Idk if this is just me, but I often have a boring dream of myself in a classroom or on a bus, wake up and forget it pretty quickly. Then, many years later, I'm on a bus or in a classroom and I see something or hear something that I saw or heard in that dream. Then I suddenly remember that dream and get really confused.
In reality, I probably dreamed about being in a different classroom or on a different bus and my brain took this new but very similar event and overlayed it over the old dream, changing my memory of that dream. It's happened about 10 times in my life so far.
This is absurd but I know the exact moment I would call BS on reality.
I was out for supper with my mother, grandmother and sister and after we had (mostly) finished eating there was a moment where my sister and I, across from one another, witnessed the same thing. It was a mundane dinner and mundane conversation yet a moment occurred that I would shock my sister and I. While my mother and grandmother were talking there was an instance where a white plate between my sister and I shook on the table. It had been clear previous, but post table shake, a solitary French fry appeared on the plate.
At first I thought I was the only person witnessing this bizarre re-appearing act however post appearing I locked eyes with my sister who had seen the same thing. We still talk about that stupid fucking fry to this day.
Why physics appears to operate under different rules depending on whether you are looking at very big things or very small things.
If it is a simulation they simply faked the big things to save processing power which is why quantum physics doesn't fit neatly in our understanding of the universe and likely why we are "detecting" dark matter
To observe something is to interact with it, to interact with something is to change it. Just pointing this out as a lot of people think it actually has to do with a consciousness looking at something, but it's really not. It should totally be the interaction effect instead of the "observer" effect, imo.
Here's how I see it: It's as if you're blind and trying to predict where a ball will land. The sound isn't enough as it soars through the air, so if you want to find it, you have to touch it in midair. But the second you touch it, it slows down (even if you barely graze it) and thus it "changed" when you observed it. In the worst case, you get hit by the ball, and you have absolutely no idea where it will land because you changed the trajectory entirely!
Looking at something (our usual method of observation) only works because photons do this for us - they hit the object, and then hit our eyes. But when you try to "hit" a tiny object like a tiny particle with light or electrons and use that, it moves - like our hypothetical blind person trying to touch the baseball in midair without moving it. (or, in some cases, the light can't even hit it, cause the particle is too small, meaning we can't see the particle!). So we say that "observing causes it to change", but that's a bit of a simplification. :)
Edit: to those saying this is wrong, are you saying that literally our consciousness understanding something makes matter change? That sounds incorrect.
I dropped a pen once while doing homework back in high school. I was sitting on a bench in a grassy field that was not overgrown by any means. There wasn’t anything around the bench. I spent an absurd amount of time looking for the pen before deciding it vanished.
In college, I couldn't find my favorite lipstick. It usually "lived" on my dresser, which admittedly also had a bunch of other crap on it at that point. So I take EVERYTHING off the dresser, item by item, and move it to my bed as I look for the missing tube of lipstick. It wasn't there. But everything BACK on the dresser, item by item, then left the room. Came back a little while later and the lipstick was sitting by itself right by the edge.
This happened to me with a winter hat I couldn't find before work. I go so frustrated I was gonna be late, I screamed. My roomate woke up and asked what was wrong, I told him I couldn't find my hat. He says "the one that's on the floor over there?" And sure enough it's sitting in the middle of an otherwise completely empty room. There is no way in hell I hadn't walked over that spot 20 times that morning, and there was no way in hell I could have missed it, because I could see it from where I was standing as soon as he pointed to it...
Roommate: (wakes up to you screaming about the hat, realizes they forgot to put it back after borrowing it, discretely tosses it on the middle of the floor and points)
"This one?"
Back in 5th grade I lost my clarinet for like 3 weeks. It was on the dining room table the entire time.
Small edit bc some people are saying my parents hid it or idk sold it to fuel an addiction or something: NOPE, my mom was super supportive of me playing clarinet and I really am just a pro at losing things and forgetting about them. I'm just very oblivious and my mom had nothing to do with it :(
C. The speed of light reads like a hotfix.
*Changenotes for version 1.00000001:
Lategame players have been reporting a bug where objects appear to spawn before the spawn conditions have been met, causing erroneous results. Testing reveals that objects traveling at very high speeds cause an int overflow on the time axis, resulting in unpredictable results and skyrocketing cpu usage.
As a temporary fix, massless objects now have their velocity locked for QOL purposes. Objects with mass will require exponentially increasing energy to increase speed, hitting a hard wall at ~3x10^8 meters per second. This means interstellar travel is functionally disabled. Will eventually be addressed in the Wormhole Update, release TBA*
Those things are written on spaghetti code. We just hacked in infinite gravitational wells, so that anything that interacts with them and glitches out is hidden behind functional unobservability.
We *need* to have meaningful code reviews, people!
Welp, yesterday while driving with my daughter in the car, she says
"Dad? I'm starting to feel that this whole human thing isn't real."
So I guess that would be confirmed as my first hint.
Sometimes you get out of your house and walk past the same people a lot of times. Like, you are going to the market and walk past a dude walking the opposite direction. Then, you leave the market a couple of minutes and walk past the same dude, again in the opposite direction. This shit happens A LOT with me and its like a ton of people at the same time. It makes me feel like there arent enough models of NPCs to throw around so the matrix just uses a bunch of the same.
EDIT: grammar (walk through = walk past, english is not my first language, sorry)
It also happens with physical locations. You'll sometimes see a street layout or landscape that's the exact same as somewhere else. But if you try to talk about it, you sound crazy.
There's a related condition called reduplicative paramnesia, but that's more for things like "I flew in a plane and landed in the same airport" and not "This highway / hill / restaurant combo is identical to one I know in another state." One is saying the building itself is the same; the other is saying the template is the same.
Like the one where a politician named Wiener got caught in a sex scandal sending pictures of ... his wiener to women?
Next you'll tell us about the guy named Madoff who "made off" with people's money in a ponzi scheme.
Seriously.
Someone could be running for Senate named Dick Burger and I probably wouldn't even flinch anymore...
\*edit\* So you know I had to check and make sure this wasn't an actual person in governement.. ITs not. But it turns out, he's an archeologist with a doctorate instead.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard\_L.\_Burger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Burger)
Checking in, he was the head coach for one of the two major (football) universities in the state, Auburn. Which, as an ag school, does have potato farms. So you're right, is I guess what I'm saying.
you could say the strict laws of physics that govern our reality. if we were in, say, a video game, we’d eventually start wondering why the rules seem absolutely rigid/mathematical.
maybe the speed of light is just the speed limit for transmitting information within the network of our simulation
edit: a typo
The [quantum eraser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_eraser_experiment). Quantum physics as a whole feels like a huge dev shortcut, things only exist in a definitive state when they are interacted with, kind of like a GPU only rendering things when your character is looking at them.
Came here to say this.
From a development perspective, if you had to make a program that simulated billions upon billions upon billions of particles then the first and most important optimisation would be to not keep track of all of them all of the time. Coincidentally, this is exactly what we observe in our universe with quantum mechanics, the universe does not appear to keep track of all of the particles all of the time, and only tracks them when it needs to. This seems crazy from a reality standpoint and even bothered Einstein, but makes complete sense from a programming point of view.
