One of the best podcasts, sir!

You will own nothing, have nothing, but you will be happy.

Sad that he didn’t make it real. Was probably his destiny but he gave up. That’s the real tragedy!

Mr Ballen has the perfect voice and tones, to tell the very best stories. Love your channel, thank you for having him on. Love from Maryland USA

hey that is truly my last name cool savage

I'm here for you. Underrated comment that needs it's due praise. 😂

I love lamp.

😂😂😂

man, i sometimes love the internet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

At one point, the lamp probably morphed into the Leg Lamp from A Christmas Story.

Did you know you were you or?

I need to hear more about this

Yesss

Tell us more!

How could you confirm that it was a real family and real occurrences and not just a long dream? Genuinely curious, not trolling! I find it all fascinating but also don’t believe everything people tell me or what my own mind tells me sometimes 😉

Maybe it's from your past life

It sounds like dual-dreaming or levels of dreams. A dream within a dream, perhaps?

usually this happens as toddlers, or younger.

That's cute

So u were a 10yr old boy that awoke as a woman with a husband and after REawakening and finding the hubby and kids not real, but back to ur 10yr old, male, self…you felt upset? That’s a crazy story. 😂😂

Just wait until you die and wake up in the presence of God as you realize your life here was a dream all along...

@@shinigami891 just wait till you have to face God and account.

@@SMALLAXE. I never understood why Christianity paints God as some angry, judgmental father figure whom you must fear his judgement. According to people who have experienced NDEs God is a grand white light with no judgement but unconditional love and understanding. We are spirits who chose to come experience the knowledge gained through difficulty for spiritual growth. Sorry, but I'm far more inclined to believe people who have actually flat-lined and saw the other side, rather than some manipulative man who wants to touch your wallet and kids...

gotta bring religion into literally anything

@@SpecRec seriously dude, I grew up around alot of religious fanaticism, they some of my least favorite kind of people.

Heard it for the first time on Mr. Ballen's channel. I work with brain injuries and could totally feel what this guy experienced.

Same here

Mr Ballen really is one of the best storytellers online! ❤

MrBallen is one of the few storytellers that I will not skip stories I've heard other places for. He's THAT good!

I heard it years ago on what I believe was the original posting of it, but its changed.. There was no lamp in the original and the kid came to and realized everything the moment he woke up with all the people around him. Great story. Didnt believe it then and even more so now.

amazing story teller

Host interrupting Mr Ballen, though??? He surely doesn't need help telling a story. 😮

Anyone who's heard Mr Ballen speak knows they're going to get a great story, fictional or fact. The man is a natural!

I’m actually a bit shocked. He seems a bit nervous talking about it in the beginning. Voice is shaky… and he still crushes it lol

Me too

🤣🤣🤣👍

I love this effin comment

Sorry to hear, hope things are okay, and you’re coping

A woman by the name of Dolores Cannon created a technique called the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) for Healing & Past Life Regression. She has since passed, but if you search this subject matter, you will be able to find a QHHT Practitioner in your area. The experience is quite remarkable. I would Highly Recommend to Anyone who has had a similar experience to follow this path to find Closer & to Better Understand Your Experience. Good Luck, and Please let us know with a follow up if You decide to go this route. You were shown this experience for a reason, and it’s up to you to find out why. I’m Excited to hear Your Story! God Bless!!

Me too. Because right now I'm dealing with something like the r word when I was looking at a picture of my fiance friend. . I feel the hair's in the back of my head stand up and ears perk up. I told him I don't want to be anywhere near him until I figure out why I'm feeling like that

I concur

@@nicholnixon7310 Like, you were SA'd by him at one time?

Past life doesn’t exist. It’s actually an illusion that a demon places in our head to mess with us. No joke,, but you can choose not to believe it

There is 100% life after death. And you will find this life by believing and following our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There is no past lives, that’s something put inside your head by the devil to draw you further from God.

I have that same feeling all the time. In this life Im in the wrong place. Sometimes I can't wait to go to sleep and see them again.

@@carmenross7063 what you dream about? Did you identify something about the wrong thing?

Watch Family Man 😉

​@@carolkingsafer9728 I love that movie.

