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  • @ChrisWillx
    @ChrisWillx  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +134

    Hello you savages. Watch the full episode with MrBallen here - th-cam.com/video/NEIVgSYPYcU/w-d-xo.html Get $500 discount on Fountain Life at fountainlife.com/modernwisdom

    • @virtual-v808
      @virtual-v808 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      One of the best podcasts, sir!

    • @ElGrancuco12345
      @ElGrancuco12345 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @FireStick-nu4pn
      @FireStick-nu4pn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @tamarahutzel6605
      @tamarahutzel6605 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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
      @kellysavage7073 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      hey that is truly my last name cool savage

  • @raezor82
    @raezor82 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1938

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

  • @bvbxiong5791
    @bvbxiong5791 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1401

    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
      @stewartredman2287 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Yup:(

    • @julieking4304
      @julieking4304 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      pray every day for God;s guidance

    • @Menaceblue3
      @Menaceblue3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      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
      @hed420 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Same....

    • @dewahiweunmoatzn
      @dewahiweunmoatzn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

  • @HongKongEclectic
    @HongKongEclectic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +785

    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
      @kindofanmol 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

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

    • @kahopukehau
      @kahopukehau 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      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
      @HongKongEclectic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

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

    • @marccas10
      @marccas10 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      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
      @rhino202 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I have it happen often.

  • @Bedroom_Studios
    @Bedroom_Studios 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +505

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

    • @jguenther3049
      @jguenther3049 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      That would be 40 fourths of a second.

    • @KinjiUrba
      @KinjiUrba 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

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

    • @greyangelpilot
      @greyangelpilot 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @markbombini7715
      @markbombini7715 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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
      @quokka_11 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jguenther3049 Nice fraction 👍🏼

  • @jordanmatthews4749
    @jordanmatthews4749 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +233

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

    • @Duncansigurdsson
      @Duncansigurdsson 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Creepy 😅

    • @chrisallen1296
      @chrisallen1296 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @jarredcutler6786
      @jarredcutler6786 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      why was this creepy... lol...

    • @TTTTTTTTT853
      @TTTTTTTTT853 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Bro is a horror movie narrator

  • @richardcard82
    @richardcard82 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2090

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

    • @JohnLoogleman
      @JohnLoogleman 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

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

    • @themc3311
      @themc3311 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      I love lamp.

    • @snownotwhite
      @snownotwhite 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      😂😂😂

    • @george7141
      @george7141 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

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

    • @GlassesnMouthplates
      @GlassesnMouthplates 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

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

  • @mommakimmins5554
    @mommakimmins5554 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2048

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

    • @Bballer12ification
      @Bballer12ification 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

      I need to hear more about this

    • @23ADJ93
      @23ADJ93 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Yesss

    • @LUKA_911
      @LUKA_911 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Tell us more!

    • @Nick-Salv
      @Nick-Salv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      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
      @bethclarke9548 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +230

      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!!

  • @ayd5108
    @ayd5108 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1074

    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
      @teeblackwell6301 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +136

      Maybe it's from your past life

    • @liazone
      @liazone 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

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

    • @snakey319
      @snakey319 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      usually this happens as toddlers, or younger.

    • @Sam-fn8qi
      @Sam-fn8qi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      That's cute

    • @jimmydee935
      @jimmydee935 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      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. 😂😂

  • @caseymacmacl7463
    @caseymacmacl7463 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +396

    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
      @WilliamAstromAW 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

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

    • @timboslice8559
      @timboslice8559 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @1223santigato
      @1223santigato 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hard to believe.

    • @HYDROCARBON_XD
      @HYDROCARBON_XD 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @Bent-rAgE-559
      @Bent-rAgE-559 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

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

  • @robbaholic
    @robbaholic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    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.

  • @dextersuarez9948
    @dextersuarez9948 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +682

    Had a similar experience with a dream I had, woke up and cried for a few days when I realized the life I lived was just a dream.

    • @shinigami891
      @shinigami891 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      Just wait until you die and wake up in the presence of God as you realize your life here was a dream all along...

    • @SMALLAXE.
      @SMALLAXE. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@shinigami891 just wait till you have to face God and account.

    • @shinigami891
      @shinigami891 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      @@SMALLAXE. I never understood why Christianity paints God as some angry, judgmental father figure whom you must fear his judgement. According to people who have experienced NDEs God is a grand white light with no judgement but unconditional love and understanding. We are spirits who chose to come experience the knowledge gained through difficulty for spiritual growth. Sorry, but I'm far more inclined to believe people who have actually flat-lined and saw the other side, rather than some manipulative man who wants to touch your wallet and kids...

