What would you do if you found yourself in this situation?
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April 7th, 2010
Suppose that all of a sudden, everything flickers, and fades to white. You are sitting in a white padded room, in a straight jacket, rocking back and forth, and everything you thought was life was just a delusion of your insanity. What would you do, what would you think?
Furthermore, what is they came and talked to you, and said that this happens every month, you spend a month, living your “life”, wake up from your delusion for 2 hours, and you slip back into a delusion again, wiping your memory, and you live an entire lifetime again. What would you do, what would you think?
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I would resolve to stop eating acid on weeknights.
Maybe those moments in the white room are the delusion and the rest is real.
This really wouldn’t surprise me at all if it happened to me
My “life” isn’t very bad at all. I think I would relish the delusion of living and work to convince myself that the padded room was just a dream.
Other than that, I don’t really know what I would do. It’s not like there is really anything I could do, really.
What can you do but wait? You’re in a straight jacket locked in a padded room.
I think you must be writing this from your padded room now.
@Captain_Fantasy: Have you ever read the short story “La noche boca arriba”? The English is probably something like “The Night Face Up”. What you said reminds me of that.
@XOIIO: This question reminds me of the film “Abre los Ojos”/“Open Your Eyes”. Have you seen it?!?!?
I guess I’m in a “totally reminds me of” kind of mood tonight…
I’d want my drugs so I could get back to my life.
I would think: “Ah, finallly they all realized what I needed and got me to my rightful place!”
Oh shit—I should have chosen the blue pill!
I’d wait for the next episode.
When I found a life I really liked I’d try to stay there.
I’d stop eating the school food
I would think about watching the matrix.
I’ll wait in this place where the sun never shines; Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves… And then take another tab, apparently.
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