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Edited by Masque of Night:
5/12/2016 10:56:47 PM
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So, I forgot I was a real person today.
This is a very miniscule detail of my day, but I thought it was sort of amusing at the time, and gave me a little something to think about.
I'm currently employed with a marine electrical company. There's no relevance to this detail minus providing context for the setting, so dismiss at will. Anyway, the building we're in has two large shop areas, segmented by one small room in between them. For the past month the majority of the other employees have been out of town on installation jobs, so today there were only three of us actually in the shop, plus our boss in the office space. During the late morning, one of us left to pick up materials. I was doing my work in the back shop, the remaining employee was in the front. I was in that room for about an hour, undisturbed and at least in relative silence. Eventually I went to the break room for a cup of water and passed through the front shop, at which point I was acknowledged.
Boring story so far, and it doesn't get particularly eventful, but at that point I suddenly was reminded, "Oh yeah, i'm real". For some odd amount of time I genuinely forgot that I was a "real" person, in a world with other "real" people, only to be reminded when someone else acknowledged I was there. I've spent longer amounts of time alone before, but this was the first time that happened to me. And afterwards I just sort of wondered how I managed to really forget that I existed, or other people did as well. Now I just chalk it up to a mix of sleep deprivation and not really being mindful of my surroundings at the time, but it's just sort of funny to me that self-awareness and environmental awareness can slip away like that without notice.
Has anyone else had incidents like that? I hope I got the general idea of what I meant across, but it's weird to explain. I'm sure it's nothing unique to me, I just like stories, if any of y'all happen to have them. If not, how was your day? Anything good happen? Or bad? Or somewhere in between where everything was relatively normal. Feel free to check in or just talk about how you've been, if that's what you feel like doing.
[spoiler]I don't make many threads for a reason, you can probably guess why if you've read up to this point.[/spoiler]
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I once thought I heard a friend talking while walking to class. When I saw it wasn't them, I thought to myself, "hmm, must be the same voice actor". Needles to say, the ridiculousness of the thought dawned on me less than a second later. I need to watch less cartoons.
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1 ReplyI think I get at what you mean. I don't know that I've forgotten I was a real person, but I have lost myself in thoughts. Like, someone had to kick my kneecap to get me to "wake up". Yet I was aware of what was going on around me, I simply didn't care.
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1 ReplyWhen I'm very sleep deprived and on the verge of passing out, I begin to perceive reality as if I were playing a video game. I think of other people as characters and NPCs. If I think about closing a door, I imagine that I need to press an action button. If it's too bright in my room due to a tv or the lights being on, I try to figure out where the brightness settings are. Locations are perceived as levels. Things that I know I need to do, such as taking out the trash for example, are perceived as objectives and I try to find the marker that tells me where to go. All of that makes sense to me at the time as it's happening. The only thing about it that confuses me is why I can't find the brightness settings or why I'm lying in bed instead of playing.
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Sounds like you need some sort of excitement in your life. Perhaps a vacation
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1 ReplyThe other night I put a cheerio in my ear because I thought it was one of my headphones
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6 RepliesMy brother called me out as an NPC the other day. When asked about where was good to eat in the city, I responded on two separate occasions with the same answer, apparently in the same tone and copied word for word.
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I think I may relate... I sometimes just feel like I phase out of existence (or at least my mind does), while I keep on walking without acknowledging it, while having a completely blank face, then snap back to reality and feel confused. [spoiler]or maybe I was possessed...[/spoiler] [spoiler]lol jk[/spoiler]
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1 Replyidk if this will make sense but for the past 2 weeks I've been waking up and thinking "Am I real" or "Is my life real or am I just dreaming".. kind of feels weird and creepy
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1 ReplyThis thread is pretty awesome. I can't say I know that feeling myself, however I feel like I can understand it. long periods of time on your own can really mess with your head. At one point other people talking to me at work felt like a life raft and I would cling on th them like they were what my life depended on.
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2 RepliesExistentialism is a common symptom of sleep deprivation. Trust me, I would know.
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1 ReplyErm, okay, this is new - are you okay?
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I kind of have the opposite thing happen every now and again. I will suddenly feel very aware that I'm seeing through my eyes, almost like I've been pulled back a few inches inside my face, and everything seems bizarrely unreal for a few moments.
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1 Replyᴅᴇɴʏɪɴɢ ʀᴇᴀʟɪᴛʏ ɪs ᴀ ᴡᴀʏ ᴛᴏ ᴛʀʏ ᴛᴏ ᴇᴠᴀᴅᴇ ᴄʀɪsɪs ᴀɴᴅ ғᴀɪʟ ᴍɪsᴇʀᴀʙʟʏ...
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1 ReplyIt's weird to think that everyone else is just as real as I am. I feel as if I'm the only real being but then again how do I know you're real? All I know is that I'm real and there's absolutely no way of knowing who else is.
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Sounds like a typical Tuesday
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1 ReplyThe voices told me I was a frog. Anyone experience similar?
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3 Repliesdrink more light coffee.
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I do that all the time
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Eh, I tend to have thoughts like that on a regular basis. Sometimes it's just overwhelming how shocking reality is and the fact that I'm part of said reality. Existence is weird...
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Were you an attack helicopter ?
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4 RepliesI forgot you were a real person too
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7 RepliesI was doing some art the other day and after I completed my piece, I looked at it and for some reason it felt like a memory, almost as if I've been here before, some weird déjà vu sh*t...
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3 RepliesAll Stanley did all day was push buttons.
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5 Replies🌙 Praise the moon!
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3 RepliesI wish I was a real person. I'm fake.
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6 RepliesThis happened to me one time after I ate a bunch of magic mushrooms. Str8 suicide trip. Not literal suicide mind you. Metaphorically... "the death of an identity" I guess is a better way to describe it. Most hellishly intense, introspective nightmare. Ever. Open-eye visual effects on top of it all... nuts. 10/10 but would not recommend. The mind is an interesting thing.
