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[seeked]

"So please do your best to acclimate yourself to this reality as quickly as possible."

Okay, look. This is all well and good for…whatever it is they're trying to do, but I really, really don't have time for this. [It's okay, Harry, we know you're inwardly freaking out about waking up suddenly absolutely not dead. There is a reason that he's keeping the video off for now.] I suppose they don't care about that, do they?

Right. Anyway, here's my question. Is there anyone who actually thought they were fictional before arriving here, or are we just believing what we've been told since there's nothing else to go off of? Because no offense, but the last seventeen years of my life have been a bit too chaotic to be anything but real. I can't imagine why anyone would want to fictionalize my life in the first place. Also, fictional or not, can anyone tell me what happens to our lives back where we came from? Do they just stop existing? It's really important that I get an answer.

...er. I think that's all for now. Thanks.

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[notjohnsmith]

It's complicated.

[seeked]

I can handle complicated.

[notjohnsmith]

While it's easy to say that I've never doubted my own existence, that doesn't mean I've never doubted the reality of events unfolding around me. There are plenty of things that have happened in my life, both before and after arriving on the island, that seem irrational enough that it could be easily believed to be nothing more than a author's whimsical attempts to break out of a particularly problematic bout of writer's block.

[acclimate]

Is it common for someone to believe they are fictional?

[seeked]

Not exactly, but it's possible isn't it?

[acclimate]

Hypothetically. Within the constraints of fiction. We are not.

[watersacrificed]

Those are the same questions I've been asking myself.

[seeked]

And are you finding any answers?

[watersacrificed]

For the moment, no. I've green here for a little less than a week.

[easy_a]

No one knows and I'm pretty sure no one really cares anymore. It's easier just to live day by day here.

But I'm /pretty/ sure shit keeps going on back home, some way or another.

[seeked]

[Ah. Great. Just the answer he didn't want to hear.]

Well, I care. And if that's the case then I really need to get back as soon as possible.

[easy_a]

Then you better hope you're one of the lucky ones. Then again, you might not want to be.

No one knows if people who vanish are sent back home or released into whatever place the doctors say is "the real world".

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

The popular theory seems to revolve around parallel realities. So our lives and our home universes are not false, simply... elsewhere.

Also, given the many time-divergent people coming here from the same realities, the general belief is that there is another version of ourselves back home doing whatever it is we would have been doing, completely unaware of this place.

For example, you yourself has been here before - yet I am quite certain neither version of you remembered ever being here before. There are many more examples of this sort of thing. This would seem to indicate that our arrival here in no way affects our lives back home.

[seeked]

Well you're right. I've absolutely no memories of being on the island before. But maybe that's a good thing. [Maybe. It's hard to say.]

How long ago was that anyway?

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

As I recall, you arrived around New Year's this year and disappeared toward the end of February.

If I may ask, when are you from this time?

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[alwaysimpure]

My theory is that this place takes us from different worlds and when we vanish here, we do go back. As for the fictional thing, I know I'm a character in a book in some worlds, but that doesn't mean my life's not real. Real or not, still had to, have to live it.

I think we return to continue. I know I still have something to do back there.

voice

[seeked]

[...oh. He doesn't do anything for a very, very long time, debating if he wants to respond with text or with voice. In the end he realizes that it doesn't matter either way and keeps the voice.]

Yeah? What do you have left to do? [He'll get back to the whole "in a book" thing in a bit.]

[rescuerdownunder]

My rule of thumb is that existential crisis are so last year. From personal experience, I can tell you there's no such thing as not being "real".

[seeked]

Yeah? What kind of personal experience?

[swordhappy]

I am accustomed to the idea of being thought of as somewhat fictional, but I confess I find the matter irrelevant.

[seeked]

Why is that? [To both questions.]

[peckish4action]

I know at least one person who's been here and then not here at least twice. He may be a bit unhappy with me at the moment, but when I work through that, I'll ask if he has something to say about what happens back home.

Were you doing something important?

[seeked]

I'd appreciate that. Any information you manage to get could be really helpful.

...I would say it's very important, yeah. A lot more important than whatever it is we're supposed to do here.

[ceded]

Um... has anyone else really said they believed they were fictional before?

[seeked]

Not exactly, but it's a possibility to look into. There has to be a reason that the doctors or whoever are pushing that theory, shouldn't there?