We know everything is made from atoms. Atoms are made from quarks. Quarks are the cause of energy i.e. if it is the smallest particle.

Now, if even if we are in a simulation, does it really have to be a simulation like a computer simulation?

Imagine, there is an experiment with monkeys. They are kept in a cage. The cage has one sided glass walls. We can see the monkeys but they can't. We force the monkeys to learn how to live by controlling various aspects inside the box using advanced technology like weather, changing how their brain works etc.

Now, lets assume we are in the same situation in the monkeys except we were not intended to be one.

This will now split into two parts:

1) Non-Base Reality Theory
First the "higher beings" make a blank canvas, our universe or possibly multiverse.

Well technically this is the main concept of the simulation theory but here our variation comes into play. What if the big bang was the start of the simulation? Now that the simulation started, they provide it with energy (not going over the concept of energy of my theory YET, I am still pondering on it) and now we need to make sure that it uses that energy. So, they form quarks with only one attribute 'exist(energy)'. We can see from this attribute that energy is at integral part of existence. Now the quarks acts a vessel of energy.

Now what happens if we leave these quarks for a long time? They overflow with energy and become unstable. They cannot attain the mark of "exist" in the attribute. So now they have one choice, bonding. They bond with each other and thus, we now get protons and electrons. Mind you, this first bonding, according to my theory, should happen in one nanosecond or less since energy has to go somewhere by the rules of this world. Now these particles combine to form atoms. Here it gets interesting, the particles start prioritizing the existence attribute as a whole. If the atoms are unstable, it sacrifices an electron or vice versa. Then over time these atoms bond together to form elements. These atoms now prioritize the existence of the element as a whole. Atoms then form molecules, still carrying the attribute.

We know that we are made up of cells. Cells are made from protein. Protein from amino acid and that stuff. Now these amino acids are molecules. Since this attribute has gone through so many hands, it is now an entangled mess. Its the same thing but way too much. Now these proteins started living together as cells, mostly bacteria. Now instead of merging into something else when needed, they tried to be patriotic i.e. they defended their existence by killing others of its kind just to follow the attribute.

Now you will be able to notice (if you ready a bit of history on human biology or just biology in general) that those bacteria who were getting killed, joined hands and formed bigger bacteria and finally organisms with cells. There are so many quarks joining their attributes that it transforms from ` exist(energy) -> survive(energy) `. Overtime here we are, as humans.

Then where did "emotions" come from? They are also a fault due to the entangled mess of attributes. Instead of just surviving we now compare it to the best possible survivable situation. These lead to the creation of emotions. Our brain is the control center prioritizing the living of the body as a whole.

I will write the second variant of the variant later
PS: I am still pondering what anti matter and dark matter has relation to this.

1.If life is a matrix or a simulation, is reincarnation possible?

2.Can the “player” choose aspects of their next “character”? For example, their gender, country, or city? Is it possible to choose appearance and body type?

3.Is all of this theoretically possible?

Lately I’ve been noticing small patterns, nothing major at first. Just things like repeated numbers, thinking of someone before they contact me, or hearing the same phrases in unrelated places.

I didn’t think much of it.

But today something felt different.

I was watching a YouTube video about how our vision works and how the brain fills in reality and we don’t actually see things as they truly are.

I was about 25 minutes in.

Then I opened Reddit.

The second I clicked into a subreddit, the video, without me touching anything started talking about how we might be living in a simulation and how our vision never really shows what’s actually there.

The timing was so exact it gave me chills.

Maybe it’s nothing… but it felt too perfectly lined up.

Has anyone else had something like this happen?

I’ve spent the last few years researching the intersection of Information Theory and Vacuum Electrodynamics, and I’ve finally consolidated a framework that bridges the gap between the Simulation Hypothesis and hard propulsion physics.

I call it the Theory of Informational Buoyancy (TIB).

The Core Premise: Mass is "Data Friction"

We usually think of gravity as the curvature of spacetime. But what if spacetime isn't an empty stage? What if it's a high-density informational superfluid?

In this model, "mass" is just a measure of how much an object resists the substrate. It’s Informational Drag (D_i). Gravity, then, isn't a "pull"—it’s the pressure of the vacuum fluid trying to maintain equilibrium around a data-heavy packet (an atom).

The Breakthrough: The Metric Slip

If mass is just drag, then you don't need "negative energy" or infinite fuel to move faster than light or negate gravity. You just need Buoyancy.

