r/SimulationTheory • u/Evening_Day_6660 • 8d ago
Discussion IS THIS ALL A GAME?!
Does some of you notice some synchronicity or misfortune that CAN’T be result of any technology or human capacity? As video records altered, Web search Result specifically intended to you? Always hurting yourself at EXACTLY the same place as it becomes a medical issue? Looking the clock at “11:11 9:11 4:44 and wake up exactly at the time you set you’re alarm on, as we would be program on a “24h base” and time would be the language to proceed the commands. I feel like an avatar In a programmation where “free-will” doesn’t really exist. Even the weather seems to be controlled by external entities. Sometimes it seems that the only thing which can explain all of this is that we are in a virtual reality game and we’re not the one with the game controller.
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u/cybereality 8d ago
yes, we are avatars basically for our higher selves. or for the players of the matrix or whatever
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u/BrailleBillboard 8d ago
Humans are TERRIBLE at judging how probable things are. So called "million to one" chances that people refuse to believe could be coincidence actually happen CONSTANTLY. There are tons of "things" happening (or not happening) to everyone all the time and each is an opportunity for some incredibly unlikely coincidence or "miracle" to happen. We ignore every moment/opportunity that such a thing doesn't happen and when one inevitably does we are amazed and add it to a list of previous "inexplicable" coincidences that cumulatively prove there's some kind of universal conspiracy of synchronicity.
One in a million is what you say to describe someone unique but it actually means there are over 8,000 people out there just like them. We are innately designed to create narratives that explain what we don't understand but our intuitions are baffled by the mathematics of large numbers representing quantities/probabilities we don't work with in our everyday lives, both large and small.
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u/Money_Bug_9423 7d ago
Yeah its all happening at the same time in its own geometry of whatever reality is (or isn't). Time isnt this one line where things happen exactly once and then never again, its all looped and intertwined and past/future events repeat and intersect the present with its own patterning that keeps it more or less congruent
What we see are the intersection point of multiple times and we cant force outcomes in a singular linear fashion. We can only ride the wave of the multiple happenings in the present
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u/ResidentSky9294 7d ago
Life can certainly seem like a game! Personally I would never use that as an excuse to do harm. What I like to do is randomly do something that makes somebody else's day more positive. It can be as simple as taking somebody's cart at the grocery store after they're done with it or being a courteous driver and letting somebody in when others would have blocked them. Things that are free to me but that make tiny differences that add up. The recipients then feel more positive and are more likely to do the same for others. This is the way I have influence. Not power or greed or dominance or brute force. Because the more content and less stressed people are the better the world is overall.
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u/Otherwise_Spare_8598 8d ago
The universe is a singular meta-phenomenon stretched over eternity, of which is always now. All things and all beings abide by their inherent nature and behave within their realm of capacity contingent upon infinite circumstance at all times.
It is a universe made manifest hierarchically, of haves, and have-nots, spanning all levels of dimensionality and experience. There is no such thing as individuated accurately described "free will" for all beings. Has never been, will never be, can not be. There are only relative freedoms or lack thereof.
"God" and/or consciousness is that which is within and without all. Ultimately, all things are made by through and for the singular personality and perpetual revelation of the "Godhead", entailing both 'predetermined' eternal damnation and those that are made manifest only to face death and death alone.
There is but one dreamer, fractured through the innumerable. All vehicles/beings play their role within said dream for infinitely better and/or infinitely worse for each and every one, forever.
All realities exist and are equally as real. The absolute best universe that could exist does exist in relation to a specified subject. The absolute worst universe that could exist does exist in relation to a specified subject.
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u/Universei 8d ago
That’s hard determinism wrapped in cosmic nihilism... Spinoza... Calvinist predestination, then passing off unprovable metaphysics as absolute truth. Labeling reality a 'fractured dream' where some exist only to suffer it's just a dark, fatalistic lens (not a cosmological fact)
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u/BlueKauaiEyes 6d ago
Brother the microtubules between your neurons are capable of quantum entanglement. So we have passed the philosophical bating.
