The Most Disturbing Reddit Lamp Story - MrBallen

[@ChrisWillx]

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[@version_4_v]

One of the best podcasts, sir!

[@ElGrancuco12345]

You will own nothing, have nothing, but you will be happy.

[@FireStick-nu4pn]

Sad that he didn’t make it real. Was probably his destiny but he gave up. That’s the real tragedy!

[@tamarahutzel6605]

Mr Ballen has the perfect voice and tones, to tell the very best stories. Love your channel, thank you for having him on. Love from Maryland USA

[@kellysavage7073]

hey that is truly my last name cool savage

[@croatiancroissant28776]

I lost my daughter years ago when she was 8. To this day, a few times a week, she comes to me in my dreams. Like my life never ended with her. Perpetually 8 years old. I wake up crying. Been happening for years. I can imagine this guy’s pain.

[@lilshortie8991]

Wow I'm really sad couldn't imagine that

[@beltdrivetypea6534]

Arh man 😞

[@sigmaticus]

Constant dreams about them is a symptom of C-PTSD, I have the same thing about my lil brother who died. Hope you doing ok

[@AlteredAmygdala]

I lost my best friend about 10 years ago. The year before her husband also a long time friend. This year I lost my little sister. My best friend came to me first then her husband. The next time they came together. Then this year my sister came about 9months after her passing. These are different then any other dreams I have. They give me cues so I know I'm dreaming in the dream. I asked my sister "are you happy?" She said "yes, it's better then on earth " it's the only time I was able to get a question out. Someone could tell me it's just a dream but I know it's not. Not every person I've lost comes to me. Lost my dad this year and he hasn't come yet. Anyways .I completely know they do...

[@charlestonw801st]

Lost my brother when I was 21 he was 19, I'm 36 now and it still happens he's still my goofy punk little brother at 19 in my dreams talk to him and everything I know what that's like the brain is such a fascinating weird thing my condolences.

[@raezor82]

He should have known something was off once they were able to buy a house two years after graduation.

[@СтефановићКараџић]

😂😂😂

[@TDArulesclub4]

Probably was the 1980s

[@Freeman-eo2lx]

Right

[@sharonflowers66]

​@@TDArulesclub4 John said it was 2004

[@niallrussell7184]

..both had jobs they liked.

[@jordanmatthews4749]

"Row row row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily merrily, Life is but a dream."

[@Duncansigurdsson]

Creepy 😅

[@chrisallen1296]

Belts Off, Trousers Down Isn't Life A Scream - UGH

[@jarredCut]

why was this creepy... lol...

[@TTTTTTTTT853]

Bro is a horror movie narrator

[@goofverdinus165]

is this from tolkien?

[@HongKongEclectic]

I've had a similar experience, waking up from a dream that was SO real I felt genuine grief when I realised it wasn't real

[@kindofanmol]

Has happened with me multiple times. I always assumed everyone goes through this at least once in their life.

[@kahopukehau]

I have multiple dreams and experiences like this constantly and it's brutal to wake up to. My wife says "it's just a dream it's not real" but I've experienced real life heartache and trauma just from a dream that I wake up and are so affected that I just wake up start drinking alcohol. I know it seems like an excuse but I legit, in my dream, experience pain and loss so hard that I question my reality when I'm awake. I experience the death of my kids, my wife, myself my relatives and it feels REAL. The PTSD that hardcore dreamers can develop is no joke.

[@HongKongEclectic]

@@kahopukehau Absolutely. More than once, I've woken up and realised what reality is and just wanted to break down crying. Brutal.

[@marccas10]

I dreamt that I had hundreds of thousands of pounds under my bed in a briefcase. I can vividly remember the relaxed joy feeling that I could go where I want, do what I wanted etc? I woke and for about 10 seconds I laid back and smiled with my eyes still shut and basked in the feeling.....then... erm....oh.....no! No! I almost got put of bed to look under it. Then bang! Like a wave of depression it hit me. There was no money...today would be like yesterday and yesterday would be like tomorrow. More grind!

[@rhino202]

I have it happen often.

[@bvbxiong5791]

i'm the opposite of that guy...i've got no wife, no kids, no life, no money. i'm just waiting to wake up from my coma too.

[@stewartredman2287]

Yup:(

[@julieking4304]

pray every day for God;s guidance

[@Menaceblue3]

I hear that if you eat those small silica gel packets, you automatically get released from the matrix and into the real world.... It also works with mixing ammonia and bleach gas in your bathroom too! Just an FYI! P.S. please don't do the things I listed above! It's a joke!

[@hed420]

Same....

[@dewahiweunmoatzn]

be happy!people with kids and wedding ring suffer the most!look around!think for yourself!

[@Bedroom_Studios]

"A fraction of a second; like 10 seconds." - Mr. Ballen. 🤣 I love it

[@jguenther3049]

That would be 40 fourths of a second.

[@KinjiUrba]

It's like that. Sometimes it seems I've dreamt 1 year, and I've only slept 15 minutes.

[@greyangelpilot]

I caught that too, but thought it might be imbedded into my delusional KZbin dreamstate realm.

[@markbombini7715]

i also noticed and found it funny, not often does he make this type of error that i have seen, come to think of it- he wasnt the editor on this video was he? lol just commenting because ihad the same thought as i heard it

[@quokka_11]

@@jguenther3049 Nice fraction 👍🏼

[@richardcard82]

Kayla: He's probably thinking about other girls Mitch: LAMP

[@JohnLoogleman]

I'm here for you. Underrated comment that needs it's due praise. 😂

[@themc3311]

I love lamp.

[@snownotwhite]

😂😂😂

[@george7141]

man, i sometimes love the internet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

At one point, the lamp probably morphed into the Leg Lamp from A Christmas Story.

[@ayd5108]

I’m 56 now and when I was around 10 years old, I woke up in my bed and experienced an entire family and life as a mother. First thing I saw were my hands as I stretched. I had a wedding band on and my nails were manicured (didn’t know what this was called at the time). I immediately turned to my right and saw a man sleeping with his back to me. I got up and met my 2 children and made them breakfast. I was living this experience, not dreamlike at all. I remember going back to bed and falling asleep. I woke up and fully expected to see my husband and children, but I was 10 years old again….I was so heartbroken.

[@teeblackwell6301]

Maybe it's from your past life

[@liazone]

It sounds like dual-dreaming or levels of dreams. A dream within a dream, perhaps?

[@snakey319]

usually this happens as toddlers, or younger.

[@Sam-fn8qi]

That's cute

[@jimmydee935]

So u were a 10yr old boy that awoke as a woman with a husband and after REawakening and finding the hubby and kids not real, but back to ur 10yr old, male, self…you felt upset? That’s a crazy story. 😂😂

[@Mickle-daPickl]

I get that the alterations were made for the story to be a bit more entertaining and possibly simpler, but here's a few that I feel actually add to the original story: 1. He never said the lamp was blurry. He said "the perspective of the lamp was odd. Like inverted. It was still in 3D but...just...wrong". I feel that the lamp having some incomprehensible dimensional inaccuracy is more entertaining than being blurry and upside down. 2. The moment he noticed the lamp, he never took his eyes off of it. It was an obsession instantly because of how inexplainably weird it was. He never did the "ahh, whatever" approach. One of my favorite quotes from this story comes from this section, too: "I stopped eating. I left the couch only to use the bathroom at first, soon I stopped that too as I wasn't eating or drinking." 3. He made it clear early on that his son was his pride and joy. Much more so than his wife and daughter. Which is why his son is the one that he can still see even after these events. "My son was the joy of my life." He explicitly states this about his son, and ONLY his son. Thanks to anyone who read this far. I don't usually make comments this long, but I wanted to share some cool bits from the original story that people might not have known.

[@Blula]

Thank you the lamp description was a bit irritating knowing the story.

