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This will blow your mind - is this reality?
Orthaos
Member Posts: 51
So, while watching a Youtube video...he was talking about realities, and simulations and what not.
Could we in fact be living in a virtual reality? Maybe even something like in the Matrix? Is this world actually real? If not....are you all a part of a program? Are my parents even real? Or maybe this is all a dream...and in fact, I'm in a coma that looks real. If a program, maybe I'm hooked up to some machine and put in a virtual reality so I don't see the "truth" of whatever that might be. And then that brings us back, is everyone around me (online and real life) part of a program to make me think everyone is real?
I had a very strange experience when I was really young (must have been 5 or 6...I'm 21 now)...costco had just recently opened in california and I never had been in one. About 10 seconds after walking inside Costco (I was with my Papa at the time), everything completely stopped..."time" itself stopped...even myself was completely frozen. There was no sound, movement or anything...but...I could still see everything in front of me, but my eyes wouldn't move. I remember a guy walking out of the bathroom area holding a newspaper as he walked out...he too had stopped. This lasted 5 or 6 seconds.
Now here is the strange part...when "time" continued...NOTHING jumped in place...the guy walking out of the bathroom kept walking as normal. But it wasn't like him jumping out of the location, he just continued moving smoothly...JUST like in the Matrix when they freeze time, and then it continues as normal..had a hard time explaining that one.
Was that a "glitch" in the program? Something else entirely? Guess we or I may never know. I did ask my Papa many years later, and he said that never happened to him. He said it was strange, but he had no memory of it.
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I've similar happen to me when they tried to put me on antidepressents when I was 12. They didn't agree with me that my natural state is fine.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
Dude! Where do you get your weed?!
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
sometimes I also experience dejavus. in the matrix films, dejavus are regarded as glitches. I doubt that I'm experiencing glitches eveytime I experience a dejavu... ^^
Could be a bad connection?
Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
I haven't experienced a dejavu in my whole life. How does it feel? Is it good or bad?
Ofc you have lol
We're all Geniuses. Most of us just don't know it.
Check out the movie The Thirteenth Floor for your answer.
I can't tell this is the real life, i had that question too many times, maybe we aren't part of a program maybe we are a book XD (read Sophie's world) idk, dejavus are fun, my teacher of psichobiology says is a fail in the brain, but one thing is sure we can't guarantee this is the reality.
Edited due to an error in the book name.
Alright.
That's what we humans do when we get a "rush" stuff freezes in our brains, however things are still going. There is significant lag time from sensory to brain (Significant compared to more primal animals).
I can just put it together. A kid in a new oxygen rich MASSIVE STORE and tons of stimuli.
Doesn't take much to see you had a moment relapse.
Chances are you were excited and you lost time.
Every time I fire a weapon it does that to me.
Every time I've ever fought I've always had that 2 second or so lapse (ten seconds really? that's a long time).
It's just animal survival mechanisms and nothing special and matrixy about it.
(reminds me of flight of the concords with the prime minister of new zealand being a matrix theorist)
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On to reality.
Reality is a subjective term. Reality can't actually be defined except in this manner.
Can you affect the world? Can you in anyway alter it? If you can say yes to one of these two things you live in reality.
*As a note you have to understand WE DO NOT LIVE IN REAL TIME, we live in seconds behind real time. Hows that for a mindfrack?
*DejaVu is just your brain putting together familiar circumstances together with new. Once again we live behind real time. What we've "Seen" in dejavu is more or less the brain creating a" memory" from a instance. Atleast that was the gist I got from the lecture.
Try and follow your dejaVu to the next point. You will always find there is no point. It's a temporary data.
Try and regard your brain as a computer and think of caching etc. Your brain holds ALOT of data. All of this data is there. Unless brain damage. You never truely forget ANYTHING. So that given with how you see your world. Your brain is able to make some crazy stuff up. Just look at what Mushrooms/etc do. Stuffs not there but there your hypothalamus is, telling you "hey that's one BIG ASS ANT IN THE TREE, Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude".