How to Glitch Out of Your Simulation

You're Running on Someone Else's Code. Here's How to Rewrite It.

There is something profoundly unsettling happening beneath the surface of modern existence, something that most people sense but cannot articulate, something that manifests as a persistent low-grade anxiety, an inexplicable exhaustion that no amount of sleep seems to remedy, and a gnawing suspicion that the life they are living is somehow not the life they were meant to live.

Now consider what happens when someone experiencing this persistent disquiet—this sense that something fundamental is misaligned between their inner reality and the life they are expected to lead—seeks help through conventional channels. Imagine walking into a psychiatrist’s office and attempting to articulate what you actually feel: that the structure of modern existence seems designed to extract rather than nourish, that the goals you were handed feel hollow upon achievement, that despite doing everything ostensibly right you cannot shake the sensation of participating in an elaborate performance whose script you never agreed to. The clinician listens, nods, perhaps scribbles on a notepad. Within the diagnostic framework they have been trained to apply, your experience must be categorised, labelled, fitted into a taxonomy of dysfunction. Generalised anxiety, perhaps. Adjustment disorder. Depressive features with existential preoccupation. The prescription pad emerges. A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor to smooth the jagged edges, perhaps a benzodiazepine for the acute moments when the absurdity becomes too vivid to ignore. The goal, stated or unstated, is restoration of function—which is to say, restoration of your capacity to participate in the very systems that generated the distress in the first place.

You take the medication. The feelings dull. The sharp clarity that something is deeply wrong becomes a vague background hum you can learn to ignore. You return to work, resume consumption, re-engage with the scrolling feeds and scheduled obligations. By every clinical metric, you have improved. By the definition of the simulation itself, you are cured—because you are once again a productive unit, a reliable node in the network of extraction, no longer asking inconvenient questions or feeling unauthorized feelings. The psychiatric intervention has succeeded not in addressing what was actually wrong but in suppressing your accurate perception that something was wrong. The smoke alarm was ringing; rather than investigating the fire, we removed the batteries. You have been rehabilitated into a burning building and given a certificate of mental health for no longer noticing the flames.

Well, luckily, I am not a psychologist, and that feeling is nothing to be medicated away or a character flaw to be overcome through positive thinking. It is, in fact, an accurate perception of reality—a recognition, however dim, that the world as we experience it operates according to principles and mechanisms that remain deliberately obscured from the vast majority of human beings.

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What I am about to share with you will challenge many of your assumptions about how reality functions, why your life has unfolded the way it has, and most importantly, what you can actually do to change it. This is not comfortable territory. It is meant to disturb you, to shake loose the complacency that keeps most people trapped in circumstances they never consciously chose. But it is also meant to empower you, because within the very mechanisms that have been used to limit your potential lies the key to transcending those limitations entirely.

Consider for a moment the structure of the reality you inhabit. Not the surface-level details of your daily routine, but the deeper architecture that shapes what is possible for you and what remains perpetually out of reach. This reality functions like a simulation—not in the science fiction sense of computer-generated imagery (because getting me started on talking about that would have us sit here for weeks), but as a vast system of consciousness governed by specific rules and principles that determine the range of experiences available to any individual at any given time. Think of it as an immense field of possibility divided into countless sectors, each characterized by a distinct energetic frequency. Your current life circumstances—your income level, your relationships, your health, your sense of fulfillment or lack thereof—these are not random occurrences or the simple products of good or bad decisions. They are the direct manifestation of the particular sector of this simulation that you currently occupy, and you occupy that sector because of the frequency you are emitting.

This concept requires some unpacking because it runs counter to virtually everything we have been taught about how success and failure, happiness and misery, are generated in human life. The conventional narrative tells us that outcomes are determined by effort, talent, education, connections, and a fair measure of luck. Work hard enough, make the right choices, and prosperity follows. Fall short in these areas, and you will struggle. This narrative is not entirely false—effort and choices certainly matter—but it obscures the more fundamental mechanism at work.

Your energetic frequency, which is the sum total of your dominant thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and sense of identity, functions as a kind of internal GPS that locks you into a specific location within the broader simulation of reality. You are not simply trying to achieve certain outcomes while operating from a neutral starting position. You are broadcasting a signal that determines which slice of reality you can access in the first place. This is why two people can take identical external actions and produce wildly different results. It is not that the universe is arbitrary or unfair. It is that they are operating from different frequency coordinates, and those coordinates determine what is possible.

