but is it because we've already given up on our own reality being satisfying? that's the part i want to understand
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nah dude curiosity and adventure
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i feel like people forget those are things too often
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my reality is awesome *and* i love the empowerment (i could make it happen) and chillness (but maybe i don’t need to) that comes from imagining the possibility of others
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yeah i know we're all special snowflakes around here 😛 but i'm talking about the man on the street! insofar as this reflects something in the *collective* unconsciousness what is that thing, is what i wanna know, and i feel like there's more despair out there than curiosity
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i've been thinking about it. here's what i see: we're way too far from meaningful interstellar travel. and people are still railing against doing it at all, bless their souls. this is about as 'realistic' a possibility we can imagine to slake our thirst for exploring the unknown
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that's the despair part: we've explored the crap out of this planet (i mean, there's probably a little more but it's wildly out of reach to the average guy), but we're too far out from exploring physical outer space, so average joe is just kinda stuck, here, in whatever situation
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used to be you could start over in a brand new, unknown land, we aint got that anymore, we're just stuck with all these systems, and already bought up, rented out land here on this planet.
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what about the far reaches of our inner space?
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all this multiverse stuff, i'm thinking too, is also us inviting ourselves to go deeper into our inner space in imagining all these possible worlds too.
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i am for sure interested in multiversal travel as an imaginal / meditative / therapeutic practice. like "what if i imagined traveling to the world where X in my past turned out a different way and talking to myself there" etc.
me too! i also sometimes soothe my fomo with the knowledge that one of my selves in the multiverse is doing that thing i can’t do and am having fomo about
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Not exactly multiverse but I think you might really like Becoming Erica!
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*Being Erica obviously—the link is right
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also not multiverse, but I think you'd enjoy "To The Moon", a video game about a technology that allows people to 'rewrite' their memories and become a different person because they experienced a different life:
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