Reality shifting: an emergent online daydreaming culture
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Reality shifting: an emergent online daydreaming culture
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#2This reminds me of when I was in high school, depressed, and desperately wanting to lucid dream. I understand the appeal. The blur between "worlds" gets into some wild sci-fi morality situations though.
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#3This paper is worth reading, the whole reality shifting thing (and related concepts like tulpamancy) is a very interesting psychological phenomenon.
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#4Also known as having an imagination. I remember doing this on bus rides to better understand quake levels.
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#5Gen Z is using TikTok to teleport to Hogwarts? Is this parody?
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#6Wow, and here I am dropping cash on weed and shrooms like a chump. I’ll be honest, this strikes me as similar to the whole binaural sounds thing…I tried that way back in high school and got nothing from it but my friend swore it was elevating. I won’t knock it, I’m sure some people really do get something out of it and who and I to say otherwise. I might even try it some time. But shrooms haven’t ever let me down. So at least I’ve got a backup
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#7i think it can be healthy. visionaries are people who see the future using existing constructs, here is a way to look at it, before you do anything you typically think or envision yourself doing that action before you do it, the way it works best is breaking it down into steps instead of staying at the final image. in all actuality if you write each step down and give possible ways to accomplish each step and add a date you have what many planning books call micro goals that lead to the end goal or overall goal. never let the internet stop you from dreaming, a lot more is possible if we allow our minds to think of possible outcomes.
plus, mostly everyone dreams, even a nightmare is a dream, might as well think of alternatives to get yourself out of mental gridlock.
imagination is where abundance exist because abundance is the mindset of how we think about what we have in front of us. scarcity is the limiting of beliefs about the world around us. if we thought the cave was the only shelter none of us would be here sipping on lattes inside of a coffee shop scrolling yc
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#8Matrix generation.
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#9Also known as having an imagination. I remember doing this on bus rides to better understand quake levels.
I’m thinking being able to replay worlds or map geometry like your brain is rendering it live is more rare and maybe this is teaching it a bit. No one’s ever quizzed me on how many details (big and small) I could get right though.
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#10Interesting phenomenon.
I'm not super well versed on quantum physics, but I'm not sure that a system that includes travel between universes should be described as 'rooted in extrapolations of modern cosmology, quantum theory,[...,],' so much based on fictional systems lightly inspired by quantum physics.
Anyway, given the state of the world it isn't that surprising that people would like to indulge in a bit more daydreaming nowadays. Especially young adults missing formative early events (a happy and relatively free first couple years of independence in college, for example). Perhaps there's an 'alternate universe' in which we really isolated college campuses and the students there could have had their Hogwarts. We failed them miserably.