@@carolkingsafer9728 I like your suggestion but this is yet another trauma box that opens. I always wanted to live all possible lifes.

I definitely caught that also. I thought he might start tearing up. Something in that story brought him back somewhere.

I heard that too, since John is a Dad, I'm sure he could empathize with the thought that losing a child, even if in the dream, would be devastating.

@@lbar9720 Agree, and he's a Veteran too. He must have had some terrible experiences and admitted he found it difficult to adjust after the Military. His family is the most important thing to him, and to think of them not being there is a devastating thought.

Exactly, imagine always seeing your son to realize that you never had a son but then explain the void you now feel 😢😢.

I felt Mr. Ballen nervous throughout the recounting of this story. He spoke more quickly and less intensely than he usually does. His voice was a bit shaky, he kept his left hand on his leg, instead of speaking with both hands, and he short of breath throughout. I think he was nervous story-telling in someone else’s studio. I’m glad that he did it, though.

The red lamp story is not paranormal

Thank you. I just ordered them.

I’m from Liverpool nvr heard of this thx for telling will have a look

Neat! Thanks for mentioning those books! They sound awesome!

Was just talking about tom slemen and the time slip on bold street

I'm so sorry that happened to you.😢

@lynnewright31 thank you 💞

​@@mmkoogler❤

I'm so sorry you went through that. I hope you have been able to heal from the trauma. 😢

Some of them actually are evil

I believe the story is true. Who's to say that life is real and this life is the dream.

When I used to stay up for days on ❄ and finally go to bed the dreams were unbelievable. Not only did I feel like I was seeing another reality I would dream I was other people. Never had anything close to that since

@wallywest2360 I haven't listened to the story yet.This is my roommate's phone mine's Dead right now but my name is Kasey And since I was a little girl, I've also had very lucid dreams and almost every night. I mean, I remember more of my dreams than I do of my reality half the time and it's still going on today. I'm 40 now. Well alright, I'm 45, but whatever. But what does that mean when you have dream states like this?Like what does all this shit mean? Ever since I can remember, I always had dreams a re occurring dreams about a little tiny witch on a broomsdick that couldn't have been bigger than my hand but she would zoom around and she would like come up from the left side of my bed And then come over across my field of vision and yell nasty things at me Before flying and zooming down the other side of my bed where I couldn't see her anymore and then she would zoom up from somewhere else and it would scare the s*** out of me. And they were re occurring dreams that young. I remember being a teenager and oh yeah, and my family was always trying to kill me. Trying to poison me or trick me into doing something that was gonna kill me. But I remember being a teenager and laying in bed with my boyfriend. And it would feel so real and he be holding me and I would be spooning or something and then I would turn my head to look at him and he would turn his head to me, but he would He would be like this clown the scariest clown!!! A lot of the dreams that I have are like not dreams.They're nightmares. Like they feel like horror movies. And I don't even watch horror movies. Because I don't want to put that s*** in my head. It's already in there. You know what I mean? I don't know. I just don't know what the hell it all means....any thoughts?? I'm asking because the way you describe your dreaming. Kind of sounds like the way that I dream.

I went through something similar and to this day have to ask husband is something really happened or was from that time in my life. I spent almost a year in a nursing home even

​@@josharzt4364 Often times real life is a nightmare and our dreams are a way of dealing with what your brain can't cope with in real time. Why some people can't recall vast amounts of childhood . Our brain has a safety feature so to say, of blurring/ filtering out in order to function and survive! I have vivid lucid dreams and often in color, but no clue what that means

The things the brain are capable of are both astounding and terrifying.

We might be a type of holographic projector where the possible endless paths our lives can take are all existing at the same time over endless dimensions where every now and then we get a glimpse of the possibilities not taken.

Joe, wow. Sometimes it's hard to know if people are bullshitting on the internet (especially in KZfaq comments) but something about your experience sounds believable to me. That had to be SO freaky for you.

