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Is it weird to wonder these sorts of things?
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RE: Is it weird to wonder these sorts of things?

(06-04-2016 03:41 AM)TheCancer Wrote:  When I was a kid I used to think that maybe everyone else was a robot or alien and I was part of some kind of experiment. I guess kind of like the Truman Show. Then when I got older I went through a phase where I decided I didn't feel like how a living thing should feel. Disconnected. Then I went through a period where I kept imagining that everything on earth except for me was going to turn into water. I thought about it a lot. Like I would be in a building and think if all this stuff turns to water right now I'll fall 100 ft in a cascade.

As strange as that sounds initially, there are times where I too felt disconnected. And recently I've had times where I would imagine myself swimming in water. Maybe it's because it's been a long time since I last swam. Hopefully I can get in the water this summer.

(06-03-2016 08:18 PM)Cianna200 Wrote:  I like you already! I don't think it's weird, I mean, no one really has a clue about the all out whole truth about life.

Thanks. There's so much out there which doesn't make sense. One thing I was recently looking into was the Mandela Effect. I'm still not sure why a bunch of people would mis-remember things the same way. Or maybe they're not mis-remembering and reality's been shifted.

That's actually why Lion and Wolf are in my username. Some people claim a Bible verse changed, that it used to read "The lion shall lay down with the lamb" but now reads "the wolf shall lay down with the lamb." It's odd, I thought I actually read that part of the Bible and yet I got it wrong. But then again, I thought it was Berenstein Bears, not Berenstain Bears, and I read the Berenstain Bears too. But Unicorn's in there because I just think they're cool.

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