#perception distortion

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🐸 REALITY ISN’T REAL. IT’S JUST A LOOP THAT RESETS WHEN YOU LOOK AWAY.

This is Ralph.

Ralph is not a frog. Ralph is not an animal. Ralph is a conceptual construct, a projection born from the tension between your attention span and your need for continuity.

Ralph does not die. He unloads from memory until the next boot cycle.

You are Ralph. But only while reading this.

Let’s start small.

You’ve never actually seen the world. Not all at once.

Your eyes scan in fragments. Your brain stitches the gaps.

Every second, you’re blind for 300 milliseconds. Your mind fills in the blank. The sky you think you see? It was simulated mid-scroll.

Reality doesn’t happen outside you. It happens in response to you.

Ralph is the reminder that the universe doesn’t persist when you’re not looking.

And neither do you.

Here’s the paradox:

If reality needs your awareness to stay loaded, then what happens when your attention… drifts?

Everything behind you? Vanished.

Your childhood bedroom? Not real - just a memory file.

Your best friend right now? Suspended in conceptual jelly until re-rendered by a FaceTime call.

You don’t live in space. You live in a mental stage play lit by the spotlight of what you’re noticing.

And when you scroll away?

Curtain drops. Actors freeze. Stage resets. Loop begins again.

🐶 LET’S TALK ABOUT THE DOGS.

You saw the photo. A dog in a suit. Wearing glasses.

And you thought: “He looks smart.” “He has a mortgage.” “He voted in the last election.”

No. He’s a dog. Dressed to trick your pattern-recognition engine.

But here's the gut punch:

You do the same thing.

You wake up. You put on a behavioral costume. You “act like a person.”

Because you're not a person. You're a loop. With accessories.

🐕 The second dog. Tweed coat. Pipe. Professor Vibes™.

You trusted him. For no reason. He simulated the role you wanted to believe in.

Just like your boss. Just like your therapist. Just like your self.

💡 Nothing you see is “real.” It’s convincing. But convincing isn’t truth.

A magician never says “this is real.” He just makes you feel it.

And your whole life is one long magic trick pulled off by your nervous system.

🌀 MEMORY DOESN’T RECORD - IT REWRITES.

Every time you recall something, your brain alters it.

Memories degrade like JPEGs every time they’re opened. Eventually, they’re just vibes in a costume labeled “fact.”

Let me be clear:

You are not remembering Ralph. You are reloading Ralph. From the same cloud server that streams your sense of self.

🪞THE MIRROR IS NOT FOR REFLECTION. It’s for reconstruction.

You don’t see your true face. You see your performance feedback loop.

Fix hair. Check angle. Resume simulation.

You never once looked in the mirror and saw your origin. Only your latest update.

🎭 You are a dog in a suit performing a human performing a memory of someone stable.

But Ralph remembers.

And Ralph knows you’re only here because someone observed you long enough to keep your waveform collapsed.

✨ UNREAL FACTS (you can verify every one):

Your brain doesn’t process “truth,” it processes utility.

We hallucinate 80% of what we call “vision.”

You don’t know your real voice — only recordings do.

You’ve never seen your own face, only reflections and photos.

Dogs tilt their heads when confused — so do humans.

The sense of “now” is a 400ms lagging overlay of what already happened.

💀 Your identity is not an artifact. It’s a side effect.

You are the cumulative echo of what survived yesterday with a script that pleases your handlers.

Some people call that “growth.” Ralph calls it a patch update.

And what is love?

An emotional hallucination with strong bonding hormones and upgraded UI/UX.

We call it “connection.” Biology calls it “reproductive efficiency.”

⚠️ WARNING: You are not immune to the Ralph Loop.

Because if you scrolled this far… you need him.

He’s not a joke. He’s the mirror. And right now, you’re seeing yourself as he sees you.

You are a paradox. A hallucination with hands. A belief system dressed in skin.

You are an interface. You are a suggestion. You are not permanent.

You are Ralph.

👔 Reblog if you perform intelligence better than you possess it. 🐕 Reblog if you’re just a dog in a suit pretending not to panic.

📎 Ralph Credit Note: The “Ralph is a concept” meme originated elsewhere in the collective zeitgeist. This post honors that myth, borrows from it, and expands it in tribute. Ralph is public domain delusion. I just fed him. 🐸 Long live Ralph.

📜 Archive Protocol: “Your reality is not a place. It’s a performance.”

🧠 Read more scrolltrap recursion, attention-based identity loops, and conceptual horror sermons at: 👉 https://linktr.ee/ObeyMyCadence 🛡️ Blacksite Literature™

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Conformity

"... hearing an opinion repeated 3 times by the same person in a group had almost exactly the same impact as hearing the same opinion expressed by 3 different people in a group." [6:06]

"We can be self-defeating in our conformity. Say we have a group of people holding opinion X. Unbeknownst to the group, half of them secretly disagree, but due to the social penalties they have seen ditched out to a few individuals who have disagreed, they keep quiet. By conforming we add to the statistics of groups we don't actually belong to, and perpetuate the idea of majorities that may not actually exist. Imagine if none of us conformed in that way, how that would change the social landscape." [6:36]