sanity chicken would be a good band name

[parodeity]

all right fuck it
i was trying to avoid being That Crazy Person
but clearly everyone else is doing really well at sanity chicken
all edging around the topic or not bringing it up
or possibly it not being an issue for the majority though i am PRETTY fucking sure i can confirm it happening for at least like
nearly ten people maybe i dont know
so im just going to commit to my role as the crazy conspiracy theory guy
get me a whiteboard and some string you all
im ready to mark it up
wave goodbye sadly to my good name and all that
watch it circle the drain as i dump it in the toilet and watch it flush away
so anyway here we go

raise your fucking hand if youve had a very vivid hallucination of some sort
that felt super real
since you got this app
about a thing you definitely never remember yourself doing
also if youre going to go dave you sound like youve lost it
at least link me something entertaining off the internet to add some spice to what is sure to be a pretty common response
it isnt like yo remember when horses were a thing makes any of us sound any less ridiculous
so
admittedly i guess i could sound crazier
theres like a scale here
shit i should make a scale ill do that later
anyway

raise your hands or dont
go

[ ooc: i literally never care about theadjacking so feel free if you want ]

Comments

[daemonized]

I'll risk the notion of sounding mentally dubious, and be the first to raise my figurative hand. Since you were bold enough to announce this to everyone first.

[parodeity]

it was the draw of being in my dazzling company right
knew it
so anyway can i be invasive and ask when it happened to you and how many times
and like
if youve noticed some kind of pattern with it being a thing
you know to try to legitimize our mentally dubious thing here

[notyourutopian]

I'm not...sure?
I thought it was a dream at first, but it hasn't gone away the way they usually do.

I suppose if other people are having the same thing happen, that answers my worries though, doesn't it.

[parodeity]

see id love to think that and the first time it happened i was like
whoa
thats enough caffeine for one day
but im up to like five stupid incidents
so clearly im not having daydream issues or nightmare issues or what have you
or i mean i could be
but if so it would be contagious issues
which possibly is a thing?
that sounds like some kinda setup for a movie
mass hysteria or illusions or whatever
but cool though that premise is
im putting it aside to seriously attempt to figure out wtf this is
mostly so it can chill
because its stupid and im not a fan

whend your thing happen

[true_noir]

[... more people?]

Dave, right?

We can speak after my shift, if you wish a little privacy. I think I might appreciate that. But, yes, I have experienced something of this sort. Have you met anyone who did not have this app yet, who experienced it? This seems as important a question to answer as any.

[Because, again, it was the only connection she knew.]

[parodeity]

sure
it isnt like i wont be around at some point due to the whole
working there thing so
and nah i dont know anyone w/o the app being involved in weirdness and knowing its weird

[onceandfuturemascot]

I had an incredibly vivid dream about standing over some bleeding guy in a shed
I didn't really care to analyze that
It seemed less important than an entire species getting replaced out of reality
But if there's a pattern it probably ties back into this thing

[parodeity]

i classified it as less important at first too
but it keeps happening so
im officially classing this as a thing that might be important

[ he remembered dying ok he's a little shook up ]

whend the shed dream happen?

[samuraisoul]

I have. I thought it a dream at first but hearing others having similiar experiences has made me doubt that considerably...

I was a samurai stood on a beach, greeting a huge navy. A friend I know here was there, a samurai himself, and I thanked him for bringing that navy... I think he was the commander. We talked, and I walked into the water where he was stood. It's strange just how well I can 'recall' the sensation of wetness around my ankles.

