So I wasn't going to get any new games since Tetris Effect seems to be consuming my mind, like as in actively eating my thoughts, but the Epic store had a game that I remember seeing a .gif of on Reddit and the description nailed it for me. The game is "Superliminal" and the gameplay is based completely on perspective. Objects can get larger or smaller depending on where you're looking at them from. Even from the .gif I saw I thought the gameplay had a weird dreamlike quality but when I read that it's based heavily on dreaming I knew I had to get it. The Washington Post even had a review of the game, for crying out loud.

So the game at fist had this Portal vibe, which was probably intentional. There is a creepy robotic voice and an introduction to the dream world. The gameplay I think is also meant to be Portal-like in that you have to use the perspective mechanic to solve puzzles in this novel way. The difficuly though, at leas at this point, feels a little too easy, to the point where the game feels more like an interactive art exhibit than a puzzle game. That isn't bad, have to say, at least for me given that I like the bits of worldbuilding they throw in. Maybe it gets harder as you go on, who knows.

I don't know if it was some weird fucking coincidence that I just saw a clip of Inception on YouTube just the day before, a weird synchronocity, like the waking world screaming at me to sleep. It's been like a year since my dreaming slowed down. I'm starting to dream again and I'm not sure if it's a distraction or an oppurtunity.

This Reddit thread has been popping into my mind over and over again, it's a thread on /r/NoStupidQuestions and the post is "Anybody else randomly get flashes of hyperrealism?" The comments are amazing, people describing that weird sense of being aperson of realizing youexist. Threads like this are gold to me, this kind of shit usually only gets talked about in this lofty way, "spiritual" people speaking with this glazed over expression and a smugness that I don't think is always intentional but unavoidable. Just a bunch of people getting together to try to find others to relate to. I've been getting those flashes more now, everyone in a while like back when I was meditating a lot more, just the sense that gets you to stop and look around, breaking free of the hum of the pattern for just a second.

Rooper2111 127 points · 4 months ago I know exactly what you’re talking about. I would get it looking in the mirror. I got the feeling much more often during adolescence and can remember telling my mom “it’s like I realize I’m a human and I have a life “ but she never really got what I was saying.

On a last note, I found a song I like. Mindnumbing techno shit, just the way I like it.

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