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The original was posted on /r/paranormalencounters by /u/thealterry on 2024-09-05 03:14:56+00:00.


I’m asking this question because the topic has always fascinated me, ever since reading a now-deleted comment from a few years ago (you can read a re-post of their story here).

Basically, the OP got married, had children, and then one day he noticed a red lamp in his house looked strange. He stared at the lamp for days trying to figure out what was wrong with it. He then realized that the lamp wasn’t real. This caused him to realize he was dreaming and he immediately woke up to find that he had no wife, no kids, etc. It had all been a dream caused by a TBI.

I started looking around on Reddit and found a few other similar stories, such as: story 1, story 2, story 3. It seems like this is especially “common” amongst people who have suffered concussions or TBIs, but not always. Others view their experience in the dream as being real/true, almost like astrally projecting to another parallel universe and participating in another lifetime. Others claim to just be really good at lucid dreaming.

So, have any of you experienced anything like this? I’d love to hear your experiences!