You ever start having a lucid dream, then something kicks in and it’s not really a lucid dream anymore?

This is me with this thought. Quite liberating in the moment but hard to maintain to guide my actions for very long.

Edit: I should note I’m one of those freaks who play GTA V in first person pretty much exclusively (driving is tough, ngl), so this without the ‘imagining in third person’.

Well, if gamification of real world tasks works, go for it.

If you treat your whole life as a video game, there might be something wrong with you, though.

“no respawns” is kind of a big deal when you “have absolutely no inhibition now” … the entire reason why social interactions are easier in games is that you can always try again, plus unlike real life, games generally provide pre-defined dialog options and often don’t even have a charisma stat that might make you fail an option by performing it badly.

anon discovers depersonalization and maybe an undiagnosed mental health issue that’s been ongoing for some time