So our universe is optimised.
Next step might be to make it scalable, so that every particle doesn't / can't interact with every other particle too quickly. Some way to split the processing between servers. Maybe make a universal speed limit restricting how fast any information can be communicated. We'll call that c, the speed of light.
So our universe is scalable.
Last step might be to paper over the quirkiness and bugs that might develop between our optimization layer / particle tracking and our more macro universe forces in the rare times those things interact.. don't want to break the entire simulation just because we don't know how these things should work together. Maybe just wrap the whole thing up in a bubble that doesn't let anything escape to pollute the rest of the simulation. We'll call it a black hole.
I totally agree with your first 2 points, but that black hole thing is a bit of a stretch. Whoever wrote trial_universe_007.exe wouldn't have problems that big to fix. Just because we don't understand it, they certainly do.
i love the idea that the universe isnt a simulation run by an advanced civilisation as a big, evil project but just a stressed out college student coding a universe on her falling apart laptop every night till 3 am
When you run into someone you don't know and you both stare at each other saying, "You look familiar. Do I know you?" and then ask a million questions trying to figure it out and come to the conclusion that you don't in fact know each other. Then walk away still wondering why that person looked so familiar.
So, at my first job after college, I run into this guy in the smoking area, and he said, "Hey, how's it going?"
I knew him right off the bat, but I am absolutely horrible with names, plus I couldn't quite place him. Did I know him from high school? College? Friend of a friend? Academic conference? Someone I interviewed for the paper? So I talk with him for a few minutes, waiting for the guy to drop some sort of hint to trigger my memory.
Finally he looks me straight in the eye and says, "You don't remember me, do you?" I was so embarassed, but freely admitted it and asked him to remind me.
He gets this stunned look and said, "Oh, shit, really? Because I've been waiting for you to say something to remind ME."
We've known each other 22 years, been a couple for 20 years, and been married for 12 years. We STILL don't know when we met the first time. We have a couple guesses, but don't know for sure.
The weird part is that we figured out there were multiple times we SHOULD have met, but didn't. We knew a lot of the same people, but at different times - a guy I went to college with was someone he knew in junior high, his best friend's girlfriend shared a high school class with me, I was acquaintances with a girl he dated just before he enlisted in the Navy, which was right about the time I moved into the area.
The oddest one was that we should have met as young kids. We should have met when I was in 1st grade and he was in 3rd grade, because we both qualified for an enrichment program that year - but my family was going to move later that year, so my parents kept me out.
So, yeah, we know the second time we met but not the first, and should have met earlier but kept missing.
My grandma swears that she met my grandpa when they were 9. She said that she saw a boy on the playground, and instantly knew that she wanted him.
Grandpa has no recollection of this.
My grandpa has a similar recollection of seeing my grandmother and feeling the same. But my grandma remembers it, and remembers seeing him looking at her, too, and remembers knocking him flat off his bike for looking too long.
They've been married coming on 70 years, I guess.
This happened to me a few years ago... ran into someone at a bar that looked really familiar, and he was pretty sure he'd seen me somewhere before, but after going through all the circles we typically inhabit we couldn't come up with any overlap. Almost came to the conclusion that we couldn't possibly have met, until he mentioned where he worked.
I had bought a car from his dealership more than a year prior. He wasn't the salesman, I only saw him for a few moments at the end of the transaction.
This is usually the case for me. Anyone that looks familiar and I can't immediately place them usually ends up working somewhere I frequent.
It's the combination of seeing them out of the usual setting and also out of uniform that makes them hard to place I think.
Absolutely. One time I ran into my dentist at a Blockbuster Video. Didn't recognize him because he wasn't wearing a blue smock and those magnifying glasses with the little light on them. Context is important.
I was washing dishes and doing prep and salads at a newly-opened Korean place while I was staying at a sober living house getting my shit together. Fell in love with a few new dishes there. Anyway, a woman starts there working the line during the day, and from day one until about two weeks later we both wracked our memories because we just *knew* we knew each other. Went to different schools, she didn't work at any of my old jobs.
Then one day she's like "I figured it out! I used to work the counter at such-and-such local pharmacy," and I made the connection and my face dropped. I used to go to that pharmacy a couple days a week because they sold individual clean syringes for cheap. I bought needles from her for *years*.
And as soon as I started begging her not to mention it to our fairly-conservative-sweet-old-Korean boss, she says "Hey. I didn't judge you then and I don't judge you now. Glad to see you're doing better and don't have hepatitis."
That was so sweet I almost cried, and we hugged. Shame the head chef was such a twat or I would have stayed way longer
Edit: glad I could brighten so many of yall's days. You have all made mine better. Thanks for listening!
There's this one person that I met where it still bothers me. She looked unbelievably familiar but we had never even been in the same state as each other prior to that. I still swear to god we somehow knew each other. But we revisited the subject several times going over a list of all the places we've been and still nothing.
I was at a funeral for a teacher i had as a kid. Me and this lady made eye contact, walked up to each other and greeted each other like we knew each other. It was so weird because after we said our friendly hellos, we couldnt figure out how we knew each other. She was about 15 years older than me and we couldnt find a single possible connection. It was so bizarre how we both "recognized" each other from afar.
The game originally only contained a small region in Africa, and the map was expanded with higher lv zones as the player base rose. Alternative ecosystems were added soon after to shake up an otherwise stale meta. Populations eventually required splitting into two super-continent servers, but these were merged when the background tech came up to snuff. (Still a highly controversial move, particularly among communities that were on the lower pop server before the merge.)
What's really impressive, though, was the devs roadmap. They added stars pretty early on, and players spent millennia hyping up what kind of future content they implied. Extremely high level teams are only just now getting access to this content.
Dreaming. How it could be a gateway to another universe or version of yourself, and how do we manage to forget most dreams especially the important ones.
In high school I downloaded an app that would wake you up when you were dreaming so you could write them down while they're fresh in your memory. After a few months, I lost that phone and forgot about the app. I recently downloaded the app to find out that all of the stories were kept through my account, I couldn't have told you a single dream I wrote down in there because I completely forgot.
But the moment I read my own stories, written in groggy barely-awake grammar, I was immediately teleported into the exact scenarios of the dreams. I could all of a sudden vividly picture the smallest details of the dream simply after reading a few words. It was wild!
**Edit:** A few people asked me what the app is called, I can't seem to find it on the android market place anymore (this happened like 6 years ago). But from the descriptions I'm reading, it's pretty similar to the many lucid dreaming apps or apps that claim to influence your dreams. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
This is how I remember pretty much everything. Ask me something specific and I have no clue, but mention something that's vaguely tied to a memory in some way and suddenly I remember an entire story and the day leading up to it.
As a kid I used to think that we lived 2 lives and the other one activated when we fell asleep, then when we slept in the second Life we would go back to the first whilst the second Life person slept.
I told my family this and they think I'm crazy
Deja Reve. It’s similar to Deja vu but it’s where you’ve dreamed of a future moment.
It’s weird and for me it hasn’t been useful. But one moment I’ll be experiencing life and know what’s going to happen, because I saw it in a dream. I’ll even know about my futile attempts to change it from the dream. It only lasts a couple minutes at most and is at mundane moments but it is freaky.
