What’s something that sounded fake until it happened to you? – 17 things that have to be experienced to be believed

It can be difficult to separate fact from fiction in this post truth age. However, living through supposedly preposterous experiences never fails to convert non-believers.

If you’ve ever had to change your mind about a previously held opinion, you’re not alone. And we know this because Reddit user BitAffectionate3637 decided to pose the following question to the good folks over at r/AskReddit:

‘What’s something that sounded fake until it happened to you?’

Here are the top replies…

1.

‘The saying “the days are slow but the years are fast” – never believed it until I turned 40 and I wonder where has the time gone?!?!’
-sot03y

2.

‘Sleep paralysis.’
-Viazon

3.

‘Mental health showing up as physical pain like damn my emotions got beef with my back’
-Alive_Resolve_2298

4.

‘Predicting the weather based on aches and pains.’
-drunkguynextdoor

5.

‘Actually winning something in a random draw. It always sounds fake until your name pops up and it’s real’
-nayanextdoor

6.

‘Running into someone you just thought about’
-BananaOnTop07

7.

‘Super heating.

‘A few years ago I heated a cup of water in the microwave for a few minutes. I opened the door and instinctively started to reach in (with an oven mitt) when my brain said “hmmmm, that looks really still, and it seems like it should have splattered a little for as long as it was in there. I wonder…”

‘I grabbed a chopstick and poked the cup and it boiled. Instantaneously and extremely violently. I’d have been badly burned if I hadn’t thought about it.’
-pinkphiloyd

8.

‘People’s kids being “sick” all the time so they had to miss work. Its real.’
-SweeeepTheLeg

9.

‘When you’re young and full of energy and optimism that you take for granted and disregard all the older people telling you you’ll lose a lot of that as you get older if you don’t take care of yourself. You think, “It happened to those people, but it won’t happen to me.” Oh, it’ll happen to you too…

‘Minor injuries you used to be able to spring back from in a day take months to heal. You wake up every day never feeling 100% rested, that tiredness compounding day by day. You fall asleep as soon as you’re resting in a chair, just like your dad or grandpa always did. All the fun things you used to be able to eat and drink suddenly don’t sit right in your stomach, or will make your entire body feel uncomfortable. And the worst of all, you still feel relatively young in your mind, but then you look in the mirror and see an aging person with wrinkles and grey hairs and realize that’s how everyone else sees you and that you’ll never get to be the young person you still feel you are in society.’
-bermei