[parodeity]

yeah
i thought it was crazy shit until i started talking to other people but
we werent sure how widespread it was
and no one was saying things so i was like
better take the crazy fall ig

yeah its pretty fucking vivid isnt it
fun fact sos pain if you feel it

[me_matey]

okay so

i've never been on a plane in my life. not once. never flown anywhere or even so much as been on the top floor of a really tall building

but i had a dream of legit actual flying. not like superman flying but like on a vessel of some kind. it was surreal af but comforting in some way?????

idk if that counts for what yer goin for m8y but there you go

-She resisted the urge to shitpost. Praise her.-

[parodeity]

if you mean like a dream at night im not sure it counts
but thanks for the thought?
im not talking like normal dreams
more weirder shit

[sharplydressed]

[rip in rest, Dave. This sacrifice won't be forgotten...]

not saying anything about being crazy one way or another, but do you need me to bring you some coffee or something?

[It sounds like Dave might need some coffee. Honestly the guy probably deserves a free pastry too for being the first to break the sanity chicken silence.]

[parodeity]

[ HE REMEMBERED DYING AND BROKE THE CHICKEN GAME...rip ]

i would absolutely love some coffee
senior year + weird shit is a stupid combo
but i figure so is college + weird shit
or even work + weird shit

[blooming_resonance]

It looks like quite a number of you have experienced the hallucinations. For one person to do it once isn't necessarily a huge problem - the brain is very odd sometimes, especially when tired or influenced by drugs - it's when it ends up happening frequently that it becomes something you can diagnose.

But for it to happen to a lot of people? That is strange. I wonder if it had something to do with Founder's Day. Did you all exhaust yourselves in the festivities?

To answer your question, though: No. I haven't experienced any vivid hallucinations at all, at least not any memorable ones and not recently. Sorry to break your pattern. I DO, however, remember horses as having existed.

I do wonder if it's all connected, though.

Though if you all feel like you need a doctor to check you, I know a renowned neurology specialist.

[parodeity]

does said neurology specialist remember horses b/c if not im not sure how helpful theyd be in this situation
though i do super appreciate the offer
kind of
not sure how i feel about being checked out esp when like the hallucinations or visions or w/e
do seem to be connected to app usage
if not universally so
im not sure if thats a relief or not

i mean i went to the festivities but i wasnt like overtired
and its happened several times since then
in situations i would be perfectly fine in normally

so all i can say here is that it seems like only people w this app know about horses
and only people w this app have these hallucinations that i know of
but not everyone with the app has the vision things???
because shenanigans or something

[goen]

[ sanity chicken blah blah blah crazy conspiracy scroll scroll scroll vivid hallucination ]

Now that you mention it, I did see something weird...
I'll tell you if you tell me what you saw too!!

[ he hopes to god that dave's hallucination is at least a little weird too so he won't feel so crazy about it ]

[parodeity]

[ i mean his first one should cover the weird quota and the others are not much better. ]

sure but you gotta go first

[rosettareflected]

Oh! I thought for sure it was just me! Yes, I did see something. A tower... I think it was a radio tower? It was very tall. But I can't find such a tower on the lists on Wikipedia.

...And the tower was supposedly mine.

[parodeity]

you owned a radio tower?
like
just straight up

[swordere]

Oh, okay. So this is A Thing and not just... I don't know, something random caused by exhaustion. That's what I thought at first, anyway.

Not that it really explains what sort of Thing, but at least I feel a little less crazy.

[parodeity]

yeah it kind of helps if you know its not just you doesnt it
had the same feel when i first talked about it
only bothered to talk about it w people i trusted originally but
its kind of hit the point maybe we should chat about it you know

[clear_eyes]

There are already too many people confirming this sort of thing for it to be people dreaming.

This is worrying to say the very least.

[parodeity]

idk i for one feel better the more crazy people there are in my secret club
less likely to be straight up insane anyway
or in better company if i am

[chiseler]

kittens growing out of dirt, strider. I'm never going to say my imagination isn't awesome, but this is borderline ridiculous

[parodeity]

kittens like daisies
would it make you feel better if i told you my first thing was me in a pot of soup

[rhapsodeity]

nooooooo
dave no :(
dont give them more information
maybe even the information they want!!!!!!!!
you said yourself the apps related, argh


and ummm, well
how are you doing?

