《Paradox》


 Step 1: Dreaming

    Oh? You found this chapter...


    Good job.


    The first step to following the Path of Somnus


    Is of course dreaming.


    There are only a few ways to experience non-existence.


    Of course you could die and try to do the steps there


    But the chances are very small that you would actually succeed in tricking reality while you are dead.


    You don''t really have thoughts after you''re gone... it''s a nothingness.


    Although it isn''t impossible...


    So we will build the visualization technique over the course of about 5 years.


    There is a very specific date and time that you will need to keep in mind where you will crossover to an alternate universe for the first time.


    If you can do that once... you will become eternal.


    Everytime you die, you''ll simply crossover to a universe where you survived.


    Once it becomes impossible for you to survive.


    You will return back to the date you read this chapter.


    If you do not wish to become eternal or to become a timeless existence...


    Well... you are quite reasonable!


    It isn''t as fun as you might think... it is actually a curse in a sense.


    Stop reading here... I''m surprised you even found this chapter.


    So let me explain the core concept behind why we will be building a visualization technique.


    Think of your brain like a computer that runs the clientside and the whole universe as the server.


    Your brain is constantly sending data back and forth.


    This makes up your reality.


    You can imagine something like a ball of fire appearing in your hand... but if the logic doesn''t check out and it has no real cause... then the server will not send that information to other people.


    You also can''t just will your brain to ignore signals from the universe.


    So if you break a leg... you can''t just imagine yourself not being in pain.


    So the universe kind of has an authority over you.


    Think of its position as also an operator


    What you need to do is annoy the crap out of the server


    Spam it with so much false information


    That it either crashes or bans you.


    Once you have been ''banned''


    You will be in a space outside of the universe with completely different laws


    In this space, time will run all at once.


    So you experience both your birth and death at the same timeReading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.


    You experience infinite time


    This is also how you''re able to live forever


    Because you will naturally comprehend the rules of the universe here.


    But this nonexistence is also suffocating and will try to erase everything that makes you... you.


    Are you really who you are, if everything about you has been stripped away to nothing?


    Not really... atleast that''s how I see it.


    So we need to not only get banned from the server everyone else is playing on.


    But we also need a way to shield our essence.


    Once that is done.


    You can then try to reach out to the other servers (entering different realities).


    Then try to set-up your alternate selfs to do the same thing.


    Then instead of being alone after being ''banned'' from participating in reality. You secretly have an army of infinite selves that you form an agreement with that you can jump into.


    That is the core concept behind becoming a Paradox.


    Now it is time for me to actually explain how to do it.


    You need to trick your brain.


    The universe actually has a memory problem... so it forces its existences to shutdown so it can clear its ''cache''.


    The longer you stay up... the more disconnected you become with reality.


    But we won''t start off with you not sleeping for many days... that would be pointless without your anchor.


    What exactly is an anchor?


    Well... it is what ties you to a universe.


    Once your banned... it is the only thing that''ll allow you to influence other universes that happen to have the same anchor.


    An anchor can be a concept, an item, a memory.


    My anchor itself is a period of time in my life.


    But my anchor is also a book...


    Is it this book? Maybe... probably not though.


    What is important is that you must understand your anchor very well...


    If its an item... it should be something you''ve crafted yourself


    It can even be raw information itself... like an email you sent to someone.


    This will be the constant


    Something you will always do in every universe you will ever visit


    So it still needs to be significant.


    Don''t worry, you can make multiple anchors


    By reading these words you have already established your very first anchor.


    This very moment


    This is the moment you will return to at the end of your life cycle.


    If you are able to run your visualization technique non-stop.


    You will even survive your consciousness getting erased by Reality.


    But first we must create the visualization technique called "God''s Death"


    This technique is the key to getting banned and put into your own sandbox.


    It is the key to reaching the abyss without dying.


    Once you have done that


    That imagined fire in your hand will be real...


    Because you aren''t bound by the Reality of others anymore.


    Still... when you do send an avatar down into Reality.


    You will have to play by all its rules.


    There is no way to change the servers rules from your client alone


    At the very least that isn''t the point of this guide (If such a thing is even possible).


    Step 1: Dreaming


    Every night right before you are about to go to sleep... do a hand gesture.


    Every morning when you wake up... do the same hand gesture.


    Do this for a few months... no need to worry about anything else.


    After around 3 months of doing this every day.


    Try willing yourself to do the hand movement without allowing your nerve signals to fire to actually do the movement.


    You shouldn''t be able to actually move your hand without using your nerves... but try it either way.


