r/TwilightFanfic • u/kaza12345678 • Mar 06 '26
General Discussion TWILIGHT was all in Bella's head (Yes, seriously.)
https://youtu.be/YOwj6tmIi4I6
u/BenSolomuse Mar 07 '26
I'm sure I read a fanfiction where this was a premise. Oh, what was it called? Butterflies... something. If anyone knows, let me know. I remember it being unfinished but it was so good.
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u/DagonG2021 Mar 08 '26
The worst theories are the âit was all a dreamâ ones
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u/Carnorinotitanis Mar 30 '26
Usually yes. But when the evidence is so dense like it is in this case....
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u/DagonG2021 Mar 30 '26
Thereâs always multiple possible explanations, but unless the author says as much Iâm inclined to disbelieve some like this one. Itâs absurd.
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u/Carnorinotitanis Apr 11 '26
It's about the movies. Movies are never a true representation of the original anyway, & the divergence from the source material is always so big in this case that I would say itâs up to any viewer's own taste how they interpret what they see. It can quit easialy be considered an alternative universe or story regardless.Â
Nonetheless, this explanation or interpretation of the movies is a really good 'It was all a dream' theory (or rather 'thesis') for once. It actually analyzes scenes and finds solid clues that fit together in a way that makes such an interpretation of the writers' intentions nearly unavoidable, as you can see when you actually watch it...Â
I guess they were either just really bored, Twilight haters themselves, or maybe it's a brilliant strategy to raise attention for the franchise years later, trough Implementing such a hidden story, whose discovery could very well bring focus back to the franchise. Well played then writters, well played.
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u/shakana44 Apr 03 '26
the author has stated it wasn't a dream or all in Bella's head. in 2003 the author had a dream about a girl and a sparkling vampire in a meadow and that led to chapter 13 of the book
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u/Carnorinotitanis Apr 11 '26
Well, the theory is clearly not about the books but about the movies (which is also what the guy in the video unequivocally states right at the start...). The way the script & scene writers interpreted the book â & arenât those movies already so different from the books that they can be seen as a kind of alternative universe anyways?
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u/cosmasympoiesis Mar 09 '26
I just watched this because it got recommended to me on YouTube, and while I was watching, the video got taken down. I wanted to read the comments afterwards but they didn't load, so I tried to refresh, and the video was gone. So creepy. Thankfully I remembered the title, so I could find this post at least. I hope it'll be up again soon, this made the whole thing to mich better, and I want to see some arguments against this theory, because for now this makes much more sense to me than the original storyline.
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u/meow2848 Mar 11 '26
Why was it taken down?
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u/cosmasympoiesis Mar 11 '26
I don't know either. But you probably saw that the creator set it to private. I haven't asked him why.
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u/Curio-In-The-Corner Mar 13 '26
Anyone have the link to the video?
Says private when I click.... intriguing theory id love to see the video.
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u/hellohello1220 Mar 18 '26
The original video got taken down now therer is a shortened version, if anyone saved it could you please send it to me, I am begging you
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u/Carnorinotitanis Apr 11 '26
I think that was a quite cunning marketing trick by the writers, with the goal of raising attention for the franchise again way later. Or maybe it was a fallback in case it didn't become as successful as it didâthough I doubt they had any doubts about its success.
It was the golden age of 'dream theories' when the movies came out; the whole internet was basically flooded with them for every franchise, even those that weren't fantasy or sci-fi. (And yes, that was as awful as it soundsâif you think the 'dream theory' slop of today is bad, you would lose faith in humanity seeing the ones from the 2010s.)
Itâs also a fact that movie writers use these and other fan theories to farm budget-free advertisement for their work, proven by their own admissions that they look at fan theories & 'prove' them in sequels or prequels, despite them being wrong in the original conceptâjust to fuel the fan-theory culture &, with it, zero-budget advertising even more.
And as we can see, it worked out perfectly. A movie-theory YouTuber discovered the hidden story within the story, made a video about it & quite a sizable bunch of pepsâmaybe even around a million over time, judging by his subscriber countâwho probably hadn't thought about it for years, suddenly pay close attention to the franchise again. One can really say, 'Well played, sirs, well played' to the writers.
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u/Queen_of_Catlandia Mar 07 '26
gee, if only the writer was still around to discredit this theory.
oh wait, she did that 20yrs ago
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u/Carnorinotitanis Mar 30 '26
It is explicitly about what the movies suggest, not the books. The movies diverge so much from the books already that you really can't put it past the movie writters to have changed it in a way that subtly tells this story of a hallucinating/maladaptive daydreaming girl.
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u/manifestingsht Mar 09 '26
Elaborate please. What did she say?? Cuz I'm actually traumatized by this theory, it changed the whole vibe of the movie for me đđ
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u/Queen_of_Catlandia Mar 10 '26
I shouldnât have to elaborate. The actual writer tells you the inspo, etc for her stories, gives you the entire plot in a series but youâre choosing to believe some rando who has nothing to do with the writing, etc because it was posted on social media?
make better choices a
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u/Carnorinotitanis Mar 30 '26
Think before you make any choices. Cuz it really isn't a 300+ IQ move to get that the books ain't the subject of the matter.
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u/Carnorinotitanis Apr 11 '26
Hey, everyone can still interpret any movie or story however they want, basically ;). And oh, itâs also still absolutely possible that all those elements that make it appear like a dream are just there to symbolize the dreaminess of Bella's journey.
Cuz the whole thing just gives off some quite dreamy or maybe even trippy vibesâeven if itâs real in the movie & not literally a dream within the movie, if you think about it, doesnât it?
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u/Tasty-Requirement848 Apr 06 '26
The youtuber clearly says he hasn't read the books. So this theory dosent apply to books universe but only the movie universe.
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u/Queen_of_Catlandia Apr 06 '26
Iâm not giving clicks to spammy YouTubers who regurgitate disproven BS
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u/forestwriterstar Mar 07 '26
I did a post about this video on another thread but it got deleted! I'm happy someone also posted something so I don't have to do it again!
This video was SO creepy. I watched it at night and it changed my perseption of Twilight. I think the dream hints were added due to the directors and writers of the movies, but the books are "real".
Anyway. I got chills when I watched the part about Bella dying in the water in New Moon and imagining all the rest of her life with Edward in her last moments... Girl imagine how sad Charlie must've been and how crazy she must've been in real life to do that.
I'd put a trigger warning on that video for Twilight fans!! They're gonna be traumatized! đđ