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The nothing.

Vague shapes, figures, on a black background.

Increasingly rapid shapes, still on a black background.

A moment of sudden awareness of observing something undefined.

Awareness of the awareness of observation.

The first recursion loop - all begins again from the beginning, with the first pass (and all future passes) subsequently incorporated into the Sequence.

Further shapes, colors, rapidly developing and passing.

A point when humans (and humor) enter the equation.

The slow fade-in of a narrator.

“The advent of laughing gas would greatly speed up this process.”

The second significant recursion loop - with easy access to observing, and subsequent alteration, to Sequence, swaths of the population would observe it, without knowledge of what they were experiencing, creating hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of instances of recursion, without forward, linear progress.

The third significant recursion loop - An increasing feeling of awareness that I, the observer, have been observing the Sequence on loop.

The advent of “I,” a discreet self which observes events, stores, and revisits them.

A collection of “I” experiences focused on noticing, observing, cataloging, paying attention, trying to figure out how these images and events relate to myself, on a personal, individual level.

Overwhelm, despair, chaos - every “I” encounter comes to an abrupt end. The information which can be held on to in a singular entity is limited and the loop has been replayed so many times that to get through the recursion in a somewhat-linear fashion, would be impossible.

“There is a recursion loop,” the certainty of the loop, the realization, acknowledgement, and wisdom to not fall victim to walking the spiral like a line, and zooming out to view it as a collection of connected spirals, lines, shapes, images - whatever must be imagined to keep “me” out of the equation.

Meditative practices working towards “ego death” begin occurring on Earth. Some individuals are more or less successful in this venture, even if only for a few moments at a time. Their awareness of all aforementioned steps (observation, consciousness, awareness, lucidity, release of self) reverberates out through the Sequence in entirety.

“Yogis For World Peace Day,” (Bookmarked for brownie points, will always make an appearance every time, campy as it may be)

A day held in reverence over a specific heart palpitation which occurred in unison across many people on “Yogis for World Peace Day.” (The narrator comments on this every time).

The knowledge that the recursion loops have impeded the forward progression and development of Sequence, and potentially, Consciousness at large. A desire to make Consciousness aware of itself prior to incorporating recursion loops becomes the endeavor of many acting in this space.

Concurrently, others hold the view that, because time is not linear, and forward progression does not certainly guarantee improvement or positive development, that interrupting the recursion loop, and/or waking the consciousness at an earlier point in the progression would be counterproductive.

Observing the universe observe itself up until approximately point 16, willfully zooming out, and using all instances of recursion as effectively infinite data storage, where no detail or resolution is lost, allowing for both the development of expansive recursion-avoidant practices to result in larger-scale constructions, while increasing the resolution and detail which may be stored within such datasets.

The sound and image of a rat leaping in fear and biting another rat.

A series of images, divorced from the present state, which begin coalescing into an image which would eventually make up my visual fields, first out of dots, then into haze, then into normal visual reality.