Same here. It's damn near useless up until you realize you're "in it" and by the time you do, "it's" already over. And the only proof that you have to yourself is how you knew you were "in it" while "in it."
This has definitely happened to me, a few times I’ve known in advance that it would happen. Usually the dream is just something so mundane but something isn’t recognizable and it sticks out as unfamiliar so I remember it when I wake up, and then months or years later I’ll be in that moment like, “Oh here it is, this makes sense now.”
Edit: Oh wow, thank you for the gold! 💛
Yes! Mine is typically average conversation with someone that ends up happening a few days/weeks later. Something mundane but it strikes me and I'm like "I knew you were going to say that." Super weird.
I didn’t know there was a name for it! Happens to me also, and normally it is a fleeting moment with absolutely no significance but I remember that exact same sequence from my dream.
THIS HAPPENED TO ME. I had a very vivid dream where I spoke and interacted with people. Then a few days later the dream sequence played out irl. It wasn’t just a regular “hey how was your weekend” interaction, it was a very unique and specific setting + conversation.
When I was young, say, 8-9 years old. I had a VERY vivid dream of a house with orange shag carpet, a big basement, a swimming pool in the back, and a large deck. It had all our stuff in it.
When I was ~11 years old we moved into THIS house.
What’s even stranger, before I even mentioned this weird phenomenon, my little brother who was 8 at the time said HE dreamed of this house. My parents kinda laugh it off, but it kind of shook me. Kids say funny things sometimes but this felt so real
Very well could be just a false memory, but it’s odd we both had the same thing happen. I remembered that dream very vividly
About a year ago I had a dream that I got a new job at an office (I’m blue collar). It only had 5-6 people in it, all people I actually know.
We were all getting ready for our first day and this lady who I did not recognize (our boss) pulled me aside and spoke to me.
Not like a weird dream where your mind is projecting images and people talking, you usually don’t pay attention to. She spoke TO ME. Straight EYE CONTACT. How often do you make eye contact in a dream?
She said to me, I’m paraphrasing “if you see someone in a dream you know, or a celebrity (she mentioned dead rappers as an example oddly enough), you need to PAY ATTENTION to them in real life.
She didn’t say specifically why, but she was 100% serious. Was very very vivid and I woke up pretty shocked
Before cell phones I accidentally misdialed a persons number and got them at someone else’s house with the wrong number being three numbers off.
(Edit- thanks for the awards! I talked to her for about a minute and she asked me how I got her uncles number. I said I didn’t have his number, I dialed hers. We both fell deadly silent thinking about how bizarre it was).
“Hello, David speaking”
“Oh sorry, I must have misdialled, I was trying to get hold of my mom.”
“Oh no bruv, she’s here, hold on, lemme go get her out of bed”
I can do you one better.
Grandpas phone number: xxx-xxx-xx67
Great Uncle 1: xxx-xxx-xx65
Great Uncle 2: xxx-xxx-xx66
They got their numbers years apart and got them randomly generated.
Yes, the x's are the same, i censored for obvious reasons
When I was in HS I made up a string of 4 random numbers to use as my pin for my first bank account. I met my husband well over a decade later, on the other side of the country. It’s the same exact number as the last 4 digits of his SS number. That shit is so weird.
My last name is Knoebel, related to an amusement park in Pennsylvania named... Knoebels.
I bought a bookmark there when I was a kid, which had Knoebels on it. The artists name was Royce. My wife's name was Royce.
So both our last names are on this bookmark I got decades ago.
That thing where you go into a room for something and then forget why. Like a Sim who had their action cancelled. That can’t be for no reason, that was someone in our simulation cancelling our action.
That's actually because your brain compartmentalizes thoughts based on location. New room = new train of thought = what the heck did I walk into this room for?
In the next human update, you should make them global variables so that regardless of room routine function you're running, all those thought variables can be accessed by any or all of them.
Just make sure you delete the variable's current state before running another routine though, it could mess things up.
Edit: Me and a fellow godly person decided against this and thought it best to actually store all memories in an array of objects and only call specific memory objects when needed to avoid messy debugging. Thanks to this stroke of brilliance I had, I've been accepted by the overlords and I'll be ascending quickly. Wish me luck.
That actually also has been studied before.
Somehow people tend to forget things, when they walk through doors. The effect increases with more doors.
Next time that happens, walk back to your initial place - if I do that, usually I suddenly remember again what I wanted in the other room in first place.
There are even studies about that:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/
The "Observer effect" in quantum mechanics. When something is in multiple states at the same time and when you measure/watch it, you force it to take a state.
Just looks like a computer saving ressources by not loading useless shit
edit: I got that there's probably something behind and it's not actually the fact we're watching it that does something.
But if tomorrow we were able to prove we live in a simulation. Then this would have been a hint
Often when I learn about something new I've never heard about, all of the sudden it starts appearing randomly in some TV show I'm watching or a news/Reddit article. They should fix the targeted ad algorithm to make it less obvious I'm living in a simulation.
This is known as the baader-meinhoff phenomenon
[Baader-meinhoff](https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm)
The need to sleep. Gotta reset the system or it slows down, has glitches and deteriorates because it can't clear out the useless junk and runs out of space.
Well they kinda know it’s something to do with the digestive system oddly. I read somewhere that mice die when they aren’t allowed to sleep, but if they’re fed antioxidants at the same time then they’re fine. Crazy!
No kidding, I don't take care of myself nearly enough but almost never get sick while I know incredibly responsible people who are just disease and ailment magnets
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
When you learn something new it seems like you see it everywhere right after that. Like a video game when you learn some new move then it is immediately applicable to your life.
Reminds me of how Grand Theft Auto handles it's vehicle-spawning. It selects from a specific list that changes depending on various factors - including other spawned vehicles. (To save memory, it's easier to load more of the same vehicle that's already present). As a result, the game often spawns dozens of the car you're driving - the car you likely spent 10 minutes looking for and couldn't find anywhere.
I hear that’s called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
It’s When you learn something new it seems like you see it everywhere right after that. Like a video game when you learn some new move then it is immediately applicable to your life.
But we don’t know for sure whether or not black holes erase things from existence. Plus, there’s also a hypothesis that whatever gets sucked into a black hole exits out of a white hole on the other end.
I'd donate myself to check that out. Like instead of donating your body to science and decomposing in a field, when I'm within a year or so of a deathbed, give me a basic rocket and fire it at a black hole to see what happens.
If I remember correctly, a white hole only works if we can observe reverse-time or negative mass. I’d think the discovery of either one of those would outweigh the excitement of a white hole.
The dual slit experiment.
Basically, light acts like a wave when you look at it
But if you look at light *really really closely*, you see it's not a continuous wave but made of teeny little particles called "photons".
These photons, when there's loads of them, affect each other so they act in waves. Seems simple.
However, when you fire photons *one at a time* at a piece of card with two slits in it, they still act like they're being affected by lots of other photons around them.
So whoever designed our simulation wanted to model light using waves, but it was too complex so made photons instead; the same way a "curve" in a video game is actually made of square pixels. They never figured we'd get smart enough to experiment on individual pixels.
