Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick - What if life and reality were just one big game? Episode 112

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

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Welcome to the Make Sense with Dr. J.C. podcast. This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness and performance. On the Make Sense podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works. And that perception is a subjective and acquired taste. When you change the way that you look at things, the things that you look at begin to change. The Make Sense podcast is sponsored and primarily funded by the Make Sense Academy. Our private community, where open and curious seekers of growth and expansion, apply the Make Sense principles and systems to move from simply going through life to growing through life.

So check out the Make Sense Academy, risk-free, for less than you'll spend today on shit that you don't need. Welcome, my friends, to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Make Sense with Dr. J.C. Dornick podcast. Makes sense. Welcome to the Rise of! with Dragon Podcast with your host, Dragon.

Great morning friends, great morning world. I want to welcome everybody to the playing field of your consciousness. This podcast's intention is to remove the blindfolds from your mind,

your program mind, and help you gain access to higher levels of consciousness and tap into your true great potential. So a lot of people in personal growth and self-development,

self-discovery, talk about getting into the flow, state. Well, here, we talk about getting into the float state, and we do that through meditation. So just quickly, today's episode is a little bit heavy, but I know that my crowd likes it heavy. It's called game state reality, save and resume. Before we get into that, just some dragon thoughts. Once again, just want to give praise to the morning routine. This is going to be a big, big part of my work that's coming out, whether it's the book, there's a whole section on discipline,

but then I'm coming out with this online course called 15 Days to Discipline. And in the sense of discipline, what I want to share today is that we very often, more often than not, wake up in a screwed up state. I don't know what it is for you that causes you fear, anxiety, confusion and things like that. But those are feelings associated with how we've been programmed our whole life. So, and I've been working at this stuff for 15 plus years, and I still wake up, freaked out every now and then. So that's why I use my routine. I actually use my routine, exercise, reading, writing, that whole thing. I call it the Great Day rise up routine. And what I do is I use that, because on the other side of that, I always get my head right. So there's this foolish idea that I

buy into that everything is a mess. And then on the other side of the routine, specifically exercise, there's a foolish idea that everything's fine. So I was just sharing that with chicken again this morning. I think it's all a fantasy, which leads into today's rise up. Be a very, very good thing. I encourage you all to just play around with the idea that everything is just a fantasy. And if you do play around with that idea, then it validates what I just said. When I go out in the morning, one of the things that I hate the most is when I contemplate going out for a run, I've been running a lot, up to about four or five miles now. And there's this whole dialogue in your head about like,

should I do it? Maybe today is the rest day and you go through this whole thing. But 100% it never fails. So on the other side of drinking water, eating right, controlling what you consume, exercise, going for my run, I always win. I've never not won from it. So it would be foolish to not take advantage of that.

But my morning routine is almost like a joystick that I use to manipulate this game because the game always looks positive. I always have increased levels of confidence. As a matter of fact, doing this rise up right now, in the beginning of it, it could be perceived as scary. Public speaking, going live,

the potential of disaster and failure, but I always feel good on the other side. So that's my dragon thought for the day. So let's get into the game state reality, save and resume. So me personally, I have completely bought into the fact that we live in a simulation. And I won't go too far down the rabbit hole with that today because it's not really the purpose of today's rise up.

But basically this idea of the simulation theory, I'm reading a book right now called the simulation hypothesis. If anybody's down with that stuff, you'll love it. I never really pay too much attention to the author. Rizwan V-I-R-K. But basically what it states is that your existence and the reality that you perceive and claim that to know was generated by something or someone else.

You're just perceiving it, but it was controlled by someone else. And in this simulation, this is what's really cool to think about. The AI, the artificial intelligence, and the VR, the virtual reality, the rendering is so advanced in this simulation. It's so advanced that you've come to believe, we've come to believe that it's real. And all of the stuff that we're pondering and working towards

may just be a game being programmed, right? All of these things, all perceptions created by hypothetically the programmer and managed, just a funny way of looking at it, by some kid that's sitting at a computer, I don't know, hypothetically up in the sky, in an alternate universe that's just far more advanced than the one that we call reality. You know, so just imagine there's just some little kid, like I have a 12-year-old daughter,

some little kid is out there with a laptop or some sort of advanced computer. And he's created this whole thing that you and I think is real. Now, either way, if you like that idea or not, and most people would be probably adverse to it, because it would mean that everything that you think could be a farce. But either way, you look at it, this theory, this idea can't be proven nor disproven. So you're kind of forced to accept the potential reality or accept the potential reality because it can't be proven or disproven or just live in denial of its possibility.

