What if I’m asleep in a hospital somewhere and I could die any moment they decide to pull the plug?!?! 
Jesus why has my mind been giving me existential crisises at night this week? 
Do those “how to know if your dreaming” strategies, like looking at the time on a clock, looking away, and then checking the clock again for consistency.
you’re all little gay people stuck in my computer and i must free you with a rock
Use a screwdriver
Easier to punch through the LEDs
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was an owl, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a owl. I was conscious only of my happiness as a owl, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then an enby dreaming I was a owl, or whether I am now a owl, dreaming I am an enby.
Zhuangzi_Owl
All of these comments are way more wholesome than expected
What if all of existence as we know it is in the mind of an autistic child looking into a snow globe?
My god, it would be just like St. Elsewhere!
found another old
really looking forward to the age survey, that info is going to be fascinating af
Hey, I’m still only flirty years old
There was this cool science fiction short story i read, a looooong time ago, about astronauts crashing on a planet on the edges of space. On it was an entire civilization that turns out had been dreamed to life by this earth teenager as part of his vivid sex fantasy. I wish i knew what it was called so i can read it again
I could sure go for a Morley right now…
There’s this web serial author I like and I remember reading a chapter of one of his stories and realizing that the voices of several characters who weren’t the super pragmatic tactician overanalyzer main character… Were kind of tactician-y and were overanalyzing things to a high degree.
Unless you’re a pretty good professional writer I think it’d be very hard to give believable speech patterns to a variety of people.
Thank god I suck at writing
Need to do fanart of the obligatory dark and depressing Hexbear coma fan theory
(Also oh shit happy sitesiversary)
One way to determine if you’re dreaming is to jerk off. Cumming doesn’t happen in real life. It’s only something you dream about. So if you successfully get yourself off, you know you’re still asleep. But if you’re just abusing yourself mercilessly to no effect, it’s the real work and you’re awake.
I’d like to think you’d imagine something way cooler happening than climate disasters and genocide – like, even your nightmares probably aren’t this kinda banal
I’d be pissed if this is a shitty dream with 90 hour work weeks
Man back when I worked at one of the pizza chains I would have dreams where I just worked a very normal shift. It sucked ass, I would wake up feeling like I just worked for 8 hours, and then have to go to work.
Swear down. I barely get enough sleep and I be dreaming of work.
not exactly this, but this
I unironically love that comic and have had almost that exact argument before I even saw it, which made me love it even more. Yes, I pretty much talked like Comrade Mickey there too.
bite yojur cheek it ouchie
Doesn’t matter, just keep going, outcome is pretty similar if its virtual or ‘the real deal’ when you can’t tell. Its not good to dwell on this low vibe bourgeois Victorian thought.
Reminds me of dreams I have where I live a whole life with a career, or start a family etc, then I wake up back to this waking nightmare.
I watched one (1) show were this was going on, and I think I’ve concocted a way of telling.
How much David Bowie are you hearing in your day-to-day life?
If you look at a TV screen or turn on the radio, do you hear doctors arguing about how best to treat you?
Have you shot back to the 70’s or 80’s to work as a cop?
No, no and no
…Whew
I would NEVER be a cop
I would NEVER be a cop
Ok Narc_Owl
Don Siegel’s Dirty Owl (1971)
I’m hearing a lot of David Bowie in my day to day life, should I be concerned?
Not necessarily, there are other possible explanations. For example - you may be in suspended animation on a space ship sent to colonise mars.
Am I on a King Bazinga colonizing ship or a USSR2 colonizing ship? That determines what I do when I wake up out of suspended animation
You’re in an American remake trying to outsmart the source material kinda ship.
Wait, this isn’t about 1899, right? Because I can’t recall the purpose of the spaceship in 1899 ever being clarified before the show was cancelled.
I was shitposting about Life on Mars.
we did it! we found the dreamer!
If my life is the dream then I genuinely fear for what the real world would look like
Fantastic show. Though to be fair, it was never quite clear if he was in a coma or just insane.
The follow up series, Ashes to Ashes makes it more clear, but is also a much worse show.
Oh yeah, I watched an episode of that then wiped it from my memory. Fair enough.
Nothing is real except for the endless void that this stimulative universe spawned out of, but I think we should enjoy our unreal reality, because it’s all we’ve got.