@@Treeofwysdm haha no bullshitting here! It was so bizarre-especially jumping into a dream so quickly. And it didn’t feel like a dream-it felt real? Like I’d been at that apartment showing the whole time, and I was daydreaming about being at my real job until the couple started asking questions-and then I just clicked back into that reality? I was still myself (I think, never saw a mirror), but I’ve never been a realtor or had any interest in it. Or Maybe I wasn’t me-I didn’t even think about that until now! Maybe I was a totally different person-actually I have no idea? It was only for a minute or two, until I woke up back at my desk at work-I’ve had weird dreams before, but this didn’t feel like a dream

I've had dreams like that. I just assume that you'd disappear. For me it was a recent dream I had where my girlfriend and I were looking for a show to watch on KZfaq and couldn't find anything good so she went to get a DVD from somewhere and as she was coming back through the door behind me I kind of zoned out waiting then woke up. I kind of feel like I left her hanging. In my waking life I live alone. Sometimes my ex wife drops our daughter off at my house, but I'm single.

@@joedistin Holy shit, so weird. Have you seen "Dark Matter" yet? It's the AppleTV series based on the Crouch novel. What you're describing kind of reminds me of the premise of the show. Kind of reminds of "Constellation" too (another awesome Apple series - it seems like Apple has all the badass sci-fi shows lately lol!). Again, not that you're making anything up (because I think something definitely happened to you), but just that these concepts around quantum physics, parallel realities, and time-space continuums are probably more real than any of us actually realize.

unless it actually was just another real reality just the same as this one -- what makes you think this reality is real? ever experienced any Mandela effects? it's certainly not real after everything I've experienced that's for sure

That was the first thing I thought of, too...and yes, that was a very profound episode of TNG.

that's the 1st thing I thought of after hearing this.

@@DoctorHemi Yeah, from what I've read it was one of the highest rated episodes for the series with critics and an overall fan favorite as well.

@@SSS-pn9ex Definitely one of my favorites...and THE most moving episode. Now, I need to go watch it again. 🙂

I thought the exact same thing. My favourite episode. Could be where this Redditor got the story from and just modified it.

Yes I just wrote that as well! But it's also been a popular retelling in TV shows such as Star Trek The Next Generation in their episode called 'The Inner Light'.

OMG.. An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge BLEW my mind. I was a freshman in high school and our English Lit teacher had us watch the video. I think it's on KZfaq here somewhere.. Still profound, but that first time gutted me...

Hey! I think I remember reading that story!

It was also retold in one of the original series of the Twilight Zone.

@@janiced3090 Which one, please? I can't recall the episode.

I wonder if past life regression would help?

That's tragic

Very true.

You can fix the filler talk by taking public speaking classes. It worked for me!

@@crystalmorton9500 toastmasters?

@@crystalmorton9500 ohhhh, Im so happy you took those classes. And it worked for you. Great, great job 👏

Isn’t “kinda” a filler word?

Wow!

I had blood drawn once and hadn't hydrated myself beforehand. Things got blurry. I remember making a really awful facial expression for a long time, I had passed out. I awoke being held by 2 male nurses and a female nurse kindly let me know that I had peed all over the place and that I was going to need to get new clothes...lol.

I have Vasovegal response and can tell you when I'm going down. Once, I was able to do a countdown, medics were impressed by that one lol. In the mere seconds I'm out I have rapid, lifelike dreams. When I awake I don't know who I am or where I am. Most times I'm lucky enough to instruct people how to approach me because I will often wake up in a fit of fear. Some dreams feel like a whole block of time, not seconds. I can understand what this man felt.

It's also a Start Trek episode.

Lmaooo

I was going to say, this sounds very much like classic Reddit clickbait fiction lol

@@blondeenotsomuch Ask Me Anything

@@blondeenotsomuch Ask Me Anything

There are some Japanese authors that write excellent fictional stories on cats and the cat/owner dynamic. I'm not sure if any have been made into movies. Your dream would make a great book/movie 😊

How do you know it was a false memory? I think what you experienced is just as real as this is. Ever experienced mandela effects? I do on the daily so let me tell you this reality isn't concrete at all

​@@JacquiMcCarron21 Because I literally woke up from that dream? The only explanation is that the dream made a perfect amalgamation of the movies and dramas I used to watch during my college days to the point my brain perceived it to be real. The weird thing is why did it decide to dig memories from 15 years ago? At least the part where I dreamt of seeing the video on KZfaq made sense since I really was watching some KZfaq videos on my phone before I took that nap that day.

