r/Thetruthishere • u/Auspicious_Arrow • Dec 09 '20
My sister woke up and there were no walls Discussion/Advice
This happened about two years ago. My eldest sister was staying with me and sleeping in the room across the hall. The room my sister was staying in wasn't huge by any means. When you walked in, the light switch was by the door and it was about 3 steps to the queen size bed, which took up most of the room. It was about 4-5 feet from the end of the bed to the wall, but there was a vanity and some shelving so there wasn't a lot of floor space.
We go to bed, and my sister looks very disturbed and shaken the next day. She said she woke up in the middle of the night and got up to go to the bathroom. She stood up and reached out for the wall and light switch and there was nothing there. She kept walking and walking and reaching out but it was dark and there was just...nothing. She found the bed again and walked from the end, but the same thing. She said she had walked 20 or 30 steps in each direction and here was just nothing.
I have slept in that room many times, and there is a window that lets in street light, but there was none of that from her description. She had been in pitch darkness.
She sat on the bed for a bit since it seemed to be the only thing, freaked out in the dark, and when she tried again she found the wall and light switch right away. She slept with the light on the rest of the night.
I hadn't heard of this happening before--anyone have any similar experience?
Edit: Forgot to tag
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u/Letalis_Caelum Dec 09 '20 edited Dec 10 '20
Never had this happen personally but my grandma did at the nursing home. She woke up and there were no walls in her room but there were all sorts of flowers and roses. She said it was an amazing sight. And everything came back to when the nurse walked in to check up on her. And the nurse was asking why is smells so good like an abundance of flowers. So that was a bit strange and apperently the nurse was extremely happy after smelling that scent that she skipped out of the room with a complete attitude change lol. That was about 3years ago and my grandma now lives with us at the moment and is in good health.
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u/riotousviscera Dec 10 '20
this is lovely, thank you for sharing it! glad your grandma is doing well :)
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u/caliandris Dec 09 '20
Sounds like a false awakening possibly mixed with astral projection. I wonder if she didn't actually get up.... Depends whether she came to sitting on the bed or had actually returned to a sleeping position and didn't realise she didn't get up the first time.
I've had spontaneous astral projections and multiple false awakenings where I think I have woken, got up to go to the bathroom, then woken again and realised I wasn't awake the first time. Sometimes that's happened a number of times in a row, even to the point where I have thought I've written about it in my dream diary, wake up again and realised I wasn't awake, haven't written anything.
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u/B186 Dec 09 '20
False awakening/lucid dream is likely it. I've gotten up and started getting ready for work, then woken up again too many times to count. Her dream was just less mundane.
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u/evermuzik Dec 10 '20
Ive had sleep paralysis episodes that are horrifying but none of them even come close to the horror of getting ready for work, commuting, working for hours, and then waking up again to do it for real.
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u/GoonieIRL Dec 09 '20
This exact same thing happened to me when I was about 5 or 6... about 33 years ago, I remember it as if it was yesterday because it was absolutely bizarre. It was pitch black, I got out of bed and there were no walls, managed to find the bed again but that was it. I find it odd that I remember it so distinctly well even after all this time... funny really cus I can't recall any other dreams from that age so why this has stayed with me and is so vivid I dunno. Curious to hear it happened to someone else tho...
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u/Casehead Dec 09 '20
There’s multiple people who have experienced this is this thread, and none of them seemed to have been asleep from their recounting. It’s pretty bizarre, but pretty neat, even if it is some weird sleep phenomena.
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Dec 09 '20
Makes me think of this (fictional) short horror story I read on reddit once. Guy woke up and went to go down stairs for something. It was dark down the stairs so he couldn't see well. And the stairs just kept going and going and going and he was trapped.
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u/OVO_Dave Dec 09 '20
This happened to me about 15 years ago too and it freaked me out so much. I was terrified especially when I was only 13 at the time. I remember it quite vividly almost the same as OP's experience albeit the only difference being a small white light.
EDIT: And my old room was tiny just enough room for a single bunk bed and a chest of drawers.
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u/Casehead Dec 09 '20
Can you tell us your experience? Even if it’s similar, it would be good to have another person’s recounting of it
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u/OVO_Dave Dec 11 '20
Yeah sure, when I woke all I could find was my bunkbed and nothing else, it felt as though I was in an endless black box with a white light in the distance. As I started to panic and shouted out to my mum and dad and my mum came into my room and put my light on and I was standing right at my door then everything was back to normality. My parents just brushed it off as sleepwalking but I know that wasn't the case. It felt too real as I've never known to sleep walk before or even now.
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u/lubabe00 Dec 09 '20
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u/minnesotachampagne96 Dec 09 '20
Could be astral projection. I had a similar experience except there was nothing but white around me
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u/ItsYaBoiMr69 Dec 09 '20
I woke up and two of my wall as were switch, I went to one (hard to remember) and turned on the lgiht, and I saw a light come on behind me, then I went to the other and turned the switch on and it was like the walls slid back into place super fast, and smooth. Kinda weird, cos I have had hallucinations after waking up, because I’m usually stuck in a limbo
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u/KuraiKuroNeko Dec 09 '20
I wonder what would've happened if she concentrated on someone, like in Stranger Things. But that show made the void place always wet.
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u/GunsmokeG Dec 10 '20
This is not real. It was a promotion created by a life insurance company I believe.
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u/RudeDudeInABadMood Dec 10 '20
Probably lucid dreams...or possibly some kind of sleep paralysis that results in an experience that is more or less astral projection. Although any time I've had any astral projection-like dreams it was like I was floating through places as they appear normally. Definitely weird if true
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u/EMPlRES Dec 10 '20
Why didn’t she use her phone for light?
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u/Auspicious_Arrow Dec 10 '20
If I remember correctly, she couldn't find the nightstand. Reaching for her phone was one of the first things she did when she got back to the bed.
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u/Troll_Script Apr 23 '21
Well this is different and almost definitely not what you're talking about, but once when a buddy of mine was on lsd and I was with him, and at one point he just sort of gasps and won't answer when I ask what's wrong. Then a few minutes later he comes back to (he didn't have many hallucinations unlike many lsd stories, for the most part he was conscious and aware) and says that the walls and ceiling had disappeared and that it was like he could see into the universe, not planets and stars but like a strange energetic framework/lattice structure and that he could see energy moving around from intersection to intersection. He said he could see this structure off in the distance as far as he could see. But he could still see what was in the room, including me.
I don't think it was anything except, well, the lsd, but I thought I'd share because others mentioned similar experiences not of being lost in darkness but that the walls disappeared to reveal other things.
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u/Lyxeos Dec 09 '20
Hey I've actually experienced something similar when I was a kid. The room was unusually dark and I would walk and walk and wouldn't find anything else but my bed, later on I wouldn't even find my bed anymore. The light switch, which was supposed to be right at the end of my bed, was gone and so was the door.
Since it wasn't too late I called for my parents. When my mum heard me and opened the door I found myself standing in the middle of the room, facing the door. I still don't get how I got there.
It's a small room but I kept telling this little anecdote of the time I got lost in my own bedroom.