Writing Prompt Dreams and reality

[mme.cube]

In a dystopian world where people could either choose to live inside an artificial dream or face reality, [your character] has chosen the option of abandoning reality to live in the artificial world.

how's life there?

 

[Pixytokisaki14]

Why does this remind me of the movie Ready Player One?

 

[AYM]

how's life there?

As a digital lifeform your peripheral vision is 50% advertisements and 30% promotional offers for premium status. You spend the remaining unobstructed 20% continuously working in the crypto-mines like a nameless peon, and the price of everything is doubled because digital lifeforms do not sleep. Sleep is a "premium" service. Food is a "premium" service.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

In a dystopian world where people could either choose to live inside an artificial dream or face reality, [your character] has chosen the option of abandoning reality to live in the artificial world.

how's life there?

Romantically Apocalyptic - [CITY OF THE DEAD]

You are walking west. You find a wishing well. You wish for it to grant infinite wishes for every human being on earth. The Universe is now broken. The current weather is apocalypse with chances of fallout and nuclear winter. Also, everyone is dead. Good job.

www.webtoons.com

Someone already did it.

Oh. I'm sorry. That one only has the first 80.

Romantically Apocalyptic Webcomic | Royal Road

-=[Wiki]=- image host expired >read comic on wayback machine for now

www.royalroad.com

That's got the full story. The internet's role in everything isn't until #100 or something.

 

[GlassRose]

In a dystopian world where people could either choose to live inside an artificial dream or face reality, [your character] has chosen the option of abandoning reality to live in the artificial world.

how's life there?

Oh life in the false reality is great, perfect even. Unnervingly so. It is, after all, there to distract you from how the world is crumbling outside and humanity has like, half a century, tops, before the life-support fails irreparably and we all die.