Perception and Reality Writing Prompts

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You are a Police Officer running a routine traffic stop. As you approach the window, the driver says, “Get it over with and kill me.” You ask, ”Why would I kill you?” He says “If I knew that, Officer, this loop would’ve ended a long time ago.”

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You wake up with what feels like a terrible hangover, the dilapidated room around you is unfamiliar and you are chained to the bed, written on the ceiling is the message "If you can read this you're human enough to use the key on the nightstand"

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You're offered a deal, push the button and you get 100k, but the person that hates you the most gets double. As far as you know no one actually hates you so you push it. 10 minutes later you get a text from the person you love most that they just got 200k deposited into their bank account...

630 upvotes62 comments

“You may make three wishes. Once you have, I will choose two to grant and one to forever bar you from gaining.”

609 upvotes89 comments

You’re a shopkeeper who sells liquid dreams. People come to your shop for many reasons; self revelation, escapism, to see a gone loved one or for a precious good night sleep. Your shop is located between dimensions so no visitor can come twice. However, recently you’ve seemed to gain a regular.

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You’re a mind reader, but your whole life everything has sounded like gibberish because of how random people’s misconstrued thoughts are, until one day all the voices shut off and you hear one very clearly say “run”

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You have a soft-spoken, mild-mannered friend who would never hurt a fly. One day, you accidentally overheard them talking over their phone in a cold, apathetic voice, "I don't care how you do it. If you don't return the money by tomorrow, you can say goodbye to your family."

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You're an entirely normal human being. You have memories of a childhood and an adult life. You're not a robot. You're not a robot. You're not a robot. You know beyond all doubt you're not a robot. Why have captchas suddenly become completely impossible?

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You turn from the limp, still-warm body that used to be yours. The black-hooded figure beside you breaks into tears. "I'm not sure how much longer I can keep doing this.", they say.

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In a terrible accident, you kill someone in public. You frantically ask those around you for help but no one seems to even notice the body. You only then realize you have a horrible power. The people you kill are forgotten.

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You are human, you have always been human, and you will always be a human. As long as you can keep convincing yourself you are. Something that is ģ̸̰̱̎̇̾͘̕͝͝e̶̛̠̪̗̻̜̱̤̲͖̗͔͊ṫ̸̢̛̗̦̲̯̥͍̲͍̈͜ţ̵͚̠̩͈̏̈́̏̍̑ḯ̸̛̬̰̫̮͇̰̥̦̜̠̞̤̫̜̅͑̀̐͒̃̿̾͑͊͗̕ṋ̶̹̞͔̩̥̖̦̙̻̼̠͇̭̈̑g̶̛̪̳͆̋̔́̉̀͠͝ͅͅ ̷͎̄͋͑̇̀̾͊͊̉̕̚͝ḧ̸͖̤͕̩̰̮̞̞͖̺́́͐a̷

533 upvotes45 comments

The young heir to the throne gets kidnapped. They're gagged, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a basement. They're not even nervous, on the contrary they're curious and intrigued by the situation.

529 upvotes44 comments

I was born blind but was lucky enough to have a loving mother who took care of my every need. Imagine the betrayal I felt when a stitch slipped and a ray of light hit my eye for the first time.

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You started a cult to scam people out of money. However, more and more of your “prophecies” begin coming true and the “miracles” can claim begin to actually happen.

485 upvotes49 comments

Over the years of extensive cybernetic augmentation you installed various artificial alternatives to your organs and even added some implants to your brain. You've just been informed that your organic components have all been dead since last week.

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You died last year but you still wake up in your body everyday. You look alive, you act like yourself, but whatever it was that made you "alive" is gone, yet you can't seem to leave your body. The problem is, your brain is starting to decay and it's weakening your tether on reality.

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Each sinner has their own personal hell, based around their sins, their failings and their fears. However, due to a divine mix up, you're now in someone else's personal hell, and need to pretend you're being tormented so no-one finds out.

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You don't know what happened, but one day people started being oddly impressed by your hunting skills, you would take down a regular animal, and they would act like you did something special, nobody else wants to enter the forest, but there are nothing there to fear. They refuse to eat the meat

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You finally meet the man with all the power in the world, but to your surprise he is living the quiet life, not using his powers. You ask why and he just gives you, his powers. You understand why now.

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The name of your one true love is written on one of your wrists, and the name of your worst enemy is written on the other. The thing is, you don't know which wrist is for whom.

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"Welcome to hell. You've certainly been a naughty one, haven't you. Get ready for an eternity with some of the most deivious punishments we have!" In reality, they had gone to heaven, but it was decided they'd be happier not knowing.

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You’ve been stuck in a time loop for over one hundred years. On this latest loop everyone acknowledges the loop and ask what you’ll do this time.

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After a year or two of dating, your girlfriend finally invites you over to meet her family. As you enter the living room by her side, you realize with a detached horror that you already know all her family members.

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Everyone in the guild had to take the alignment test. Despite everyone's expectations that you'd be "cold hearted" you actually scored "upstanding and compassionate"

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A friend of yours came to you sobbing. They’re rambling about “timelines” and worried about “resetting again.” “I just thought I got it right this time…”

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When every someone sexually fantasizes about you your mind is pulled into their mindscape, causing you to experience whatever their greatest sexual fantasy is. One day, in a stroke of stupidity, you post a nude picture online, just to see what would happen.

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"She told him that she loved him." Add the word "only" one time, anywhere in that sentence, and tell me their story.

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A timid and bashful lab worker accidentally ingests multiple doses of a drug meant to enhance libido. Describe the horror and internal struggle at the gradual loss of control she experiences as she witnesses herself slowly sliding towards a life of pussy-juice-covered self-pleasure junkie.

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I had been trained by my highschool boyfriend to stop everything that I'm doing and simply bend over whenever he touched my butt. Now a few years later, I find myself in tons of awkward and embarrassing situations as even an accidental touch seems to trigger my response!

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She shrugged, "I tend to sleepwalk, and when I do, I'm really... Amorous. it's why I don't usually have guests. If anything happens while you're staying here... well whatever."

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