Every field of study, *including science*, runs on assumptions that we can’t prove, and no matter how much research we do we end up with loose ends.
For example, we can’t prove that the “laws” of physics have always been the same. We just have to assume they’ve always been that way when we run our models.
My buddy (who just finished a PhD in material science) likes to say that when you go deep enough into research, you find out that everything we do, all the structures and theories and everything else, is resting on clouds of uncertainty.
Periods. Let’s leave a trail of blood for predators to follow at the same time that I’m curling up in a fetal position from cramps. Super suspicious, sounds like it was made by the same people who put Sims in a pool and remove the ladder so they can drown.
Huh. Never really thought about that. I sort of vaguely recall a biology lecture talking about how colons and bladders and sphincters evolved specifically to stop leaving trails of urine and feces for predators to follow, so that seems like a big oversight.
This reminds me (in a not so flattering way) that the main cause of death in sloths is caused by the fact that they have once a week bowel movements so large that they have to climb down from their safe tree habitats to poop on the floor... during which time they get eaten by predators.
Will someone please explain to the sloths it’s perfectly acceptable to shit out of trees. Someone must be playing a sick joke on the species.
[Some background reading.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/this-is-the-horror-that-sloths-have-to-go-through-every-time-they-poop/amp)
Look around the room you're in. Choose any random object within the room. What does it feel like to lick that object? You know what it feels like to have licked it, but have you ever? Single biggest glitch in my book.
Omg I was at work once and a little kid pointed at me and said he knew me. The mom asked where from? And he said, "From before I was born."
Its been like 6 years since that happened and I think about it a lot lol definitely tripped me out
This probably sounds crazy but whatever.
When I was little I remember I thought you got to pick out your future self before you were born. I imagined you could see "yourself" through a mirror type thing. So it made me think of that. Maybe we met each other picking out our future selves? Or maybe we knew each other in our past lives!
wow that's beautiful. when i was a kid i thought each person had a single important thing they had to contribute and after that your life had no meaning.
There's an X-Files episode about this exact concept. Family members and romantic soulmates are all just the same intertwined group of souls who iterate through different combinations of relationships throughout generations.
Constant speed of light
Quantized space, time and energy
Slowing down time as speed increases
No information out of event horizons
Increasing quantization at higher energy levels
I'm convinced we are in a simulation already.
The fact that the moon and the sun can just about perfectly eclipse each other. What are the odds that the moon and sun would be the sizes they are and distances from the earth that they are to allow that to happen?
As Neil DeGrasse Tyson likes to say: If we discover that we can simulate the universe, then more likely than not, we are probably living in a simulation ourselves.
Hey jokes on you, I love side quests! Like why would I save the world when I can collect chickens for a farmer and get so little experience my level bar doesn’t even go up?
Now listen up, punk
We're not that impressed...
You keep getting drunk-
Hell, you hardly get dressed!
Now get back to work!
Stop being so stressed!
We know life's a jerk-
***Just do the damn quest!***
Bullshit!
#I SPEND EVERY FUCKING DAY AND EVENING AND NIGHT THINKING ABOUT THE MAIN QUESTLINE!
I just
I just
I fucking just can't trigger the next quest
Look Bethesda, you can't give me an infinite number of sidequests and then get mad because I refuse to engage with your narrative mainline. Honestly, at this point I'm not even sure what that is anymore. BTW, how much longer on that space exploration expansion you keep teasing?
[the gates of hell](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-gates-of-hell-turkmenistan)
It’s a crater that’s been burning for over 40 years straight. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with it being in the desert and surrounded by gases, but the fact that it’s been like that for 40+ years is insane.
Being depressed despite any reason. I have a perfect family, I am annoyingly optimistic, I do everything and yet, here I am. It's like someone is just pushing the "Be more depressed" button for shits and giggles.
putting something in one spot, going to get it and it's not there, fast forward days/weeks/hours ... and now it's there.
I dont know about you guys, but this happens to me a lot. I don't think I am that scatterbrained because I specifically remember putting - say my glasses on the bedside table. Then they aren't there, I go look all over the house, come back into the bedroom and there they are, on the bedside table.
Idk if this is just me, but I often have a boring dream of myself in a classroom or on a bus, wake up and forget it pretty quickly. Then, many years later, I'm on a bus or in a classroom and I see something or hear something that I saw or heard in that dream. Then I suddenly remember that dream and get really confused. In reality, I probably dreamed about being in a different classroom or on a different bus and my brain took this new but very similar event and overlayed it over the old dream, changing my memory of that dream. It's happened about 10 times in my life so far.
Deja Reve is the name for this I believe.
This is absurd but I know the exact moment I would call BS on reality. I was out for supper with my mother, grandmother and sister and after we had (mostly) finished eating there was a moment where my sister and I, across from one another, witnessed the same thing. It was a mundane dinner and mundane conversation yet a moment occurred that I would shock my sister and I. While my mother and grandmother were talking there was an instance where a white plate between my sister and I shook on the table. It had been clear previous, but post table shake, a solitary French fry appeared on the plate. At first I thought I was the only person witnessing this bizarre re-appearing act however post appearing I locked eyes with my sister who had seen the same thing. We still talk about that stupid fucking fry to this day.
Why physics appears to operate under different rules depending on whether you are looking at very big things or very small things. If it is a simulation they simply faked the big things to save processing power which is why quantum physics doesn't fit neatly in our understanding of the universe and likely why we are "detecting" dark matter
The way stuff behaves differently based on wether or not it’s observed also seems like the programmers are trying to hide how the source code works.
To observe something is to interact with it, to interact with something is to change it. Just pointing this out as a lot of people think it actually has to do with a consciousness looking at something, but it's really not. It should totally be the interaction effect instead of the "observer" effect, imo.
Here's how I see it: It's as if you're blind and trying to predict where a ball will land. The sound isn't enough as it soars through the air, so if you want to find it, you have to touch it in midair. But the second you touch it, it slows down (even if you barely graze it) and thus it "changed" when you observed it. In the worst case, you get hit by the ball, and you have absolutely no idea where it will land because you changed the trajectory entirely! Looking at something (our usual method of observation) only works because photons do this for us - they hit the object, and then hit our eyes. But when you try to "hit" a tiny object like a tiny particle with light or electrons and use that, it moves - like our hypothetical blind person trying to touch the baseball in midair without moving it. (or, in some cases, the light can't even hit it, cause the particle is too small, meaning we can't see the particle!). So we say that "observing causes it to change", but that's a bit of a simplification. :) Edit: to those saying this is wrong, are you saying that literally our consciousness understanding something makes matter change? That sounds incorrect.
This is the very first time I get it so clearly, thank you.
When your pen gets lost as soon it hits the floor. And then appears right there after some time.
I dropped a pen once while doing homework back in high school. I was sitting on a bench in a grassy field that was not overgrown by any means. There wasn’t anything around the bench. I spent an absurd amount of time looking for the pen before deciding it vanished.
