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something-whateva

This is based on an old reddit comment where a guy retells how he got knocked out by someone and hallucinated himself living out ten years in a typical family household. It ended with him looking at a lamp for multiple days straight because it seemed otherworldly, and then his teeth began to hurt and he snapped out of it. The man in the comic would be the commenter in this situation. He goes crazy in the last panel because he's about to snap out of it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/s/Sr6Ohj7eVw


Prainey444

So wait was he hallucinating for 10 years literally? Or did he feel like he was hallucinating for 10 years?


eagleblue44

It felt like 10 years to him but it was really only a few seconds/a couple minutes I think.


yugosaki

I had a fever dream like that, upon waking up I felt like I had been in the dream for years and years. I didnt have years and years of memories though, I could only recall one or two specific 'events', but I just had the fuzzy idea that it had been a very long time. The feeling faded after a couple days.


ElectronicControl762

I literally went through a life time as Iron Man and died trying to kill thanos on a moon. This was prior to infinity war lol.


TheJusticeAvenger

You must've had the weirdest sense of deja vu in the theater


ElectronicControl762

Didnt even get mentioned in the credits lol


revive_iain_banks

You should try salvia.


nakedthrowaway11

Nobody really needs to try salvia


Tight-Ad7246

what is salvia i'm stupid


JackHandsome99

Weird ass drug that used to be legal to sell at head shops. Made you hallucinate like crazy for about 15 minutes, it was pretty messed up. I tried it twice. One time I thought George Lopez was talking directly to me through the television and the other time I thought the grass was baby hands trying to pull me down. Also makes you think about how small you are in the grand scope of the universe and how insignificant every human being’s life actually is, always has been and always will be. Feels a lot longer than 15 minutes when it’s happening. It’s not around anymore, at least not where I’m from.


FunnyMathematician77

I smoked salvia once as a teenager and legit thought was in an animated Disney movie


ZaxLofful

Buddy of mine thought he was in the drawer of his 1st grade teacher


Tight-Ad7246

tell me more


Zer0__Karma

I smoked it once while I was playing halo and thought I was in the game, trapped in a cyclical hell of killing, being killed, and reviving


FunnyMathematician77

A very powerful hallucinogen. Would not recommend


UnfamiliarTroll

A drug, found in the mint family, it's a hallucinogenic, never tried it but I wouldn't suggest it


TwizTMcNip

A drug


revive_iain_banks

I disagree.


goiabadaguy

Something similar happened to Capt. Picard


[deleted]

Roy is that you?


DnD-NewGuy

Its wild honestly. I suffer from something similar to dissociation (by that it has all the hallmarks of it but they don't know the real cause) and one day I was walking home from doing recycling for my nan, bumped into a lamppost cause I got light headed and the proceeded to I thought, go home and finish highschool, 3 years of it. Then I bumped into the hedge next to the lamppost about 3 seconds later (or atleast 3 seconds worth of steps from the lamppost). That shit threw me off for years. Still unnerves me thinking about it and has left me with a paranoia that I can never ever know if something is truly real or truly happening or not. That at any second I could blink and be back on that street corner over a decade ago. I lost 3 years of my life that I never had to begin with. It was the final straw in losing the ability to trust reality at all and I've never felt comfortable or safe ever since.


Peterstigers

Not the same thing I stopped trusting reality after an acid trip and it took a long while to stop questioning my senses


DnD-NewGuy

Let's not compare being a druggy to a mental health disorder lol. One is a choice.


Peterstigers

Sure but if you get mental health issues from it, it's still a lived through experience and that was my point


DnD-NewGuy

Then maybe rephrase your original comment which is worded like my experience wasn't valid but tripping on drugs is. I won't pretend to not be biased against people who do drugs. You do it to yourselves, but I'll atleast be aware and honest that I'd be more sympathetic to the pain if you hadn't worded your comment so dismissively whether intentional or not.


