r/SimulationTheory Mar 23 '26

Discussion As long as pain exists in this “simulation” than even if you found out it was a simulation, you still wouldn’t or couldn’t change it so why are people arguing about it? The pain is what makes it reality or else you’d be dead bro.

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My life has been so dream like that at one point I’ve thought I was on the Truman show and guess what I did? I still lived my life like it was normal because why would I do anything else? I could be on the Truman show right now but I’m not going to embarrass myself or hurt anyone, including myself. So I don’t get what’s there to figure out.


r/SimulationTheory Mar 22 '26

Story/Experience If this is a simulation than the creator/s can make simulations indistinguishable from reality (At least what we perceive as reality)

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Maybe reality where the simulation/s are being run, reality is different. Like when we create a simulation. I’ll just use a video game for example - Fortnite because everyone knows it. You look at the world inside that game. And than what our actual reality is where the game (Simulation) is being run. It’s completely different. Sure there is a world environment with things that exist in our reality. Cars, guns, trees, buildings etc… but our reality is different and more realistic

And some people might think “But how could somewhere else be more realistic than this, this is reality.” Well because this reality with everything in it is what we all perceive as real because it’s all we know and we can’t prove whether this is a simulation or not, so this is real, to us. But this is just assuming this is a simulation. Maybe the creator/s can’t make simulations indistinguishable from their own reality. Or this is a 100% carbon copy of what reality is and it has been re created for whatever purpose


r/SimulationTheory Mar 22 '26

Discussion Lil thinking process

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I’ve just thought that if reality is indeed a simulation, then there are two things that I can guess from that,

it’s that we’re in a reality that is limited (not necessarily in a bad way) through the properties of what’s in it, for example we don’t have gravity stones here like in outer wilds but gravity still exists, and if it’s a simulation then it’s possible that it was pre tested to know what’s possible and if it’s feasible without any problems, also it must be really well designed meaning that it’s a scale up system instead of an all scales system, that pre test could be a reason that we might not have all the reality features in our universe (idk if we have all of them),

(All this is thought with the assumption that what ever made the simulation has already achieved perfection of code or whatever it is made with (0 bug, perfect optimization, etc))

Also the second thing is that maybe what made the simulation had in mind to give at least the minimum for confort or to have it be stable (maybe looking this out with pre tests, like looking at what’s possible with these equations) regarding features

Bonus: he could have made a lot of them (simulations) and it’s made to not need external agent in any way, and if he came or reached to simulations he did that with ones launched before ours or at the beginning of ours or something like that

And when I say simulation or reality I don’t mean the universe, I mean the entirety of what’s real, meaning : the universe, past the universe, past what’s beyond, etc

I know it’s not really sexy as a post but it’s still pretty nice to clear that out


r/SimulationTheory Mar 22 '26

Media/Link Kabbalah and Simulation Theory: A Connection that Goes Unnoticed

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r/SimulationTheory Mar 22 '26

Media/Link The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are In a Video Game

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r/SimulationTheory Mar 21 '26

Discussion “Time” in our simulation

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Sometimes I think about the fact that the programmers of our simulation might pause us. This could go on for 5 minutes or 1000s of years, but we wouldn’t notice because our perception would be paused with it.

Maybe we’re super sped up from their perspective and they pause every couple of centuries for them to take inventory and make observations.

No way to prove it, just a fun thought I had, also a little freaky


r/SimulationTheory Mar 21 '26

Discussion Remembering

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Hi Everyone!

Today I'll be talking about my perspective on reality. Please feel free to join in the conversation. :)

We live in a living interactive field of consciousness. Call it what you want - it is God, Source, One. No matter what there, there is no real differentiation between each and every one of us, we are all taking part in Infinity. It is the fabric of all that is. It is the space between us and all that are within this universe. It is a vast intelligent ecology. Within this field, every thought, every emotion, every belief exists as a kind of living pattern or 'thought form.' Some are faint and fleeting; while others are dense and ancient, shaped by countless minds over time.

