r/enlightenment

No I don’t mean here like looking at this screen, I mean like here. You get me?

And we spend it playing Nazi

Ever since I was 'born' to this world I always had frequent dreams of life being a 'video game'-like or an AI-simulation, long-story short I met non-humans that keep proving to me that nothing here is 'real', and that I'm living inside an AI-simulation of my own making, I keep on glitching from time-to-time, and I keep on realizing that everything here is 'AI-generated', I even met 'godly-beings' and their eyes started on glowing and showed me that I'm not really a 'physical' being, and I don't know what to make of this fact, I've been trying to get towards the 'game over' screen to this world, and I was told that I already made it out, but I hate the fact that I have to live a double-life where I'm meant to work in my career, and juggle between the other life where I have to exit the simulation in order to wake up from this 'dream'.. I don't trust my family or friends anymore and I stopped seeing them as 'real' beings, I don't consider that my body here is 'real', and as a result I don't fear anything anymore, as everything feels like it's just mini-games on top of mini-games, and it all feels computer generated by 'me', and life has been feeling like a turn-based rpg ever since I noticed that it isn't 'real'.

Ive seen a lot of different mantra circulating online but want a solid straight forward one to follow.

Something like "I trust myself, I do not consent to uninformed contracts"

They've all been on videos I send myself but ive sent myself so much during this "awakening" period that, I think ill have more success just reaching out to my peeps.

I've been interested in spirituality for a long time but last summer (one year ago), was when my spiritual awakening really started. Some things happened to me that I couldn't explain with anything else than God showing himself to me (in a spiritual sense, not in a religious sense).

After that I started reading and consuming hermetic philosophy. Particularly Nero Knowledge on YouTube, his way of conveying his message really spoke to me and I still watch his videos on a regular basis.

When my way of thinking and being changed, I lost most of my friends. Not because they didn't want to be friends with me anymore, but because I lost the ability to relate to them. I work from home and I don't encounter all too many new people in general unless I go out of my way to do so. And I do feel lonely sometimes. And I'm actively dating but I feel like I have frequency issues because I'm not really attracting the type of people that I want to attract.

How did you guys deal with loneliness after your spiritual awakening? And how long did it take you to get out of it?

I'm not really asking this to learn how to change my physical reality. I just want to hear how you guys handled your own transition phase after your awakening.

Would love to know your thoughts.

A common question echoes through spiritual circles: “If our Soul is already pure perfection—if it originates in an all-knowing Source of absolute unity—why did we leave? Why drop down into this dense, fragile world of duality just to spend our lifetimes trying to re-learn what we already knew 'there'?”

The answer is a fundamental law of cosmic mechanics: All-knowing is not the same as all-experiencing.

The Exhaustion of the Infinite

Imagine a state of absolute singularity. You are everything, everywhere, all at once. You can fathom every possible frequency, every potential timeline, and every geometric structure of light simultaneously. There is no distance to travel, no mystery to solve, and no contrast to measure.

In that state of infinite abundance, a hidden friction point emerges: When everything is present, appreciation becomes impossible.

How can an all-knowing being maintain a vibrant, sharp sync of appreciation for a single moment when it is currently experiencing every moment across eternity? It cannot. Without boundaries, individual moments bleed into a static white noise. Absolute unity, left completely undivided, takes itself for granted.

We did not come here to memorize old data or pass an intellectual test. We came here to renew our appreciation for what we "knew."

The Gift of the Filter

To experience true appreciation, the infinite Source had to engineer a mechanism of profound limitation. It had to build a filter—stepping out of absolute oneness and entering the soft, beautifully balanced playground of dualistic existence.

By encasing a localized fragment of your stellar consciousness within the gentle, temporary boundaries of a physical body and an individual ego, the universe achieves something miraculous: it forces you into the micro view of reality. Edit1:(Yet is not a conscious decision for the Source or even a need to do so. It is as a natural response, an event, this happens. The same as wind loosing a leaf from the tree. Not a decision, but a natural extension of the whole. It is part of it, as a wind touching the leaf.)

Suddenly, you can no longer see the whole mountain at once. You can only see the step right in front of you. You can no longer feel every wave in the ocean; you can only feel the temperature of the current you are swimming in right now.

This localized perspective is the birthplace of presence. It is only within the boundaries of a passing moment that gratitude can truly spark. The fragile, fleeting nature of our human day-to-day lives is the exact architecture required to turn raw data into living, breathing experience.

Synchronizing the Pulse

We struggle with this constantly. Even on a day-to-day basis, our egos get easily hijacked by the machine gun of digital noise, worries, fears, and out-of-balance attachments, causing us to lose our sync and take this reality for granted.

But when you intentionally drop the semantic armor of the world, do the shadow work, and shake off the external distractions like fresh snow from your shoulders, you unlock the ultimate state of balance: Absolute presence in the immediate moment.

You are a localized point of the divine, sitting in the world, experiencing the sharp contrast of a single conversation, a single breath, or a single heartbreak. You are doing what the infinite, unmanifested Source could only dream of doing from the heights of the singularity:

We are literally the infinite experiencing a beautiful micro-presence.

