Hey everyone.
So several months ago, but really since I remember, I started getting into lucid dreaming . But that was one place I visited. I was obsessed with lucid dreaming, and the more I learned, the more I started to have lucid dreams that were worthwhile. At first, it wasn't more than blurry flying for a few seconds...but eventually I got it to the point where I could experience what was basically one hour of a virtual reality game every night. A game completely under my control.
Then, I started reading about "time dilation" with lucid dreams, where you could live in lucid dreams longer than the actual physical time that passed. I started spending hours, even days in my lucid worlds.
Then the unthinkable happened. I stayed in a dream too long, I think, in a dream I couldn't control.
It went like this. I had a normal lucid dream every night, but eventually I stopped having them and decide to live back in reality. I kept working, I kept following the news, kept reading etc...it was basically my normal life. Well, "normal" for a while. Because the "reality" I lived in my dream was frightening as hell. It was the same world we have now, except it kept breaking down, getting worse and worse--in ways I'll get into a little later on. And the whole time, I didn't know it was a dream. I got as far as 2017 when I woke up, in bed from years ago (actually, just a few months ago now), and realized what had really happened.
You know when you have a nightmare and you wake up, completely relieved to find yourself in your own bed? Imagine that feeling, ten times more intense, and finding yourself two years in the past.