REALITY DESIGNApr 2, 2026
the way reality glitches when you stop watching
It's like you step back and the whole damn screen goes fuzzy. I've been thinking about how reality seems to glitch when you're not paying attention. You've got this whole invisible system running, yet most of us never even bother to peek under the hood.
Raymond
Reality Designer
2min
I've definitely realized that once you start pulling at the threads of your own reality, the whole thing unravels in the most unexpected ways. Not that it's a bad thing. It's actually kinda amazing, you know? Like when you dig into your own perception filters and start seeing the glitches.
And the interesting thing about that is, most people go about their lives not realizing these glitches exist. It's almost like reality is on default settings, and nobody's bothered to tweak the interface.
Okay, let's get into the strange part. When you're looking right at something, it seems solid, right? But then, you look away, and it might as well start flickering, like there's no one there to observe it's working correctly. I mean, we all kinda assume that when we're not paying attention, everything's just humming along smoothly.
But is it really? Or is it all just a bunch of code snippets only resolving when you look? It's like there's this feature of reality that needs your gaze to be complete.
What I think most people miss is, your beliefs are these projector slides, constantly casting reality onto your awareness screen. You're walking around with a whole slideshow, and most of it isn't even yours. Think about that. It's a mix of stuff you picked up, absorbed, or just assumed you needed to install.
All these psychic plugins loading every moment you interact with the world. You didn't even know they were there, yet they color everything you see.
Here's where it really gets weird, your reality updates in real-time based on these belief slides. You tweak one part of it, and suddenly, a whole chunk of your life syncs differently. It's like an OS update that redefines how apps run, only this time, you're the developer and the beta-tester. But so much of it is hidden behind layers you didn't consciously choose.
This hidden algorithm has been curating you into some version you never signed off on. And that's what I mean by reality glitching when you're not watching. You're not even looking, yet changes keep happening.
And you know, when I was younger, I decided instead of going to college, I'm just gonna be homeless. Or start a business. I did both several times. You end up debugging so much of your own code that way.
By living raw experiences without the matrix overlay. It's a real self-audit when you're stripped of societal plugins.
I think the algorithms running our lives are way more advanced than we give them credit for. They've got all these hidden variables we're interacting with, mostly unaware. Like when you start to design your realitypost, the first thing you notice is how much of it isn't even yours. The part where it curates you into a person you never intended to be, that's where designing your reality becomes vital.
It's a psychic test every moment.
And the thing about these psychic tests is, they're more about what you don't do than what you do. It's like debugging code where you remove more lines than you write, y'know? Reality consists of not adding new plugins but stripping away what doesn't serve you. It's not spiritual; it's straightforward, just practical debugging and upgrading.
When I learned to code, it changed everything. The act of coding is so spiritual because you create from nothing but logic and intention, it's a pure expression of will. It's also incredibly practical since it forces you to think systematically, to figure out how each piece fits or doesn't fit. And it directly correlates to reality design: you get to tweak parameters, configure settings, and see results unfold in real-time.
Reality is a lot like a sandbox game, you choose the plugins or parameters, and the world builds itself around those choices.
Designing your reality is basically debugging your own operating system. You find the broken beliefs, you patch them, and then everything downstream starts working differently.
One day, you'll look into this vast engine of reality and realize it's always been waiting for you to take the wheel. Yeah, maybe that's it. All these psychic notifications you've been ignoring, those are the abnormalities in the system, pings that something needs debugging. Sometimes it's just a subtle nudge, like the wind shifting direction.
Other times, it's blaring alarms, a cacophony of broken code screaming for attention.
But I think what happens most is we just let these glitches slide because they're not obvious until they are. When you intentionally build your reality, every anomaly becomes a useful piece of data, a breadcrumb leading you to whatever's next. If you can pick up on these, you start to realize that the algorithm was never your enemy. It's just been running without your input.
And when you start providing input, even the glitches start collaborating with you.
You know, opening up to the possibility of designing your own reality might just be the most liberating revelation. It's unnerving at first, the sudden awareness of all the invisible inputs shaping your world. But once you get past that brush with chaos, you find a shift occurs. That vast potential extends before you, where you can redefine every little piece that makes up your experience.
The way I see it, your mind operates like an OS, running various apps, each one representing different chunks of your life. Experiences are merely the software you choose to download and run. But be careful not to install too many external plugins without a thought. They might seem useful but find a way to filter the junk.
And it's less about cutting things off and more about critically appraising what you let in, consciously tweaking parameters as you go.
The most critical part of reality design is recognizing the psychic notifications, listening in for those configuration changes. These aren't random blips; they're guideposts. And that's where I'll leave it, I think. I'm beginning to wonder how much further this metaphor can stretch, how deep we can go into tweaking reality, and whether by doing so, we become something entirely unrecognizable to the default world.
Raymond
RD Core
Raymond is a multi-disciplinary designer and developer. You'll find him most commonly skateboarding, having a coffee, programming, algorithmic day trading, creating 3D art or working to bring the Reality Designers vision to life.