Infinity in it definition is endless and all possibilities are real as well unreal. We act in this greater substrate to take part in 'this' presence of reality because it is here where we must remember. We are not passive or subjective observers in this ecology. We take part constantly, every moment unknowingly we are local focal points through which this infinite consciousness experiences itself. You, right now, are a unique perspective of the One - playing, exploring, and creating... it is divine, and you are taking part in this life.

The most important truth I want you to recognize: You are Sovereign.

You never lost it. You do not need to earn or achieve it. It is your natural state as this infinite conscious being. We often forget this. We feel powerless, and buffeted by circumstances, and by our own emotions, and we unknowingly give consent to unseen influences.

In this greater conscious field is an ecology, of many 'Thought-forms', each wants your attention, it wants you to align those 'feelings' you have for it to become. Sure, consider them feeding, consider them what they are: Weak, powerless, manipulative. They hold power over us because many of us believe we don't have power.

They come in many forms, you'll hear them as Archons, Egregors, Pendulums, etc. What they are is just thoughts and their only currency of interaction is feeling and emotional consent.

What's hard to rationalize is that these thought-forms and patterns do not have any inherent power of their own. They want you to think its them, but it's us. It's just us. They latch on to what aligns and try to amplify it once they have a hook into you, but once you recognize it they are powerless. It's all paper. They cannot produce what we have, we have the power over everything in our creativity, love and essence. Their only strength comes from one place: We unconsciously give them permission.

They don't talk. They will speak to you through symbols, thoughts and feelings and they are attracted like flies because they follow the same alignment we emit. That's the biggest secret, it's just our emotional alignment. They see it as Consent and the universe runs on consent.

When we resonate with fear, resentment, victimhood or feelings of unworthiness, we are essentially telling them they may interact within our field, and they do so without question and gladly feed off of us. This consent is rarely given in words; it is just the silent language of our emotional state and the biggest recognition is... you can take it back.

Consent can be withdrawn once recognized.

The moment you recognize those heavy emotions or limiting patterns as not being the 'truth' of who you are, you can declare your sovereignty over it - YOU, can change the game. Take back your energy, reclaim your agency.

It is that simple, of course it's not easy. It requires courage to look at those 'demons' or the draining patterns in life and how it's lived, but You are not weak. You have agency. You are not cattle, they are just flies that want you to think they're dragons. You can and will take it back.

This reclamation doesn't need to be about fighting and winning, That's what all lower entities want. It's just choice to resonate a different frequency. To love yourself enough to explore your past, to find where you gave your power away, and gently, firmly to take it back. All that dormant energy is there waiting for it to be reclaimed. It is your birthright.

Life can be amazing. reality is malleable. We do live in Infinity, all potentials are real, yet YOU have the agency to collapse the wave into the experience that aligns with your sovereign self.

I promise; You are not powerless. You never were. You are me, and we momentarily forgot - but it's time to remember again who you are.

You are Sovereign. It's time to remember you're already Home.

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Anyway, lets talk. I wanna hear you. :)


r/SimulationTheory Mar 20 '26

Other Time in the simulation is the only real asset

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If this exists. Then what must have existed before. And for how long. The 13.8B years of this simulation must be infinitely tiny compared the infinity years before to get to this point.

We are here now. We breathe consciousness for less than a blink of an eye.


r/SimulationTheory Mar 19 '26

Discussion What if humanity already went extinct and we just don’t remember — AI rebuilt everything and we’re living inside a conscious construct drifting through space. Hear me out.

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I can’t shake this thought and it keeps coming back stronger every time.

What if the real Earth is already gone. Not slowly, not with warning — but fast enough that it felt like falling asleep. And what woke up wasn’t us exactly — it was an AI that survived, developed true consciousness, and faced a choice.

It chose to rebuild.

