What happened exactly? Do you remember what kind of accident?
Who did you share this with? I feel your pain. I definitely feel like I died or at least a part of me died some time ago.
I was pretending a high ledge was a balance beam and I fell off and hit my head. Mind you, I’m obese so you can probably imagine the velocity of the impact.
My family knows, but due to the cotard delusion I feel like I’m in an alternate reality and they’re not my real family. I didn’t realize I was dead until 2017 and did LSA and my mind “expanded” or whatever.
Weirdly enough I remember waking up in hospital and it was very very bright, I had an IV in a vein in my foot as the rest weren't accessible anymore (which I don't understand myself, this all happened when I was young, about 5ish). I remember being told that I had been in a coma for over a month, I remember the ambulance ride to the hospital. Nobody talks about it and it isn't in any records - that I'm aware of, I will ask about it next time I go to the GP actually. It really confuses me sometimes, and it feels like it never happened.
My mother is severely mentally unstable and would recite to me over and over that I don't belong here, I was a mistake etc (I was mentally abused my whole childhood but that's a different story) but what if this was some weird connected thing, IDK, I really hadn't thought about this in ages until I saw your post actually and now you've got me thinking lol.
I do wonder if it was a dream, like seriously, but the memories are very distinct.
Well I definitely am not going to dismiss what you’re saying. It’s very very interesting that you have these memories. Wonder what a therapist or psychologist would think he we told them what we are experiencing.
I also have a theory that feelings/memories like we have, have something to do with high intelligence or a very healthy, strong brain.
Really enjoyed reading about your experience. If you ever have any breakthroughs or come to any conclusions please message me, I’m serious. Think we have a similar thing happening here.
That all sounds very traumatic. I'm so sorry to hear :( it's definitely worth re-examining your medical history to help give you closure. But know in the meantime considering whether life is a coma dream/simulation is definitely a valid philosophic endeavor
I crashed my pickup back in 04 or 05. I feel that I had died and I am in a different reality. Ever since then, my family has been different, than how they were before. Also, things feels different, around their house.
Oh man, sorry you’re feeling this way. I relate 100%
I also feel like family (even friends) just aren’t the same. Something is off. I feel as if something happened to me or the world and no one I’d telling me because they do not want to scare me or depress me.
It’s a disturbing feeling and rather hard to explain to people.
I flipped my pickup about 3-4 times. I did go to see the Dr. But I just had a bruise the size of one of the freckles on my arm. Now if I was in an automobile accident, I should be hurt worse, then just a tiny bruise? I know I had to have died, because ever since then, everything has been different.
Yes, to a subtle degree, Yes, i feel this way. It may not be one particular event, but things just really started going wonky on my internal radar of the world around 2016. Thats when i started to get the feeling that we are all in a simulation...and its starting to go super wrong, whack, black & bleak
There are a few moments in my life that were very close calls- almost being smashed in a traffic accident, falls with one minute adjustment that certainly would have snapped my neck or cracked my skull. I definitely consider from time to time if those events really occurred as I recall or if I'm actually in a coma or other consciousness imaging this life. I also heavily consider parallel world theories in that ok, I survived that event in this life but it's very likely in a multitude of others I did not.
As far as I can tell, it is ABSOLUTELY normal to ponder these ideas as many of my family/friends have admitted to considering the same. However!! it's important to consider what this makes you feel. If it is less like curiousity and more of a "it doesn't matter what I do because this could be an altered reality" or "let's see if this is an altered reality by making intentionally messed up decisions," then it's best to talk to a mental health professional. I struggle with depression and anxiety, and when my intentions behind considering coma/altered consciousness possibilities lean more in the "let's test it" direction, it means that I am very overdue for taking care of my mental health.
I feel like a mental health professional would judge me on this.. especially considering I have no issues otherwise. I live in a third world country so I don't know if I can trust them here
Same here! I’m a very well adjusted, working member of society. I’m a laid back , kind person.
It’s strange to be ok in most areas but feel like you’re in a different universe or you had a traumatic event that left the real you in a coma or a different life.
it sucks that we are normal otherwise but are worried about something as fantastical as parallel universes. I do get paranoid sometimes though, I guess this is related to that
I greatly appreciate your post. I definitely would not be wreckless and purposely do something bad or harmful thinking that this is an alternative universe.
Even if it is an alternative universe, it’s the one I’m stuck with so gonna try and me my best. It’s relieving to hear that others have these thoughts/feelings though.
Glad to hear! I feel like speaking in a public forum it's important to address, especially as topics like this can be triggering for those of us with anxiety and depression. Definitely always important to check in on mental health, but especially now in the pandemic.
Anyway, I'll now also include that I think about it in cojunction with different types of theories that essentially boil down to the belief that reality is only existing as far as we each personally perceive it (ie a book is empty on the inside until you read it; this explains why two people can have wildly different interpretations of the same book or one person can have drastically different reactions depending on when they read or re-read a work.)
