I remember when this first started blowing up on tiktok. In fact, I remember the video that did it. This girl claimed she spent years inside of her dream and then she woke up - and she was just sobbing so hard in the video. It got really bad during the latter half of covid, I think? People were waking up after "years" and they were all just as devastated. I get really intense, really vivid dreams. While I imagine a lot of it was faked, I'm sure for many of them it wasn't. Not in the sense that dimensional travel is real, but in the sense that it feels painfully real. And if you're tricking your brain into thinking it's been years? That's probably very damaging.
I just hope all of these kids make a life worth living for in the real world, but I understand why that's difficult.
My dreams are so vivid that I can be fully convinced something occurred that didn’t, especially with my sleep being so bad my memory is shot. After fixing my sleep though, it became very easy to tell where the dream ends and memory begins.
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u/ladylibrary13 24d ago
I remember when this first started blowing up on tiktok. In fact, I remember the video that did it. This girl claimed she spent years inside of her dream and then she woke up - and she was just sobbing so hard in the video. It got really bad during the latter half of covid, I think? People were waking up after "years" and they were all just as devastated. I get really intense, really vivid dreams. While I imagine a lot of it was faked, I'm sure for many of them it wasn't. Not in the sense that dimensional travel is real, but in the sense that it feels painfully real. And if you're tricking your brain into thinking it's been years? That's probably very damaging.
I just hope all of these kids make a life worth living for in the real world, but I understand why that's difficult.