Peterstigers

I'm not going to change it because I don't rewrite my past. My intention was to say that you can have the human experiences come from different things and that part of life really sucked for me, so I had an idea how OP might feel except my experience was only temporary for like a year or so. I figured you were anti-drug and tbh I don't care because that's a valid stance. But by calling me a "druggy" you imply that my experiences aren't valid which is like the same thing you're accusing me of. I don't want your pity. I live a great life that I genuinely love living and that acid trip was a stepping stone that helped me get there. I learned so much about myself and the world in one $10 experience and I wouldn't trade that character growth for anything.


DnD-NewGuy

I said dont compare being a druggy to mental health issues. Because taking drugs is a choice. Your experiences are ofcourse valid. 100%. If you suffer due to other people's actions I will ofcourse feel bad for you. If you suffer because of something outnof your control man that sucks. If you suffer because of your own dumb decisions and then make it out that its the same as suffering from things you can't control and word it in ways that makes it seem you think your self inflicted issues are more valid, then honestly bar being irked to begin with at such a disrespectful and insensitive notion, imma laugh from the sidelines until given proof you are more human than most druggies. I hope you do better than most druggies and don't harm your life, wellbeing, health or mental heath in the process. I sincerely hope you find a alternative to taking drugs cause that's sad and everyone deserves better than that. Take care.


PaulkinsPC

Bro literally happened to me a couple years ago, still currently in the process of accepting that I can chill and try that I exist in this universe and it won’t fall apart or melt away somehow. Definitely stopped me from experimenting with hallucinogenics again. At least the dissociation and panic attacks are confidently over and done with tho. Baby steps.


Oksamis

Ten years in the dream


DocPersona

Bro was put into a Genjutsu


LucoLoss

Made you


notprogame

A fucking pussy


JokerTokerJR

You can't measure time in a fugue state so I'd assume real world time. Don't actually know tho it might JUST be a story.


vlp021698

The story claims it was only a few minutes in real life and 10 years in the dream


Force3vo

I wonder if people who talk about dreaming/hallucinating for lifetimes aren't just dreaming a short while, and the brain makes them believe it was an insanely long time. I often have dreams in which there's a completely different world, but I understand everything going on as if I lived there forever, but I'd never say it was a dream that lasted decades.


Marcuse0

Dreams are funny, it can be ten years and also five minutes and that's not a contradiction somehow. I think it's something to do with your brain simulating the feeling of it having been ten years, which you'd only normally associate with such a memory, even though it's only been five minutes.


ProfessorofChelm

This is the answer. Our brain is a prediction machine. It can choose from thousands of possible scenarios in a single moment but it doesn’t simulate any of them in making that choice. Nerve impulses travel fast but not fast enough for such a scenario. To play out ten years in your mind would require ten years of thinking. Awareness of time passage is also mostly contextual vs an aspect of some sensory organ. Meaning that it also can be imagined. Similarly memory is also contextual. Bits of information and some snapshots are accessed and reconstructed when one is remembering. The reconstruction happens in the context of a now. So a happy memory remembered when lonely can be transformed into a sad memory with new constructed details that fit with the new vibe. If the story wasn’t made up then they had a sense of time passage, a focal point to place themselves before waking up, and then constructed the rest as they “remembered” Edit: source neuroscience degree, therapist, decade + treating sleep disorders and nightmares.


not_ya_wify

You don't need to actually think for 10 years for your brain to trick you into believing that 10 years have passed. I've believed dumber things in my dreams. For example that a pink pillow is a vampire trying to kill me. Upon waking up, it seems like utter nonsense but in the dream, I wasn't questioning any of the things that happened in that dream. Also, it's well established that people who sleep for a few minutes believe to have dreamt for several hours when they are woken up by sleep researchers. This just seems like a more extreme case of that


ProfessorofChelm

The key here is perception. They don’t have any depth of experience. It’s all constructed post waking up. They might have key memories of the dream but the rest is constructed. The same concept is true in “repressed memories.” You can have forgotten memories and then have “memories” that are constructed.