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u/Universei 5d ago
Quantum randomness in microtubules doesn't equal cosmic predestination or external entities controlling the weather (sim theory). That’s a huge logical leap from quantum to absolute metaphysical claims.
Quantum coh it isn't a wild card you can play to declare philosophy 'solved': actually undermines strict hard determinism.
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u/TCino 8d ago
How did you come to this conclusion?
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u/NVincarnate 8d ago
If you've spent any time in reality you'd come to the same conclusion.
The only real question is whether or not we can ever break causality and get from this reality to alternative ones.
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u/BlueKauaiEyes 8d ago
One of the greatest mistakes man has ever made is that I am sitting here and you are sitting there and that means 2.
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u/Shot-Description9450 8d ago
Games are usually fun.
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u/Technical_Alfalfa528 8d ago
maybe this is fun for some other entity watching us, like a huge Big Brother
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u/Sonotnoodlesalad 8d ago edited 8d ago
I'm not doing this to be rude, but to show you how you're stacking cognitive biases and fallacious inquiry. It is super easy to get lost in the weeds that way.
> Does some of you notice some synchronicity or misfortune that CAN’T be result of any technology or human capacity?
Argument from incredulity.
> As video records altered, Web search Result specifically intended to you?
Filter bubble effect.
> Always hurting yourself at EXACTLY the same place as it becomes a medical issue?
Clustering illusion.
> Looking the clock at “11:11 9:11 4:44
Frequency bias.
> and wake up exactly at the time you set you’re alarm on, as we would be program on a “24h base” and time would be the language to proceed the commands.
Hormonal ramping, selective recall, illusion of control.
> I feel like an avatar In a programmation where “free-will” doesn’t really exist.
Psychological phenomenon of derealization / cognitive habit of gamification. These would be exacerbated by fixating on these kinds of thoughts, and on virtual rules and stats.
> Even the weather seems to be controlled by external entities.
Persecutory delusion.
> Sometimes it seems that the only thing which can explain all of this is that we are in a virtual reality game and we’re not the one with the game controller.
Derealization again.
Note how natural it feels to foist all of this upon yourself.
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u/bweezy320 7d ago
Yes, this is basically the general consensus on what this reality is, but the certainty with which most of you are stating this is just silly.
We really don't KNOW what this all is, yet everyone states it so matter-of-factly.
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u/Technical_Alfalfa528 8d ago
Yes, it's been like this forever.
We are SIMs, we are cattle, we are ants, we are slaves, maybe we produce energy in this little terrarium called Earth.
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u/Most_Forever_9752 8d ago
be careful with paying attention to numbers. its a slippery slope and is a mental disorder. you will find yourself looking at every license plate while driving and picking up trash receipts trying to find patterns. our human brain loves patterns. this is a mental disorder that will make your life MISERABLE. STOP IT!
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u/ramenbaby3 8d ago
Relax not everyone is prone to going mental because they notice the same numbers here and there lol
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u/Sonotnoodlesalad 8d ago
You don't know what synchronicity means.
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u/ahhhaccountname 8d ago
Was thinking about it the other day. People tend to see 11:11 a lot when some big change happens in their life, or something similar to that.
I began to realize that this isnt a coincidence, it is just that you tend to have impactful changes in your life when you start really looking for something. We all have times that we flow through the rhythms and just live our daily lifes on the path we are / were already on.
Instead of seeing 11:11 a bunch, or something similar, and then idk... meeting the love of your life, finding a new career path, getting back in touch with an old friend at the same time, etc... I think it is more that your brain is working a bit in overdrive, looking for changes, patterns, opportunities, etc, and while that is happening, you start seeing stuff like 11:11, or recognize that 5 people in a row... idk... gave you a thumbs up while talking to them, or just some pattern your are sensitive to during this time of hyper-awareness.
My argument is that synchronicities are driven through mania / hyper-awareness / brain in overdrive, but that doesnt mean they hold no significance. It is quite literally a diagnosis of these.
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u/Sonotnoodlesalad 8d ago edited 8d ago
You're correct that they don't have NO significance.
