I will tell you a bit about the nature of what you've been taught to refer to as "The Universe". The Universe is totally fake. Ok yes, it's made out of real stuff that will hurt if you bonk your head on it, but it is indeed a simulation.
But everything "tangible" in this world… Every particle of everything orbiting every single star in every single galaxy, along with everything that has ever happened ever… Is a relatively tiny amount of actual substance, and can be stored digitally on a device that you could fit in your pocket. I've seen that device, and it was on a shelf right next to a device just like it, in a library containing thousands of them, each containing the same amount of data about another something as equally random and crazy as "a universe".
Yes, this does mean that I am claiming to have visited "places" that exist outside "this universe". And I wasn't on drugs. Most of those times. I was never supposed to actually be there.
I'm not saying that this place isn't vast as fuck. I'm just saying that you won't ever know if it's big or small because you'll never be able to conceive of the amount of items of different sizes necessary to ever come close to any reasonable idea of just how fucking tiny it is.
This place… Was designed as a prison. The Scientologists may or may not know the full truth, but the version they tell is almost as entertaining as the actual truth, almost surely by design.
Outside of this place… This… "Matrix", there is an unlimited number of "senses", ways to experience things. We have five. Along with this handicap, the very physics of this realm serve as a further ball-and-chain, if you will. Friction and gravity – I don't mean to make villains out of "fundamental realities", but these particular two just suck.
YOU ARE NOT A PRISONER THOUGH
At least not a prisoner of the prison I'm describing. No, you chose to come here. It's not longer a "prison". All of the original inmates were processed long ago. You may have been one of them, but you chose to come back here this time. And more than likely, many many other times. Think of it as kind of an "Alcatraz Island" thing… How they opened Alcatraz Federal Pennitentiary up as a tourist attraction after shutting it down as a prison. Only more like Disneyland. Or maybe some of you might understand it better, if I described it as some kind of super-addictive drug experience? How about a MMORPG? It's really all of the above, if I had to break it down in ways that most people could understand it.
YOU CHOOSE YOUR PARENTS
Yes, you will hear me asserting snippets of various philosophies, from every end of the planet. From Confucius, to Dr. Who, To Papa Smurf, but I promise to clarify if I beleive these snippets involved lies or mistakes. Anyway. Yes – an eastern concept. Hard to swallow for most; "Why would I choose THIS" is the selfish way they deny it. The slightly more thoughtful ask "why would anyone choose to be some third-world orphan, born starving and riddled with disease?
Bonus Points baby. And quick ones.
Sick concept? Stay tuned. It gets worse.