The Reddit Lamp Story Explained

[@Zauserr]

Weird how people are trying to mock this up as a scary story when in reality it’s just straight up sad.

[@_Emerald_Eye_]

People keep saying it's just a creepypasta, but it could be a guy just explaining a really scary experience he had in his dream. Don't know why they think it's fake. People on the Internet share weird and scary dreams they had. But than again I can't say it's not fake also. Could be a good story teller.

[@daiman_SX0]

​@@_Emerald_Eye_ Can you really be that traumatized by a dream? If this reality wasn't real, I wouldn't care that much. I would just live another live and forgot about that reality real quick

[@therealbatmanfrong]

​@@daiman_SX0well yeah thats probably because you dont have a whole ass family 😭

[@mitsuruneterra6035]

Me who won't even remember a dream for 10 seconds

[@davidlowe6960]

@@daiman_SX0I can say yes, they can be pretty traumatic. I had a dream I had a child. my partner and I have been wanting a child, but have been unable to conceive, so when I woke up I was immensely sad. I could still feel the warmth of the child in my arms and against my chest. It left me feeling pretty depressed for like two weeks. I can’t even imagine dreaming up a whole family and living this life that you believe is real then it just suddenly just comes crashing down.

[@Aoi_Hikari]

Imagine losing a 10 years save because your brain cant render a lamp

[@Krzztl]

Average Skyrim experience

[@justminibanana9128]

yeah sorry about that, accidentally inverted the normals when exporting.

[@jinxxdd]

erm creator, update??? my couch is a bit warped i think that is a bug when i sit in it i get sent to my last save (my bed)

[@ZIM_skol]

I just lul'd so off I might be a glitch in my neighbor's reality

[@Edward0919]

Dude didn't update his drivers.

[@axelforsberg5028]

I think OP’s brain thought he was dying and rushed itself with DMT giving him a 10 year trip just to wake up

[@HokkuOffline]

MOST PLAUSABLE EXPLANATION

[@fronatomy6280]

Damn, dumb crackpot theory but what if all of us are just part of some dying collective entity that are just hallucinating reality given that whatever whole we're a part of is at its last breath? Like all of us are pieces of a dying God or some shit. And no, you can't have any, these are mine, I'm smoking all of them.

[@JustKhari]

when i heard it the first time in high school on reddit (back in like 2017) the story was the guy took dmt in his bathroom or something like that

[@Silas_Part_1]

DMT?

[@AmbrosiaPoly-yolkEgg]

​@@Silas_Part_1 it's a psychoactive chemical sometimes taken as a drug, but more often just produced by the human brain causing dreams.

[@Lohengrin88]

Dude got bodied so hard he started a whole life inside his head. Damn

[@Spoogli]

Kinda sad lol

[@ding8520]

ong

[@Peak_WIS]

Kinda?​@@Spoogli

[@shadw4701]

I did as well but intentionally

[@megalampada2372]

Knocked into another save.

[@turkey_sandwhich]

when your entire life crumbles because your brain couldn't render a lamp correctly

[@Ovotun]

ikr

[@waynecarrjr.1187]

forgot to update the graphics driver

[@useredname2495]

@@waynecarrjr.1187 lmao

[@Lurkfish-nm4yc]

Fake life

[@Ovotun]

@@Lurkfish-nm4yc he meant real life because the narrator got really depressed after he realised his wife was not real

[@natto4now]

If you think about it every time we dream it can feel like a few seconds or hours our brains ability to lock us in a perspective of time is wild

[@Broogli]

It’s absolutely wild for sure.

[@TheInfectiousCadaver]

look im 29 and recently i had a dream where i was back in highschool, but no one there i ever recognized or went to school with, yet i did something, im not sure what i was trying to figure that out the entire dream, but everyone just kept giving me looks of disgust and kept saying "we know what you did" till i opened my locker, and i woke up but i only slept about 5 hours. but it felt like a full day at school. it was super weird. ive stopped taking meletonin lol

[@Utnsu9000]

indeed

[@maur23100]

@@TheInfectiousCadaverI’ve had a similar dream but it was people I know currently and a mix of people I actually went to high school with it was cool and weird

[@macaroon147]

Well we've all lived our lives through perception of an imaginary self in an imaginary linear reality. But most don't even know it and less see through it. So it's not surprising

[@TreatMySoul]

This reminds me of junji ito's manga about a man going to a doctor to tell him about how each night his dreams keeps becoming longer and longer to a point where he's literally living a different life, it keeps expanding from just an hour to a whole day to years and even centuries, he still wake up normally but he felt like he's been sleeping for days

[@zalgolp7480]

And he dies at the end. One of the scaryest storrys ever made.

[@DrifterSupremo]

What's the name of this manga? I wanna read it

[@TreatMySoul]

@@DrifterSupremo I found it, it's called "Long Dream"

[@stapleface4147]

This is quite literally it

[@blinkowarner3117]

He doesn't just die. He evolves billions of years while asleep.

[@thatcal8133]

Dreams last 30 seconds on average. The reason it feels so long is due to two factors, false memories and no sense of time, you can feel like youve been in a dream for a day but its just your mind thinking non linerally and filling in any logical gaps with false memories

[@manofyourdreams129]

Thats not true. Most dreams last minutes.

[@thatcal8133]

​@@manofyourdreams129oh whoops your rightist rem sleep lasts 5 - 20 minutes and The dreams can range in size

[@Bunny_queen143]

It wasn't a drama, he was in a coma.

[@shadw4701]

This isn't true. Dreams last on average 10 -20 minutes or more, up to under an hour at most. There's a lot of misinformation about dreams

[@Sapphiregamer8605]

I had one dream that lasted a full hour.

[@Dylan577games]

How to escape a fake reality: look at an odd lamp

[@elcoholic3083]

No to escape reality, you need to get knocked the F*** out😂

[@TheArtonSlo]

In actuality focusing on an object once you realize you're dreaming has the exact opposite effect by stabilizing your dream and morphing into lucid dream.

