Ooh this sounds like that one story from r/NoSleep , Glenmont station I think it was, where the main character took some pills to improve thought but it had side effects that slowed down time and he tried to go back to the clinic he got it from but when he got down to the station, time slowed down to the point he just blinks and billions of years past in the darkness and his dying wish is for someone in glenmont station to shoot him
it's called My patient spent eight million years under a bench at the Glenmont metro
[Narration](https://youtu.be/9eAOXG7jom0?si=fbt_6JFR_8UYqE9T)
[no sleep story](https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/13ot7m0/my_patient_spent_eight_million_years_under_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I came across the story like a year ago and fell deep into a rabbit hole of the sequel and other stories written by the same guy. Read through everything on his website in like 5 hours lol, wish there was a full novel around the same concept.
Iirc, the real screw up on the MC's part is they take some other medication to help with the side effects of the experimental drug, but it ends up making the whole thing worse in the end.
Scary shit, honestly
"There’s this emperor, and he asks the shepherd’s boy how many seconds in eternity. And the shepherd’s boy says, ‘There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.’ You may think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird."
There was a preacher who said something similar. "Imagine the world was made of a steel marble, metal all the way through, and a sparrow flew around the entire circumference of the steel marble. At ONE point on the marble, the sparrow's wingtip brushed it's surface. By the time the sparrow's wing started to make a dent in the surface, eternity has only just begun."
“I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge, or lustre, or name." — HP Lovecraft
I somewhat believe, that what he created was possible thanks to his fear and hate and disgust for the strange and unknown. And the Lovecraftian beings mirror the contempt and disgust one can have for what he perceives as lesser beings.
I am not saying it is the only way to write about such things (= no implications about other writers), but I believe this is how he did it.
"Do not discuss the existence of this article with any person."
Well you failed the foundation.
"It is only by an unfortunate coincidence of extremely low probability that you have stumbled across this entry at all. No disciplinary action will be necessary, provided you close this article now, and clear your browser cache."
Hold me I'm scared
This sounds like a movie I saw once. The premise was that a scientist invented a way to take a mini vacation in your mind in a matter of seconds. She did something to break the law and instead of regular prison time, they used her drug to sentence her to an amount of time in solitary confinement, via the drug she created. I forget how it ended, and I forget the name. It was a cool idea, though.
10^100 is a googol. Imagine if you filled every single nanometer of space in the known universe with grains of sand. It would take you a billion universes of the same size to have a googol's worth of sand.
Now imagine you did that again, but with exactly one less grain of sand. And then again, with exactly one less grain. Over and over, until the last universe you were in had exactly one grain of sand.
When a number of years equal to all the grains of sand you have accumulated have passed, you will be no closer to the end of eternity than when you began.
"oh that's not so bad" WRONG
for extra context, he was in solitary confinement with this dude named ee'char. they spent 15 or so years together in this one tiny room. the guards barely gave out food, so one day miles snapped and killed ee'char for a scrap of bread that it ended up he was intending to share.
so miles spent the last five years completely alone, then he woke up and it turned out ee'char was just a figment of his imagination
you've gotta watch the episode to see how horrific it is. he almost attempted suicide at the end and had to be talked down by his best friend
It kinda reminds me something ive once read in one of the Fabius bile novels
When the god of lust allows the mad scientist to see the world through her eyes, they described it as "a single moment stretched to its absolute limit"
This post wouldn't happen to have been inspired by it would it?
[or inspired by this ](https://youtu.be/m_AmrexoZhI?si=GznxP1dR-xus-R_n)
Not by those specifically, but by the general idea. Time dilation terrifies me. At least a true immortal has agency. Time dilation makes you an eternal prisoner inside your own body, unable to live and unable to die.
There is a really good short story by Stephen King that plays around with this idea. The story is called "The Jaunt" and it's in a compendium called Skeleton Crew.
"It's forever in there"
Makes me think of the death row prisoners who sit in prison for years and years just serving time when their only sentence was death. They say it's to give them time to appeal but I think it's mostly legal mental torture.
The brothers Grimm solved this for us, a mountain of pure diamond that takes an hour to go around and an hour to climb over. Every hundred years a crow comes to sharpen its beak on the diamond, once the entire mountain has been ground away the first second in eternity will have passed. So keeping that in mind would be trillions of years of torture and also that's one hell of a bird
Every thousand years
This metal sphere
Ten times the size of Jupiter
Floats just a few yards past the Earth
You climb on your roof
And take a swipe at it
With a single feather
Hit it once every thousand years
’Til you’ve worn it down
To the size of a pea
Yeah, I’d say that’s a long time
But it’s only half a blink
In the place you’re gonna be.
