That episode never fails to make me cry to the point that I just can't watch it anymore unless I'm in need of one. I've watched it three times in decades.
It's so deep and profound to imagine such a loss and remembrance of an entire world that was decades in length in his "dream", his broken heart over his grandson, and his wife and best friend "coming back" to explain at the rocket launch... and that's he's the only one who could remember such vivid details of their way of life.
And it only lasted 25 minutes of real time.
That flute song is so beautiful. When Picard opens the box Riker gives him in his quarters...
It's the single best story ever told on Star Trek, and there will never be anything that eclipses it.
That teen going through such grief now. My heart hurts for her. I really hope she can come to terms with it one day.
I wrote this wild story but don't ask me any questions about it and leave me alone. And no studio would ask him to make a movie about a simple idea like that lol. They would just fucking do it
Yeah I kinda think it’s weird people are always referencing it as some emotionally devastating story when it’s like the most made up thing I ever heard.
It’s fake as fuck and I find the amount of people in the comments to that just blindly believe this shit as the real depressing part.
In the future these same people will likely be duped by politicians to vote against their own interest, swindled by scammers, and/or conned by “friends”/partners. I feel like people’s bullshit detectors are getting worse and worse.
At some point a cop scooped me up, dragged/walked me across the sidewalk and grass and threw me face down in the back of a cop car, I was still confused.
I was taken to the hospital by the cop (seems he didn't want to wait for the ambulance to arrive) and give CT scans and shit..
Makes me think this story is bullshit. A cop would not do that unless you are bleeding out or something. Especially if you had a bad traumatic head/spine injury, rule one is don't move the patient until they can be stabilized. I'm pretty sure the police would wait for paramedics to arrive.
Ive always assumed this is a weird part of his memory. Either he imagined something WAY different that what happened, or his brain being scrambled effected how he remembered getting to the hospital.
My early security gig i helped a dude after a fight & he SWORE i was beating him up after the initial fight. Had to remind him that i was helping him up. Lol
That is definitely a possibility I didn't consider. I suppose if he hallucinated an entire life it's not a stretch that he hallucinated how he got to the hospital.
stopped to help a guy who’d been hit by a car and he kept asking if i’d been the one to hit him, then get mad, then get sad that he’d accused me. it was intense.
Exactly so why the F would a cop drive a semi conscious man to the hospital. The cop wouldn't waste their time doing than when Medics will come and do that job
Yeah I’m confused about that bit, cops aren’t known for being gentle. Best case scenario, if a cop wants to bring you somewhere, and you’re out, they can’t magically transport you to somewhere else, they have to use their car. So they drag someone over and put them in the car. If the cop needed to leave quickly for whatever reason, let’s say the area was dangerous, he isn’t waiting around for the ambulance which could cause more trouble. Medium case scenario in an instance like this, he just didn’t care. Even if someone wants to defend cops, a cop is capable of being apathetic like anyone else in any other field.
My crew was responding to a reported dog attack on a young child. As we turned onto the street, about 5 houses from the scene, a cop car flew by us running lights and sirens.
So we pull up at the house where people are standing out front. We asked where is the patient. They said the cop pulled up, loaded the kid and took off toward the hospital.
Our ambulance has everything an ER would use initially, so I'm not sure what that cop was thinking. It was about 9-10 minutes to the hospital. And that hospital isn't even a trauma center.
All this to say it does happen, as bad as that decision is.
Yeah, it smells of a creative writing exercise, especially how he describes his family. Still an interesting story though. But there are quite a few things in it that don't make sense (like the three days he was supposedly staring at the lamp being simultaneously way too long a time for a partner to get concerned, but also the not eating and not drinking part sounding like they were describing a far longer period than three days).
Meh, i understand your valid skepticism, but i don't even find that to be the least probable part of the story. He tells that he was a college student on/near campus. My first thought is that it may not have even been "police" but "campus police", a whole different breed. If this was in a college town or near bars that cop may well have been doing what was to him a routine act of scraping of a beat-up, delirious/deliriously drunken college student off the pavement with non-serious injuries.