[@mommakimmins5554]

I spent a month in a coma. I watched a family from a third person perspective for GENERATIONS. Unconsciousness is absolutely insane

[@Bballer12ification]

I need to hear more about this

[@23ADJ93]

Yesss

[@LUKA_911]

Tell us more!

[@Nick-Salv]

How could you confirm that it was a real family and real occurrences and not just a long dream? Genuinely curious, not trolling! I find it all fascinating but also don’t believe everything people tell me or what my own mind tells me sometimes 😉

[@bethclarke9548]

A friend in High school, was in an car accident and was in a coma for 2/3 months! After she recovered, she said that she was in a top corner of the ceiling of her room, looking down at herself and could see and hear everything that was going on while she was in the coma!! Afterwards she would tell her family and friends when they visited her and what they said...and she was always correct!!

[@caseymacmacl7463]

I had a very similar experience in 1988. I was on a cultural exchange in Zaire and I caught Malaria. It was excruciating. I had a temp of 105+ and was delirious for days. When the fever finally broke I had lost over 30 pounds and was weak as water for weeks but I finished the exchange, went home to Canada, and went back to school to become an RN. Two weeks after I got home my best friend's older brother, that I'd had a crush on since 5th grade, called me and asked me out. We were married three months after I graduated and became an RN. He'd started working for the police force in the small town we were both born in right out of high school. I had very bad endometriosis and we went through 4 heartbreaking miscarriages before our daughters were born. My incredibly selfless SIL/BFF carried them for her brother and I. Life was bliss right up until the morning I woke up to find that someone had ripped the roof off our house and the most intense beam of light I've ever seen was blinding me. My fever had broken. The light that blinded me was a doctor's penlight as he checked my pupillary reflexes. None of it had happened. I was still in Zaire. The folks in charge of the exchange had actually been making arrangements to have me airlifted to the closest place with a functioning hospital because the one in Zaire was an absolute horror and, apparently, I'd been very close to death. It took me YEARS to come to terms with none of it being real. I did return to Canada but my BFF got married and moved away a few months later and her brother never asked me out. I moved away from our hometown because every time I saw him with his girlfriend it broke my heart. I've never told anyone about it because it seemed so absolutely ridiculous and nobody would have believed me anyhow and it didn't REALLY happen so what's the big deal? I've written a handful of novels (nothing published) and I did include it in one of the storylines for one of my main characters but I ended up not including it in the final draft because, even a decade later, it still seemed too far fetched for anyone to believe. I'm sooo happy to know that I'm not alone!!

[@WilliamAstromAW]

Absolutely soul crushing stuff, i’m so sorry you had to go through that

[@timboslice8559]

How long did it take you to lose 30 pounds just wondering. How long did the fever last?

[@1223santigato]

Hard to believe.

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

Yes your alone as this supports solipsism a pooopy belief that reality I not real ooo

[@Bent-rAgE-559]

You had me trippin' when you said your BFF carried her older brothers baby 😮

[@AmberJ6]

This story gives me hope. I lost my son 841 days ago. He was 23, the sun in my sky..... I've continued somehow to put one foot in front of the other and continue on, for my family.... But inside I'm dying. Everyday i think it can't hurt any worse but everyday it does. Maybe I'm pulling a Mitch. Maybe my son is still here, thriving & just fine, and I'm having some kind of traumatic brain injury. What a beautiful thing to think of instead of what's been my reality.

[@slavexcalledxshiver]

I remember reading this story for the first time. It resonated with me because I can relate to that pain. I once had a dream that felt years-long. I had an incredible husband and children. A beautiful house, my dream job, everything I ever wanted. It was extremely vivid. Waking up from that dream and realizing that none of it was real was the most intensely soul-crushing experience of my life. I was lost in severe depression for years. It took a very, very long time to recover. I just wanted my family back. I still think about them.

[@keithymg]

The brain n dreamstate are unreal.

[@nicoledoubleyou0621]

I've had dreams that felt like years long and I was in a relationship with an amazing man. I loved him soo deeply and we were so happy together. He was my best friend. When I woke up and realized it was a dream I felt like my heart was destroyed. (Been single for over 8yrs) It's crazy how the brain works, dreams are so weird and so interesting.

[@slavexcalledxshiver]

@@nicoledoubleyou0621 I'm sorry it's happened to you. Waking up in that bed alone... I wouldn't wish that shit on anyone. I hope you're okay now.

[@scaryren]

no shot bro

[@ritaw9479]

I once had a very vivid dream that my husband was having an affair and confessed it in this dream. I woke up so completely angry with him that I could hardly look at him. It stayed with me all day. It was just a dream. Turned out my husband was really having an affair and my subconscious knew it, took a couple of months before I knew it too.

[@deliverypickle5889]

I had a friend who had a similar experience except we took a large dose of mushrooms while watching movies with a few friends. He woke up after sleeping for a bit and told us he had a full life as a Vietnamese rice farmer. He remembers the feeling of dying of pancreatic cancer while he’s kids and grand kids were surrounding him and his wife as he layed on his death bed then came too once he died

[@hallodu2506]

he came ?

[@curiosdogg]

Same. On mushrooms. I wasn't a Vietnamese rice farmer but I did live a whole life. Edit: ok. There's enough of us here saying the same thing and if ANYONE is telling the truth, WTF is going on? I was just putting some stuff out there but for real, that experience messed me up a long time. Never-did-shrooms-again messed up.

[@deliverypickle5889]

@@hallodu2506 got off one last load on some rice patties before he got back to reality

[@joereinartz1369]

@@hallodu2506 oh that importance of knowing the difference between to and too

[@molassio1989]

Not shrooms, but acid for me, I was all the different members of a super religious family. They had all kinds of odd slang, and were gossiping about with one another, and I was them, and they, me. Example of the strange slang "oh my gosh, Brittney is a prextal porpoise" which meant that Brittney had engaged in premarital intercourse. Man oh man.

[@geneil26]

I always dream that my little sister was still alive, I always experience grief every time I wake up. Sometimes I just wish I never wake up and live with her in the dream world.

[@snalls6]

My little sister was killed in 1984 and I still do the same thing :(

[@geneil26]

@@snalls6 Does it get better or easier?

[@snalls6]

@@geneil26 It hasn't for me. I miss her so much😓

[@Duncansigurdsson]

So very sorry. That must be rough.

[@Aelea]

You'll see your little sisters again. I promise.

[@anjpunk]

Commendable - MrBallen's fluent explanation without a cut and explaining just as he does in his regular videos ♥️

[@smartman123]

amazing story teller

[@adriennekramberg6397]

Host interrupting Mr Ballen, though??? He surely doesn't need help telling a story. 😮

[@absinthealice]

Anyone who's heard Mr Ballen speak knows they're going to get a great story, fictional or fact. The man is a natural!

[@Dluiogbre]

I’m actually a bit shocked. He seems a bit nervous talking about it in the beginning. Voice is shaky… and he still crushes it lol

[@RobertStewart-i3m]

I watch his stuff all the time. Excellent storyteller

[@Daring2Win]

I've heard or read this story several times over the years, but NO ONE tells it better than Mr. Ballen.

[@scaringthecheese]

Heard it for the first time on Mr. Ballen's channel. I work with brain injuries and could totally feel what this guy experienced.

[@nicholnixon7310]

Same here

[@absinthealice]

Mr Ballen really is one of the best storytellers online! ❤

[@stevenedwards8353]

MrBallen is one of the few storytellers that I will not skip stories I've heard other places for. He's THAT good!

[@dustintrussell3490]

I heard it years ago on what I believe was the original posting of it, but its changed.. There was no lamp in the original and the kid came to and realized everything the moment he woke up with all the people around him. Great story. Didnt believe it then and even more so now.

[@Tars_1981]

Silence of the Lamps.

[@retrosonghits]

😂

[@5ivenineteen]

I was looking for this comment. Well played🙇‍♂️

[@davidsmith-fc9cu]

That made me laugh.

