So...Would you?

[Thunderchild 875]

I was watching The Matrix the other week, and it reminded me of a topic I'd wondered about a long time ago.

 

If you were given the chance to be plugged into a computer, and to experience life in Equestria as if it was completely real-to interact with the characters and share their adventures just as the characters in The Matrix experienced life that seemed to them to be reality-with the understanding that it would be a one way trip, and that back in the real world your body would lie in a coma in some hospital bed atrophying...

 

Would you go for it?

[repsol rave 2,963]

no. in the end, it still wouldn't be reality. and if you are given the choise you will always know what is real and what isn't.

in the end, the life i live is way too valuable to me to just let it rot somewhere in a hospital bed.

[Scootalove 10,689]

I wouldn't go for it. I like the Matrix for having that concept, but the reality is the experience of interacting with the characters would feel more like virtual reality than real reality.

[Silverwisp the Bard 2,353]

Probaly not, since I'd alway know that I'm talking to a bunch on one and zeros...

Edited February 14, 2014 by Silverwisp the Bard

[Celestial Panzerhund 289]

I would. Real or not, it would be nice to interact with the mane 6, go on their strange adventures. See how it is to live in their world. Better than LARP.

[Mandizeen 21]

Well, sure. I would probably do it. It's better doing it in fantasy than not at all

[Delernil 952]

I'd do it. It's not like I have many friends or valuables in this world, and the pony world seems a lot friendlier. I'd go for it.

[Sky Cutter 294]

If I could leave after a while I would do it on weekday afternoons, all day Saturdays if I would get a B-17

[Lagom 204]

No because I wouldn't leave my life in the real world with my family and friends.

[Discordian 6,015]

Reality is what you make of it. If it was a truly one way trip and there was no way of it ending prematurely because I, say, died in the real world or something then why not? Doesn't matter what's real and what's not if you experience it the same regardless.

[Remi 1,309]

I'd do it for the plot.

And not the literature term.

[Thunderchild 875]

I'd do it. It's not like I have many friends or valuables in this world, and the pony world seems a lot friendlier. I'd go for it.

That's kind of the way I would have looked at it before I had a family-I would have done it too.

 

Reality is what you make of it. If it was a truly one way trip and there was no way of it ending prematurely because I, say, died in the real world or something then why not? Doesn't matter what's real and what's not if you experience it the same regardless.

I guess life is just a series of experiences, cumulating in mortality. Seems like it would be a lot more enjoyable in Equestria than here.

[~Silver Essence~ 2,625]

That sounds extremely tempting, but I would have to decline.

 

Having to suffer some serious damage after coming back seems completely out of bounds for me.

 

I'll stick to the show itself and content thank you.   

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

No. Even though the real world is absolute hell compared to Equestria, it is my world. I have one life, and I want to use it to try to help fix this beyond broken world, even if only a little.

[Judgement 445]

Nope. All it takes is just one hater to unplug me.

I'd much rather buy an oculus rift and stay away from risks like death.

[Tigerpop198 696]

I would try it. Yes it would be virtual but it would still be interesting. There would be things I would miss though.

[Argumedies 1,748]

Like the Matrix?... no

 

But if it were say... like the Holodeck of Star Trek... then by all means.

 

Its a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there... permanently

[Thunderchild 875]

Nope. All it takes is just one hater to unplug me.

I'd much rather buy an oculus rift and stay away from risks like death.

Yeah-that's kind of the downside of it-you lose control over what happens to your body. And there sure are a lot of haters in the world...

[Mutemutt 773]

Definitely not. Just knowing my real body is out there comatose kind of kills it for me. Plus, this world is pretty great  (we are the ones putting together all those fantastical worlds and ideas, after all) and you'd be hard-pressed convincing me to leave it for good.

Edited February 15, 2014 by Mutemutt

[GrimCW 658]

If it were like the matrix and just boring... nah, but if it were like "better than life" (now to see if anyone gets it..) than hell yeah!

[Rainboom Dash 1,056]

No. I'd rather experience life in Equestria in reality, not in a virtual simulation with my body plugged in.

[Neon Fire 473]

Yeah, of course.  Better than nothing, right? 

[Thunderchild 875]

No. I'd rather experience life in Equestria in reality, not in a virtual simulation with my body plugged in.

Sure-as would we all-however, since Equestria only exists in fantasy it would be tough to experience it in reality-as we perceive it to be on this plane of existence.

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

No i would not, I do not want my muscles deteriorating

Sure-as would we all-however, since Equestria only exists in fantasy it would be tough to experience it in reality-as we perceive it to be on this plane of existence.

Their may be a chance... a small chance, that their is a planet that is similar or the same as Equestria, It is just that we do not have the technology to see it. Or if we make a machine to travel dementions we can find an alternate world of ponies...

[GONEFOREVER 518]

Not really. I'm not one to jack into the matrix ::PP

Edited February 15, 2014 by DolosusDoleus