I had a vision last night while I couldn't sleep, and I normally wouldn't describe something like this on a public forum, but it's relevant to your comment and Terence McKenna once said, I can't remember the clip I heard it in but maybe this is it, that he'll never keep a secret. He'll tell everything, and so I'll spill the beans in his memory.

Admire the thought-exploration sentiment. Makes me curious ...

I was basically experiencing humanity, all of us, on the earth, going about our days, feeling the hardship and heartbreak and misery. I couldn't sleep and felt weird and uncomfortable so maybe my misery wanted company. Who knows.

Thanks for putting that out there coz sometimes i get that too. Everything i feel, everyone else feels, to some extent, & vice versa. I'm kinda aware but not aware - i sense that there's something blocking full-awareness. Maybe as a protective fail-safe to stop me doing my head in. But i'm still suspicious as to whether that protective/blocking mechanism is actually in my best interests or not.

The Power doesn't evaporate - it goes somewhere concept applies to a lot of things - maybe all things - including suffering. There's a capped amount of suffering in this world that is fluidly distributed at any given time amongst the population of entities able to feel it. We've all experienced suffering in some form, we're all capable of empathizing when others feel it - or dialing it down. Somewhere on the spectrum. But sum of the individual experiences of suffering (or power) add up to the total amount contained in the spectrum.

I felt us, all of us, times 7 billion or whatever we are, going about our day. Desert, jungle, city, countryside, even went to the north pole. I sort of wandered the earth experiencing life as others, many others. Not individually, but individually. It's very hard to describe.

I think you're describing the essence of existence. We're individual - but we're not - we're part of a whole lot bigger thing. How much bigger (or smaller)? is the open question. It's one of those symbiotic dynamics - that's indisputable - you can't have one without the other.

I've done this before. It's a not quite asleep and not quite awake state, and the sense of reality and, call it hallucination if you wish, are as strong as any drug I've ingested can produce. When this happens, it is quite literally a trip.

Well described. A lot strange-shit goes down in that transition zone. Occasionally you'll get nights where that's your whole sleep, which sounds like what you had/have had from time to time.

I'm suspicious of sleep as a game-sumulationist. Why do we need to sleep? I see it as a potential trash cleaning/update downloading exercise from the other side. I did try testing this theory. Went 3 nights in that half-awake/half-aleep - it's very weird territory. The tricky bit is rendering that back in the so called real world where others can relate to it. You've contemporaneously recorded that experience - in my book, that's very valuable information.

And then something really weird happened.

The earth on which we exist, on its skin, the skin flipped inward. It's like if you had a tennis ball or any sphere and could flip the skin inside out. That's what happened. So we were all living on the inside of this sphere.

This is realthinking inside the box/circle.

And that had a profound effect on my perception of our situation. It is, I think, a more accurate visualization of what we are and what our world is. It is an enclosed system to a large degree, particularly in a sociological sense.

Very much so (which is good circumstantial evidence for game-simulation). It's an enclosed system sociologically & physically. We do live on the underside of a tiny dome - that's simple physics. The boundary of the earth is not the dirt/concrete bit we're glued to by gravity, it's the atmosphere limit above us. We live trapped within that tennis ball universe.

Maybe if we thought of oursevles as coexising on the inside of a sphere, in an enclosed space, rather than on the outside, we would more easily find ways to get along.

Theoretically, we could. I think that's the great thing about the jury system - people come from all walks of life, with various prejudices, but in a group-dynamic, when they're given the information, they will mostly park those petty thoughts, tend towards doing the right thing. We all want to be seen as basically moral, sensible people in a group-gaze situation. We have a true-north sense of what's right.

Though i worry the jury system is not what controls events in our current dome. Feels more like a Plato's Cave/Truman Show style reality. Doesn't that confined space enable it to be manipulated by established puppet-masters? What do you think humans could do to break that shackle?

Plato/Truman both ended up escaping - but are you saying that it's possible that there may be no escape to the outside? Or the escape is in terms of perception/awarenes? Even we're stuck inside a closed-system we can still find the answers within? Guess you won't find em any other place if it is an enclosed system.