How you choose to live and fulfill that experience is solely up to you. You are sovereign over this localized point of view. You are actively experiencing the wonder of being.

Drop the need to know everything. Absolute presence is the ultimate experience.

Edit: I want to think everyone for replying and helping me find somewhere to focus. It is midnight and I’ve buried some items from my past in the ground. The moonlight makes me feel hopeful in some way. I will be registering into a birdwatching class tomorrow; I am apprehensive, but hopeful. For the sake of my boy Bear, thank you all. I definitely chose the right sub.

I’ve tried multiple subs and I feel I’m going nowhere. Right now, I am in a very odd mental state. I need advice on how to move on and forward. To find a spark for my life. At least so I can take care of my dog.

Word salad has been my main language today and I’ve just caught it so bear with me please.

I don’t wanna die…but I don’t have any reason to be here. Nature has been my mother seen I can remember. They protected me from abuse, guided me, warned me, gave me what I needed and gave me signs towards what I might want. I asked for freedom a few years ago on various trips of LSD and mushrooms. It was given to me and now I am lost. I was given self aware and it is causing more trouble than it is helping.

I feel like I am not looking where I should, but I don’t know where exactly to look. To clarify, I enjoy my company and am beginning to love who I am. Nature has made me in their image and I want to wear it with pride.

Convention doesn’t really excite my soul. If anything, it’s the main reason I am here. Naturally, I am against the grain and that causes a lot of friction with others around me (I live in southern US sadly)

Feel free to ask questions. I am meandering a blank plain of existence ( the freedom I asked for) and the main problem I have is where to start making a mark.

Like it’s just a buzzkill to everyone around you, your presence and just how you are so in tuned and aware of everything. It’s like you’re just this weird actor in a film, not a character just some dude walking around obsessing people. I don’t know it just makes you feel detached from everyone. Like I can’t just be dumb and happy. Maybe I can I don’t know. It’s just not who I am. Idk I guess I just have to find my own character. I’m gonna go play some Skyrim vr that sounds pretty fun right now. I’m sorry I’m on LSD rn I’m having a very interesting week. These substances are great.

I don’t what tf I’m typing right now. Doesn’t matter.

During enlightenment, I believe many of you who have witnessed the power of God will agree that it makes a lot of sense while you're being shown the nature of your own existence and of existence itself but when you return to life it's not as simple to fully remember as it was when your Consciousness was extended beyond the brain.

This is of course just my experience please share with me if you understand what I mean about the dichotomy of simplicity and infinite complexity especially as it relates to working memory.

Happiness is a choice?

At least for the most of us that are fortunate to have enough to live and enjoy life. I mean, financially but not just that, it all actually. Also in terms of mental health. Not having it all, we all have mental health issues, but if we have enough balance between joy and suffering.

I am thinking about this a lot because I realized that I'm the one responsible for my constant dissatisfaction. And if I just stop and look at all I already have I should already be able to be in peace and flourish in things I'm still working on. These "work" are part of our life meaning and necessary to keep going. They are not a problem to be solved.

I'm feeling that all I need is to give myself permission to relax and live, enjoy and be happy.

What do you guys think? I'm interested in hearing people that have had similar thoughts and how you overcame your own self/inner critic and achieved that.

I don't usually have vivid dreams, or dream often. And when I do dream, I don't really remember them by the end of the day. But this one... This was different.. it happened a week and a half ago, and it's still lingering in my mind.

I remember being on a dock by a river, don't recall who I was with or what we were doing. We had sharpies for some reason, and one went into the water. I said I'll go in and get it, since I'm a good swimmer. That's when the dream got interesting..

The next thing I know, I feel... transparent. Not my physical body, but the physical feeling of my body was gone, weightless, if that makes sense. I genuinely remember that feeling. Then in the dream I said to myself "wait.. did I die?" And then I look up to see (stereotypically) a small bright light, that starts shining brighter and getting bigger. It has rays coming off of it like the sun. At one point as it was getting bigger there was a black ring around the center of the light source, and the light kept shining out around it. I then felt sad, thinking about my partner and my kids, how I wanted to tell them I love them one last time, how I won't see them again, the pain they'll go through by losing me. I felt it to my core, so much so I'm tearing up writing this now. Then the dream transitioned, I was suddenly walking into a kitchen. I didn't recognize it, but it gave old/grandparent vibes. There was a gentleman there who welcomed me. Not surprised to see me type of welcome, but in a wholesome, casual welcome home way. I couldn't make out who it was in the dream, but I remember suddenly feeling so happy and content, joyous. All the sadness and pain from before washed away.

I really felt those emotions throughout the dream deep in my soul. I woke up remembering exactly how it felt. And I can't get it out of my head, I think about it often. The visual of the light shining bright with that black ring around the center of it pops into my head randomly during the day. I've never had such an emotionally vivid dream before, I've never had a dream stick to me the way this has.

Please, give me all your thoughts and opinions. And thank you for taking the time to read all of this.