What if it was all fake?
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For eleven years i'd be an incredibly well-spoken child prodigy who could use the better understanding of the workings of socialising to become well-liked by pretty much everyone.
But then i'd just become a mediocre 16-year-old again.
But then i'd just become a mediocre 16-year-old again.
ARE YOU KIDDING?! I'd be a fucking BILLIONAIRE! I'd invent the fucking iPhone and Youtube! I'd invest in Google! I'd be the savvy-est business-child alive by the year 2004!!!!! Holy shit! I'd get to be a child genius and skip from Kindergarten to University! I'd spend so much time just reading and playing video games (same life, but different games) It'd be difficult explaining 9/11 and attempting to prevent it and all the horse-shit that followed (although it'd circumvent some serious comedy and societal growth) as a fucking 8 year old. I'd feel a certain obligation to change my family's history. Unless its actually a dream in which I remember a few details of the 14 year long escapade but nothing major enough to change anything. Then it'd just be pointless. Fuck that, I'd weep like a five-year-old then go watch Pokemon with even more interest than I did when it was on.dwarf43 said:
Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure it was real? What if you were unable to awake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world, and the real world?
That aside, I'd try not to make the same mistakes the second time round.
A bit clichéd, I know, but still.
1)Refuse the ADD medications.
2)Ask for SNES instead of Genesis.
3)Stay in therapy, convince them you're not a hypochondriac.
4)Never stop riding bike or hiking.
5)Give up on art early, stay at the first college. Just say no to Sallie Mae.
6)Convince family to move to another state for non-college reasons, as entire state will be on fire in the post Y2K summers & snowing for half a year in the 2010s.
7)Get grama better medicine for kidney stones, make her drink twice as much water.
8)Never move into the house with the fleas & pet-snatching hawk.
2)Ask for SNES instead of Genesis.
3)Stay in therapy, convince them you're not a hypochondriac.
4)Never stop riding bike or hiking.
5)Give up on art early, stay at the first college. Just say no to Sallie Mae.
6)Convince family to move to another state for non-college reasons, as entire state will be on fire in the post Y2K summers & snowing for half a year in the 2010s.
7)Get grama better medicine for kidney stones, make her drink twice as much water.
8)Never move into the house with the fleas & pet-snatching hawk.
well first I would Have to work out how to play it I mean the happy go lucky kid i was when I was five just turned into an antisocial cynical ass hole
Secondly the lack of controll would be painfull I mean bed times fuck that
then I would have to get kicked out of home again so I can meet a few of the best people in my life
Secondly the lack of controll would be painfull I mean bed times fuck that
then I would have to get kicked out of home again so I can meet a few of the best people in my life
If anything, i'd get into computers and stuff way sooner, use the math skills from the dream to get to highschool at 6, college degree at 12, rest of childhood spent gaming, develop super application everyone wants to buy, give money to Eliezer Yudkowsky, get super AI, live forever through its discoveries, become a god along with the rest of mankind.
By Ra.
I get to watch Darkwing Duck again.
The real question is. Does my knowledge still count?
I mean, I could get into the things I'm into now so much sooner.
Of course, I'm not sure if I had an internet connection back then...
Which could be a problem...
I get to watch Darkwing Duck again.
The real question is. Does my knowledge still count?
I mean, I could get into the things I'm into now so much sooner.
Of course, I'm not sure if I had an internet connection back then...
Which could be a problem...
Wait, if the real me is only 5 years old then whatever I had experience now right is something I wouldn't be able to comprehen seeing how my brain isn't developed that far compared to the 25 years old or am I really that smart for a 5 year ago?
I am little confused.
Let say all this was a dream and you are now again a 5 years old boy/girl and you have the "real" chance to live your life you always wanted.
The question is......Are you 5 years old and still remember that your future self was just a dream or you just start over without knowing nothing at all?
Both scenarios are meaningless:
-If you still remember your future self, well, you would become a boy genius to the rest of the people. You after all you are a 5 years old boy/girl and you have the knowledge of a, let say 30 years old woman/man, plus the most important, [YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE!!!. In other world, you are the new Jesus Christ. Or Antichrist if you want to take the other path. You are a mirale.
-If you don't have the memory of yout future self.......very simple you will repeat everything AGAIN no matter what.
EDIT: My English are terrible, but lazy to fix
Let say all this was a dream and you are now again a 5 years old boy/girl and you have the "real" chance to live your life you always wanted.
The question is......Are you 5 years old and still remember that your future self was just a dream or you just start over without knowing nothing at all?
Both scenarios are meaningless:
-If you still remember your future self, well, you would become a boy genius to the rest of the people. You after all you are a 5 years old boy/girl and you have the knowledge of a, let say 30 years old woman/man, plus the most important, [YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE!!!. In other world, you are the new Jesus Christ. Or Antichrist if you want to take the other path. You are a mirale.
-If you don't have the memory of yout future self.......very simple you will repeat everything AGAIN no matter what.
EDIT: My English are terrible, but lazy to fix
It was a simulation not the future. You can't just now invest in apple etc.
