Do we live in a Simulated Reality?

Originally posted by _R4t_
Am i the only one that times to times wake up in the morning and from the moment I open my eyes, I feel like everything's strange like this place im in as suddently become so unfamiliar... everything's so unreal. I get up and get dressed and got to work and for the whole day everything's so strange people's behaviors and everything is so unreal. Even tho everything looks the same it doesnt feel right. I walk around and it feels like everything's in slow motion around like if im out of sync with the rest of the world somehow... Like I dont belong but im still there somehow someways.. as if im stuck between 2 world or something...

If you are serious, your symptoms sound like you could be developing "Depersonalization Disorder" which is 1 of 4 types of Dissociative Disorders, as described by the DSM-IV. I'm not a doctor, so don't freak out, but you might want to read up on that. If what you find out matches your developing experiences of feeling things are "unreal", then you should probably see a doctor.

You'll find out that if you only feel this every great once-in-a-while then that's normal. But if the experience is on-going and persistent then it's not normal.

A lot of smart people in this tread write from their homes.

In case this is all virtual - Explain practical application to live in virtual world 24h?

Explain AOL in remote viewing

And what if this is not simulation as you think?

speaking of realities..here is something that happened to me..from 1987 to 1994 i had many experiences with extraterrestrial visitations and ufo sightings..but i want to zero in on a specific incident...I WAS SUPPOSE TO PICK UP SOME EXRAYS AT THE HOSPITAL FOR MY STEPDAD ..DURING THE DAY I WAS SO BUSY THINKING OF WHAT I HAD TO DO ALL DAY THAT I WAS NOT AWARE OF WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN..WHEN I STEPPPED UP TO THE HOSPITAL DOOR I PLACED MY HAND ON THE DOORKNOB AND I WALKED RIGHT THROUGH THE DOOR..IT WASNT TILL I SORT OF SNAPPED OUT OF IT THAT I REALIZED I ACTUALLY WALKED THROUGH A SOLID DOOR..AND NO IM NOT CRAZY..IT TRULY HAPPENED..ONCE ON THE OTHER SIDE I SORT OF SHRUGGED IT OFF AND WENT IN TO GET THE XRAYS ..WHEN I CAME BACK TO THE DOOR I WAS ALMOST AFFRAID TO PLACE MY HAND ON THE DOORKNOB BUT NOTHING HAPPENED ON THE WAY OUT..CAN SOME ONE TELL ME WHAT JUST HAPPENED..

Have any of you ever experienced mental projection? The central "I" or ego becomes formless but is 'perceived' as a self-aware center of sentience, and recognized as "I am me" or "ego self."

This is similar to what we all do here on computers with forums: we inter-relate in an e-space world or realm.

The mental aspect described above is a normal experience in what many term or refer to as "hyperspace." It is real, rest assured. The difference is, as a mental projection awareness in 'hyperspace', one can not only be a non-form (disembodied, formless, etc.) awareness, but unlike the relationship on forums where we 'know' someone exists some other place, we can feel presence and substance of this hyperspace realm directly.

This is part of the nature of the simulated reality of maya, or illusion, or 'reality' as most commonly perceive it. It's just beyond the threshold of everyday awareness, for most.

We can all 'feel' things about one another when on these forums, but only a few seem to be aware of this.

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I watched a program a few nights ago that explores the theory's of cosmology and whether or not there is an intelligent design. The program starts with the common idea's that there is a god, in the religious sense, and, that our existence is just the product of physics and nature. They build upon the two ideas with different arguments and eventually come to the theory that we are living in a 'virtual reality' and are the creation of an extremely advanced being, with technology and motives inconceivable to us.

I won't and can't go into much more detail, because I have a hard time getting my thoughts out in text, but I can honestly say this video has changed my perspective on what reality might be. When I was a young child, I remember being suspicious that I was the only real person and everyone else was just a part of my imagination but know I'm more likely to believe that I am also as unreal as everyone else.

Anyways, here's the link. Sorry if someone has already brought this to the thread.

What We Still Don't Know: "Are We Real?"

To anyone who finds the theory that we live in a virtual reality completely absurd, I recommend watching this in it's entirety with as much attention you can muster.

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About the thought of virtual reality inside of virtual reality...

That is kinda' what I was getting at earlier when I gave the analogy of a cell dividing. Not only is the reality limitless in size "horizontally" (a better term fails me at the moment) but it doubles each time we advance to the point of creating one ourselves...

360 degrees of infinity!

Amazingly complex. God like.

I agree with the thought that no´one really knows their origins. It kind of seems that way to me.. I was thinking the other day how some people really think they can figure each other out, I mean like being judgemental and asuming a person is a certain way without anymore depth to the observation. And I thought, how can people try and judge others if they don´t even know theirself? How can we say we have someone figured out when we learn new things about who we are every day, (especially for those who meditate and know the transformation / realisation that can result from it).

As I learn to listen to my subconscious more and pick apart the little messages, synchronicities and take note of personal manifestations, its like I´m being tested and I feel like I´m in this little training zone, this little simulated school, but it doesn´t bother me. In fact I enjoy it and think it´s possible we learn a lot more from it. Remove the knowledge and it adds refinement. I often think why a person like me wasn´t born very psychicly open and that I had to gradually become aware of it. I think.. the very thing I do is give people my opinion on developing such things. It gives me a good fresh perspective if I can see different angles of things. Like if I was born with the knowledge to do something, I probably wouldn´t be as good at teaching it. But if I learned how to do it over time, it allows me to pick apart the little processes and explain it better.

Refinement is how I´d explain it all.. its like we´re given all the knowledge and we incarnate to sort it out because it´s like jumbled and fractured, or needs to be elaborated on.

I feel i´m gathering data. I was just saying the other day on the discussion of ego and sense of individual self, that I find it interesting that the strongest desire of my individual self is to benefit the collective. And that by doing so gives me a stronger sense of purpose, of ALIVEness.

Add in stuff like astrology and numerology and it pretty much seems like I´m following and contributing to a code. Its a matrix of sentience to me, pure intelligence that you can try and define logically but it gets infinitely complicated, like trying to find the end all finite digit of pi.

I get into these moments of meditation where I just stop and just feel, just sense and come to terms with the fact that I have sentience. From my personal perspective of the things I´ve observed, I feel I flow with an ocean of code, and this does not make me feel any less unique or insignifigant. I feel huge, and I feel purpose.

Recently I partook in a little ceremony in the jungle which ATS rules prevent me from discussing in detail, but I had a vivid message from the experience... I felt I could see a matrix of colour and possibility surrounding me and clear as day I just thought... its where the focus is.. life.. its all an illusion and its just expanding on one point of this infinite colour web of possiblity.. its all just where the focus is. And I found it interesting that my quality or who I am was defined as a degree / type of focus, and this is what I am, and why I am here in this illusion right now, the focus code that is me is here.

Simulated reality indeed. At least to me. But I don´t think its any less insignifigant. It is beautiful. Thats the other message I got.. its all just an expression of beauty, plain and simple. Thats how I feel anyway.

Another good and much called for thread.
Star and a flag from me as well, sky.

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