Hey! Hey you! Yeah, you, over there in that head.
Man, long day, huh?
Have you ever wondered if you're in reality? Mmm, I know, scary thought. Just to let you know, not all of us are! See, some of us around these areas are writers, and others are characters. You just might be a character in any sort of fiction!
You could be in a story, a movie, a comic, a manga, or even a song! Just imagine, your entire life might just be within the boundaries of the writer's words, and you'd never know!
Here, take this survey to see what you're in, or if you really are in reality. After each section, I'll give you a rough estimate of what you might be in, if some of these questions can't be answered, or are answered negatively.
Section I: Determine the Depth of your Reality.
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A: Audio
1) What can you hear?
2) Are there cars?
3) Can you determine how far away that last noise was?
4) When someone talks to you, what pitch is their voice? Are they: nasily/breathy, low/high, rich/dull, loud/quiet?
5) Seriously consider how many voices are the same in your world, is it more than a fourth of the people you know?
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B: Visual
1) Think of your favorite color. How many items do you have of that color?
2) What's the layout of your favorite place? home? country/county/city/state?
3) Can you draw me a map to your nearest food source? water source? bathroom?
4) What is the terrain like?
5) Can you remember the eye color of three of your friends?
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C: Olfactory
Good old smell!
1) Well, when was the last time you walked into a room and smelled rotting eggs?
2) What smells worse, your armpits or your breath in the morning?
3) Any stinky secrets you want to share? Did you let it rip in an elevator yesterday?
4) If you smell vanilla and plug your nose, then eat an apple, what do you taste?
5) What do your friends smell like?
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D: Palate
1) What did breakfast taste like?
2) Describe the taste of mold.
3) Lick the nearest sanitary object, well?
4) What is the worst thing to stick in your mouth right now that is close by?
5) What words would you use to describe cake?
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E: Textile
1) What was the last callous you got on your hands? feet?
2) What is the itchiest part of your body right now?
3) Do you have any noticeably dry skin? Do you use lotion?
4) Do you prefer to drink hot or warm things? eat hot or warm things?
5) What are five different textures you can feel right now without moving much?
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Section II : Test your Boundaries
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1) Close your eyes and try to change your thinking voice. What about your voice did you change? [use audio question 4 if you need terminology.]
2) What is the white-noise you currently hear? Is it more than one thing?
3) Glance at an area, your desk, wherever, and describe as many things as you can by proximity/color/size[pick one], and then check. See if you were thinking of the object you described. Don't name them. Don't look, glance. The more familiar you are with the area, the easier this will be.
4) If you don't live alone: catalog where each person and pet is in your house at this moment. Describe with as much detail as desired.
5) What does your shirt smell like?
6) What is the most vivid memory of smelling something you have? What memory is it connected to?
7) Describe the taste of the food you hate the most.
8) Describe the taste of a food you have never eaten, but you have smelled.
9) Close your eyes and find something that hurts, or feels good and describe it's location, what it's touching, and the internal feeling of the muscles/aches/pains.
10) Close your eyes and disorient yourself, then find and identify something via touch.
Section III: Debriefing
Thank you for reading/playing along. This is just something I wanted to do for fun. You can use it as a tool to help flesh out your characters, your worlds, and your own observation skills, or you can all ignore me and never do anything. I'd love to see your responses if you wanted to post. You could also add to the lists above with questions and reasons why it might be harder for someone to perform on your question one way or another.
Including all this information in movies, stories, or other media is really unnecessary. The stories are about the character's and the details which move our stories ahead. In mystery stories, sometimes details can be overwhelming and people will feel hopeless when they try to figure out what actually happened. Other times, mystery stories don't have enough details to hide the clues for readers to find.
Choosing what you include in your story is very important to your character's outward appearance to the audience. With that said, knowing preliminary details about your setting, characters, habits and quirks can help flesh out a story and make them seem like real people instead of fictional characters. The key is to balance how much you include of their reality, with how important it is to the audience. This list is just a reminder that there is more than only sight to play with when you're creating your checklist of things you might want to include and I hope we can use it to help flesh out our fabricated realities.
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