#397 – Hidden

There was a time when I was a kid that I believed I was the only real human and all of this was being created around me as some sort of experiment. I came to this conclusion because I would see thing like buildings that suddenly sprang into existence. I would be travelling down a road that I had been on hundreds of times before and there would be a “brand new” 50 year old building that I had never seen before. Now that I’m older I realize that I just wasn’t paying attention before that moment.

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13 thoughts on “#397 – Hidden”

  1. Leo says:

    Like The Truman Show? We’ve all been there, not at that age though, I was kinda paranoid for a while after seeing that movie, and this was just a couple years ago…. *shifty eyes*

  2. Kiera says:

    My existance isn’t a TV show?

    That sounds like something the producer WANTS ME TO THINK.

  3. Ryusui says:

    I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who had a nasty solipsistic episode as a kid – that was a scary place to be.

    I had a dream that was so freaking vivid that my thought processes were still on it for few seconds after I woke up. For a long while after that I had this dark suspicion I was trapped in some kind of virtual reality simulation – after all, if I couldn’t tell reality from a dream, what did that say about what I considered reality? And it really doesn’t help when “your world is a lie” plots keep showing up in media you’re exposed to – you keep thinking “is someone out there trying to tell me something?”

    1. Octothorpe says:

      Gaa… same. I would imagine that I was in some sort of experiment, or that I was in a coma and was dreaming or something… another odd one was that this is actually a dream, and my dream (that I can’t seem to remember) is the real world. I had a lot of really weird theory when I was a kid.

  4. pbarnrob says:

    A while back, I bought an old Saab from a co-worker. Suddenly, there were Saabs all over the place. Where had they all been hiding?

    1. MikeReese says:

      I’ve noticed that phenomenon: after someone mentions a ‘thing’ I see more of them. On the blog ‘The Truth About Cars’, someone mentioned Chrysler Neons. I hadn’t seen a Neon, and I’m sure of that, for at least a couple years. Being a car nut, I’m ALWAYS looking at cars. Then, within a week, I saw about a half-dozen of ’em. And I don’t believe in fate and such, but that weirds me out a little.

      1. Sara Hysaro says:

        Not with cars, but this happens to me all the time! I’ll encounter a word or a phrase in one place and then suddenly it’s everywhere. It’s eerie.

  5. Ian says:

    Field notes, day 14372: Subject “Hallbeck” may be becoming aware of our observers. Recommend terminating the experiment at this point and beginning again with a new subject before all data becomes suspect.

  6. kingklash says:

    I was always taught, that when cross-dimensionl hopping, to put all buildings back where I found them. Sorry about that.

  7. Ben says:

    I have to know, were you inspired by this story? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18370797

    1. Chris says:

      No, I actually drew this one on the 6th before that story came out. It’s a fun coincidence though. 🙂

  8. Rick Griffin says:

    When I was a kid I had a thought that I was somehow hallucinating all the people around me, and if there was an outside observer he’d see me going to empty buildings and reacting to cues that didn’t really exists

  9. Freezie43110 says:

    Existentialism?

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