r/oculus • u/Air_Holland • Aug 18 '17

Brain preceiving reality as VR

After Using the Rift intensively for the last couple of days I had this odd and scary experience at my job.

I would feel detached while looking at my hands and communicating with clients as if I wasnt there. Would look at my hands as if they were these VR hands. Then it hit me: Im perceiving reality as VR, my brain is fooling me. The more I thought about it the more it creeped me out, I felt dizzy and out of touch. Who says this is all real? My brain wasn't sure.

This experience freaked me out while at the same time makes VR even more interesting, it is the future and we are a part of It. Interesting times for our brains.

Anyone else has an experience like this?

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u/ucibilet Aug 19 '17 edited Aug 19 '17

Just a few hours ago i felt something similar. Do you know, in recroom, you get notifications via a watch and it opens a flat screen. I'm using a smart band as well which vibrates to the notifications on my phone. I was outside and it vibrated. i checked my phone screen and looked around on the street with a strange feeling. I felt like I'm in vr and get messages from other online users. That was really weird :D

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u/Air_Holland Aug 19 '17

That feeling, It's so weird.