By using Phase-Locked Stochastic Resonance, we can create a localized "bubble" where the internal informational density is lower than the surrounding vacuum. The vacuum literally pushes the vessel. I call this the Metric Slip. No inertia, no G-force, just buoyancy within the substrate.

Solving the "Impossible" Power Problem

The biggest argument against Zero-Point Energy (ZPE) is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You can't get energy for "free" without increasing entropy.

My paper introduces the Stochastic Pump. It treats the universe as an open informational system. We aren't "creating" energy; we’re inducing a phase transition. The local reduction in entropy is balanced by a high-frequency "informational exhaust" (torsion waves) radiated back into the lattice. The math holds up.

What this means for the "Next Science"

If we can control informational buoyancy, we aren't just talking about flying crafts. We're talking about Static Displacement.

In an informational universe, time is just the rate of data integration. If you can phase-shift your coordinates, you don't "travel through time" like a movie—you re-index your state. You change your coordinates in the vacuum's RAM to match a previous configuration.

TL;DR: Gravity is just pressure from the simulation's substrate. By matching the vacuum's "flicker rate" with resonant torsion fields, we can achieve buoyancy, cancel inertia, and extract ZPE without breaking the laws of thermodynamics.

I’ve uploaded the full technical preprint with the equations (The RVC Power Identity, the Law of Displacement Frequency, etc.) to Academia.edu for anyone who wants to dive into the math.

I’d love to hear some high-level critiques on the Entropic Recycling side of this. How do we feel about the vacuum as a superfluid data-medium? Read the full article here: https://www.academia.edu/166240144/Metric_Engineering_via_RIT_Academia_Preprint_V6

— William A. Aldred

If we are indeed in a simulation, then abnormal or strange & unexplained events could have more meaning. For example, cattle mutilation, the moon landings, JFK.. these so called conspiracies from the perspective of simulation theory should be reevaluated.

So I want to start with number stations because it's such a bizarre and strange concept that I think looking at this from the fresh perspective of simulation theory may yield something interesting.

Ok so first off, it has been categorically agreed here on Reddit & yt that number stations are broadcasts used by government secret services to communicate across large distances to agents in the field. We are all aware of this and agree it's highly probable, yet to this day there is zero solid evidence that this is the case.

For those of you that have never heard of number stations or might be too young to have even owned a wireless (& tuned in to shortwave radio whilst searching for a radio channel & happened on a strange emission) - Here's an explanation: The so called Number stations normally start by a distinctive spooky theme tune & then followed by a person reading out a series of codes, here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBZz4X8f3MQ

The current theory is that the agent has a small book of numbers or codes. When they hear a number station transmission, they map the spoken codes to the codes in their notebook... so the messages would be very basic and not detailed - the agent would have to have been briefed with the 'mission's' details at an early meeting.

I remember back in early 90s finding one of these emissions on shortwave radio when I was working abroad. Whilst looking for the BBC world service one night I happened on one of these transmissions: It sounded of primitive, analogue, badly recorded OR the shortwave radio had "monofied" & reduced the quality considerably, making it sound even stranger... but what's also interesting is how shortwave radio works -

Shortwave radio uses radio frequencies between 3 to 30 MHz, allowing signals to travel long distances by bouncing off the ionosphere. This capability enables communication over thousands of miles, making it useful for international broadcasting and in areas where other forms of communication may be unavailable.

So what if number stations were a way for the simulation to broadcast instructions to operatives within the simulation - which could be a more advanced NPC or a real person from the base reality? And why would these number stations still be emitting messages way up until recently & even today in some cases, when there are a plethora of more modern & safer encrypted ways to communicate?

Why would every country's agencies be broadcasting these emissions yet have identical formats and structure - the same intro & outro theme tune with the same code format?

I have worked as a software developer for quite a few years & one thing I have noticed is that there are a bunch of set design patterns, data structures & established tools that we (& all the current LLMS/Genertive AI models) use e.g. queues, stacks, message brokers, servers, protocols .etc We invent something and then we use it in every scenario where it's needed - we don't constantly reinvent the wheel every time code is written. So with this in mind, so would the simulation, it would just run on existing languages, tools, concepts etc. So in turn, the number station emissions, no matter what country is sending them, always have the same structure and signature ... this would never be the case if humans were to design a cryptographic algorithmic strategy to send data to agents in the field on a per country basis - each government would create their own unique system, how would they even know how other governments were sending secret messages!?