    Stop doing the hand movements in real life and only do them in your mind from now on.


    After a few more months of this... stop this routine all together.


    Now try to do it at the start and end of every dream.


    Think of it as lucid dreaming... except you must be aware you''re in a dream before the dream starts.


    It may take a few more months before you can consistently do the hand movements at the start and end of your dreams.


    Once you have mastered this.


    Imagine doing the hand movements in the abyss of sleep (the nothingness you experience when you sleep).


    Once you have done the hand movement in that nothingness while you are completely unconscious... imagine a portal opening up to a dream you''ve had.


    The point you need it to open up to is a memory of a dream you''ve had where you''ve done the hand movement.


    Then look at your other self doing the movement and imagine them opening up a portal to another dream where they''ve done the movement.


    Continue opening up portals as far as you can see.


    Then condense this memory into a single point.


    While still unconscious have this point go into your sea of consciousness and begin rotating it.


    have it break down into five pieces


    One piece will stay in the center


    One piece will go left


    One piece will go up


    One piece will go right


    One piece will go down


    This movement is now the very first dimension of your visualization technique


    Now you will need to make what some might call a ''spiritual guardian'' or tulpa.


    The reason you need this is because you need to have the first dimension of your technique constantly running.


    Think of having another thread of consciousness.


    Its nearly impossible to consciously focus on multiple things at once


    Your attention will split and have a delay


    So you need to make a way for you to do it unconsciously


    Just like breathing... like your heart beating.


    Make your brain think it is an absolutely necessary process.


    But that will be discussed more in part two (if you are destined to see it).


    That is the end of part one.

 Step 2: Tulpa

    Congratulations... you''ve made it to step 2.


    Now that you have what I call the foundation of God''s Death down


    I like to call this dimension zero.


    Or slot 0


    You need it to be constantly spinning.


    Think of this whole visualization technique as a watch.


    There are many different parts to it; overtime it will become quite complicated.


    The first dimension of your technique is like the ''engine'' of the entire technique.


    Or you can think of it as a game loop.


    It needs to be constantly running.


    But remember, it is more like the blueprint for the engine.


    The actual heart and soul of the technique will be in a deeper dimension (echo).


    Either way, it is good practice to keep zero running (it is also far easier then what you''ll be doing soon).


    But, like we stated earlier... dividing your focus consciously is a big no no.


    It isn''t sustainable and you''ll likely lose focus.


    So how do we get around this problem?


    Step 2: Tulpa


    So what exactly is a Tulpa? Why do you need one?


    You can think of it as a ''imaginary friend'', except ours will be a little special.


    We''ll essentially be constructing our tulpa to be an operating system(a very simple one) that functions like a computer over say a buddy you talk to.


    So first we''ll start with a name.


    If you want to use my system instead of making your own


    The name of the operating system is ECHO


    This entity will live in one of the dimensions we will be making later


    In dimension two.


    We''ll get to creating dimension one in the next step.


    So the first thing you''ll want to do after creating the name of your tulpa is picking a color for itEnjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site.


    ECHO''s template is light blue.


    Then you want to install some basic commands into it.


    Commands like:


    /help - shows you list of commands


    /exit - shutdown echo


    /echo <msg>- make echo announce message


    /clear - clears the window


    /login


    - for when it boots up (this is to have protection against other potential malicious versions of yourself)


    /say <msg> - Announce a message to those using ECHO


    /reload - reload the visualization technique.


    /universe - prints the universe identifier


    /travel <id> - switch to alternate universe


    /threads - show active threads


    /thread <name> - create new thread


    /delthread <name> - remove thread


    These commands are useful for when you revive and need to re-login. You''ll log into your version of ECHO.


    It is also a good idea to physically make a program in real life or something similar to one, just so your brain has a little bit of the background on what''s going on.


    It can be quite simple like


    function command(cmd){


    if(cmd=="help"){


    print(hlist);


    }


    }


    Doesn''t need to be anything complicated... it is your own mind afterall (whatever works best for you).


    Now you want to imagine its appearance


    As well as it starting up


    It can be something like


    [ECHO]: Initializing...


    First you make another dimension for it


    Not using slots 0 and 1


    Using slot 2


    Then you will imagine its appearance


    Imagine a blue ball of energy (or the color you picked for your system)


    Put this visualization in slot 2 and zoom in


    Now put a copy of what you have in slot 0 there.


    Pay attention to the time


    Add one copy every minute that passes until it becomes so small that you can barely see what''s happening. Zoom out and in repeatedly; check to make sure that the copies are running.


