i'd leave the offer alone and pass it along to someone else, that's not particularly interesting for me... but maybe i'd consider it if i were older and understood what i'd feel about it, idk
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this offer has four primary premises:⠀
+ you are a telepathic parasite. you can see what other people see, feel what other people feel, think what other people think, and you will remember their memories. you know everything they know. these people will not know you're there, and there is no apparent form of medical screening that would ever be able to detect you. however, you cannot influence their mind or body, and you can't influence their thoughts/feelings or their choices. you are nothing more than a spectator and experiential archivist.
+ you may occupy one mind/body at a time from five other people, like a metaphorical collection of extra "save-files" and "load-files" (in addition to your own original body/mind), and you may then internalize the experiences that the hosts collected/remembered through the continuity of those bodies and their histories. you can absorb that information into your own original body without necessarily overwriting your own current original personality, although maintaining multiple perspectives at once will come with a catch that will be explained later. you can only mix-and-match those imported personalities/memories to emulate something about how someone behaves/thinks/feels while in your original body/mind, and you can only manipulate/emulate those mixed-and-matched characteristics through conscious effort. any personalities/memories you've adopted in those five "save-files" will register as separate conflicting "intuitions/instincts" until you're done.
+ to observe someone, simply daydream about them while attempting to imagine who they've been, and keep searching until you grow a compulsive sequence of intuitions. pursue these intuitions vigorously until you can vividly see a frozen image of what that person's point of view looks like-- then relax, hold onto that memory, open your eyes, and blink. you now see/feel everything exactly as they do except they're accompanied with a sensation akin to a vague impression of a lucid dream-- but while you exist as this person, you will also intuitively feel part of yourself "outside" the host body you're observing... so if you want to save/exit this point of view to return to "yourself", repeat the daydream procedure and imagine who you've originally been.
+ however, your new experiences will naturally dilute and scramble your personality from the original body as a result of conflicting instincts/impressions/perspectives/values from other people. you know everything other people know except you now doubt what you originally knew before you took the offer. you think new thoughts and feel new feelings about your original experiences, so those memories now feel vaguely foreign, and while you can intuit what they've meant to you, you don't really instinctually respond to them the way you normally did-- if you had to make a conscious and deliberate effort to emulate other people before you took this offer (an offer made to relieve yourself of that effort and experience other perspectives with absolute clarity and accuracy), you now have to deliberately make an effort to emulate your original self in order to retain that original personality. ultimately, you can condition yourself to mitigate it and hold true to your original personality, but it will require some discipline.