[@kiwigirl6135]

😂😂😂

[@michaelhooper6227]

Brilliance* of the lamp

[@jarosawjaskuowski3179]

I had a dream. I had a life, wife, kids, I was happy. It was the most real thing I ever had. When I woke up from that "life" to this (people here call it the real life, but I call it a nightmare dream), I begged to fall asleep again and come back to that. I was the happiest person there. I had all memories, the whole story. Everything.

[@carmenross7063]

I have that same feeling all the time. In this life Im in the wrong place. Sometimes I can't wait to go to sleep and see them again.

[@jarosawjaskuowski3179]

@@carmenross7063 what you dream about? Did you identify something about the wrong thing?

[@carolkingsafer9728]

Watch Family Man 😉

[@lynnewright31]

​@@carolkingsafer9728 I love that movie.

[@jarosawjaskuowski3179]

@@carolkingsafer9728 I like your suggestion but this is yet another trauma box that opens. I always wanted to live all possible lifes.

[@mmkoogler]

Consciousness is a freaky thing. I had been totally out from having seizures for too long. When I came to in the ICU, they asked me how long I thought I had been there. I thought 2 or 3 days, maybe. They told me I had been in the ICU for 10 days already. I also kept ripping my IVs out while they were working on me because from my perspective, I saw myself in a morgue with a mortician trying to embalm me while I was still alive. But the reality was that it was a doctor or nurse that was putting my IVs back in and I was laying in a hospital bed. I was in the hospital for almost a month and I had terrible hallucinations that the nurses were out to get me.

[@lynnewright31]

I'm so sorry that happened to you.😢

[@mmkoogler]

@lynnewright31 thank you 💞

[@bellzTolled3]

​@@mmkoogler❤

[@paulapalais]

I'm so sorry you went through that. I hope you have been able to heal from the trauma. 😢

[@TamelaJC]

Some of them actually are evil

[@JohnDavidSullivan]

I lost my dad in 2011. A week or two later I had a dream where I came downstairs in my old house and he told me he was leaving and he wasn't coming back. Then we hugged and I told him "I want you to know how proud I am to be your son." I woke up crying. Felt so real.

[@nineteen8486]

it was real.......

[@kahopukehau]

I have dreams like this constantly and they are absolutely brutal on your psyche. Don't take people for granted who have problems and can't cope just because of "bad dreams". In these dreams we can actually feel time, pain and heartache similar to what would be assumed to feel like real life.

[@edwardnielsen3408]

Me too, most every night

[@gloomysunday9534]

hell yeah, i also have dreams like that and im heartbroken when i wake up ! its crazy what the brain can do

[@jacobblanton3464]

Dude I feel like this some days I was in a bad car wreck in November of last year but now I’m living my dream life with my fiancé

[@SSS-pn9ex]

Sounds like that Star Trek The Next Generation episode called "The Inner Light", where Picard lives an entire life of a member of a dead civilization (a husband, father, then grandfather) in a few moments. It's the only episode that ever made me cry the first time I saw it. I can't imagine having to carry the weight of an entire life of experience. I'd never wish to be immortal for this reason.

[@DoctorHemi]

That was the first thing I thought of, too...and yes, that was a very profound episode of TNG.

[@jeffreysmith694]

that's the 1st thing I thought of after hearing this.

[@SSS-pn9ex]

@@DoctorHemi Yeah, from what I've read it was one of the highest rated episodes for the series with critics and an overall fan favorite as well.

[@DoctorHemi]

@@SSS-pn9ex Definitely one of my favorites...and THE most moving episode. Now, I need to go watch it again. 🙂

[@Pedr4m]

I thought the exact same thing. My favourite episode. Could be where this Redditor got the story from and just modified it.

[@robbaholic]

When I was 16, I had a very realistic dream that seemed to last months. I met a girl online and she eventually moved to my city. I was excited to introduce her to all my friends, to show off how popular I was, how I made everyone laugh; all of the silly things a young boy in love thinks are important. After an exciting first day of school, we took the bus back to my house, but immediately upon getting off the bus, we noticed we were being followed. A dozen men in black suits followed us on the walk/run to my house, and just as we burst through the front door, I see my mom and stepdad coming down the stairs. I begged them to help, begged them to not let them take her away, but they said there was nothing they could do. The men in black suits took her away, and I woke up feeling like my heart had been ripped out of my chest. I can’t even remember her face, but I’ll never forget that feeling.

[@WyvernX_]

Imagine that did happen and your memory has been wiped from it

[@FaithAndRepentance]

In 1999 the same thing happened to me without the head injury. Lost the love of my life when i awoke and felt the ache in my heart for years. I was a teen then as well

[@carlosfley3768]

Sorry to hear, hope things are okay, and you’re coping

[@davidboland8879]

A woman by the name of Dolores Cannon created a technique called the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) for Healing & Past Life Regression. She has since passed, but if you search this subject matter, you will be able to find a QHHT Practitioner in your area. The experience is quite remarkable. I would Highly Recommend to Anyone who has had a similar experience to follow this path to find Closer & to Better Understand Your Experience. Good Luck, and Please let us know with a follow up if You decide to go this route. You were shown this experience for a reason, and it’s up to you to find out why. I’m Excited to hear Your Story! God Bless!!

[@bluerayzzz]

this happened to me as well, I always wish that was not a dream rather truth of some another universe

[@kevinconway2965]

And I bet you were an emo kid too, right?

[@mysticfellow9843]

Sorry to hear that. Out of curiosity, do you still sometimes think about the supposed partner you had or does it not bother you anymore?

[@wallywest2360]

I'm sure this story has been blown out of proportion, but I can believe it. Even without a head injury I've had dreams that were so real the transition back to reality was strange. I still have memories from dreams that feel as real as any other memory. I also have lucid dreams frequently. I imagine a lot of people can't believe a story like this because they've never experienced anything like it, but it is a real thing. Of course it could be made up, or at least greatly embellished, but I've experienced similar things.

[@carmenross7063]

I believe the story is true. Who's to say that life is real and this life is the dream.

[@danf7411]

When I used to stay up for days on ❄ and finally go to bed the dreams were unbelievable. Not only did I feel like I was seeing another reality I would dream I was other people. Never had anything close to that since

[@josharzt4364]

@wallywest2360 I haven't listened to the story yet.This is my roommate's phone mine's Dead right now but my name is Kasey And since I was a little girl, I've also had very lucid dreams and almost every night. I mean, I remember more of my dreams than I do of my reality half the time and it's still going on today. I'm 40 now. Well alright, I'm 45, but whatever. But what does that mean when you have dream states like this?Like what does all this shit mean? Ever since I can remember, I always had dreams a re occurring dreams about a little tiny witch on a broomsdick that couldn't have been bigger than my hand but she would zoom around and she would like come up from the left side of my bed And then come over across my field of vision and yell nasty things at me Before flying and zooming down the other side of my bed where I couldn't see her anymore and then she would zoom up from somewhere else and it would scare the s*** out of me. And they were re occurring dreams that young. I remember being a teenager and oh yeah, and my family was always trying to kill me. Trying to poison me or trick me into doing something that was gonna kill me. But I remember being a teenager and laying in bed with my boyfriend. And it would feel so real and he be holding me and I would be spooning or something and then I would turn my head to look at him and he would turn his head to me, but he would He would be like this clown the scariest clown!!! A lot of the dreams that I have are like not dreams.They're nightmares. Like they feel like horror movies. And I don't even watch horror movies. Because I don't want to put that s*** in my head. It's already in there. You know what I mean? I don't know. I just don't know what the hell it all means....any thoughts?? I'm asking because the way you describe your dreaming. Kind of sounds like the way that I dream.