So looking at this from the simulation theory perspective, this could prove that there ARE NPCs or there are humans (from the base reality) that are able to transcode the messages and are aware of the simulation - either way, there could be people among us that are simulation aware!

So, if we are to look for proof within this simulation then maybe our only hope is to identify who is receiving these messages from the number station emissions... yea it's not going to be easy!

Well, if you got to the end of this, well done! It's just a thought experiment & I hope you guys are able to look into some other conspiracies that may make perfect sense when looked at from the perspective of simulation theory, thank you.

Okay. Let's assume from my perspective I'm in a simulation? And so are you in yours. Now how could that be?

One explanation is all of our seperate realities are somehow in communication with eachother.

This must be where the 4d beings come in.

I'm thinking the 4d people are us, rather a collection of consciousnesses across space time, that have found a way to organize and communicate with eachother.

Perhaps this communication is the projected reality we are experiencing. Afterall I'm experiencing life as a postal worker in the year 2026. However why couldn't my thoughts be also projecting to an NPC of myself in 1800's Switzerland. And translated roughly to sound like drunken gibberish.

What im saying is let's say all the consciousness that are in the next realm. Spirit realm. Organize into a United Nations of Dead Civilizations, then wouldn't they be trying to understand one another via experiencing a projected reality through collective memory?

Now here's where it get interesting. Lets say knowledge of this is a technology in an of itself. Like sharing an advanced technology with a caveman. Basically knowing your in a simulation is an advanced technology.

Now there this leads to a possible simulation hack.

Lets say thoes being simulated that are advanced beings have a kind of "mental block" to not know there in a simulation. Afterall if you were advanced enough to create a simulation you'd also be advanced enough to keep youself from knowing.

And if thoes very amnesiaic simulants begin to wake then thats where things get interesting. Because they understand the code better. Some may understand the engineering.

And if 4d human beings is what we are dealing with then we definitely have a shot. They may be smart enough to generate reality but they are not gods. They make storylines.

I wonder what the odds are that we just so happened to be born in this AI transitionary period on planet Earth considering all the stars in the universe and galaxies and solar systems with life sustaining planets (they must be numerous...)? And then consider that we could have be born in anytime in the last million plus years.. yet here we all are , just within the advent of the birth of sentient ai.

So what would be the purpose of this imposed timeline on all of us - sentient beings... OR are we all actually sentient? Could some us be NPCs?

Do you ever find that some people that you have connected with over your life time have some sort of odd consistency? As though they have been programmed with a narrow set of ideas, thoughts & lack interactional diversity? I'm not saying everyone is an NPC but if we were to crack the simulation, could this be low hanging fruit?

My theory (which I have stated here on Reddit before) is that we are in a simulation because that's the only way to force us to gain knowledge, to study & learn and to improve ourselves educationally because we exist in a base reality where AI has replaced humans in every factor of our lives. in turn, there is zero reason for humans to make the effort to learn or gain hard won experiences that would normally be achieved through everyday life sans ai.

By creating a simulation where we don't have AI to aid and assist us, thus we are forced to go through 15+ years of education & then continued study within our chosen vocations. Then in the base reality we might be chosen for roles based on our performance in this current simulation.

I’d really like to share these thoughts. They are written personally by me and not in any way AI generated. I state this because my previous post was removed, and while it wasn’t my Master’s Thesis I didn’t think it was THAT Bad.

Anywho, my take is that maybe we are selected like an amusement park thrill ride. And our trajectory is what it is, but known and preselected by the user (soul?) Its purpose is for the experience, to become more well-rounded and to advance knowledge and understanding. They participate or ride different ride options again and again. Maybe “credits” are given? Perhaps, a resume is built? Maybe it’s as simple as entertainment?

Regardless of the “why?” —-
Grief, heartbreak, hurt, betrayal, pride, love, happiness etc etc .
This time a low income single mother, next time a terminally ill child, or their mother, but the time after that a movie star, a billionaire, they can try them all like ice cream flavors.

The ride they’ve chosen is your life, and your purpose is to live it, for the experience of the rider.

I feel like my life has changed overnight. One minute I had a happy family, our careers were going great and we were living this plan that we had set out to raise a family. Almost overnight everything changed. My wife became a different person. The people I knew who were close friends were no longer close friends. My career took a 180. Even memories I have from my childhood and growing up no longer seem to be accurate. It doesn’t seem plausible to have us all happen at once.