And that's why we latch on to theories and principles. We latch on to them to protect the fact that everything might be just a simulation. So anyway, here's the value of it. The value of it is this. In my interface response system, this idea of changing your perception so that you can claim control of how you look at things and therefore respond more efficiently to them. That's the whole idea of the interface response system and that's what's coming out in the book. It's a lot easier and more effective. So this idea

of claiming control of your day, it's a lot easier and more effective if you entertain the idea that this life experience may be as significant as a stone on the side of the road as you drive by. So that's another thing. It's like, in other words, if you can learn to not take yourself and the various things that you see happen happenings, if you can learn how to take them not too seriously, well, then perhaps you can start looking at this life as a game that you are simulating with your brain and senses. Think about that for a second. Your brain and your senses, which in my book I call your VR suit, is taking information. Now your brain and the inside has been pretty much programmed by other people anyway,

but you're taking an information, and that's what you're creating your reality based on your perception. You're going to see that eventually, if you start playing with this, that it's all a fantasy, and you can actually control that fantasy. So more on this in my book.

But what I wanted to share today, and this is a fun thing for you to do today, when I'm coming to you as a recovering bullshit artist and workaholic, both of those things. But what I wanted to share today is that It's something that's attached to this whole idea that validates the idea that this may be a game, but it also can empower you to sleep better at night as well as set your day up for success. If you're into that sort of thing, I'm into that sort of thing, the idea of setting myself up for success,

even if it's foolish, even if it's foolish. As long as at the end of the day, I like what I have accomplished and I like the way I look at things, that's fine. If I catch myself looking at things the wrong way, I like to catch myself, catch my drift, and then shift back into the foolish fantasy that everything is okay. And you'll notice that when you project, as I do, that you're foolishly projecting that everything is okay, the people that foolishly project that things are not okay will come after you. They'll come after you. I see some of my friends here. So I want to say hey to Wendy, Wendy Sheehan, and can you put that in the chat?

You got to tell me what you want me to put in the chat because I'm just going. And Didi and Rhoda. Good to see you guys. Great morning, everybody. Okay. So in today's games, we may take for granted a certain functionality that we're so accustomed to having. We take it for granted.

So we may take for granted the functionality that we can save our progress in a game, in a video game. And I think everybody here knows that. You can save your progress and then resume. at another time. How cool is that? Like you can say save, right? My kid does this, save and then come back like a week later and just resume where you were. So I find it interesting that humans, us, we also have the ability to do this. And that's what I wanted to share with you today, because it'll really help you. We experience this, this functionality at the end of a workday

or when we go to sleep. We get to save and resume. Meaning when I go at the end of my work day, can stop working and then resume the next day. At the end of the day, when I go to sleep, and who knows what sleep is really about? I mean, I just think that we just kind of astral project into another world. But either way, when we go to sleep, if you get good quality sleep, which is important, you wake up in the morning and you can resume your day. Right? We kind of like go unconscious, and then we get back to conscious, right? So the smart people feel, when I say smart, it's more wise. The wise people feel comfortable and confident that the save, their version of the save, was sufficient and they step away from the game

and reboot their batteries from work or from the day, free from the thought of that game state. And that's what it means to detach from work and detach from things like that. It's saved and it'll be there. There's a lot of journaling exercises that help you do this when you go to sleep at night. So then, like I used to be, and like I'm always trying to working at, Then there are those that don't feel confident about their saved state of the game and resume too quickly. They don't take the reboot. They go back and resume their saved state too quickly without the reboot and without giving the necessary time to the other important elements of their game experience.

There's another part outside of the day and outside of work. And that is like the things that matter most. You know, your health, family, creative hobbies. So what you can start to look at, even the exploration of new places and ideas, you can start to look at the fact that a workaholic is resuming their safe state. They're not exiting and then resuming at a later time. Or if you're like always stressed and you're trying to control uncontrollable things, that's because you don't believe that you can save that state.

Like if you're having a really crappy day, just push the save button, take a break from it, and then come back. Your crappy day will still be there tomorrow if you really, it's really important to you or vice versa, a great day. So it's an addiction and it was written into the program by that little kid in the sky that's sitting at the computer running the game, right? He wrote that. Let's just for the fun of it, call that kid God, right? I know that that might ruffle some feathers, but kind of the same thing. So we call this insecure state of not trusting your safe state, workaholism, right? And it's an addiction. It's an obsessive behavior. And I'm not calling it good or bad. bad, as long as you just recognize certain things support where you're going and certain things don't. Certain things leverage where you're going and certain things don't. For me, being a workaholic,

did not support where I wanted to go. By acknowledging this interesting observation and analogy, perhaps you can gain confidence that your save and your resume functionality is solid. It's solid. And allow yourself to spend more time with your family this year. And that is my Happy Father's Day message to all of you, things that make you go, love and appreciate you all. A lot of fun stuff coming out. I think I'm ready to launch the 15 days to discipline soon.

And I just want to say, I love and appreciate you all and just respect all of the words that you give me. You get me up in the morning. All right, everybody, have a wonderful day. And this has been another Rise Up with Dragon.