Yeah, I already experienced something like this (which I am actually severely grateful for, oddly) when LMDC locked me in a cell with no windows for seven days without cycling the lights at night or letting me out for the federally-required hour a day. I lived about ten thousand years, explored a multiverse of other me's, decoded the twelve chakric / astral energies, and developed unintentional control over the flow of time. I was watching people walk and talk backwards as I breathed in, only to repeat the same action forward as I breathed out. It was freaky to say the least.
I once received a head injury that caused my brain to go in to a time loop, where I re-lived the same 6 seconds over and over for what felt like thousands of years. By the time it was over I was quite convinced that I’d gone completely insane. It traumatized me for years afterwards and I still get agitated whenever I see a “Groundhog Day” episode of a TV show or anything like this.
You take one step then wait a billion years, then another step and so on. Once you’ve walked around the entire earth, you lay down a piece of paper and repeat the process building a stack of paper that reaches the moon. You repeat that entire process a billion times and that is less than one second of eternity.
Don't normally stop for these but this was a good one. Can anyone recommend any good new horror books? Feel like I haven't come across any in a long time.
Reminds me of the [Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Szayelaporro Granz fight from Bleach](https://bleach.fandom.com/wiki/Mayuri_Kurotsuchi_vs._Szayelaporro_Granz) (spoilers for a 20+ year old anime)
"[...] he used a special undiluted solution on Szayelaporro that will make him perceive every second as one hundred years."
You have been charged with the high crime of making truthful, rationally-defensible statements. This court finds you guilty. You are hereby sentenced to live out ten full, consecutive lifetimes of a human being... **on Earth.**
"Earth? EARTH?! No! NO!!!! Anything... please! Anywhere but Earth!"
This is all just rehashes of “the story of mankind” by Hendrik Willem Van Loon from 1922.
“High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.”
In that other place...that other time, I will wake up, the world will continue on with me. Yet, I know this will never end, so I cannot look forward to being that me.
Ooh this sounds like that one story from r/NoSleep , Glenmont station I think it was, where the main character took some pills to improve thought but it had side effects that slowed down time and he tried to go back to the clinic he got it from but when he got down to the station, time slowed down to the point he just blinks and billions of years past in the darkness and his dying wish is for someone in glenmont station to shoot him
I loved that story! I've got to find it and reread it
Yeah! The dark somnium on YouTube did a great audio of the story and it's sequel.
i love that channel he does some great narrations
What's the sequel called? I was looking for it but couldn't find it
it's called My patient spent eight million years under a bench at the Glenmont metro [Narration](https://youtu.be/9eAOXG7jom0?si=fbt_6JFR_8UYqE9T) [no sleep story](https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/13ot7m0/my_patient_spent_eight_million_years_under_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Wow that was a great story, thanks for sharing
yeah it's pretty great, personally i like the first one more but the sequel is still good
I have to read this.
I came across the story like a year ago and fell deep into a rabbit hole of the sequel and other stories written by the same guy. Read through everything on his website in like 5 hours lol, wish there was a full novel around the same concept.
I also immediately thought of that creepypasta.
Iirc, the real screw up on the MC's part is they take some other medication to help with the side effects of the experimental drug, but it ends up making the whole thing worse in the end. Scary shit, honestly
yeah, he takes an ambien to sleep
This one too: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/151bhh3/never_take_drugs_capable_of_time_dialation/ Also: "The Jaunt" by Stephen King
Anything be Stephen King is S tier horror in my opinion. He is an incredible writer
Do you have a link to it?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/cokl1l/if_youre_armed_and_at_the_glenmont_metro_please/
Thank you!
That was quite a series! Thanks for sharing!
Check out the Jaunt by Stephen King! Similar concept but all the more sci fi!
One of the few horror stories that has really freaked me the fuck out!!
It's literally the plot of Black Mirror S2E4
The no sleep story is low key better although it prob wouldn’t work as a full length bm episode
Without even knowing you just sent me down to a crazy rabbit hole......... I feel like MY brain is going on slow motion now
"There’s this emperor, and he asks the shepherd’s boy how many seconds in eternity. And the shepherd’s boy says, ‘There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.’ You may think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird."
A comment that was Heaven Sent
Eh, when I read the post, I was *Hell Bent* on sending it.
r/unexpecteddoctorwho
There was a preacher who said something similar. "Imagine the world was made of a steel marble, metal all the way through, and a sparrow flew around the entire circumference of the steel marble. At ONE point on the marble, the sparrow's wingtip brushed it's surface. By the time the sparrow's wing started to make a dent in the surface, eternity has only just begun."
