What’s a moment in your life that felt completely unreal, but actually happened?

I once had a day that felt weirdly unreal for how normal it started. I missed my usual bus, caught a later one, and ended up sitting next to an old classmate I hadn’t seen in years who offered me a small freelance job on the spot. That random conversation led to a few months of steady work when I really needed it. If I hadn’t been late that morning, none of it would’ve happened, which still feels strange to think about.

When my grandma died

The entire meeting, my wife, falling in love and the 1st few years of marriage. Looking back, it feels like an entire disconnect from the rest of my miserable life.

Divorce

Probably when I was having sex with a girl and there was this moment where time stopped and then she came so hard that her legs started shaking. In that moment I felt like we connected on a spiritual level and I’ll never forget that. 

Had a snowboard accident and my leg kept on twisting and I screamed like hell but I don't remember any pain.. it's so odd..

Once, at Whistler BC while snowboarding the “backcountry trail”, I was almost taken out (I was sitting on the snow adjusting boots and bindings) by a rogue snowball rolling down the hill

Walking home at 2 AM and seeing a car spin out of control toward me in slow motion.

At my elementary school every classroom had its own red ball with the room number on it.  On a Saturday my dad and I went to the playground behind the school. There was a ball stuck in thorn bushes. My dad got it out, we took it home, patched it, and I intended on bringing it back on Monday.  Sunday my friend came over. He saw the ball.  Monday I forget to bring the ball. I get called into the classroom the ball belonged to. It's my friends classroom. The teacher chewed me out in front of the whole class without letting me say a word. She forced me to stand at the front of the room for all of first period after telling all the kids I was what a thief looked like, and not to invite me over or I'd steal their toys.  It was the first time in my life I legitimately thought I was having a nightmare when it was real life. 

Being hit by a car making a right turn from the left lane when I was on a motorbike, the cliche of things moving in slow motion when you’re in a perilous situation is very true. The two weeks in hospital didn’t feel unreal though.

The one and only time I had a blackout, it lasted most of the day. In retrospect, i might have gotten my drink spiked 🙁 regardless, I decided on that day to curb my alcohol use.

The day I realized I was actually married. Not the wedding day .. that was a blur of rituals and relatives. But a random Tuesday maybe two weeks later. Just sitting at home, my wife making chai ( tea ) in the kitchen, everything quiet and normal. And it suddenly hit me .. this is my life now. This person is my family. We live together. This is real. Felt completely surreal for a moment. Like I was watching someone else's life from the outside. I was 23 Still feels unreal some days honestly.

Well I have 2 First one was when I was 17 they thought I had Huntingtons desease and wouldn’t live to see my 20s I made my funeral plans sitting across my mom at the kitchen table I grew up with… even remembering it just feels like a nightmare and that it couldn’t have been reality. I don’t have Huntingtons I have something else that is supposedly non fatal and I will live a long life… just have to deal with various neurological issues the rest of my life. 2) I just found out I’m pregnant 🤰. I am in a very healthy relationship with a wonderful man. This is better than anything I ever prayed for. And we are looking at houses and apartments… I never thought I would see the day where I would have a good partner who loves me as deeply as this man does. (He literally carries a chair for me when we go for walks as he’s helping me be able to walk unassisted after being in a wheelchair for 5 years. He also carries me when my legs don’t work.) I never thought anyone would love me this way never mind want to have kids with me even though that’s my ultimate life goal is to have a child and get to see who they grow up to be. But this man is so excited and we are just so incredibly blessed.

Going into hospital for what was suspected to be Hyperemesis Gravidarum, having an MRI to check head as i was having headaches, finding a brain tumour on a Wednesday evening, being rushed to the local neurological specialist hospital, having major brain surgery taking 8 hours to remove it and it was all gone (and was luckily a benign one) by Thursday afternoon. This was on the 5th March 2026 and I still just can't fully process it.