[parodeity]

theres not really another way to find out though
if anyone on the thing has done the thing
like
im pretty fucking sure it actually doesnt matter what we say on here
solely because they clearly already HAVE all our info
so we may as well ignore that and use it to organize
i mean everyone can kind of do what they feel is safest but
personally id rather stop just pretending weird stuff isnt occurring

im ok
you?

[erythristic]

do vivid dreams of things that are impossible on several levels count for this?

[parodeity]

most of mine are semi absurd and or impossible so yes
yes they do
if it was a vivid dream that felt impossibly real that you just cant shake
congrats you might be in the crazy club

[darkinferno]

well up until NOW i hadn't

thanks for that

[parodeity]

what
what the fuck did i say that made you do anything

[potentite]

Dirk made me have TWO of them and one was so horrible.
I'm never ever ever ever trying drugs ever.
EVER.
The other two were okay I guess? Nothing... too weird happened besides punching Fish Hitler?
Who I still say looked pretty happy about it.

[parodeity]

sorry what
explain the fish hitler bit further

[voideity]

i didnt realize it was so bad until i talked to d
and he made me hallucinate shit via text??

but im glad its not just our fam tbh
i was like
man when did our fam drop so much acid

anyway raisin my hand
raisin dirks hand too while im at it
as is my twinly right

[parodeity]

was it that rainbow sugar shit
because fuck that shit
he did it to me too
then i did it back to him

hey
ive never done a single drug
itd make ma sad

shit is that how it works
guess i better go grab roses hand too

[rebellions]

[Well. With these many responses it doesn't feel necessary to raise any more hands.]

hang on
is this some kinda conspiracy theory where this shitty app brainwashed us and we're hallucinating crap because of it

[parodeity]

[ no raise your hand join the coolkids, man ]

idk
do you think were brainwashed into thinking horses were real or do you believe in them broski
its a hard question to answer
i think it comes down to personal preference
of what you can deal with best

[hjack69]

well grats on having the balls to come out and say it kid
but yeah
i remember beautiful diamond ponies

[voideity]

i know this is a very srs discussion were having
but i just gotta say
thats amazing omg
you have won the hallucination game congrats

[strongestheart]

Oh.

Oh, thank goodness, I'm not going crazy. Over this, at least.

Yeah, I... have definitely seen something like that. Even weirder is I saw OTHER people in it. People I know. But it's not... them. I think????

[parodeity]

when did you see a thing?

[complementing]

raises hand I had a dream/hallucination thing that I met Yukiko when she was in her 3rd year of middle school in Japan but I know for a fact she's been here in Recollé ever since she was little idk it's kind of tame compared to what everyone else has been seeing but??? There you go also for the record I don't think you're crazy not wrt this anyways, I affectionately acknowledge your craziness in other aspects of your life as a part of who you are

[parodeity]

aw thanks for your acknowledgement of my craziness in other aspects of my life
so you had a vision of someone you know here
or someone you didnt know?

[tearable]

Does remembering songs you don't remember learning count? Lyrics, strings on the guitar, everything.

[parodeity]

yeah im pretty sure it counts
i mean
jacks is literally diamond unicorns
we think

[scarlet_devil]

And here I thought it was just me and my friend.

[parodeity]

apparently not
though our general unwillingness to break sanity chicken would be why people thought that

[furtherforward]

thank you for being the leader on this front, random dude named Dave. really, it's been quite a read.

all of it. I read everything here. but out of all of these CRAZY trips, nobody's stories have caused me to hallucinate in the slightest! there's ONE isolated incident I've had so far that lumps me in with the rest of you, but it's disappointingly tame compared to diamond ponies, bloodied men, or clown ogres. sorry to hear so many of you have lost your minds.

[parodeity]

whats your tiny incident then dude
or are you just here to like
brag
about whatever it is