[@mj2672]

I went through something similar and to this day have to ask husband is something really happened or was from that time in my life. I spent almost a year in a nursing home even

[@arosefortes6507]

​@@josharzt4364 Often times real life is a nightmare and our dreams are a way of dealing with what your brain can't cope with in real time. Why some people can't recall vast amounts of childhood . Our brain has a safety feature so to say, of blurring/ filtering out in order to function and survive! I have vivid lucid dreams and often in color, but no clue what that means

[@andyfreeman6865]

This happened to me in a dream when I was 8. I died from cancer at 33, and to this day, I remember that family I had. I remember my wife as I slipped away into darkness. Then I woke up. It made me depressed for a long time.

[@robinwagoner7217]

That was a really sad story. I've read several stories just like this one. There's a series of books by a guy named Tom Slemen, he's from Liverpool England and he has written 100+ books maybe, but he has a series called Haunted Liverpool, I've read all of them, I think there's 36 in this series. They are all well researched stories of people's encounters with the Paranormal, time slips, strange creatures, witches, vampires and all forms of high strangeness. He's written about 7 or 8 people that the exact same thing has happened to them as this story MrBallen just told. Most of these books are on Amazon, a lot are out of print. Great video!

[@mj2672]

The red lamp story is not paranormal

[@lbar9720]

Thank you. I just ordered them.

[@ajc7865]

I’m from Liverpool nvr heard of this thx for telling will have a look

[@laurieclarkson9180]

Neat! Thanks for mentioning those books! They sound awesome!

[@BestGta6plays]

Was just talking about tom slemen and the time slip on bold street

[@lbar9720]

As crazy as this may sound, I don't think this life never existed for him; I think this life was a past-life, and he went back to that time because it was so great for him. We just don't know what's happened before us or after us, but I firmly believe that our existence in our present time is a very small moment, and somewhere deep inside we hold the memories of our Soul's experiences.

[@nicholnixon7310]

Me too. Because right now I'm dealing with something like the r word when I was looking at a picture of my fiance friend. . I feel the hair's in the back of my head stand up and ears perk up. I told him I don't want to be anywhere near him until I figure out why I'm feeling like that

[@cgcg0303]

I concur

[@keymaster430]

@@nicholnixon7310 Like, you were SA'd by him at one time?

[@mj-rg9kp]

Past life doesn’t exist. It’s actually an illusion that a demon places in our head to mess with us. No joke,, but you can choose not to believe it

[@mattdragoo7057]

There is 100% life after death. And you will find this life by believing and following our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There is no past lives, that’s something put inside your head by the devil to draw you further from God.

[@retrokoh]

I heard about this story many years ago online (2012?) and thought it was insane. I forgot about it for over a decade. Then to hear MrBallen talk about it in his video was a trip.

[@LeviBulger]

It's completely made up. Once I found that out, I forgot about it again

[@hensonlaura]

@@LeviBulger Where did you learn that it was made up?

[@KINGPUTIN]

I saw the documentary in 2001, it's called a Beautiful Mind. Narrated by Russell Crow.

[@geraldallsman2803]

This feels like a rehash of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...a short story I read in high school in the 80s. Great read for anyone who's interested.

[@videotampa]

Yes I just wrote that as well! But it's also been a popular retelling in TV shows such as Star Trek The Next Generation in their episode called 'The Inner Light'.

[@scaringthecheese]

OMG.. An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge BLEW my mind. I was a freshman in high school and our English Lit teacher had us watch the video. I think it's on KZbin here somewhere.. Still profound, but that first time gutted me...

[@mentallydisturbedscience8900]

Hey! I think I remember reading that story!

[@janiced3090]

It was also retold in one of the original series of the Twilight Zone.

[@scaringthecheese]

@@janiced3090 Which one, please? I can't recall the episode.

[@Sb129]

I've had dreams like that and even as the dream memories fade I can't help but feel a huge loss for something that never happened.

[@dougrigel1997]

That happened to me just last night. I woke up from the dream and was so sad it wasn't true. I have had dreams like that and when I woke I wished I could go back.

[@jimbolic0809]

@@dougrigel1997 Yes. Same. My sadness would only last a couple of seconds, though, and I think it's due to the memory of those reams being fleeting. However, I think the difference for Mitch in the story is that his brain kept those dreams very strongly.

[@guyindecatur]

Ditto. You wake knowing it was a dream but are still consumed by your grief until it fades over the next few minutes.

[@kennyhiggins7806]

@@guyindecatur I’ve had a dream about a girl, and was so happy with my dream life that when I wake up, I find myself looking for that girl everywhere! I’ve wondered if that dream life was from my past life, if that’s a thing!

[@foxf6]

I once was knocked unconscious and met a friends mother who passed away 2 years prior, she was given medication for a surgery and while in recovery had adverse effects and basically over dosed in her sleep. She told me several things about him and his family only they would know. I explained all this to him in full detail as soon as I came to and could be alone with him. He started balling and asked me to get a ride and we have never talked since that day in 2009. It was the strangest thing I’ve ever had happen in my life.

[@Agimus_AGO56]

I've heard of these dreams, but not to this extent. I use to draw blood, and sometimes people pass out. It's typical vasovegal syncopy. For most people, they know it will happen and can warn me. Some people even get the urge to giggle when you draw their blood. One guy, who happened to be a coworker who I happened to believe, passed out for a few seconds and when he woke up he told me about the roadtrip that he just took in his dream. It lasted weeks, and he was aware that he was probably only out for about 4 seconds because it apparently happens to him regularly. I wouldn't know how to confirm it, and I can't speak to the accuracy of the story in the video.

[@mj2672]

Wow!

[@kbcustoms3571]

I had blood drawn once and hadn't hydrated myself beforehand. Things got blurry. I remember making a really awful facial expression for a long time, I had passed out. I awoke being held by 2 male nurses and a female nurse kindly let me know that I had peed all over the place and that I was going to need to get new clothes...lol.

[@joedistin]

I was working at a med supply company, and dozed off at my desk one day after lunch-it was only for a minute or two. But when I did, I was suddenly standing in an apartment in the city, and I was a realtor, showing the apartment off to a young couple. Apparently I clicked in at the wrong moment, and they were asking me questions about the place-how do I know, lady? I just got here… I told them the kitchen was *probably* through the next door, ran to the window to try to find out how I got to that 3rd-floor walk-up from my desk at the med supply company…and then woke up back at work. I wonder if I disappeared after that, or if my alternate self took back control of the showing?

[@jmsblk1]

We might be a type of holographic projector where the possible endless paths our lives can take are all existing at the same time over endless dimensions where every now and then we get a glimpse of the possibilities not taken.

[@joedistin]

@Treeofwysdm haha no bullshitting here! It was so bizarre-especially jumping into a dream so quickly. And it didn’t feel like a dream-it felt real? Like I’d been at that apartment showing the whole time, and I was daydreaming about being at my real job until the couple started asking questions-and then I just clicked back into that reality? I was still myself (I think, never saw a mirror), but I’ve never been a realtor or had any interest in it. Or Maybe I wasn’t me-I didn’t even think about that until now! Maybe I was a totally different person-actually I have no idea? It was only for a minute or two, until I woke up back at my desk at work-I’ve had weird dreams before, but this didn’t feel like a dream

[@Gigadander]

I've had dreams like that. I just assume that you'd disappear. For me it was a recent dream I had where my girlfriend and I were looking for a show to watch on KZbin and couldn't find anything good so she went to get a DVD from somewhere and as she was coming back through the door behind me I kind of zoned out waiting then woke up. I kind of feel like I left her hanging. In my waking life I live alone. Sometimes my ex wife drops our daughter off at my house, but I'm single.

[@quokka_11]

This is exactly what some people experience during a temporal lobe epileptic seizure. Not the kind of seizure where you stiffen up or have spasms, but instead the person just looks like they are "zoning out" for a few seconds or minutes. When they "wake up," they may have just experienced an entirely different life and have trouble integrating it with their objectively 'real' life, some of which they may have temporarily forgotten. Chase Hughes of The Behavior Panel posted some videos recently describing his experiences with it.

