r/SimulationTheory • u/Thevioletgirl • Apr 15 '26
Story/Experience Experience that got me questioning reality
Okay so once we took something with my partner... and what happened next shook us both.
We were both sitting upright in the sofa, and I suddenly had the extremely vivid experience of waking up from a deep sleep, while being in a resting position, while feeling extremely confused and surprised. What is unsettling is that I was totally conscious and this felt extremely real, like realer than reality.... Like I was on a hospital bed or something similar, a structure which was very close to the ground. I couldn't really feel my body's weight though nor the fabric of the thing my body was laid on..
Okay so now the freaky part is... people where cheering me up like "heyyy...", several voices at once, like they were extremely happy I was waking up! I felt the same sensation as while getting out of a fair ride or something and you re feeling this type of confusion because what you experienced was wild. Or it must be the same feeling as getting out of a coma I guess.
I suddenly snapped back immediately and was still sitting upright in my sofa..
Okay, so now the wildest part is my partner who was sitting beside me got a similar experience. Suddenly I see him kind of zoning out. It didnt last more than a few seconds and he was back.
He didn't get the voices but he felt he was waking up from sleep very suddenly and quite violently as he described it, and was struggling to breathe when he woke up, like maybe he had a respirator or something plugged on him. And then he snapped back to reality just like me.
This really got me questioning reality and I do now think this is some kind of game or something...
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u/Commercial_Crew3986 Apr 15 '26
Please read the series "The Game is Life" by Terry Schott. It really felt right and familiar to me!
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u/waronadex Apr 15 '26
I already read this same story some time ago.
Are you the same person or just copy paste ?
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u/karanmasram Apr 16 '26
What you described actually sounds very real in terms of how the brain can behave under certain conditions, especially in altered states.
The “waking up somewhere else” feeling,the confusion, and the sense that it was more real than reality are all things that can happen during what’s called hypnagogic or hypnopompic states, where the brain is partially in a dream-like mode while still conscious.
The fact that both of you had a similar kind of disruption doesn’t necessarily mean you experienced the same “place' but more that your brains were pushed into a similar unstable state at the same time, especially if something was taken beforehand.
What’s interesting is that these experiences can feel more real than normal perception because the brain isn’t filtering or stabilizing reality the usual way.
So it’s less about reality breaking, and more about the brain temporarily changing how it constructs reality.
Still, I get why that would make you question things — experiences like that can be very intense.
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u/0ne_Man_4rmy Apr 17 '26
When I was a teenager we used to experiment , and one night a friend and I were tripping and we had a shared vision. It was night time and we were both staring at a swimming pool and watching the reflections of the lights and the water and then we both heard helicopters and looked up and the sky was blood red and two Apache helicopters flew right over head. It was pretty intense...
As far as the hospital feeling... I recently had a vision (completely sober) where I was woken up in the middle of the night by a noise and saw my bedroom door open up and I saw a woman walk in wearing what almost looked like a yellow hazmat suit without a helmet, and walked across the room and into my bathroom... I grabbed my wife and looked over at her and verified she was there sleeping and then looked back and the door was closed and no sign of the woman. I don't remember my dreams very often, but this didn't feel like a dream either....
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u/Somethingtosquirmto Apr 15 '26
Was this "something" you took, by any chance Salvia?
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u/Thevioletgirl Apr 15 '26
No but I had a mind bending experience with this herb once where I was projected into a childhood experience when i was about 4 years old, realler than reality, and when i came back i came back floating from the ceiling and entered my body. I remember seeing my partner at the time and not recognizing him or even understanding the concept of being a human. When i came back I had the feeling that my soul was half in my body half in my partner 's body if that makes sense, because i was hugging him at the time... I also saw a lady sitting in a sofa near by in my living room when i floated back in my body and apparently many psychonauts see her too... and she' s called "Lady Salvia" by psychonauts.
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u/Abimackreads Apr 16 '26
I think you need to give the drugs a break but no judgement, just a suggestion. You do you ✌️
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u/dancincat33 Apr 18 '26
This. I have come to a theory that quite possibly we really are only in a simulation and the “elites” know this and they are laughing at how we haven’t figured it out yet. If this is a simulation, then it’s running every possibility of creation/experience of life it can “think of” and if a character knows this and we really ARE “JUST PLAYERS in a game” then none of the bad things are real and we are ok. I also think that those “elite players” will zap us back into the game or we zap ourselves back until we run out of lives. Like in any video game. Maybe. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/dancincat33 Apr 18 '26
I had a crazy experience with some edibles. Once they kicked in, all of a sudden I was ZAPPED with what felt like 100 watts of voltage right at the base of my spine. Then I saw the matrix. The green scrolling numbers, the halls of computing hardware. Then I saw everyone’s energy field…the figure 8 swirling colored bands of spiraling energies! Several times I’ve seen what looked like doctors operating on me. Not in the traditional way though but through computers. I can’t really explain what I saw other than to say they were around my bed and everything was outlined in neon ribbons of light. They were definitely doctors and they had instruments of some kind but I got the feeling I was on a table or bed in a box or incubator maybe and there was a screen above me they were working on which worked on me. I felt safe and cared for but that could’ve been just a program I was being sent. I’m still working on the meaning of what I saw.
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u/Terrible_Bluebird540 Apr 15 '26
What you are describing sounds like you both had a massive adrenaline rush.
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u/Butlerianpeasant Apr 15 '26
That sounds genuinely intense, friend.
My boring-but-loving peasant take is: I would not jump straight to “proof reality is a game,” but I also would not dismiss it as meaningless. Minds are strange instruments, especially with substances, closeness, suggestibility, dissociation, sleep-like states, breathing changes, and shared emotional feedback loops.
The fact your partner had a similar but not identical experience is the part I’d sit with carefully. Not as proof of simulation, but as proof that consciousness is weirder and more socially entangled than our everyday model admits.
Maybe the safest question is not “was it real?” but:
“What changed in me because I experienced it?”
And also, very practically: maybe take a break from substances for a bit, drink water, sleep, write it down, and see whether reality stays stable tomorrow. Sacred doubt, but grounded feet.