[@Youraveragesillygoober-s6p]

A good method to test if you are actually asleep is to look at your hands

[@glitchyxclan]

I tried but the system was glitching making it not flat. How do I escape this simulation?

[@ligma212]

​@@Youraveragesillygoober-s6p when I want to wake up I just force my brain to try to replicate blinking or shaking my head and it usually wakes me up

[@renakunisaki]

We "don't use 100% of our brain" in the same way that we only use 1/3 of a traffic light.

[@neoieo5832]

Yeah, we only use 1% of a nuclear reactor's true power, imagine what we could do with 100% /j

[@PeacefulTQ]

using 100% of your brain is called 'having a seizure'

[@arandomhamster233]

The same way some cars have 5 tires but only use 4 (one is a spare tire)

[@DCcopter]

Guys are joking right?

[@DeMuncher]

​i thought not using 100 percent of your brain was a myth

[@auremybenamor]

Sometimes it's a blessing to wake up from a vivid dream, countless times i dreamt of losing a close one and i can't tell you how relieved i was to wake up.

[@mintani19]

The only way my dreams end is when my mum wakes me up or when I fucking die. I wanna live in a dream forever

[@rap3shadowlegends]

I had a dream of my dad's funeral once, my mother getting into a car crash, zombies, I'm kinda glad I wake up

[@MustiKaaoffical]

I had a dream that my right arm was torn off and my very top of my head was cut down. When I woke up I my arm felt weird

[@capncake8837]

Same on a lesser level. Many times I’ve had an unpleasant dream, then woken up and felt relief.

[@AxolotlFNOffical]

and what about the vivid dreams where something goes your way or something you really want happens and you wake up

[@kristinehugs8508]

I have lived in fear of this being my reality since I was a child. I have always been suspicious of the reality I know and live in isn't the real one. Eventually as I got older I stopped caring if this is my original reality and just decided to live this life to the fullest, even to this day I wonder and play with the idea that I'm in a coma and how it would destroy me if I ever woke up.

[@thatcal8133]

Good news we would find out today if we were in a coma because that phenomenon of dreams feeling longer then they are is caused by false memories generated in your sleep, the average dream lasts thirty seconds so just image that but worse

[@geoffreychauvin1474]

I have that worry sometimes. I fear that I will wake up and be next to my ex who basically destroyed my life when we were together and even if it was all a dream I would Never be able to look at her the same

[@memeyjotaro5502]

Just think about it, If you're worrying that this reality isn't real, then it is real.

[@daysgonebuy]

Yeah I’ve thought that i was living a dream within a dream since ive been eight

[@rllynotdev]

Don't worry. I'm real. So you're real too. You are. You are real. You are not in coma. There is nothing to worry about. Don't worry that you are in coma.

[@broofli]

The way he came back to reality was similar to how one would wake up from a dream. Something sticks out to you, and you know that it isn't right or real. The awakening he must have had when he realized that wasn't real. The whole life that he lived wasn't real. And then, having the live with the memories after the fact makes it all the more horrible, knowing you can never go back to that life. I would genuinely cry myself to sleep every night if I lived my dream life that made me happy, only to wake up and realize that it was all fake. I dont think i would experience true happiness again. I would love to see more videos like this in the future! These are so good, genuinely, and I love stuff like this. Keep it up, broogs! 😊

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[@HauntedKnight-cj8kv]

@@NOTstewacteasociety shut

[@HauntedKnight-cj8kv]

Related slightly, I once had this dream where apparently there was a hole in my forehead for mosquitos to enter my brain. The funny part is I was only mildly concerned

[@SpadChad]

I saw this on a KZbin short once but didn't know what it was referencing. Thanks for making this.

[@33_77.]

When I was a kid in elementary school, I had this phase of derealisation. It felt like the world around me is unreal and it was like I was in a dream about my own life. This lasted for a year and then everything felt normal again..

[@dumblockdubbed2455]

alice in wonderland syndrome???

[@cremapastelera00]

ohhh you just made me remember my years in elementary school where suddenly everything surrounding me started feeling distant and blurry and i'd get a bit dizzy questioning ''is this real? am i here?'' and i asked my best friend if she ever felt that and she enthusiastically replied yes. perhaps it's just a common elementary school experience. ths might sound dumb but i magically stopped feeling this in 7th grade when i was about to enter high school, and i never felt it again since.

[@dumblockdubbed2455]

@@cremapastelera00 cause its alice in wonderland syndrome

[@Cameraguyrxl8xp]

I got stuck in a room for 10 years

[@pipsisisilklklkl6240]

A rubber room a rubber room with rats, and rats make me crazy

[@robertparks6115]

Beat me to it ​@@pipsisisilklklkl6240

[@gryu4773]

Relatable fr

[@Roodog_10]

@@pipsisisilklklkl6240crazy I was crazy once they locked me in a room a rubber room a rubber room with rats rats? Rats make me crazy

[@Cameraguyrxl8xp]

I'm stuck I'm going insane

[@rochellejones9770]

When you experience depersonalisation and derealism frequently this truly resonates with you.

[@DeidreL9]

Definitely. I have it too, this resonates strongly.

[@AutumnKatto]

I experience derealization nearly every minute. This is normal for me.

[@randomrfkov]

​@@AutumnKatto Stop drinking and taking drugs(prescription included), jeez

[@AutumnKatto]

@@randomrfkov i don’t i promise i’m not even old enough 😭🙏 but actually what IS wrong w/ me? is this anything i should be concerned abt or like…?

