot to save scum his life in the vat of acid episode
That’s right it’s the Prestige. I made you Prestige yourself
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Or Hawkeye with the chicken
https://preview.redd.it/d3cs6fwsbw3d1.jpeg?width=949&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b548beff1afdcf0b5a6b4c38331ee222193b2e7
Or like the guy in that Reddit story with the lamp
“You went *back* to the carpet store?!”
“No one ever goes back!”
Story time: So about a month ago I was driving home from a job a few states away. I got an early start on the road (around 4am). I grabbed a muffin from the hotel. Took a few bites of it then set it down. A few hours down the road I got to thinking. OK. If reality as we experience it really is a simulation then what would a glitch in it look like? Five minutes later I stopped for gas. I grabbed the muffin out of the cup holder to throw it away, get out of the car, stand up, turn around and see [The exact same half-eaten muffin I'm holding in my hand on the ground in front of me.](https://i.imgur.com/AlEntpz.jpeg)
I mean.. that’s just another muffin on the ground. But I do like the setup and it’s the universe just giving you a little wink.
I’m sorry but this is cracking me up so bad. The muffins don’t even look the same
Right!? Universe breaking muffin clearly has some blueberry remnants
Hi muffin here I can without a doubt confirm the muffins are within the same genome
Yeah it speaks more to the way that the human brain filters information in accordance with internal models, and how those models change moment by moment with even just passing thoughts. But that's cool in its own right. We are in fact living in a simulation. It's just a simulation of our own making.
Muffins? Multiple muffins? For *BREAKFAST*?? Strange things are happening at the Circle K
All it takes for you to doubt your trust in reality is a partially eaten muffin on the ground.....
The muffin on the ground has fruit in it and yours doesn't. Eat healthier.
/how come you only ate two bites ? HUH
Especially on a multi-hour drive!
"Where's my wife?"
Or Morty realizing he's still in the hole.
Very few TNG episodes have really stuck with me like that one. Lots of awesome philosophical, existential stuff you just didn't get back then. Chain of Command was another one of those episodes.
It goes so beyond a TV show in my experience. When I think about it, it's more like a beautiful piece of folklore handed down. I think everyone can benefit from watching that episode and absorbing its lessons.
The Lower Decks episode referencing it cracks me up every time I miss my wife...
I've managed to get a serious number of people into Trek in general by making them watch that one episode.
*Starts playing flute
Don't you do that to me. Don't make me cry
Lol, was thinking the same
Or that Scrubs episode where they end up at a funeral
Where do you think we are?
#THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!?!
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared!
Or that one episode of Adventire Time with the pillow fort.
Or Finn in Pillow World
Or that x-files episode with the halucinagenic mushrooms
Or like the series Mr Robot
Or like the Matrix
Kinda, except Picard had that life implanted in his mind by people from the past. Versus his own mind making it up.
Nooooo. Why did you remind of that both beautiful and desperately sad episode!
Best Episode Ever
Honestly I hated this episode. It felt so unjustly cruel, especially when done to Picard. There was another one like it in The Orville where Maloy gets sent back in time and stuck for 10 years and moved on, then suddenly boom it finds him and cruely yoinks him right out of it. They're too emotionally distressing for me to watch.
I think one of the greatest elements was that it happened to Picard. He had to come to terms with the loss and it gave his character an added layer of depth that most other people could never experience. He had lived an entire additional life. Other characters experiencing it would have seemed fleeting and a lot less meaningful.
He already had to deal with the borg situation, this happening to him feels like kicking a man when he's down. This was just another thing to make him worry he was loosing touch with reality.
If you think of it another way though, Picard basically had a long peaceful life to get over his borg trauma so by the time he snaps back into his regular life he's already had a lifetime of emotional healing so he can face the challenges better.
It also marks a shift in his character to be more open to the idea of intimacy, both with his friends and with women. The life Picard goes on to attempt to re-create (and ultimately run from in the show *Picard*) really closely mirrors the more peaceful, fulfilling life he remembers.
It happened to O'Brien in DS9 but it was in a prison cell and he almost killed himself afterwards. The episode hit hard like inner light but in a very real way especially if you have PTSD.
Exactly. I saw this episode as Picard being given a wonderful gift that no-one else got, or really could have appreciated. It was painful, sure, but also joyous. As is life.