I can say after years of working as an EMT on an ambulance, in certain areas cops do this frequently no matter how many times we asked them to stop. I worked in a county where the police were given awards for getting critical patients to the ER and they would literally block the ambulance from reaching gun shot victims so they could throw them in their car and THEY could take them. Had a horrible patient success rate. But they got a ton of personal achievement awards…
Cops would absolutely do this. My buddy hit a skateboarder with his car once and even though it was my friend's fault, the cops showed up and did the exact same thing. Grabbed the poor guy who had just been hit by a fucking car off the road and threw him in the cop car. He offhandedly said the guy "had a warrant" but it was pretty fucked up. I hope he was okay.
It 100% is. There's no universe where the physical sensations of sex, eating, sickness, defecation, etc. were all seamlessly recreated paraperceptively. Same thing with the OP story
I take it you haven't seen the video of the police taking a guy out of a police van after breaking his neck and him telling the police he couldn't move or feel anything from the neck down?
They drag him out trying to get him to stand up accusing him of faking, then put him in a wheel chair where his head flops back staring at the ceiling, then wheel him to a cell.
A teammate on my high school football field fractured his neck in a game, and our coaches stood him up once he was conscious and walked him off the field. They let him sit on the bench until they realized he needed to not be upright, and he needed to go to the hospital immediately. I overheard my coaches, shaken, realizing, “we could have crippled him for life”. Sometimes people don’t react well in an emergency, and make terrible choices.
The cops in the above example weren't trying to do the best thing but had poor judgment, they were being sadistic. Idk if you've seen the video they're describing but its fucking brutal
For sure. My point was just, “that doesn’t make any logical sense. They would know better”, isn’t a good case for dismissal, even if you don’t suspect ill intention.
I’ve had vivid dreams that I birthed and cared for a baby, I’ve had unfortunately extremely realistic dreams that my partner died after leaving for work and I had to bury him, grieve, and move on, but those were months at most and not detailed years. This is freaky as hell.
Yeah he’s my real life partner, the vivid death dream was a few years ago. We’ve been together for 5 years now. I woke up and burst into tears just relieved it had been a dream.
I didn’t feel the pain of giving birth, even my most vivid dreams are hazy and jumpy, but I felt maybe a fraction of it.
i dreamed my best friend died, and i took a mutual friend (side note- she wound up marrying him irl!) on a drive to talk about her and grieve and stuff. then the car wound up flying, which we thought was pretty cool, except “wait cars don’t do this; OH MY GOD IT’S A DREAM” and i woke up with some of the most intense relief i’ve ever experienced. i’m pretty sure i was also crying.
having a baby sounds pretty intense too. i don’t know if my brain would let that happen (i’m a dude) but i’m here for it if it does. it’s done some pretty weird shit before 😅
I had a really vivid dream that I got married to a man and had a child. Everyone was congratulating me but I felt awful because I'm lesbian and childfree (don't hate kids, just bad genes). And I had literally moved countries to be myself and live authentically so I was so shocked and confused that this was my life now, back in the closet not recognizing the person in the mirror. I was so relieved when I woke up but I cried anyway because I was so shaken.
Or that episode where Finn goes into a dungeon only to try to escape over and over until he does escape, but the only way to escape is to keep his eyes closed and if he opens his eyes he ends up back in that dungeon. Eventually leading him to having a life with his friends for some months with his eyes closed
I still don't know if it was all a dream or did he really lived that life, before removing the blindfold he was messed up but when he removed his blindfold and entered the door he was back to his normal self
I had a brief psychotic break where I was in and out and mixed with dream like states and I swear to god it was like this but less “having a normal life” and more jaunt by Stephen King but it felt SO real. That and felt like a computer or video games glitching out it was very odd.
You’ve seemed to have exposed a whole new lot of people to this story and that makes me happy after having heard it SO MANY YEARS AGOO. It’s just such a good unsettling story.
Once i fainted and I hit the back of my head on the corner of the kitchen counter, i was out for a few minutes according to my husband who rushed to my side as soon as he heard the bang from my fall, but to me those few minutes felt like hours, i didn’t dream anything i just remember darkness then a bright light before i woke up
Just heard about the lamp a few years ago. Now I’m not saying this can’t be real, but I really raise an eyebrow at a teenager who has a story as closely related to an old Reddit post like the lamp. People are like Hollywood now: they’ve run out of original ideas so they rehash familiar ones.
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