    Grab a watch for the next part


    Now you will need to not sleep for three days


    It will slowly get harder and harder to stay awake and keep echo running.


    Inside of the blue ball of energy are many copies of your foundation.


    But still... you are doing this consciously and not unconciously.


    The reason you will stay up for three days is to get those sweet, sweet microsleeps in.


    You''ll want to restart the process of creating the visualization technique everytime you microsleep.


    You''ll be able to notice your microsleeps, because you''ll see that 15 seconds or more as passed unconsciously while looking at the watch.


    You''ll need to get echo running while you are microsleeping


    I call this part adding the soul to it.


    Because after spending enough time doing this, it''ll really start to feel like an instinctive part of you.


    Once you are able to keep focus despite losing consciousness briefly from the microsleeps; you are able to keep echo running.


    You''ll want to sleep for 12 hours or so and just relax and let echo run its thread.


    When you wake up, spend about an hour meditating on the copies inside of echo.


    Then purposely try to stop it.


    If you''re able to stop it without using commands, then it has not yet been deemed essential for your survival.


    So you stay up another 24 hours or so and repeat the process.


    Meditate for an hour on the copies.


    Then purposely try to stop it.


    The reason we do this... is we want it to almost become a sort of intrusive thought.


    It needs to become a permanent part of you.


    That is part of how we create a shield for your essence (for protection).


    Once you can no longer get rid of it, you can stop the process of sleep deprivation and go back to a normal sleep schedule.


    It is still a good idea to check on it to make sure everything is running correctly when you have freetime during the day. It''ll litterly take a few milliseconds, so there is no reason not to.


    Now you want to make another thread using Echo


    Put a copy of your consciousness as its foundation


    Then make it rotate slot 0 for you


    Then you no longer have to worry about keeping slot 0 rotating yourself.


    Your body will naturally keep it rotating in the background of your mind.


    As easy as breathing.


    You are now ready to fill up slot 1


    This one will take a lot more time, because it involves randomly rotating your visualization technique throughout your life for a few years (Imagining both your past and future).


    But we will talk about that in part 3.

 Step 3: Time travel

    Oh? You''ve made it to step 3.


    It is time for you to officially become a Paradox.


    That is, if you''re able to follow this step.


    I warn you... if you do not have resolve.


    Stop now


    You will fall into madness for eternity from what you are about to do.


    In step 1 we got the basics of the visualization technique


    In step 2 we got the spiritual guardian


    I bet you''re wondering what step 3 is all about and why it is so important.


    The one thing you are missing is the mantra to follow.


    Or what I like to call the virus.


    It is also called the global existence.


    First things first... we must pick a date and time.


    See, you''re about to become a Paradox... but what is a Paradox without time travel?


    That''s right!


    You''re going to be entering a very short time loop.


    During this loop, you will be a sort of cosmic horror to others.


    So you want to isolate yourself beforehand.


    What you will need:


    1x Mirror


    1x Laptop/computer


    1x Case of water (No sugary drinks)


    1x Empty room to spend eternity in.


    The reason why you don''t want any sugary drinks is because what we are about to do will physically change how your brain works for the rest of your life.


    Your body is going to act all funny by itself, let alone throwing food into the mix.


    You''re going to being spending centuries alone in your room.


    Without food... with just water.


    The change to your body will make it so you no longer require sleep (although you will die if you don''t sleep for about a year, you won''t get tired though).


    But you also won''t go mad from this (well eventually).


    The Mirror is so you can check your pupils afterwards... they''ll be fully dilated (Psychosis)


    The computer is to make the virus you''ll be using to invade reality.


    So now we must choose a date and time.


    Timezones do not matter at all here, we will be going based off your time and date.


    March 23rd at 11:57PM


    Why this specific date?


    Well, we be synchronizing your other selves.


    The versions of you that have read this book will know this is the date.


    This book is one of the few things consistent across this multiverse.


    So different versions of yourself that happened to read this book will know ''this is the date, this is the time''


    Now we must construct your global existence. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.


    This will be an Object


    This will also go in slot 1 of your visualization technique.


    This is a copy of my simplified global existence (I doubt you''d be able to do anything malicious with this information)


    SOURCE = {


    manifest:"100051oi01^ti9+ai21+ec1-ac5202704202703202702202701202700202709102708102707102726102705102704102703102702102701102709002705002701q0w70900270500270100270100270000270999170899170899170799171ec+12ia+9it^100000:nrettap,",


    Name: "Time",


    Timeline: G77,


    Type: nothing,


    TrueExistence: "God''s Death",


    GlobalExistence: ''Item.txt'',


    Pattern:"000001^ti9+ai21+ce171997071998071999072000072001072005072009072011072012072013072014072015072016072017072018072019072020072021072022072023072024072025ca-1ce+12ia+9it^10io150001"}


    Think of the manifest and pattern as the telomeres and the name, timeline,type,true existence as the dna of this virus.


