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What would you do if you were on an underground train, when suddenly the train shook, you passed through a portal, and the next thing you knew your carriage was lying in an unknown new world? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: apparently this is a very common form of Japanese storytelling called an isekai. There are 8 billion people in this world, no idea can be original. And sometimes you miss out on things many other people know. I'm clearly one of today's lucky 10000.

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So you would assume you're in a story. Interesting. If it happened to me, I would first think I'm dreaming, then the real world. But I wouldn't think I was in a story.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I have extremely vivid dreams, and can sometimes lucid dream, so I have checks I can use to tell if I'm dreaming with a decent degree of surety.

Since dimensional travel via train isn't a documented real world event, I would not jump to it being real as a first assumption.

That would lead me to conclude that reality itself was I question, and thus that someone had changed reality. Any simulations that we might be in as a reality would have something close to an author considering how our perceived history reality has worked. I would want to punch said author if I discovered that everything up to that point had been controlled and could have been so much better.