Reality or State of Mind?

[[OXSC] ShadowWolf]

I'll blame having just watched Sin City for the state of mind that brought about this thought. I recommend you all see it, btw.

If you were walking a path you knew well, that you had walked many times before, and when you turned the corner, instead of there being what you knew as fact would be there, there is instead someplace completely different. A different street, a different floor of the building, something like that, not something as simple as construction work or moving room.

The first thing I think many would do is double back and check that the path you took was the one you thought it was. On conformation of that, however, what would your thoughts then be?

Would you be doubting your own state of mind or memory? Or perhaps you would doubt reality itself?

I haven't made this a poll as there's likely more answers than this.

[-Vi2- IriDiuM]

Shut up. With night duty and a severe lack of sleep, now you've made my head hurt. Thanks a lot

[[OXSC] ShadowWolf]

The my job here is done *jumps on Arach's back, points him towards the sunset and cracks a whip* Yah! Yah!

[acid]

i would instantly assume someone is doing it...not reality or my mind...i can pin almost everything that happens on human cause..

[neVyn]

i think it would be pretty funny.. ive done a similar thing one where i walked out of the wrong entrance at a pub. and walked down a street that looked exactly the same as mine in the dark when i was drunk.
ended up being totally lost and having to catch a taxi that took me about five streets from where i was hahaha

[LeFtBehinD]

Id probably think

"Hmm this isnt where i parked, oh well this mysterious lane way must lead somewhere. Could be to my death, but somewhere none the less."

Cant wait to see Sin City!

[acid]

got alot of stars hasnt it?

[[OXSC] ShadowWolf]

Hmm, I don't think you guys are really getting my meaning, so I'll use an extreme.

You're walking to school/uni/whatever on a path you usually take. You turn a corner and you're in what looked to be an active warzone in Iraq. You can even see a group of U.S. soldiers in a firefight nearby. You look back and it is still your usuall path, you look forward again and the warzone is still there.

Yes, it's a great movie. Go. Now.

[acid]

lol if i walked around a corner of my school and all of a sudden i saw a sqaud of U.S. Marines in a fire fight i would fucking be jumping off walls....be wicked as to watch...apart from the people dying...it would still b awesome...love firefights...specially between soldiers...

[LeFtBehinD]

Cant say something liek that has ever happened, although once i stood in some gum?

[[OXSC] ShadowWolf]

This is a hypothetical...meh, screw it, cretins the lot of you =P

[LeFtBehinD]

lol i didnt know it was hypothetical

[-Vi2- Canadian]

lol Id sneak up behind the soldiers and stab em, damn US peoples

this one time i was in the mall and every single person was standing
perfectly still just staring ahead and there was dead silence, nobody
was saying anything or moving and i was just walking through it all
thinking what the fuck is going on?!! keep in mind i had watched that
movie "The puppet masters" the night before and i was thinking no way!
this cant be actually happening, it was just a movie, what going on!!!
so i asked someone what was going on and they said "shhhhhh! its
rememberance day and this is the minute of silence!"

so if shadows little example happend to me id just say "sweet" and assume
i was crazy but enjoy it anyway.

[-Vi2- Arach]

*rides off into the sunset*

Well first I would double check that I was on the right path, but if it changed really drastically, ie Iraq, I'd wonder why I didnt notice it sooner. Also, considering it is really an extremely different area than here I'd be forced to believe that something supernatural is going on, as this kind of thing wouldnt just be a slip of the mind. ( I'd prolly make sure I hadn't walked through any archways or doors, as I've probably played Planescape: Torment too much =P )

I would be very tripped out tho, surprised, astonished and a little curious. But yeah, i wouldnt blame my mind if it was obviously not normal.

[[OXSC] ShadowWolf]

There we go. I knew I could rely on you, Arach ^_^

[neVyn]

lol alan about the gum thing ahahaha
funny stuff

[acid]

but how do u no ur not imagining it arach?

[-Vi2- IriDiuM]

Gah! No more confusing threads, or i'll smack you over the head with a noggin!

You heard me....

[acid]

doesnt hurt u to think once in a while...

[[OXSC] ShadowWolf]

The whole point of this thread is to find out which you put more faith in. Your own mind or reality. Do you believe what you are told is true or do you constantly question this? Why do you believe in gravity, because you're told it's there or because you don't float off the ground?

[acid]

but i dont question either...when something goes rong...i blame it on a person....
but wat ur saying u think that how can i blame it on a person.....people are capable of anything....
trust noone...

[-Vi2- Arach]

I believe i'm not imagining it because i trust in how i perceive things.

[acid]

You cant trust anyone...and recently ive discoverd u cant trsut urself..