What if it was all fake?

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Asita

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"CALLED IT!"

More seriously, I'd have few objections. It's the kind of second chance people yearn for.
 
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For eleven years i'd be an incredibly well-spoken child prodigy who could use the better understanding of the workings of socialising to become well-liked by pretty much everyone.

But then i'd just become a mediocre 16-year-old again.
 

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dwarf43 said:
What if you woke up one morning and realized your whole life was just a dream? A (very) detailed simulation of some kind predicting what your future might be like. You are now five years old only weeks away from your first school day and free to live out your life the way you want to although all of your accomplishments within the "dream" of your former life will be worthless.

How would you react? Do you value a chance to develop your new life with the experience of your former self or would you grieve over all the people and experiences now proven to be nothing but your own imagination?
ARE YOU KIDDING?! I'd be a fucking BILLIONAIRE! I'd invent the fucking iPhone and Youtube! I'd invest in Google! I'd be the savvy-est business-child alive by the year 2004!!!!! Holy shit! I'd get to be a child genius and skip from Kindergarten to University! I'd spend so much time just reading and playing video games (same life, but different games) It'd be difficult explaining 9/11 and attempting to prevent it and all the horse-shit that followed (although it'd circumvent some serious comedy and societal growth) as a fucking 8 year old. I'd feel a certain obligation to change my family's history. Unless its actually a dream in which I remember a few details of the 14 year long escapade but nothing major enough to change anything. Then it'd just be pointless. Fuck that, I'd weep like a five-year-old then go watch Pokemon with even more interest than I did when it was on.
 

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Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure it was real? What if you were unable to awake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world, and the real world?

That aside, I'd try not to make the same mistakes the second time round.
A bit clichéd, I know, but still.
 

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1)Refuse the ADD medications.
2)Ask for SNES instead of Genesis.
3)Stay in therapy, convince them you're not a hypochondriac.
4)Never stop riding bike or hiking.
5)Give up on art early, stay at the first college. Just say no to Sallie Mae.
6)Convince family to move to another state for non-college reasons, as entire state will be on fire in the post Y2K summers & snowing for half a year in the 2010s.
7)Get grama better medicine for kidney stones, make her drink twice as much water.
8)Never move into the house with the fleas & pet-snatching hawk.
 

CommanderL

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well first I would Have to work out how to play it I mean the happy go lucky kid i was when I was five just turned into an antisocial cynical ass hole
Secondly the lack of controll would be painfull I mean bed times fuck that
then I would have to get kicked out of home again so I can meet a few of the best people in my life
 

Yopaz

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I always forget my dreams anyway so why would it matter?

Apart from what I have already done I guess I would have done a little investing though. I am quite OK with how my life is right now.
 

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If anything, i'd get into computers and stuff way sooner, use the math skills from the dream to get to highschool at 6, college degree at 12, rest of childhood spent gaming, develop super application everyone wants to buy, give money to Eliezer Yudkowsky, get super AI, live forever through its discoveries, become a god along with the rest of mankind.
 

Lazy Kitty

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By Ra.
I get to watch Darkwing Duck again.

The real question is. Does my knowledge still count?
I mean, I could get into the things I'm into now so much sooner.

Of course, I'm not sure if I had an internet connection back then...
Which could be a problem...
 

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This is something I've wanted for most of my life. A reset button would be the best thing that ever happened.
 

Scarim Coral

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Wait, if the real me is only 5 years old then whatever I had experience now right is something I wouldn't be able to comprehen seeing how my brain isn't developed that far compared to the 25 years old or am I really that smart for a 5 year ago?
 

SweetShark

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I am little confused.
Let say all this was a dream and you are now again a 5 years old boy/girl and you have the "real" chance to live your life you always wanted.

The question is......Are you 5 years old and still remember that your future self was just a dream or you just start over without knowing nothing at all?

Both scenarios are meaningless:

-If you still remember your future self, well, you would become a boy genius to the rest of the people. You after all you are a 5 years old boy/girl and you have the knowledge of a, let say 30 years old woman/man, plus the most important, [YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE!!!. In other world, you are the new Jesus Christ. Or Antichrist if you want to take the other path. You are a mirale.

-If you don't have the memory of yout future self.......very simple you will repeat everything AGAIN no matter what.

EDIT: My English are terrible, but lazy to fix :(
 

Cazza

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It was a simulation not the future. You can't just now invest in apple etc.

I would take the simulation as the best learning experience a person could have. In my teens I felt like I didn't really grow much as a person only in the last few years have I felt I have started to move forward. I know how to do it. Doing that from when I started school means by the time I hit this age the second time around I will achieve so much more.
 

Grumpy Ginger

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I would Invest in apple and actually learn how to play a musical instrument you could even use songs that haven't been written yet and become famous as a musical prodigy
 

A Weakgeek

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Step 1. Check if genitalia still intact.

IF YES -> Masturbate for the first time in the realworld

IF NOT -> Hurl body out of a high place
 

SweetShark

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Cazza said:
It was a simulation not the future. You can't just now invest in apple etc.
Again, that why I am saying is confusing.

True, all this was a simulation. However, apparently this simulation is so GOD Almighty powerful that it can simulates possible inventions, ideas, discoveries that can litterally change the course of history in the future.

So the ONLY possible scenario I think this could happening, is this simulation was only for a pass time period. For example a simulation that simulate your life as an assasin in Third Crusade time peri.......wait...



Yep.

EDIT:
Btw, I played only the first game and never finished it, so I don't know so much about the story.

EDIT:
Also, another example is Matrix.
 

Folji

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A Weakgeek said:
Step 1. Check if genitalia still intact.

IF YES -> Masturbate for the first time in the realworld

IF NOT -> Hurl body out of a high place
Wake up and masturbate for the first time at an age of five. That's what I call an early start!