    • @SpecRec
      @SpecRec 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      gotta bring religion into literally anything

    • @dextersuarez9948
      @dextersuarez9948 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@SpecRec seriously dude, I grew up around alot of religious fanaticism, they some of my least favorite kind of people.

  • @Tutnese
    @Tutnese 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +535

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

    • @scaringthecheese
      @scaringthecheese 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      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
      @nicholnixon7310 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Same here

    • @absinthealice
      @absinthealice 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

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

    • @stevenedwards8353
      @stevenedwards8353 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

    • @dustintrussell3490
      @dustintrussell3490 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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.

  • @deliverypickle5889
    @deliverypickle5889 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +196

    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
      @hallodu2506 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      he came ?

    • @curiosdogg
      @curiosdogg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      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
      @deliverypickle5889 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @joereinartz1369
      @joereinartz1369 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @molassio1989
      @molassio1989 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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.

  • @slavexcalledxshiver
    @slavexcalledxshiver 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    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
      @keithymg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The brain n dreamstate are unreal.

    • @nicoledoubleyou0621
      @nicoledoubleyou0621 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      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
      @slavexcalledxshiver 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@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.

    • @SpicyRen
      @SpicyRen 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      no shot bro

    • @ritaw9479
      @ritaw9479 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @geneil26
    @geneil26 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    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
      @snalls6 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

    • @geneil26
      @geneil26 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@snalls6 Does it get better or easier?

    • @snalls6
      @snalls6 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @Duncansigurdsson
      @Duncansigurdsson 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So very sorry. That must be rough.

    • @Aelea
      @Aelea 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @anjpunk
    @anjpunk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +420

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

    • @smartman123
      @smartman123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      amazing story teller

    • @adriennekramberg6397
      @adriennekramberg6397 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

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

    • @absinthealice
      @absinthealice 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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
      @Dluiogbre 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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

    • @user-io9ie5cs8j
      @user-io9ie5cs8j 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I watch his stuff all the time. Excellent storyteller

  • @jarosawjaskuowski3179
    @jarosawjaskuowski3179 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +280

    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
      @carmenross7063 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      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
      @jarosawjaskuowski3179 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @carolkingsafer9728
      @carolkingsafer9728 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Watch Family Man 😉

    • @lynnewright31
      @lynnewright31 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@carolkingsafer9728 I love that movie.

    • @jarosawjaskuowski3179
      @jarosawjaskuowski3179 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @mmkoogler
    @mmkoogler 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +203

    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
      @lynnewright31 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I'm so sorry that happened to you.😢

    • @mmkoogler
      @mmkoogler 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @lynnewright31 thank you 💞

    • @bellzTolled3
      @bellzTolled3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@mmkoogler❤

    • @paulapalais
      @paulapalais 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @TamelaJC
      @TamelaJC 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Some of them actually are evil

  • @Tars_1981
    @Tars_1981 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    Silence of the Lamps.

    • @retrosonghits
      @retrosonghits 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂

    • @5ivenineteen
      @5ivenineteen 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was looking for this comment. Well played🙇‍♂️

  • @kahopukehau
    @kahopukehau 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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.

  • @SSS-pn9ex
    @SSS-pn9ex 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +204

    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
      @DoctorHemi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

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

    • @jeffreysmith694
      @jeffreysmith694 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

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

    • @SSS-pn9ex
      @SSS-pn9ex 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@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
      @DoctorHemi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

    • @Pedr4m
      @Pedr4m 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

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

  • @JoshPecks500lbDad
    @JoshPecks500lbDad 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    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 TH-cam channel. Im highly impressed.

    • @CMO1061
      @CMO1061 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very true.

    • @crystalmorton9500
      @crystalmorton9500 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @dva1254
      @dva1254 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@crystalmorton9500 toastmasters?

    • @JoshPecks500lbDad
      @JoshPecks500lbDad 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @azeleyes2936
      @azeleyes2936 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Isn’t “kinda” a filler word?

  • @Mcfunface
    @Mcfunface 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1971

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

    • @NotAnonymousNo80014
      @NotAnonymousNo80014 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +335

      It's also a Start Trek episode.

