sometimes, i think about the extremely evil controlling culty far right christian enviroment i grew up in, and wonder what my life could have been if i hadn't been in hell...

what? abuse? no this ain't about that. this is about not having 200 bad christian children's songs stuck in my head forever

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something funny about vr i've noticed is that it always seems to be more realistic in hindsight; that is, when i am remembering being in it compared to how it felt at the time. my memories tend to be far more vivid in sight and sound than they are in touch, so all of the missing cues in vr that remind you you're not really in the world - the feeling of actually inhabiting the body that you see, the texture of the ground beneath you, the touch of others - are things that i wouldn't as much remember anyway. i am not sure i have truly ever felt that i am really there in vr, but certainly it does feel as though i was really there.

there is a strange dreamlike quality to these memories, however. i remember being in these virtual spaces as if they were real, but something about it feels like it didn't actually happen. it is as though some subprocess, responsible for sorting memories into being imagined or reality, looks at time i've spent in vr, and thinks: well, this is a perfectly vivid memory, and we can place the time when it must have happened, which would all be unusual for a dream, but come on - these events are clearly impossible.

the "holodeck" is the obvious sci-fi technology to compare vr to, but personally i think it's really most like the tech in incepton. vr is a device that can induce something like a shared lucid dream.