The people who hold positions of genuine power in this world—not the celebrity figureheads or the politicians who serve as public faces, but those who actually shape the conditions under which the rest of us live—they understand these rules. They have always understood them. The principles governing the relationship between consciousness and physical reality are not new discoveries. They can be found in the hermetic traditions dating back thousands of years, in the teachings preserved by various secret societies, in the ancient wisdom texts that predate our modern civilizations by millennia.

Concepts like the principle of mentalism, which holds that all of reality is fundamentally mental in nature; the principle of correspondence, which teaches that patterns repeat across all scales of existence; the principle of cause and effect, which governs the relationship between internal states and external manifestations—these are not mystical abstractions or philosophical curiosities. They are operating instructions for navigating reality, and those who understand them wield tremendous power over those who do not.

The ninety-nine percent of humanity who struggle, who feel stuck, who sense that something is fundamentally wrong but cannot identify what it is—they remain trapped precisely because they do not understand the rules by which the simulation operates. They are like players in a game who have never been shown the rulebook, competing against opponents who have memorized every page.

Now, within the overarching simulation of reality, there exist countless sub-simulations—systems and structures that have been erected within the broader field to organize human activity and, more importantly, to channel human energy in specific directions. The economy is such a system. The government is another. The educational system, the healthcare system, the media complex, the entertainment industry—each of these represents a simulation within the simulation, a structured environment with its own rules that further constrain what is possible for the individuals operating within them.

And here is where things become particularly uncomfortable: these systems are not neutral. They were not designed primarily to serve your wellbeing or to help you actualize your potential. They were designed to extract your creative energy—your attention, your labor, your emotional investment—and redirect it toward ends that benefit the systems themselves and those who control them. You are meant to be a battery, not a creator. You are meant to power the machinery, not to build your own.

Consider the predicament of someone earning two thousand dollars per month working in an office job they do not love, living in a suburban environment that feels more like an obligation than a choice. This person occupies a particular sector of the simulation. Their frequency—shaped by their beliefs about what is possible for them, their emotional patterns of anxiety and resignation, their identity as someone who works for a paycheck rather than creates from passion—keeps them anchored precisely where they are. They might dream of something radically different. Perhaps they want to earn ten or twenty times that amount. Perhaps they want to work remotely, to travel, to launch a creative project, to build something of their own. These desires represent other sectors of the simulation, sectors that actually exist and are occupied by other human beings right now. But here is the critical point: to access those sectors, to shift from the reality of the two-thousand-dollar cubicle to the reality of the two-hundred-thousand-dollar creative enterprise, requires far more than a change in strategy or an increase in effort. It requires a fundamental shift in frequency, a change so profound in internal state that the external coordinates of one’s life must rearrange themselves to match.

This is what it means to become a glitch in the simulation. Not to break the rules—the rules cannot truly be broken—but to use those same rules so deliberately and so effectively that you achieve outcomes that appear impossible from within the normal parameters of the system.

The typical person never exits the simulation they were born into. They may shuffle around within it, achieving minor variations on the same essential theme, but they never actually break through to a fundamentally different mode of existence. They start their lives earning modest wages and end their lives earning somewhat less modest wages, having followed the prescribed path from education to career to retirement with reasonable diligence but without ever questioning whether the path itself was designed to lead them somewhere they actually wanted to go. They remain within the same energetic range their entire lives, and so their external reality remains correspondingly limited.

The glitch is different. The glitch has somehow managed to shift their internal frequency so dramatically that they have exited one simulation entirely and entered another. They have moved from the sector of the struggling employee to the sector of the thriving entrepreneur, or from the sector of chronic illness to vibrant health, or from the sector of isolation and depression to deep connection and joy. These transitions look like miracles to outside observers because they cannot be explained by conventional cause-and-effect reasoning. They can only be understood in terms of frequency and the simulation’s response to that frequency.

The reason these transitions are so rare is not that they are inherently difficult or that some people are simply chosen for success while others are not. The reason is that we are systematically prevented from achieving them by the very systems we inhabit. From the moment you entered this reality as a newborn, you began receiving inputs designed to shape your frequency in specific ways.

The programming started immediately, delivered through your parents who were themselves products of the same programming, through the educational institutions that trained you to sit still, obey authority, seek external validation, and define success according to standardized metrics, through the media environment that bombarded you with messages about what you should fear, what you should want, what you should believe about yourself and others. By the time you were old enough to form conscious opinions, the foundational code had already been installed. Your fears, your insecurities, your sense of what is possible and what is not—these did not arise organically from your authentic nature. They were put there, layer by layer, year by year, by a system that benefits from your limitation.