    • @LUKA_911
      @LUKA_911 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      Lmaooo

    • @anthonycollari2134
      @anthonycollari2134 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +290

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

    • @wolfginia129
      @wolfginia129 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@blondeenotsomuch Ask Me Anything

    • @LUKA_911
      @LUKA_911 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@blondeenotsomuch Ask Me Anything

  • @Petra44YT
    @Petra44YT 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    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
      @JenniferBoht 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was thinking the same thing

    • @Demonizer5134
      @Demonizer5134 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JenniferBoht Same

    • @christa8418
      @christa8418 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @garychiang2568 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @zmbdog
    @zmbdog 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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
      @simbadooo9055 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @robinwagoner7217
    @robinwagoner7217 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +159

    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
      @mj2672 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The red lamp story is not paranormal

    • @lbar9720
      @lbar9720 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Thank you. I just ordered them.

    • @ajc7865
      @ajc7865 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @laurieclarkson9180
      @laurieclarkson9180 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @Buyinscratchcardtilliwinlotery
      @Buyinscratchcardtilliwinlotery 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

  • @lbar9720
    @lbar9720 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +173

    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
      @nicholnixon7310 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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
      @cgcg0303 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I concur

    • @keymaster430
      @keymaster430 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @mj-rg9kp
      @mj-rg9kp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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
      @mattdragoo7057 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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.

  • @geraldallsman2803
    @geraldallsman2803 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    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
      @videotampa 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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
      @scaringthecheese 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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 TH-cam here somewhere.. Still profound, but that first time gutted me...

    • @mentallydisturbedscience8900
      @mentallydisturbedscience8900 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey! I think I remember reading that story!

    • @janiced3090
      @janiced3090 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @scaringthecheese
      @scaringthecheese 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @KinjiUrba
    @KinjiUrba 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    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.

  • @Lizziekarendreams
    @Lizziekarendreams 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    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
      @wheedler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So do you have normal dreams now since you died?

    • @Lizziekarendreams
      @Lizziekarendreams 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @hensonlaura
      @hensonlaura 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well that's intriguing. What technology?

    • @Lizziekarendreams
      @Lizziekarendreams 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @DarkSleuths
    @DarkSleuths 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +159

    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
      @studytunes8549 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Me too

    • @shutupshelley1793
      @shutupshelley1793 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🤣🤣🤣👍

    • @LukeDodge916
      @LukeDodge916 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I love this effin comment

    • @sickbreed66
      @sickbreed66 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      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
      @garetjax2768 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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.

  • @wallywest2360
    @wallywest2360 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +161

    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
      @carmenross7063 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

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

    • @danf7411
      @danf7411 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      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
      @josharzt4364 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @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
      @mj2672 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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
      @arosefortes6507 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@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

  • @beck-tn9gl
    @beck-tn9gl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

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

    • @JacquiMcCarron21
      @JacquiMcCarron21 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      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
      @sylviabierle 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too

    • @ephraimeischen5502
      @ephraimeischen5502 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      good comparison... i remember that movie

    • @truerosie
      @truerosie 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I absolutely loved that movie, thanks for the reminder.

  • @retrokoh
    @retrokoh 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    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
      @LeviBulger 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @hensonlaura
      @hensonlaura 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @andyfreeman6865
    @andyfreeman6865 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @FaithAndRepentance
    @FaithAndRepentance 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    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
      @carlosfley3768 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @davidboland8879
      @davidboland8879 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @bluerayzzz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @kevinconway2965
      @kevinconway2965 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Agimus_AGO56
    @Agimus_AGO56 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    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
      @mj2672 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow!

    • @kbcustoms3571
      @kbcustoms3571 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

    • @jennifergariepy7573
      @jennifergariepy7573 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I have Vasovegal response and can tell you when I'm going down. Once, I was able to do a countdown, medics were impressed by that one lol. In the mere seconds I'm out I have rapid, lifelike dreams. When I awake I don't know who I am or where I am. Most times I'm lucky enough to instruct people how to approach me because I will often wake up in a fit of fear. Some dreams feel like a whole block of time, not seconds. I can understand what this man felt.

  • @wolfinthesno
    @wolfinthesno 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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.

  • @rodneykingston6420
    @rodneykingston6420 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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
      @permabulk1454 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @jacobmcdonald2907 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @chamonix2602
      @chamonix2602 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lucid dreams.

  • @helener7545
    @helener7545 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I thought everyone dreamt like this, at least on a continuum. I’ve always remembered dreams as though they were actually happening, and then have awakened being sad, or happy, or terrified, or the ones that literally haunt you for days, because they’re so vivid, and gross, and make you feel like you’re walking around under a cloud for a few days. My Irish and Greek side both tell me I have “The Sight”. Who knows?

