[anonymous | text]

[gearshifting]

[Someone maybe hasn't slept in like four days--not since he fell asleep on a couch in another life--and has been trying to distract himself with work and specs and new plans, but it hasn't been nearly as effective as he would have liked it to be. And he doesn't have his confidante around to talk to or ask advice. So what is a boy dealing with a crisis to do?

This is probably not the best idea, but it's the only one sticking in his sleep-deprived mind. Getting a certain text definitely didn't help.]

Reality warping is the worst. Like your whole world is a hard drive that they just write over however they want. Only maybe it wasnt so bad. Maybe it was pretty nice. Except its fake. Fake memories. Fake feelings. Fake future. Worst.

How do you get rid of something like that? How do you go back to not feeling things? Big things. Wheres the reset button for big fake feely things?

Comments

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[ofgoldenfoil]

Erasing parts of your mind? That seems a lot. Maybe there's someone who has a power like that?

text;

[gearshifting]

Ive had enough with my brain being messed with. Id take a 12-step right now if thats what it took, but my brain stays. Its still useful most of the time.

Re: text;

[ofgoldenfoil]

I don't know what 12-step is.

I can't see how removing emotions can happen without powers.


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[gearshifting]

A 12-step program is for working through problems that you suck at.

Give me another twelve hours and id think removing my emotions for real will sound great, but it wasnt literal. Right now.

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[ofgoldenfoil]

[ Actually, there's something that just occurred to Aurican. ]

When I feel overwhelmed with my senses or emotions, I always move away to a quiet corner with something that always get my attention. I refuse to think of the world and focus on whatever that has my attention.

Maybe it is something you can try.

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[gearshifting]

Tried that. Worked for a while.

[Hours. Maybe a day.]

Could really use an alien invasion or crazy robot on a rampage right now. Quiet is the worst.

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[glitterateur]

there isn't one which kind of sucks a lot

I think the best way to get over something like that is just to remind yourself why this reality is still cool!!

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[gearshifting]

They werent that different. Easier maybe.

The stupid feelings are the problem.

[glitterateur]

bad feelings are the WORST

have you done anything to distract yourself?!

like eat an entire cake by yourself and watch tv for a whole day!!

[gearshifting]

Eating an entire cake sounds awesome. Why didnt i think of that before. Binge until I got into a food coma.

Who needs to deal with stuff when theres food.

[glitterateur]

exactly!!

do you have a pet!? you should be hugging your pet at all times

or do you have stuffed animals

do you need one???

[gearshifting]

Never owned so much as a turtle. Probably a bad idea to get one now.

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[hunksmash]

transorbital lobotomy.

Re: text;

[gearshifting]

I still need my brain. Selective amnesia wouldnt suck right now.

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[hunksmash]

stick a microchip in there? get cyborg with it?

that sounds real, right?

Re: text;

[gearshifting]

You never joke about putting check in your brain. Asking to be hacked.

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[hunksmash]

isn't that kinda what you're looking for tho? right now, at least. memory tampering is kinda like brain hacking, right?

best leave it be in any case.

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[gearshifting]

Not its not man. Not the same thing at all.

Not that I want to bleach my brain of the memories either. Dont want to deal with them, but dont want to kill my brain either.

[performance]

Sounds like the feelings weren't that fake.

[gearshifting]

If something makes you feel a way you didnt feel then its fake bro. Even if theyre big stupid feely things. Worst mind warp ever.

[performance]

I guess that depends how you define it. Fake memories, that's easier - something either did or didn't happen.

[gearshifting]

What if it happened because fake memories made you think its supposed to happen.

[performance]

Kind of hard to just logic feelings away.

NOT HERE

[redhott]

[ Ohhh my god Richie. ]

NOT ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WHICH IS NOT THERE

[gearshifting]

[Go away Kyle, let him have his crisis in peace.]