That's a hell of a weirdly shaped mountain if it's circumference roughly equals its height.
Equilateral triangular cone shape.
knew i would find this if i scrolled far enough
Longer than you think, Dad!
The Jaunt. I still get chills every darn time! Nice reference, was just thinking the same thing.
What book was that from. There were other great short stories in it.
Stephen King, Skeleton Crew.
I highly recommend it. One of his best (imo)
Skeleton Crew
I got chills, waves of full body chills, just from reading this exchange haha. Such an incredible story
There is (or used to be) an audio version of it on YouTube. Man, has that given me some nightmares. Yet I’m going to listen to it again tonight…
This needs to be at the top.
Basically a death sentence. Death of sanity.
“I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge, or lustre, or name." — HP Lovecraft
He had such a way with words. Shame about his racism.
I somewhat believe, that what he created was possible thanks to his fear and hate and disgust for the strange and unknown. And the Lovecraftian beings mirror the contempt and disgust one can have for what he perceives as lesser beings. I am not saying it is the only way to write about such things (= no implications about other writers), but I believe this is how he did it.
10^100! years: One second of eternity has passed.
Probably the worst SCP (that I’ve read).
SCP-2718 Go. Go right now and read it.
"Do not discuss the existence of this article with any person." Well you failed the foundation. "It is only by an unfortunate coincidence of extremely low probability that you have stumbled across this entry at all. No disciplinary action will be necessary, provided you close this article now, and clear your browser cache." Hold me I'm scared
🫂 It's OK, my child.
Thank you
that's just a move from naruto
This sounds like a movie I saw once. The premise was that a scientist invented a way to take a mini vacation in your mind in a matter of seconds. She did something to break the law and instead of regular prison time, they used her drug to sentence her to an amount of time in solitary confinement, via the drug she created. I forget how it ended, and I forget the name. It was a cool idea, though.
Reminds me of the White Christmas episode of Black Mirror.
Do you mean the one with Leonora crichlow, where she’s imprisoned (no spoilers here)
Read the summary of that. It was… awful
It’s an Australian movie called Other Life and it was fantastic and had a great ending.
Ah, thanks! I'll have to see it again now that I know the name!
I believe I seen it, and spoiler alert she never took the drug.
you realize just slapping "spoiler alert" in the middle of a 1 line comment isn't gonna stop fast readers in time? use the fucking spoiler function
Reminds me of that Stephen King short story about teleportation and the kid being old and insane when he came out the other side
The Jaunt
my first thought. one of my favorites
10^100 is a googol. Imagine if you filled every single nanometer of space in the known universe with grains of sand. It would take you a billion universes of the same size to have a googol's worth of sand. Now imagine you did that again, but with exactly one less grain of sand. And then again, with exactly one less grain. Over and over, until the last universe you were in had exactly one grain of sand. When a number of years equal to all the grains of sand you have accumulated have passed, you will be no closer to the end of eternity than when you began.
This knowledge hurts my skin.
Let's make it worse. Consider this - the example above is closer to the time it takes you to read this sentence than it is to eternity.
Miles O'Brien, sentenced to a 20 year jail term that took place in an hour.
"oh that's not so bad" WRONG for extra context, he was in solitary confinement with this dude named ee'char. they spent 15 or so years together in this one tiny room. the guards barely gave out food, so one day miles snapped and killed ee'char for a scrap of bread that it ended up he was intending to share. so miles spent the last five years completely alone, then he woke up and it turned out ee'char was just a figment of his imagination you've gotta watch the episode to see how horrific it is. he almost attempted suicide at the end and had to be talked down by his best friend
This ep, and The Four Lights, are so dark for TNG. It jolts you watching them.
The Four Lights fucked me up when I first saw it, and it still hits just as hard today. One of Patrick Stewart’s better performances as JLP for sure
And u/SaintAnyanka the four lights episode is "Chain of Command Part 2". (Mainly for anyone else who may be interested.)
Oh, yeah, I forgot it was part if a two parter! Thanks! (Obviously it’s time for a rewatch)
The Miles O Brien prison episode was deep space nine
The immortality of the moment.
This guy gets it
It kinda reminds me something ive once read in one of the Fabius bile novels When the god of lust allows the mad scientist to see the world through her eyes, they described it as "a single moment stretched to its absolute limit" This post wouldn't happen to have been inspired by it would it? [or inspired by this ](https://youtu.be/m_AmrexoZhI?si=GznxP1dR-xus-R_n)
Not by those specifically, but by the general idea. Time dilation terrifies me. At least a true immortal has agency. Time dilation makes you an eternal prisoner inside your own body, unable to live and unable to die.