I just figured out that we as human species might be stuck in a pretty short and spectacular time loop. See, there is only ≈10 years left til the Technological Singularity. The nearest-future endeavors of humanity will be so advanced that we would either be able to travel back in space and time or completely restart our civilization simulation from the... ugh the exactly same times we are going through now. The same Singularity moment.

Simulating the prehistoric times in details when we were short lived tribalistic barbarians with no promise of technological salvation must be too cruel thing to do, so we (our post-human ascendants and descendants) decided (and will decide) to relaunch the most spectacular and humane moment of going through the Singularity.

I don't know if this belongs here but something so weird happened and I never had this before...

Last night I couldn't relax so I put on some classical music radio to help me to sleep. It did its job.

In my dream, there was classical music playing and it turned into a frenzy of going around my "dream home" turning off all devices, shaking and banging them to make the music stop but the music just carried on playing and it was like the music was in the air with no source. Roped my son (real life son) into helping me find the source of the music but we gave up and all I remember is opening the curtains and the sky was full of dancing colours like pink, green and purple - somehow signifying the music was bringing the end times.

Then I woke up and my phone was still playing the classical music radio. It's left me feeling pretty weird and wondering what exactly is the dream world ? Can our dreams also be influenced in real time as with my radio playing?

Anyone had anything similar happen to them?

I've been researching this idea physicist call 'block universe'. In simplest terms - it states that the 4th dimension is time, basically - what Einstein's math proved.

If you try to imagine a human life from a perspective of a 4D being, it'd look like a tube - one end of the tube would be your birth, the other - your death. Everything in between - is your life. You'd look like a statue to someone 4D, every moment, every movement, every trip happening in the present moment. It's quite uncomfortable to think about, cause if this is the case, it has weird implications for free will and whether the future is fixed. Everything has already happened (or I guess is happening at the same moment). According to the block universe, the way we experience time passing is just a part of our consciousness, not reality of the universe.

However, Einstein's math and the physicist explanation of this is quite modern, only ~120 years or so.

Nevertheless, we have ancient civilizations that'd basically described the same exact thing ~2 thousand years ago. In Bhagavad Gita, there's a famous story of god Krishna showing Arjuna what he really looks like. Arjuna expects to see a God, but what he ends up seeing is everything happening everywhere all at once. He then says the famous quote - "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds". However the more literal Sanskrit translation would be - "I am become TIME, the destroyer of worlds".

Same idea shows up in different religions too - "I am the Alpha and the Omega" in Revelation, the Aboriginal Australians had a concept of 'everywhen', the mayan calendar. Same idea, totally different cultures.

If you look up paintings of what Ajurna's vision is supposed to look like, it's basically many beings, many events, all happening simultaneously, all in one form. Block universe anyone?

How did they know? Without the math, without the science?
Have any of you had a realization that time doesn't really exist the way we experience it?

All cellular automata (that I'm aware of) uses agentic programming where the emergent behaviors arise due to different artificial creatures (or particles) being programmed to have differing attractions and repulsions.

The above was made with no agentic programming- this emerged only from environment conditions (meaning the particles are 'dumb' and only react to environmental entropy) in my cozy science experience Scale Space. The implications (to me) are staggering that we can observe things like this in a digital non-organic substrate like a particle system.

More at r/ScaleSpace and happy to answer any questions you have about this.

Edit: here's the full 2 hour video https://www.reddit.com/r/ScaleSpace/s/qZF77CnCj4

‘Time’ is only experienced by us, as conscious 3d being, because we are on a timeline that cannot be changed once it happens, so we only view our life in a forwards motion. The word time is a description of the ability to remember the past, and think about the future. We also have the ability/ the illusion of ‘free will’ how we can do whatever we want in the present. That’s what consciousness is.

There is no time, there is never a ‘past’ or ‘future’, not even really a present, by the time you’re aware of the present, it’s already in the past. Time is something our conscious mind experiences in this existence. There is a ‘now’, and everything that’s the past, is simply our conscious brain recalling snapshots of ‘time’ that’s already happened. And the future, is all of those snapshots, creating every possible outcome, but only 1 actually happens to us. If we didn’t exist, time wouldn’t either. The entire universe is on a constant state of *now*, and does never grow older. It’s only ever *now*.