[@GregHaibon-h3t]

I'm gonna look him up!

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

Not as harrowing for an experience, but just today, I stumbled upon a clip on KZbin of a Japanese movie from around 2009-ish. It was about four men from different backgrounds who became acquainted because of a stray cat they took care of, starring Abe Hiroshi, Takeru Satoh, and two more actors I'm familiar with but couldn't recall their names. The clip shows a portion of the bittersweet ending where the cat crosses the rainbow bridge and the men go back to their personal lives, apparently having their relationships with their spouses and families rekindled, as the movie ends with a monologue of the four reminiscing their late cat. And then I woke up from my short nap. Turns out I was dreaming of myself randomly browsing KZbin, and watching a video of a movie that never existed. What's crazy was the quality of the clip was exactly something like a DVD rip you would find around that era, the actors looked exactly like how they used to 15 years ago, and there was a song that sounded like something sung by Greeen playing during the reunion scenes. It feels like our brains are capable of making false memories complete with enough details that make you think you were already living on a non-existent event.

[@rottsandspots]

There are some Japanese authors that write excellent fictional stories on cats and the cat/owner dynamic. I'm not sure if any have been made into movies. Your dream would make a great book/movie 😊

[@JacquiMcCarron21]

How do you know it was a false memory? I think what you experienced is just as real as this is. Ever experienced mandela effects? I do on the daily so let me tell you this reality isn't concrete at all

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

​@@JacquiMcCarron21 Because I literally woke up from that dream? The only explanation is that the dream made a perfect amalgamation of the movies and dramas I used to watch during my college days to the point my brain perceived it to be real. The weird thing is why did it decide to dig memories from 15 years ago? At least the part where I dreamt of seeing the video on KZbin made sense since I really was watching some KZbin videos on my phone before I took that nap that day.

[@Thedarkbunnyrabbit]

@@GlassesnMouthplates While I don't agree with him what he's implying is your dream was not a false memory but a memory of a timeline/reality that once existed but no longer does, or is a close parallel reality you somehow experienced at some point or a parallel you experienced. It's some pseudo-scientific theories based off of the many worlds theory.

[@kalabakonbitts1362]

There is multi universe theory, some theorize we don’t just refresh our systems while sleeping but we also visit other paths we took while dreaming. I myself can enter others minds and see what they see, so who is to say what dreams are? Check out the monroe institute.

[@Mcfunface]

This story was made up by a redditor who did 2 AMAs and then ghosted everyone on a burner account.

[@NotAnonymousNo80014]

It's also a Start Trek episode.

[@LUKA_911]

Lmaooo

[@anthonycollari2134]

I was going to say, this sounds very much like classic Reddit clickbait fiction lol

[@wolfginia129]

@@blondeenotsomuch Ask Me Anything

[@LUKA_911]

@@blondeenotsomuch Ask Me Anything

[@sur_mimesterr]

This should be a movie, this would mess with peoples minds and hurt them in a way they've never felt.

[@robertbeecroft5570]

I had a traumatic, abusive childhood. Even since I got away from it, I’m afraid to go to sleep sometimes. I just get filled with this sense of dread and the fear that when I wake up, I’ll be back there. I’ll wake up to see my entire life up to this point has been a dream. I was so screwed up the first time I heard this story. It just stoked that phobia hahahaha. Man, if it ever does happen to me, I’ll just find a way to check out. I wouldn’t be able to handle living with the memories of my kids, my family, my LIFE and knowing it didn’t really happen.

[@g.dalfleblanc63]

Well I'm real (I think lol), so the life you've made is real.

[@kittenhasclaws3006]

I had a similar experience growing up - a lot of heavy shit.. and one day (napping) I was in a terrible lucid dream… unable to wake up .. in the dream I was a baby .. at first it was day to day kinda stuff depicted in the dream,, but I knew it wasn’t right ..like I knew i couldn’t seem to wake up but at the same time I knew I was a toddler .. I started to think I had died.. that this must be my new vessel .. I was trying to adjust to this revelation - everything I saw was very limited to my perspective of mostly being on my back in a crib .. or crawling .. and as the dream went on .. i sensed there was another person in the dream - and one day she peered at me over the crib - it was my actual mother (who had passed in real life) but now very young - peering over the crib at me .. .. I woke up in real life ..screaming: ..”no no no ! not again please god not again - not again!” I thought I’d been reincarnated to them.. again! .. my absolute worst nightmare. I was so relieved to actually wake up… hope to god to never have to live this life again with them.

[@AlexandraZe]

Our brains are just so weird. I was watching this series and there was an actor in a secondary role that I paid no attention to, in particular. One night I had a dream about me and him being in a relationship and it lasted for quite some time and I totally, completely fell in love with him in my dream. Waking up, my life felt totally strange. The feelings were still there. I continued watching the series being completely smitten with the actor and (even though I am a grown adult), I spent the next few months crying over a relationship I never had. I started following him on Instagram, googled pics of him non stop. Finally the series ended and I cried some more, but in time, it faded away. I still see his posts sometimes online. He's not an extremely famous actor, but I still remember the strong feelings I had for him, and this has never happened to me, this is why it was so strange. I am not the type to fall in love easily and I never get any crushes, not at this age, at least..

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

The things the brain are capable of are both astounding and terrifying.

[@cassietherainbowsend722]

Something similar happened to me years ago. I dreamt I was married to Eric Roberts. (Julia Robert’s brother). I had only ever seen him in one movie and it was years before I had the dream, so it wasn’t like I was fixated on him. But boy did I grieve over him when I woke up. And oddly enough, I just saw a tic toc yesterday that said he was actually born here in the state I live in, which reminded me and I felt sad again about it. Fast forward to now…this is a lil odd. Our brains are pretty amazing. Or maybe parallel lives are or can be amazing?

[@rodneykingston6420]

I've always been very disturbed by the way, when I first wake up in the morning, I'm so affected by whatever my dream was, for a few seconds, I'm in a totally different life, but then, having awakened, I start to remember my real, actual, pleasantly dull life, and I know, that in a few minutes, I'm going to totally forget that exciting dream life, the one I was just fully living, good or bad. I've tried the method of writing down a few notes, a few sentences, right on waking up, about what I dreamed, but then, my mind only hangs onto the bare thread of the plot. The richness of it, all the detail still goes away. I have felt the grief of loss as this guy does, but only for a minute or two. It goes away as the dream memory fades. So given this guy's experience, I guess that's a good thing. Another weird thing about dreams: when I was a little kid, like in the years before I started school, when something odd or improbable happened in a dream, I KNEW I was asleep and dreaming. My sleeping self would actually say "ah, you must be dreaming." And at some point in my life, I lost that ability to do that.

[@permabulk1454]

I’ve had plenty of these. Like falling in love or being rich or living in a lavish country/mansion somewhere! I try not to harp, it is literally just REM sleep!

[@jacobmcdonald2907]

I know exactly the feeling you're talking about. I've always described it as a feeling of "profoundness"

[@chamonix2602]

Lucid dreams.

[@MRHG126]

My personal opinion is that these experiences are our brain tapping into parallel dimensions when it can't fully connect with our current one. Like a brain injury can tune to a different radio station briefly until the healing brings it back to ours. Quantum Physics is already showing the parallel dimension theory and thought created reality are tangible. Now if only we could get the amazing MrBallen to narrate thise studies for us!😁

[@Ben-pd2bx]

It's fun to imagine such a possibility, but there's no evidence of this being true. On the contrary, there is plenty of evidence of the brain being able to construct detailed illusions.

[@nhhdjdhdj6496]

@@Ben-pd2bx Detailed illusions? Like the one we call life?

[@Ben-pd2bx]

@@nhhdjdhdj6496 Yes, except that one relies upon sensory inputs that correspond to an objective reality shared by all. The illusion created by a traumatic brain injury is self generating.

