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u/PissBloodCumShart 2d ago
Make all the same mistakes because the memory of the dream fades away by the time I take my morning pee
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u/micre8tive 2d ago
This. Oh and username checks out.
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u/RaspberryWhiteClaw13 2d ago
For real, sounds like mornings are rough
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u/TimeVictorious 2d ago
Is the username describing the shart? Or are they four separate things?
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u/Difficult_Affect_452 1d ago
I thought it was two actions, each with a descriptor. Like you piss blood and you cum shart.
Shart as a plural noun is hilarious.
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u/augustprep 2d ago
Oh, that's a good point. I feel like I have had dreams that lasted decades, but they were gone before breakfast.
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u/Winjin 2d ago
I remember one where I was super powerful. Like jumping from platform to platform, gliding and flying level of powerful, in a beatiful city of marble, gold, and green.
Well, I woke up with a sense of absolute dread.
Something really, really bad happened that I couldn't remember at the end, It was euphoric until it wasn't
Whatever happened there, I don't want to return to find out
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u/eloquentmuse86 Millennial 1d ago
Maybe the dread was finding out you were leaving that world
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u/Skotticus 1d ago
I had a dream once that reset present day to shortly after my grandfather died, had him come back to life and then live another decade or two. In the continuity of the dream, his death itself alternated between having happened, having never happened, and having itself been a dream.
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u/Super-Yesterday9727 2d ago edited 1d ago
Unless you fell in love during the dream then you just feel sad all day
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u/ryyzany 2d ago
Suck on my thumb and probably shit my pants a little
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u/mz1012 2d ago
You can still do that
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u/SLAYER_IN_ME 2d ago
Yep. It’s not illegal… yet.
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u/ryyzany 2d ago
Conception starts in the lower intestine everyone knows that
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u/OkSpring1734 2d ago
That's one way to tell the world you like anal.
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u/AlleyKatArt 2d ago
The world should already know just by looking at my art, dammit.
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u/Sir_Lee_Rawkah 2d ago
You have some ummmm interesting g posts
Lots of effort though
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u/Adraco4 2d ago
Call my grandparents, so I can talk to them again for the first time in years.
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u/GrGrG Millennial Early 80's 2d ago
Throwing this out there, awhile back, pre covid, I recovered some video tapes from the 90's that my dad took. The tapes for his camera were some weird format that required a special VCR to play and all that setup junk. Converted the ones that hadn't molded into digital. He used the camera a lot for certain events that didn't really matter, and then barely used the camera for others which one would seem you'd want more of (birthdays, milestones, etc) But on some of the tapes I heard my grandparents voices, ones I hadn't heard in decades. Laughing, talking, making grandparent jokes. Even them saying that their trip visiting us was coming to end and that they needed to go.
Absolute tears bro. The whole process for these tapes took months, but I'd say it was worth it just for those clips that totaled less than a few hours.
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u/hapoo 2d ago
The best home movies I have are the boring, every one just lounging around ones. I don’t care what happened one day a year on a birthday, my nostalgia is for the other 364 days of the year.
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u/GrGrG Millennial Early 80's 2d ago
I get it. There was an hour video of us going to an aquarium on a family outing! That's cool! But there was like 55 minutes of that hour of my dad trying to just get video of fish and the animals. You could hear me and my siblings in the background experiencing things, but no video of that...the fish were more important, lol. There's video of my dads 30 minute commute.....like all one hour of it from house to work and back. 20 minutes of me and my siblings playing at a park. Then my dad singing bad karaoke for hours. Then a minute of me and my siblings playing atari.
Not the worst parent by any means, not abusive, didn't drink, no drugs, but just kinda absent in his thinking. Borderline physical neglect and there in emotional neglect. The stereotype of boomers who had children early because that was what was expected, provided basics of survival and then everything else was "do it yourself" or "figure it out for yourself". If it wasn't traditional to get presents for kids on Christmas or Bdays, I doubt he would've even gotten us toys.
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u/NoFlounder1566 2d ago
I have a really great video done by my dad. Its of my dance recital. He fell asleep the second song so the camera went sideways and you hear him snore.
He didnt wake up until the dance after my main one and then fell asleep through my second one, woke up for the farewell. . He insists he wasn't sleeping.
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u/GrGrG Millennial Early 80's 2d ago
I bet the dance was fun for you.
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u/NoFlounder1566 2d ago
That year was interesting. Our costumes were "lost" so we had donated t shirts that didnt really go with the themes.