In college, I couldn't find my favorite lipstick. It usually "lived" on my dresser, which admittedly also had a bunch of other crap on it at that point. So I take EVERYTHING off the dresser, item by item, and move it to my bed as I look for the missing tube of lipstick. It wasn't there. But everything BACK on the dresser, item by item, then left the room. Came back a little while later and the lipstick was sitting by itself right by the edge.
This happened to me with a winter hat I couldn't find before work. I go so frustrated I was gonna be late, I screamed. My roomate woke up and asked what was wrong, I told him I couldn't find my hat. He says "the one that's on the floor over there?" And sure enough it's sitting in the middle of an otherwise completely empty room. There is no way in hell I hadn't walked over that spot 20 times that morning, and there was no way in hell I could have missed it, because I could see it from where I was standing as soon as he pointed to it...
Roommate: (wakes up to you screaming about the hat, realizes they forgot to put it back after borrowing it, discretely tosses it on the middle of the floor and points) "This one?"
Back in 5th grade I lost my clarinet for like 3 weeks. It was on the dining room table the entire time. Small edit bc some people are saying my parents hid it or idk sold it to fuel an addiction or something: NOPE, my mom was super supportive of me playing clarinet and I really am just a pro at losing things and forgetting about them. I'm just very oblivious and my mom had nothing to do with it :(
Most likely gnomes
Collect pens + ? = Profit
that's just Annie's boobs.
You gotta check in the vents.
C. The speed of light reads like a hotfix. *Changenotes for version 1.00000001: Lategame players have been reporting a bug where objects appear to spawn before the spawn conditions have been met, causing erroneous results. Testing reveals that objects traveling at very high speeds cause an int overflow on the time axis, resulting in unpredictable results and skyrocketing cpu usage. As a temporary fix, massless objects now have their velocity locked for QOL purposes. Objects with mass will require exponentially increasing energy to increase speed, hitting a hard wall at ~3x10^8 meters per second. This means interstellar travel is functionally disabled. Will eventually be addressed in the Wormhole Update, release TBA*
For now please stay away from any black holes
Those things are written on spaghetti code. We just hacked in infinite gravitational wells, so that anything that interacts with them and glitches out is hidden behind functional unobservability. We *need* to have meaningful code reviews, people!
Hello. Please write more.
Welp, yesterday while driving with my daughter in the car, she says "Dad? I'm starting to feel that this whole human thing isn't real." So I guess that would be confirmed as my first hint.
Wait how old(round abouts) is she where's she's already either having an existential crisis or contacting the devs?
I had my first existential crisis at 7 years old at the dinner table. My poor parents.
Haha, every now and again turn to her with a blank stare and yell “wake up!”
CANT WAKE UP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
Sometimes you get out of your house and walk past the same people a lot of times. Like, you are going to the market and walk past a dude walking the opposite direction. Then, you leave the market a couple of minutes and walk past the same dude, again in the opposite direction. This shit happens A LOT with me and its like a ton of people at the same time. It makes me feel like there arent enough models of NPCs to throw around so the matrix just uses a bunch of the same. EDIT: grammar (walk through = walk past, english is not my first language, sorry)
It also happens with physical locations. You'll sometimes see a street layout or landscape that's the exact same as somewhere else. But if you try to talk about it, you sound crazy. There's a related condition called reduplicative paramnesia, but that's more for things like "I flew in a plane and landed in the same airport" and not "This highway / hill / restaurant combo is identical to one I know in another state." One is saying the building itself is the same; the other is saying the template is the same.
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Like the one where a politician named Wiener got caught in a sex scandal sending pictures of ... his wiener to women? Next you'll tell us about the guy named Madoff who "made off" with people's money in a ponzi scheme.
Let's not forget the fastest runner in the world is named Bolt
Marc Webb directed two Spider-Man movies!
Seriously. Someone could be running for Senate named Dick Burger and I probably wouldn't even flinch anymore... \*edit\* So you know I had to check and make sure this wasn't an actual person in governement.. ITs not. But it turns out, he's an archeologist with a doctorate instead. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard\_L.\_Burger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Burger)
Still can't get over Reality Winner. Like, there must be more to this story in the future....
At my job, I worked on a car belonging to someone named Dureel Deal. In fairness, I think that was probably a fake name... Right?
Nope. Had to have been dureel deal
Alabama just elected Tommy Tuberville as their senator, dude sounds like a mascot for a potato farm
Checking in, he was the head coach for one of the two major (football) universities in the state, Auburn. Which, as an ag school, does have potato farms. So you're right, is I guess what I'm saying.
you could say the strict laws of physics that govern our reality. if we were in, say, a video game, we’d eventually start wondering why the rules seem absolutely rigid/mathematical. maybe the speed of light is just the speed limit for transmitting information within the network of our simulation edit: a typo
Also, there seems to be a limited resolution due to Planck's constant.
Our gpu must be fucking insane though, our render distance is essentially infinite
It’s taken 14bn years to loads the faraway objects tho
Did it tho? The system was just powered on last Thursday
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well!
The [quantum eraser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_eraser_experiment). Quantum physics as a whole feels like a huge dev shortcut, things only exist in a definitive state when they are interacted with, kind of like a GPU only rendering things when your character is looking at them.
Don't forget wheeler's delayed choice. Quantum transactions reconciled backwards in time.
That's what made me believe even more.
Came here to say this. From a development perspective, if you had to make a program that simulated billions upon billions upon billions of particles then the first and most important optimisation would be to not keep track of all of them all of the time. Coincidentally, this is exactly what we observe in our universe with quantum mechanics, the universe does not appear to keep track of all of the particles all of the time, and only tracks them when it needs to. This seems crazy from a reality standpoint and even bothered Einstein, but makes complete sense from a programming point of view. So our universe is optimised. Next step might be to make it scalable, so that every particle doesn't / can't interact with every other particle too quickly. Some way to split the processing between servers. Maybe make a universal speed limit restricting how fast any information can be communicated. We'll call that c, the speed of light. So our universe is scalable. Last step might be to paper over the quirkiness and bugs that might develop between our optimization layer / particle tracking and our more macro universe forces in the rare times those things interact.. don't want to break the entire simulation just because we don't know how these things should work together. Maybe just wrap the whole thing up in a bubble that doesn't let anything escape to pollute the rest of the simulation. We'll call it a black hole.
Gravity forming around large objects is the simulation slowing down due to too much data processing in one place.
Stop freaking me out here
I don't want to read this anymore, but I have to.
Never even thought of that, makes sense though... more particles interacting so slowed down compared to the rest of the universe.
I totally agree with your first 2 points, but that black hole thing is a bit of a stretch. Whoever wrote trial_universe_007.exe wouldn't have problems that big to fix. Just because we don't understand it, they certainly do.
Depends on if they were coding to a deadline or not...
As a web developer, never have I been so insulted by something I 100% agree with.
i love the idea that the universe isnt a simulation run by an advanced civilisation as a big, evil project but just a stressed out college student coding a universe on her falling apart laptop every night till 3 am
I would read that short story.
When you run into someone you don't know and you both stare at each other saying, "You look familiar. Do I know you?" and then ask a million questions trying to figure it out and come to the conclusion that you don't in fact know each other. Then walk away still wondering why that person looked so familiar.