[@Anonymous-me7wu]

I had a dream where I was an teen again but I had different parents and a little brother. Somehow our family home blew up and my mom and little brother doth died. I saw my brothers lifeless body and the fire reflecting off his eyes (I know doesn’t make sense he’d be burnt to a crisp). When I woke up I was so depressed thinking I lost my brother. In real life I’m an only child. Sometimes I still think about him and feel unbelievably sad but I have to tell myself he’s not real. Some days though I think if he is real and he’s somewhere out there that I hope he’s doing well and he’s healthy and safe. Mom too.

[@bellzTolled3]

Wow... omgosh child that eye flicker detail.. my heart goes out to you 💔

[@guyindecatur]

One of Tesla's inner-most beliefs was/is that we live in an electric universe.

[@brandihines7390]

I remember when he first posted this story on his KZbin page...it was shocking then, but even hearing it for a second time, it's shocking and hard to grasp!!🖤

[@wolfinthesno]

One of the wildest things I've ever had happen resulted from a friend rough housing with me. I was standing in the lunch line in high school, a buddy walked up to me and jokingly put his hands around my neck, when he did this, his thumb must have hit a pressure point, but the next thing I knew I was fully laid out on the lunch line floor, and I was trying to get back on my feet, my buddy and his friend were pale in the face, and clearly shaken. I vaguely remember that my head fell over side ways as I passed out but over the next 5 or 10 seconds I was apparently convulsing on the floor. The strange part was the dream that I had while I was down, my vision shot across what looked like an English countryside to a house that was perched atop a cliff over looking a beach, and it was the most insanely detailed and vivid thing I've ever seen in mind. When I woke up I couldn't get it out of my head and I couldn't focus on anything but that the rest of the day... I have vivid dreams, but none of those even come close to the vision I had when I got knocked out.

[@Petra44YT]

That's like that Star Trek TNG episode, "The Inner Light". In that episode, Captain Picard lived a whole life on another planet, when in reality he was just unconscious.

[@JenniferBoht]

I was thinking the same thing

[@Demonizer5134]

@@JenniferBoht Same

[@christa8418]

The residents of a planet that was dying set up a entire life in his head in the hopes that he could solve their climate crisis. He had a family and learned to play the flute. He was disturbed when he woke up from the experience and found out it was not real.

[@garychiang2568]

Pretty sure this story was just a retelling of that story.

[@anyatranter5588]

Mr Ballen is an amazing story teller.That was very moving and throws up so many questions about our perceived reality..I hope he finds as good a life as he experienced in those moments.

[@beck-tn9gl]

This story reminded me of the film, "Jacob's Ladder". It's amazing what the mind is capable of.

[@JacquiMcCarron21]

unless it actually was just another real reality just the same as this one -- what makes you think this reality is real? ever experienced any Mandela effects? it's certainly not real after everything I've experienced that's for sure

[@sylviabierle]

Me too

[@ephraimeischen5502]

good comparison... i remember that movie

[@truerosie]

I absolutely loved that movie, thanks for the reminder.

[@amtownsyou]

And interstate 60

[@mickeytwister4721]

This actually made me cry. I never heard this story before but as Mr Ballen was telling it, I had a hunch that his wife and kids were never real and that Mitch was an old man who died alone 😢

[@thecutellama76]

But he wasn't an old man. Mr Ballen just said he was the same age as him.

[@hensonlaura]

One possible future.

[@mickeytwister4721]

@@thecutellama76 I know that’s just what I was thinking before he revealed the ending

[@NinjaRunningWild]

Watch Star Trek TNG "The Inner Light". It's where this was ripped from.

[@Lizziekarendreams]

I’m in my 60s and all my life, when I go to sleep, I return to another life. I call it a dream but it feels as real as my life when I’m awake. When I was a little child I would talk about who I was before I was born. My parents didn’t want people to think I’m crazy so they impressed upon me never to speak about it. So I kept it to myself till I retired. Now I talk about it and it feels great. It was as if I had been hiding a big part of who I am all my life. I even remember the end of that life. It was an accident involving a cart that struck me from behind and things just went dark. The really weird thing is the technology in the other life that felt so normal and so very useful.

[@wheedler]

So do you have normal dreams now since you died?

[@Lizziekarendreams]

@@wheedler I have normal dreams and I have what I think are past life memories.

[@hensonlaura]

Well that's intriguing. What technology?

[@Lizziekarendreams]

@@hensonlaura really weird things. One item even looked a bit like the Ark of the Covenant.

[@Yusha-op7oz]

​@@Lizziekarendreamsso every time you slept you dreamed of that life that's crazy, and how you dreamed of it and had like a howl 24 hours in it just like in real life?

[@danegagnon]

I think about this a lot. I always wonder if any moment or any day I'll wake up as a kid to my dad making breakfast downstairs on a Saturday morning while his Sting album plays in the background

[@M4VTCNH2]

Mr BALLEN, this one got me hook, line and sinker. when you talk i feel it and then at the end you pull me back to reality, and i feel safe and know that i am safe. you are awesome.. sorry im rambling. I was diagnose as Terminal ill, severe Psoriasis: your videos and back story has help me to stay strong, and do not give up. like you i was depressed and it took 3 years to be diagnose correctly. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. ♥ i wish i could support you in the way of buying your book, but all my money is going to my treatment. Medi CAL has denied me. but i wont give up. because you didn't.

[@desratlinda8639]

Omg, I was sad and grieving his loss myself, I was so happy hearing about this wonderful family & life they had, and then so sad when we find out it doesn't exist...what a SHOCK

[@MrKingArthurhk]

I had long dreams of alternative lives that was a whole lifetime. Once waking up it is briefly confusing.

[@suesutton9226]

Same ❤

[@voodoo2130]

When John said "and he's perpetually 5 years old" at 9:33, it sounded like his voice was trembling. Perhaps he was so invested in the story that he put himself in Mitch's shoes and experienced that pain. I would be a wreck too if I thought I had a perfect life only for it to be a dream.

[@tammywebb7521]

I definitely caught that also. I thought he might start tearing up. Something in that story brought him back somewhere.

[@lbar9720]

I heard that too, since John is a Dad, I'm sure he could empathize with the thought that losing a child, even if in the dream, would be devastating.

[@greyfriars6540]

@@lbar9720 Agree, and he's a Veteran too. He must have had some terrible experiences and admitted he found it difficult to adjust after the Military. His family is the most important thing to him, and to think of them not being there is a devastating thought.

[@arosefortes6507]

Exactly, imagine always seeing your son to realize that you never had a son but then explain the void you now feel 😢😢.

[@hollyperrin7353]

I felt Mr. Ballen nervous throughout the recounting of this story. He spoke more quickly and less intensely than he usually does. His voice was a bit shaky, he kept his left hand on his leg, instead of speaking with both hands, and he short of breath throughout. I think he was nervous story-telling in someone else’s studio. I’m glad that he did it, though.

[@Tamz60]

This story was one of the most heart-wrenching stories you've ever told. A lot like the elephant one. They both made me cry . And you tell them so very well

[@tzgzz9245]

lamps are the worst

[@Cheech-lk2yp]

😂

[@Baseballnfj]

I love lamp

[@NinjaZXRR]

A Lava Lamp would be a trip.

[@randomentity6553]

Had a nightmare as a child that was very detailed and vivid. I remember many of the details 50+ years later, but the thing that stands out was the scariest part - I turned to look at this small Tiffany style lamp, and it WALKED toward me on the dresser and I became so terrified at this, my eyeballs fell out. That's when I woke up screaming. Yeah, lamps suck.

[@lisaclark1181]

😄😄

[@kylel2199]

This is basically the Rick and Morty episode of that game called Roy: A Life Well Lived.

[@shaneroberts2492]

Great episode!!!

[@roel.vinckens]

That's where he got it !

[@soulofexistence]

Probably he got inspired by it, Redditors love that show

[@angryox3102]

Or the Star Trek episode The Inner Light.

