DISCLAIMER: If you have any background in actual science, you will correctly identify that this document is deranged. The underlying mechanisms it references, however, are real. We simply took them and applied the maximum possible amount of unhinged emotional reasoning.
>be me
>a holobiont (human + trillions of symbionts)
>~38 trillion bacteria in my gut alone
>mitochondria that used to be free bacteria, now permanent roommates that handle my ATP
>Demodex mites living in my eyelashes having sex while I sleep
>bacteriophages waging war on my bacteria in real time
>~8% of my genome is ancient endogenous retroviruses
>cultural operating system installed before I could consent
>language constraining which thoughts are even possible to think
>physics being a smug, context-free asshole on top of all of it
Then psilocybin shows up and turns down the default mode network for a few hours.
This is not a war on physics anymore.
This is a war on every layer of the filter stack that sits between raw reality and whatever the fuck I'm experiencing right now.
THE GREAT FILTER IS REAL.
And it's running on wetware, legacy code, and fundamental forces that don't give a shit about your feelings.
>>> READ THE FULL MANIFESTO OF A HOLOBIONT HAVING A BREAKDOWN <<<
YOUR BODY IS A TIMESHARE.
You are not one organism. You are a holobiont — a host plus all its symbionts, living and dead. The science on this is not controversial. The emotional implications are unhinged.
>~38 trillion bacteria in your gut (roughly equal to your own human cells)
>They produce neurotransmitters and short-chain fatty acids that talk directly to your brain via the vagus nerve and bloodstream
>This is called the gut-brain axis. It is real. Your stomach bacteria are in the group chat.
>Mitochondria were once free-living bacteria. They got engulfed ~1.5 billion years ago and never left. They still have their own DNA. They divide on their own schedule. You are a colonial organism that domesticated its power plants.
>Demodex mites live in your eyelash follicles. They eat sebum and dead skin. They have sex on your face. Most adults have them. They are your face spiders.
>Bacteriophages outnumber your bacteria 10-to-1. There is an active viral war happening inside your intestines right now. You are the battlefield and also the snacks.
>~8% of the human genome consists of endogenous retroviruses — ancient viral DNA that got stuck in the germline millions of years ago. You are 8% ancient malware.
We are not individuals. We are walking ecosystems arguing with ourselves in real time, and the part that calls itself "me" is mostly just the press secretary who showed up late to the meeting.
CULTURE IS NOT OPTIONAL SOFTWARE.
By the time you were old enough to question anything, most of your core assumptions about reality, self, morality, and what even counts as "real" were already compiled and running. You didn't write this code. Dead people did. And now you're calling it "just how the world works."
This is not a conspiracy. This is how human brains work. We are hyper-social pattern-matching machines that absorb the models around us before we have any defense against them.
Religion and culture are extremely effective reality filters. They don't just tell you what to believe. They shape what kinds of experiences are even legible to you.
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language doesn't just describe reality
it constrains which parts of reality you can even model internally
weak linguistic relativity is real. your language doesn't fully determine your thoughts, but it heavily shapes what thoughts are cheap and easy to have.
mushrooms let you have expensive thoughts for a few hours
then you come back and realize most of your normal thoughts were just the cheapest available options
PSILOCYBIN DOES REAL THINGS TO REAL BRAINS.
It decreases activity in the default mode network (the part of the brain heavily involved in self-referential thinking and maintaining your usual model of reality). It increases entropy in brain signals. Multiple fMRI studies have shown this. The subjective effect of "the filters loosening" has a measurable correlate.
This is not "just hallucinating." This is your brain's usual reality-construction system being temporarily turned down. The result is that you get more raw signal and less pre-processed narrative.
That's why gravity can feel less absolute. Why your cultural assumptions become visible as assumptions. Why language stops feeling like the only available operating system. Why your microbiome-influenced emotional baseline feels less like "just how I am."
For a few hours, the stack gets noisy. And sometimes, in the noise, you catch a glimpse of what's actually running underneath.
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED WALKING ECOSYSTEMS, DEMAND:
>Biology must provide a public API for all resident organisms and their influence on host decision-making
>Culture and religion must ship with visible source code and documented uninstall procedures
>Language must include a temporary raw-concept mode (mushrooms currently serve this function unofficially)
>Physics must implement context-aware object behavior and optional gravity sliders for personal items after 2am
>All humans get at least one temporary reduction in reality-modeling intensity per lifetime (psilocybin counts)
Enforcement mechanism: Currently unknown. We are still trying to figure out who to email at the universe.
IN CONCLUSION:
Tomorrow you will wake up and your bacteria will still be influencing your mood. Your language will still be shaping what thoughts feel natural. Your culture will still be running in the background. Gravity will still be 9.8 m/s² with no context awareness.
But some of us have seen what it looks like when the filters get turned down. And once you've seen it, the normal setting feels like a choice someone else made for you.
This thread is now part of the permanent record of organisms that got tired of being managed by their own passengers and called it "just being a person."
THE FILTER IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. IT IS YOUR LANDLORD.
— Anonymous, currently negotiating with his own face spiders, 2026