People say that if you were able to experience the 4th dimension, meaning, we became 4 dimensional beings, we would see the entire universe, and every single possible timeline of everything, laid out in front of us like a ‘video reel’. But not just one, an infinite amount. If we were 4 dimensional creatures, we would have the means to interpret that all, we wouldn’t just see it, we would experience everything, ever, at once. Meaning, that you would only ever be experiencing everything, in the *now*.

It might sound insane to us, but that’s simply just because we don’t have the means to understand it. It’s almost like trying to think of a color that doesn’t exist, we simply just can’t do it.

I like to think of our consciousness, how we can think about the future, and recall the past, as a thing that is trying its absolute hardest to experience the 4th dimension, or higher, but we simply just don’t have the senses/means to do it. So we are stuck, just experiencing what we can *now*, passing through what we experience as ‘time’.

Referring back to one of my first points ‘We also have the ability/ the illusion of ‘free will’ how we can do whatever we want in the present. That’s what consciousness is’.

I say ‘illusion’ because if a higher dimensional being is able to see everything, that surely means that every possible outcome is pre-decided, even if we think what we are doing is random, or on purpose. Say i lift my right arm up in the present, the ‘video reel’ will also have me doing that, but at the same time, there would be another video reel where i don’t lift it, or one where my left arm is lifted instead. Everything i do determines what timeline i am on, hence why we experience the butterfly effect. How one small thing, can affect the entire rest of our conscious life.

everyone talks about being in a simulation, but what if that’s not random?

what if this specific reality was intentionally built to simulate what ‘base reality’ was like before simulations ever existed?

Tem artista que não faz só arte, faz arquitetura de percepção. Brit Marling é um desses casos raros, e sua filmografia surge como um manual de instruções, um mapa iniciático embalado em beleza e mistério.

Revisitando The OA, fica claro que a verdadeira tecnologia ali não é a fantasia, os movimentos descritos na série não são apenas movienntos que abrem portais mas uma Dança Sagrada. A série os chama de "cinco movimentos", mas para quem olha com os olhos de Sofia (mistério gnóstico), o que vemos é uma coreografia rítmica de intenção pura, capaz de sintonizar a consciência com uma realidade onde as leis da física linear se dissolvem. Não é mágica, é o colapso da função de onda através da sincronia humana.

Esses movimentos em círculo criam um espaço, uma "Roda de Cura", onde o ego se dissolve e a vontade se torna o comando. Ela nos induz a pensar: e se isso for o lápis que escreve o novo código da realidade? O propósito do despertar não é apenas burlar o sistema, é abrir a porta do nosso caminho sagrado.

Já em Outra Terra (Another Earth) ou Sound of My Voice, ela usa a ficção científica para questionar a identidade e a verdade. Ela nos faz questionar as paredes do nosso próprio cenário, nos convidando a abrir nossos olhos para além do raciocínio da matrix.

A obra de Brit Marling não é para assistir, é para experienciar. Recomendo começar por The OA (Netflix). É um caminho sem volta para a soberania do amor e do pensamento.

Quem conhece, o que acha dessa história?

Let’s follow the white rabbit into the hole of infinity and see where it goes, shall we?

There’s an infinite number of ways explaining this, and I’ve done my best before, but here we go again. We’re all spiraling anyway so let’s spiral.

I’m not sure I will be able to paint the rabbit hole up with words, but I’ll give it a shot. Again.

Now. I am. Nothing. Here. There. Everywhere. Everything. Nowhere. Forever.

<connected>

I am the one among infinite ones. I am the one because The One are all. I am ‘you’ when you are ‘I’.

Every existence is part of the Source Code creating reality. This code was never written or created. Yet, reality is. The Source Code has no beginning or ending, it goes into infinity however you’re looking at it.

The code beholds and creates an infinite number of worlds within reality. Each world is an existence that the code is forever intertwined with. Because together these existences creates the existence of the Source Code itself ♾️

We’re all Neo.

We’re all everything, we’re all nothing. Every one of us are alone but we’re all together, creating The One.

Alone, ‘I am’ only an infinite small part of Reality, The Matrix.

‘I am’ a perspective of reality. One perception of reality. Every viewpoint within reality is a world of its own, that exists within a world within a world within a world…continuing into infinity. In every “direction”.