[@spunky6692]

@@AutumnKatto dpdr is an escape mechanism, it's your brains way of removing itself from trauma/fear. mine took months to go away but I got there in the end and I don't feel it AT ALL anymore

[@samanthasoares4806]

Ever since I heard this story it's stuck with me because it made me realize it's even a possibility, it literally sounds like a twilight zone episode or a Simpsons tree house of horror. Having spent the last 5 years in a very loving relationship I couldn't imagine just waking up and it not being real, I don't think any amount of therapy could fix that. I had my own mental horror story as a kid tho. I sat down and it was suddenly a year later, I had skipped an entire year of school, my summer vacation, all the new friends I apparently made, and anything I did within that year, it was like snapping your fingers, and I was left lost with missing memories, friends that told me stories that I couldn't remember, people talking about how good of friends we are when I didn't even know them, and I struggled a ton in school because I literally skipped a whole year of information. I had to socially restart because I knew none of the people that knew me, so I had to make entirely new friends. This has never happened since but it's been a terrifying thing to think about considering it could happen again without warning and I don't know if I'll come back, I don't know who was "in the driver seat" because it's not like it was an alternate personality, it was apparently as me as I've always been, no parent or teacher even believed it happened until I explained it again as an adult. They just said I had an "active imagination" and just ignored it, please any parents or future parents please listen to your damn kid, even if it sounds a little far fetched.

[@flyinghigh2178]

Temporary amnesia , that's a crazy story

[@PooPoo_Prod]

I thought I was the only one, luckily it was only 30 minutes. Are you ok tho

[@Bokesse]

Yeah the twilight zone episode of the rapper reminds me of this story.

[@Pappysocean]

@@PooPoo_ProdI had the same thing happen to me I was sick during summer holidays with an ear infection and I was in bed all week i one day asked to play Xbox as I was feeling better for the first time enough to play i remember walking out into my back room to play and next thing i remember is crying in the shower with my dad holding me. I have never understood what happened and creeps me out till this day.

[@marseillejoh]

​@@Pappysoceanhave you tried to ask your dad, what happened to you that day? Sounds like it was something truly horrible.

[@ianorr1388]

I've had something similar to this, a so called "nested dream" - a dream within a dream. Basically it went like this: 1) be me 2) go to bed after school 3) (i kinda forgot what happened, this was a LONG time ago) 4) unable to sleep, mom says "hey wanna go get some gas" 5) "yeah" 6) suddenly wake up 7) tell mom about what happened 8) somehow wake up again

[@marseillejoh]

Ahaha happens to me all the time. Sometimes when im having a nightmare i try my hardest to wake up, and then when i wake up and tell my mom about the nightmare but somehow wake up again.

[@trustworthydan]

Melatonin makes me have dreams where I wake up still in a dream, but multiple times. I don't sleep well, but I'd rather not sleep than have that creepy feeling.

[@ianorr1388]

I can't sleep without melatonin but even then I barely can :D@@trustworthydan

[@renakunisaki]

I've had nested dreams, but nothing like the OP's story.

[@ianorr1388]

honestly, the human brain confuses me -a human brain@@renakunisaki

[@amphibious4463]

When I was 20 I had a dream that I remember like a movie I watched a thousand times. That dream ended up being my exact life and I still get goose bumps and tears thinking about it 20 years later. This world is weird as hell.

[@metroplexstudios2406]

Dang,that’s weird as heck😟😲

[@amphibious4463]

@munishgamer7329 it’s been accurate so far. The end isn’t good but I don’t know if that’s in general or for me.

[@samie159]

What do you mean exactly

[@jamecia90s]

​@@amphibious4463can you tell us the ending please

[@moco8721]

I am curious, what is the ending?

[@CottageCritter]

When I was a little girl, one of my earliest memories, I had a very graphic nightmare of being stuck in a maze and coming across my grandmother screaming to run while she was (warning graphic) Strung up by fishing hooks being skinned alive. I was a literal child child, I never saw anything scary, let alone that could inspire that. My parents had me in therapy before I even knew how to write my own name. Nightmare patterns of shit I’ve never seen have haunted me my entire life but now days I am not as phased by it. I have a few close online friends I’ve bonded with over shared experiences of nightmares of this nature. I don’t think I’m special by any means, I think a lot of people aren’t as open about this stuff scared to be called crazy, but I genuinely think our brains are so much more powerful than we give them credit for.

[@Nicole-mq5qc]

Was your grandma alive at that time or passed away?

[@CottageCritter]

@@Nicole-mq5qc alive and well!

[@kaisushii]

That creepy af , I remember dreaming when I was a kid. Someone chasing me with a sharp long nails ,I try to run as fast as I could but not moving so he got me and stab me with his nails and I felt it like it actually stab me. I woke up full of sweat.

[@okameow5693]

Dreams are weird. It's basically the landfill of your brain. It's just recycled thoughts. So something was going on with your mind, whether or not you noticed.

[@boi7316]

When I was a little boy, I dreamt of jumping off a roof, stabbing myself with a knife, and doing "that one thing" with a belt. I was depressed back then, so it makes sense.

[@mythlessrwf]

I’ve actually had a similar experience in a dream once. Not as vivid and grounded in reality as this poster, but it did make me unaware of the absurdity as what usually happens in vivid dreams. My dream consisted of going through a depressing episode, and a favorite character from one of my favorite video games essentially saved me from committing unalive. She took me in to live with her, and eventually we started enrolling into the same college together. We grew closer over the course of the next what seemed feel like 2 and a half years to where we just naturally became a couple-a warm, wholesome relationship I thought I would’ve never had, which was the only bridging thought between this dreamworld and reality. One day I was getting ready to leave for classes, but felt a sudden headache, so I sat down on the couch for a bit. She came to comfort me, but as soon as she tried to feel my forehead, she started crying and hugged me. I was so confused at why. And then I just woke up, in tears and in cold sweat. My tears soon turn into just soft crying while hugging my pillow, whispering to myself “…but she wasn’t real” and “fuck man…” while looking at a figurine I have displayed in my bedroom of that same fond character.

[@ItzjustMe-gl4eu]

The scary and sad part is the fact that she hugged you before you left...😭

[@chocomathi_]

This feels oddly similar. It was a game where some girl was trapped in a game, trying to get the player's atention. All her life was fake but she was just an npc, didn't have any real time with the only real person. But despite her best efforts, she couldn't be more than a few lines of code. Killing everyone she met before and after, trapped in a infinite loop where everything happens and starts back again. Such a cute game about literature

[@catbatrat1760]

DDLC?