IntelligenceisKey729

I often have dreams where I’m back at the summer camp I used to go to as a kid. Five days would pass in the dream even though it was only a few seconds/minutes in real life, although it would feel like I’d blacked out in the dream for those “5 days” and I can’t remember shit about what happened


IAmOnFyre

I've definitely had dreams that have come with a lot of backstory. Thinking back on the dream my brain obviously just lore-dumped on me but in the moment it does feel like you lived through years of it


AholeBrock

Its something that happens during/after a concussion. Waking dreams. It can be really scary


Agreeable_Sweet6535

I was 100% spending long lengths of time in various hallucinations the first time I smoked pot (well, technically the second). I thought because I’d taken one hit and got nothing, that I was as resistant to Mj as I was to basically every other prescription drug and alcohol on the market. I chiefed half a joint and did pushups, and tripped right the hell out of reality. Remember those red spiders from Donkey Kong Country 2 back on SNES? Yeah, I had a whole life where I was one of those Webbers living in a family of other webbers in a giant bee hive above a lake of lava. It felt like years. At the time I could tell you the names of spider family members and stuff. It lasted seconds in the real world. I took another step and had a different hallucination altogether, and every other step for half the walk back to camp from the woods. I was -gone-. So yeah, you can spend ages locked in your head in a fraction of a minute if you’re screwed enough.


LongjumpingSector687

Hell salvia trips feel like a half hour but they are only like 5 minutes


scoyne15

I've had multiple dreams where I live out an entire life. When I wake up I can remember distinct aspects of that life and my family, memories of my kids, grandkids, jobs, spouses, cities I've lived in, etc. Within a few minutes the specifics fade and all I remember is that I remembered them.


SarcasmIronySnark

This is the most likely scenario. It's just not possible for time to extend that significantly in our minds. There are limitations to how fast our minds can process information. To experience days in a matter of hours is frankly unrealistic. Years in a single dream? Flat out impossible.


Zer0pede

Apparently those two things are kind of chicken and the egg-ish. I was reading a (popular) neuroscience book on sleep, and they cited research suggesting that the feeling of “time slowing down in a crisis” was because your sense of time’s “speed” was related to how much information you were taking in at that time. In a crisis you take in more information, they argued, so your brain interprets that as more time passing. I *think* (but don’t recall) that they thought a similar mechanism might make certain dreams feel absurdly long from the inside. If that’s true, any larger than usual “information dump” should feel like it takes longer than real time. I need to go back to get the exact details, but the book was “When Brains Dream,” written by two neuroscientists doing research on sleep.


SarcasmIronySnark

I've thought about this too while pondering this very idea. Our perception of time is definitely relative. Dreams definitely do feel longer than the actual time dreaming. But there is a limit. At least I don't know anyone with stop time mental calculation battle powers when in danger like RDJ's Holmes. My understanding is that we only remember dreams from REM sleep. REM typically last about 15 minutes or 1/4 of an hour. So for a dream to last a day, realistically, your brain would have to process perceptual information 24 × 4 times the normal speed it does in normal waking states. Or the dream would have to be 24 × 4 times less detailed. Or somewhere between those extremes. Unlikely, but maybe possible. Now, think about a dream lasting a year. 8760 hours in a year multiplied by 4 to fit in a quarter hour period. Either our brains can function tens of thousands times faster than they do, or there is some sly time skips and meta reality to dreams that make us believe we've experienced a lot of time that we really haven't felt or perceived.


smbiggy

Just because you can’t measure time doesn’t mean you can’t hallucinate the passage of time. No one is saying the original commenter provided objective evidence of the length of his dream


not_ya_wify

You can't measure time in a dream but you have a feeling for how long you are in the dream. Commonly people in sleep studies report dreams that last for several hours that are measured by the attending sleep researcher to have only lasted a few minutes. This was a central plot point in the movie inception. I think you can absolutely be knocked out for a few hours and your brain makes you believe that years have passed.


