I had a very strange dream last night. I can’t stop thinking about it and I’ve never felt so sure that both simulation and reincarnation are real.

I’ve never believed in anything but science as a want-to-be rationalist, but I had the craziest dream last night and feel so moved to post it here.<br><br>While I was dreaming, I’m aware that it was a dream. First, I was walking through a mall, then I was walking through a parking lot. Literally in the same dream. I’m just walking through a parking lot, all of a sudden there’s people in cars, I walk through another parking lot and there’s just random people walking on the right side of the road. Then I’m in a movie theater with my family, and I’m stuck on the same level at the very back of the theater. I get up and walk through the aisle and the first thing I do is tell people I’m dreaming, because it felt so real and normal. I walk through the movie screen and I find myself sitting in a room in my house, but it’s not like it is in my house. I look at the clock on the wall and it’s 3:30. I see a bunch of my friends all sitting in their cars and they look so confused. I look up at them and start talking to them and then I realize that I’m dreaming and that they’re just randomly staring at me. I tell them, “I’m not really here. We’re dreaming. We’re in a simulation.” I get a little more confused and start asking myself “Is this just a dream? Is it simulation? What’s real?” Then I realize we’re all dreaming together. I get so excited because I’ve had lucid dreams before but they never last long. I try to start levitating and it’s hard, but I manage it. I start waving to my friends and trying to make them realize that we’re all in some kind of simulation. One of them starts moving their arm in the way I’m moving my arm. I see them moving and tell them, “That’s it! You feel that feeling? It’s real. There’s something called the matrix, and it’s real.” I get so excited, and I can’t believe I’m finally in a dream. I start jumping in the air and I look around and my friends are all getting up and walking around. I grab one of my friends and tell him we’re dreaming, and to prove it I start telling him what we’re going to say. “You’re going to say, ‘____’” and I say something and they say the exact words I just said, to prove we’re dreaming. I pick up a lamppost and start shaking it and I hear the sound of the metal on the concrete. It’s so vivid and realistic. I’m still floating and so excited. I grab another friend and tell him, “We’re going to leave now,” and suddenly I’m back in the previous scene, walking through the parking lot. Then I’m out of the dream. And now I’m here.<br><br>I can’t stop thinking about this dream. I’ve never had a lucid dream last long enough to be so cognizant before, and just the feeling of the dream, the feeling of my hands on the post, the feeling of the concrete and the sound of the metal, the feeling of the wind, the feeling of my feet when I was talking to my friends, the feeling of the ground beneath my feet. I am so moved by this dream, and I need to know more about the nature of reality. <br><br>I sometimes find myself shivering as I think about it. I've never felt more certain about a dream or more moved.