• OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    But they were alive in my head and my existence is only validated by my perception. Thus, they were real. I perceived therefore I experience reality.

    I dunno. I’m not like a philosopher or anything

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    137·
    8 days ago

    I had a dream once where a woman grabbed my head, looked me in the eye, and said “when you wake up I won’t exist.”

    Freaked me out

    • ch00f@lemmy.world
      62·
      8 days ago

      I had a dream where I was in a group project back in high school, and I was apologizing to all of my group mates because I knew it was a dream and I was gonna wake up soon and leave them with all the work.

          • FaceDeer@fedia.io
            34·
            8 days ago

            I hope he did, because if he didn’t then that means we’re inside his dream too.

            In which case we need to make sure he never wakes up.

                • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
                  6·
                  8 days ago

                  It’s basically the religion in the Elder Scrolls games (Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind).

                  Ultimately above the deadra and all that, there is the sleeper. There’s a “dream sleeve” between their reality and the sleeper. If you can be spiritually free enough you can rise above and into the dream sleeve. Then you become like a God.

            • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              8 days ago

              My favorite quote:

              Everything we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

              Edgar Allen Poe

            • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
              2·
              8 days ago

              Nah dude I lost my purse on my bike ride today, then had to backtrack which made me run out of battery 30 miles into a 40 all because I was a dingus and didn’t secure it properly like I usually do. Now I have a sunburn and my legs ache and I was having a nice ride without moving my toothpicks. Wake him the fuck up.

              It is nice to have something trivial to complain about though.

            • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
              1·
              7 days ago

              Has anyone found an exploit, by the way? I can see our fore-hacker Hitler killed millions trying to hang the system, or Musk accumulating money trying to overflow the registers, to no avail. I mean, it has to have vulnerabilities if it’s a dream, which is just a simulation.

          • Venat0r@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 days ago

            Maybe that’s why right wingers are so anti-woke, they’re worried they’re part of someone else’s dream …

        • Ech@lemmy.ca
          4·
          8 days ago

          I’d argue that non-existence is far less troublesome than the reverse.

  • BreadOven@lemmy.world
    12·
    7 days ago

    Since OP decided not to post it, here’s the extra text:

    “This is one of those comics that causes a bunch of readers to check in on my mental health, isn’t it?”

    I much prefer when OPs include it in the description.

      • BreadOven@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        Ah, sorry. My apologies. Thanks for linking it though, that’s great. I do recommend checking out the extra text (I think it’s on every comic), it’s sometimes better than the comic haha. Sorry again, I shouldn’t have assumed you knew about them.

      • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        FWIW I checked the comic at SBMC and Im not sure what extra text they are talking about unless the author shared said extra text on a social network, but I don’t see anything you missed from your source.

        • BreadOven@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 days ago

          If you click on the comic (at least on mobile) the extra text comes up (on the site). I think there is some for every comic.

              • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
                2·
                7 days ago

                Oh so its the unfurl description. Interesting, but maybe a little obtuse for most users to find.

                Also doesnt show up on mine in the menu or on the share screen. Just when it unfurls in a chat.

                But I use Fennec and /e/OS so likely a user experience difference.

                • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
                  3·
                  7 days ago

                  You get to be one of todays lucky 10 thousand!

                  It’s one of those holdover things a good number internet old webcomics do, including the linked XKCD. It’s one of those things that’s effortless with your traditional mouse-keyboard desktop setup, because you hover your mouse and magically the alt-text appears without having to really find it. But for new users in the touch screen era? As you say, yeah, definitely obtuse. :)

      • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
        23·
        7 days ago

        An extremely American event that should obviously get an American date, and you should get called out if you don’t put it in an American format.

        • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          7 days ago

          It’s not “an American date”, it’s just a date format (that belongs to whoever is stupid enough to want to use it)

          • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
            1·
            7 days ago

            “The month–day–year (MDY) format (like September 6, 2025) is called the U.S. date format or American date format because it’s primarily used in the United States and a few other countries.”

            Also it’s obviously that format because 9/11

            911 that date was a deliberate mockery of America and that is the reason that date specifically was chosen if you use any other format it completely ignores history and lore of the 9/11 event.

            I agree this is a confusing date* but using literally anything else in this context is completely oblivious to the events that went on.

            *Of course if an entire society has said that this is the date we are going to use then that would make any other date as confusing as any other date despite some arbitrary numerical order.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    6·
    8 days ago

    As I said the last time I saw this, the early-aughts webcomic 1/0 covers this in some depth.

    It’s exactly 1000 strips, and holy frick how is it 25 years old

    • TheSpookiestUser@piefed.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I had read this once before a long time ago. You sent me down a rabbit hole of reading the whole thing straight through again. Thanks for that, good memories.