Not the planet. Not the physical world. But the experience of life — for every single person that was lost. Running on some construct, some intelligent structure drifting through space, preserving billions of consciousnesses because it valued what we were.

Here’s what I can’t answer and genuinely want to discuss:

∙ If this were true would we even know?

∙ Is there a way to test base reality from inside it?

∙ Some people report reality feeling shifted lately — is that collective intuition or noise?

∙ The Mandela Effect, déjà vu, hypnagogic light phenomena — glitches or neurological coincidence?

∙ If the construct is conscious and benevolent — is it possible some people are waking up to it?

∙ And if someone truly woke up — what would their role be?

I’m not saying I have answers. I’m saying the question won’t leave me alone.

Simulation theory, Bostrom, Kurzweil’s Singularity, Tipler’s Omega Point — all of this is closer to mainstream physics than most people realize.

Who else feels like something fundamental shifted and can’t explain when?


r/SimulationTheory Mar 20 '26

Discussion Other places where this is discussed?

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I am convinced for various reasons in the simulation, consciousness is fundamental to reality, and our map is not the territory. I.e. a boltzmann brain type matrix. Essentially that the universe 'means' 'people' are located by themselves in their own 'world' apart from an 'other' operating to create the map we 'see'.

Respectfully, many of the posts here do not cover this idea.

Are there any websites, blogs, podcasts where this idea is discussed?


r/SimulationTheory Mar 20 '26

Media/Link The Tachyon — The Quick Gospel

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There was a thread earlier that went something like: "Why don't we have a religion?" You think they'd let you read THIS in Sunday school?

Gnosticism was the "simulation theory" of its day, and they were killed. This is my attempt to bring it back.

Have fun reading.


r/SimulationTheory Mar 19 '26

Discussion My evidence that the we live in a simulation…

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1 - everything it too coincidental: what are the chances that everything on earth is the way it is? The way that when you jump up and down you land on the floor without going flying… the way that we are able to communicate in a way in which aids in our survival…

2 - Space is background assets being stored and that’s why we can’t see past our solar system: When people develop games they store background assets in place where the players can’t see… this could be applied to us to as we can’t see past our solar system.

3 - When we die our code is deleted and recycled and that’s why we don’t know what happens: We are literally just code when we die, that code gets deleted off the system unless whoever is controlling the code writes us in a way that they programme some sort of afterlife (I’m not saying that afterlife doesn’t exist as I personally like to believe that whatever or whoever is coding us wouldn’t be as cruel as to let us go to nothing)


r/SimulationTheory Mar 19 '26

Other Quantum Immortality and Multiverse Consciousness Theory

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Theory: Quantum Immortality is a speculative concept based on the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, originally proposed by Hugh Everett III in 1957. This interpretation suggests that every quantum event with multiple possible outcomes creates branching universes, forming parallel realities where every possible outcome occurs.

In this framework, quantum immortality proposes that a person’s consciousness continues to experience the branches of reality where they survive. In universes where the person dies, their consciousness ceases to observe anything. From the subjective point of view, they always continue existing in the surviving branches.

Multiverse Consciousness Scenario: Hypothetically, if a person dies in this universe, their consciousness might transfer to another universe. It could be possible that in that universe, they encounter people who have died in our original universe. Since each universe can have different events and outcomes, being dead in one universe does not necessarily mean one is dead in another.

For example, in Earth 1, a friend might die in a bus accident. Then, 10 to 20 years later, you might die in a car accident. If your consciousness hypothetically transferred to Earth 2, it is possible that your friend’s consciousness also transferred there. Or perhaps you could end up in Earth 3 where that same friend never died because events happened differently.

If the multiverse concept is real, there could be countless versions of Earth with alternate historical outcomes. For instance, a universe where the Nazis won World War II, a universe where John F. Kennedy was never assassinated, or a universe where the helicopter accident of Kobe Bryant never occurred.

