I’m rewatching a scifi comedy from my childhood, Red Dwarf on Britbox. Good stuff if it’s your sort of thing, it’s mine obviously. Anyway the premise of this specific episode I had completely forgotten until now; a squid with hallucinogenic venom that makes you hallucinate whatever makes you want to kill yourself
Anyway our crew run into it, and end up in a group hallucination where their actual lives had been a video game, and their “real world” personalities were awful people, the types of people they’d be ashamed of.
I wanted to bring it up, because often times waking up, reintroducing myself to “real life”, I kinda have to deal with wanting to die again. Perhaps I am a victim of the suicide squid eh? It’s an interesting thought experiment, I like this kind of reality bending experimental stuff.
Would it change anything? if you were being tricked? if there was another you on another track, in an external world that isn’t nearly as bleak as this one?
IDK, It’s bugged me for a long time, what’s real anyway? What if I missed something? What if relief is right around the corner? Or if this is a nightmare and that other is the real world?
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I don’t know what I’d do. I guess I’d wish my other self good luck. It doesn’t really change the fact that this sense of self wants to die. I could sit down and think of all the different possibilities of the other me, but I’d still hate the current me. If a squid wants to make me kill myself, I say go for it. I don’t know it’s a little hard to think outside of one’s self.