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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.

Comments

[notjohnsmith]

It's complicated.

[acclimate]

Is it common for someone to believe they are fictional?

[watersacrificed]

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

[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.

[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.

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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.

[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".

[swordhappy]

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

[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?

[ceded]

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