Feel like people don’t exist?

[Alex]

Does anyone ever feel like they're living in a simulation? Like no one else exists? I don't know, everyone I've met just seems fake an insincere. There's only like 2-3 people who I've felt were like really real and genuine. I'd this some sort of mental disorder?

 

[weedoge]

Does anyone ever feel like they're living in a simulation? Like no one else exists? I don't know, everyone I've met just seems fake an insincere. There's only like 2-3 people who I've felt were like really real and genuine. I'd this some sort of mental disorder?

Some ppl would say so but also not sure if being overly weary to the point of slight detachment is just a reasonable responsible to being hurt enough times?

 

[sólstafir]

Lately I feel if I'd go out and live, I'd be the one who is fake and insincere, because I would try to pretend to be normal, so I'd come off as fake, because I just... don't know anymore, how people are talking when their main thoughts during the day doesn't circle around suicide. When I'm walking outside, I feel alone because I think that they're normal and I am the only one who is lost. I'm sure I've felt like you at some point though.

 

[Aris.NecroLight]

Every time. But maybe I'm the one who's been simulated, with how different I am. But I mean... think about existence... it's like everything's made up... things could be one way, but they are this way. It gives me that feeling that someone is programming it. So the tools are there, anyone could program it the way they wanted, and the 'being' that is behind programming life decided to program it this way. In this sense, our lives don't have that much meaning. But the other point about everything being a simulation is that most people can't really reach out to you. They can talk to you, but in the end, it feels more like they are an 'aid'. Simulated beings created for your own personal quest. It really feels that way for me. That's also why there are so many people. One gives you something, then another one comes. It really feels like they aren't there. Like they are following their own way, and that way happens to help you in that 'quest', but you can't really change them because... they are simulated. I'm not sure I'm explaining this right though, but I hope you understand my point.

On the other hand though, I also feel everything HAS a meaning, but it's hard to say. Perhaps people are actually people, and perhaps they can reach out to you. Perhaps some of us humans are small parts of something bigger, that got divided so the original being would never be formed again (I have many theories regarding what's actually happening in the Universe, outside our world... and it's everything very crazy, but the world is stranger than we think after all). That would explain why we feel alone, and why we don't feel together either. We'd feel alone because we are still divided (not the full being), and even if we tried, there's still that 'spell', if to call it that way.

Anyway... I've written a lot about this many times, and as I was saying, it's pretty crazy and I guess many think that I myself am crazy. Perhaps... perhaps not.

 

[worldexploder]

Technically we could be living in a simulation. Look at how history unfolded and all the characters that came with it. The greatest writers in the world couldn't have made this stuff up. I don't believe we are in a simulation but I can't disprove it ether.

 

[Schopenhauer]

Technically we could be living in a simulation. Look at how history unfolded and all the characters that came with it. The greatest writers in the world couldn't have made this stuff up. I don't believe we are in a simulation but I can't disprove it ether.

Sometimes the writers do a pretty bad job too. Please read this post detailing how World War II is badly written:

Probably the worst part was the ending. The British/German story arc gets boring, so they tie it up quickly, have the villain kill himself (on Walpurgisnacht of all days, not exactly subtle) and then totally switch gears to a battle between the Americans and the Japanese in the Pacific. Pretty much the same dichotomy - the Japanese kill, torture, perform medical experiments on prisoners, and frickin' play football with the heads of murdered children, and the Americans are led by a kindly old man in a wheelchair.

Anyway, they spend the whole season building up how the Japanese home islands are a fortress, and the Japanese will never surrender, and there's no way to take the Japanese home islands because they're invincible...and then they realize they totally can't have the Americans take the Japanese home islands so they have no way to wrap up the season.

So they invent a completely implausible superweapon that they've never mentioned until now. Apparently the Americans got some scientists together to invent it, only we never heard anything about it because it was "classified". In two years, the scientists manage to invent a weapon a thousand times more powerful than anything anyone's ever seen before - drawing from, of course, ancient mystical texts. Then they use the superweapon, blow up several Japanese cities easily, and the Japanese surrender. Convenient, isn't it?
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This is just part of it. Do read the whole thing. Sorry for hijacking your thread, OP. Unfortunately I'm a real person :(

 

[worldexploder]

Sometimes the writers do a pretty bad job too. Please read this post detailing how World War II is badly written:

Probably the worst part was the ending. The British/German story arc gets boring, so they tie it up quickly, have the villain kill himself (on Walpurgisnacht of all days, not exactly subtle) and then totally switch gears to a battle between the Americans and the Japanese in the Pacific. Pretty much the same dichotomy - the Japanese kill, torture, perform medical experiments on prisoners, and frickin' play football with the heads of murdered children, and the Americans are led by a kindly old man in a wheelchair.

Anyway, they spend the whole season building up how the Japanese home islands are a fortress, and the Japanese will never surrender, and there's no way to take the Japanese home islands because they're invincible...and then they realize they totally can't have the Americans take the Japanese home islands so they have no way to wrap up the season.

So they invent a completely implausible superweapon that they've never mentioned until now. Apparently the Americans got some scientists together to invent it, only we never heard anything about it because it was "classified". In two years, the scientists manage to invent a weapon a thousand times more powerful than anything anyone's ever seen before - drawing from, of course, ancient mystical texts. Then they use the superweapon, blow up several Japanese cities easily, and the Japanese surrender. Convenient, isn't it?
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This is just part of it. Do read the whole thing. Sorry for hijacking your thread, OP. Unfortunately I'm a real person :(

Very interesting read. Maybe the simulation put in boring parts so we wouldn't catch on . Jk I'm pretty sure we aren't living in a simulation despite what Elon Musk thinks.

 

[nzdarkshark]

Sometimes I feel like either everything around me is fake or I'm fake. I can't decide which.

 

[Made4TV]

There are two dissociative disorders...derealization and depersonalization. Could be a bit of that too.

 

[Dani Paradox]

Yeah, sounds kind of like dissociation.

 

[bunny]

yeah, definitely. i often feel like i'm just observing my primitive responses. i feel like i don't exist too.