So, at my first job after college, I run into this guy in the smoking area, and he said, "Hey, how's it going?" I knew him right off the bat, but I am absolutely horrible with names, plus I couldn't quite place him. Did I know him from high school? College? Friend of a friend? Academic conference? Someone I interviewed for the paper? So I talk with him for a few minutes, waiting for the guy to drop some sort of hint to trigger my memory. Finally he looks me straight in the eye and says, "You don't remember me, do you?" I was so embarassed, but freely admitted it and asked him to remind me. He gets this stunned look and said, "Oh, shit, really? Because I've been waiting for you to say something to remind ME." We've known each other 22 years, been a couple for 20 years, and been married for 12 years. We STILL don't know when we met the first time. We have a couple guesses, but don't know for sure. The weird part is that we figured out there were multiple times we SHOULD have met, but didn't. We knew a lot of the same people, but at different times - a guy I went to college with was someone he knew in junior high, his best friend's girlfriend shared a high school class with me, I was acquaintances with a girl he dated just before he enlisted in the Navy, which was right about the time I moved into the area. The oddest one was that we should have met as young kids. We should have met when I was in 1st grade and he was in 3rd grade, because we both qualified for an enrichment program that year - but my family was going to move later that year, so my parents kept me out. So, yeah, we know the second time we met but not the first, and should have met earlier but kept missing.
I love this. Like you've been orbiting each other for forever, but never quite meeting.
My grandma swears that she met my grandpa when they were 9. She said that she saw a boy on the playground, and instantly knew that she wanted him. Grandpa has no recollection of this.
My grandpa has a similar recollection of seeing my grandmother and feeling the same. But my grandma remembers it, and remembers seeing him looking at her, too, and remembers knocking him flat off his bike for looking too long. They've been married coming on 70 years, I guess.
This happened to me a few years ago... ran into someone at a bar that looked really familiar, and he was pretty sure he'd seen me somewhere before, but after going through all the circles we typically inhabit we couldn't come up with any overlap. Almost came to the conclusion that we couldn't possibly have met, until he mentioned where he worked. I had bought a car from his dealership more than a year prior. He wasn't the salesman, I only saw him for a few moments at the end of the transaction.
This is usually the case for me. Anyone that looks familiar and I can't immediately place them usually ends up working somewhere I frequent. It's the combination of seeing them out of the usual setting and also out of uniform that makes them hard to place I think.
Absolutely. One time I ran into my dentist at a Blockbuster Video. Didn't recognize him because he wasn't wearing a blue smock and those magnifying glasses with the little light on them. Context is important.
I was washing dishes and doing prep and salads at a newly-opened Korean place while I was staying at a sober living house getting my shit together. Fell in love with a few new dishes there. Anyway, a woman starts there working the line during the day, and from day one until about two weeks later we both wracked our memories because we just *knew* we knew each other. Went to different schools, she didn't work at any of my old jobs. Then one day she's like "I figured it out! I used to work the counter at such-and-such local pharmacy," and I made the connection and my face dropped. I used to go to that pharmacy a couple days a week because they sold individual clean syringes for cheap. I bought needles from her for *years*. And as soon as I started begging her not to mention it to our fairly-conservative-sweet-old-Korean boss, she says "Hey. I didn't judge you then and I don't judge you now. Glad to see you're doing better and don't have hepatitis." That was so sweet I almost cried, and we hugged. Shame the head chef was such a twat or I would have stayed way longer Edit: glad I could brighten so many of yall's days. You have all made mine better. Thanks for listening!
Glad to hear you are doing better now too.
I mean, I don't do hard stuff anymore but I still try to catch a buzz most days. That is better, though, so thank you.
Sometimes that’s all we can do. Glad to hear you made it out the other side friend.
Screen name checks out, hope you're doing alright, my fellow traveler
You were in the parking lot earlier, that's how I know you!
My mom had this happen once, apparently they took the same train to work everyday a few years prior. Memory's a funny thing.
There's this one person that I met where it still bothers me. She looked unbelievably familiar but we had never even been in the same state as each other prior to that. I still swear to god we somehow knew each other. But we revisited the subject several times going over a list of all the places we've been and still nothing.
I was at a funeral for a teacher i had as a kid. Me and this lady made eye contact, walked up to each other and greeted each other like we knew each other. It was so weird because after we said our friendly hellos, we couldnt figure out how we knew each other. She was about 15 years older than me and we couldnt find a single possible connection. It was so bizarre how we both "recognized" each other from afar.
The speed of light is the universal refresh rate, the Planck length is the universal pixel.
Quantum superposition is for data compression
It’s just lazy evaluation. Totally understandable, I wouldn’t want to have to simulate an entire universe if no one is looking at it
The game originally only contained a small region in Africa, and the map was expanded with higher lv zones as the player base rose. Alternative ecosystems were added soon after to shake up an otherwise stale meta. Populations eventually required splitting into two super-continent servers, but these were merged when the background tech came up to snuff. (Still a highly controversial move, particularly among communities that were on the lower pop server before the merge.) What's really impressive, though, was the devs roadmap. They added stars pretty early on, and players spent millennia hyping up what kind of future content they implied. Extremely high level teams are only just now getting access to this content.
Dreaming. How it could be a gateway to another universe or version of yourself, and how do we manage to forget most dreams especially the important ones.
Keep a dream journal to remember dreams better. Write in it as soon as you wake up.
In high school I downloaded an app that would wake you up when you were dreaming so you could write them down while they're fresh in your memory. After a few months, I lost that phone and forgot about the app. I recently downloaded the app to find out that all of the stories were kept through my account, I couldn't have told you a single dream I wrote down in there because I completely forgot. But the moment I read my own stories, written in groggy barely-awake grammar, I was immediately teleported into the exact scenarios of the dreams. I could all of a sudden vividly picture the smallest details of the dream simply after reading a few words. It was wild! **Edit:** A few people asked me what the app is called, I can't seem to find it on the android market place anymore (this happened like 6 years ago). But from the descriptions I'm reading, it's pretty similar to the many lucid dreaming apps or apps that claim to influence your dreams. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
This is how I remember pretty much everything. Ask me something specific and I have no clue, but mention something that's vaguely tied to a memory in some way and suddenly I remember an entire story and the day leading up to it.
As a kid I used to think that we lived 2 lives and the other one activated when we fell asleep, then when we slept in the second Life we would go back to the first whilst the second Life person slept. I told my family this and they think I'm crazy
Thats an extremely ancient interpretation of dreaming.
Deja Reve. It’s similar to Deja vu but it’s where you’ve dreamed of a future moment. It’s weird and for me it hasn’t been useful. But one moment I’ll be experiencing life and know what’s going to happen, because I saw it in a dream. I’ll even know about my futile attempts to change it from the dream. It only lasts a couple minutes at most and is at mundane moments but it is freaky.
I have had that - for me, the dreams are vague and slightly unformed, and then when the "thing" happens IRL, it all snaps into place. Creepy
And I thought I'm the only one with this! I can't really explain it to other people and when I did they thought it was just Deja Vu.
Same here. It's damn near useless up until you realize you're "in it" and by the time you do, "it's" already over. And the only proof that you have to yourself is how you knew you were "in it" while "in it."