  • @robertbeecroft5570
    @robertbeecroft5570 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    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
      @g.dalfleblanc63 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @kittenhasclaws3006
      @kittenhasclaws3006 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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.

  • @pawlpoche8736
    @pawlpoche8736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    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
      @opaljk4835 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Well now you ruined it for me

    • @he_was_a_skater_dog
      @he_was_a_skater_dog หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @mickeytwister4721
    @mickeytwister4721 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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
      @thecutellama76 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @hensonlaura
      @hensonlaura 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One possible future.

    • @mickeytwister4721
      @mickeytwister4721 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @lumgs2009
    @lumgs2009 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

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

    • @Banned4Life
      @Banned4Life 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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.

  • @ezeqeel8352
    @ezeqeel8352 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've lived so many full lives in dreams I don't really spend time thinking about them as anything special. It's weird what the mind sometimes does to you, but don't overthink it. If anything, find comfort in them when you're taking your last grasps of air. It's just a dream, time to wake up.

  • @GlassesnMouthplates
    @GlassesnMouthplates 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    Not as harrowing for an experience, but just today, I stumbled upon a clip on TH-cam 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 TH-cam, 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
      @rottsandspots 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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
      @JacquiMcCarron21 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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
      @GlassesnMouthplates 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@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 TH-cam made sense since I really was watching some TH-cam videos on my phone before I took that nap that day.

    • @Thedarkbunnyrabbit
      @Thedarkbunnyrabbit 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@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
      @kalabakonbitts1362 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @MRHG126
    @MRHG126 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    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
      @Ben-pd2bx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @nhhdjdhdj6496 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @Ben-pd2bx
      @Ben-pd2bx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@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.

  • @Sb129
    @Sb129 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    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
      @dougrigel1997 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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
      @jimbolic0809 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@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
      @guyindecatur 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @kennyhiggins7806
      @kennyhiggins7806 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@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!

  • @MyDoppleganger20
    @MyDoppleganger20 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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

  • @JFDSmit-rm6tw
    @JFDSmit-rm6tw 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    "...his wife is on the phone with the doctor."
    "You got a beer belly?..."
    That ad was impeccably placed.

  • @dave9944
    @dave9944 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    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.

  • @voodoo2130
    @voodoo2130 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    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
      @tammywebb7521 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

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

    • @lbar9720
      @lbar9720 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      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
      @greyfriars6540 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@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
      @arosefortes6507 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @hollyperrin7353
      @hollyperrin7353 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      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.

  • @joedistin
    @joedistin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    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
      @jmsblk1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      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.

    • @Treeofwysdm
      @Treeofwysdm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Joe, wow. Sometimes it's hard to know if people are bullshitting on the internet (especially in TH-cam comments) but something about your experience sounds believable to me. That had to be SO freaky for you.

    • @joedistin
      @joedistin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@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
      @Gigadander 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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 TH-cam 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.

    • @Treeofwysdm
      @Treeofwysdm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@joedistin Holy shit, so weird. Have you seen "Dark Matter" yet? It's the AppleTV series based on the Crouch novel. What you're describing kind of reminds me of the premise of the show. Kind of reminds of "Constellation" too (another awesome Apple series - it seems like Apple has all the badass sci-fi shows lately lol!). Again, not that you're making anything up (because I think something definitely happened to you), but just that these concepts around quantum physics, parallel realities, and time-space continuums are probably more real than any of us actually realize.

  • @ApsilonUK
    @ApsilonUK หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @jayd9203
    @jayd9203 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

    • @kevinconway2965
      @kevinconway2965 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "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
      @annesaunders3580 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @kevinconway2965
      @kevinconway2965 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@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?

  • @Anonymous-me7wu
    @Anonymous-me7wu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    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
      @bellzTolled3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @guyindecatur
      @guyindecatur 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @AlexandraZe
    @AlexandraZe 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    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
      @moralityisnotsubjective5 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

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

    • @cassietherainbowsend722
      @cassietherainbowsend722 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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?

  • @tzgzz9245
    @tzgzz9245 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +163

    lamps are the worst

    • @Cheech-lk2yp
      @Cheech-lk2yp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      😂

    • @Baseballnfj
      @Baseballnfj 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I love lamp

    • @NinjaZXRR
      @NinjaZXRR 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A Lava Lamp would be a trip.