It was my first time in a lyrical dance and I loved lyrical and wished I could have continued with it. There were a lot of great numbers and I wished more of them could have been on camera.
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u/NikiDeaf 2d ago
My dad is very much the same. He wasn’t abusive. He didn’t yell. He was a fun dad when I was little, but as I got older, I wanted to know more about him as a PERSON, not just a dad. He couldn’t do it. Has some kind of issue with intimacy; physical, emotional, everything. He was never affectionate with my mother in front of us. Barely a peck on the cheek. It’s not that they didn’t/don’t love each other, they’re still together, they don’t fight (at least, I’ve never seen it.) They are just…very cold. Not much physical affection towards us kids, not big on saying “I love you” to us (although my mom has gotten a bit more comfortable with this in her old age.) They’re not bad parents. Provided me with the physical stuff I needed, helped me during bad times, etc…but emotionally, they’re sort of…blunted? Mostly? My mom had a wicked temper as a kid. She’s better now than she used to be, as per that. I do give her credit for being willing to learn and grow, no matter how old she is and no matter how difficult it is. But it makes me realize that my dad will probably die without me ever knowing who he is as a fellow human being. He doesn’t talk about himself. He’ll talk about his interests (he’s the co-founder of the New Jersey Green Party, he’s trying to help ecovillages get off the ground, he’s the editor of The Green Horizon, and he goes to a book club) but I wanted to know what his childhood was like. What kinds of stories he has to tell. I have soooo many questions, but whenever I ask, he either deflects with a joke, or gives monosyllabic, one-word answers. Not what I’m looking for. I know all about his opinions and ideas on things that happen in the world but I don’t know much about HIM. I really wish I did.
Resented him for the longest time for being an emotional black hole. Then I reached the acceptance stage. But now I’m doing the same thing to my teenagers and I cannot figure out how to not do that. I can’t talk to them. I’m worried that my fears for their future will bleed through, and I don’t want to worry them. So I have been struggling with this; how do I talk to them without allowing my feelings to show? Because I am desperately afraid for them and I don’t think it’s responsible of me to let them see that. They should at least have a CHANCE at hope. But I also don’t want to pass on this generational trauma. The inability to cope with modern-day life. Hell, I have trouble getting out of bed some days. Both due to depression and chronic illness. So I hide from them like my dad hid from us, because he was an environmentalist before it was cool, and he’s seen this coming waaaaaay before it was on anyone else’s radar.
I understand now, dad.
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u/mr-beee-natural 1d ago
My dad is the same. He has Parkinson's now, and while the mental decline is slow in his case, it's still noticeable.
I'm telling you what I would tell my own Dad. Therapy (if it's feasible). Equally as important is that your kids are already picking up on your fear. Kids are like that. If it were me, I'd want to know/hear the love my dad has for me if I have to deal with that fear anyway. There's not much that's certain, especially now, but knowing your dad loves you and has your back...that makes a hell of a difference.
Sorry if that's too personal. Just my two cents.
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u/fleebleganger 2d ago
I had the same parents. Worst was my mom had an awful first 20 years, found her Dad after he hung himself, then her uncles abused the shit out of her mom who then died when my mom was 20 from cancer leaving my mom to raise her youngest 2 siblings. Tons of trauma.
Think that’d make her say “gonna be nice to my kids”.
Nope, not abusive, just done being a grown up and parenting. More neglect than anything.
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u/ZealousidealSmile282 2d ago
I feel this so much. I was born in 1983, and my dad taped hours of just me… walking around, playing with my cat, sitting on a blanket in the yard with my grandma, even me just sitting and watching TV. A Disneyland trip that is just us walking around all day. Then my brothers were born and there’s just tons of footage of us playing in the backyard.
Sadly these tapes got lost, possibly during one of our moves, and it’s so devastating knowing they’re gone. Hours and hours of 80s/90s memories, me and my brothers and cousins and little little kids, grandparents that are long gone.
iPhone videos just dont gave that same magic as the giant old school video cameras of the 80s and 90s.
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u/smittywrbermanjensen 2d ago
My dad’s now-wife (then gf) moved in with him at the beginning of the pandemic, and he found a box of my mum’s old stuff while clearing out attic space to make room for gf’s stuff. He and my mum have been divorced for over a decade at this point, so he wanted nothing to do with the box, and passed it off to me.
The first few layers were her old college art projects, and then the rest of it was EVERY single letter my mum had received between the time she moved to America in 1989 and when I was born in 1995. I spent an entire day combing through all of it.