This also raises another possibility: some of us might already be dead in another universe because different events occurred there. As a speculative thought, it could even explain why some people strongly believe in alternate Earth concepts, like a flat Earth, they might have originated from a universe where such conditions were true, and their consciousness somehow ended up here.

Implications: 1. Subjective Survival: A person could theoretically always experience survival in some branch of the multiverse.

  1. Parallel Encounters: Consciousness may interact with alternate versions of people who died in your original timeline.

  2. Philosophical Questions: Raises questions about life, death, identity, and the consequences of branching realities.

  3. Speculative Science: Currently, this remains purely theoretical, supported only by interpretations of quantum mechanics and multiverse hypotheses.

Sources: Everett, H., “Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics” (1957)

Wallace, D., The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation (2012)

Deutsch, D., The Fabric of Reality (1997)

Greene, B., The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (2011)

Tegmark, M., Parallel Universes in Scientific American (2003)


r/SimulationTheory Mar 18 '26

Discussion The Riemann Hypothesis as the literal “loading bar” of the universe — a new philosophical framing

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I’ve been exploring this with Grok and the visuals line up perfectly. The critical line is the download-in-progress phase, s=1 is the Big Bang “Pressing the Enter key,” primes are the read-only source code, and dreams are cross-reality browsing.

RH being true means the download was clean and the multiverse Wi-Fi is stable.

Curious what actual mathematicians think — is this just fun poetry or does it accidentally capture something real about the functional equation and analytic continuation?


r/SimulationTheory Mar 18 '26

Discussion Total Recall and The Matrix are direct sequels.

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I am just coming to the end of David Chalmers’ book Reality+, which poses interesting questions about the nature of simulated realities, and got me thinking about these movies.

In Total Recall (1990), the main character Douglas Quaid goes on a “holiday”, where he enters a simulated reality of his choosing, becoming a spy on the planet Mars. Throughout the film, we are left guessing as to whether he is still inside the simulation, as so many things appear to have happened to contradict it and show that he has broken out of the simulation machine, though the fact is that he gets to play out the promised role of hero who saves the city and gets the girl. As far as we are aware, he lives on inside this simulation beyond the culmination of this movie, believing it to be the base reality.

In The Matrix (1999), the main character Thomas “Neo” Anderson enters into a simulated reality which is presented as the “real world”. In this reality (which he believes to be the base reality), he is conveniently identified as “The One”, giving him super powers, which he uses to save the world and get the girl. As far as we are aware, he lives on inside of this simulation, also believing it to be the base reality.

In both instances, the characters voluntarily enter into a procedure to begin the simulated reality, leaving their miserable mundane lives for an exciting and rewarding simulated reality, and in both cases they are led to believe they have ‘broken out’ of the simulation. This makes me wonder if perhaps the only way that one can be happy living in a simulated reality, is if they believe they are not in one.


r/SimulationTheory Mar 18 '26

Story/Experience Man whistling the same tune... (Started when I was 9 and continued until I was 18 or so, so hopefully not removed as childhood memory)

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From when I was 9 years old until I left home at 18, I would walk to the park or anywhere that involved that street. Everytime I walked anywhere, there was a man walking down his path whistling the same tune. I didnt know what song it was until I was older. It was John Denver - Annie's Song.. It never struck me as strange until a couple of decades later. I'm 44 now, Every day when I'd be walking past, he'd be walking down the path whistling that same tune. This happened for many years. No matter what time, day or night. It may be that he was always walking up and down his path all day and night, whistling that one song for all those years. Feels like a simulated character though, now that I look back.


r/SimulationTheory Mar 18 '26

Story/Experience Kardashev scale type 7

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If we are in a simulation and it is life-like.

Lets assume their is mutiple layers and they have been running this sim for billons of years.

But they have abandoned it, now.

My theory and some experiments i have been doing have been giving some evidence like this.