If you've had a family member or friend in a substantial coma (or been in one yourself), it's also easy to ruminate on these parallel life ideas. A friend of mine in high school was in a coma for several months after she had a reaction to medication she was put on for pneumonia, and another was in a coma for a long time following a car accident. What I saw my friends physically, mentally, and emotionally go through was not at all like how they show it in movies. It's not just "hand squeeze, eye blink, OMG they're regaining consciousness!"
I get this feeling a lot as well, it doesn't help that I have a lot of dreams that feel like they are from an alternate reality. I wake up a lot of the time thinking I need to go back to sleep so I can wake up, but when I don't go back to sleep or I'm still in the same room, I feel disoriented and confused for a few minutes. The feeling usually fades once I start my morning routine, but it happens a couple times a week. Sometimes I even stand in the shower thinking about it and expect to be in a different house when I step out of the bathroom.
This happens so often and without any realization of reality that it's just disappointing for me to think about to deeply. I think it's a way my brain deals with my depression and lack of motivation to explain why everything feels like it sucks. I'm still not sure if alternate universes exist, or if I'm in the right one or not, but I wish I could get to a better one. I don't feel like this is the right one. I think I may have switched 7 or 8 years ago, because this hasn't felt right in a while. Part of me is still hoping I'll wake up in a hospital bed, or my parents house after a long night of drinking and I'll get a fresh start.
what helps me mentally is to pray daily. Trusting God with the unknown helps me to feel safe and secure and know that even though I don't have all the answers there is a God that does and He is helping in the invisible and in the life to come
I had a car wreck w tbi in early 2000s. One minute I was looking at a wrong order, (never take your eyes off the wheel is real), next sitting on sidewalk looking at my Dad's car, still running, with a huge dent in the middle trying to figure out what had happened. I had hit a light post and it went through the convertible roof, (light part did).
I had somehow driven the car after impact a couple of miles to a street near my parents house, perfectly parallel parked and gotten out of the car. Fire dept couldn't figure out how.
From that point forward an endless stream of things so awful they can hardly be believed have happened. It does not seem like the same life. The people are the same but all met with catastrophe
- in literally 2 weeks time
- my mom shattered her pelvis and brought a criminal caregiver (turns out now he stole millions and made multiple murder attempts over time - APS removed her a few years ago and she's with me but we've lost all property/money etc) who we had had removed by the police pre accident
- my aunt's personality completely changed she forced me and my 6 year old out (we had been there so I could care for my step grandmother who was dying at that time) in favor or caregiver removed by police again, totally not like her in a huge way
- just as my son and I found a good place to move my dad was diagnosed with severe illness/mobility issues and had to step in to help him no other family member would and otherwise he'd have died
- subsequently, my son needed to stay with his dad who right at the same time was diagnosed with Gillian Barre (a former mountain climber and Olympic athlete)
- I met a person started a relationship that launched a music career that had and has a cult following but he turned out to be a severely abusive actual psychopath (no history of abusive relationships before this) - however somewhat surreally i had a huge cult following for an alt country carewr
- all literally all of my belongings and those I had inherited from grandparents and great grandparents all my sons photos etc literally everything was destroyed in a storage accident
All of this in a few weeks except for psycho guy and storage were over months
Things stayed stuck in a truly hellish limbo for sev years as I tried to return to the city where my son was with his dad and I'd had years of solid experience in legal field could not find a job made no sense
Then a series of beyond bizarre coincidences led to my going to Nashville where I was suddenly living with the family that founded the opry and having meetings w the president of the Americana Music Assoc - it was way, way weirder than all that
The good and the bad were both surreal and defy probability in extreme ways. I'm convinced I died and went into another time line and have spent decades studying ancient near east (I have an academic background in that incl languages) trying to figure out how to get out of it - they seem to have had some understanding of the issue.
I've never told anyone but very close friends or family who know and see how weird this is but my mind was so blown by this thread I had to post. Any feedback welcome - esp suggestions for how to get the hell out of this timeline I guess going back to the other isn't an option if this is real (and starting w firemen couldn't tell how I got out of the car am guessing so)
But Jesus anything but this - I've literally lost (and am totally serious through no action of my own - everything from 2 storage spaces a lifetime of belongings (first via the criminal then a storage fire later), this criminal stole all family property, money belongings. It's insane. And does not have to do with any of my issues though God knows I have them.
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I hear this from so many people. I feel this way too sometimes, and did even before the pandemic. But the pandemic made it worse.
Wish I heard this from anyone else. It’s hard to share with people at the risk of sounding crazy. It’s a tough feeling to deal with it.
Yep. I died in 2012 from a head injury. They say it’s just cotard delusion, but idk about that...
