Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It makes no sense for it to be a simulation like a computer simulation. It’s a simulation like a dream is a simulation. Everything in the universe you observe is you. Waking up from the dream is realising this, and realising nothing exists, just being.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does that mean that one of us isn't real?

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Like a dream, you are just me. The floor I walk is me. The air I breathe is me. Everyone I meet, everything I feel, is just me. Nothing is real except I.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I took about 10 hits of acid once and had a conversation with something that seemed to be "God" or a close approximation to it, and it told me something similar. It told me that everything is connected, that we're all one, that we're all of us different aspects of each other, or something like that. This was 20+ years ago and I was zonked out of my fucking head that night.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So I'm still just having sex with myself? I should have known it was too good to be true.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

We're all only having sex with you

[–] Froyn@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I followed you (Egg Theory) right up until that last line.
Slash dot? The tech website is the only real thing?

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

Welcome to the world and cosmology of The Elder Scrolls Games in general and Morrowind in special.

[–] Icalasari@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I think that if life is a simulation, it's tech assisted dreaming, letting one dial in specifics for consistent experiences