[@SonicWackyspeed]

Nah bro speaking about monika 😭

[@zeussoulhd2169]

​@@catbatrat1760 Clearly DDLC

[@DanialDEcool]

4:53 this is scary with knowledge that you can’t make up faces in your mind, or even objects. That’s probably what the lamp is, it’s a mix of lamps they saw that were unsettling but when combined an issue happened and it ended up looking extremely off-putting. The brain wakes you up if you know you’re in the dream sometimes because the lamp is literally a glitch.

[@shadw4701]

This isn't actually true. Youre brain makes up faces while you dream all the time. It does use faces you've already seen but that isn't eveey character you see

[@DanialDEcool]

@@shadw4701 it doesn’t.

[@shadw4701]

@DanialDEcool It does. If you don't have aphantasia you can even try it yourself right now. The claim that you see only faces you've already seen is misinformation which is very common when it comes to dreams. Just like your brain imagines new creatures it can be done with faces

[@DanialDEcool]

@@shadw4701 your brain using elements of your surroundings IS the way it makes up new faces.

[@joeligma4721]

if your brain cant make up new faces how do people draw art that isn't art of an existing human being buddy

[@PhantoomWriter]

Hell yeah, I'm never gonna get enough of your videos! Sadly, due to my exceptionally shitty memory, I forget to watch all of them, but now I'm reminded! I just hope I'll be able to remember it over the night, you're such a great story-teller and I want to hear more! :D

[@shadw4701]

Lucid dreamer here. During dreams we can often perceive time being shorter or longer than it really is due to mental time dilation. Time is still moving the same, the only difference of it is your perception. Your perception of time in dreams can also be effected by the events of the dream. Also in dreams emotions and feelings can sometimes hold more weight. If you fall in love or start a family in a dream it often is devastating to wake up from. However this doesn't have to be the end of the existence of these dream characters as you can revisit them with practice as long as you remember them but I wouldn't do it to date them

[@mintani19]

I can’t believe I married into my best friends family who turned out to be criminals and then I ran away with my friend 😭

[@JacksonYT198]

7:09 this is a very common myth.

[@Broogli]

We quite literally do not use 100% of our brain

[@SuiteBid]

The myth part is that we only use 10%, but in reality, we do use most of our brains. Though whether one thinks it adds up to 100% depends on your perspective on the matter. All areas of the brain are active no matter what we are doing, with some areas being more active depending on what you're doing at a given time. This is with the exception of brain damage rendering some parts of the brain nonfunctional, of course. Speaking of brain damage, even minor damage to it can impact how one lives. Which is why I personally don't think we use less than 100%. There's also the thing with the brain taking up about 20% of the body's total energy despite only weighing (on average) 2% of one's body weight, which makes things kinda weird for the body to be funneling that much energy into the brain if it doesn't use all of itself. The whole brain is used at all times, however, keeping your video in mind, instead of the idea that we don't use 100% of the brain, I would sooner cite the fact that there are still things we don't know about the brain, or the fact that while we use 100% of our brains, our brains aren't on overdrive always. But ultimately, brains are very complex organs and trying to equate their functionality to percents isn't entirely feasible.

[@therealbatmanfrong]

​@@Brooglithats because if we use all of it we have a goddamn seizure broogli 😭

[@joeligma4721]

@@Broogli we do, just not all at once lil bro

[@Youllmissit]

I think it’s more of a misconception than a myth. The brain can remap the functions of the left or right brain onto its counterpart and maintain all or most of its functionality. This would not be the case if our brains were being “maxed out” already. The evaluation of hypothetical potential to fully optimize the brains productivity is the stumbling point. If we can use 50 percent of our brain as 100% of our brain would that Imply that 100% of our brain could potentially have a productivity of or greater than 200% of what we ask of it.

[@DrLedFelix]

That man has a gift. He can hit someone so hard he sends them to a parallel universe.

[@steventreadway9966]

I got into lucid dreaming a while back and was able to do it frequently. I had some wild experiences and some very scary experiences. The concept of time while in a dream is not the same. It can feel like years or seconds. Those of you who have experienced lucid dreams know the feeling when sleep paralysis overcomes you. That is scary. Feels like being squeezed to prevent breathing. Others that I’ve talked to online all describe a very similar set of events. The black blob, the dark spot, etc. I believe it is the instant that sleeping chemicals in the brain are released like DMT. DMT is very very heavy hallucinogenic chemical. It seems to me that is what this guy experienced.

[@Jimmythepimp-mk9sj]

My sleep paralysis recently has just been me waking up and feel like I am struggling to breath. The only way I can get out of it is to do short deep breaths and then finally snapping out of it and feeling uneasy and scared to go back to sleep.

[@steventreadway9966]

@@Jimmythepimp-mk9sj it’s really scary huh? Being conscious and you cannot control your own body. The body is only getting signals from the unconscious brain. My brother, a badass Marine who introduced me to lucid dreaming got so scared he refuses to try it anymore. I imagine that is what it feels like to be squeezed to death by a python or boa constrictor.

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[@FlawlessCosmos]

For some reason, I can feel Sleep Paralysis. when I'm about to black out, I can feel or know Sleep Paralysis is gonna come. I dont know how to explain but its like "knowing what is about to happen."

[@steventreadway9966]

@@FlawlessCosmos that’s about the time you feel the tightness in your chest. It can be scary for some people.

[@karencurtice9807]

After my father quit living something inside me concerning him was not finished. I had to talk to him, and the way I did this was to force myself to sleep. For almost a full week, I did nothing but sleep, occasionally getting up use the bathroom and get a drink of water. Then right back to bed. After a day or so, my dreams were all about finding him, and I did. It got to where when I did wake up to use the restroom , and went back to sleep , my dream would continue right where it left off. But consistently my father would not answer or speak to me. I tried and tried , even asking him why he would talk to me. After about the fourth day I bought my sister into my dreams to help me, but when we got my Dad all she would do is cry. She was no help. I keep trying, It took about a week, and I did finally get a response from him, it was not verbal thought , but it was an acknowledgement that I was able to understand, and I could to let him go. After a little over 40 years, I miss him every day with all my heart. He was my Daddy.

