The dream simulation crafted by filmmaker Steal Adcock has left some viewers ‘terrified’.
Have you ever woken up with the feeling that you were just in the middle of a vivid dream, but you can’t recall any details?
If so, you might find the video below intriguing or unsettling. Warning: Contains footage some may find distressing:
Steal Adcock creates simulation videos on his YouTube channel ‘HandintheBoxInc’, and there’s one particular video that viewers find eerily ‘accurate’.
In this simulation, Adcock himself plays the dreamer, beginning in a bathroom.
Although starting in a seemingly ordinary setting, the scenario quickly spirals into chaos. Adcock finds himself in a ‘pit of darkness’, a forest, and eventually a tunnel.
A character named Jayda also appears at various points. One moment she’s tied up with police tape, and the next, she’s traveling upside-down in a moving wheelchair.
Despite the randomness, people believe the simulation ‘captures the cluttered, almost claustrophobic nature of dreams’.
“Every time I think of the dreams I had I always feel they’re claustrophobic, and this emulates it pretty damn well. Good job,” one viewer commented.
Another said: “Bro this is super realistic, I didn’t even think anyone could reproduce what it’s actually like to be in a dream.”
A third added: “Can totally relate my dream to this video. The way it moves from one scene to another, skipping a few moments. It is a really beautiful and scary version of a dream. Nice work.”
Someone else also noted: “I was laughing for the first few seconds because I never really knew how others experienced dreams but this is quite literally a perfect example of how I experience them.
“Just jumping from one thing to another, everything confusing as hell when I try to recall what happened after I wake up. Super entertaining.”
However, not everyone found the simulation realistic.
One person commented: “Bruhhhh if ur dreams r like dat I wouldn’t even go to sleep lmaoo [sic].”
Another remarked: “This is terrifying, whose dream is this?!
“That’s not a dream that’s a nightmare,” someone else wrote.
According to sleep researcher J. Allan Hobson, there are five basic characteristics of a typical dream, which seem to align with Adcock’s simulation.
These five characteristics are outlined in his 1988 book, The Dreaming Brain: