This will blow your mind - Is this reality?

[Lizmichi]

Every once in a while I dream of something that's going to happen in a few days or so. It's scary as hell. It could also be the dream is kinda like what happens and seeing as how I don't fully remember dreams when I wake up that my mind just replaces the lost memory with what happen.

 

[Acier]

Glitching?

Is that what kids are calling it these days? Damn Punks.

 

[SwishiestB0g]

The whole "time slows down" for soldiers and the like is because so much adrenaline is rushing to your brain that it's causing your senses to go into overdrive, it's an old tactic we had as cavemen. Flight or Fight, is a common thing in psychology explaining when you are afraid of something your body reacts by pumping adrenaline so you can think faster either to A) Run away or B) stay and fight.

It DOES happen but not in the essence that "time" stands still just you are reacting faster.

Onto the OP's experience, as a kid your brain is still changing a lot, not as much as in puberty, but still enough.

My theory is that you were just overloaded with senses and were taking in too much too fast and your brain had a brain fart. It's not a new experience.

The only time that "time" has slowed down is when I'm running track, everything slows down so to me 14 seconds is about a minute.

 

[The Sorrow]

Nothing's blown my mind since that nice psychic hooker.
This isn't quite as pleasant.

 

[ejb626]

Uh-oh looks like Subject 3B has finnaly figured it out, the rest of us are computer programs it knew we shouldn't have programmed some of the people to be philosophers (sarcasm)

I doubt this is a computer-genrated world because I sure as hell am real and not a program (then again I could be expertly programmed to think that) I don't know I doubt it, it sounds like you have an overactive imagination

 

[Shamgarr]

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.

Or this could all be within MY mind and you could be my self conciouss, expressing ideas i've always felt, but never put into words.

 

[recoverytwo]

You were young and probably seeing things because you missed your nap.

 

[FrndlyMisanthrpe]

If you want to get all Descartes on everyone, the only thing you can be sure of 100% is that you exist.
The existence of reality as we know it is indeterminable. But most people, myself included, assume that we're not brains in jars and we live our daily lives.
Get over yourself; you're not The One.

 

[Yubadias]

I think like that all the friggin time. I always seem to be feeling deja vu during conversations since I've dreamed them before. Are dreams glitches? When I grow up, I'll make that concept into a movie.

 

[Shru1kan]

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]

I see and asterix but nothing after it!

And yeah, I've had time slow, stop, sense things before they happen... its fun, but you don't point it out cause people think you're a loony.

 

[MorsePacific]

Time is relative. Ever notice that if you concentrate hard enough, moving objects appear to slow down?

There you go.

 

[Berethond]

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.

No, it's just that the way adrenaline affects people is to speed them up really fast, making everything else really slow.

 

[TK421]

That is stupid. Why would you even think that?

They are always watching, don't let down your guard for a minute.

 

[Zedzero]

Congrats on finally hoping on that Matrix bandwagon of paranoia, only 11 years late.

 

[whiskey rock n' roller]

Theres stories of cops and soldiers who, when under fire, said they saw everything move really slowly and to an extent stop altogether. I think its a phenonomen related to some sort of nural lapse in the brain. Nice story though quite interesting.