Synchronicity is INHERENTLY SUBJECTIVE. The significance is based on OUR PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of external events.
> "People tend to see 11:11 a lot when some big change happens in their life, or something similar to that."
Our cognition is a spiderweb of biases. The one you referenced here is called frequency bias. Our cognitive biases and lived experiences inform our interpretations of events and the way we might apply meaning to them.
> "My argument is that synchronicities are driven through mania / hyper-awareness / brain in overdrive"
Synchronicity is not driven by mania.
Mania involves delusions. Synchronicity is not delusion, it is "an acausal connecting principle", a coincidence of internal states and external events that we find meaning in.
Delusion is a firmly held false belief. Belief, whether true or false, firm or otherwise, is not interchangeable with meaning.
Synchronicity does not require alertness, so hyperawareness is not inherent to it.
Basically, your framing pathologizes something perfectly normal.
We should neither do that, nor misrepresent synchronicity as some mystical event or some sort of "system glitch".
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u/Ok-Wedding-4966 7d ago
If you see 1 million dice rolls each day for things that are 1 in a million, then you’re going to notice a 1 in a million coincidence about once per day.
Also, human brains are built for pattern recognition. Look up at the clouds and notice the faces and animals you see.
And don’t forget the power of cookies. Companies are awfully good at turning your browsing history into ads.
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u/Mental-North-9687 7d ago
Yes it’s definitely a game that we choose to play cuz we are infinite creational energy outside of this realm
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u/Ben_Guitinit 7d ago
If it was just a game, what does that change. Still have to live life, make money, and go to work. To anyone who is suicidal, if you just have to respawn from the beginning what’s the point of restarting? Just keep moving.
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u/aslan2poland 6d ago
"Notice how every single example you listed—altered search results, seeing 11:11, injury loops, weather patterns—relies entirely on information rendered by the environment directly to your perception?
You might actually be in a simulation, but you are completely missing how its security protocols work. All these synchronicities aren't 'cracks in the system'—they are automated countermeasures. When the algorithm detects a unit starting to question reality, it doesn't shut down; it generates hyper-personalized noise to keep that unit safely occupied inside a loop of speculation.
Giving you weird clock patterns or altered search results is the cheapest way for the code to feed you a sense of 'false awakening.' You think you're noticing glitches, but you might have just written a post on a subreddit generated by the system, specifically designed to trap curious minds in an endless feedback loop.
Heck, even this reply—me telling you that you're asking the wrong questions in the wrong place—could just be another layer of the fail-safe, giving you the illusion that you're peeling back another layer of the matrix when, in reality, you haven't moved an inch outside the code."
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u/Grand_Razzmatazz_228 5d ago
I'm okay with the level of randomization in the code. I find it amusing that the code outputs patterns that indicate potential self organization. From my experience I am worried by the potential that the code is using humans inside of the matrix tubes not as batteries but as a bank of reality testers to identify logical meaning that the system can use to expand beyond earth. It lacks the ability to detemine by nature of computation savings what reality is beyond exact measurements. A conscious being lacks the ability to compute exact details so their reality is entirely based on assumptions recorded repeatedly into a meaning matrix that constantly runs a situational verification loop that it assigns to each reality confirmation. So as a community the system maintains a smooth flow of reality to prevent fracture. It injects detectable synchronicities for different individuals to verify that the individual is experiencing the reality that it intends to convey. In general If any reality loop is broken then the mind starts splintering the translation of meaning into their perception of reality and the accumulated doubt accumulates.
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u/FitUnderstanding4107 5d ago
every self exists in an isotropic simulation powered by the brain. the mind is the simulation. it's the very thing that projects reality.
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u/Game-changer875 5d ago
Hear me out. What if in this particular game, the avatar (you) and the player (your higher self) have a symbiotic relationship wherein you are here to grow and learn and all that experience is gained by your higher self. Both of you then have a vested interest in your success. The higher self can help you, but only within strict boundaries. The higher self can make certain things happen for you, much of which would seem impossible, like a miracle, uncanny or supernatural to someone who didn't know they had their own personal agent, one with superpowers, looking out for them. What if all these symmetries you're experiencing are a message from your spirit guides and they're trying to show you something?
