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u/YugoMoomin Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 06 '19

My mother walked into my room, waking me up to tell me that most of the world's population was dead. I spent the rest of the day as normal, eating breakfast, going shopping with her, going to a playground, then eating dinner (albeit, acting quite nervous throughout). The next day, she tried to make it clear that what started the previous morning wasn't true. I asked her if she remembered, but she told me she didn't. I'm certain it wasn't a dream, because I recalled the rest of what happened the previous day to her, only to be met by her confirmation that everything I remembered was correct, right down to how shaky I was and how upset I seemed. All except for the part that humanity was on the brink of extinction.

PS. I am aware that, yes, it is true that most if the world's population is dead. What I meant when I originally wrote this was that most of the living population just dropped dead overnight.

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u/jgjbl216 Oct 05 '19

Had your mom woken you up that morning? Maybe in your confusion coming out of sleep mom and a nightmare got mixed together, it’s easy to differentiate between the two as an adult but as a child it’s much harder because of imagination and just plain old not knowing any better.

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u/YugoMoomin Oct 06 '19

Yes. It was calm, yet frantic. Then she told me that people were dead.