I would take the simulation as the best learning experience a person could have. In my teens I felt like I didn't really grow much as a person only in the last few years have I felt I have started to move forward. I know how to do it. Doing that from when I started school means by the time I hit this age the second time around I will achieve so much more.
I would take the simulation as the best learning experience a person could have. In my teens I felt like I didn't really grow much as a person only in the last few years have I felt I have started to move forward. I know how to do it. Doing that from when I started school means by the time I hit this age the second time around I will achieve so much more.
I would Invest in apple and actually learn how to play a musical instrument you could even use songs that haven't been written yet and become famous as a musical prodigy
Step 1. Check if genitalia still intact.
IF YES -> Masturbate for the first time in the realworld
IF NOT -> Hurl body out of a high place
IF YES -> Masturbate for the first time in the realworld
IF NOT -> Hurl body out of a high place
Again, that why I am saying is confusing.Cazza said:
True, all this was a simulation. However, apparently this simulation is so GOD Almighty powerful that it can simulates possible inventions, ideas, discoveries that can litterally change the course of history in the future.
So the ONLY possible scenario I think this could happening, is this simulation was only for a pass time period. For example a simulation that simulate your life as an assasin in Third Crusade time peri.......wait...
Yep.
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Btw, I played only the first game and never finished it, so I don't know so much about the story.
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Also, another example is Matrix.
If it was all simulation, I'm gonna assume that all of my personal experiences (events I've witnessed) were all made up and thus it's not like I possess knowledge of the future (no preventing 9/11 for me). However, I'm also gonna assume that the knowledge/experience I gained was not some made up bullshit and as thus, my experiences has some applicable qualities in the real world. To paraphrase the last sentence, even though the education and life lessons that I've collected over my life was mostly simulation, they're no less real than those that were experienced in the real world.
If this is the case, you just created a 5 year old with 15 years worth of customer service experience, who's only one year away from getting his bachelors degree in computer science.
If this is the case, you just created a 5 year old with 15 years worth of customer service experience, who's only one year away from getting his bachelors degree in computer science.
Constructed realities are so much fun. I'm with those who point out that the dream/simulation was just that- a simulated experience. How closely does it correspond to the world? How many of the "initial conditions" at the point of divergence, i.e. when the deam/sim was initialized, corresponded to real-world conditions?
For instance, I might have "dreamed" the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that we know, and wake up in a universe where Gates never held onto the rights to DOS and Jobs never left Apple to muck around with NeXT.
Having awoken from this dream, and finding myself to be 5 years old in the 80s again, it's anybody's guess whether my comparatively undeveloped brain will be able to cope with things. I might have trouble believing that the world I've woken up in isn't another sim/dream. Maybe I'd be able to give adults some stock or gambling advice. If I saw events play out as I recalled them having played out in the dream world, I would probably start recording what I "remembered" was still yet to come. Maybe I could stop something, maybe not. It's hard to imagine a minor having much chance of influencing the world; could I have stopped the Challenger disaster, or the bombings of the 90s, or the unpleasantness in the Balkans? Perhaps I would become some sort of Cassandra-esque mental patient, akin to Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys.
But it's just as likely I'd wake up in a world which radically diverged from the dream and I'd be just a little wiser for it.
See Replay by Ken Grimwood for much deeper exploration of this theme.
Sidenote: this happened to me once... sort of. I woke up in the middle of the night and a pattern of light & shadows in my quarters looked (through my eyes, lidded heavily with sleep) like the light that came in through the doorway of my bedroom when I was a child. For a few moments, I was a 10 year old kid again, my parents were sleeping just a door away, and everything was alright. It's hard to express how deeply secure I felt for that moment- the intervening decade-plus were gone from my mind. No growing up, no responsibilities, none of the nastiness of the last decades. I was a little sad when I woke all the way up.
For instance, I might have "dreamed" the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that we know, and wake up in a universe where Gates never held onto the rights to DOS and Jobs never left Apple to muck around with NeXT.
Having awoken from this dream, and finding myself to be 5 years old in the 80s again, it's anybody's guess whether my comparatively undeveloped brain will be able to cope with things. I might have trouble believing that the world I've woken up in isn't another sim/dream. Maybe I'd be able to give adults some stock or gambling advice. If I saw events play out as I recalled them having played out in the dream world, I would probably start recording what I "remembered" was still yet to come. Maybe I could stop something, maybe not. It's hard to imagine a minor having much chance of influencing the world; could I have stopped the Challenger disaster, or the bombings of the 90s, or the unpleasantness in the Balkans? Perhaps I would become some sort of Cassandra-esque mental patient, akin to Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys.
But it's just as likely I'd wake up in a world which radically diverged from the dream and I'd be just a little wiser for it.
See Replay by Ken Grimwood for much deeper exploration of this theme.
Sidenote: this happened to me once... sort of. I woke up in the middle of the night and a pattern of light & shadows in my quarters looked (through my eyes, lidded heavily with sleep) like the light that came in through the doorway of my bedroom when I was a child. For a few moments, I was a 10 year old kid again, my parents were sleeping just a door away, and everything was alright. It's hard to express how deeply secure I felt for that moment- the intervening decade-plus were gone from my mind. No growing up, no responsibilities, none of the nastiness of the last decades. I was a little sad when I woke all the way up.