I'm not saying that everything is a hoax or anything like that. Rather, what if reality itself acts in a self-referential manner as part of a broader mechanism? The thinking goes like this: Individualized consciousness eventually develops awareness. If there is a generative quality to reality, the physical universe actually resolves itself in such a way to meet the expectations of individual observers, but it does so in a way which doesn't break the illusion of the experience. So it's ultimately the mind that guides the experience. Fast forward to where we are at now. If you peruse this sub, you will see lots of posts that almost feel like confirmation bias towards beliefs surrounding the UAP topic. Specifically all the three body problem stuff. What if, rather than it being the case that we are being fed a narrative or there actually is an alien race headed our way, we are creating the narrative ourselves. Our hatred of the current state of the world, our desire for broader truth, and our ever increasing awareness - all variables in a much larger calculation that keeps this illusion running. Now if you are open to that idea, there is a lot of ways you could interpret that reality. In my opinion, I think of it as a kind of test. We can fall further into the dream, embrace the UAP topic, fall into any number of dystopian sci-fi realities, or we can combine our awareness. If we ultimately realize that our fragmented minds are leading us forward, can we game the mechanism itself? Become something like a hivemind, with common goals as the foundation of our experience, while still maintaining our individualized qualities? I like to think the test is ultimately something very simple. The ability to overcome fear and work together. And if we develop the qualities necessary, who knows, maybe we are really a part of something bigger. Maybe the test is a chance to be integrated into the broader consciousness which guides this universe. We are the characters in the dream. submitted by /u/tollbooth_inspector [link] [comments]