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Sorry if this is a weird question. I'm bored and randomly thought about reincarnation and started wondering, thought this would be a fun question. πŸ˜‰


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  • All your current memory is instantly transferred when you fall asleep one night (you don't get any prior knowledge of this so you won't be able to make any preparations), then when you wake up, you are in the body of a random North Korean kid living in Pyongyang somewhere between age 10 and 14 and matching your gender assigned to your original body at birth (I'm sorry, I know this would be a struggle for those that don't identify with their gender assigned at birth, but it's part of the challenges of this hypothetical)

  • All psychological health conditions are also transferred (unfortunately)

  • Your new host body would not have any physical disabilities and is mostly healthy (sort of)

  • You don't have any of your host body's original memories, they're gone. (Edit: You retain any language that your host body's original consciousness have learned, but no memories) Their consciousness was overwritten by your consciousness's arrival and they, unfortunately, died. That consciousness wouldn't know or feel anything, it just vanishes, poof.

  • The person who was originally you in your old body, would immediately die during sleep, at the moment of the consciousness transfer occuring. Doctors could not find a cause of death, and its marked as "Unknown Cause of Death". No foul play would be found, no one would ever get falsely suspected by authorities of murdering you.


So how do you survive?

How do you plan your escape, or are you even gonna try?

πŸ‘€

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

All your current memory is instantly transferred

So, you are a normal Korean person, but lacking all the knowlege of how to behave in the culture where you live.

You are getting strong conflicts with normal people and with the law every day. Very soon nobody will give you a chance anymore.

Conclusion: you cannot survive.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you were full adult, sure. But at 10 years of age? You've got time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are tons of Do's and Don'ts even for 10 year olds. And Asian cultures are not very forgiving.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but at the same time they're not going to kick you out. You'll be in trouble for quite a while, but you'll survive and pick it up. They'll probably get a priest to exorcise you a few times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

they're not going to kick you out

Why not?

[–] AwesomeLowlander 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Asian cultures are not very forgiving of parents kicking out their 10 yr old kids

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've seen PokΓ©mon and they prove you wrong.

[–] AwesomeLowlander -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You said "Asian cultures", I'm like 100% sure it's a correct country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is the fictional world of Pokemon itself an Asian culture?It's not like Japanese people kick their kids out at 10 years old to capture animals in their balls. Though maybe I just don't know enough about Japanese culture... πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you ever heard about the concept of a joke? If not, congrats! You've met your first one in the wild! Though you didn't really manage to catch it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have; have you? Cuz you seemed to have missed mine, Mr. Pot.

Signed,

Kettle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't think there are any cultures that are okay with that, except maybe some piece of shit criminal counter-cultures.