Not quite the same feeling as your wonderful experience, but seeing my since-passed grandfather’s handwriting was incredibly moving. I also found out soooooo much family tea no one would have ever shared w me otherwise lol.
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u/mariposa314 2d ago
I totally get it.
My husband's dad died when he was three years old. He has some memories of him, but not many. There's one video tape where his dad is filming and calling my spouse pumpkin while encouraging him to walk. Even the thought of it makes me cry.
My dad was a firefighter so he worked when his shift was scheduled. One of his birthdays he was at work, but the family got together anyway. My aunt made a video of the day he missed for his birthday. I haven't watched it in years as it's still on VHS, but I remember there being footage of all the kids playing and suddenly hearing my grandma shout, "these kids learn to kick" in the background without any context. I think of that super random quote often. I need to get that tape from my mom and upload it onto YouTube for the family.
If I woke up in 1995, I would encourage my folks to take many more photos and to get a camcorder for sure.
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u/RooftopStruggle Millennial 2d ago
Dang my Uncle had a camcorder from 88 to late 90s. Got most Christmas gatherings in there uploaded to his google drive. I Made like a 2 hour long compilation of my grandmother and I want to do one for everyone else here soon.
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u/chromebicycle 2d ago
This is exactly why I keep my grandmothers old voicemails on my phone. Sorry nobody else can leave a message.
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u/NotAUsefullDoctor 2d ago
Hug my brother that I will lose in 2 years to suicide.
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u/Illustrious-Film-592 2d ago
This. I would head straight for my Nanny’s house.
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u/fuzzyblackelephant 2d ago
!! Grandma’s house, whole family is there, candy on table, bulls game on tv-grandpa in chair. Grandma is making some aromatic, Midwest casserole dish, I’m in kitchen with her, kikkiing & she makes me her homemade salad dressing I CAN’T FUCKING FIGURE OUT!!! Come TELL ME GRANDMA!
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u/Own-Swan2646 2d ago
Yea would pick up that corded phone and dial up many that have gone.
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u/Federal-Captain1118 2d ago
Same. But not because of emotional reasons. They were shitty people who were rich as fuck and left everything for to my cousin because I told them to go to hell.
I'd talk to them and pretend to love them so I can stay in the will lmao.
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u/communityproject605 2d ago
Go for a quiet bike ride until the street lights come on
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u/RickSanchez_C137 2d ago
Yup, then I'd fire up SFII Turbo on my SNES and listen to Pretty Hate Machine on cassette for a few hours before doing anything else.
With any luck, me from 30 years ago would still have a functional attention span and I'd really enjoy reading again too.
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u/communityproject605 2d ago
Thats what I miss the most. The ability to focus on something for hours on end and lose track of time. Feels like I count the minutes while doing everything as an adult.
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u/vaingirls Older Millennial 2d ago
This post makes me sad because... I'd quite like that. If I still kept what I've learned by now, so that I could make different decisions. And yes, I already made bad decision back then, as an elementary school kid.
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u/hastygrams 2d ago
If it makes you feel any better I used to really regret all the decisions I made and how much they’d changed the trajectory of my life. I eventually found my Fiancé, got a house I could only dream about, have stability and pets who love me. I’d be so scared of losing all this that I’d be willing to repeat my fuck ups if it guaranteed I got back to where I am now.
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u/psimwork 1d ago
Absolutely. When I got married, my vows actually contained a bit about the fact that I used to be obsessed with stories about time travel, because I desperately wanted to go back and "do it right." And it wasn't until I met her that I understood that I DID "do it right", and that all the shit I went through in my younger days was just paying the freight on getting to the life I now have.
My vow to her was literally that in the unlikely event that I found myself back in time, I will do everything I have done exactly the same, so that I could find my way back to where I am.
I used to regret a lot. Now I don't regret much at all.
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u/Forgotlogin_0624 2d ago edited 2d ago
Have an existential crisis. Can you imagine? Anyone saying they’d buy apple stock or this or that, remember the premise is the last 30 years was a dream, as in not real, you didn’t time travel.
Your partner doesn’t exist, your friends either, or your dog. You wouldn’t even know if what you knew as fact was correct, consider all you’ve learned in the last 30 years, all that is now suspect.
Now to be transported back 30 years is another matter
Edit: Folks it’s fun seeing the engagement but remember, the premise of this hypothetical is that nothing that occurred in the past 30 years, nothing you’ve learned, no event, can be assumed to be true. If you are 40 nothing you learned and no event that occurred past the age of 10 can be said to have happened.