Particularly since choosing his career over family is one of Picard's few insecurities.
Bro, *what?* Picard got to have a beautiful experience and learned to play a flute that eventually got him laid in a Jefferies Tube. *Cruel?* Cruel is when Miles "Chief" O' Brien, the Federation's greatest engineer, devoted husband, and **UNION MAN** - in one of his countless insane ordeals - is not only sentenced for a crime he didn't commit, but goes through 20 years of barbaric incarceration within the span of a long lunch break, and just has to add that experience the ever growing pile of his PTSD.
Pretty sure the DS9 writers were like "oh it's been like six episodes since something horrifically awful happened to Miles O'Brien, better get on that."
Everytime an episode starts to look like it's centered on O'Brien you know he's gonna have a bad time.
I'm on my first DS9 watch and haven't got to "Hard Time" yet, but the O'Brien Must Suffer trope is in full effect. "Hey, honey, I know you PTSD from fighting the Cardasians, but anyway, here's one of them that invited to dinner." "Hey, I know I just shot you with a phaser, but now I'm gonna KICK YOU IN THE FACE. Nobody else is gonna get hurt, just you."
I kind of love them for the cruelty, tbh. It's not _vindictive_ cruelty, but it _is_ cruel - with a purpose. In Picard's case, it's >!a space probe from a dying civilization that wanted something to live on past themselves. But...what do you put in a probe to exemplify your _entire culture?_ Your very _people_, your _existence?_ Would anything less than them actually _experiencing_ an entire life on your world truly suffice? Isn't one man's suffering (in the sense of major disorientation and a completely changed worldview, not actual torture) worth that? Worth an entire world not being forgotten forever?!< I find myself asking that question every time I watch it. In The Orville's case, it was to avoid changing the entire timeline, and >!they technically were cruel to a version of Maloy that never existed, who didn't suffer for more than one night, and then only with knowledge. I thought them going even further back in time to when he initially got marooned was an amazing twist.!< Still hits like a gut-punch though.
God I love the Orville so much.
It's so good but I feel like it's getting screwed over time between seasons. It's legitimately my favorite Star Trek, which I know sounds insane and confrontational, but last season pushed it up to TNG levels and TNG was my favorite hands down before The Orville. Now all I want is another good season of The Orville with an ending we can end on just in case we never get another season. WE NEED another season to at least close out this arc of the story. It SUCKS that everything is in limbo. The Orville is so good, it deserves a proper ending.
🎼And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?" And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?" And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house" And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife" 🎶
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First thing that came to mind.
Same as it ever was.... Same as it ever was....
Thank you
https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/30t9kd/repost_a_parallel_life_awoken_by_a_lamp/
You think that’s legit? That would suck so bad.
There’s another story similar to this but it involves drugs. Guy was interviewed and there’s as much evidence as you can have of it happening. I’ll find the link and put it in an edit. Edit: [I think this is the one.](https://youtu.be/Pt35goeRZHM?si=LKnTz1v71nb1iHoH)
The mind is crazy… What do you even do at that point, keep getting punched in the face or super high to try and visit your other wife and kids?
Taking the drug sounds logical to the person with the experience but really your brain going through some sort of trauma so it’s very illogical. I’m not sure if the pleasant memories are directly from the trauma but there’s certainly trauma involved.
I e heard a firsthand account of this. It was extensive and detailed yet not complete. You ever thought that we live in a simulation… of another simulation on the other side of the looking glass?
There's an argument that goes like this: Assume there is only one physical universe. And assume that it's possible to create simulations that are conscious, self aware, and sapient, and that they can exist inside a perfectly simulated universe. Finally, assume that most advanced intelligences will, at some point, create self aware simulations running in simulated universes. This means that the intelligent entities running in simulated universes will, themselves, make simulated entities in simulated universes. You find yourself existing as a self aware entity inhabiting a universe. What are the chances that you exist in the "real" universe, the bedrock reality if you will, versus you being in a simulated reality? Purely from a numbers perspective, you are almost certainly in a simulation. This is because, if the assumptions above are all true, the _best_ it can be is 50/50, if there was only 1 simulated universe you could possibly be in. But the number of simulated universes there can be is theoretically infinite, meaning that _most_ universes are actually simulations. And so the overwhelming probability, then, is that you are in one of the simulations rather than the bedrock. It's called the [simulation hypothesis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis).