[@AZisk]

@@angryox3102which was inspired by the beatles song by the same name

[@KinjiUrba]

It was really strange. I remembered this story. I read it once, and I never forgot it. Once Ballen brought up a lamp, I knew it would be the same story. I have had night terrors and used to lucid dream a lot when I was younger. This wouldn't be something I would be interested in happening. I've had dreams with men that I'll never forget. I'm happily married. However these men were a different feeling and I wake up feeling such a deep loss. I've also never had sex in a dream.

[@dave9944]

Oh my god. I suffer from depression and anxiety. But I can't even imagine what this poor man must be suffering from. I just want to hold him in my arms and hug him and tell him it's going to be okay. My heart aches for this guy. God bless him. I want him to be okay. Please, God.

[@Gigadander]

I have vivid dreams like this all the time. While I'm in the dream I remember my history as different than my waking one, but looking back at it the pacing and situations are wildly inconsistent almost like movie where one minute I'm getting ready for work and next I'm on a bus. They are vivid enough sometimes make me have to think twice about if something that happened to me was a dream or a memory.

[@ConnyvanderMeer]

So crazy! There's a similar story by Steve Cantwell who passed out on a salvia trip and lived an entire life in Tyler, Texas. Wrecked his real life too, but luckily for him his real life was happier than his imagined life - less grief.

[@PhoenixBlacke]

Heyy that's where I live

[@DarkSleuths]

I had a dream where I was in the normal timeline where Berenstain Bears were Berenstein Bears again and everything was perfect and awesome like it used to be.... Then I woke back up into this shit hole.

[@studytunes8549]

Me too

[@shutupshelley1793]

🤣🤣🤣👍

[@LukeDodge916]

I love this effin comment

[@5ickBreeD]

I was forced to write penmanship by my Grandma, she home schooled me and was OLD SCHOOL...I took a liking to those Berenstein Bears books and had to write several pages a day in cursive...and EVERY PAGE had the books title at the top...if I didn't connect letters correctly or misspelled something had to do all the pages over...I clearly remember the books and writing every line over and over B-E-R-E-N-S-T-E-I-N Bears...nobody will ever be able to change my mind.

[@garetjax2768]

I don't care how it's rationalized or explained to me how I'm wrong, it will always be the Berenstein Bears in my mind.

[@pawlpoche8736]

In the movie Beau is Afraid The main character starts watching a play, it morphs into his whole life story, (visually awesome) and hen realizes the play is about him, but soon after realizing it isn’t because he never had children Mind blowing movie

[@opaljk4835]

Well now you ruined it for me

[@he_was_a_skater_dog]

What I found very funny about this movie was the last act, in which he lives out exactly the idea of the last judgment I had as a kid: a jumbotron where the whole humanity would watch every petty and/or se⨉ual thought I'd ever had.

[@kelleymcbride4633]

Hands down the most emotionally impactful story Ive ever heard on Mr. Ballen. This should be a movie or a novel. Poor guy

[@JoshPecks500lbDad]

Wait a minute. no "umms", "aahs", "like", "literallys", "obviouslys" In today's world of "filler" talk, Mr Ballen speaks as seamlessly and effortlessly as he does on his own KZbin channel. Im highly impressed.

[@CMO1061]

Very true.

[@crystalmorton9500]

You can fix the filler talk by taking public speaking classes. It worked for me!

[@dva1254]

@@crystalmorton9500 toastmasters?

[@JoshPecks500lbDad]

@@crystalmorton9500 ohhhh, Im so happy you took those classes. And it worked for you. Great, great job 👏

[@azeleyes2936]

Isn’t “kinda” a filler word?

[@wimmeraparanormal6581]

Ive had 2 experiences with sudden unconsciousness, both created a weird alternate reality experience, longer term than actual time. Both seemed totally real. I can still remember them now.

[@Bmcallister41]

Once MrBallen started saying the lamp got bigger & then the guy saw himself surrounded by ppl - I thought to myself that this was a really deep & crazy trip on hallucinogens. I’ve heard stories before on ppl who tripped really hard & would live this life that went on for years only to wake up from the trip & be told they were out for maybe 10-15 mins.

[@a.mie.533]

I absolutely take that story for real. Time and space change with the state of mind. Just think about your dreams or consider how drugs can completely contort your perception of reality

[@flaval24]

Ive listened to hundreds of MrBallen stories but this one always has been my favorite.

[@MinnieTHEcat99]

I had a similar experience: I fainted from a new blood thinner my cardiologist put me on, I had just come out of a week's stay in ICU for atrial fib, and the first couple days back at home were ok, then one morning I was sitting on my toilet, and I went from the bathroom to lying face down in my living room with paramedics surrounding me and I had no idea how I got from point a to point b, the interesting thing though was what happened while I was passed out, what felt like a dream but much more real and vibrant, I was older, and lived on a coastal town in what looks like Portofino Italy, I had an entire life routine, I had a small house, I had neighbors, I remember the houses, the path that I walked, the fact that the houses were raised on one level and the river was lower, there was a giant wall with steps down to the river, the houses were multicolored in pastels, lots of stonework, etc. I felt like I was there for a long time. I'm not from Italy, I've never been anywhere like that. I never thought anything of it, until hearing this story and somebody having a similar experience.

[@kristinecrowley8321]

My mouth is literally gaping open. This was maybe the best Mr. Ballen story ever. I mean, I feel bad for the guy but this is absolutely wild and fascinating! Our brains are really amazing.

[@Belenus3080]

This one started off as, what I call, a “temporal anomaly” story. I’ve been trying to find a couple that I read years ago. One of them is about a spot in the attic that the grandfather is terrified of. The attic is completely normal, except for one spot where reality seems to distort and it just looks strange and surreal, and so he moved some kind of furniture in front of it so no one had to see it. Another was about “the darkness”, in which a family lived in a normal suburban home, and every once in a while the end of their hallway would go completely dark, like there was no reason for it, no object casting a shadow, it would just be completely pitch black and you couldn’t see through it. They were terrified of it, their dog barked at it non stop, and no one went through or even near it because it was so frightening. These types of stories to me are cool because they are uncannily terrifying at a psychological level, and you can use them as a premise for all kinds of directions, like suffering insanity/mental illness, to being in a dream or fugue state, or a genuine paranormal phenomenon.

[@autofocus4556]

My friend did salvia and said he went to an island and lived for years with a tribe and learned their language and then was teary-eyed departing on a boat.

[@LordRykard9376]

This was on Reddit? Uh yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and have to say I don't believe this.

[@cryptidian3530]

And what would make it a credible source? Wikipedia? The New York Times? CNN?

[@cazsmith2358]

This is brutal. I love MrBallen, have followed him from day 1, he got me hooked on this kind of content. He’s an expert story teller and has a fantastic team producing his content. His mother is a superb writer, she created some fantastic podcast stories. Very talented family all round. And to think he was the underachiever of the family at one point 🤷🏼‍♀️ That’s the level they’re working at 😎

[@lumgs2009]

This story is hands down the most heartbreaking Mr Ballen has ever told.

[@Banned4Life]

I don't know, the ones about people burning in molten metal, being fried alive or keeping journals while awaiting their death from dehydration in complete, profound and fearful loneliness are pretty bad.

[@H.Collector]

The truth of it can't be verified, possibly he stole the story from Star Trek TNG and I've heard plenty of far more painful MrBallen stories.

[@lumgs2009]

@@H.Collector good for you

[@TheOldestSoul]

I know how this feels except with lucid dreaming. I've had an EXTREMELY vivid lucid dream in my life when I've lived an ENTIRE LIFE in the dream. I had wife and kids and a job that loved. We went to big family gatherings over the span of about twenty years until in the dream, it sort of faded away. After I had that dream, I woke up in my bed and sat up and it took me and entire half an hour to realize that I was now awake and that whole life was just a dream. I was depressed for a couple weeks after that one and I STILL think about it.