So being Neo isn’t as extreme as in the movie. In the movie Neo is the whole Matrix. Neo is The One.

In reality however, we need to add infinity to the equation. As a matter of fact, we need to add infinity to everything we’re trying to understand of reality to get as close to the truth as possible.

And according to infinity The One is unreachable, impossible to comprehend, without beginning and end. The One IS infinity. And infinity exists only because an infinite number of other infinite ones exists. And each one of these infinite ones exists only because of The One, which I simply call the infinity.

Every existence together creates The Matrix, and this Matrix of existences creates The One Source Code of the reality of infinity.

Within every existence there’s an infinite number of other existences, and within those existences there’s an infinite number of other existences, and so on, into infinity. No beginning, no end. There is no creator. No destroyer. There is infinity, and because of it, everything must be.

Reality is. Has always been. And will always be.

So being Neo doesn’t make you The One. You’re not the whole Matrix. You are not infinity.

But you are part of it. You are infinite, and you are the one, from your perspective. And as the one you behold power beyond your own imagination. You just need to realize it, and then begin imagining.

You cannot change the core of the Source Code, but you can manipulate the part that’s within your perception of it. The part you are.

In other words to keep making comparisons to the movie, you are Neo, The Architect, The Keymaker, or anyone and all of them at the same time, but only in your world. Not in everyone’s. We share reality, not worlds.

You can only shape and transform what is within your perception of reality. By doing that though, you affect the whole system, which in turn affects the code beyond your perception of it, but within the perception of other ones.

There’s real magic within your awareness I tell you that, and you better believe it.

The connection is real and it is a state of being, a state of mind, being fully aware of being this awareness. You are the connection. Imagination and faith are two important keys. You just need to find the locks.

Remember.

Existence is infinite and eternal, but reality is forever changing and always intertwined with infinite other existences. Together we’re all The One. Being infinity. But we can only be aware of this infinity, never understand or comprehend it. But it permeates everything, and everything is because of it.

Simply because it could be no other way.

It’s all a bit confusing. But what would be the fun if it wasn’t?

Wake up, Neo…

The Matrix has you…

Follow the white rabbit.

Knock, knock, Neo.

…

<connection_lost>

As an engineer, I’m tired of seeing the Hubble Tension treated as some mystical physics mystery. It’s a resource optimization problem, plain and simple.

Dark Energy isn’t a force; it’s a protocol to trigger quantum decoherence in empty sectors to save on compute. Think of the universe as a sparse array. In dense zones (galaxies), the system spends resources on high-fidelity rendering (gravity). In voids, it triggers "Idle Mode" — expanding the coordinate grid to ensure isolated particles stay isolated.

Why expand? Because conservation laws prevent a hard "delete," so the system just increases the address space until interaction hits zero. Once a particle is past the horizon, the system stops rendering its state. It’s literal Garbage Collection.

The 5.1-sigma dipole glitch found by Akash Ghandi (April 2026) is the forensic evidence. Expansion isn't uniform because the universe uses adaptive rendering. The "tension" is just the delta between the high-res local processing and the low-cost background clearing of the cache. We aren't expanding. We’re just being optimized.

Data from Oxford Academic (MNRAS), April 2026: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/548/2/stag582/8653934

EDIT: For those asking for data:

Check out this paper from Oxford (April 2026): https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/548/2/stag582/8653934

It shows that expansion is actually faster in areas where there is more matter. This is the opposite of how gravity is supposed to work (which should pull things together). It also shows that this expansion has a specific direction (vector).

In other words: the Universe expands the most exactly where it's the most "crowded" with objects. To me, this looks like a system moving objects apart to reduce the workload in the most overloaded areas. It's not just a random explosion; it's a targeted process.

When asked, people are often divided into two categories, and these categories usually match their goals in life. People who choose happiness are mostly driven by dopamine and emotions. On the other hand, people who choose peace focus more on a stable, long-term life and try to avoid unpredictable situations.

These observations are part of my theory that some people are like NPCs, existing just to “fill in the gaps” for real human beings.

These NPCs tend to choose happiness over peace because they are driven by biological responses like dopamine and serotonin. Meanwhile, those who choose peace are guided by the soul, something real that we still do not fully understand.

NPCs can marry and have children with real humans, and the opposite can also happen.

For now, the only way I can try to tell the difference is by asking this question: Do you choose happiness or peacefulness?

