002; voice

[spacesalmon]

[the audio feed turns on for a few seconds before a boy begins to speak. He's still just as quiet as his first message on that rainy day and speaks as softly, but the shock and the anxiety are gone. Instead, there is a heaviness in his voice---it sounds as if he's dreading his own words.]Excuse me. I'm sorry for bothering you with these questions,

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Voice

[ysobritish]

...it's not silly at all.

[Liquid's own voice is surprisingly and rarely quiet.]

Sometimes it's hard to tell where dreams end and real life begins. Dreams can be vivid and deep, to the point where you wake up in surprise. But it's rare or impossible for people to share in their dreams. There are people here that woke up remembering the same events, in their own world. That know each other from those "dreams". I don't think they were false memories. They go too deep. Far too complex.

But if they were... don't forget that these "false memories" were supposedly put into us unintentionally. A side-effect of whatever they were doing to us. So it's possible for people's memories to be drastically different.

Voice

[spacesalmon]

...that's what I think, too. Or hope. I...really want the people I remember to exist, at least. They must have. I know too many things that I shouldn't. But even so, what is the point where we wake up? ...is that really definable?

Voice

[ysobritish]

To define that, you would need to define reality itself. That isn't possible. Each person creates their own reality inside their mind, refusing to accept things that don't fit into it. In a sense, they create their own worlds around them through their beliefs and interpretations. Knowing that, it's entirely possible for a dream to be reality as long as you're in it. You awaken from one reality to another.

Voice

[spacesalmon]

One reality to another...[you can literally hear him frown all the way across the feed] So you're saying that that neither are false, but neither are true at the same time, and it depends on which one we're observing at the moment?

.................Won't that mean that our memories are no longer true? Or not applicable, at least. I don't think any of us wants to believe that.