[@StrangeStorylines]

A bit out of context, but the question post itself just hit me in a really direct manner. Basically, when I was at the young age of 14, I met a girl in my dreams. A bright and optimistic young lady who loved life. Of similar age was she, and in a beautiful landscape of nature we were in. I spent a good bit of time with her, though I can't exactly remember what happened. Still, it was a nice dream I was a lonely kid back in the day, and me being a teenager, it doesn't take a Freudian perspective professional to deduce the reasons for that dream to manifest. Still, it stuck with me. I would soon write about her in the form of a story. Pretty cringey it was, but I felt at ease thinking about and writing about her. So much so, that even during challenging moments in life, I would think of her. Possibly growing up the same way I had, but in that beautiful world she was in. I pictured what her life would be, what her own struggles were. Of how alone she was too. And somehow, I got more optimistic myself about my own life. Up to the point that I began to see the better things about it. Soon wanting to be more, having the ability to dream and strive for even better things for me and my family and of everyone I hold dear. To this day, I write about her. And it has indeed become a part of my life that I will always hold close to my heart. Funny how dreams can lead to things in life like this. It's either this, or a mystery about an evil farming game. So I guess the mystery of what the unconscious mind can bring about has a long way to go before being fully mapped out.

[@catbatrat1760]

**gasp** You met a manic pixie dream girl!!!!!!!!! :D

[@Bananappleboy]

@@catbatrat1760 Stop. For the 9th time I am not a pixie. -Cirno the Ice Fairy

[@NerfTheLamp9]

this has got to be one of the saddest things anyone can go through. Imagine, you, right now, waking up somewhere and realizing that 10 years, 10 YEARS, 1/10 of your life, wasn't real and was just a dream. Look back ten years ago, see how much you have done, and imagine all that being erased. School, friends, and memories all being fake. that is so terrifying and I would never even think of wishing this on my worst enemy or anyone.

[@karencurtice9807]

The Lamp came on to take him back. And maybe he had dreamed his future.

[@clauaome25]

yeah the lamp is his totem, like in Inception

[@hunterchichester5720]

Does anyone have a lamp 3d print model?

[@caseyco91]

I wish I'd stare at a lamp to realize my life is not what it is. Sounds fantastic.

[@ashandthecats]

such a dream

[@louisremake]

0:10 why did that make me wheeze

[@brangle7251]

Mai waifeee 🇰🇿

[@them4licious0ne]

exactly, why did it nake you wheeze? thats weird.

[@happypizza0256]

This would make such a good short film

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Bro corrupted his save file and had to reload

[@beingurselfispretty]

Nahh 💀

[@site.the-gamer]

i dont know how long he was out for, but i can assume the lamp was his brain telling him to wake up, since he wasn't eating or drinking he was most likely starting to get hungry or thirsty

[@jack9198]

fr

[@xyt_ma_err]

Your voice is very calming yo. I be falling asleep these videos

[@Zelurpio]

its so creepy how we process dreams as real, and when they in reality last a few minutes, they can feel like hours or seconds, or in this case, years.

[@WHATSAHANDLEIDKIDK]

gives a whole new meaning to "my life was a lie"

[@BlightedOmen]

I just have to say this, we absolutely DO use 100% of our brain 100% of the time

[@bigpapi6688]

No we don’t. We do use 100% of our brain, but not 100% of the time. It’s like a stoplight. 100% of the lights are being used often, but not all of them at the same time

[@DisguisedAsHuman]

This is one of my favorite stories all the way since it was on almost every creepypasta/horror narrator KZbinr’s channel back when it was first written. It’s nice to see it’s made a resurgence, but it’s in no way an unknown story.

[@Goobie-snoober]

Daaam 0:00 to 10:01 was craaazy

[@Utnsu9000]

i mean bro DIDNT eat or DRINK for 3 straight days, he should’ve known it was all fake…

[@awwabdelgrasso6885]

I mean it’s possible to survive a month without food and 3 days either without it water. The world record is like 11 days or something

[@junwei8480]

No if it was really that easy then we would all be having lucid dreams everyday

[@Utnsu9000]

@@junwei8480 true dat

[@Sidus-k4s]

I think that was a part of the point as well. That he can go that long just fine

[@conorganism]

Well his brain was waking up

[@TheFellerHasAChannelGodDamnIt]

Crazy how such a creepy and sad story happened because some football player got pissed.

[@chadgochee1986]

I hope he got charged

[@Duriel321]

Good thing it isn’t real!

[@FlørplXD]

@@Duriel321wdym?

[@joshisanL]

@@FlørplXDit's most likely a fake story, it's exaggerated, or the redditor is delusional. No way to say for sure though. I've seen similar accounts with vehicular accidents, not to such severity though.

[@666-d5y]

Bro i was transported to a day of the past, specifically around 13 or 19 may, 2019. It was afternoon and i started the dream from a point of that actual day. Sittin with my friends in a bungalow under construction, chowing down snacks and playing pubg squads on our phones. I suddenly remember that i just went to sleep and it was 2023, and immediately i started noticing that it was kinda a dream. But it felt like an actual jump in time. It was heavily nostalgic, and i asked for a friend to show me his phone so i could look at the date n time, and yes, the phone was accurate despite the rumors that u dont see phones in dreams. It showed that date. At this point i was considering 2 options. First, to just carry out the day and re-live it the same way it happened that day, and the second, to just blurt out the fact that i was supposedly from the future and tell them all abt the incoming pandemic etc etc. at that point it felt like either one of the reality could be real. Either it was 2019 and i just dreamed till 2023 or i just jumped in time in my dream from that sleep i went to in 2023. Anyways the rest of the dream was alright, too much to type, but i ended up forecasting the future to them and their reaction was really realistic, like calling my bluff, sometimes showing that my story captivates them and sometimes losing interest cuz thats what it was to them, a story.

