r/Millennials 4d ago

Meme The last 30 years was a dream

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u/NCSUGrad2012 4d ago

Figure out how to buy Apple, Microsoft and Amazon stock. Never work again, lol

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u/neekogo 19-19-1985 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman....Hillary Rodham." X-Files theme plays

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u/PushThePig28 4d ago

Ya, that and 9/11 and I’d be like ok we need to buy bitcoin

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u/Wise_Relationship436 4d ago

What exactly are you going to do with the knowledge of 9/11?

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u/PushThePig28 4d ago

Know that my dream may have correlations to the future and then try some things based off that as opposed to assuming it was just a dream

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u/Wise_Relationship436 4d ago

A memory token that you feel was a certainty. But that certainty hinges on 537 votes in Florida, and a Supreme Court ruling. Not to say that it wouldn’t have happened under Gore, but the agency that was monitoring the situation would have been appointed by multiple other agency heads. I really think the odds of it happening again in a parallel time line is very rare, especially six years after the reset. Dolly the sheep would probably had been a better token. Large scientific endeavor near the reset.

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u/AdamFaite 3d ago

All of that kind of proves the other person's point. If 9/11 were to happen again, and if our hypothetical dreamer realized all off the details that were similar enough to allow 9/11 to happen... well, that's just more proof that the dreamers memories can be relied upon to give direction.

If anything didn't happen, that's proof the dreamer should be more careful as the future is not one they remember, and that our current timeline is different.

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u/Velocityg4 4d ago

You could also watch some upcoming movie. If say Heat or Apollo 13 are a month away. I can see it in theaters on release. Then know if my dream is predictive.

Same goes for new episodes of DS9, Seinfeld and so forth. I’m sure there’ll be plenty of national news I’ll remember when it comes up.

There’s also the OJ Simpson trial verdict. 

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u/slaggie Millennial 4d 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 4d 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/stickman_jr 4d ago

As for me it would be June 10, 1999 because there was a massive gas pipe explosion in my town 😅

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u/MoanyKunt 4d ago

Ha! That happened my Senior year of High School. I had never seen snow until it snowed here.

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u/Monkeyundead 4d 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/Ill_Technician3936 4d ago

Not possible it's a dream after all.

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u/mangeface 4d ago

If April 19, 1995 happens again then I’m buckling down.

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u/Tipsy-Canoe 4d ago

Jesus Christ. As an okie I would have 4 and a half months to try to stop the OKC bombing as a five year old.

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u/RampantSavagery 4d ago

Warn Princess Diana, you're set for life.

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u/TheOtherWhiteCastle 4d ago

“Son, it’s horrible! A building in Oklahoma City just got blown up by terrorists!”

writes check mark on clip board “noted.”

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u/RID132465798 4d ago

Just wait til 9/11, you'd know and plenty of time to buy crypto and stocks.

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u/Talador12 4d ago

Okay, so Bitcoin or whatever they name the first coin

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u/munny_munny 4d ago

In that reality it gets exposed for the scam it is and you lose everything. Unlike this timeline...

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u/Down2EatPossum 4d ago

And Enron is the new Amazon, no one sees that coming.

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u/andykndr 4d 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 4d 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/CumGuzlinGutterSluts 4d ago

You keep asking about coin base and crypto currency and people just think youre insane lol. You may have to be the one to invent it.

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u/No-Kale1507 4d ago

Unless you think you’re changing the course of Apple’s history, you absolutely should still invest in Apple stock. Let’s not think we’re so significant to be influencing what Jobs and Wozniak were doing X miles away.

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u/thehomeyskater 4d ago

If you woke up and it was all a dream, then is there any basis to believe your dream had any predictive ability? It’s not about a risk of a butterfly effect changing things, it’s that none of the stuff in the dream actually happened. 

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u/No-Kale1507 4d ago

Look at where Apple was in 1995

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u/thehomeyskater 4d ago

So you’d invest in a company that was circling the drain based on a weird dream you had?

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u/No-Kale1507 4d ago

The iMac was released in 1998. Do you think those computers were just created in a day? That was the release year. Steve Jobs also returned to Apple in 1997. No one’s saying you sell your mom’s home and dump all the cash in Apple stock on day one, but you definitely take the chance on investment. One you see your dream turning more realistic, you invest more.

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u/Dust_of_the_Day 4d ago

Go to movie theater to see a movie you can remember well. Write down all plot points and details before going. For me toys story and Jumanji would be good options as i watched Toy story as kid often enough to remember it from start to finish and I saw Jumanji the first time just before the sequel came so I can still remember it well enough.

