What if I’m asleep in a hospital somewhere and I could die any moment they decide to pull the plug?!?!

Jesus why has my mind been giving me existential crisises at night this week?

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God I swear I had a dream recently where there was a “Wake Up Party”, like a political party based on the ideology that everything was all a dream and the solution to all the world’s problems was simply to identify whose dream it was and wake xem up. Like they’d hold rallies where they would just chant “WAKE UP! WAKE UP!” with cowbells and banners reading “WAKE THE F#CK UP!” and they’d hold speeches in parliament encouraging “The Dreamer” to wake up and all sorts of stuff, and they were actually a super popular party just because people were that desperate.

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You gotta register the copyright for this quick before someone sees the post and it becomes a Netflix movie.

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Fuck, I’m jotting this down. This is an amazing writing prompt.

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Vishnu 2024!

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Looks like it worked, unless… 🤔

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It’s dreams all the way down

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ya gotta wake the wind fish, lad

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not exactly this, but this

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you’re all little gay people stuck in my computer and i must free you with a rock

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Use a screwdriver

Easier to punch through the LEDs

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I’d be so fucking pissed if this life was the best dream my shitty brain could come up with.

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I watched one (1) show were this was going on, and I think I’ve concocted a way of telling.

How much David Bowie are you hearing in your day-to-day life?

If you look at a TV screen or turn on the radio, do you hear doctors arguing about how best to treat you?

Have you shot back to the 70’s or 80’s to work as a cop?

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No, no and no

…Whew

I would NEVER be a cop

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I would NEVER be a cop

Ok Narc_Owl

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Don Siegel’s Dirty Owl (1971)

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I’m hearing a lot of David Bowie in my day to day life, should I be concerned?

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we did it! we found the dreamer!

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If my life is the dream then I genuinely fear for what the real world would look like

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Not necessarily, there are other possible explanations. For example - you may be in suspended animation on a space ship sent to colonise mars.

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Am I on a King Bazinga colonizing ship or a USSR2 colonizing ship? That determines what I do when I wake up out of suspended animation

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Wait, this isn’t about 1899, right? Because I can’t recall the purpose of the spaceship in 1899 ever being clarified before the show was cancelled.

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Fantastic show. Though to be fair, it was never quite clear if he was in a coma or just insane.

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The follow up series, Ashes to Ashes makes it more clear, but is also a much worse show.

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Oh yeah, I watched an episode of that then wiped it from my memory. Fair enough.

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