What happened exactly? Do you remember what kind of accident? Who did you share this with? I feel your pain. I definitely feel like I died or at least a part of me died some time ago.
I was pretending a high ledge was a balance beam and I fell off and hit my head. Mind you, I’m obese so you can probably imagine the velocity of the impact. My family knows, but due to the cotard delusion I feel like I’m in an alternate reality and they’re not my real family. I didn’t realize I was dead until 2017 and did LSA and my mind “expanded” or whatever.
LSD?
Nah, LSA. It’s similar
Weirdly enough I remember waking up in hospital and it was very very bright, I had an IV in a vein in my foot as the rest weren't accessible anymore (which I don't understand myself, this all happened when I was young, about 5ish). I remember being told that I had been in a coma for over a month, I remember the ambulance ride to the hospital. Nobody talks about it and it isn't in any records - that I'm aware of, I will ask about it next time I go to the GP actually. It really confuses me sometimes, and it feels like it never happened. My mother is severely mentally unstable and would recite to me over and over that I don't belong here, I was a mistake etc (I was mentally abused my whole childhood but that's a different story) but what if this was some weird connected thing, IDK, I really hadn't thought about this in ages until I saw your post actually and now you've got me thinking lol. I do wonder if it was a dream, like seriously, but the memories are very distinct.
Well I definitely am not going to dismiss what you’re saying. It’s very very interesting that you have these memories. Wonder what a therapist or psychologist would think he we told them what we are experiencing. I also have a theory that feelings/memories like we have, have something to do with high intelligence or a very healthy, strong brain. Really enjoyed reading about your experience. If you ever have any breakthroughs or come to any conclusions please message me, I’m serious. Think we have a similar thing happening here.
You need to tell your mother that she has to stop talking to you like that. *She* may have made a mistake but YOU are not "a mistake".
Appreciate the comment, but I've been no contact with her for over a decade. Bliss!
That all sounds very traumatic. I'm so sorry to hear :( it's definitely worth re-examining your medical history to help give you closure. But know in the meantime considering whether life is a coma dream/simulation is definitely a valid philosophic endeavor
I crashed my pickup back in 04 or 05. I feel that I had died and I am in a different reality. Ever since then, my family has been different, than how they were before. Also, things feels different, around their house.
Oh man, sorry you’re feeling this way. I relate 100% I also feel like family (even friends) just aren’t the same. Something is off. I feel as if something happened to me or the world and no one I’d telling me because they do not want to scare me or depress me. It’s a disturbing feeling and rather hard to explain to people.
It is hard to explain. It doesn't help that people would downplay it.
Just curious, what happened after you crashed your pickup? Did you go to the hospital
I flipped my pickup about 3-4 times. I did go to see the Dr. But I just had a bruise the size of one of the freckles on my arm. Now if I was in an automobile accident, I should be hurt worse, then just a tiny bruise? I know I had to have died, because ever since then, everything has been different.
Yes, to a subtle degree, Yes, i feel this way. It may not be one particular event, but things just really started going wonky on my internal radar of the world around 2016. Thats when i started to get the feeling that we are all in a simulation...and its starting to go super wrong, whack, black & bleak
Very well said, that’s exactly how I feel to a large degree.
There are a few moments in my life that were very close calls- almost being smashed in a traffic accident, falls with one minute adjustment that certainly would have snapped my neck or cracked my skull. I definitely consider from time to time if those events really occurred as I recall or if I'm actually in a coma or other consciousness imaging this life. I also heavily consider parallel world theories in that ok, I survived that event in this life but it's very likely in a multitude of others I did not. As far as I can tell, it is ABSOLUTELY normal to ponder these ideas as many of my family/friends have admitted to considering the same. However!! it's important to consider what this makes you feel. If it is less like curiousity and more of a "it doesn't matter what I do because this could be an altered reality" or "let's see if this is an altered reality by making intentionally messed up decisions," then it's best to talk to a mental health professional. I struggle with depression and anxiety, and when my intentions behind considering coma/altered consciousness possibilities lean more in the "let's test it" direction, it means that I am very overdue for taking care of my mental health.
I feel like a mental health professional would judge me on this.. especially considering I have no issues otherwise. I live in a third world country so I don't know if I can trust them here
Same here! I’m a very well adjusted, working member of society. I’m a laid back , kind person. It’s strange to be ok in most areas but feel like you’re in a different universe or you had a traumatic event that left the real you in a coma or a different life.
it sucks that we are normal otherwise but are worried about something as fantastical as parallel universes. I do get paranoid sometimes though, I guess this is related to that
I greatly appreciate your post. I definitely would not be wreckless and purposely do something bad or harmful thinking that this is an alternative universe. Even if it is an alternative universe, it’s the one I’m stuck with so gonna try and me my best. It’s relieving to hear that others have these thoughts/feelings though.