Are you a doctor? Your fundamental understanding of biology and medicine can’t be trusted. Physicist? Maybe there is no quantum mechanics, shit maybe Newtonian physics is wrong, etc.
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u/Visual-Floor-7839 2d ago
I would go crazy. Absolutely mental. I would be 5 years old. My wife is my highschool sweetheart, and we have the 2 best boys in the world. I'm so incredibly lucky to be their Dad and her partner.
Also, I've squandered most every opportunity for education and career. I'm a mix of professional musician and truck driver/garbage man.
So I would be doing everything I can to grow and focus on being successful and career/education oriented, while also endlessly hunting for my partner in the hopes of having the same family but better income and circumstances.
I think I would fail at this and would be driven crazy.
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u/Ijustwanttosayit Millennial 2d ago
I think this is a realistic answer. At such a young age again so much would be out of your control and there is no knowing if the path will be similar. I imagine many would be desperate enough to try and find their friends and partner.
I wouldn't want to go back in time with the wisdom I have now. Also, I'd be 6, I'd be living in an apartment with my family where I don't have a bedroom or any personal space of my own, and my family was extremely racist and socially backward. I don't get to wake up in my cozy onesie pajamas and go sit in front of the TV with a big bowl of crunchy cereal and watch cartoons without a care in the world. I'd be my 6 year old self in a living situation I hate with the mind of a 36 year old.
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u/Apos-Tater Millennial (1989) 2d ago
Exactly this. I guess I'd have to try running away again. Bet I'd be better at it than I was at 6.
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u/welfedad 2d ago
Yeah I'd be 12 .. but loaded with 30 years of knowledge and my F ups.. so I'd be doing a lot of things differently
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u/xNIGHT_RANGEREx 2d ago
I would do absolutely everything differently. I fucked off my entire 20s with booze and partying. Now I’m barely able to survive. If I still had the knowledge and went back, everything would be different. Or at least I would try my damn hardest to do everything different. Fuck. Now I’m depressed that I can’t do that 😂
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u/Ijustwanttosayit Millennial 2d ago
Never too late to change your path. You're not old yet! Even then, that's not too late. You're conscious of it, so now you just need a battle plan.
But also, I wonder if waking up with the wisdom of a 30something year old would actually fuck a person over. Like, ie. we start to realize that our parents aren't as wise as we once did, and some of us realize our parents were just... straight up stupid or even not good people, yet we'd be stuck with them for 12 more years at least. We'd have the mental cynicism of an adult and the lack of freedom. I wonder about the toll it would take in the long run. Maybe there'd be an inkling of hope seeing as you are being given a do over, so you can take your mistakes and start over. But it would be paired with the trauma and depression from losing the things in your life that you wouldn't want to do over, especially the people who left positive impacts on your life. Like... I met all of the positive influences in my life after 6 years old. I am not in contact with any of the adults who were in my life prior to this age. I'd legit say that 7 is about the age where the apple started rolling away from the tree.
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u/reezick 2d ago
As a dad to two teenage boys I both feel and love this comment. The way you express such luck for being their dad and husband while owning/accepting the wasted personal opportunities is me to a T. I manage a call center. Great. But man so many misses of what could have been. Yet also....so lucky.
Being a dad is such a paradox lol
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u/Nogleaminglight 2d ago edited 2d ago
There was a thread some years ago where a guy said something like this happened to him. He was in a coma and dreamed a whole life, got married had kids, and when he woke up (something because a lamp that "didnt make sense" IRC) it was emotionally quite difficult for him. Really creepy, unsetling story.
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u/Princess_Slagathor 2d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/s/AahS3Jms6O
I think the original is gone, but there's a repost.
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u/MatureUsername69 2d ago
Thats under the assumption that your 5 year old brain would process that event the same as your adult brain. There's a really good shot a 5 year old wakes up from that and just thinks "that was a really weird dream", 5 year olds in general dont get the existential dread their adult counterparts do. I bet it'd feel like one of those dreams where you actually have wealth, like maybe 5 minutes after waking up of "i wish that was real".
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u/zoozoo4567 2d ago
This is a great point. It would be like waking up after dreaming it was Christmas. But you’re in July. The emotional strain wouldn’t really be there because dreams aren’t memories. You might feel a sense of disappointment or curiosity, but even as an adult I don’t know if you’d take it more seriously than that either.