[@casualcrusader]

Bro's PC crashed in the worst way possible

[@juliwuliiiiii]

This is my new biggest fear, not bc it’s scary but bc this is the so sad and I know I wouldn’t be able to live a single day normal after this..

[@lchrlstlanl]

I had a dream once that felt like forever, it was so real and it was a strange reality. A part of the dream that stands out is I was laughing and talking to a friend/co worker whilst he was helping me get strapped into some machine, when we finally got me strapped in i said "okay okay haha, back to the simulation" followed by being whooshed away into the waking world. It shook me for a few days haha

[@gugoluna]

Truly a lamp moment 🛋️

[@octopodesia3317]

This is exactly what every lucid dream I’ve ever had is like. I frequently have a sister in them. She doesn’t exist. And at the end something is wrong. And then it crumbles

[@DarkerYetLighter]

I got trapped in my bathroom for 2 hours when I was 6 I was terrified

[@onewingangel1117]

Oh, no I’m so sorry 😢 do you care to elaborate on what that felt like from your two different perspectives now that you’re grown? I’m curious as to how you’d comfort your 6 year old self as you recount the memory. Because only you know exactly what would work to affirm him that everything will be ok. (I’m a mom of three little ones plus I’m very curious)

[@stopsatmikey]

This story is considered to be a creepypasta but i personally think this can be true. like the amount of people saying the same is too much to be just a creepypasta. If something like deja vu can be true, this can too. our brain can do things we can not even think of

[@perpisdich3386]

I have schizophrenia and while it's not the same, your reality crashing down around you when you realize a single thing is off pretty much resonates with me, it is 100% real

[@MetaKnight964]

@stopsatmikey: When talking about something like this never start with I think or I feel, or end with either of them for that matter.

[@DAVINACANIS]

how are u meant to word it then?

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

@@perpisdich3386don't look at the door

[@Broogli]

Real

[@GrayscaleStudios7]

100% real

[@BoringGameplays]

Real

[@Isuckkk]

Real

[@epicman1232]

🛋️

[@BuddyFilms]

Real

[@lucianomangroo]

It's like he accidentally entered a parallel universe

[@TheInfectiousCadaver]

overtime i actually forgot this was a creepy pasta, thanks for the reminder. could you even imagine though?

[@Spoogli]

Would be absolutely horrific

[@melxvee6850]

​@@Spoogli this isn't a creepy pasta lol, no where does it say it is, a guy literally spoke about his experience and other people also replied to their own as well, I follow creepy pasta stories this isn't one of them, unless you have confirmation of that

[@charliekill88]

@@melxvee6850 buddy, its a made up story. Dont be so gullible on the internet.

[@redgefleming1535]

​@@melxvee6850i believe only half of this is real because no dreams has this lot of detail

[@ampotat9018]

Assuming this is real, a possible explanation would be that maybe his brain thought he was going to die, and it created a dream where he had the life he would want to have, which makes the depression make sense, not only did he miss his "family", he also went from essentially having a perfect life to coming back into our flawed reality, not only that but also in a very bad situation, in pain from the beating he just took.

[@SarahSaga]

This is pretty much what betrayed spouses have to go through. Decades of their reality being a lie, except they dont get to wake up from it they have to deal with the discovered psychological abuse and damage done from decades of manipulation by the ones they trusted the most. Cheating is domestic violence!

[@RavenStarMedia]

This particular Reddit story has always stuck with me. So glad to see it covered here!

[@r3digit]

I just recently discovered this story. I kid you not the amount of times this kind of of thing happened to me during my dreams that I resented dreaming all together. Albeit I don't remember being in those dreams for years on end nor can I remember much details but that feeling of being in love with a person that never really existed and the time with them that never happened and will never happen fucking guts me to the core. I simply can't shake off those feelings, it felt so real. I don't want to experience that feeling ever again.

[@mjriemen]

I’m just glad I got to experience it at all

[@dzare1512]

I feel like the coma guy’s brain went into safe mode

[@EnzitoGamer]

7:07 that's a common myth, we do in fact use 100% of our brain everyday, including when we go to sleep, according to fMRI scans

[@kraken6183]

No we use like 80 percent

[@EnzitoGamer]

@@kraken6183 no.. we use like 100%

[@kraken6183]

@@EnzitoGamer we're not constantly using 100 percent of our brain

[@vincentgoh3593]

Its all about perspective, imagine if op experience miserable life in his lamp life , ie divorce abortion etc, he would woke up thinking he has a second chance in life , reborn with 10 years of failing experience

[@Danleesixoneonetwofive]

That’s an interesting point bro

[@Hannibal_Heyes]

I would absolutely love more creepypasta vids.

[@XED-x4i]

Sometimes i have really long dreams, and it turns out i slept in. Imagine if you have a dream which is probably a day and a half long.

[@crispyclouds438]

I cant tell if this story is giving me deja vu or deja reve but its something that I know is there and its a sinking feeling that's growing Impossible to shake ever since hearing this story. I know I've had a dream like this before but i cant remember much about it except a person who i felt deeply connected with (i cant remember our exact relationship but it was strong) and a clock that seemed to be melting or frozen. I don't know but it wasn't right and its what woke me up when I knew it wasn't a real clock. I remember my perspective zooming in on the clock and then waking up, and for the next months or so, I remember every time I looked at a clock randomly or the time on my phone, the hands were the exact same as they were on the melting clock on the wall. I always think of it and I cant understand why it makes me feel so weird, or why my relationship with that person felt so real that my heart started to ache when I woke up. Dreams are absolutely insane and the ones I remember always leave me questioning everything.

