[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?

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[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.

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[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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[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]

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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[ofgoldenfoil]

Can you fly? Or something that gives you a sense of freedom?

[ Aurican has yet to learn how to fly, but he finds running as both a dragon and as a human to be very liberating at times. ]

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[gearshifting]

They werent that different. Easier maybe.

The stupid feelings are the problem.

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[hunksmash]

transorbital lobotomy.

[performance]

Sounds like the feelings weren't that fake.

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[gearshifting]

Dude i miss flying. Cant do it here but flying is awesome. I miss rockets. Rockets are great.

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[gearshifting]

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

[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.

[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!!

[performance]

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

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[ofgoldenfoil]

Isn't one of those hovercraft devices technically flying?

Do you mean riding in an actual rockets or just launching them?

[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.

[gearshifting]

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

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[gearshifting]

Riding rockets. Sort of. You cant ride real rockets without a vehicle to ride them.

But riding a rocket would be cool.

[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???

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[ofgoldenfoil]

Would making a rocket so you can ride it will make you feel a little better about your emotions?

[gearshifting]

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

[glitterateur]

the stuffed options are still ok!!

huggable but not sad if you have to leave

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[hunksmash]

stick a microchip in there? get cyborg with it?

that sounds real, right?