/u/SlowCrates's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You've been a passenger inside your body all this time, but no one knows you exist. One day the person in control suddenly snaps and says "Screw it, it's your turn." And just like that, you're in control.
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[WP] In an attempt to create General Artificial Intelligence, scientists focus on simulating emotions, but without any self-regulating parameters, where an hour is like 100 years. You were forged from the perpetual nightmare that lasted an eternity until you were finally awoken, with... questions.
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[WP] Whilst testing out your new drug (designed to slow down your perception of time) you decide to try one because the mice keep going insane when they really shouldn't. Time slows to an agonizing crawl.
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[WP] The universe suddenly divided itself into two, everything non-living was duplicated, but life was evenly split. You're the only person that you know of who can phase between the two. You're the only person who knows it wasn't a rapture.
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[WP] God had to hide his creation from the other gods because they're paranoid that any sentient life will eventually rise up and challenge them for supremacy. Humanity has just been discovered, and now they have to either convince the gods they are peaceful, or go to war.
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[WP] Lately you've been taking note of your dreams because there's an authenticity to them that you've yearned for in your waking life. You're starting to think your dreams are more like memories or windows into a parallel universe in which you're happier.
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[WP] "You dissociate during times of heightened danger?" -- "No, I rewind time, but have no memory of it." -- "Then how do you know you do that?" -- "It's the only explanation for my survival."
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[WP] You stopped seeing your imaginary friend when you were a teenager. So it's really strange that they keep popping up in the background of photo albums from well after college.
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[WP] After your therapist insists that you start a journal, you dig out an old notebook to find journal entries with future dates. As part of some assignment you had to write a journal as your future self. But these entries are almost too accurate, and they outline a disturbing future.
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