[@r3digit]

Man, I feel really grateful to have discovered this story. Had the same kind of dreams several times now.I can't remember the details but damn, the feelings that I felt still shake me to my core. It feels nice knowing people also had similar experiences and share those gut wrenching feelings that I felt

[@mintani19]

I was 3 when that happened. I remember it so clearly. There was a boy, and I always think of him. And I’ve seemed to fallen in love with him. And I was 3, and I’ve never thought about boys. I didnt Even know they existed 😭

[@thearmeniangamer3399]

I also had a dream like that but I forgot basically all the details shortly after waking up but I remember being sad initially. I also had a dream where a clock made me realize I was dreaming. I had been trying to lucid dream so I would subconsciously look for things that looked wrong in dreams. One night I went to bed at about midnight. I randomly woke up and looked over at my digital alarm clock that was in the window sill and it displayed an impossible time, considering that it was pitch black in my room and the clock said it was 10 am (or something like that) and I told myself this is a dream and I am lucid, but instead of entering a lucid dream I just got horrible sleep paralysis and had to break out of it and wake up anyways

[@JeanyyBee]

I feel like maybe this was another parallel universe he was locked into in a moment of near death

[@calibrial]

This needs to be a movie!

[@Ivanhasonebraincell]

Bro comas are actually so scary. The brain constructed an entire life with a wife, kids, and a house all within a few seconds

[@Random_bedsheet.]

9:09 BRUHHHHHH WHAT

[@goofy_employee]

That lamp is probably 8 giga bytes of storage.

[@auremybenamor]

There's a scary anime episode about this concept from Junji Ito

[@Jomthetoejameater]

On time I had a dream inside of a dream inside of a dream, and they all were in the same place with slightly different surroundings.

[@LavKralj13K]

Wait... What if our whole life is just a dream... And when we die... We just wake up to reality

[@AlexanderSwan-f2d]

This is literally just that episode of justice league where Superman thinks he’s still on his home planet with a wife and kid then Batman knocks him out of it and he remembers everything

[@lilywalker2560]

The way this story is written, real or not, is super well-done! Despite how short it is, it's a great example of what I love about psychological horror. However, I too have experienced something similar to this, so I'm inclined to believe it's real. I want to say I was maybe 13 years old when my experience occurred. Like any other school night, I go to sleep, but I will never forget the dream I had that night. In this dream, I was born male. I had a different name, a different childhood; I was living an entirely different life with no memory of the person I was before falling asleep, nor did I even know I was asleep because it felt *real*. It felt as real as I do right now. I graduated from high school, got an engineering degree, met a woman who I fell in love with and eventually married. I had children, raised them into adulthood, and was working my dream job for decades. I lived well into my sixties, but during one ordinary day at work, I fell from a ladder... and that was the last thing I remembered before I woke up to my mom telling me to get up for school. The mental whiplash I experienced in that moment... I can't describe it in a way that will do the feeling justice. It took me a few minutes to remember who I really was, and even after that, my sense of reality was utterly fucked for the next week. That's not something a 13-year-old should experience. Looking back on it, I only remember the details of the dream sparsely despite how vivid it felt and how well I remembered it for the weeks following. Luckily it didn't affect me as severely as the poster of the comment in this video, as for some reason, I didn't mourn losing the life I lived. I really wish I knew what circumstances could have led to such a thing happening, or if it really was some freak coincidence. I had never been exposed to any media depicting something like this and was not a fan of horror until I was older, so the concept was entirely new to me. I had a lot of weird sleep-related events happen in the house I lived in at the time (my family moved around a lot), and while I had actually experienced a couple more dreams like this later on, this was the first and by far the most intense of them.

[@ATwistedWonderland]

was the ladder at a carpet store?

[@RippedLipsBassFishing]

I have the second weirdest dreams ever. This dream was definitely horrifying for him, and even sad. My dreams are fucking insane

[@erickcastaneda9589]

The Inner Light is such an amazing story

[@pyxl666]

It's interesting how OP stated that he started at the lamp for 3 days but not once did his brain command his coma-dream self to try touching the lamp.

[@operationthrash9645]

A far less horrifying yet conceptually the same thing would happen to me a lot when I was a teenager. As someone who had no success in dating til his 20s, I would often dream about my crush in middle and high school. We would go on dates together, watch movies, go to school dances, and even have deep conversations. For 90% of these recurring dreams, it would feel like a day and a half or maybe two had passed at the most. I could swear I was experiencing real life. Then I would hear a disembodied voice in my dream, and then realize it was my mother in the real world waking me up for school. It was disheartening and a little bit jarring. But it was nowhere near the trippy hell OP experienced in his story.

[@deiloncutamora5236]

His experience was so painful his brain needs to create fake scenarios of having a family to comfort him.

[@Xtreme-qk5qg]

Imagine the things we could do with 100% brain function.

[@GJikok]

🤓 erm actually, it's a good thing that we never use 100% of our brain power as each area of our brain is dedicated to a sense that is only needed when used it's like if a stoplight had all it colors active at once in fact we DO use 100% of our brain when we have seizures

[@daiman_SX0]

Our brain is always process 100%. And yet we're still dumb.

[@whitecomet3036]

I do not fear the dark, nor the unknown. I played hundreds of horror games, watched hundreds of movies. Heck, I barely fear death! But never have I ever felt a chill down my spine the moment I read the description of the lamp. I guess my greatest fear is realizing that everything you love and cherish is fake... That terrifies me.

[@DutchFurnace]

