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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/Ok-Mouse5446 on 2026-06-25 23:05:43+00:00.

A while back I contracted a bacterial infection that went to my brain. During my stay at the hospital (which I don't recall ever being present for about 4ish days out of the 2 weeks there) I distinctly remember a 'dream like' fugue state (during those supposed 4 days) where I saw strange things when I fell asleep:

• Flying over a volcanic 'ash like' terrain with sunrise.

• Witnessing the dawn/cold of the dawn.

• Textures of jagged landscapes of mono-colored rocks, and 'time-loops' where they broke and reformed.

• Dwelling inside what seemed to be comfort places (all cold and alienating and rocky)

• Strange 'feelings' of being approached or hunted (best descriptor I could use)

• Bright lights (like fire in a dark place)

I'm guessing my brain forced itself into this state due to my medical condition. I still get the feeling years later after this when I go out to walk in the early morning (and the sunrise) that I feel old, like ancient. It's like this very old and ancient feeling of your ancestors or something. Like a memorial-like connection to this world.

Even as a kid, when I was taking melatonin, I had a nightmare where I was seemingly approached by what I now know to be a woolly mammoth in a complete snow storm. (when I had never seen snow in the first place nor lived in a place with it) What's strange is at the time I wasn't even interested or had seen any nature documentaries or visited museums as the such (I was like 3 years old) and still distinctly remember it because it was terrifying for some reason to this day.

Has anyone else experienced what I would call 'caveman' memory? Like disturbing or 'revealing' and awe-like imagery of what would be our past? This is on my own research equivalent to the 'falling' feeling when we go to sleep, or sleep paralysis etc.

Anyways, I now took an anthropology course because of my experience and have since then started to watch lots of nature documentaries on our species. It's very bizarre . No one else in my family has experienced things like this.