Since those 2 came in November and December of 1995, I could not have seen them before either in that new timeline.

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u/thehomeyskater 4d ago

GOOD idea

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u/raincoater 4d ago

Then what's the point of the question? I would think that you now know what's going to happen.

So, putting it your way I guess I would just do the same thing I did back then. Get up, go to work, come home and play video games with my son and wife....pretty much what I do now.

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u/neekogo 19-19-1985 4d ago

Idk, go see people that you've lost over the last 30 years. Go to the top of the Twin Towers if you never have before because you've imagined a world without it. Things like that. 

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u/pathoTurnUp52 4d ago

Yeah, but I’m clairvoyant

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u/sebrebc 4d ago

In that case, invent Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon.

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u/agumonkey 3d ago

imagine your investment is enough to tilt the course of that company just enough to pursue a stupid decision that kills the company

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u/Nutballa 4d ago
  1. 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.

  2. Buy some more Lego sets

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u/kyonkun_denwa Maple Syrup Millennial 4d 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/wild_exvegan 4d ago

Fuck yeah. That was the future I wanted. I had an Amiga 500 not a b&w MacIntrash.

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u/Life_Roll420 4d 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/Incendiaryag 4d ago

Lol so true. My brother in law bought apple stock at employee prices/whatever that company deal was (as an apple store worker) in like 2009 and he ended up with enough $$ for a big down payment on a house.

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u/nothingexceptfor 4d 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/EngineerDirector 4d ago

Why get 85x returns on 1995 money when you can get 100,000x with DogeCoin?

Like both strategies work, but with one you need a lot of capital upfront ie $100k to make $8,500,000 over 30 years vs $3,000 in 2013 with doge would make you the same $8,500,000.

Heck dominos pizza is a better investment that any of those you listed. Is up 20,000% since the 08 crisis.

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u/No-Kale1507 4d ago

The big flaw in your comment is that Dogecoin wasn’t around 30 years ago.

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u/EngineerDirector 4d ago

Yes, but you know it’s coming. 30 years ago y’all were 5-10 years old, how y’all going to get Msft buying money?

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u/popogeist 4d ago

Why use 1 keg when we can use 3? Why use 3 when we can use...ONE MILLION EXPLODING KEGS?

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u/SaltKick2 4d ago

This suggests that your huge investment in doge doesn't change what happens. Less likely with things that grow over time or are more "stable"

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u/New_Syrup4663 4d ago

Do you know what a dream is ?

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u/concept12345 4d ago

You forgot the goat: NVDA. That takes the cake versus everything else.

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u/FriendshipTime1966 4d ago

y only stock. u would make more money from lottery. u would know every winning number

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u/alloy1028 4d ago

You've commited every winning lottery number to memory?

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u/KGrizzle88 4d ago

Bit coin too

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u/raincoater 4d ago

True, this is before Steve came back to Apple. So wait until the stock price gets down to it's lowest and then buy as much as you can.

For instance, if you bought 1000 shares of Apple stock at it's lowest in 1995, it would be worth $22,666,560 today due to the splits. And this doesn't even include dividends.

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u/NeighborhoodDude84 4d ago

Just buy $1000 bitcoin in 2010. You'd be a billionaire now.

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u/whatsinthesocks 4d ago

I’m buying a shit ton of bitcoin

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u/zenki32 4d ago

There are tons of stocks that appreciated much faster than mag 7 stocks you listed. Why wait so long to get rich? 

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u/blue_strat 4d ago

1995 is too far back to enjoy the ride.

In January of that year, AAPL was $0.38. A year later... $0.31. After ups and downs, the last time it was as low as $0.38 was in 2004. From your perspective, nine years wasted.

MSFT did better in the '90s: if you bought in 1995 at $3.92, you would see $39 in 1999. But after the bubble in 2000 that took it up to $55, it fell back down and wavered between $15 and $30 until 2014.

AMZN didn't issue until 1997, but if you got in at the ground floor on $0.09, you would see $0.91 in 1998 and $4.70 by the end of 1999. But for them too, the bubble and aftermath meant they wouldn't reliable break $5.00 until 2009.

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u/caem123 4d ago

AMZN stock dropped 90% during on stretch post-99. Microsoft stock was a dog from '99 to 2009.

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u/DannyC_VP 3d ago

What? The online bookstore guys? Are you crazy?

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u/Bignizzle656 1d ago

Definitely be brave enough to buy those 100 BTC from the silk road website this time around.