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Christine Whitmarsh's avatar

Loved the story! And the whole last part is why whenever I watch the obvious hypnosis done by politics/the media, and people taking the bait, I feel like I'm living in the Matrix movies lol.

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J.D. Forrest's avatar

I honestly don’t think you’re that far off the mark.

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Parker Longbaugh's avatar

As someone who used to work 3rd shift at a crisis call center, sometimes by myself, that story really slaps!

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J.D. Forrest's avatar

I worked in one in Arizona that inspired this. I had to work a holiday and I was the only one in my entire section overnight. Felt just like this.

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Jason Stevens's avatar

Worked in a call centre once........ Not ever the night Shift though.

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J.D. Forrest's avatar

Well... weird shit happens. Transdimensional timey-wimey stuff.

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Vince Mao's avatar

Wow...sounds like a great submission for "Love, Death, and Robots".

It kinda reminds of that endless loop between the two people who pursue each other due to unforeseen actions and misunderstandings between them.

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J.D. Forrest's avatar

I never thought about Love, Death + Robots, but you're right. It would be an awesome episode.

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Mike Searles's avatar

You scallywag! I read all of that bloody story of you and you and you and you in the call centre. I hardly ever read anything that long. You had me all the way to the end! Gotta go - somebody from a call centre keeps ringing me!

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J.D. Forrest's avatar

Ha! Glad you liked it.

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@robopulp's avatar

See if you can come up with an alternate version to the theme song for Blossom with this kind of attitude 😸😉

I haven't seen The Why Files in a while, but it's a great YouTube channel. I learned about remote viewing from them, along with The Black Knight satellite, and the alien war under Dulce Base.

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J.D. Forrest's avatar

The Black Knight satellite is one of my favorite conspiracies. I learned about it before the Why Files, but it’s easily one of my Top 10.

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@robopulp's avatar

It's fascinating, and kind of scary to think of this thing just hovering over Earth and waiting for a signal from a far away galaxy.

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J.D. Forrest's avatar

Gonna drop a technovirus on us and turn us into biological machine zombies.

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@robopulp's avatar

Oh man! The apocalypse will come from another world, dropped into ours.

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J.D. Forrest's avatar

The Annunaki Protocol. BWAHAHAHHAHAHA

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@robopulp's avatar

Annunaki is something I've seen online but I don't understand. I need to read up on them.

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@robopulp's avatar

This post was packed with cool stuff!

A few takeaways:

The girl in your sing sounds like Avril Lavigne.

I remember an episode of the Why Files about remote viewing with Ingo Swan. Great episode.

That story about the call center is terrifying! The graveyard shift in places of low activity probably generates those kind of temporal phenomena. Lots of dead time, repressed boredom, lack of human contact.

My pet theory on the time between Xmas and New Year is an accumulation of erratic and scattered energy. It's the time of resolutions, a year gone anxiety, and holidays spent with people you avoid all year. The only place with aore desperate sort of energy is the mall during peak hours.

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J.D. Forrest's avatar

I think that's why I liked the song so much. It sounds like something in front of one of those tween shows in the 90s, but with some edge.

I think I've seen that episode. I love the Why Files, so if I haven't, I will.

Thanks! In the dead of night is when the veil thins. A lot of my fiction stuff is like that. I want people to feel uneasy the whole time and also at the end. I have no idea why.

Yeah, that in-between time between those two holidays in particular is just weird. It just feels like the whole week is one foot in another dimension.

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@robopulp's avatar

I like writing and creating at night for that reason too. Three is something magical about later night.

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Michelle Adams's avatar

That call center story reminded me of Desmond on Lost.

Agree on Jared Leto, plus he’s a scum bag.

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