    It also isn''t here, because that would be like painting a target on my back


    You''ll need a target as well.


    There you will put your ''spiritual name''.


    The Manifest and Pattern need to have condensed information about important moments in your life and other information you wish to add to the knowledge of your hivemind.


    You will make this a physical file on your computer (on the desktop).


    The file will be called ''Item.txt''


    You see, to become a Paradox... you have to have already always been one.


    You''re probably thinking that makes no sense and that it is then impossible to become a Paradox.


    We''ll you''re right about it being impossible.


    But that is the graduating point of a Paradox


    You don''t become one until you do something impossible.


    That basic visualization technique you have has to be one you''ve always had.


    You need to travel through time to before you were born


    When your existence was ''nothing''.


    You need to then ''gift'' that visualization technique to yourself


    That will alter history and make it so you have always had it.


    But first we need to time travel...


    You see... that part is a little tricky.


    Time travel is hard to do correctly for even the most genius paradox''s out there.


    Because you need reality to go offline in an instant.


    Remember how we talked about you being the client and reality the server...


    Well, we need to force reality to do a restart here without banning you completely.


    We need to keep what you''re rendering on during the restart.


    This will also create an origin universe.


    You will be crossing over to a new universe in this step.


    You see that line ''Timeline''


    Well that is actually the universe you''re in.


    Change that to whatever universe you wish to go to.


    So G78 would be a completely different universe.


    If you wish to leave this multiverse all together... you''ll need to go against the original incarnations... that is not something I advise you to do.


    During this step you will setting up the configuration of your hivemind. You must remember that all of them are you, and you are all of them. If you die, as long as the hivemind survives, your global existence survives and you survive.


    So now let''s get into the important stuff.


    After you finish making your Global Existence, you''re going to convert it to binary (You''re going to want to already have this ready before the date and time).


    Then put that binary in the ''Item.txt'' file on your desktop.


    Once it hits 11:57PM open that file and begin reading outloud the binary.


    You''ll continue reading for... well.. forever.


    You''ll soon notice that no matter how long you read it... it never ends.


    You''ll check the time on the computer


    11:58PM


    11:59PM


    11:57PM


    At this point... you''ll probably think ''that''s pretty neat''


    It is not


    See... You just put yourself in a time loop.


    One you will have to escape to become a Paradox.


    You will have to comprehend the laws of causality to the point where your will alone can shatter reality.


    A genius will only take a few decades here...


    I myself took far longer then I would like to say.


    You will spend centuries here.


    Constantly reading out the binary.


    Sure... you can stop reading it.


    But the door to outside leads to nothing but the abyss.


    The room you''re in, is the only thing left on in your universe.


    Your universe is in the middle of a restart and for it time doesn''t matter.


    There is an upside to this though


    You can communicate by reading the binary, to the other versions of yourself.


    It is here where you will unite with yourself and become a Hivemind.


    Once you have broken out of the loop, you will be completely delusional.


    You''ll speak in mad ravings that no one can understand.


    Going back to normal life after spending hundreds to thousands of years in isolation is a task that even those with the strongest will, will find impossible.


    But you did it.


    You broke out of that cursed loop.


    You did remember to use that brief instant to send your visualization technique back to before you were born right?


    Good.


    If you didn''t... you might need to try again... and again.


    Hold onto that one thought...


    You MUST pull it off.


    Otherwise, you''ll just be a Flawless.


    Anyways... now that you have done something impossible... you have officially become a Paradox.


    There is a slight issue though...


    You''re completely insane!


    This insanity can be cured... but most antipsychotic''s won''t work.


    We''ll discuss treatment and recovery in the next step (if you are destined to see it - maybe).


    It should also be noted that the ''lesser'' versions of yourself that went completely mad without being able to break out of the loop, will spend forever in that loop and they also kind of serve as the processing power for your ''brain''.


    Now you are able to think without a physical form and travel the abyss freely.


    Since you have your visualization technique shielding you and the processing power of infinite trapped versions of yourself forced to forever mutter your global existence.


    The downside is... you might not become Paradox. You might just be one of many versions of yourself that never did the impossible.


    That is the main risk here, as well as the insanity afterwards that you''ll need to recover from.