    • @randomentity6553
      @randomentity6553 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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
      @lisaclark1181 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😄😄

  • @ConnyvanderMeer
    @ConnyvanderMeer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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
      @PhoenixBlacke 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Heyy that's where I live

  • @anyatranter5588
    @anyatranter5588 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @degeneratechris
    @degeneratechris 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +170

    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
      @rocklee8847 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Perhaps he tapted into his previous life

    • @degeneratechris
      @degeneratechris 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@rocklee8847 oOo yeah I like that too.

    • @davidbelen7199
      @davidbelen7199 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      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
      @rcsmith1983 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Just like Vanilla Sky

    • @conanhighwoods4304
      @conanhighwoods4304 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@davidbelen7199So none of this is real?

  • @M4VTCNH2
    @M4VTCNH2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @danegagnon
    @danegagnon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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

  • @brandihines7390
    @brandihines7390 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

  • @kristinecrowley8321
    @kristinecrowley8321 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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.

  • @MrKingArthurhk
    @MrKingArthurhk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

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

  • @kylel2199
    @kylel2199 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

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

    • @shaneroberts2492
      @shaneroberts2492 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Great episode!!!

    • @roel.vinckens
      @roel.vinckens 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's where he got it !

    • @soulofexistence
      @soulofexistence 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Probably he got inspired by it, Redditors love that show

    • @angryox3102
      @angryox3102 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Or the Star Trek episode The Inner Light.

    • @AZisk
      @AZisk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Belenus3080
    @Belenus3080 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @psychshell4644
    @psychshell4644 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I'm a therapist (forensic).The power of the brain never ceases to amaze me.

    • @budrig
      @budrig 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have a weird question, Is there any significance to the 4644 after your YT name or is it random?

    • @psychshell4644
      @psychshell4644 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@budrig random

  • @daysandwords
    @daysandwords 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    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
      @soulsharts 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Inception?

  • @blankenstein1649
    @blankenstein1649 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

    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
      @soulofexistence 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

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

    • @majovina
      @majovina 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @VukLazarMusic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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
      @BareKnuckleBrawls 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      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
      @ThunderRunner 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@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.

  • @flaval24
    @flaval24 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

  • @quokka_11
    @quokka_11 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @goblinmonkeyman
    @goblinmonkeyman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I found the story on reddit that "Mitch" was tackled by a football player, but not during a game. He wasn't playing football. The post says the football player was 325 pounds, and he was 120 lbs. The football player assaulted him for "walking where he was trying to drive."

  • @Gigadander
    @Gigadander 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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.

  • @TheOldestSoul
    @TheOldestSoul 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    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_
      @QED_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      props

    • @thecutellama76
      @thecutellama76 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @TotallyCircumstantial
      @TotallyCircumstantial 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @debraowen6723
      @debraowen6723 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ❤🎉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
      @EllaNonimato 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @cazsmith2358
    @cazsmith2358 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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 😎

  • @ayylien3070
    @ayylien3070 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had a major head injury in highschool and sometimes wondered if one day I'd just wake up on the ground and realize everything since that day was just a dream 😂😂

  • @wisdomveritas6281
    @wisdomveritas6281 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    It's not a figment of his imagination. He just connected with himself who lives in another dimension and both of their conscience were intertwined.

    • @sarahndipity423
      @sarahndipity423 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dude! That was exactly my thought and I was thinking if the whole many World series was real wouldn't it make sense that we would be able to tap into that same consciousness because wouldn't it still be our consciousness? Like there would be so many layers to the mini World series it just seems like how can you consider that to be a reasonable theory and not consider the theory that we would be able to tap into these other versions of ourselves somehow.

    • @elidagarza8110
      @elidagarza8110 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That actually makes sense

    • @wisdomveritas6281
      @wisdomveritas6281 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There actually is a show out right now on apple tv called Dark Matter. Its basically about what I just explained here.

    • @THamm-xt8jm
      @THamm-xt8jm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The multiverse

    • @sarahndipity423
      @sarahndipity423 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I meant the many worlds theory 😂 speech to text is not my friend... But multiverse probably wouldve been understood better by my phone. Just think, somewhere out there I said that instead and I'm not writing this comment right now! That one show The OA on Netflix is kinda inline with that and it's pretty good.

  • @wimmeraparanormal6581
    @wimmeraparanormal6581 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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.

