This will blow your mind - Is this reality?

[Vredesbyrd67]

Were you dehydrated, out of sleep, intoxicated, or was there some other factor that may have hindered your perception?

These sorts of things aren't all that out of the ordinary. Perception is a neruochemical process, and if something's not quite right it's not uncommon for people to experience the types of things you described. They don't always have a clear reason, though; sometimes they're random.

As for your question, "do we live in a Matrix-exque computer program?" Well, that's what the Buddhists think, though not literally. They believe that the world is an illusion, and the point of life is to break from that illusion and rejoin the collective flow of energy that makes up the universe, attaining ultimate bliss; this is called Nirvana. But, hey, who really knows?

 

[FurinKazanNZ]

Crazy stuff like that happens, Deja-vu for instance, I get it quite a bit. And, you know, "The Unexplained" sort of things that pop up. "How did that get there?" "Where did it go?" "WTF is going on????"

Who knows?

 

[TailsRodrigez]

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.

if you take the blue pill, the story ends, and you wake up in your bed, or take the red pill, and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...

 

[ERadical]

I think it all comes down to whether we take the red pill or the blue pill...

 

[Riddick08]

No, what happens is your body starts releasing adrenaline which speeds up your reflexes and perceptions. Time, being relative, then seems to slow down to the person because the person is more perceptive of everything around them and their mind is moving faster than before. Something like that. That same thing happens to everyone in dangerous situations though. That's probably similar to whatever happened to OP in the supermarket.

 

[bryanfuel]

I've had a similar experience so I know what your talking about.

But..... thinking this way is dangerous. Shortly after matrix was realeased some teenagers went somewhere and started killing people because they believed in the matrix.

 

[geldonyetich]

Given our mortal limitations leading to Plato's Allegory Of The Cave [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave], what we witness is guaranteed to not reflect the whole of reality. Just how deep that rabbit hole goes is hard to say. However, I would advise at least playing along.

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.

You probably dreamed/hallucinated it. We don't really have enough self-awareness at 5 or 6 to have a real good grasp of differentiating what our developing imaginations come up with and reality.

 

[DigitalJedl]

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.

Same here, but for the majority of my life all of my dreams have been repeats, people I've seen in my dreams I later meet sometime in my life, or I have really weird dreams of strange characters, or thing are like a game, and they turn out to be actual games that I end up playing later. Had a dream about Call of Duty MW2 when I was 8, 16 now. I've had 8 dreams about one person, and now I'm talking to her and moving in sometime for college. Weird.

 

[feather240]

I've been getting random adrenaline rushes throughout the day. Everything goes by faster. You on the other hand are seeing everything slow down, weird. Enjoy it, the human brain can slow down time so bullets are going at the speed of snails, and all it costs is the "deep" part of your brain. I imagine you couldn't think very well during the occurrence, but if you thought "holy shit" not only after, but during then I don't know. Either way it still doesn't explain why it happened, but maybe what.

 

[I am Jack's profile]

OP. Pick up a book called rant by Chuck Palaniuk. You will love it

 

[MrDarkling]

Agent Radec here, get back to posting or we'll come and get you >:U

 

[Deleted]

I used to think that, then I stopped smoking weed.


"Dude... what if.. like... everything is fake... like... nothings real... except the fake stuff... and like.... they created us... .like... whoa..."


But seriously, I think that the entire world is keeping a secret from me. Australia doesn't exist, but everyone on Earth has upheld the lie to keep me fooled my whole life, once I figure out that everyone around me is in on it, I'll make my escape. I'll fly up into the sky only to somehow appear out of a hole in a secret lab, where THAT will be the real world. Now that I typed this everyone will probably suddenly try to break my legs.

Wish me luck.

 

[Mozza444]

I constantly see myself in what seems to be 3rd person, very weird.

You may have with temporal lobe epilepsy.. its not dangerous, but you should see a doctor

 

[Dr. UBAR]

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.

Very sorry but I must do this. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html
Basically the article talks about a gravity wave detector and how they have background noise that one dude predicted would happen. This gravity wave detector has never found a wave though. "Craig Hogan" of Fermilab believes they hit the point where space time dissolves into grains, dots on a photograph or pixels. Basically this could mean we live on a giant hologram where we live on a two dimensional surface but light reflects off it in such a way as to create a three dimensional world. Its not exactly matrix but still a big deal. If your brain hasn't exploded yet, research Branes, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane) or anything to do with dimensionality such as Riemann Geometry which precedes string theory yet has many links to a theory of everything such as things becoming simpler in higher dimensions and he even thought that forces were caused by ripples in higher dimensional space, which is probably spot on as far as we know. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannian_geometry)

 

[AgDr_ODST]

Normally I'd say such things as what the OP described are BS(or the result of watching movies like "the Matrix" to much). But I've experience on multiple occasions what has been described as Dejavu. When Im sleeping or think Im sleeping I'll see very miniscule moments in my life play out before me that I know haven't occured yet. And then at some point after it happens and I say that this seems familiar and then thiers the problem, I wonder if I really saw the scene before it played out in my head or if I just think that I did. Then I either get a head or say fuck it and move on

 

[Ryuk2]

I know that i am real.
The real question here is - are you a program which wanted to confuse me in to thinking that you are real?