001. text // i'm wide awake the more i sleep

[manufactured]

I'll preface this now with the notion that I don't expect anyone to respond with the content of their memories, should this be relevant to them. It's more a question being shouted into the void, because I don't care to keep it in my head any longer. Make of it what you will; treat it as a pure hypothetical if it suits you, it isn't as though I'll know the difference.

But has anyone had the suspicion that they may have been on the wrong side of whatever conflict may have been occurring in these memories of theirs? Or if not something so drastic, perhaps it's just that the person you seem to have been back then was deserving of, at the very least, a solid shake and a slap across the face.

Either way, people like to assert here that whomever you are now isn't the same as the person you're remembering, and I wholeheartedly agree with that notion. However, the question likewise comes up from time to time of whether or not the patterns we recall are what we're destined to fall into again.

That possibility becomes decidedly more difficult to disregard when the memories you receive are of someone that you have neither the interest nor the desire to become.

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[manufactured]

...Interesting. I have yet to find anyone whose memories align with my own, personally.

[sivard]

Weird.

I wonder why that would be?

[manufactured]

It's possible that I'm just not speaking to the right people.

On the other hand, I'm slightly hesitant to offer too many identifiable details to others. I suspect that whomever I'm sharing memories with wasn't terribly well-liked, and for good reason.

...I have to wonder if that's another reason this could be happening, now that I'm thinking about it. Driving rifts between people, having some of them remember horrible things and others being victimized.

[sivard]

That sounds rather nefarious, put that way, doesn't it?

But you have a point. I can't really remember anything in particular about this guy whose memories I'm getting, but who knows what kind of person he is.

I can't really see what they would gain from giving an entire population an identity crisis unless they're secretly cartoon villains. Not that I'd put it past them at this point.

[manufactured]

Oh, absolutely. But look at any of the posts they put out publicly to everyone with the app and tell me that "cartoon villain" doesn't apply.

[sivard]

They're certainly trying to be theatrical in that way only the classics of villains can aspire to.

They're one step removed from Snidely Whiplash.

Hope I didn't give them ideas with that.

[manufactured]

Well, hopefully after a while Dick Dastardly will stop to cheat and some headway can actually be made in solving any of this.

[sivard]

Ha! We can only hope it'll be that easy.

Our "friend" Jim seems like the best bet, but I guess the higher ups caught on to that fact since he's been put in the PR equivalent of time out.

[manufactured]

The perils of being visibly incompetent, I suppose. Hopefully they haven't decided he's outlived his usefulness, because I'm sure several of us would like to argue that point.

[sivard]

with any luck, he'll show up again in the near future.

Or we'll find out everyone else in the organization is just as incompetent. I'd be okay with both.