  • @Moon_Thief896
    @Moon_Thief896 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I love this story, and John tells it so well

  • @sillygoose2619
    @sillygoose2619 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Had a dream that felt like years long, my ex-wife and I had made up and were back together and working things out and she told me she loved me and then i woke up. I had been napping in my car on a lunch. Crushed me for the rest of the day. The human mind is fantastic and horrendously scary.

  • @a.mie.533
    @a.mie.533 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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

  • @jakemcman1858
    @jakemcman1858 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I had a dream that I was married and had 2 children with my wife. The dream felt like it lasted 7 years and was so surreal. I was just a teen at the time, but even then I felt so saddened by the loss of my family that never existed… I still think about them sometimes.

    • @Ann-sj4pt
      @Ann-sj4pt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I wonder if past life regression would help?

    • @judic7723
      @judic7723 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's tragic

    • @SirContent
      @SirContent หลายเดือนก่อน

      could be parallel universe, u need to find tony starks asap

  • @LordRykard9376
    @LordRykard9376 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

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

    • @cryptidian3530
      @cryptidian3530 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @sergioo283
    @sergioo283 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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

  • @foxf6
    @foxf6 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    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.

  • @AprilCaron
    @AprilCaron 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I think that he got a glimpse at a past life and that's the real underlying reason for what happened to him.

  • @RavenTD46
    @RavenTD46 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

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

    • @Nick-Salv
      @Nick-Salv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lolll bruh… 😅

    • @brianew
      @brianew 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hopefully you'll wake up

  • @socialmoth4974
    @socialmoth4974 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @nickdamico6632
    @nickdamico6632 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Plot Twist: The real MrBallen is still at Navy Seal boot camp and simply passed out during strenuous training. None of us are real. 😳

  • @rizzcs6018
    @rizzcs6018 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've listened to most if not all of MrBallens stories on youtube. This one by far was the freakiest imo, and one of my favorites. You can brush off the Alien and ghost stories as just stories, but this could be happening to you right now and you wouldn't know.

  • @auntymammalia9384
    @auntymammalia9384 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I can't even imagine something like this. For me, this is one of the most disturbing stories MrBallen has ever told, and I have heard quite a few. From reading some comments, others have also experienced this phenomenon in some form or exactly. Just wow.

  • @michaelm5601
    @michaelm5601 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @theunspokentruth5987
      @theunspokentruth5987 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @jayb7775
    @jayb7775 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

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

    • @BarackObamaJedi
      @BarackObamaJedi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      10/1 is still a fraction

    • @jayb7775
      @jayb7775 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@BarackObamaJedi touché!

  • @profoundwanderer1441
    @profoundwanderer1441 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Absolutely wild story, and I 100% believe it.. Within 10 seconds, all that information though is pretty mind boggling.
    I was in a heavily drug induced coma once, ventilator, fighting for my life.. I hallucinated many scenarios while slipping in and out of consciousness.
    Minutes felt like days, and even at one point my eyesight flipped upside down.. and I watched nurses walking on the ceiling.
    I know for a fact I wasn't dreaming, and there was an episode of South Park playing on an upside down t.v.. I learned it's a very rare occurrence but it can happen.
    I remember all my hallucinations, and dreams like they were real. When my head was starting to finally clear up, I was asking WILD questions like this stuff actually happened.
    This will sound crazy, be warned.. I asked if I was on prank show starring Pete Davidson, actually thought I was on TV.. Mentioned there was a shooter in the hospital.
    I hallucinated North Koreans were making propaganda video's in my room, using really old guns, and holding me against my will.. 😅 a lot of this was while my eyes were open.
    I hallucinated a lot while I was semi-conscious, I even angrily flipped my brother off because he wouldn't "undue the straps tying me to the bed".
    I can write a book about all the insane crap I "witnessed", and ALL of it was "REAL".. I don't know how else to explain it. Creeped out for months while recovering.
    Wondering if i'm actually still in a coma, and i'm gonna wake up at any time.

  • @FlameAlchemist16
    @FlameAlchemist16 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Reminded me of the Genjutsu that Itachi put Izumi under in Naruto where he made her live an entire lifetime with him(that never happened), within a few moments in the real world, before she was killed.

  • @Angry_Bob
    @Angry_Bob 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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
      @azuraroycroft2419 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @bellzTolled3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Comfortably Numb

  • @Dagrdottir
    @Dagrdottir 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Was not expecting that...how tragic, can't even bring closure to the grief he is feeling for that profound loss. You have such a gift for telling a true story...really I am always drawn into them.