This will blow your mind - Is this reality?

[AnonymouZero]

This is ridiculous, humans don't plug themselves into virtual reality until 3041. Now excuse me while I fly off in my blue police box...WOOOOOSSSHHH!

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LUL, that was a cool story bro.

 

[GoldenCondor]

To assume we live in a Matrix-world is to disregard this observed consequence. To assume the Matrix, you are essentially assuming that it is possible to walk trough walls today, when it wasn't possible yesterday; you are assuming that it will be possible to control objects with telekinetic powers tomorrow when it is impossible today. You are, in essence, assuming that the reality you observe is entirely mutable, dependant only upon the local code for the Matrix.

I'm not trying to be a smartass, but let's take this situation. You are trying to get a thin pole through a door horizontally but it will not fit. Physics say that if you travel at an absurd speed, you can actually get that pole through the door without actually harming the door. But I guess that's only slightly related to going through walls.

An example of this is a fake memory of mine of a visit I had to Norway. I remember my brother running into a river after a ball, getting wet and becoming sick, necessitating our quick return to our homeland. Only problem with this: I wasn't born. I was a baby in my mothers womb, on my eight month. I had simple heard stories of that holiday from my brother and my parents later in life and somewhere along the line subconsciously constructed a likely memory of how the event might have happened. I remember the event like I remember my own fifth birthday party: a little fuzzy, more general emotions and feelings than any actual details and so on. If I had nothing else to go on, I might very well accept this fake memory as real. But I know from objective facts that the memory never took place, that my personal perspective on the event is impossible.

Also, this reminds me of final fantasy 7 totally, when Cloud thinks he is Zack because of the stories Zack told him when Cloud was suffering mako poisoning. I believe this stuff could happen though, I'm sure I've experienced before. The closest I can remember to this is when a dream implants a fake memory into me, and I think that it was all true only to realize later in the day or after asking a friend that it never really happened.

 

[teknoarcanist]

The fact that this thread begins with the phrase "while watching a youtube video" tells you all you need to know about the philosophical substance of the question that follows.

 

[Deathkingo]

And all the cake you eat is also a lie...

 

[Caligulove]

Multiple personality disorder? Haha.

But it looks like you just had a sudden and momentary lapse of conciousness and remember the last thing from your full conciousness. Being so young it's possible just a strange function of the brain when it's developing. That or it's a false memory that you exaggerated over your life to the point where you believe it was all real.

Time is a state of mind and more of a way of quantifying things. You can spend hours with close friends talking and having fun and feel like little time has actually passed. As long as it hasn't happened since I wouldn't worry.


Also as a geeky aside. When he froze the program with the agent and the woman in the red dress... That wasn't the matrix but a training program same concept you're talking about but it just wasn't the matrix haha

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

You know what they say? There's a 10% chance that we live in a virtual reality. Then again they also say most statistics are bs, but you know how that is.

47% of statistics are made up on the spot

 

[Lexodus]

Something like that happened to me, and then I passed out.

 

[Switchlurk]

Okay, here's the breakdown of it. The human memory is a fickle thing. A study carried out proved that via suggestion people could genualy remember things happening to them that never did, i.e, seeing bugs bunny at disney land. If you were watching a you tube clip before you thought about this moment from your childhood it's quite possible that something you intentaionlly imagened with your childhood brain was then remembered as something you genually belive, for example. I have a very clear memory of myself being able to fly for a split second after jumping of the porch of my house when i was a kid, much to clear for it to be a dream. I have since been informed by my parents that i would always play the flying game as a kid. Hence, i can remember something that i only imagened as if it was real. This might explain something that defies normal critical thinking that you remember.

However, if what you saw really did happen.... who cares?

Was it a glitch in the program or a glitch in a real reality? Was the newspaper man somekind of creator who felt it nessacary to make his presence known to you? Reality is relitive, as long as your having fun, who cares?

 

[Lavi]

You got mind-probed by aliens.

 

[Chicago Ted]

Your are crazy, and no... its not a simulation.

*[small]Meet me at midnight, they must not know that we know! Also, they can't see blue![/small]

Yes completely insane...

*[small]The password is 'deus ex machina', that will get you past the door and into the inner sanctum[/small]

 

[Chicago Ted]

You know what they say? There's a 10% chance that we live in a virtual reality. Then again they also say most statistics are bs, but you know how that is.

47% of statistics are made up on the spot

86% of which are completely inaccurate

 

[hectorrouge]

you may have insomnia with insomnia you usually feel as if you are in a giant day dream. Or you're Schizo like me you may want to see a professional.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Don't know about the rest of your, but Cogito Ergo Sum.
An example of this is a fake memory of mine of a visit I had to Norway. I remember my brother running into a river after a ball, getting wet and becoming sick, necessitating our quick return to our homeland. Only problem with this: I wasn't born. I was a baby in my mothers womb, on my eight month. I had simple heard stories of that holiday from my brother and my parents later in life and somewhere along the line subconsciously constructed a likely memory of how the event might have happened. I remember the event like I remember my own fifth birthday party: a little fuzzy, more general emotions and feelings than any actual details and so on. If I had nothing else to go on, I might very well accept this fake memory as real. But I know from objective facts that the memory never took place, that my personal perspective on the event is impossible.

I think I've fabricated a fake memory of my own. I *remember* going into the hospital when I was a kid and having my mother push me in a wheel chair and buying me a milkshake. It must have been a dream that my brain simply confused with a memory because my parents swear nothing like this ever happened. Kinda spooky really, what the mind can do.

 

[Fniff]

Thing with the brain. It didn't blow my mind.

Your are crazy, and no... its not a simulation.

*[small]Meet me at midnight, they must not know that we know! Also, they can't see blue![/small]

[small]Really? They can't see blue? Wow, I wish I had known that a long time ago...[/small]

Yeah, we got a software update. We see blue. And all the colours. We were just using windows 98 back then. We are using NASA grade stuff, biatch.

 

[Slayer_2]

Oh no, it's all a conspiracy! Seriously though, what purpose would this pathetic "simulation" serve for the higher beings? Did they just do it for the LOLs?

 

[Charli]

This is A reality.

Thats good enough for me. Nothing mindblowing really.
Its the reality I invest most time in... barring probably Azeroth. *cough*

Anyway, Who cares. All realities are real, when you grasp that, nothing is too unnerving much anymore. It's when your reality is taken things get a little shaky. And that can and will happen (most commonly associated with death). And even then, who knows.

I've read too many of those 'Your life is a HOAX omfg' books to be bowled over by this.

 

[siffty]

hmm so i could just be a random hard drive cool

 

[lizards]

if it is then i must have done something really bad to be dropped into a world full of people like glenn beck and people who blindly follow him

and there might have been something wrong with your brain or something i know that i have more false memories than most

one in particular gave me just a shell shocked kind of feeling:

i had read a short story in my reading book and the day after i was bored so i thught i would read it again and when i read it again i saw that there was a completely different ending then what i remember it being

 

[newuseforvintage]

maybe your brain messed up. Many people believe time is a state of mind, like how time flies when having fun, as well as when a police officer or soldier sees slo-mo when bullets start flying. maybe your brain gitched.

I never really understood how someone can see time in slo-mo, do they actually see time going slow?

You are right, it could have been my brain messing up for some reason. The brain is a strange thing.

It is usually attributed to an adrenaline rush but it's more a mind trick than anything. What you'd be experiencing is not so much time slowing down as your brain and reflexes speeding up. In a high stress situation your brain will process things at a much faster rate and so it seems as though everything else has slowed down around you.