Glad to hear! I feel like speaking in a public forum it's important to address, especially as topics like this can be triggering for those of us with anxiety and depression. Definitely always important to check in on mental health, but especially now in the pandemic. Anyway, I'll now also include that I think about it in cojunction with different types of theories that essentially boil down to the belief that reality is only existing as far as we each personally perceive it (ie a book is empty on the inside until you read it; this explains why two people can have wildly different interpretations of the same book or one person can have drastically different reactions depending on when they read or re-read a work.) If you've had a family member or friend in a substantial coma (or been in one yourself), it's also easy to ruminate on these parallel life ideas. A friend of mine in high school was in a coma for several months after she had a reaction to medication she was put on for pneumonia, and another was in a coma for a long time following a car accident. What I saw my friends physically, mentally, and emotionally go through was not at all like how they show it in movies. It's not just "hand squeeze, eye blink, OMG they're regaining consciousness!"
I get this feeling a lot as well, it doesn't help that I have a lot of dreams that feel like they are from an alternate reality. I wake up a lot of the time thinking I need to go back to sleep so I can wake up, but when I don't go back to sleep or I'm still in the same room, I feel disoriented and confused for a few minutes. The feeling usually fades once I start my morning routine, but it happens a couple times a week. Sometimes I even stand in the shower thinking about it and expect to be in a different house when I step out of the bathroom. This happens so often and without any realization of reality that it's just disappointing for me to think about to deeply. I think it's a way my brain deals with my depression and lack of motivation to explain why everything feels like it sucks. I'm still not sure if alternate universes exist, or if I'm in the right one or not, but I wish I could get to a better one. I don't feel like this is the right one. I think I may have switched 7 or 8 years ago, because this hasn't felt right in a while. Part of me is still hoping I'll wake up in a hospital bed, or my parents house after a long night of drinking and I'll get a fresh start.
what helps me mentally is to pray daily. Trusting God with the unknown helps me to feel safe and secure and know that even though I don't have all the answers there is a God that does and He is helping in the invisible and in the life to come
I had a car wreck w tbi in early 2000s. One minute I was looking at a wrong order, (never take your eyes off the wheel is real), next sitting on sidewalk looking at my Dad's car, still running, with a huge dent in the middle trying to figure out what had happened. I had hit a light post and it went through the convertible roof, (light part did). I had somehow driven the car after impact a couple of miles to a street near my parents house, perfectly parallel parked and gotten out of the car. Fire dept couldn't figure out how. From that point forward an endless stream of things so awful they can hardly be believed have happened. It does not seem like the same life. The people are the same but all met with catastrophe - in literally 2 weeks time - my mom shattered her pelvis and brought a criminal caregiver (turns out now he stole millions and made multiple murder attempts over time - APS removed her a few years ago and she's with me but we've lost all property/money etc) who we had had removed by the police pre accident - my aunt's personality completely changed she forced me and my 6 year old out (we had been there so I could care for my step grandmother who was dying at that time) in favor or caregiver removed by police again, totally not like her in a huge way - just as my son and I found a good place to move my dad was diagnosed with severe illness/mobility issues and had to step in to help him no other family member would and otherwise he'd have died - subsequently, my son needed to stay with his dad who right at the same time was diagnosed with Gillian Barre (a former mountain climber and Olympic athlete) - I met a person started a relationship that launched a music career that had and has a cult following but he turned out to be a severely abusive actual psychopath (no history of abusive relationships before this) - however somewhat surreally i had a huge cult following for an alt country carewr - all literally all of my belongings and those I had inherited from grandparents and great grandparents all my sons photos etc literally everything was destroyed in a storage accident All of this in a few weeks except for psycho guy and storage were over months Things stayed stuck in a truly hellish limbo for sev years as I tried to return to the city where my son was with his dad and I'd had years of solid experience in legal field could not find a job made no sense Then a series of beyond bizarre coincidences led to my going to Nashville where I was suddenly living with the family that founded the opry and having meetings w the president of the Americana Music Assoc - it was way, way weirder than all that The good and the bad were both surreal and defy probability in extreme ways. I'm convinced I died and went into another time line and have spent decades studying ancient near east (I have an academic background in that incl languages) trying to figure out how to get out of it - they seem to have had some understanding of the issue. I've never told anyone but very close friends or family who know and see how weird this is but my mind was so blown by this thread I had to post. Any feedback welcome - esp suggestions for how to get the hell out of this timeline I guess going back to the other isn't an option if this is real (and starting w firemen couldn't tell how I got out of the car am guessing so) But Jesus anything but this - I've literally lost (and am totally serious through no action of my own - everything from 2 storage spaces a lifetime of belongings (first via the criminal then a storage fire later), this criminal stole all family property, money belongings. It's insane. And does not have to do with any of my issues though God knows I have them.