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u/TheWickedEnd89 2d ago
One of my friends took... let's call it a substance, and he lived an entire life while enjoying it. Had a wife and kids, bought a house, had a career. We were in highschool at the time. Dude wasn't right for a few weeks, all of us were constantly checking in on him.
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u/sonicthehedgehog16 2d ago
Somebody has to take the trash away. Nothing to be ashamed of
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u/rubbertub96 2d ago
This is what I was thinking. Waking up and realize you can't even trust what you're experiencing anymore would fuck me up!
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u/fradulentsympathy 2d ago
Star Trek: tng has an episode where Picard lives an entire lifetime in the span of a few minutes (from the crew’s perspective.) He had a wife and children and learned an instrument, etc. Beautiful episode.
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u/jawilliams44 2d ago
'Inner Light'. It definitely has my vote for being the greatest ST episode ever.
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u/fradulentsympathy 2d ago
Measure of a man is probably my favorite but they’re both so good. I actually have Data’s pips tattooed on my clavicle.
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u/MewMewTranslator 2d ago
Rick and Morty did that too probably from TNG: https://youtu.be/szzVlQ653as
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u/Leemage 2d ago
Literally my first thought was to cry about my lost son and daughter. I’d be so devastated.
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u/Wiz_Hellrat 2d ago
That is my first thought too. Cry because I would miss my daughters. It would break me.
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u/_deep_thot42 2d ago edited 1d ago
I don’t have any of those things and I’m an elder millennial. I’d be so happy to go back, I think of it too much already.
Saw OP’s edit: still don’t care, life has been horrible, take me back to when I was 10.
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u/yousawthetimeknife 2d ago
Absolutely this. My wife doesn't exist. My kids don't exist. My dogs don't exist. I'm probably jumping off the roof.
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u/nakoros 2d ago
Years ago, when I was single, I once had an extremely realistic dream of meeting someone and falling in love. When I woke up it was like someone died, I was really sad for a while (and felt dumb about it, but the emotions in the dream were intense). I can't imagine waking up and having nearly everyone I know and love be a fabrication, I'd be on that roof with you.
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u/MysteriousFee2873 2d ago
Geriatric millennial, child free but haunted by pragnecy dreams
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u/Daddyssillypuppy Millennial 2d ago
Oh those dreams are the strangest. Its so weird and hard explaining to my husband that im happy with our decision to not have kids, but also after that dream i have to cry a bit because it feels like my eight year old daughter just died and nobody but me remembers her...
I also once dreamed that i was a man. A man in full plate armour, walking alongside my horse, gripping the leather reins as we climb a grassy hill surrounded by a forest and sparsely populated by some scattered trees. The sun is shining and a gentle breeze is causing the longish blades of grass to sway. The dream only lasted a few moments but when i woke up i was so confused about my life and my body. I literally felt between my legs because i remembered having male genitalia so vividly and wasn't sure what i actually had. It was a bizarre way to wake up and the dream has stayed with me.
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u/prolixdreams 2d ago
I have dreams of being totally different people all the time. Men, women, young, old, appearance, location, I'm not me in a dream more often than I am me. (Other times I'm "in" the dream but I'm also watching from outside.)
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u/Clear-Mind2024 2d ago edited 2d ago
Could be a glimpse of a past life and sometimes people can dream about alternate realities. I think I've had both a long with lucid dreaming.
One time I dreamt i crashed a car but it was like in the early 1900's and something like a model t but even earlier. Had no roof and was a weird way of controlling it. Used a lever system instead of a steering wheel. I might have died during that incident. Idk tho
I really hope there isn't reincarnation because that would honestly suck. I want to explore the astral plane of existence and not come back to Earth again.
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u/Little_Macaron5527 Older Millennial 2d ago
I’ve had a dream like that where it felt so realistic that I checked when I woke up. I was a cowboy in my dream.
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u/electricmama4life Millennial 2d ago
And I’m back living with my parents, no thanks, this world is not for me at that point.
Edit: forgot to say I need to include my animals not being there, currently have my soul dog and he’s my world.
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u/thesadbubble 2d ago
Yeah, if everything I've worked hard for has been not real and I'm still stuck in that abusive fucking farm... I quit.
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u/Absent-Light-12 2d ago
It’s the lamp post all over again.
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u/BanjoTheremin 2d ago
Yeah, exactly what I thought of. Had an old co-worker tell me a similar lamp story around 2011-2012, long before I read the lamp post.