Wow... omgosh child that eye flicker detail.. my heart goes out to you 💔

Perhaps he tapted into his previous life

@@rocklee8847 oOo yeah I like that too.

There's a "red lamp" in all our lives, and we know the second we begin to tug in the string it will all unravel. But we rather continue living the comfortable lie. Whats your "red lamp".

Just like Vanilla Sky

​@@davidbelen7199So none of this is real?

Great episode!!!

That's where he got it !

Probably he got inspired by it, Redditors love that show

Or the Star Trek episode The Inner Light.

@@angryox3102which was inspired by the beatles song by the same name

Yes, he’s very talented in keeping his audience engaged.

Of course it's not real, it's just Reddit being Reddit

happens to people on salvia and maybe other substances may do this too, plus passing out during head trauma or in comatose states people report dreams nightmares whatever, but i will give you that it is unusual with the cop. The og reddit user doesnt seem to milk this for any gains other then upvotes and few minutes of clout who gives a shit.

of course no receipts, tho you could look for medical reports, news articles, but also that cop part was in his dream. presumably, he got carried off on a stretcher from the field where he got injured.

Although I will agree that it is odd in the case of a head injury, Law Enforcement transporting people to the hospital if the nearest ambulance isn't close isn't uncommon. I know cops who have had to do this on a few occasions for various instances.

@@BareKnuckleBrawlsyep. Can confirm. And this was early 2000’s, I started as an emt in 2008 and things were a bit more…cavalier, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all.

😂

I love lamp

A Lava Lamp would be a trip.

Had a nightmare as a child that was very detailed and vivid. I remember many of the details 50+ years later, but the thing that stands out was the scariest part - I turned to look at this small Tiffany style lamp, and it WALKED toward me on the dresser and I became so terrified at this, my eyeballs fell out. That's when I woke up screaming.

Lolll bruh… 😅

Hopefully you'll wake up

Inception?

I use to get that was I was a kid, glad I grew out of it, awful feeling to be sick and your mind starts playing tricks on you

Comfortably Numb

10/1 is still a fraction

@@BarackObamaJedi touché!

And what would make it a credible source? Wikipedia? The New York Times? CNN?

You didn't even finish the vid😂

Yes!

Yet, you read it and listened to the story

I'm sure once it's in a shiny box with a big price tag you'll be first in line.

🤣

Dude! That was exactly my thought and I was thinking if the whole many World series was real wouldn't it make sense that we would be able to tap into that same consciousness because wouldn't it still be our consciousness? Like there would be so many layers to the mini World series it just seems like how can you consider that to be a reasonable theory and not consider the theory that we would be able to tap into these other versions of ourselves somehow.

That actually makes sense

There actually is a show out right now on apple tv called Dark Matter. Its basically about what I just explained here.

The multiverse

I meant the many worlds theory 😂 speech to text is not my friend... But multiverse probably wouldve been understood better by my phone. Just think, somewhere out there I said that instead and I'm not writing this comment right now! That one show The OA on Netflix is kinda inline with that and it's pretty good.

We feel your pain. Our thoughts and prayers.

Prolly already did. Considering everyone who was important was conveniently late or absent that day.

@@astralnomad4329 Like who?

Still can't believe he beat cancer and went back to flipping rugs

Can confirm!

Did you see the wheel?

​@@Eterna7Forms Yup! At the beginning - It mirrored itself within a single point which I understod as a correlation of momentum and position; from which "now" emerged.

Dang lol We all out here w 16 likes for the Salvia

Hahah Shits real

go back

Yes.

😂😂😂

NO, this is a real condition...you need to watch Chase Hughes telling his story.

@@nattamused9074I'm Belgian but I do realise that's no excuse. Sorry, you are right.

@@user-yc8ij8ln4c Thank you for reminded me to be kind, we don’t always know what goes on behind the screens.

It's nice to know some people can still be considerate of others. No worries. You had every right to point out I misunderstood what you were saying. 👋

No simulation, we are God living his creation, it's what we call toughts.

Then why does my poop stink so bad? Can’t we simulate poop that smells like roses?