I have a genuine fear that someone will stop me in the street one day, grab me b...

jvm___ · 2026-09-01T02:42:46.000000Z

I write this message on thrift store kids doodle tablets regularly.

zulux · 2026-09-01T01:23:53.000000Z

We have to find you first. The 4D labyrinth you're in is almost impossible to navigate.

jacobrast · 2026-09-01T02:04:10.000000Z

Off topic, but I totally recommend you check out Total Recall (1990)

"Wake up, Mr. Quaid!"

red369 · 2026-09-01T12:25:40.000000Z

Even further off-topic, but I recommend you and the parent poster watch the Buffy episode Normal Again, and the 116 episodes before it. Not waking up, but also an example of the "none of this is real" idea.

I'm not sure if I'm entirely joking with this recommendation. For those who haven't watched - even for a show about a vampire slayer, it gets decreasingly plausible as the series go on (as do many long running shows). I remember being hit pretty hard when this episode suddenly offered a sensible explanation for everything, but a stone-cold path to get there.

Should I feel compelled to not offer spoilers on what is probably a joke recommendation anyway (117 episodes of a decades old TV show)?

HeyLaughingBoy · 2026-09-01T21:50:15.000000Z

"I got five kids to feed"

kqr · 2026-09-01T04:44:52.000000Z

I can imagining that being scary two different ways. I would not want to wake up because whatever this thing is, I love it. I'm having an amazing time, dream or not.

reaperducer · 2026-09-01T11:10:01.000000Z

I have a genuine fear that someone will stop me in the street one day, grab me by the shoulders and say

Kenneth! What's the frequency? What's the frequency, Kenneth!

Waterluvian · 2026-08-31T23:22:58.000000Z

My genuine fear is that you’ll just brush me off with a sensible chuckle and keep sleepwalking on down the street.

But seriously, I find that the one recurring theme in nightmares I have is that people simply won’t believe me.

robocat · 2026-09-01T02:11:02.000000Z

Wait till you're 65. It's more than disbelief, people start to actively moronify you. I'm not that age yet, but I've see it happening to purple my parent's age

Terr_ · 2026-09-01T02:41:20.000000Z

Or women of any age in certain contexts, like buying a car, or explaining to a doctor that some abdominal pain is not imaginary or temporary.

fennecfoxy · 2026-09-01T11:01:29.000000Z

I don't think that that issue is inherent to women. I think it's inherent to everyone and we get affected on different levels in different contexts.

Any man who's been told to "man up" (most) has experienced the same.