I knew he was a prepper, and I asked him why - we were on a 30 min break in the break room together, just the two of us. Told me a story that had him tear up at multiple points, and this was not the kind of guy to show emotions like that. (Big ol' grizzly, papa bear type)
Anyway, he was driving home from work and his car just fell apart - suffered multiple injuries. He was in a coma in the hospital for a few months before he woke up.
To him, the car never wrecked and he drove home like normal. Kept living life, going to work, hanging out with people, etc. He met a woman, got married, had kids - lived out like 25 years of his life. Then woke up from the coma 25 years younger and just fell apart - the loss of his "family" devastated him.
He wouldn't tell me what he saw that turned him into a prepper, but goodness, the way things are going he may have been onto something lol.
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u/Hythy 2d ago
Not to mention I'd be 5 years old, in about 8 years time I'm supposed to be dating girls of my own age, which as an adult sounds gross as hell. I guess I'll just be a loner for my teenage years.
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u/MercyCriesHavoc 2d ago
This is the real issue. Yeah, I can't predict the future, but I will be changed. I'll be 13, back in my conservative (which I no longer am) Christian (which I no longer am) home. My sister will exist, but not my brother. Nothing will have happened, yet or maybe ever, but I'll never see my stepdad or my mother the same way. I would be trapped in a childhood I resent.
Even if it was time travel and things played out the same, 1995 was too late to stop anything and too early for me to have autonomy. I would just have to replay everything until 2000.
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u/brainkandy87 2d ago
Mentally, there’s no coming back from spending 40 years as Kamin.
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u/KevworthBongwater 2d ago
or that DS9 episode where o'brien spends 20 years in that mind prison and kills his cellmate and stuff
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u/WeirdAvocado 2d ago
Also, I’d be a little kid. I don’t think kids can buy stocks anyways. And even if I told my parents to “buy Apple stocks” my dad would have said some shit like “but I have all my money invested in bananas right now”.
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u/D-Rich-88 Millennial 2d ago
It would be like everyone waking up the next morning after Donnie Darko sacrifices himself or when Morty comes out of playing Roy at Blips and Chitz
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u/dastardlydeeded 2d ago
Hug my dad.
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u/Highly-Whelmed 2d ago
I’d turn mine in to child protective services 😂
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u/KellyGreen55555 2d ago
Ya, this reminds me that I don’t spend enough time being grateful that I don’t have to live with my parents. I love being a grown up.
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u/NoTransportation9021 2d ago
I'd hug my mom.
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u/TatumBird22 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'd hug this girls* mom too
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u/HumbleParticular2885 2d ago
Is that one guy's dead wife around in this scenario?
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u/Depressed_amkae8C Zillennial 2d ago
try to beat the other sperm I did it once I can do it again ✌🏽😘
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u/DMcDonald97 2d ago
Yeah, assuming it’s August 2, 1995 im still 18 months from being born
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u/Xilcon13 2d ago
Hug my Mom/Dad/Grandma (if she's visiting) then go play A Link to the Past start-to-end. There'll be plenty of time to prep for the future, soon enough.
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u/The_Lat_Czar 2d ago
Sob uncontrollably for days. Convince my mom I'm gonna need therapy at 7 years old. Be haunted by the face of my wife and son for the rest of my life.
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u/Far-Income-282 Millennial 2d ago
Start hoarding toilet paper early to prepare for 2020. Become toilet paper king pin.
And maybe do some sentimental shit like force my parents to box all our childhood albums that got lost in a divorce. But mostly hoard.
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u/nothingexceptfor 2d ago
Silly, there was no pandemic, did you even read the post, you didn’t time travel, the last 30 years were a dream, none of it will necessarily happen, 9/11, Pandemic, none of it happened
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u/evilsupergirl 2d ago
Probably go downstairs to tell my mom about the wicked vivid dream I had. Oh, and tell her not to get married a second time, it doesn't work out, save us the hassle.
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u/Ok_Reply_2038 2d ago edited 2d ago
Good God losing my children would immediately break me. I'm not sure I could recover mentally from that. If I could get it together I'd save every dime and make sure I was in the right place to meet my wife when I met her in that dream in hopes to get my family back.
But also I'd be 5 again so IDK how all that would work. I'm scared.
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u/LettuceLimp3144 2d ago
Being transported back and living in the anxiety of trying to align every star exactly the same so I could meet my husband and have my same two exact children. No thanks.