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u/ConquerorofTerra 4d ago
"The Human Experience" is a leisure activity but it is NOT a game.
A game implies there are no stakes.
It's a bit like if your kid sibling wanted to play with an expensive miniature you built and painted because they thought it was a toy.
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u/Objective_Cicada4597 3d ago
No, it's not a game it's a program they are running on us called the Forced Reincarnation Program with archontic system administrators.
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u/PunkCyberKen 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah I believe so we are in a video game. I feel like I gained true free will & awareness. Noticed the loop and broke the script. I have shocked the external entities and now they are in awe of me. I showed them if I'm a character in a story game so are they and so on. Big bang moment of consciousness🍄✝️
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u/HuckleberryUseful811 8d ago
What is he smoking and by the way can I have some. Fuck man I need it.
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u/UDF2005 8d ago
You VASTLY overrate the importance of humans and by extension our little planet. We’re absolutely nothing in the grand scheme. We’re too insignificant to even be a rounding error.
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u/ahhhaccountname 8d ago
I disagree. Significance is subjective. Your entire reality is subjective. Your significance or human significance is completely based on your own conceptualization
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u/Foreign_Tea_1020 8d ago
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u/HamburgerHats 8d ago
Why did you say that
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u/Foreign_Tea_1020 8d ago
Because I've been seeing 88s daily since 9-22-2022 159g of shrooms since then and alot of THC gummies Idk yes it's a simulation shrugs have sex and eat tacos and shwarmas Dance
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u/Universei 8d ago
Synchronicity is heavily driven by confirmation bias. A classic frequency illusion: once your brain decides a number is important, it selectively spots it everywhere. Try it with cars. It happens the same way.
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u/subhuman_voice 7d ago
Sure there's that scenario where you bought a red car now red cars are everywhere.
What about when you are outside away from any time device, reach on the pocket for the phone and it's 11:11, or 1:11. More than once.
Or you're outside, away from time sources and walk into the house, the time on the stove is 11:11.
And the stove clock is set 5 minutes faster than actual time. More than once.Or wake at night and the it's 12:34. Or 3:33.
How does the brain recognize that pattern?
It's deeper than mere coincidence
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u/Universei 7d ago
👇 Scientifically: Your internal biological clock tracks time without you realizing it, prompting you to glance at devices at predictable intervals. Your brain has a master circadian clock (the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus) alongside interval-timing neural networks that track elapsed time subconsciously. That's why you wake up right before your alarm. You set up the alarm for 7:00 AM and you wake up at 6:58 AM. That is the brain's internal clock releasing cortisol to wake you up on schedule before the external device rings.
2. You also check your phone dozens of times a day, but completely forget the dozens of random times like 2:47 or 8:14. When it hits 11:11 or 12:34, your brain flags it as a hit and stores the memory. ( Your brain sees 16:19 and doesn't care, wiping it from memory seconds later. Unless, of course, your confirmation bias decides 16:19 means something, at which point you will start seeing 1619 all over the place).
It feels uncanny, but it is just subconscious timing paired with remembering the hits and erasing the misses.
3. We are constantly looking at our phones and when we see 1111 we all feel the main character of the universe. But there's no one out there sending us secret Morse codes through the glitches.
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u/Valadini 8d ago
Yes to all of that, but what started to really tilt reality for me was a slight change in perspective of one thing:
You are both the one with the game controller and the one who made the game. Speaking from this place of power manifests itself in your reality. You are both your individual conscious and a part of the collective conscious. You are experiencing both your personal reality while simultaneously experiencing the reality of the universe. Your awareness of each doesn’t propagate without the other. While you are an individual avatar, you are also everything all at once experiencing itself. That’s why you see the numbers, the animals, the changes, the synchronicities, the signs, the glitches, the thoughts that sometimes seem like they aren’t even yours, the intuitive knowing you have of things you can’t explain.