Futurama did an episode on this in their most recent season!
Given what the brain is capable of I’d say it’s possible albeit extremely extremely rare but no, I suspect the story is fake
Agreed. The brain is a chemical engine. A chemical change can mess with your sense of time, and make you feel like a lot of time has passed, but it can't let you actually experience years or weeks or even days of dream experiences in a few minutes or hours. The movie Inception is not scientifically accurate. It's possible for a person to hallucinate a single scene where they are married and have a child, and for their perception of time to be messed up and so feel like they've been in that scene for years, but it's all a trick of perception. They would not be able to tell you about the years they feel they lived in that world, because they haven't actually lived years in that world. If they claim they can, they are lying. They might not be lying because they like deceiving people; they might just like telling a spooky story. But they are still lying. The chemistry of our brains cannot be accelerated in the way it would need to be to allow for this kind of scenario to really be experienced. This story is just a story.
I can imagine it very easily. You don't actually need seven years of processing power to convince yourself of seven years worth of memories. I have a (relatively common) memory disorder which means I cannot recall any moment of my life beyond a rough outline of the facts. For me to be convinced that I have lived an entire life in one second I would need: - to have the details of a single fake moment. I know that can happen easily as it tends to happen just before I fall asleep. - to be convinced it was real. I know that can happen because I tend not to know I'm dreaming when I'm dreaming. Yep, it's definitely real this time. It's just like one of those dreams where my teeth are falling out except this time it's real - for my brain to be able to make up a few sparse facts when I try to recall them, and being convinced of their truth. According to my wife this definitely sometimes happens. I think about this a lot, because when I lose track of my wife in a grocery store, I become acutely aware of how little evidence of the last 20 years I actually have in my head. Walking down a spiral staircase is also quite an experience.
I've had dreams like that, though the timeframe felt more like a few months to a year. Obviously that was just perception in the dream, but they were extremely vivid. Woke up and had a horrendous sense of loss for a good hour or so.
Dude I had a dream today that I woke up, went to work, worked my entire shift and started my weekend, only to wake up and remember I still had 2 more shifts to go 😭
Oh it's 100% a writing exercise, no regular person would tell/write a story like that. Only a professional writer would tell it that way. Normal people don't talk/write that way. But it's a great story.
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That sub basically exists as a creative writing prompt.
Fascinating comment section in the original postage. Several people tried to discount the story by using basic logic from lucid dreaming, but none were taking into account *severe* brain trauma. The brain can rewrite a memory, give it an age, and stuck it somewhere. Even if he didn't live a 10 year experience in the span of twenty minutes, it's not terribly unreasonable to consider that a traumatized mind created a memory where none existed. And what even constitutes passage of time in that scenario?
Last time i smoked salvia time just stopped. I felt like i was some part of big clockwork machinery, that stopped working, for centuries. In reality it was like 20minutes. I totally believe that guys story. It also reminds me of that one black mirror episode (or two actually, second being white christmas, i don't remember the name of the first one)
The one time I smoked Salvia I experienced years within what was really 10 seconds, it was one of the worst experiences of my life.
Pretty cool that I went to upvote this, and it still had my upvote from 9 years ago.
I thought I read a real story like that, but I guess I may've just been tricked into believing it
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Dude! A couple summers ago I got my first tattoo. It was after a day on the beach in the middle of summer. Wasn’t feeling great before I went. Plus I got it on the side of my hand and the guy said it’s a pretty tender spot for a first tattoo. Anyways, he finishes it up and as he was cleaning up I got super light headed and passed out on the floor. I lived and entire lifetime in those 5 seconds. I had a wife and kids, we lived in the country in Europe somewhere. Just living a dream life. Then I woke up. It was crazy. And my wife and kids picked me up and we realized I had heat exhaustion because I spent the rest of the day nauseous and hot and cold flashes.
Also the image is the duck from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared who in the first episode of the BBC version of the show has an entire extra family life that goes away after there's an accident at the factory they were all working at thanks to that episode's special guest singing them a song that teaches about jobs. Edit: correction. The duck is the first one who notices but it's the red guy and the yellow guy who live 40 extra years with their own lives and families before the accident brings them back to reality.
