TikTok Tell Me About a Time When You Shifted into a Parallel Reality ?
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Introduction
User Experiences
Experience 1: Hospitalization and Strangeness
The first time it happened, I had to be hospitalized for mental illness because things were so strange. I was experiencing and learning things I never knew about. When I got out of the hospital, there was a burn on my forehead. Six months later, my forehead started to suck into my skull, forming a strange indentation. Another six months later, during Skype parties in COVID, a strange glow started to show up on the camera. During COVID, I had a bout with mania and started getting strange information about numbers and symbols like 777, 666, circle triangle, and Pisces Viscous—things I never researched before. This was one of those times I felt I shifted into a parallel reality.
Experience 2: Memories of a Deceased Grandma
When I was younger, every summer, I visited my great-grandma in Columbia, South Carolina. One year, there was no mention of visiting her, and when I asked my mom about it, she revealed that the grandma had died before I was born. Yet, I had vivid memories of visiting her every summer. This experience made me think I had shifted into a parallel reality.
Experience 3: Drug Episode and Changes in Perception
In 2007, I indulged heavily in drugs and felt my heart pounding and then stopping. After a blackout, I woke up, but everyone—my boyfriend, my dad, and my mom—looked different. Everything felt off, leading me to believe I had switched to a parallel reality. Over time, I accepted this new reality, but it still felt difficult to get used to.
Experience 4: Lucid Dream in High School
In 2018, during my senior year, I took a nap before practice and carried on with my life in a dream that felt like real life. Strange things started happening, like friends breaking up and groups falling apart. One night I sobbed and begged for a chance to try again, and then I woke up back to the moment I had gone to sleep. The things from my dream began happening in real life, making me believe I had shifted realities.
Experience 5: Kundalini Awakening
Around four years ago, I experienced a Kundalini awakening at a friend's house in San Francisco. After an intense in-body and out-of-body orgasmic experience and time spent in Golden Gate Park, I returned speaking light languages. My mom's phone interpreted it as "love love love listen to the song," helping me avoid hospitalization.
Experience 6: Waking Up in an Altered World
Two days ago, I woke up, and things were different—bed position, hair color, and my brother’s height. I felt out of place and began praying, and then I felt like I had come back to my original reality.
Experience 7: TikTok Verification
Obsessing over getting verified on TikTok, I had many dreams about it. One day I woke up to people asking why I wasn't verified anymore. Strangely, I had never been verified, but everyone remembered it differently.
Experience 8: Psychiatric Facility Incident
Six years ago, working in a psychiatric facility, a patient put me in a chokehold, and I nearly passed out. When I woke up, everyone looked different, and my wife had subtle differences in her behavior and preferences. I believed that I had died and was sent to a parallel reality.
Experience 9: Changing Details After Attempting Suicide
After a suicide attempt where the gun didn’t go off, I found myself in a world where company logos and some life events were different. I encountered people who claimed to know me despite me having no recollection of them, further supporting my belief of shifting realities.
Experience 10: Spontaneous Time Shift
In 2012, at a high-end restaurant, I went to the bathroom, but after a half hour, I was found missing, although I had been just in the toilet. People claimed not to have seen me inside, hinting at a time shift.
Experience 11: Cat Incident
One morning, I saw my dead cat on a road, only for it to disappear when I returned. The pavement and blood stains were different when I took a new photo from the same spot. I believed I had shifted realities due to the inconsistency.
Experience 12: Near-Fatal Car Accident
Eight years ago, my car fell down a mountain, and during a slow-motion fall, a voice assured me everything would be okay. When we landed, we survived without a scratch. Eight years later, during an out-of-body experience, I learned I had been dead in a car crash, hinting at a parallel reality.
Experience 13: High School Bully Alive Again
I remembered my high school bully had died and even attended his funeral, but years later, he was alive and active on Facebook. This convinced me that I had shifted realities.
Experience 14: Near-Drowning Episode
Eight years ago, during a school trip, I fell into a pool and couldn't swim. When I woke up, my friends said they saw me standing dry on the edge of the pool, even though I remembered struggling underwater. This felt like a reality shift.
Experience 15: Disappearing at a Restaurant
I disappeared from a restaurant restroom and later was found missing. People had no explanation for my disappearance and reappearance, supporting my belief in a reality shift.
Keywords
- Parallel reality
- Mental illness
- Strange information
- Lucid dream
- Kundalini awakening
- Time shift
- Suicide attempt
- Near-fatal accident
- Ghostly apparition
FAQ
What is derealization?
Derealization is a mental state where things around you seem unreal or unfamiliar, which can be a symptom of mental illness or stress.
How do people experience reality shifts?
People often realize they have shifted realities when they notice subtle or major inconsistencies in their environment, memories, or physical experiences. These inconsistencies could be changes in physical objects, behaviors of people they know, or events they remember differently from others.
What are the signs of a parallel reality shift?
Signs include inexplicable changes in the physical world, personal knowledge or skills one never learned, new unexplained scars or marks on the body, and behavioral changes in oneself or others.
Are these experiences scientifically explained?
Most of these experiences can be attributed to psychological phenomena such as dissociation, derealization, or even the Mandela Effect. However, some remain unexplained and are attributed to paranormal or metaphysical causes.
Could these experiences be dreams or hallucinations?
Yes, many of these experiences could be ascribed to vivid dreams, hallucinations, or mental health conditions like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. However, some argue that these experiences are too coherent and detailed for such explanations.
How do people cope with these shifts?
People cope by documenting their experiences, seeking professional mental health advice, leaning on support from family and friends, and sometimes accepting the new reality they find themselves in.
What is the Mandela Effect?
The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember an event happening differently from how it occurred. This is often used to explain shifts in personal or collective memory.
Is it possible to prove a shift to a parallel reality?
Proving a shift to a parallel reality is complicated because it relies heavily on subjective experiences and anecdotal evidence, making it challenging to validate scientifically.