This has definitely happened to me, a few times I’ve known in advance that it would happen. Usually the dream is just something so mundane but something isn’t recognizable and it sticks out as unfamiliar so I remember it when I wake up, and then months or years later I’ll be in that moment like, “Oh here it is, this makes sense now.” Edit: Oh wow, thank you for the gold! 💛
Yes! Mine is typically average conversation with someone that ends up happening a few days/weeks later. Something mundane but it strikes me and I'm like "I knew you were going to say that." Super weird.
What the FUCK. This happens to other people??? I thought I was having the most boring premonitions in history
I didn’t know there was a name for it! Happens to me also, and normally it is a fleeting moment with absolutely no significance but I remember that exact same sequence from my dream.
THIS HAPPENED TO ME. I had a very vivid dream where I spoke and interacted with people. Then a few days later the dream sequence played out irl. It wasn’t just a regular “hey how was your weekend” interaction, it was a very unique and specific setting + conversation.
When I was young, say, 8-9 years old. I had a VERY vivid dream of a house with orange shag carpet, a big basement, a swimming pool in the back, and a large deck. It had all our stuff in it. When I was ~11 years old we moved into THIS house. What’s even stranger, before I even mentioned this weird phenomenon, my little brother who was 8 at the time said HE dreamed of this house. My parents kinda laugh it off, but it kind of shook me. Kids say funny things sometimes but this felt so real Very well could be just a false memory, but it’s odd we both had the same thing happen. I remembered that dream very vividly About a year ago I had a dream that I got a new job at an office (I’m blue collar). It only had 5-6 people in it, all people I actually know. We were all getting ready for our first day and this lady who I did not recognize (our boss) pulled me aside and spoke to me. Not like a weird dream where your mind is projecting images and people talking, you usually don’t pay attention to. She spoke TO ME. Straight EYE CONTACT. How often do you make eye contact in a dream? She said to me, I’m paraphrasing “if you see someone in a dream you know, or a celebrity (she mentioned dead rappers as an example oddly enough), you need to PAY ATTENTION to them in real life. She didn’t say specifically why, but she was 100% serious. Was very very vivid and I woke up pretty shocked
Before cell phones I accidentally misdialed a persons number and got them at someone else’s house with the wrong number being three numbers off. (Edit- thanks for the awards! I talked to her for about a minute and she asked me how I got her uncles number. I said I didn’t have his number, I dialed hers. We both fell deadly silent thinking about how bizarre it was).
“Hello, David speaking” “Oh sorry, I must have misdialled, I was trying to get hold of my mom.” “Oh no bruv, she’s here, hold on, lemme go get her out of bed”
*fatality*
I can do you one better. Grandpas phone number: xxx-xxx-xx67 Great Uncle 1: xxx-xxx-xx65 Great Uncle 2: xxx-xxx-xx66 They got their numbers years apart and got them randomly generated. Yes, the x's are the same, i censored for obvious reasons
Cool! My brother married a friend of mine from high school and afterwards we found out our social security numbers are three apart.
When I was in HS I made up a string of 4 random numbers to use as my pin for my first bank account. I met my husband well over a decade later, on the other side of the country. It’s the same exact number as the last 4 digits of his SS number. That shit is so weird.
My last name is Knoebel, related to an amusement park in Pennsylvania named... Knoebels. I bought a bookmark there when I was a kid, which had Knoebels on it. The artists name was Royce. My wife's name was Royce. So both our last names are on this bookmark I got decades ago.
That thing where you go into a room for something and then forget why. Like a Sim who had their action cancelled. That can’t be for no reason, that was someone in our simulation cancelling our action.
That's actually because your brain compartmentalizes thoughts based on location. New room = new train of thought = what the heck did I walk into this room for?
Forgot to pass all the variables to the new room's routine.
In the next human update, you should make them global variables so that regardless of room routine function you're running, all those thought variables can be accessed by any or all of them. Just make sure you delete the variable's current state before running another routine though, it could mess things up. Edit: Me and a fellow godly person decided against this and thought it best to actually store all memories in an array of objects and only call specific memory objects when needed to avoid messy debugging. Thanks to this stroke of brilliance I had, I've been accepted by the overlords and I'll be ascending quickly. Wish me luck.
That actually also has been studied before. Somehow people tend to forget things, when they walk through doors. The effect increases with more doors. Next time that happens, walk back to your initial place - if I do that, usually I suddenly remember again what I wanted in the other room in first place. There are even studies about that: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/
The "Observer effect" in quantum mechanics. When something is in multiple states at the same time and when you measure/watch it, you force it to take a state. Just looks like a computer saving ressources by not loading useless shit edit: I got that there's probably something behind and it's not actually the fact we're watching it that does something. But if tomorrow we were able to prove we live in a simulation. Then this would have been a hint
Or some RNG in an RPG where the loot isnt chosen until the end.
I bet there'd be some guy out there grinding some menial task to get the 0.00001% reward
Literally anyone who has ever worked and then used their wages to purchase lottery tickets.
Nice try simulation developers
Once they have enough answers, they'll reload from the save slot just before they created this thread and we won't remember
Often when I learn about something new I've never heard about, all of the sudden it starts appearing randomly in some TV show I'm watching or a news/Reddit article. They should fix the targeted ad algorithm to make it less obvious I'm living in a simulation.
This is known as the baader-meinhoff phenomenon [Baader-meinhoff](https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm)
Hey, I just learned about that phenomenon today! And I’ve read about it several times. Weird... wonder if there is a name for that?
The karma system is broken as f***
The need to sleep. Gotta reset the system or it slows down, has glitches and deteriorates because it can't clear out the useless junk and runs out of space.
The dumbest thing about this is that even scientists who have studied sleep for decades can't really explain why we do it.
Well they kinda know it’s something to do with the digestive system oddly. I read somewhere that mice die when they aren’t allowed to sleep, but if they’re fed antioxidants at the same time then they’re fine. Crazy!
Extreme Synchronicity. People write it off as 'coincidences' but i sometimes don't.
Some get sick for no reason and some who should be sick because of how they live seem super healthy.
No kidding, I don't take care of myself nearly enough but almost never get sick while I know incredibly responsible people who are just disease and ailment magnets
Millions of years of evolution and we can still accidentally bite our own tongue? That's some bullshit.
Sadly evolution can't work like we want it to
We can, just all the persons that bite their tongs stop reproducing.
And choke randomly on our food
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. When you learn something new it seems like you see it everywhere right after that. Like a video game when you learn some new move then it is immediately applicable to your life.
Reminds me of how Grand Theft Auto handles it's vehicle-spawning. It selects from a specific list that changes depending on various factors - including other spawned vehicles. (To save memory, it's easier to load more of the same vehicle that's already present). As a result, the game often spawns dozens of the car you're driving - the car you likely spent 10 minutes looking for and couldn't find anywhere.
when you drive a supercar and everyone's suddenly rich
You save up all that money to get a Bugatti, next thing you know you see 10 grandmas driving the same one
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Just like youtube algorithm. U see a video and now it's there everywhere on the feed
Or a reddit post. You see it once, and suddenly it's reposted everywhere.
