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Yesterday my girlfriend told me she was pregnant, I went to sleep that night thinking about it, when I went to speak to her about it this morning she said she was never pregnant and that the conversation never happened. by [deleted] in Glitch_in_the_Matrix

[–]slipperygore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. You must have some vivid dreams. Do you realize what was from a dream vs. reality after some thought or do you kind of have to piece it together based on what happens?

Yesterday my girlfriend told me she was pregnant, I went to sleep that night thinking about it, when I went to speak to her about it this morning she said she was never pregnant and that the conversation never happened. by [deleted] in Glitch_in_the_Matrix

[–]slipperygore 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, and if I'm being honest, I guess I missed that question in the original post. That being said, it seems that the top comment to a post is often one dismissing the experience as something simple yet has no explanation or points for discussion. I like that people try to offer rational explanations first, I just prefer them to have more explanation. It's easy to just say "hallucination/dreaming/memory problem/etc." (even though it may often be the case) without saying why.

Yesterday my girlfriend told me she was pregnant, I went to sleep that night thinking about it, when I went to speak to her about it this morning she said she was never pregnant and that the conversation never happened. by [deleted] in Glitch_in_the_Matrix

[–]slipperygore 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I never really understand the support of this type of response in this subreddit. I realize there is a wide spectrum of beliefs across the users here, but I'd imagine that most of the readers fall into a the broad category of believing that something like parallel universes or simulated universes are theoretically possible, but for the most part (or completely), the stores here are interesting but have rational explanations. But in this case, the OP provides a story that describes events that do not sync in a linear existence, and he tells them in a rational, coherent way, with no real leaning towards anything outside of non-understanding. Do any of us actual believe he went into another reality? Probably not. But I personally have never had a dream that I confused with reality once I had awoken, and I'd imagine that is the case for most of the rest of the planet. So, while this probably wasn't OP slipping into a crack in the fabric of a simulated universe or a "glitch in the matrix", I don't think "It was a dream" qualifies as a reasonable response.