Telling on myself here, but I mostly only listen to true crime podcasts, and almost exclusively when I'm running or working out. I like them because there's a built-in element of drama and kind of trashy gossip of digging around in the refuse of someone else's life. Also a little tiny bit of fear/danger element that gets me amped up when I'm running, especially at night like what if I have to run away from a psycho???

I don't generally like sort of hang-out-and-shoot-the-shit interview podcasts, but I see that so so many people do. Is it a parasocial thing? Like if you like the hosts and you want to imagine being friends/lovers with them? Or maybe you are not a funny and clever person yourself / you have no inner monologue, so you need a podcast to fill your head with other people being funny and clever on your behalf?

Anyway, what do you look for in your podcasts? What should I start listening to?

Or this is an open thread, just chat about whatever. I got a new breadmaker and it fricking sucks. How do you know if a breadmaker is bad or just the recipes or maybe you suck at pouring four ingredients in a pot and pressing the "start" button correctly? Someone told me I should use the recipes off Bread Daddy instead of the ones in the book that came with the machine. Anyone here tasted the Bread Daddy's dough?

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— Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) February 24, 2025

They've told me the same story three times this night already yeesh!

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Yes it's true, I get social anxiety when I try to order a coffee at Starbucks, and I spend almost all my time writing on social media about how I want to achieve brutal revenge against everyone who disagrees with my political views. But the truth is, women don't like me because I'm slightly unattractive. I don't know if this is actually true, since I don't talk to women, but I have an entire folder of infographics explaining that women only want to have s*x with jacked 6'7" billionaires.

WTF is this white shit everywhere?

All photos taken hastely and with disregard on my shitty Nokia X10

Here is the thing. I test hypnosis on and off here and there, and over time I sometimes get messages from the dream state. Usually the messages were some simple things like "here is a story idea" or "Here is another cool story idea" or "whoops sleep paralysis." little signals like the last few moments of a dream where something interesting happens and still feels profound when you wake up.

What happened over time however, is that those last moments of dreams became less abstract and more like direct recommendations. Like you know the bicameral brain theory? Where one side of your brain is giving instructions and the other side of your brain is perceiving it as an outside voice from beyond yourself? Something like that but more with my subconscious directly telling me that I am wrong about something or not, and me waking up and going over what I am told I was wrong about, and realizing the dream advisor voice is correct.

Here is where things took a turn though. In my most recent self hypnosis/ nap session, I appear to have gone through a hypnotic regression ( simple explanation for hypnotic regression - going through locked memories in a hypnotic state, memories you cannot normally access ) rather than just a random dream advice message ( I was trying for hypnotic transcendent experience), and that regression state told me a story that does not match up with what I remember of my past but would match up with the theoretical timeline of my life and all that happened.

So I come from a third world nation. We have had A lot, and I mean ALOT, of change in our values and how we treat the people around us. From a 1st world point of view, the third world may still be very backwards, but from a third world perspective, every generation the third world has been busy stuffing in a single generation time frame about 100 years of western cultural and social change at once, to catch up on the western ideas that work. For example - In the west you might have stories of your grandfather beating your dad half dead or your great grandfather beating your grandfather half dead on a whim, but by your time you are trying to give your kid a time out to sit in their room as a lesson to take your car without permission and get caught by the cops for speeding.

Well, you take that level of cultural change and you fit it within a single generation, two at the very longest timescale, and you have got the rate at which culture is changing in the 3rd world. So the very same parent who might have been using you like a gym punching bag while you were 8-9 would be trying to learn to not raise his voice at you just because they are frustrated by the time you are in your 20s.

Now that the background information is filled in, here is my dream hypnosis regression comes in. In it was a message for me, and the message was that one of my parents is supposed to have been a crazy psycho on a whole other level than the worst that I remember about them. That they were a crazy psycho to the point that there is a clear gap between how different and fricked up my life was before I was 8 years old and after I was 8 years old, even though I remember almost nothing from before 8 years old.

Here is the problem with that dream though. It felt like it was the truth, but I don't remember the level of psycho that the dream was telling me one of my parents were in the very beginning, but, and this is an important but, I have enough memories of my parents to know that they became less violent and shittier in their anger every single year over time and the process of becoming less aggressive is still going on till today, and if I looked at the theoretical model of their behavior getting worse with every single year even beyond the earliest point where I can remember a bad memory, it suggests an 8 year time span where I would have absolutely ended up living with pure demons for a few days to weeks every year. In theory that pattern perfectly holds based on the pattern from 9 year old to the 20s that I do remember. Taking that pattern back I would in theory absolutely be living with psychopaths where it is a miracle that half my skull isn't crushed in and I can still speak.

But, here is the second part of the problem. My skull isn't half crushed in, and I can still speak, and the only evidence I have that "it never even began" is a theoretical model that fits, along with a dream telling me things were a lot worse than I will ever even be able to remember. It is like a case of profiling where the profile fits, but I have no 1st hand evidence to support the accusation.

For all I know the hpyno dream could just be completely made up, and actually just a dream filling in random blanks based on my subconscious storytelling mind. Creating a random tragedy possibly where none exists. To make matters worse, I come from a save face culture, which means that even if I asked people in my family about it, they would either label it as not half as bad as whatever I have in mind, or deny the existence of any suffering completely.