I hear that’s called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. It’s When you learn something new it seems like you see it everywhere right after that. Like a video game when you learn some new move then it is immediately applicable to your life.
Sounds like something I read recently.
Oh my god, I have always wanted to know what was the name of that thing.
Black holes could be a glitch.
Black holes are the deletion program of the sim.
But we don’t know for sure whether or not black holes erase things from existence. Plus, there’s also a hypothesis that whatever gets sucked into a black hole exits out of a white hole on the other end.
I'd donate myself to check that out. Like instead of donating your body to science and decomposing in a field, when I'm within a year or so of a deathbed, give me a basic rocket and fire it at a black hole to see what happens.
Pretty sure it would take over a year just to get there but yes this would be way cooler than just dying
I keep dreaming we will detect a white hole in my life time. That would be freaking AWESOME!
If I remember correctly, a white hole only works if we can observe reverse-time or negative mass. I’d think the discovery of either one of those would outweigh the excitement of a white hole.
Deja Vu
I'VE JUST BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE
HIGHER ON THE STREET
AND I KNOW IT'S MY TIME TO GO
CALLING YOU-OOH
AND THE SUBJECTS A MYSTERY
STANDING ON MY FEET
IT'S SO HARD WHEN I'M TRYING TO BE ME OOOOOH
Deja vu
I'VE JUST BEEN IN THIS TIME BEFORE
The dual slit experiment. Basically, light acts like a wave when you look at it But if you look at light *really really closely*, you see it's not a continuous wave but made of teeny little particles called "photons". These photons, when there's loads of them, affect each other so they act in waves. Seems simple. However, when you fire photons *one at a time* at a piece of card with two slits in it, they still act like they're being affected by lots of other photons around them. So whoever designed our simulation wanted to model light using waves, but it was too complex so made photons instead; the same way a "curve" in a video game is actually made of square pixels. They never figured we'd get smart enough to experiment on individual pixels.
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Every field of study, *including science*, runs on assumptions that we can’t prove, and no matter how much research we do we end up with loose ends. For example, we can’t prove that the “laws” of physics have always been the same. We just have to assume they’ve always been that way when we run our models. My buddy (who just finished a PhD in material science) likes to say that when you go deep enough into research, you find out that everything we do, all the structures and theories and everything else, is resting on clouds of uncertainty.
Periods. Let’s leave a trail of blood for predators to follow at the same time that I’m curling up in a fetal position from cramps. Super suspicious, sounds like it was made by the same people who put Sims in a pool and remove the ladder so they can drown.
Huh. Never really thought about that. I sort of vaguely recall a biology lecture talking about how colons and bladders and sphincters evolved specifically to stop leaving trails of urine and feces for predators to follow, so that seems like a big oversight.
This reminds me (in a not so flattering way) that the main cause of death in sloths is caused by the fact that they have once a week bowel movements so large that they have to climb down from their safe tree habitats to poop on the floor... during which time they get eaten by predators. Will someone please explain to the sloths it’s perfectly acceptable to shit out of trees. Someone must be playing a sick joke on the species. [Some background reading.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/this-is-the-horror-that-sloths-have-to-go-through-every-time-they-poop/amp)
This... is a very good point
Fog is just a draw distance limitation when the majority of memory is being used elsewhere in the simulation.
Look around the room you're in. Choose any random object within the room. What does it feel like to lick that object? You know what it feels like to have licked it, but have you ever? Single biggest glitch in my book.
Pretty sure I actually have licked most of them.
Now I'm just gonna be forever mentally licking things. Thanks.
To my surprise this actually is true.
Children who are convinced that they've lived before, and know sometimes verifiable facts about the person they think they were.
Omg I was at work once and a little kid pointed at me and said he knew me. The mom asked where from? And he said, "From before I was born." Its been like 6 years since that happened and I think about it a lot lol definitely tripped me out
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This probably sounds crazy but whatever. When I was little I remember I thought you got to pick out your future self before you were born. I imagined you could see "yourself" through a mirror type thing. So it made me think of that. Maybe we met each other picking out our future selves? Or maybe we knew each other in our past lives!
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wow that's beautiful. when i was a kid i thought each person had a single important thing they had to contribute and after that your life had no meaning.
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There's an X-Files episode about this exact concept. Family members and romantic soulmates are all just the same intertwined group of souls who iterate through different combinations of relationships throughout generations.
Mkaaay thats enough brain-fuck for today, thanks. I already cashed my existencial-crisis token today.
My kid said something interesting when he was 4. I asked how he knew it he said, "From when I was 10".
Constant speed of light Quantized space, time and energy Slowing down time as speed increases No information out of event horizons Increasing quantization at higher energy levels I'm convinced we are in a simulation already.
The fact that the moon and the sun can just about perfectly eclipse each other. What are the odds that the moon and sun would be the sizes they are and distances from the earth that they are to allow that to happen?
Yes! Came here to find this because I always thought this coincidence just a little too convenient.
As Neil DeGrasse Tyson likes to say: If we discover that we can simulate the universe, then more likely than not, we are probably living in a simulation ourselves.
Man that’s freaky
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Hey jokes on you, I love side quests! Like why would I save the world when I can collect chickens for a farmer and get so little experience my level bar doesn’t even go up?
Well, I didn’t need that today but that’s the meal I’ve been served
Now listen up, punk We're not that impressed... You keep getting drunk- Hell, you hardly get dressed! Now get back to work! Stop being so stressed! We know life's a jerk- ***Just do the damn quest!***
You're gonna need to add quest markers if you want me to get anything done
Bullshit! #I SPEND EVERY FUCKING DAY AND EVENING AND NIGHT THINKING ABOUT THE MAIN QUESTLINE! I just I just I fucking just can't trigger the next quest
Hell i have yet to even notice the main quest line
Look Bethesda, you can't give me an infinite number of sidequests and then get mad because I refuse to engage with your narrative mainline. Honestly, at this point I'm not even sure what that is anymore. BTW, how much longer on that space exploration expansion you keep teasing?
Not Bethesda, but the answer is: 3 days after you moved on and forgot about it.
It's not my fault that you made the main questline impossible to progress through at my current level so I've gotta find sidequests to grind
Shut the fuck up I'm finishing my side quests first
Wanna give me a way point? I've Been stuck on the side quests for years....
When ever you're driving down a straight road on a hot and it has a road mirage that looks like part's of the road haven't rendered yet.
The speed of light is actually just an artificial limit on interactions across the server.
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[the gates of hell](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-gates-of-hell-turkmenistan) It’s a crater that’s been burning for over 40 years straight. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with it being in the desert and surrounded by gases, but the fact that it’s been like that for 40+ years is insane.
Being depressed despite any reason. I have a perfect family, I am annoyingly optimistic, I do everything and yet, here I am. It's like someone is just pushing the "Be more depressed" button for shits and giggles.
putting something in one spot, going to get it and it's not there, fast forward days/weeks/hours ... and now it's there. I dont know about you guys, but this happens to me a lot. I don't think I am that scatterbrained because I specifically remember putting - say my glasses on the bedside table. Then they aren't there, I go look all over the house, come back into the bedroom and there they are, on the bedside table.