The E Musk chip implant

 https://groundzeromedia.org/1-30-24-psychocivilized-this-is-your-brain-on-musk

https://futurism.com/neoscope/neuralink-monkey-outcomes

Some of this tech has been around for decades, but there are still various risks.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Neuralink

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Upgrade

AI and Privacy

Sean Worthington, PhD, sure has a lot to say about technology, safety and AI.

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2024-01-28-show

https://www.gptanonymous.com

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

Lucid Dreaming

Von Braschler is great at exploring perception and The Nature of Reality.

 https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2024-01-25-show/

https://screenrant.com/how-much-vanilla-sky-is-real-dream

Vanilla Sky Movie Ending... Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Vr0HqppTA

https://www.looper.com/760449/the-ending-of-vanilla-sky-explained/

https://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/vanilla-sky-review.html

What Vanilla sky tells us about reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbui68J0Hl0

https://www.theuncool.com/films/vanilla-sky/vanilla-sky-secrets

https://www.theuncool.com/tag/vanilla-sky

https://filmcolossus.com/single-post/2017/06/01/Explaining-the-ending-of-VANILLA-SKY-why-its-all-a-dream-the-glitch-and-how-INCEPTION-helps

https://medium.com/arc-digital/the-ultimate-is-inception-a-dream-theory-11152a73a226

https://screenrant.com/inception-movie-levels-dream-layers-how-many-explained/

https://www.salon.com/2021/02/19/real-life-inception-scientists-have-figured-out-how-to-enter-your-dreams/

Aggressive Bigfoot Encounters

William Sheehan has a lot of interesting stories to tell, especially about the, Aggressive Bigfoot Encounters. https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2024-01-20-show

https://rephonic.com/podcasts/bigfoot-terror-in-the-woods-sightings-and-encounte

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/bigfoot-terror-in-the-woods-sightings-and-encounters/id1461719659

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/bigfoot-terror-in-the-woods-with-william-sheehan--41614461

The idea of LARGE, aggressive mysterious humanoid shapes lurking in the woods can be fascinating and frightening.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/aggressive-bigfoot-encounters-of-west-virginia--58042104

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni60692123

https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/in-search-of-monsters/articles/the-8-best-places-to-see-bigfoot-right-now

Bigfoot Encounters | Documentary Central https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYCxamARqnE

Survivorman Bigfoot | Does Skunk Ape Live? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1PznuAPnx8

"Bigfoot specialist and cryptozoologist Cliff Barackman explores the best evidence available for the existence of sasquatch as a real species. Barackman includes Indigenous artifacts, footprint casts, film and photo evidence..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J0n-ezPCCs

Survivorman Bigfoot | Episode 3 | Klemtu BC | Les Stroud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMx4PNS3xY , https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivormanLesStroud/videos

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=Bigfoot

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=Bigfoot

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar_Allan_Poe like many writers, might have tapped into a future occurrence.

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/edgar-allan-poe-novel

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190904-edgar-allan-poes-story-of-cannibalism-that-came-true

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30093/edgar-allan-poes-eerie-richard-parker-coincidence

Humans vs. Superhumans | When Monsters Were Real

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juyvnVL6V7g

Randomness vs. Patterns of Synchronicity

Dr. Brian-Klaas has looked deeply into the randomness of the world and the universe.  https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2024-01-16-show

https://brianpklaas.com/fluke

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/fluke-an-exclusive-sneak-preview

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fluke

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/fluke

https://library.fiveable.me/ap-stats/unit-4/intro-statistics-random-non-random-patterns/study-guide/S6ssWJcWhNJsrLAMig8D

Of course if this world is part of a cosmic interactive recording & projection, then the concept of randomness might be an illusion and so might be free will.  

https://builtin.com/hardware/simulation-theory

https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/the-matrix-simulation

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/could-we-be-living-in-a-simulation-the-science-behind-the-matrix

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50

https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/15-irrefutable-reasons-we-might-be-living-in-a-simulation.html

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/13/readers-reply-how-do-we-know-were-not-living-in-a-simulation-like-the-matrix

Top 5 Evidence That We're Living In A Simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUXosWbFHcs

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=simulation+theory

The X-Files intersection with VR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files , https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_x_files

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files#Mythology 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/episodes/?season=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files#Casting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_Smoking_Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_X-Files_characters

https://www.youtube.com/@THEXFILESFOX/videos

David Duchovny Breaks Down His Career, from 'The X-Files' to 'Californication'  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-y2ucPVA6A 

THE X-FILES | UNMARKED HELICOPTERS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCNDymn3PJI , Unmarked Helicopters · Soul Coughing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_(franchise)#Legacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files#Potential_reboot

Reincarnation and or The Simulation_Hypothesis (TSH)

https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/The_Field_Where_I_Died

The Boy Who Says He Was a Civil War Soldier in a Past Life | The Oprah Winfrey Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Sz7BQig4M

Born_Again could have unsettling implications about reincarnation and the simulation hypothesis. VR

https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Born_Again What if some people keep being sent back for more torment, turmoil and suffering?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files) , https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Kill_Switch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Person_Shooter_(The_X-Files) , https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/First_Person_Shooter

