I don’t normally get into these types of theories but this one intrigued me.
We heard it on a video, the tail-end clip and ended up in a debate over how possible it is.
Basically the theory is this.
“Earth isn’t a planet, it’s a containment biome for traumatized multi-dimensional beings who failed their last evolutionary assignment.
So Earth is like cosmic detention, a planetary group therapy sandbox, a rehab facility for beings who once had god-like perceptions and accidentally broke universal law, probably by weaponizing emotion or inventing pyramid schemes on other planes.
So what did the higher intelligences do?
They said strip them down, drop their memory, give them meat suits, lock them in a time loop with feelings, taxes, celebrity culture and other stuff. Let’s see if they evolve back without turning into interdimensional colonizers again.
That’s us.
That’s humanity. Every species on this planet is part of the ecosystemic feedback loop.
Cats are emotional regulators. Mushrooms, neural interfacers. Whales, data servers.
Cockroaches are unkillable patch updates and humans are the experimental species with free will, bad impulse control and the capacity to either rebuild the fabric of reality or eat Tide Pods for life.
Our dreams are glitched downloads. Deja vu is buffering errors, trauma is residual echoes from previous dimensions that your nervous system can’t handle and the real kicker, sleep isn’t rest.
It’s your consciousness clocking out of the simulation to get brief re-education before being thrown back into the meat shell.
Ever wake up more tired than when you went to bed? That’s because your higher self was in a meeting.”
You tell someone that and they’ll think you’re nuts but there’s people who believe this.
So what do you think?
Is it at least an intriguing idea?
This probably isn’t game related but this is another of those discussions we’ve had over here and I thought I’d get some different feedback so here it is.
Your perspective is interesting. For me, eating is one of the best (maybe one of the only) reasons to be alive! But I agree being in this stupid silly little hot body is some sort of restraint/punishment for the sole reason that it’s not even close to frictionless to exit. My poor Elmyouu might be the same way. He wants to log out but has no choice but to keep doing my bidding.
Feels like some level of Black Mirror/3 Body Problem of theory.
I think theories like this tend to ‘overemphasise’ the ability of humans and even external powers on how capable we actually are.
I think humankind has incredible capability but we rightfully hinder it to some extent to grant us a lot of the liberties we take advantage of today (I.E free will, freedom of career, family etc).
So I was born in a small village in a remote part of a third world country.
My dad and my mom happened to be pretty good at what they did (both Geologists) and eventually migrated overseas where they were successful in career changes (Database Engineering and Childcare).
Me and my sister were also successful (Cyber security engineer and MSL).
I have visited where I was born and the general life outcomes of people there and I can say with 100000% guarantee I would have significantly less liberties, money and control over my life had my parents stayed.
Separate to working hard for it, I definitely lucked out both in terms of being born to an aspirational couple, getting good schooling and then being (relatively) successful.
Reminds me of conversations I’d have with my friends back in the day.
Personally, I like to think the universe is a dream and conscious beings are fragments of that impossibly greater whole that attained lucidity.
According to Startibartfast Planet Earth was built by the mice, who were really multi-dementional beings, at the direction of The Magratheans to find the “Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” that results in the answer 42. Unfortunately Earth was destroyed shortly before the answer was determined to make way for an intergalactic highway.
There is a rumor that Douglas Addams had something to do with this but that seems rather doubtful.
Gnostics are heretics.
The universe exists, it is made and not imaginary.
You are who you are, not trapped in a prison (unless you’re actually in prison).
I think it’s escapism as much as anything else. I try to stay in reality and not worry about all of the “other” stuff because everyone and everything i love and care about is in reality and not some “idea” that someone thought up.
Do I actually believe any of them? Eh, no, but I’m always of the mindset of, “Well, anything is possible, so I can’t say for 100% certainty this is not a legitimate explanation of existence.”
I did read one recently that actually gave me chills. And, no, I don’t believe it, but the concept is terrifying. And that theory was something like: It is much more probable that the universe spontaneously and accidentally created only one conscious mind as opposed to billions, so what if you’re really the only conscious entity to ever exist for eons, but years in a dark void drove you near madness, so you hallucinate society and life, and Earth, etc. in general to cope with the crippling loneliness and purposelessness of your situation?
That kind of shook me, and I may or may not have went down an emotional rabbit hole that lead me to crying and feeling sorry for God, considering how lonely he actually must be / has been.
Due to the fact that hard solipsism cannot be solved, I see no point in engaging in ideas like that. If one want to then… sure. But don’t expect navel gazing to really get you anywhere.
I’d rather leave conspiracy theories and hard solipsism out of it, and stick to what we can observe and study. If one want to make use of these deep questions then sure, but one has to do it in a way that isn’t “oh wow, I’m high and this is deep” or one makes something with it - think artists creating literature like H.P. Lovecraft’s work, or paintings, or other creative endeavours.
It is called navel gazing for a reason, and as long as one avoids that, then that’s fine, fun, and potentially even productive.
Yeah, and I think it’s fun and healthy to engage your imagination in mental “What if?” scenarios. It’s very useful for writing, which I used to do a ton of. I think finding this type of thing fun as a default is one thing most writers have in common.
Taking in these types of concepts and acknowledging the possibility, but never devoting to them is the best way to consider them, I think. Anything more can drive someone insane.
And this is true of the other side of the spectrum as well. If someone solely sticks to the rigid, tangible mindset that reality only consists of what they can see and touch, and what has been solidly proven … then the belief that this life is nothing and can be nothing more is devoted to, which … can also lead to madness (or at least nihilism and depression. )
So yeah, I think skepticism without losing optimism is the best and healthiest combo.
