Renegade Nightshades

[mincingminuet]

Penelope Raban shared a photo. 3/20 near Recolle University

Okay, has anyone ever seen anything like this before?

[ooc: image courtesy of Deviant Art]

Comments

[truedetective]

Feeling real or not, that doesn't make them any less dreams.

[mincingminuet]

And what if it's more than that dude?
I'm not the only one with these dreams.

[truedetective]

True, but influencing our dreams, i.e our minds, is a far cry from influencing reality.

[mincingminuet]

Is it really?

The mind is a window to reality. And by meddling with it, you can alter one's perception of reality.

Yes, that's related to solipsism but solipsism as a philosophical idea isn't completely without some merit. At least, nobody can dispute that Gorgias of Leontini and Descartes were unable to defend the point as a possibility.

[truedetective]

Of course, altering our perception is one thing, but altering reality is another. If we believe that tomatoes will kill us, but they are not actually going to kill us, our belief doesn't make it the truth. I'm less concerned with solipsism and more concerned with Last Thursdayism.

[mincingminuet]

It could very well be Last Thursdayism, but I doubt it. That's a pretty difficult if not impossible philosophy to defend, since it is almost parodic.

But let me level with you. I think this is real. I think those things other people have talked about are real. And I think that something fucked up is going on in this town, particularly to people on this network.

Also, I didn't mention it, but I totally killed this tomato thing in my dream.

[truedetective]

Ordinarily I would have agreed, but we have concrete evidence here of someone's fundamental memories being altered.

One group is wrong. Either horses existed, or they never did, and were always chocobos. We remember horses, but it may be just as likely that those memories were fake. If we extend that, how can we be sure of anything we remember? The world could have been created a week ago and our memories implanted, for all we know.

[mincingminuet]

Third option.

We're in the Matrix.

[truedetective]

Wouldn't that just be a variant on the other two? Whether horses existed or not is independent of us being in some sort of computer simulation.

[mincingminuet]

Something like that, I guess. Altered perception of reality.

Unless one of us is The One.

[truedetective]

Doubtful. This is the real world, not fiction.

[mincingminuet]

Well never say never.
We have singing fruit after all.