This will blow your mind - Is this reality?

[Vendayn]

So, while watching a Youtube video...he was talking about realities, and simulations and what not.

Could we in fact be living in a virtual reality? Maybe even something like in the Matrix? Is this world actually real? If not....are you all a part of a program? Are my parents even real? Or maybe this is all a dream...and in fact, I'm in a coma that looks real. If a program, maybe I'm hooked up to some machine and put in a virtual reality so I don't see the "truth" of whatever that might be. And then that brings us back, is everyone around me (online and real life) part of a program to make me think everyone is real?



I had a very strange experience when I was really young (must have been 5 or 6...I'm 21 now)...costco had just recently opened in california and I never had been in one. About 10 seconds after walking inside Costco (I was with my Papa at the time), everything completely stopped..."time" itself stopped...even myself was completely frozen. There was no sound, movement or anything...but...I could still see everything in front of me, but my eyes wouldn't move. I remember a guy walking out of the bathroom area holding a newspaper as he walked out...he too had stopped. This lasted 5 or 6 seconds.


Now here is the strange part...when "time" continued...NOTHING jumped in place...the guy walking out of the bathroom kept walking as normal. But it wasn't like him jumping out of the location, he just continued moving smoothly...JUST like in the Matrix when they freeze time, and then it continues as normal..had a hard time explaining that one.



Was that a "glitch" in the program? Something else entirely? Guess we or I may never know. I did ask my Papa many years later, and he said that never happened to him. He said it was strange, but he had no memory of it.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Maybe you just imagined/dreamed it...

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Someone's been reading too many science-fiction novels.

 

[ae86gamer]

Is this a joke? Because if its not then uhh.. yeah....

 

[_zuul]

i swear i saw something in black and white for a second, once

 

[yankeefan19]

maybe your brain messed up. Many people believe time is a state of mind, like how time flies when having fun, as well as when a police officer or soldier sees slo-mo when bullets start flying. maybe your brain gitched.

 

[Vendayn]

maybe your brain messed up. Many people believe time is a state of mind, like how time flies when having fun, as well as when a police officer or soldier sees slo-mo when bullets start flying. maybe your brain gitched.

I never really understood how someone can see time in slo-mo, do they actually see time going slow?

You are right, it could have been my brain messing up for some reason. The brain is a strange thing.

 

[Hybrid Sight]

I can think of at least 4-5 times when I was sword fighting people I've had the "time slows and edges of vision blur sorta thing" After the particular strike or block everything seemed to "jump" back to normal speed. Its probably due more to adrenaline than anything. Still cool though...

 

[TMAN10112]

Chances are that you just have a false memory. They'r pretty common.

Personally, I believe in objectivism when it comes down to "Is this real life?" questions.

 

[Kurokami]

So, while watching a Youtube video...he was talking about realities, and simulations and what not.

Could we in fact be living in a virtual reality? Maybe even something like in the Matrix? Is this world actually real? If not....are you all a part of a program? Are my parents even real? Or maybe this is all a dream...and in fact, I'm in a coma that looks real. If a program, maybe I'm hooked up to some machine and put in a virtual reality so I don't see the "truth" of whatever that might be. And then that brings us back, is everyone around me (online and real life) part of a program to make me think everyone is real?



I had a very strange experience when I was really young (must have been 5 or 6...I'm 21 now)...costco had just recently opened in california and I never had been in one. About 10 seconds after walking inside Costco (I was with my Papa at the time), everything completely stopped..."time" itself stopped...even myself was completely frozen. There was no sound, movement or anything...but...I could still see everything in front of me, but my eyes wouldn't move. I remember a guy walking out of the bathroom area holding a newspaper as he walked out...he too had stopped. This lasted 5 or 6 seconds.


Now here is the strange part...when "time" continued...NOTHING jumped in place...the guy walking out of the bathroom kept walking as normal. But it wasn't like him jumping out of the location, he just continued moving smoothly...JUST like in the Matrix when they freeze time, and then it continues as normal..had a hard time explaining that one.



Was that a "glitch" in the program? Something else entirely? Guess we or I may never know. I did ask my Papa many years later, and he said that never happened to him. He said it was strange, but he had no memory of it.

In truth we could all be experiencing time differently according to how our brains normally pace, they say you can live a life time in your mind the moment before you die, I've had long dreams over the periods of minutes.

Course its all just a theory, while I won't say I can disprove your experience in any way it could just have been a dream, I often times tend to confuse them which can make life a *****.

(I wonder how much credibility I lost in that post alone, hmm...)

 

[Teddy Roosevelt]

I'm going to have to call shenanigans on your BS story, there, bud. However, if such an experience is true, then your brain had a major glitch and your senses froze, which is what happens when someone gets hit by a stun or flash grenade. They actually see the same image for a few seconds at the same time that they see a blurry image of the current world because their senses continue sending the same signals to the brain, so the frozen image, while overlapped with the true image, is more prominent. At least, that's what I've read.

 

[Rednog]

This is ridiculous, humans don't plug themselves into virtual reality until 3041. Now excuse me while I fly off in my blue police box...WOOOOOSSSHHH!

 

[Ranthus]

Thing with the brain. It didn't blow my mind.

Your are crazy, and no... its not a simulation.

*[small]Meet me at midnight, they must not know that we know! Also, they can't see blue![/small]

[small]Really? They can't see blue? Wow, I wish I had known that a long time ago...[/small]

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Ignore me!

 

[darkless]

Ah Dan brown, he has an interesting brain.

 

[Vendayn]

I'm going to have to call shenanigans on your BS story, there, bud. However, if such an experience is true, then your brain had a major glitch and your senses froze, which is what happens when someone gets hit by a stun or flash grenade. They actually see the same image for a few seconds at the same time that they see a blurry image of the current world because their senses continue sending the same signals to the brain, so the frozen image, while overlapped with the true image, is more prominent. At least, that's what I've read.

Well, it did happen. But like mentioned, it could have been just a dream that over time disguised it as a memory. Or my senses could have been overloaded, I was only like 5, and there was TONS of people and noise and stuff. Guess there is a lot of possibilities...maybe if it wasn't a dream, it was just my brain doing something weird.

 

[wynnsora]

You know what they say? There's a 10% chance that we live in a virtual reality. Then again they also say most statistics are bs, but you know how that is.

 

[Vendayn]

I'll say the same thing to you I did to Dan Brown after I watched that video.

"What really blows your mind is that if any of those simulations deem it time for it to end and wipes itself out, then every simulation after it would wink out of existence and since we dont have the technology to do this that places us at the end of the line meaning...we are boned."

Yup, remembered my "experience" after watching Dan Brown's latest video. Thats where I got the "simulation" stuff...but in reality, it probably was just my brain messing up or something.

 

[Ancientgamer]

Time really [probably] doesn't exist as most people consider it. They all go for the Jules Vern time-machine bullcrap, it is in all possibility that time doesn't actually exist: only insofar as we use it to measure predictive cycles. All that exists is the present and the predictions of the presents affect on the future.

(before people rag on me for that last sentence, the 'future'under this theory is a completely abstract concept [again for predictive purposes] it doesn't actually exist. )