Dead convinced I viewed an alternate reality

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I know having to hear/read about someone else’s dream is a nightmare it’s own,

But I don’t believe what I experienced was a dream at all.

It was unlike any dream I’ve ever had in that it made sense, was linear, and I was not young or thin.

(Usually in my dreams I’m perfect, 22 year old Charles Foster)

I was exactly my age, wearing clothes I own and doing things the way I would do them in life.

I want to just pour into detail because it was sooooo real. (It would be a wall of text if I typed it out and I won’t subject you to that).

The scenario, the actions taken, and consequences.

It even involved a level of expertise that I am unfamiliar with.

When I woke up,

I couldn’t believe it was a dream.

The more I thought about it, the less like it a dream it became.

Playing it over in my mind, I couldn’t find one hole in the story, one “dream like” element, or anything unrealistic.

It feels like I saw something that happened to me in a parallel reality.

Same Charles Foster to that point, then things go off the rails in a very Charles Foster kind of way.

I don’t dream a lot, but when I do,

It’s horrible.

I dream of demons and evil and not being able to control my body, being locked in a specific room.

Basically the same dream in slightly different variations since I was a child.

One notable exception that I also have a hard time accepting as a dream and believe that it may have actually happened.

Like, not in another reality, like in my life.

Anyway,

It’s difficult to shake.

My husband agreed that it was not very dream-like,

But wouldn’t buy my alternate reality theory.

I’m very unsettled.

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I can see into alt realities during dreams and awake periods.

I don’t think I’m fully delusional.

But I do get upset sometimes seeing things.

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I just woke up literally like 5 minutes ago, so I’m not fully ready to comment yet, but @anon49368487 , you are likely to get flagged for encouraging these thoughts with that comment.

I know you believe it, so I’m not going to, but please no more of that in this thread. That is exactly what will cause this thread to be closed.

I need to take my pills, shot and have some breakfast and I’ll come back and read the OP again and reply if someone else hasnt already replied satisfactorily.

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Sorry my bad.

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I know you are very convinced that you are viewing an alternate reality, but think about this : The concept of alternate realities, based on an internet search, only came about in 1957. 100 years ago, someone probably would have thought these realistic dreams were a sign from God and maybe even a Omen of future events.

Don’t you think it’s more likely you’re being influenced by modern ideas to have these beliefs than you truly are seeing into an alternate reality?

I don’t think this is a particularly venomous or dangerous belief because its not something that will effect you in your “current reality”, other than believing it.

Like I said, I literally just woke up, did my morning stuff, did that search on when alternate realities concept first came about and typed my initial thoughts, so I don’t know how helpful this will be.

I may need to reread and try to comment further.

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I used to think there was a spirit portal in my bedroom that followed me from house to house…wife talked me out of it…

I know the dream seemed real…but there is no alternate reality.

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I think the more we progress in science and physics the more plausible alternate realities exist. It’s far beyond my grasp I don’t understand it at all. However I don’t deny it could be possible.

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Parallel universes may or may not exist…no one can prove or disprove at the current time. Its just a theory. But tapping into them in your dreams doesn’t really seem to mesh. This seems more like a magical ability or something you might see in a marvel movie.

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@Charles_Foster , I’ve had similar experiences.

However, when I’m better medicated, they don’t seem real to me anymore.

So my guess is it’s not real, even though it seems so incredibly real

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If I could type it all out,

I feel like we would all be in agreement that it was not a dream.

It was a memory.

Of some type.

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A lot of perception depends a great deal upon self-projection.

This applies to people who meditate too and it depends upon the motivation that compells people to meditate.
For example, if you long for excessively for revelations in your meditation then you eventually will achieve it.

It doesn’t mean anything spirtual has actually happened but rather the self projection of images has occured like a self induced hallucination.

This type of thing stems from our conditioned selves and what we expect to find in our indoctrinated or wishful belief system.

This rang a bell with something i had read awhile ago, so i asked bing ai about it:

“some scientists believe that the world we perceive is mostly hallucinated, is this true?”

It replied:

" Yes, some scientists do propose that our perception of reality is a form of hallucination. Anil Seth, a professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, suggests that everything we perceive and experience is a result of our brain interpreting sensory information in a particular way12.

According to Seth, our brain uses its prior expectations to interpret the sensory information it continually encounters. Perception, instead of just being a reflection of what’s actually there in the world, is always an active process of interpretation1. This means that what we perceive is much more a product of how our brain interprets all this information than the eyes being a window into an objective external reality1.

Seth further explains that when the balance is disturbed between how the brain interprets sensory information and what the sensory information actually is, that’s when people start to see things that other people don’t, and that’s what we call hallucination1. He also mentions that our conscious reality is similar to hallucination—the only difference is that we collectively agree on these particular hallucinations and deem them reality2.

However, it’s important to note that this is a perspective in the field of cognitive neuroscience and there are other perspectives as well. The study of perception and reality is complex and still a topic of ongoing research."

I also asked if:

“is it also true that the mind hallucinates our peripheral vision more often than not?”

It replied:

Yes, it is true to some extent. Our peripheral vision is not as sharp as our central vision, and our brain often fills in the gaps with its best guess of what’s likely to be there, based on our past experiences and expectations1. This is not exactly hallucination in the clinical sense, but more of a predictive processing by the brain.

So if you apply these findings to our lives, we hallucinate a lot. Making sense of it can be more confusing for a sz too as these levels of hallucinations are somewhat muddled and amplified.

Take it with a pinch of salt. If it was an alternate reality then what an interesting experience. If it was an hallucination, what an interesting experience too.

You are bakc here now and that world is waht counts right now!

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Sometimes I feel that dreams are windows to an alternate reality.

My dreams can be very strange and eerie

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The odd part is,

This dream was not particularly eerie or strange.

It was kind of an odd event,

But it’s the detail and how it completely made sense.

No weird dream stuff.

It woke me up at 2am, it’s currently 9:19am and I can still remember it perfectly.

The whole thing feels like a memory.

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I tend to straddle a few at times

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I get memories in my dreams sometimes. Ive had similar experience actually a year ago. Maybe its a sign were aging to remind us were not immortal. Or maybe its about accepting ourselves for who we are

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