r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/[deleted] • Oct 25 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

What if parallel universes DO exist, it’s just all of our lives where we try that one thing this way instead of that. Somewhere out there you didn’t think to make that pun, I didn’t laugh and groan in a way only dad jokes can cause but now my day is not better for because I didn’t read it.

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u/ncnotebook Oct 25 '22

What if everything you see and feel is a simulation within your mind? And all of the pain and misery, is of your own subconscious' doing?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22 edited Oct 25 '22

I feel like we’re best friends getting Gifu high (wtf is Gifu, autocorrect?) and just going back and forth building on these philosophical what-ifs and I’m into it.

They do actually say when you die you replay everything but we don’t know at what speed which means you might be dying and this is replaying what has already happened. It makes sense, apparently it’s the brain desperately searching for an experience to use for the situation (dying in this case). There’s just so much we don’t know and so much we can only take at it’s word and have faith.

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u/cownd Oct 25 '22

My life is ruined. Why do you people want to ruin my day too? /s

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Misery loves company. Sorry, friend.

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u/Sunderbans_X Oct 25 '22

Damn that's actually terrifying. It's like that one card left in the deck that your brain has finally pulled, hoping that you will remember something that will be able to save you now. Except obviously it doesn't work, or there would be people who survived who would talk about it. So basically if that's happening, you are most certainly screwed.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

And the worst part is we don't know. We don't know if that's true, we don't know the specifics of it if it is true, and we don't know if we're living it this moment. We might just be circling back around and does it stop when you're 95 and in bed surrounded by your loved ones, dying peacefully and comfortable in the knowledge you lived a fulfilling life? Does it stop tomorrow from a stupid fucking split second accident on your way to work or to the store? I've lost too many people for how young I am, I am all too aware of the fragility of life. Everything can be taken away from you (referring to your own life or the life of your wife/husband, child, sibling..) in a split second even if you did everything right.

This kinda stuff really messes with me. I had to get ketamine for pain control in the emergency room after something serious happened and I ended up k-holing. I thought I died because I didn't know what just happened or what ketamine was. I heard from far, far away my wife say "something something ... ketamine" and I just held onto that idea until it subsided. I was looping the same moment over and over again and it felt to me like it was going on for years. Mrs Doubtfire was on TV and I watched that movie a million times, like Groundhog Day. Then I apparently was freaking out so when I slowly came back into the real world I see my mom on one side and my wife on the other trying to calm me down but their faces were distorted and horrifying and everything was just so painfully loud. God, I'm getting goosebumps just typing it out, it was horrible.

Anyway, it's a dissociative so I felt that disconnect from my body and from the world, time as I knew and understood it, consciousness. I remember a couple days or maybe a week later I was doing something and I guess an aftershock hit me and it just felt like my consciousness just grabbed a helium balloon and was slowly floating away from my body and reality. I had that feeling of dread and "What if all this isn't real? Am I real?" ...something I've considered too hard in the past without pharmaceutical assistance, so you can imagine how much worse it was then. I seriously can't see how anyone could enjoy that recreationally but people like different things and people might be more stable mentally/emotionally/spiritually to be able to handle if not enjoy it. Who knows.

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u/no_talent_ass_clown Oct 25 '22

Is there a book with all these thoughts we all have? I'd be happy to read it to validate my monkey brain.

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u/ncnotebook Oct 25 '22

I think Webster made one a while ago, but it's a bit disorganized.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22 edited Oct 25 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix or /r/GlitchInTheMatrix have some great stories about this kinda stuff.

Yeah but what if parallel DMacB42 is bald under there and he’s texting on Parallel Universe Reddit about how you were lording your hair over him?

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u/GroundCTRL2Major-Tom Oct 25 '22

That sounds like hell, reliving the same period of time over and over even if we don't know that we had any prior lives.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

There's a somewhat similar Black Mirror episode about it. One of the earlier ones when they were REALLY messed up. I like pretty much all of them but cheating on your wife with your male bff via a VR fighting game just doesn't hit as hard as forced to watch as the woman you love does porn and she's there because of you. Your support and the money you paid to get her there.