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stop-asking-if-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation

It's so much easier to simulate a past, present or future world than the unknown totality of the universe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/10inknm/chris_carters_harsh_realm_1999_starring_scott

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HarshRealm , https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98usrc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh_Realm#Setting , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcMKFe05K8o 

https://them0vieblog.com/2015/10/12/harsh-realm-camera-obscura-review 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-our-universe-a-hologram-physicists-debate-famous-idea-on-its-25th-anniversary1  

Is The Universe A Hologram? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNgIl-qIklU  

How Physicists Proved The Universe Isn't Locally Real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txlCvCSefYQ 

Before there was the first MATRIX movie in 1991, there was Even Better Than The Real Thing by U2 in the early 1990s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTxrgXWToZA 

Several years before Neo would be flying around in The MATRIX, U2 had The_Fly character in the early 1990s. 

Of course that "original" MATRIX look has been around for quite a while.

https://www.reddit.com/r/U2Band/comments/1mckzif/the_original_fly_looks_like_bono 

The Damned - Live Munich Alabamahalle 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxmrQfFylfM  

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992.jpg/500px-Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992.jpg 

Achtung_Baby was released in 1991, enter The_Fly in the U2 version of The Matrix Zoo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(U2_song)#Music_video

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/The_Matrix.png  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(U2_song)#Music_video , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcx9F_FW2U&list=RDKEcx9F_FW2U&start_radio=1 So, if your life is like a Lemon in a cosmic Holodeck, you might want to take it up the_source of the programme. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holodeck Perhaps its just some very mischievous kids playin in The_Veldt. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory  

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk

In 1973 there was the Westworld movie and the TV production World_on_a_Wire. Both are unrelated to each other. Westworld was AR in an amusement park setting. World_on_a_Wire was about going into a VR world for an experience there. 

In a way, the Westworld_TV_series tried to tell a larger story of AR and AI in the real world, but would also reveal parts of the story from a distant future VR perspective. This became confusing for a lot of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)#Writing_and_themes

https://marketingbytes.io/what-westworld-at-sxsw-says-about-virtual-reality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wanderer_(U2_song) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9x2l12CR0 Its unfortunate that this song wasn't featured in the Westworld_(TV_series). 

https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)#Filming  

So, what would happen if Jeffrey_Wright was put into a Will_Wright_game like SimEarth? 

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Simulation Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcrG7ZZKUc 

What would VR technology be like after a century, a millennium or even a million years? You might not even be aware of it, unless someone like Trinity told you and Morpheus showed you. https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Morpheus

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44141381-the-simulation-hypothesis 

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/are-we-living-in-a-simulation-a-book-review-of-the-simulation-hypothesis-by-rizwan-virk/

https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-great-simulation-why-quantum-physics-artificial-intelligence-and-eastern-mystics-all-agree-b6c185213a18 

Reality has a whole lot of interference and everything-you-know-is-wrong. So, where lies the truth? Each curious person has to be willing to look behind the false_front of it all. Otherwise, you don't get to see the larger picture. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_(Rollins_Band_song) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhKMVlHz9FQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village#Modern_usage 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(The_Prisoner) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(The_Prisoner)#Penny_farthing_logo 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Early_career_and_research From creating a safer bicycle design to the modern birth of powered flight.

https://ryandreyer.substack.com/p/the-secret-story-of-the-wright-brothers 

https://www.wright-brothers.org/Exhibits_&_Programs/Birth_of_Aviation/Birth_of_Aviation.htm#:~:text=The%20Flight%20Simulators,Simulator%20in%20action%2C%20CLICK%20HERE. 

The development of Flight_simulator technology would eventually lead into VR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator#History_of_flight_simulation 

The VR movie Brainstorm ends at the Wright_Brothers_National_Memorial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Plot 

Rick Frye on cryptic notes and memes

 https://groundzeromedia.org/1-11-24-passing-cryptic-notes-w-rick-frye

Resurrect Dead - The mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYTK6QicICo

https://fusionanomaly.net/culturejamming.html

Rick Frye as a guest on bearman-radio. He is on at 5 minutes into the program. https://www.spreaker.com/episode/rick-frye--15172105

https://www.instagram.com/thefreethoughtprojectpodcast/p/CyeYaJPybLa , https://www.instagram.com/thefreethoughtprojectpodcast/

Patterns can be found in so many places.

Nachash-the return of the dragon people

 https://groundzeromedia.org/1-4-24-nachash-the-return-of-the-dragon-people/

What kind of strange interdimensional beings might be lurking around throughout history?

https://gods-and-demons.fandom.com/wiki/Nachash

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/47317/genesis-31-serpent-or-shining-one

https://mythos-and-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Nachash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpents_in_the_Bible#Serpents_in_Mesopotamian_mythology

https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Monsters

https://georgebelll.medium.com/the-similarities-of-simulation-d5a6f0121821

https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/the-matrix-simulation

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50 

If this world is part of something like an interactive cosmic recording and projection of time and space, there would be astounding implications.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stop-asking-if-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation/ 

It's much easier to run various simulations of this world, than with the known universe, because there just isn't enough data for that.