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[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey it's me, I'm you from the year 2028. The only way out is to take more lsd but we didn't realize it soon enough and now global warming (we're calling it that again) has made the necessary ingredients impossible to source. You have to take a lot more acid right now in order to break out.

Godspeed traveler.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean it seems irresponsible not to.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You dont have to be responsible for me. I just have questions, yo.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

FWIW, it's the shrooms that've always hidden treasure for me in the hairline-fractures of reality. I'd be more likely to listen to the cracks in the walls than a colossal T-Rex knockoff... especially in 2028. 😶

scans the endless, post-apoc horizon for bawksign 😅

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There is no way someone could hallucinate such a boring dystopia.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You dont know the banality of my id

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

You used a word that has "anal" in it.
Point: me

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Acid doesn't take 20 years to metabolize. :)

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/lsd-abuse/how-long-system-body

"The half-life of LSD is 3.6 hours, which means it takes about that amount of time for half of the dose to be cleared from the bloodstream.4"

So, say you took a typical dose of 25μg to 150μg, 3.6 hours later you have 1/2 that... 12.5 to 75. Another 3.6 hours later, 6.25 to 37.5.

After even just a few days it would essentially be nothing. It's no longer detectable in hair past 90 days.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So if he is still trippin, you telling me this cat took 120g of acid?

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

... More like 2.5*10^728 grams. Which would be like taking the number of particles in the (observable*) universe, making a new universe for each one, then taking the number of particles in all those universes and making a universe for each one... 9 levels deep. That many grams.

(*Every time I say universe I mean observable)

Edit: Oops, I forgot it's 20 years, not just one. I think that's Multiply both the 728 and the 9 by 20.

Yeah, got better numbers from a better calculator:

1.8e14665 grams
That's 183 levels of universes of universes.

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok, I dig it. What about perception of time. Got any info on that?

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would suggest that's possibly a different issue and to see a medical professional

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I saw an ad for a frontier psychologist in the paper the other day, maybe ill try that.

[–] pepperprepper@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Dexter is criminaly insane, this boy needs therapy!

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Considering I was born on 2005-07-22 (on Lemmy and in RL), that would be a very good explanation for life.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 weeks ago

Born in 2005? Shouldn't you be in like, middle-

Oh fuckkkkkkkkkk

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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Dude. That table lamp. Something's fucky about it, don't you think? I can't quite put my finger on it.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

˙ssᴉɯɐ sʞool ƃuᴉɥʇʎuɐ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ ƃuᴉǝǝs puɐ ʇuǝɯuoɹᴉʌuǝ ɹnoʎ ƃuᴉuᴉɯɐxǝ ʎq ʎlqɐqoɹd 'ƃuᴉʇɐuᴉɔnllɐɥ ǝɹ,noʎ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ llǝʇ ʎllɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ʎluO ˙plnoɔ I ʇɐɥʇ ǝɹns ʇou ɯ,I

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

𝄩 ᴟᗆᗜጠ 𝄩⊣ ⊂ᓀ ⊣ェጠ ᓬᗆ⌐⌐ ϖ⊂⊣ ᔕᴒᗆᓓጠᗜ ⊣O ᔕ⊣ጠᓀ Oᴝ ⊣ェጠ ᴒጠ𝄩⌐𝄩ᴝᘏ

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The rabbits are judging you.

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[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"You shouldn't have said that. Now, everyone's laughing at you behind your back. And there's a spider in your hair."

Calm down there Satan.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I read that as 24 July 2025 and was impressed you tripped so hard you traveled back in time.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same! 🤣 I didn't notice until seeing the comments. But, then again, I'm also currently taking a neighbor's Blue Dream cultivar for a test drive, so 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Looks fun, enjoy!

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Actually, I'd rather YOU convince me it isn't.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

It’s July 23, 2005. You haven’t taken any acid yet.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Have you looked around? Things got fucking weird.

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you feel like you're starting to come out of it, bring us back there with you.

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[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This actually is still a hallucination, but also not. The acid made you realize that there is fundamentally no difference between reality and unreality, and that existence and nonexistence are the same thing. There is no "substance" to the universe, and the acid made you realize this.

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[–] SorryImLate@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There are a number of reality checks that you can do to check whether you're awake or (lucid) dreaming. I would suggest that you try some of those.

For example, apparently your hands always look odd in dreams. They might seem fine until you try to focus on them, then suddenly you'll notice they're the wrong colour or shape or have the wrong number of fingers.

There are also some other reality checks in that Wiki if you're feeling bored.

[–] erytau@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Count the fingers in your head or out loud. They may have the wrong number of fingers, the number may change while you try to count them, the fingers can be deformed and keep on changing when you look at them.

Ah shit, my suspicion was correct - I'm an AI, and a bad one at that. Now I know why the world around me doesn't feel real.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

I don't have any fingers in my head! Does that mean this is all just a bad trip?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Reverse Turing test?

[–] AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I probably wouldn't try to convince you that it's not a hallucination, but rather ask "so what if it is?".

For example, I'm fairly sure that I'm not currently tripping, but I am also certain that my brain is the ultimate unreliable narrator. How do I know if any of this is real, or ever has been real? What does "real" even mean? Honestly, I don't know, but ultimately it doesn't change anything about how I choose to act in life

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't remember? It's still 2005, you just somehow took 4 full hits of DMT

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds lovely, NGL. 🥰

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Considering how popular lamps are on lemmy right now, I'd say you might figure it out on your own

edit: direct link

[–] Leather@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Fuck that, I'd ask if you have more.

nobody could make this up alone, so we're all in this illusion together, i guess

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd probably just go over historical events in depth since then and argue that dreams are typically not this detailed, even if they do feel detailed. Barring that, I'd say that even if this is your hallucination, it's better to try to act normal and not do anything rude/dangerous in case it isn't.

I don't have any experience with acid trips, but I have a small bit of experience lucid dreaming. Not much. For me the clue was that mirrors don't work. My dreams are in third person (but so is my imagination). But when I look in a mirror in a dream it's never shown me my face. It always shows me the back of my head. Imagine you're standing in front of a screen and have a camera behind you. The camera is streaming to the screen. That's what mirrors look like in my dream (without the trippy infinite images, it isn't recursive lol).

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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

You are, this is just the first you’ve been able to get back through to yourself.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

If you are still, then it would be lying to convince you otherwise.

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