[@QED_]

props

[@thecutellama76]

You did live that life in your past. It was a memory of your past life.

[@TotallyCircumstantial]

That's not a Lucid Dream. That's just a regular dream

[@debraowen6723]

❤🎉write it as a story. Get it down on paper. You can take as long as you need. It feels refreshing to do this. And, then you have a great story to reread any time!

[@EllaNonimato]

yeah people already wrote about that but it is not believable.

[@zmbdog]

Two stories have always stood out for me from Reddit. This story, and one where a couple described their final straw with a long-problematic child, now teenager, when they caught him about to assault his baby sister. The mother, a pro boxer, beat her son literally unconscious and to a pulp. They hid out elsewhere on their property for a few days until their son left and they never saw or heard from him again.

[@simbadooo9055]

Oh I remember that one, the little kid who shat on the floor and pissed in the kettle and allat

[@pacman7328]

That last one has gotta be fake right?

[@zmbdog]

@@pacman7328 I think it was verified at some point but not entirely sure.

[@Tamz60]

I remember that story too! That poor family! Can you imagine? Terrified of your own son? And the son, angry every day of his life?

[@jayd9203]

“He doesn’t want to talk about it” , yet he did a Reddit post about it and said ask me anything? BS

[@kevinconway2965]

"He doesn't want to talk about it" is code for "I was bored one day, so I made up this story on REDDIT and I don't want to answer any questions on it because it's total BS". You're the only other person on here who has questioned this laughable story. Thank you for not being a sheep.

[@annesaunders3580]

@@kevinconway2965 Perhaps so, but why then are other people claiming similar experiences?

[@kevinconway2965]

@@annesaunders3580 Because people like being seen and heard. It makes them feel special. It makes them feel like they're a part of something. You don't think people lie about stuff to get attention? Tell me, what's more likely. Someone got knocked out for 10 seconds and quite literally lived an entire life that they believed to be 100% real or they lied about it about it on YT comments for a few likes?

[@ameybirulkar7503]

​@@kevinconway2965 but the story is very entertaining.

[@Astormiscoming-z8k]

​@kevinconway2965 happens more than you think. Sometimes people in comas come out and remember living an entire different life, but yeah, I'm sure you and all your wisdom are right.

[@daysandwords]

I once had a situation like this and then a Japanese guy in a helicopter recruited me to do the same thing to his business rival and convince the rival not to go into business against him, and after I did that, I got to see my kids again.

[@soulsharts]

Inception?

[@blankenstein1649]

how do you verify that a personal story by a redditor is real? if nothing else, the fact that a cop picks him up, runs with him, tosses him into his car, and takes him to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance sounds pretty suspicious. especially since it's a head injury.

[@soulofexistence]

Of course it's not real, it's just Reddit being Reddit

[@majovina]

happens to people on salvia and maybe other substances may do this too, plus passing out during head trauma or in comatose states people report dreams nightmares whatever, but i will give you that it is unusual with the cop. The og reddit user doesnt seem to milk this for any gains other then upvotes and few minutes of clout who gives a shit.

[@VukLazarMusic]

of course no receipts, tho you could look for medical reports, news articles, but also that cop part was in his dream. presumably, he got carried off on a stretcher from the field where he got injured.

[@BareKnuckleBrawls]

Although I will agree that it is odd in the case of a head injury, Law Enforcement transporting people to the hospital if the nearest ambulance isn't close isn't uncommon. I know cops who have had to do this on a few occasions for various instances.

[@ThunderRunner]

@@BareKnuckleBrawlsyep. Can confirm. And this was early 2000’s, I started as an emt in 2008 and things were a bit more…cavalier, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all.

[@logandalton1430]

It blows my mind how well he remembers details

[@degeneratechris]

Plot twist: The life he had with wife and kids was the real world and the life he came back to is the simulation.

[@rocklee8847]

Perhaps he tapted into his previous life

[@degeneratechris]

@@rocklee8847 oOo yeah I like that too.

[@davidbelen7199]

There's a "red lamp" in all our lives, and we know the second we begin to tug in the string it will all unravel. But we rather continue living the comfortable lie. Whats your "red lamp".

[@rcsmith1983]

Just like Vanilla Sky

[@conanhighwoods4304]

​@@davidbelen7199So none of this is real?

[@RavenTD46]

I got headbutted by a lineman as I was coming on a blitz. Sadly my life ended up being true.

[@Nick-Salv]

Lolll bruh… 😅

[@brianew]

Hopefully you'll wake up

[@sergioo283]

He sounds so normal and not even wanting to give the time of day but once mr ballen starts a story I’m just stuck to his story like glue it’s crazy what a great talent and I’m very happy for he’s success very well deserve

[@socialmoth4974]

I got into Mr. Ballen when I got sick with covid in 2020. I couldn't do much but binge watch/listen to his entire catalog. My daughter and her friend are now big fans too.

[@michaelm5601]

Mr Ballen, is an incredible story teller.. really enjoy his talent..

[@theunspokentruth5987]

Could spend an hour telling you about a melting ice cream .,..... Boring

[@emmmore4160]

So I have vivid real-life dreams. One of them I saw a house. I have never seen anything built Luke this in my life. I assumed it was just something my mind created. One day I was scrolling through Facebook and saw an abandoned place exactly like it. Looks like a homemade structure. My mouth dropped. I remember that place.

[@victorvaldez8869]

This reminds me of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light" (Season 5, Episode 25,) in which Captain Picard is hit by a ray from a probe they visit & he experiences a whole life of one of the citizens of a destroyed planet & dead civilization. He has a wife, kids, learns how to play the flute, etc. He's left to mourn a life that existed for a long dead man, & otherwise just in his head, mourning children he never had, & a wife he never met. The experience may not have been real, but the emotions were. It also brings up the disturbing question, how much of our own experiences can we trust are real?

[@timothylopez4250]

I was about to post that this story reminds me of the Star Trek Episode “The Inner Light”. You beat me to it. That episode is considered one of the greatest episodes of the entire Star Trek franchise.

[@jayb7775]

"a fraction of a second..like 10 seconds."

[@BarackObamaJedi]

10/1 is still a fraction

[@jayb7775]

@@BarackObamaJedi touché!

[@elchamber]

This happened to me a couple of times. It’s freaky. I would remember people in my dreams, know their backstory and everything. Then waking up and realizing it was all in my imagination.

[@Moon_Thief896]

I love this story, and John tells it so well

[@nolimo2593]

Where are all the comments that I'm looking forward to reading ?

[@ernestkhalimov748]

You didn't even finish the vid😂

[@MyDoppleganger20]

In my early teens, I was in this habit of going to sleep thinking about a perpetual story in which I was a mom and wife and lived in a nice house. I didn't look like myself because I wasn't old enough to be married with young kids so I looked like someone else. I would play out scenes of myself and my family doing the most mundane things. I probably kept this up for a year, at least. And, I never questioned this being abnormal until now. I really hope others do this sort of thing. I haven't played out my fantasy self and fantasy family since I was 14? Never have had difficulty separating real life from fantasy btw but it still makes me wonder about the normalcy of it

[@ApsilonUK]

The moment Mr Ballen revealed that it was a figment of his imagination caused by a football tackle, I thought it was bullshit. Basically, all the AMA guy has done is take inspiration from Jacob’s Ladder to spin a story. The film, with Tim Robbins, is exactly the same.

[@Angry_Bob]

When I’m really sick with flu, stomach bug or whatever I have hallucinations. I’ve never had a whole life but I’ve had some major trips. Never done any drugs as well.

[@azuraroycroft2419]

I use to get that was I was a kid, glad I grew out of it, awful feeling to be sick and your mind starts playing tricks on you

[@bellzTolled3]

Comfortably Numb

[@CathieKiker]

I hope this man can heal. His wound is extremely deep and the human brain so complex. God bless you sir.