[Bad News] I Seriously Had an Incredibly Strange Experience

One day, a resident of Okayama Prefecture posted about a strange experience on an internet message board. His mysterious dream attracted the interest of many people.

I had a dream where I went to a ramen shop in Shizuoka Prefecture. I remembered the name of the ramen shop, so I searched for it after I woke up. That ramen shop actually exists in Shizuoka. Moreover, when I checked on Street View, the exterior of the shop and the surrounding environment matched completely. I’m sorry, but what the hell is this about? I’m seriously scared and trembling.

• [2]Looks like you’ve awakened…

This isn’t a joke, this phenomenon is seriously strange. I live in Okayama and have absolutely no interest in Shizuoka.

• [3]Isn’t that a bit too incredible?

The more I think about it, the more incredible it is. If it was a local ramen shop, I might have seen it before, but I have no connection whatsoever to Shizuoka. It’s terrifying.

• [12]You might want to write these things down. I know a manga artist who made money from a book called “The Future I Saw” by recording his dreams, turning them into manga, and it sold like crazy when his predictions came true.
• [6]Well, that’s because it’s a familiar shop.

I’m from Okayama Prefecture. I truly have no connection whatsoever to Shizuoka.

Okayama and Shizuoka are quite far apart in Japan, taking over 3 hours even by bullet train. The original poster can’t hide his confusion about the phenomenon he experienced.

• [10]Maybe you saw it on TV or YouTube and it stayed in your memory.
• [11]It seems the poster’s sixth sense has finally awakened 😏

No way. I have no interest in Shizuoka or ramen. That’s really not it. This is just weird.

• [14]That’s your ability, “Dream Limited Sky Net.”

“Dream Limited Sky Net” is likely a fictional ability name created by a participant, read as “yume-gen-kuu-ra” in Japanese, representing an ability to perceive reality in a limited way through dreams.

• [18]So it’s a precognitive dream, huh.

I’m really getting goosebumps. It might not seem like much at first glance, but when you think about it, it’s extremely bizarre.

• [25]Dreams are just memory recall machines, so you probably just don’t remember seeing it online.

If it was a local ramen shop or if I was a ramen enthusiast, maybe, but this is a place I have no connection to and I’m not even a ramen fan. I don’t think that’s it. Plus, the shop name, appearance, and surroundings matched perfectly.

• [29]It’s a premonition. Your subconscious is sensing danger – don’t go there.
• [31]Hurry up and go eat there.

The discussion gradually splits in two directions: those who sense danger and those who, out of curiosity, think he should go. The message board’s characteristic joking responses also begin to appear.

• [35]I feel like I’ve seen a similar thread before.
• [38]If it’s real, predict the future and start a thread about it.
• [40]According to my years of research, dreams are memories from parallel worlds. So that shop is one that a parallel version of you visited.
• [42]It’s just astral projection.
• [43]It’s a memory from your past life. If you go there, all your memories should come back.
• [44]Why aren’t you saying the name of the shop?

Would mentioning the shop’s name count as threatening criminal activity??

In Japanese internet culture, posting details about specific shops or locations might lead to pranksters flocking there, so the original poster is being cautious.

• [50]It’s not a criminal threat unless you threaten criminal activity.
• [48]Could it be a precognitive dream? I really had precognitive dreams when I was a child. I remember dreaming about making noise at night during a high school field trip when I was in 9th grade.
• [52]I had the exact same kind of dream as a child. A dream of a place I’d never been to. In my case, I actually went there the next day and did exactly the same things as in my dream.
• [56]That’s creepy.
• [58]It’s like déjà vu.

The shop’s name is Laotu. It’s in a place called Kikugawa City.

“Laotu” means “tiger” in Chinese and is sometimes seen as a name for Chinese restaurants or ramen shops in Japan. Kikugawa City is a small city in central Shizuoka Prefecture.

• [62]Never heard of that ramen shop. Come to think of it, I’ve never been to Kikugawa City. In that area, Mentora is famous enough to have become a cup ramen. There’s also one called Wakatora nearby, which is funny.
• [60]I also once had a dream where an unknown girl with flowers smiled at me, and that day, when I visited a cafe for the first time, I was surprised to see a painting of a girl holding those same flowers.
• [67]So there are others who have experienced these things. No one believes me when I talk about it.

Gradually, the message board becomes a place for testimonies from people with similar mysterious experiences. A particularly impressive long post appears.

• [61]I dreamed that my family went to a department store we’d never been to before. We entered the store’s third floor from the multi-story parking garage, and there was a large cloth poster for a swimming school on the wall. As we continued, there was an area with an open ceiling from the first floor and a curved escalator, which I thought was amazing. Then my grandmother went to the bathroom, and while waiting for her, I kept looking at the escalator. When my grandmother came back, my father said, “Hey, let’s go,” as we were about to head to the next place. That’s when I woke up, but after waking up, we ended up going out and I repeated exactly the same things from my dream in reality. We went to a department store I’d never been to, there was a poster on the wall, an unfamiliar curved escalator, my grandmother went to the bathroom, and when she came back, my father said, “Hey, let’s go.” It was so shocking that I still remember it.
• [64]Scary
• [66]If you go there, you’ll understand something.
• [69]There’s only one thing the poster needs to do next. Go to that ramen shop immediately. Go today or tomorrow.
• [70]It’s a memory from a parallel world.
• [71]I think this is a serious matter.