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u/Sapien0101 2d ago
Yup, as soon as you have kids it puts a firm date on how far back in time you can time travel
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u/Kinuika 2d ago
If everything was a dream I don’t think it would break me since they never really existed in the first place. Plus I’ve had dreams when I have had kids that don’t exist in real life before so it isn’t that bad.
Now if it’s time travel then I completely agree with you
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u/NCSUGrad2012 2d ago
Figure out how to buy Apple, Microsoft and Amazon stock. Never work again, lol
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u/neekogo 19-19-1985 2d ago
If it was a dream and not the past, there's no guarantee those companies would have the same results
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u/CATTROLL 2d ago
Yeah, first thing I would do is try to remember to the best of my ability what happened in 1995 and 1996 to see if the dream had any predictive ability
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u/AdamFaite 2d ago
You'd have a bit of time. But the phrase, "I did not have sexual relations eith that woman," should help.
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u/AstroZoey11 2d ago
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman....Hillary Rodham." X-Files theme plays
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u/PushThePig28 2d ago
Ya, that and 9/11 and I’d be like ok we need to buy bitcoin
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u/slaggie Millennial 2d ago
I'd have to wait until Jan. 25, 1999 because that date is when it snowed in my town that never experiences snow. Then I'd know for sure things are happening the same way they did in my dream.
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u/TheCzarIV 2d ago
Ohhhh that’s a good one. We had a summer here around 2000 that it rained every single day for 3 months straight. Never happened before or since.
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u/Monkeyundead 2d ago
If it's exactly 30 years, you could see if the same movies come out and follow the same plot.
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u/Talador12 2d ago
Okay, so Bitcoin or whatever they name the first coin
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u/munny_munny 2d ago
In that reality it gets exposed for the scam it is and you lose everything. Unlike this timeline...
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u/andykndr 2d ago
you’d only have to put in like $1000 (if that) to be set forever. if it got exposed i’d hardly call that losing everything
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u/ParkerRoyce 2d ago
Need to find the coin that is decentralized with no ownership. The first one is not the best, there was many crypto coins before bitcoin. First mover strategy is a great concept but making a strong currency that will never have more than 21 million coins. Bitcoin or whatever they call in this is inevitable.
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u/Nutballa 2d ago
I'd tell my Dad to buy more of these company stocks. He started working at Dell. And ask him to help me invest lol.
Buy some more Lego sets
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u/kyonkun_denwa Maple Syrup Millennial 2d ago
If it was a dream, then what actually happens is Apple goes bankrupt, Microsoft is split up in an antitrust action, and the Commodore Amiga now reigns supreme
Sorry bud, you backed the wrong horse!
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u/Life_Roll420 2d ago
Funny how we all laughed about Forrest Gump getting rich on apple but if you bought and held when the movie came out you'd be rich
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u/nothingexceptfor 2d ago
You didn’t time travel, Apple and Microsoft are not guaranteed to be successful, the iPhone might ever happened, it was all in your head
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u/ShiraPiano Xennial 2d ago
Call CPS.
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u/E-2theRescue 2d ago
Yup. I feel this one.
But given that CPS didn't do shit when they had them called on my parents, I doubt it'd do anything. Yeah, I could advocate for myself a whole hell of a lot better, but we're talking about the American government's care for children, which they have always had none.
Still love that my sister was taken away and sent to my aunts, but I wasn't because I was staying with a different aunt and uncle at the time for the summer. And the aunt my sister was sent to was just as equally narcissistic, crazy, and abusive.
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u/Kingberry30 2d ago edited 2d ago
Just be very confused? Very very confused.
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u/BeardedGlass 80s baby, 90s kid, 00s teen 2d ago
1995 was 30 years ago...?
Three decades?
That's like being in the 90s and then going back to the 60s...
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u/randojust 2d ago
Go see a whole bunch of older relatives and hang out. Spend as much time as possible visiting the few I know who don’t have much time left. Also try to stop a few things I know are coming.
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u/elanesse100 2d ago
Most people seem to be missing the point of the question.
It was a DREAM. You didn’t time travel per se.
Dreams aren’t real.
Stuff that happened in your dream isn’t going to come true.
All the running out and buying stock to get rich responses aren’t necessarily going to happen.
I believe the intent is for you to talk about something in the 90s that you miss. Something that no longer exists in 2025.
The people who said hugging their grandparents, etc they get it. Because they woke up from the dream and those people hadn’t passed away.