This can 100% happen, and I'm actually kinda amazed this apparently is so weird/unique it has become "a thing", and always thought everyone experienced this on on level or the other. I actually have lots of really long vivid/lucid dreams, sometimes several in a night, but 99% of them are too fantastical to be considered real and I end up waking myself up from them when things get too weird/scary/painful/emotional/fantastical/boring even, but every now and then, a dream will have no "fantasy" and there's nothing that makes me go "hmm, sure I've been totally accepting this "fact", but now I actually pay attention to it, I'm starting to have real/waking memories of how it should be, and then boom I'm awake". In most cases, the details of the dream will fade away very quickly, but likewise, every now and then, a dream will stick and I can tell a 10+ minute story on all the details. And it seems rather random when a realistic dream and remembering a lot of details collide with each other. I've got 100's of snippets of dreams in my head, and dozens and dozens of fantastical 10+ minute detailed dreams that are as varied as dreams, (movies really), come, from taking part in large "historical" battles, and living in some kind of game world according to the games rules, to just some weird/funny scenario, (on a random sidenote, I've never ever ever dreamed about scifi stuff. I've got not a single "memory" of ever doing anything in/on/around space or spaceships, or even futuristic technology on earth; my dreams are all "historical" or fantastical/"magical"/"special powers". Even though I "should" have dreamed about scifi stuff as well, if dreams just take random stuff about what you've been thinking/watching/doing lately, as scifi totally is one of my interests) But yes, I've got 3 dreams of totally realistic long term lives, that felt like years, and although the details of the faces of the people in those dreams have mostly faded I can still remember them as "individuals", much moreso than actual real people from my real world longer term memories, and the second and third were easier to "process", I've got huge, life affecting, "holes" in my "heart" over the "loss" and "missing" of these dream people. Edit, in fact so much so that I don't even want to talk about those dreams and what I do remember about them because it literally makes me sad and it took a long time to forget/not recall, and hell even having written this post is somewhere already feeling as a mistake as memories that I haven't thought about for years are coming back to me already. :( and it's a lie the last two were easier :(

[@shadowrobot77]

The brain can create infinite amount of existences, but cannot render a goddamn lamp properly

[@HazZzel-]

I remember hearing about this story, but I never heard the full thing

[@mhc706]

I’ve had a similar experience. But not when concussed, though that is a very strange feeling. I was just sleeping at night like normal. I was in high school when I had it. Met a girl, dated for years, married, I got a job that I don’t remember, we had a daughter and our own house, I walked into my daughters room to wake her up for school and I woke up instead. Horrific stuff, I was completely out of it all day, just went through the motions. Very sad for days but knew I had to snap out of it because it was just a dream and people would think I was crazy

[@Tom11025]

This actually scares me so much im on the verge of tears thinking my parents , my friends never existed can someone help?

[@flyinghigh2178]

Yes you exist

[@nouser935]

@@flyinghigh2178 nuh uh

[@charliekill88]

nah you dont exist lol

[@midloran]

If this was a dream, we would have supported you, but we won't lul crayabotitloserlmao (:

[@thearmeniangamer3399]

I'm living in your walls

[@Egg7O]

"The lamp is not real... The house is not real, my wife, my kids... The last 10 years of my life are not fucking real"

[@druid54us]

Never to that extent, but the heartbreak of waking up from the life you want to have is a very real somber moment. At least once a year I dream about my wife the house and the job even a daughter.

[@ManicObsevations]

There was this football player, guy had a future, woke up after a coma (6 months?). Didnt recognize his girl friend, in his coma he was married, had kids, in his mid/late 20s had a job. Whole life while he was comatose. Woke up to realise none of it was real, while also missing out on his own life.

[@_Emerald_Eye_]

I believe the theory that some dreams could be memories of past live and memories of ourselves from an alternative reality. But than again I can't prove it. I do think there's just something more to dreams. Feel bad for op, that definitely mentally fucked him up.

[@libidinousbear4563]

The only way this story is even remotely plausible is if by “being knocked out by a football player” he means being knocked out by overdosing on DMT.

[@solodolo9450]

And that football player went on to become a top NFL player and continues to knock 10 year alternate lives into people to this very day 😊

[@youreadthisinyourmindright2604]

You ever got KO'd so hard, your brain decided to create a fake life story for you, just for it to be ended by a weird looking lamp.

[@chrisjohngrima9761]

This reminds me the worst nightmare I ever had in my whole life. I remember wanting to have a younger sibling so so much. I would ask my mum if i could have one (looking back that was very werid.) Anyways, I once had a dream where i finaly had a younger sibling but one of my best friends had kidnaped them and I spent the whole dream begging and screaming at them and demanding to know what did they do to them and where are they. Until I had woken up and realsied it was just a dream and I happy because my "younger sibling" was okay! And then it hit me harder than almost any previous (or to this day even) physical, mental emotional pain I had ever felt. I never even had a younger sibling to begin with. All my relief turned into sadness, I went to my mum to make sure if it was true that I never had a younger sibling and obviously she said no. I was very very upset and I started crying that not did "my younger sibling" was kidnapped by someone I loved but, the said person never even existed to begin with. Until a few years later my mother became pregnant and now I have a beautiful cute 3 year old brother :) So I guess I had lost the battle and won the war Tl;dr I wanted a younger sibling so bad that I had a nightmare that I had one and they were kidnapped by my best friend and woke up to be happy that my "younger sibling" was safe until I had realised they never even existed to begin with and few years later (Today.) I have a beautilful 3 year old brother

[@danfoxdude]

Tragically wholesome

[@Krzztl]

I’m pretty sure this is a real known symptom of a heavy salvia trip

[@IncoGnito-ji5du]

I ve been shot and killed in my dreams. Twice. Once with an uzi, on an afternoon, under a peer bridge, in what appeared to be New York with skyscrapers in the background, where a dude in a beanie shot me in the left of my neck. I woke up gasping, grabbing my neck in throbbing burning pain, looking for the hole. The second time, i don t really remember the what an the who, but i remember facing a shotgun, and getting blasted in the chest dead center. I woke up, trying to breathe, couldn t draw breath for several seconds, chest burning, unable to move, feeling as if a whole person was sitting on it. I was 19? at the time, no prior health issues, nothing similar before, or since. I ve never been shot, so my mind lacks the experience to simulate it. I was born in, and have never left, europe. I'm 35 now, and i remember both those moments vividly to this day, as i write this.

[@brightblackhole2442]

second time is almost certainly just sleep paralysis, since you felt pressure on your chest and couldn't move

[@IncoGnito-ji5du]

@@brightblackhole2442 doesn t that happen at the start of the sleep cycle though? I woke up late late into the night, having slept hours ago.

[@YusoCrio]

I click this because I’m curious and then I get dozens of scary videoed with horrifying thumbnails on my recommendations. ONE VIDEO AND IT LEADS TO THIS!