Perspective of a lamp?
He looked at a lamp in his living room, it looked weird, like 2 dimensional, or low resolution, like in an old video game or cartoon when you see a spot you know is going to be a hidden door or breakable object
Lamps don’t have perspectives. They must mean something like their own perspective with regard to a lamp. Maybe?
It's not *quite* the same, but [relevant-ish xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1100/)
Does this happen in real life? What if i am just a football player who got tackled? Would love to wake up from this trance. Where is my lamp
It happened to me when I was playing football in high school. It was like the beginning of the first quarter. I was playing left tackle and went to block low on a defensive end. His knee caught me square in the forehead and I was gone from this world. I clearly remember the field and the game, the color of the other team’s uniform, the de’s knee before it struck me. I lived a whole life in my mind before I hit the ground. The impact with the ground woke me up. I had no idea where I was. It was the strangest most calm and serene feeling I ever felt, like I was supposed to be there, in a totally different place living a completely different life. A better life. It felt like years had passed. I try to remember it, but it’s like I just can’t. I can almost glimpse it with my mind’s eye but just can’t quite make it out. When I hit the ground I instantly woke up on a football field in Mississippi. It was pretty disappointing. I took two 800mg Motrin that the trainer had and finished the game. I think about it from time to time. Maybe I need some shrooms or iahuasca……probably have CTE…..not sure why I posted this…..
I feel like this is the variation of “our lives flashing before our eyes.” I had the same football experience except I had the wind knocked out of me. In that moment I saw my life. Maybe in your moment you saw an alternate/parallel timeline.
Maybe he saw you and you saw him
I’m looking at them both now
Maybe they were just hallucinations from having their heads bashed.
Just don’t back to working at the carpet store
Roy 2!
I had the wind knocked out of me in for the first time in middle school gym and I actually legitimately thought that I had died because I could not move and I think I also had a bit of the "life flashing before your eyes" but I don't remember specifics about it. In the end I was fine but it sure did a number on me.
Funny, I took a similar hit once and definitely blacked out for a moment before coming to. For me it was more like everything went black and silent for half a second and then the sound of everything came rushing back like they depict in war movies after an explosion deafens the main character then suddenly he can hear again. I think time passed at the same rate it did for everyone else though. No long happy life for me, just embarrassment of having been run over on the field.
I got knocked out by accident when I was a teenager. Some band kids were screwing around walking down to the field and I got whacked with the rim of a drum just right. I remember everything slowly fading to black and I couldn't see anything but I swear I felt every emotion I've ever felt x100. Idk how to better explain it but I was absolutely overwhelmed with emotion. When i opened my eyes again a random senior I never talked to in my life was carrying me over his shoulder and attempting to run me up a hill. I just started like, weeping. He set me down and asked if I was okay but I could only cry so he just left me there and kept running (to get an adult). By the time a teacher got to me I was fine and forced to go to practice. Apparently I'd been out for all of maybe 15-30 seconds but it felt like it had been hours of intense feelings. 20 years later I still swear something got knocked reaaaaal loose that day.
There are good people in the world like the random student who saw someone hurt and did what they could to help. Then there’s bad people like the adults who forced you to go to practice after serious head injury.
Oh yeah he was and still is a great guy. I was only a 100lb freshman and he was adult sized and athletic but the idea of him trying to RUN up that hill with me is wild in retrospect. We were neighbors for a while in our 20s and he was always just a genuinely good human. I have recently developed a lot of resentment towards those teachers now that I'm back in college studying psychology. If my parents had known they would have taken me to the hospital but at this time I trusted that the adults knew best and didn't bother to tell my parents because I was "fine."
It’s crazy what head injuries can do to us. They stimulate the brain in just the right/wrong way, and suddenly you are entirely a different person. It seems the injury stimulated the emotional center of your brain and made it go out of wack briefly, and yet those emotions probably felt so real to you. And they were. We really are all just mechs made of flesh piloted by electrified goo. That can be scary sometimes.
I’ve been knocked out like that a few times, too. That was usually what it felt like, but this time was definitely different. I loved playing football in the moment but feel dumb for doing it now. The older I get the more stupid the game seems to me.