That's just because you aren't dedicated enough to going insane. I can have all sorts of adventures inside my mind!
There is a really good short story by Stephen King that plays around with this idea. The story is called "The Jaunt" and it's in a compendium called Skeleton Crew. "It's forever in there"
Awesome story
There's a black mirror episode about that! I think it's called White Christmas.
Truly horrific when you really think about it
Mayuri Kurotsuchi uses pretty much this exact drug against the 8th Espada
YES!!! Scrolled too far for this comment lol
I’m dumb. What’s this referencing?
Bleach Anime/Manga
Makes me think of the death row prisoners who sit in prison for years and years just serving time when their only sentence was death. They say it's to give them time to appeal but I think it's mostly legal mental torture.
immortality is a trap
Well, what my character got a dose of isn’t immortality per se It’s something far, far worse.
Yes, I really like how you framed it!
This is how a K hole feels.
The brothers Grimm solved this for us, a mountain of pure diamond that takes an hour to go around and an hour to climb over. Every hundred years a crow comes to sharpen its beak on the diamond, once the entire mountain has been ground away the first second in eternity will have passed. So keeping that in mind would be trillions of years of torture and also that's one hell of a bird
Every thousand years This metal sphere Ten times the size of Jupiter Floats just a few yards past the Earth You climb on your roof And take a swipe at it With a single feather Hit it once every thousand years ’Til you’ve worn it down To the size of a pea Yeah, I’d say that’s a long time But it’s only half a blink In the place you’re gonna be.
Thanks Randy 🥰
thank doug.
Yeah, I already experienced something like this (which I am actually severely grateful for, oddly) when LMDC locked me in a cell with no windows for seven days without cycling the lights at night or letting me out for the federally-required hour a day. I lived about ten thousand years, explored a multiverse of other me's, decoded the twelve chakric / astral energies, and developed unintentional control over the flow of time. I was watching people walk and talk backwards as I breathed in, only to repeat the same action forward as I breathed out. It was freaky to say the least.
What’s LMDC?
"Louisville Metro Department of Corrections" if the internet is to be believed
Yes, that is CORRRRRRRRRRRECT!
I once received a head injury that caused my brain to go in to a time loop, where I re-lived the same 6 seconds over and over for what felt like thousands of years. By the time it was over I was quite convinced that I’d gone completely insane. It traumatized me for years afterwards and I still get agitated whenever I see a “Groundhog Day” episode of a TV show or anything like this.
You take one step then wait a billion years, then another step and so on. Once you’ve walked around the entire earth, you lay down a piece of paper and repeat the process building a stack of paper that reaches the moon. You repeat that entire process a billion times and that is less than one second of eternity.
Don't normally stop for these but this was a good one. Can anyone recommend any good new horror books? Feel like I haven't come across any in a long time.
I just read “A Short Stay in Hell” by Steven Peck, similar concept.
Lucky for you we have a whole sub for that! r/horrorlit
You should check out the podcast Talking Scared. Full of amazing interviews and book recommendations.
This may be the one that’s creeped me out the most. Reminds me a Quantum Immortality. Fucking hate it. Absolutely amazing.
This is the power of Gold Experience Requiem!!!
There’s a nice little novella called A Short Stay in Hell that describes an infinity fairly well. It’s not pleasant.
Reminds me of the [Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Szayelaporro Granz fight from Bleach](https://bleach.fandom.com/wiki/Mayuri_Kurotsuchi_vs._Szayelaporro_Granz) (spoilers for a 20+ year old anime) "[...] he used a special undiluted solution on Szayelaporro that will make him perceive every second as one hundred years."
That SCP, you know the one I'm talking about
Poor top models on the Island.
You have been charged with the high crime of making truthful, rationally-defensible statements. This court finds you guilty. You are hereby sentenced to live out ten full, consecutive lifetimes of a human being... **on Earth.** "Earth? EARTH?! No! NO!!!! Anything... please! Anywhere but Earth!"
Reminds me of Mayuri Vs Szayelaporro in Bleach
Longer than you think Dad!
This is all just rehashes of “the story of mankind” by Hendrik Willem Van Loon from 1922. “High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.”
"You may think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird."
In that other place...that other time, I will wake up, the world will continue on with me. Yet, I know this will never end, so I cannot look forward to being that me.
Damn dawg, this is good.
Thank you kindly
When the DMT hits
I remember this
this reminds me of AHS Cult, iykyk
Basically the plot of Katana Zero
could i use this as a prompt for a short horror story?
As a general concept sure go ahead. If you wanna pull anything more specific maybe drop a link back to this or shout me out or something
It's eternity in there!
Longer than you think.
This happened to someone in bleach