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...:~^$$@#             fragment vision              #@$$^~:...
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..:~^$$@## time is a series of frames if thats what ##@$$^~:..
...:~^$$@# you believe, and they are so short  that #@$$^~:...
....:~^$$@ your consciousness spans a bunch of them @$$^~:....
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.......:~^                 you percieve             ^~:.......
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......:~^$     #   #   #   #   #   #   #   #   #    $^~:......
.....:~^$$     #   #   #   #   #   #   #   #   #    $$^~:.....
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..:~^$$@##     #   #   #   #   #   #   #   #   #    ##@$$^~:..
.:~^$$@###     a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h   i    ###@$$^~:.
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....:~^$$@ with  training  or  cannabis  (or  other @$$^~:....
.....:~^$$   drug ring -based chemicals), you can   $$^~:.....
......:~^$ hone the  senses, reduce time  blur  and $^~:......
.......:~^ see   only  one   fragment,   like   so: ^~:.......
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.....:~^$$ and  the  people around you can be  more $$^~:.....
....:~^$$@   concentrated in another fragment even  @$$^~:....
...:~^$$@# if  they  are  physically  manifested in #@$$^~:...
..:~^$$@## the  one  you  are  percieving,  so  you ##@$$^~:..
.:~^$$@### exist  with  an   offset,  never  really ###@$$^~:.
..:~^$$@##     actually meeting with each other.    ##@$$^~:..
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....:~^$$@ this is, in fact, one of my older fears; @$$^~:....
.....:~^$$ that everyone around me  obviously exist $$^~:.....
......:~^$ in  this  moment,   but  they  are   not $^~:......
.......:~^ conscious -  they  were here a long time ^~:.......
........:~ ago  and  all  their  actions  are  just ~:........
.........:              stored in time.             :.........
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.......... so that even though i am among  friends, ..........
..........          i am completely alone.          ..........
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