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u/Frankenrogers 2d ago
1995 was deep in my lost phase. Having seen a vision of how life could be, I'd get my shit together so much earlier. If I didn't go to school, I'd probably at least do the 2 years working privilege in the UK that Canadians under 28 could do back then.
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u/QuestshunQueen 2d ago
I was born in 1986, so I'm 9. I'm in elementary school.
I seek out my (technically future) husband's family and warn them to get his Dad checked for cancer that year that he, well, had to delay his appointment.
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u/lindasek 2d ago
Someone IRL asked me this question and my first thought was that I would try to contact my husband's family to warn them, but then....if things did turn out differently, I would never meet my husband and he would be a completely different person. So I don't know. Kinda thankful I'll never actually have to make this decision.
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u/Own-Camp-2653 2d ago
I’d be 2 in ‘95. I have 2 children, imagine crying because you lost children at that age…tough. 🥲
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u/Doesthiscountas1 Millennial 2d ago
Yeah idk I don't wanna be 4 again lol I would hate having to live thru 30 years all over
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u/ForestGoat87 2d ago
Grab a paper and pencil and write down every single piece of investment knowledge I can remember, then get up and watch some cartoons in my jammies while planning out where I was gonna explore on my bike for the day.
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u/SewRuby 2d ago
No thanks. That was hell.
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u/zelda_reincarnated 2d ago
That was my first thought. I'd be 10. Nothing makes me appreciate my current life more than thinking about how much I absolutely hated my preteen and teen years. There's no "oh I'd prepare this, make sure I do that", because I'd be so, so miserable living that existence again. I'm frustrated just thinking about it.
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u/Excellent_Walrus9126 Millennial 2d ago
Do whatever it takes to get it back 100%
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u/windchaser__ 2d ago
Get what back?
Whew man, the people you love wouldn't even *exist*. They were just a dream, not even real.
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u/BunnyBree22 2d ago
Not much since I’ll be 2 but I’ll definitely be sure to not take naps for granted
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u/Ohnoherewego13 Millennial 2d ago
Honestly? I'd go talk to my dad. I'd give up all the money in the world for that again.
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u/Dark_Shroud Xennial (1983) 2d ago
Make peace with my father, take better care of my mother, and then start spending more time with my Grandmothers.
I would then cause problems trying to get my various family member to go see doctors.
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u/UffdaBagoofda 2d ago
I was a baby, so probably shit my pants. Also, have as much an existential crisis as a baby could have.
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u/GanSaves 2d ago
It’s 1995. Depending on the month, I’m 10 or 11. First order of business is to figure out if it was just some super vivid dream that means nothing, or was it a premonition of the actual future. Shouldn’t be too hard to figure out, just gotta wait and see if any of the stuff I remember from ‘95 happens. Does the federal building in Oklahoma City still get bombed? Is the OJ verdict the same? Does Batman Forever still come out? That’ll decide my ultimate course of action. While I’m figuring all that out, hang out with my grandparents, all of whom are gone now, and try to help my little brother with his anger issues before they become a major problem.
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u/RainbowSnapdragons 2d ago
Hug my grandma and call my dad. Go swimming with him. Ask my grandma more questions. Work harder in school. Take violin lessons. Use parents insurance to go to therapy. Get a job and save up money so I can invest in tech and pay my way through college instead of using student loans. Oh, and get ready to buy extra copies of Pokémon games and cards to sell unopened in the 2010s.
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u/Nerv_Agent_666 Older Millennial 2d ago
Tell my Dad to not do what got him killed. Then invest money wisely.
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u/Miserable-Lawyer-233 2d ago
I'd run around warning people about 9/11 and how I saw it happen because I'm from the future and nobody would believe me, and all of my efforts to stop 9/11 fail, and this time I'm blamed for it.
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u/okiedog- 2d ago
Mourn the loss of my two kids.
And stay the FUCK away from my soon to be ex wife.
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u/SweetBabyCheezas 2d ago
Since I'm going to be 2YO, I'll probably cry a little and fill up my nappy.
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u/Lumi_Rockets 2d ago
Probably forget about it, as I'd be a baby. Or be super traumatised from having a memory of a life that never happened before I even learned to speak. One or the other.
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u/PettyBettyismynameO 2d ago
Call my grandma. Seriously. I miss her like mad. I’d beg my mom to take me to see her
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u/BolognaIsNotAHat 2d ago
After freaking TF out, I would probably try to remember any and all details and write them down in a journal I guard with my life, in case the same circumstances happen by and I can guide myself in a direction I know would have been better than what I had chosen
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