There is no way someone could hallucinate such a boring dystopia.

I probably wouldn't try to convince you that it's not a hallucination, but rather ask "so what if it is?".

For example, I'm fairly sure that I'm not currently tripping, but I am also certain that my brain is the ultimate unreliable narrator. How do I know if any of this is real, or ever has been real? What does "real" even mean? Honestly, I don't know, but ultimately it doesn't change anything about how I choose to act in life

Actually, I'd rather YOU convince me it isn't.

Hey it's me, I'm you from the year 2028. The only way out is to take more lsd but we didn't realize it soon enough and now global warming (we're calling it that again) has made the necessary ingredients impossible to source. You have to take a lot more acid right now in order to break out.

Godspeed traveler.

˙ssᴉɯɐ sʞool ƃuᴉɥʇʎuɐ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ ƃuᴉǝǝs puɐ ʇuǝɯuoɹᴉʌuǝ ɹnoʎ ƃuᴉuᴉɯɐxǝ ʎq ʎlqɐqoɹd 'ƃuᴉʇɐuᴉɔnllɐɥ ǝɹ,noʎ ɹǝɥʇǝɥʍ llǝʇ ʎllɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ʎluO ˙plnoɔ I ʇɐɥʇ ǝɹns ʇou ɯ,I

It’s July 23, 2005. You haven’t taken any acid yet.

Yeah.... I'mma try to convince myself that I am part of that hallucination, and all this shitballs that's been happening the past 6 years was part of it and nothing is real.

Are you on a permo? A permanent trip?
https://youtu.be/BHbZD68SGoE

You don't remember? It's still 2005, you just somehow took 4 full hits of DMT

There are a number of reality checks that you can do to check whether you're awake or (lucid) dreaming. I would suggest that you try some of those.

For example, apparently your hands always look odd in dreams. They might seem fine until you try to focus on them, then suddenly you'll notice they're the wrong colour or shape or have the wrong number of fingers.

There are also some other reality checks in that Wiki if you're feeling bored.

Acid doesn't take 20 years to metabolize. :)

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/lsd-abuse/how-long-system-body

"The half-life of LSD is 3.6 hours, which means it takes about that amount of time for half of the dose to be cleared from the bloodstream.4"

So, say you took a typical dose of 25μg to 150μg, 3.6 hours later you have 1/2 that... 12.5 to 75. Another 3.6 hours later, 6.25 to 37.5.

After even just a few days it would essentially be nothing. It's no longer detectable in hair past 90 days.

nobody could make this up alone, so we're all in this illusion together, i guess

Fuck that, I'd ask if you have more.

"You shouldn't have said that. Now, everyone's laughing at you behind your back. And there's a spider in your hair."

I read that as 24 July 2025 and was impressed you tripped so hard you traveled back in time.

Reality is the hallucination we choose to believe is real. We get reinforcement from those around us that the hallucination is the "real" one, not knowing that their hallucination and ours are completely different.

And of course being wilfully oblivious that right behind our hallucinations where we can't see is the empty void

Considering I was born on 2005-07-22 (on Lemmy and in RL), that would be a very good explanation for life.

Well, you could scroll through my post history, find "Edgegrazer" from 2 months ago (11 May 2025), learn it was taken the old mill at Raven Run Nature Sanctuary in Lexington, KY, go there, and you'll be in the same place I was tripping LSD (and a number of other fancy things).

There has to be some point that reasonable doubt prevails.

The rabbits are judging you.