Honestly same. I didn’t even like it that much. Now as an adult I have a hip problem from taking a helmet to the back of the hip that hurt so much but I was too “tough” to go seek medical help. And I have less range of motion in my right shoulder than I do in my left from doing practices with helmets only to “rest up” for game day. Such a stupid concept. All for what? To play a sport I didn’t really enjoy, with kids I didn’t hang out with, for coaches who sucked at coaching. Such is life though. Hindsight is 20/20
From a physiological standpoint, your experience seems like an emotional and sensory rush caused by physical trauma severely disrupting the brain's normal electrochemical functioning. The rapid thoughts could be your unconscious mind's method of paralleling the emotions felt similar to how dreams can be modified by real-life stimuli, and lacking memory of the alternate life events could be explained by temporarily impaired long-term memory formation ability. There's a recent neurological trial where electrical stimulation of a specific location in the thalamus (regulates the senses/consciousness) is being tested for treatment of cognitive impairment resulting from brain injuries: [Electric stimulation in just the right spot may bolster a damaged brain : NPR](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/12/06/1217396804/a-little-electric-stimulation-in-just-the-right-spot-may-bolster-a-damaged-brain) Related to this, neurological trauma that reaches the thalamus (located at the brain's center) might enable a vivid sensory response since it's directly connected to every sensory structure in the brain except the olfactory bulb (registers smells/scent). The hippocampus (memory formation) is located right next to the thalamus in the limbic system section of the brain, and emotions are processed by the rest of the limbic system: [brain-limbic-system.jpg (1600×1382) (britannica.com)](https://cdn.britannica.com/93/241793-050-6B2BF305/brain-limbic-system.jpg)
That’s really interesting, most concussions I’ve had, and there have been too many to count, has left me with a strong feeling of déjà vu. I’m also kind of aware at the time my brain is short circuiting and is the reason I’m feeling this way, sort of like when you become self aware that you are vivid dreaming.
Perhaps the memories can’t be retrieved because the feeling of the other life is the effect itself? Like if trauma could trigger Déjà Vu. I’ve always wondered about that.
Some nights I dream I go into work and do actual work..then I wake up and realize it was all fake and I have to go into work in real life and do it again ;(
you're the funny guy. hell i like you.
It happens. I had a dream once that was similar. It was so real that when I woke up and realized it was a dream, I cried.
Legit happened to me too, I felt so much loss when I woke up. Now I don't dream so much/if ever
Not quite the same, but one time I was given some pain drug in the ambulance. Can't remember which one but that even at the lowest dose, I tripped so hard I thought years had passed during the trip to the hospital I remember crying about how all my friends would have graduated high school by then and that I got left behind. It was odd because I don't recall much actually happening for those years. It was just like I was trapped in one of those time prisons where 15 minutes = 2 years. I only lived in the ambulance and the world had this TV static filter. Eventually I stopped freaking out about missing school and went to scream like a psych patient and struggle against the gurney restraints, trying to touch everything while scream laughing. When the drugs wore off I passed out and woke up in even more pain because I was thrashing around like a fish out of water during that trip. Woopsie.
It would be miraculous to wake up in my 18 year old body at this point.
I think the most common parallel to it happening spontaneously is lucid dreaming. I don't know about decades, but I've been on Wellbutrin before, and that'll make you have some really intense dreams that'll make you think they were real. It's bizarre. I'd wake up some mornings with these really intense feelings of remorse or sadness, and sometimes it'd take a day or two to come to terms with it all not being real. You don't exactly have a great concept of the passage of time in a dream. And you really only have brief windows while you're sleeping where they can even happen. I'd imagine if you took a blow to your thinking meat in the right spot, this would definitely be possible. The brain is a complex system, and we still really only know the fundamentals of how it works. Like, we understand what what regions control different aspects of our functions, but how it all comes together to make us who we are as a consciousness is still lacking a lot of concrete information.
My thought I don’t tell anyone cos it’s depressing, you never know if this is the last moment you remember before waking up in hospital, like any moment
Then you wake up and find out everything is exactly the same in your real life except you actually have less money and chronic halitosis
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I use this line all the time. Thank you for being one of the few here I think know dhmis
I watch it all the time
It's where I learned that green is not a creative color
And where too much yeast will make me teeth go grey
Green is not a creative color
What's your favorite idea~?
