They’ve gamified your existence, turning every breath into a metric, every action into a score. On this episode of The Observing I, we confront the uncomfortable reality of life as the ultimate rigged game. From the fleeting dopamine hit of a digital badge to the constant pressure of social media leaderboards, we dissect how the illusion of progress is designed to strip away your authentic self and turn you into a pliable commodity.

We'll explore the philosophical implications of living in a world where your potential is monetized and your very being is observed, analysed, and manipulated. This is about more than just apps; it’s about regaining your sovereignty. Discover how to reject their rules, cultivate true intrinsic motivation, and forge a path where your victories are real, unquantifiable, and solely your own. Break free from the score and remember what it means to simply be.

Much love, D

What if the ground beneath your feet remembered more than you do? What if the stories you inherit, the ones whispered across centuries, aren’t just echoes, but living forces shaping who you are?

In this episode of The Observing I, we journey into the brutal and beautiful world of memory - how it survives in land, in language, in blood. Through the lens of the Icelandic sagas and the raw tension between the outsider and the remembered, we explore the haunting question: are you in the story, or are you the story?

We’ll examine how memory becomes a weapon, a mirror, a map. How sagas are more than folklore, they’re survival strategies wrapped in narrative. How identity is not something you choose, but something handed to you in the form of ancestral pain, half-truths, and rituals you're still learning to name.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt like a stranger in their own life, a witness to histories they can’t fully claim but feel in their bones. A reflection on what it means to carry stories that aren't yours, and to live a life that is a saga, whether you realize it or not.

This isn’t nostalgia. This is war. This is memory with teeth. This is the story speaking through you.

Much love, David

You were told this world was real. That flesh was truth. That gravity meant something.

But what if none of it was supposed to happen?

This is the dream.

The broken one.

Welcome to Sophia’s Dream - the story of a divine feminine being who reached too far, fell too hard, and accidentally gave birth to a blind god who built this world like a prison with beautiful wallpaper. His name is Yaldabaoth. He thinks he’s God. He’s not. He’s just the architect of your forgetting.

This isn’t spirituality. It’s myth with teeth. It’s philosophy with blood under its fingernails. It’s consciousness trapped inside a loop, screaming to remember what it is.

You're not just in the dream. You are the dream.

And the dream is watching you back.

We talk recursion. Cosmic code. The observer and the observed. Why pain keeps repeating. Why you can’t stop thinking there’s something behind the curtain. Why waking up hurts like hell - and why you still have to do it.

If you’ve ever looked around and thought, “This can’t be all there is”, you’re already halfway out.

This episode won’t save you. It’ll make you remember you were never lost.

Much love, David