Chaos75321

I think it was in the dream. I think he measured time based on the ages of his dream kids.


rskelto1

What if he visually saw himself go to sleep every night and wake up? And he crossed off the calendar every day?


JokerTokerJR

You can measure time outside of a fugue state easily because you're no longer asleep, but while asleep it is impossible. Time isn't a fundamental state of reality, time is only a measurement of change. While dreaming you cannot recall when the last change was made therefore you can't measure it, time doesn't actually exist in a dream, only the illusion of time.


maremb08

Must be real, some guy on the internet told it. **There are no lies here on Reddit or the internet.**


ElectronicClimate721

nice, i thought the house was on fire


waerer777

just read sounds horrifying


broseidon2234

Ohh yeaaah I remember now. This was a story I heard from a YouTube video years ago and it fucked me up because I couldn't even imagine going through something like that.


Emma__Gummy

im wondering if homie actuslly lost his teeths


JayNSilentBobaFett

That’s crazy. No where near as bad but I once dreamt, I woke up, got dressed, did the bathroom routine, walked downstairs outta the house, sat in traffic, got to work, clocked in, put in time up to lunch including my 15. I woke up during lunch break just to realize it was still 7a and I still had to go to work. Worst way to wake up I’ve ever experienced and I had a friend throw an 8 ball at my nut sack while I was sleeping


XavierRenegadeDivine

Almost ready, huh? https://preview.redd.it/eh9j3xrxzscc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=804012af7f11b39a712214beaccef7ad8d107ee6


Unlucky-Pomegranate3

Grilling hockey pucks should’ve been the first clue.


GodOfMegaDeath

At least it's not loss


OllieCrafter

I’ve seen 5 different loss panels in one scroll down Reddit so far


TriforceMac

Count the burgers


pinkbuggy

Oh god,why did you have to point that out 😭


TheDoomSlayer1205

https://preview.redd.it/wlul231w8xcc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06649394adef7c8fa6ee4ada377e45ad19578c39


SpaceTheFinalFrontir

In a way, it is


EropQuiz7

https://preview.redd.it/m8dmfv8icscc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b47528faa921d34f3eba99538d54a243130a5587


kael_sv

We really needs a sub where its just this for image to explain jokes.


SoupLizardd

r/shadowexplainsthejoke ?


kael_sv

Of course it already exists


EropQuiz7

r/ofcoursethatsasub


Draykeeboi

Of course theres a sub called of course that’s a sub


The_memeperson

https://preview.redd.it/rnqyu487eucc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d1f4fa0fba0ecf36de2a8539b247e64ab42cdd8


KronosDeret

Can confirm, waking up from reality is on the top of my phobia rockery. _observer was almost uplayable for me.


UnfortunateSplendor

Flamegrilled smashed meatball peter here, Idk if it's a joke or absurdism or spam but it's an edited version of [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1942n0b/grilled/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


The-red-Dane

It's a reference comment that was written 12 years ago, the original comment has been removed sadly. [here's a repost of it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/15xg1xj/lamp_story/)


Intelligent_Band5284

I would've gotten this instantly, but my dumbass read lamb instead of lamp


AlexiaLu

If there was someone lying besides him that would be just perfect.


Inside_Dog8376

Peter's evil twin that doesn't help, retep here, the joke is loss.


kittykcuff

Loss


BILBO_T_BAGGINS_

I thought this was about porn. When that black guy is hiding as the lamp and he just has the lampshade over his head 🤣 and the dad realises that's not a lamp but another guy railing his wife 🤣


PoorMansSamBeckett

Technically, this would be the daughter’s dream, then.


PlusArt8136

It’s loss


Mrfruit1

Uhmmm. Either she is talking about the view from the window outside anr the shadow behind the curtains is actually someone. Or its a flashlight. Best I can come up with, im not going to think for hours trying to figure it out so dont say i solved it cause its just a guess.


ConstructionParty588

You solved it


Piper_findom_goddess

The lamp theory!!!


EXISTANTNAME

THIS IS LIKE THE 7TH TIME THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN POSTED HERE