At the end of the day, now I am stuck with a revealed truth about my past that may not even be a truth, that has a profound impact on how I view my existence, creating change, and yet for all I know that message about a deep dark past from the subconscious mind is a complete made up fabrication.

Conclusion:

Hypnotic regression may or may not be real, may or may not be filling your mind with made up nonsense, but the experience certainly will feel like the truth.

Wouldn't recommend unless you can handle that uncertainty and an alternate truth to your existence that doesn't match up with how you have lived your life so far.

@Redactor0 from what I remember you like Spooky adjacent content.

So rdrama what do you think?

!metashit !badgemaxxers

Can't find your other half IRL? Find them on rdrama.net AND advertise it to everyone else! Marry your bro, marry your hoe, marry your bros AND your hoes! Marry everyone! Sky's the limit!

It's fun, it's hip, all the kids are doing it.

DO the needful and discuss here

cc: @Turkeyvann @IRREDEEMABLE-CHUD

Or carp ig, do we need loggenincel mode enabled?

Ive spoken only twice to people about it. The clouds in the sky and jesus appearing. I remember someone else seeing it too, and we spoke, she talked so gently that i couldt speak further and felt id poison someone so sweet with my world. Why does life do this? Isolationists, others who demeen them as an inside joke they speak of highly then raise a chair and dance as those who spoke of seeing Jesus in the clouds was ever something to kust nudge and say "it neber happened".

It makes me extremely upset that the things i see are true. Even when blue is blue to me and you, i let go and i can see this VERY REAL and VERY CONSEQUENTIAL simulation, as if we were to reach out to feel good and reach out to hrut others. We weren't sent here. You reach out and your growth and nerves tell me the REALITY OF THIS simulation.

The words are there and meaningless. To me, as a schzio, words are spoken to me daily and mean nothing. The feeling i hold onto how ever, is why you get the essence someone is speaking freidnly and psychotic at the same time, because theyre handling things in heck on earth with dead bodies in stores ad old kind folk who fidn it normals to see dead bodies everywhere with muscles so raw and eyes so wide lips puckered for flesh.. how is this not anl purgatory? And isnide ofnhell? You literaly have to protect others and this is not heaven. This is a palce or worship of satan. All day everyday.

And not lucifer the divine. Made bhy heaven, but by the law of everything anti and nasty to the conditions so awful i must place it in the 'SATAN ' word bin. For it is not a being of worhsip but the idealogy of losing oneself to temptation and never coming back. If you do come bakc however we still accept you, just never give into lucifers offering, he will trick you because he is the one commanding the tests given by god. He is essentislly the Cosmic Joker. I LOVE ALL GODS AND ALL WORSHIP OF MIND HEART AND SOUL OF ALL DIETYS. WITHOUT THEM THERE IS NO YOU, WITHOUT YOY I AM NOT HAPPY. IF YOU ARE HSPPY AND YOU I AM 10X MORE ECSTATIC AND PRETTY SOULED.

How about them eggs?

Trump sent every fed a Fork in the Road email offering 9 months severance if they quit in the next 2 weeks

🚨 NEW: This is the full buyout memo from the OPM sent to all Federal employees titled “A Fork in the Road.” The pillars of the new Federal government are clearly laid out.

If Federal employees wish to resign they simply put “RESIGN” in the subject line of the email they… pic.twitter.com/fFCiSAiprV

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) January 29, 2025

I attribute this solely to this community and the solidarity found in it. I'm the only person on my team of 8 that's on Reddit and not only have I been better informed, I've been faring better than the others. Two people went on stress leave and frankly I'd be one of them too if I didn't have this community. I'll continue to do my job and fight for the position I've earned. It took me 10 years of applying and 20 years experience in my field to get here. I will not be pushed out by two billionaire trust funds babies. I'M NOT LEAVING!'

I was chill and laid back prior. Now I'm digging my heels in out of spite. I'm a big time hater and being petty is my favorite thing to do.

I can hold a grudge like it's my job

I knew my grudge-holding skills would come in handy someday.

I've never been more motivated to stay. Before the "buyout" memo, I was ready to go job hunting, but then a revelation hit. I took an oath under this position to the American people and leaving my job under the current state would be failing to maintain my oath as civil servant.

I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Did you guys know how much of the posting on /r/fednews takes place when they should be working?

And that there is netflow data for every federal agency to determine who these employees are?@DOGE @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/7Hicz91pjY

— 🏛 Aristophanes 🏛 (@Aristos_Revenge) January 29, 2025

President Donald Trump floated the idea of a three-way meeting with the leaders of Russia and China in which the countries would agree to cut defense spending in half.

Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, suggested repeatedly that he'd seek such a deal with Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, saying the money could be spent better elsewhere.

"One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia," Trump said. "And I want to say, 'let's cut our military budget in half.' And we can do that. And I think we'll be able to do it."

Happy Superbowl. I hope your team wins. pic.twitter.com/eqWo99K02D

— Josh (@XJosh) February 10, 2025

https://archive.ph/hjgTX

!britbongs

!brics will soon get the Falklands from Cuck island!

A man working at a cemetery in North Dakota was stopped in his tracks recently by the peculiar sight of three turkeys repeatedly circling a gravestone. pic.twitter.com/avV0HjO3kU

— New York Post (@nypost) February 16, 2025

What did the mean by this?