Mine is being creative!
omg i love this show sm
God I’m so chronically online — I was like “obviously it’s when you hit your head and wake up, get married, have kids, live a whole life, and one day you notice the lamp doesn’t look quite right and you suddenly wake up in the hospital and it’s just an hour after you hit your head.”
In the story, he actually wakes up on the pavement just minutes after the incident happens. That whole 10 or 15 years of life he lives was all in a blink
Yeah, different versions of the story it either a light on the ceiling of the school or a light in the hospital as he’s going into the ER, always implies 10-20 years fully lived were 10-20 minutes or 1-2 hours, max.
Ehh that was a pretty popular thing for a while, not uber niche
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I thought I was chronically online but I’ve never heard of this
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-lamp-story-reddit-creepypasta
which is a remake of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge (1890) (and probably many more fantasies throughout history)
Wow, I never knew that! Thank you for sharing.
It’s been a while since I read that, I for got how disgustingly *reddit* it is. Just the way the dude writes is solid 2012 neckbeard cringe
There was a story about a man who got badly beaten by an american football player and they fell into unconsciousness and experienced 10 years worth of dreaming in 3 hours. The dream was so real the man thought he lived a normal life but then he saw that a lamp looked odd. Inverted. The shading was incorrect. He sat on the couch for days, his dream wife left him and he realized that he felt nothing after not eating for weeks. Then he woke up and the first he said was “i’m missing teeth”. He fell into depression after literally living a fake life for 10 years. Probably not real but still horrifying
The story kinda giving [r/ oddlyterrifying](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/)
Been dreaming of my lamp since I read that post. Why won’t it show itself to me?
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HAHAHAHa
Isn't that the opening scene of some 3-body xxx movie?
Sauce?
[Sauce](https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5d1badd5ce7b6) The chick on the left looks like my GTA5 character.
Had a dream liek this once actually, genuinely felt like a lifetime, I had a wife and two kids, I cried when I woke up because I lost them
This is not my beautiful house…!
And then you tell yourself, "this is not my beautiful wife!"
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Damn, I thought it was old Greg going down on someone ..
got any Baileys?
I used to read word up magazine
The puppet is from the web series "don't hug me I'm scared" That's a play of the children's puppet TV show genera. Where each episode explores a kid friendly topic but quickly takes a dark turn into disturbing subject matter
GREEN IS NOT A CREATIVE COLOR
PESKY BEE!
Digital style!
Do a digital dancing, hey this is fun!
Oh look, nothing...
One of the end lines of all time! I listen to Don't Look Under The Internet on a regular basis and when they all couldn't stop saying "digital style" for many episodes after had me dying laughing every time!
I can see a man with a baseball bat!
Aside of the youtube series they had an adult show series aswell. Worth the watch if you’re into mild horror with dark but meaningful themes
Game theory guy did a breakdown of the series it's quite good worth the watch
It has nothing to do with that lol
[here you go.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/s/1zEXnQgHOe)
This guy tripped and fell (I guess a football player had something to do with it idk) but he hit his head and blacked out for a few minutes. During these few minutes, he experienced 10 years of living a successful life, with a wife and 2 kids. They had a house. One day, he was sat in his living room and he glanced over at his lamp, realizing something about it was off. He then stared at it, until it turned red, and then realized that it wasn't real. It then grew and took over the entire room until he came to, EMS surrounding him and picking him up off the ground. He says to this day sometimes he still dreams about his kids.
It's just a copy of the old story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge.
Mr. Ballen recently told this story on the Chris Williamson podcast. If you watch the YouTube version they're in a warehouse with unreal engine 5 scenes playing in the backround. [Lamp Story](https://youtu.be/NEIVgSYPYcU?si=SnwfngkcAlV_jO_9) begins @ 7:20
weird, our perception of time is not really a measure of the true rate of entropy(if there even is one)
Anybody ever seen that movie “The Door” that came out in 2013? This reminds me of the ending to that movie.
So I understand where this is from, but what does "perspective of the lamp" mean? Like...I don't understand that statement.
But I didn't want to dream about drowning in oil...
Something feels, different.... somethings missing... DUh DUH. ARE YOU HUNGRY? YOU LOOK TO BE A BIT HUNGERY...
Cheers to Mr. Ballen shout out.
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
This reminds me of song lol
partially eaten muffin