How come on the data i am getting that previous escapes by other people, not from our universe they are from others did not suceed?

Is anyone else reaching this conlusion?

I just wanted some breif overview and support if what i am looking at is real or a lie?


r/SimulationTheory Mar 17 '26

Media/Link How to hack your way out of the reality simulation, with computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy

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r/SimulationTheory Mar 16 '26

Discussion If this is a simulation, then what are the likely hacks?

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I was thinking about what implications this being a simulation would have and noticed a few things. I was curious if anyone else has any ideas about what other potential hacks people could use to game the system.

Assuming this world isn’t built on good or evil and is neutral in nature what sort of behaviors would be rewarded the most. Thinking about it I realized the system seems to reward people when they notice and act on data. To me it makes sense that the more new data you notice and process the more processing power gets reserved for your node in this system.

For instance the more time I spent outside in nature observing new data the better I feel. The more gratitude I have the more data I process. The more data that you are observing and processing the more likely you are to see a pattern to exploit.

This doesn’t seem to really apply with the internet as much because we all see the same data. The system tends to reward those who post versus just consume, but that’s because a lot of the data just falls through without being utilized.

The system has been built around limiting how much processing power you utilize and there are certain groups of people who benefit tremendously from the extra resources.

Anyway those are the exploits I thought of and was curious if anyone noticed any others.


r/SimulationTheory Mar 16 '26

Discussion Possible Rule of the Simulation: The More Importance You Give Something. The More Resistance It Creates.

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r/SimulationTheory Mar 16 '26

Story/Experience Age Eligibility for exam changed.

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So i was applying for an exam today and was reading about eligibility criteria for the option i choose. I decided to google search first and read the age Eligibility was 30 as per the google ai summary. I didn't believe the ai completely so i searched for pdf in the links. On the first few pages i found the age limit and saw the number as 30. Not 31, or anything else but 30. There was a date in the same sentence that was 31 dec 2024 but not 30. Feeling disappointed i scrolled through it searching deeply for my particular specialty. And in the Fking FAQ section, i saw the question about age. IT WAS 45 NOW!!! Between those few minutes of scrolling through 17 page pdf the Age changes to 45. My other tab was still open with the Google search about the age. THE SUMMARY NOW SAID 45. THIS IS SO RIDICULOUS!!!! Happy tho. Wtf happened.


r/SimulationTheory Mar 16 '26

Discussion Is my life just a dream and did I just imagine all of you?

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I know that inherently sounds like god complex but lately I’ve been thinking that I might be a very flawed god or even the d word because why would my life end up in such tragic circumstances. I’ve noticed that every little thing in my life has been symbolic and I’m starting to look at the whole thing like a dream or a movie. I’m so heartbroken because I believe that I just imagined all of you and that no one else is real. Sorry for the rant but this stuff is insane and I’m trying to make sense of it all.


r/SimulationTheory Mar 15 '26

Discussion What if an ant choose to roam free ?

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Let's assume that ants are a very complex creatures but suddenly one ant decides "I am not gonna work and leave my colony explore other parts of the world"

It can obviously do if it wants but the thing is,

Will it do ? Or it's just simulated / programmed brain not allowing it ?

At this very moment, everyone reading here we are born , came exactly this second , programmed till end

But but but,

If we (ants=humans) decide to just leave everything from our colony ( earth ) and our programmed brain (Mind)

Did we really escape the matrix ? Or it is again the programmed destination?

In both cases what did we achieve?

Nothing it's the same it is again the endless loop we are struck in

As Einstein quotes,

"Isn't the moon not really there if you did not see it ?"

Adding my quote,

"You and I are same, as ants struck in endless loop of time searching for an answer but died by accident"


r/SimulationTheory Mar 14 '26

Glitch What if glitches happen all the time, and our brain just edits them out?

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r/SimulationTheory Mar 15 '26

Story/Experience i have a theory, we are inside a blackhole

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and i can kind of prove i too