So I was playing a VN some of you may have heard of called The Song of Saya, and that started off a surprisingly drug-free chain of thought that led to a quite plausible conclusion that we may very well be living in a universe similar to LotM, or rather, the LotM setting is much closer to our reality than you may think. I will try to outline my chain of thought coming to this conclusion, make of that what you will.

Without going into major spoilers, The Song of Saya is about a guy who wakes up one day after a brain operation with all of his 5 senses fucked up. They say it’s what’s on the inside that matters, but could you treat your family and friends the same if they looked like blobs of stitched together flesh and organs, smelt like the foulest rotten fish, spoke in barely decipherable gurgles? As Aristotle pointed out (such philosophy!), senses are our gateway to reality. Imagine a person cut off from all their senses. They can try moving their hand to feel their body or what they are standing on, but feel nothing. They can strain their ears for an eternity and hear nothing but their own thoughts. They are effectively dead, living in a closed off universe with nothing but the ability to think. There is a reason why sensory deprivation is used as a form of torture (search up white torture, it’s not about white people I promise), and I believe completely cutting off all senses is the highest form of torture conceptually possible. However, the human brain is great at deceiving itself; I am sure it could cook up an imagined reality just to have something to do. You might see where I am going with this.

Those familiar with Lovecraft will know of the blind idiot god Azathoth, dreaming of the reality itself, which will cease to be the moment it finally wakes up. Perhaps, you were once a consciousness created somewhere, somehow, that decides to simulate an entire universe as it is the only conceivable thing it can do. Now, before you start thinking everyone around you is an NPC that your original consciousness made to stave off your boredom, consider how plausible that is. If you are anything like me, you can’t change the speed of light or the value of pi at will. Which is to say, your original self didn’t make you fundamentally different from everyone else by giving you ‘admin powers’ so to speak. In which case, it would be far more reasonable to assume the original consciousness split into you and I and all conscious beings in the universe it created, every being having part of the original consciousness. We might as well call them the Original Creator at this point hehe. In the words of Roselle, whatever separates will definitely converge, and whatever converges will definitely separate (though knowing him, he probably plagiarized that from someone else). We have the Original Creator splitting into the universe because it has literally nothing else to do, and as some 20th century sci-fi authors like Arthur Clarke considered, perhaps the next stage in humanity’s evolution will be to meld into a collective consciousness (I recommend reading Childhood’s End if you haven’t). Other alien civilizations will eventully do the same (Olaf Stapledom’s Last and First Men hints at this at the end of his book), and in some indeterminate point in the future, all consciousnesses will merge back into the Original Creator. Shortly after, they will split and restart the cycle.

I think you can see now why I think the LotM universe might as well be our own, fundamentally speaking. As for the supernatural stuff, that of course only happens when the Original Creator’s mind is in a high enough concentration, bending the laws of reality that it itself made. We are probably in some far off planet in the universe with homeopathic levels of dilution. If our planet had sefirots and all that shit found in LotM’s earth, I’d certainly not want to live there lol. Of course, the reason why we don’t go mad from knowledge of Outer Gods is because we’re simply not worth infecting. Once again thank the Creator our planet is so barren!

I should reiterate I was not on a trip while writing this. I would love to know what you guys think of my theory. Also, we somehow have 39 subscribers! I hope more and more people migrate away from centralized forums coming forward.