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As long as the changes were being made to our memories, it was plausible to argue that this was some sort of hypnosis, something done by Retrospec to our brains. However:

1) The experiment to disconnect from electronics that may be affected by Retrospec returned no results. We still felt the effects while disconnected.

2) This "shrinking" and the holes in reality cannot be explained by hypnosis. They are very real.

At what point do we begin to question the fabric of reality itself?

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I'm still thinking about this in terms of code and design but it makes less sense because we are real.
Then again, what is real can be subjected to a person's own personal idea of reality.

Cogito ergo sum.
The only reality we can be assured of is that we are a thinking individual.
All else must be suspect.

Admittedly I never had such an obvious reason to take the latter part literally.

And how much of that reality as a thinking being can also be suspect since we are wired to actually replace memories from the start.

Which begs the question about how much of these hallucimemories are suspect since they appear from nowhere, or if we had glossed over them to make the memories we have now.

To be accurate, nothing beyond the current moment is definite. Even our memory of this very conversation could be implanted.

All we know is that, in this very moment, we are a thinking individual. Our memories and perception may be edited somehow.

Including hallucinomemories.

Even the current moment cannot be completely defined as being true since a moment is not even capable of being recorded.

Which is probably why the more we look into this stuff, the more I feel like it's a giant program with us as people who are seeing the layers under the skins.

A program...
As in a simulation? "The Matrix" style?

Something like that. Who knows, we may wake up all hooked up to giant battery packs after all this is resolved.

That might almost be a relief.
We'd know that there was a purpose to this.

I for one do not want to wake up just yet.
I need to know what happens next in my hallucimemories.

Interesting.
Why?

There's too much of a disconnect between the ones that I've gotten that I need to know what else is going on.

Presumably, if we are indeed hooked up to some power source and dreaming in the "real world," these hallucinomemories are less hallucination and more memory.
It would, logically, be our "real" memory bleeding into a fake world.
By that end, waking up would allow you to connect all the dots.

It's a surprisingly sound theory, the more I think about it.

What if the system is geared to erase us if we do wake up? Then there wouldn't be any chance to get the memories as they were.

But it is a good theory.

Then I suppose there's no chance of us learning the truth either way.

Unless we're either lucky or working on this from the wrong side of the equation.

What do you mean the "wrong side"?
Elaborate please.

What if the major force for all these weird changes come from inside of us? Not the app or anything to do with the company that made it, but the other changes.

There's a lot to be said about the power of belief and maybe our beliefs make things change.

Belief can function as a placebo effect, for instance getting over a cold.
Belief can't make us shrink down to the span of a few inches high.

But if this is a computer system with us as aware AIs, wouldn't it be fair to assume that we also have a limited effect on our surroundings? The only fully stopping it would be that Jim character but even then he is limited as to how it works.

Why would you assume that? It depends entirely on the parameters of the program. Perhaps entities like us are designed to have no input whatsoever.

You have an open world system. There are certain parameters that cannot be crossed in that mod but given that an open world system is made to allow for variants to occur, there is a give to those set parameters. Now add in the factor that you have 'player characters' which by default are avatars created by an outside force to slot into the storyline set in that world.

It's not uncommon for a player to find and tweak coding to change parts of their avatars or even to give them experiences that echo or mimic their real life. Which makes some things about the hallucimemories a little scary.

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