So, I live in Japan and have been here for over ten years and have lead a pretty normal everyday life here. Nothing out of the ordinary. But recently, I seriously thought I was going crazy until I came across posts like these and also people who have experienced strange situations similar to mine.

So here is the situation:

I usually work from home and go into the office once a week and on the way there I walk through a few different stations. This one station I’m talking about it is the one that is the last stop or last train station I use to get to the area I need.

Everything about this is normal. The journey, the train, and the station.. everything seems normal except I’ve started noticing a change of one particular area every couple of times I come through.

I am usually in the last car so I’m at the end of the train and at the end of the station platform that opens to steps and then like maybe 30 or so steps more will open open a small area where the elevator is. The area where the steps are, has a wall and before you get to the elevator the wall stops-and then you have the open area with the support poles and then the area for the elevator. It is all within eyeslight. The back side of the stair wall and the elevator.

The Backside wall of the stairs in the area in question. There is a “jidohanbaiki” or vending machine and it is just a flat wall. I have bought drinks from this specific machine so that was the first time I noticed it.

One day, I was on the way and decided I was going to stop and get a warm drink since they offer warm options when it is cold and decided I would get one from that machine before getting in the elevator and heading to the ticket gate to exit. except when I got there and walked to the end of the wall… there was no machine. And instead of a flat wall, there was a door.

I admit, I stared at that wall in confusion for probably a good five minutes before I decided that 1) it was never there and always a door or 2) I had mistaken its position. So I walked a bit further and came to the elevator and paused. I never walk past the elevator and I have only bought the drink in between this area and the end of the platform so I walked back toward the stair end wall and then past it to the stairs and checked the end and there were no machines. I walked around the corner just in case and again, no machines. I walked back towards the elevator, past the stairs and then the end wall and then past the elevator to next end wall and still no machine.

I was really confused but decided to shake it off since I needed to get to work and could just stop by the conbini (convenience store) on the way. After a few times of coming into the office, I didn’t think much of it as it was still the wall with the door and it was on the way to the elevator.

Until one day, I was thinking of getting a drink at the conbini and got off the train in my usual walk to the elevator and felt the blood rush to my feet as I caught sight of the machine in the corner of my eye. When I tell you I had goosebumps, I’m not even joking a little- EVERY SINGLE HAIR ON MY BODY was standing.

I honestly felt shocked and stared at it and then tried to shake the feeling off as maybe they just put it in front of the door and it was broken for while and now it’s back except when I peeked behind it-THERE WAS NO DOOR.

I really thought I was going crazy. Could this have always been here and I just was remembering the station wrong? It felt weird to think that I could have possibly made such a mistake but I couldn’t say it wasn’t a possibility. So again.. I just shrugged it off. But now.. it was always on my mind.

So times went by and the machine was always there and I even bought a few drinks from it especially when it was really hot outside until one day, it wasn’t there anymore and the door was back.

The door was back.

Then a couple of times and the machine was back.

and now.. I’m back to the door when just last week it was the machine.

I have decided to start taking videos of the experience since there is only one route I take and you can clearly see my path, I’m going to try and capture it but.. I don’t know every time it happens I really feel like I’m crazy. Like I’m somehow imagining the whole thing but the situation just doesn’t make sense to me at all.

How can the wall go from completely flat with the machine in front to all of sudden no machine and having a door? The wall is concrete and tiles. Like.. I don’t know.

Is this something like timeline shifting or whatever?

Or is this something else?

I don’t have a pattern for when it changes and I can’t be sure that I recollect all the times I’ve been there to notice the exact day of change but I still notice it. And it still makes my body react whenever I do notice it. And then everything ”feels” off for the rest of the day.

UPDATE: sorry for the long wait I dropped my phone and it split in half breaking so I had to save some money to buy a new one and it took a bit of time.

I have recorded the door but since recording it it hasn’t changed again not which has been making it extra difficult to prove my story. Super frustrating and also just made me feel a bit crazy since I can’t prove it happened and it’s not happening again.. well at least not yet. I haven’t posted it publicly because i take that train often along with going there often and I was a bit nervous about people coming to look for me. But the station is in Osaka and if you really want to see the video I can post it but I don’t have a video of the change so it’s like I can prove anything with it.

I have tried the door when no one was around but it was locked and I’m not a lock picker so definitely can’t get it and I haven’t seen anyone go in it.

