anon discovers depersonalization and maybe an undiagnosed mental health issue that’s been ongoing for some time
Anon plays GTA V
Submitted 15 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
TootSweet@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Achievement Unlocked: Dissociation
j4k3@piefed.world 15 hours ago
There is a big difference between a conceptual moment of abstractive thinking with expanded perspective, and someone that feels native to such an experience with no alternative.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Anon presented this as an a/b change, not a conceptual moment. That is a person who found a framework for depersonalization to take its footing in, even if it’s presented in a silly manner. There is not a prerequisite that states it must be pervasive enough to be the point of “no alternative” to be valid, that is asinine
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
What if I treat life like playing GTA, but I am also the kind of person who follows traffic rules the vast majoirity of the time while playing GTA?
Normalish person?
Or… double psychopath, lol?
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
I feel like not committing crimes in GTA is much more concerning.
baines@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
i got some bad news
how do you feel about trains?
did your mom really like Tylenol growing up?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
How does one know if they are afflicted with depersonalization? Wikipedia left me confused.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
More or less, do you live your life as you, directly, or do you…
…more like, live your life in 3rd person, in your own head, as a kind of narrator or detwched observer/commentator of what ‘you’ are actually doing?
This is very rough and far from exact, but maybe that is a way of phrasing it that makes sense?
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
YES. YES IT IS.
B0rax@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Life has worse graphics than GTA V?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Maybe anon is shortsighted and doesn’t wear good glasses. Also, the fidelity and realism might be better than GTA V, but you could argue that GTA V has prettier design, which might be lumped in with “graphics”.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
The mirrors IRL don’t work properly, that’s for sure. Have you seen the face of that ugly guy they keep displaying? Must be a rendering bug surely
primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 15 hours ago
In like the Midwest, yeah–better skybox worse everything else,
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
sees the world objectively not subjectively
this is just like a video game I played
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Is this how psychopaths go through life?
Yes anon. You’ve been one of them all along.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
You ever start having a lucid dream, then something kicks in and it’s not really a lucid dream anymore?
This is me with this thought. Quite liberating in the moment but hard to maintain to guide my actions for very long.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
It’s worth noticing that this is apparently the traditional far-eastern way of life; at least it was explained to me that this “realization” is a major part in traditional japanese meditation techniques.
It’s also noteworthy that japanese people typically refer to themselves by their name, i.e. I would say “gandalf ate noodles yesterday” instead of “I ate noodles yesterday”. I believe this stems from the idea that you look at yourself from the outside, just like you would look at anybody else. This is also the root cause for why there’s traditionally such a strong “group think” in far-eastern countries. Because they differentiate way less between themselves and others.
sabin@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s also noteworthy that japanese people typically refer to themselves by their name,
Talking in third person in Japanese is no less unusual than doing so in English
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
uhm do you have a source of that because i’ve seen various evidence to the contrary.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 14 hours ago
“no respawns” is kind of a big deal when you “have absolutely no inhibition now” … the entire reason why social interactions are easier in games is that you can always try again, plus unlike real life, games generally provide pre-defined dialog options and many games don’t even have a charisma stat that might make you just fail an option by performing it badly.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I fucking love the way disco elysium handles this. You can still kinda go back and load an older save but its just so fun to let go and go with the flow choosing whatever seems right/interesting.
blarghly@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
you can always try again
This is true if you live in a big enough city, or are willing to move somewhere else.
games generally provide pre-defined dialog options
You can just memorize a list of 10 canned responses and whip them out whenever you feel like it.
kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
It’s a CIA psyop to project less good looking faces onto your mirrors. Wake up, you handsome person!
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 12 hours ago
No amount of being good-looking could make me become good at talking!
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Well, if gamification of real world tasks works, go for it.
If you treat your whole life as a video game, there might be something wrong with you, though.
blarghly@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
OOP is on 4chan, we already knew something was wrong with him
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Yeah, nobody in their right mind could tolerate all this pay for play bullshit.
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Yeah, imagine spending a good chunk of your monthly paycheck just to have a place to live…
Wait, fuck
Gap@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I haven’t found any purchaseable content other than those bought with in-game currency. Is this something you unlock in newgame+? Or do I need to join a religion for it
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’s why I only play first person games. My mental illnesses are local instead of floating about.
zo0@programming.dev 15 hours ago
mfw life imitates art
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I wouldn’t know. I’m just an NPC.
BUY SOMETHING WILL YA?!