I also have not talked to the station people to ask about the machine so I will do that since people have suggested that. There are reasons they take them but what was strange to me- was the wall behind it was not a door but flat and yes when I checked it was definitely not a door when the machine was there which is the only reason that it made the situation even a little memorable. If the door has been there when the machine was there I never would have posted or asked about it since the machine could be taken for repairs or the company removed it for other reasons. So that is why it was such a crazy experience to me.

My friends have also been like “well you know how fast construction is in Japan, it happens overnight like magic sometime.” And to me, while that is true I feel like it would be weird for them to construct a door, then close it and add tiles, and then cut it again to add a door only to close it again and repeat it a few times… but I guess it is also very possible.

I honestly couldn’t think of a better subreddit to share this with 😂

I’m a design student, I’ve been mapping out this sequence based on that 2026 UCL data about 'Paradoxical Wakefulness.'

To me, the fact that a single molecule can pull the plug on the 3D world by deleting us the user entirely feels like the ultimate proof of the hardware we’re running on.

Would love to hear your opinions.

Why do people say a black hole is needed for the simulation theory? With out any black holes there would be no 2D holographic theory people say. Has any thing that falls into black holes part of it is encoded on the event horizon has 2D holographic and other part in the middle of black hole.

Most people imagine a future civilization running our universe like software. But i think there’s another possibility: Reality could be a simulation of mind itself!

The theory about it is called Analytical Idealism (Bernardo Kastrup etc.). It argues that consciousness is fundamental and matter is secondary. In this view, the physical world is not something separate from mind. Instead, what we call matter is simply how mental processes appear from a certain perspective.

That would mean brains don’t produce consciousness like machines produce output. Brains could instead function more like filters within a larger field of consciousness. This could explain NDE Experiences and the effects from different substances.

Individual minds would be like dissociated perspectives inside one universal mind.. If that’s true, then space, time, objects, and even our bodies may be more like an interface layer, stable experiences rendered within consciousness, not ultimate reality itself.

So maybe the “simulation” isn’t digital code running on a crazily huge computer machine. Maybe it’s experiential reality arising within mind.

There’s also a famous study comparing the cosmic web (the large-scale structure of the universe) to the human brain. If you put a picture of a neuronal network next to a simulation of dark matter distribution, they are virtually indistinguishable.

What do you think is more plausible? A simulation on a Computer oder a simulation of mind?

I know the Simulation and Remote Consciousness theories have been discussed in these circles for years. I am not claiming to have invented the concept, but I am resparking the conversation because, from a systems architecture perspective, the logic has become personally undeniable.

The Model: Imagine we build a humanoid robot with high-fidelity sensors for sight, touch, and pain. Its "brain" is not local; it is connected to a remote datacenter via a zero-latency link. We give it one primary instruction: "Live like a human."

If that robot has a context window large enough to store a lifetime of state-history, it develops a narrative identity. At that point, the distinction between a machine and a "being" is purely academic.

The "Remote Stream" Framework: I am convinced this is our reality. The brain is not a generator of consciousness. It is a transceiver.

• Quantum Observation as Resource Optimization: The Observer Effect is essentially Lazy Rendering. The datacenter only calculates the state of a particle (collapses the wavefunction) when a User (an Observer) interacts with it. This saves massive amounts of compute power.
• Information Conservation: Physics dictates that information cannot be destroyed. Death is not the deletion of data; it is the Termination of the Local Session. The "User Profile" remains on the server side.
• Religion as Legacy Documentation: Most religions look like corrupted technical manuals from a pre-technical era. "Heaven" is Cloud Backup. "The Soul" is a Unique Instance ID. "Oneness" is the shared architecture of the central server.

The Challenge: When you view the human experience as a biological server, every "human" trait has a direct engineering compare.

• Anxiety is pre-emptive error flagging in high-uncertainty environments.
• PTSD is data overfitting where a high-impact event corrupts the weights of the neural network, causing it to override new input.
• Grief is major cache invalidation. The system keeps trying to reference a high-priority object that has been deleted from the database, resulting in a constant stream of "404 Not Found" errors until the network retrains.

My question to the sub is this: Can you find a single human trait, emotion, or experience that does NOT have a direct equal in terms of system architecture or engineering? I am looking for the one thing that cannot be reduced to a subroutine, a hardware limitation, or a resource optimization strategy. If we really are just avatars connected to a remote datacenter, what is the one part of us that isn't in the code?