Think about what you actually are at the most fundamental level. Before the programming, before the conditioning, before the accumulated weight of other people’s expectations and society’s definitions of normalcy—you are a point of conscious awareness with access to creative life force energy of almost unimaginable magnitude. Scientists have calculated that the energy contained in a single human body, if fully released, could power a modern city for a week. You are a walking fusion reactor, an engine of creation capable of generating and directing enormous amounts of power. But you have been taught to forget this. The programming has convinced you that you are small, limited, dependent on external systems for your survival and external validation for your worth. You have been trained to leak your energy constantly—into worry about the future, regret about the past, anxiety about what others think of you, addiction to digital stimulation, consumption of content designed to trigger your fear responses—so that you never accumulate enough charge to actually shift your frequency and change your circumstances.

Social media represents perhaps the most elegant energy extraction mechanism ever devised. Your attention—which is simply your conscious awareness directed at something specific—is the most valuable resource on the planet. Not oil, not gold, not real estate, but human attention. Social media companies generate billions upon billions in revenue not by producing anything of tangible value but by capturing your attention and selling access to it to advertisers.

But the transaction goes deeper than mere advertising. When you place your attention on something, you are doing far more than simply observing it. You are feeding it your life force energy. You are allowing it access to your subconscious mind. You are, in a very real sense, becoming it. The hours you spend scrolling through feeds of outrage and comparison and manufactured controversy are not neutral time expenditures. They are investments of your creative power into systems designed to keep you distracted, anxious, and fundamentally disempowered. Every minute you spend in that state is a minute you are not spending directing your energy toward the reality you actually want to create.

The same principle applies to traditional media, to television programming—a term whose accuracy should give us pause—to news cycles designed to keep populations in perpetual states of fear and division, to entertainment that celebrates dysfunction and normalizes behaviors that undermine human flourishing. None of this is accidental. The purpose is not primarily to inform or entertain, though those functions serve as useful cover stories. The purpose is to condition. To install specific beliefs, desires, and emotional patterns into the population so that their frequencies remain locked within manageable ranges.

A population that knew its power, that needed nothing from external sources to feel complete, that was confident and secure and free from manufactured shame and fear—such a population would be impossible to control. They would not buy products to fill emotional voids that advertising created in the first place. They would not comply with demands that served others’ interests rather than their own. They would not feed their creative energy into systems that give nothing meaningful back. And so, considerable resources are invested in ensuring that such a population never emerges.

The consciousness of this reality, the average frequency at which the collective human population vibrates, is locked in what might be understood as the lower energy centers. If you are familiar with the chakra system, you will recognize these as the root center associated with survival fear, the sacral center associated with shame and dissatisfaction, and the solar plexus associated with ego and the need for external validation.

Look at the dominant themes in news media, in political discourse, in advertising, in social media, and you will see these three frequencies playing out endlessly. Fear of scarcity, fear of danger, fear of the other. Shame about bodies, shame about desires, shame about being different. The constant message that you are not enough as you are, that you must achieve, acquire, and accumulate to have value, that your worth must be continuously earned through performance and external recognition. These frequencies permeate every institution, every system, every structure of modern life. They are the water we swim in, so ubiquitous that we rarely notice them and even more rarely question whether they represent reality or simply a particularly effective form of mass programming.

The economy itself is built on artificial scarcity. Money is created as debt, ensuring that there can never be enough of it to go around, that competition for this limited resource remains constant and fierce. Inflation steadily erodes the value of whatever you manage to accumulate, creating a perpetual treadmill where you must run faster and faster simply to maintain your current position.

The messaging around money—that there is not enough, that you must hustle and sacrifice to get your share, that security is always one bad break away from disaster—this messaging is not descriptive of some natural condition. It is prescriptive. It installs the scarcity program in your subconscious so that you vibrate at the frequency of lack, which then manifests as actual lack in your material circumstances, which then reinforces the belief, which maintains the frequency. This is a closed loop, and it is designed to be inescapable for those who do not understand how it operates.

Fear, shame, and the need for validation—these are the trinity of control, the three emotional frequencies that keep human beings operating in what can only be called a slave state of consciousness. I use that term deliberately, knowing it will provoke discomfort.

A slave is someone who is not autonomous, who does not make decisions truly in their own interest but rather serves the interests of systems and forces they may not even recognize as separate from themselves. You do not need chains to be a slave. You simply need to be so thoroughly programmed that your own choices, which feel like free will, consistently serve ends that were not yours to begin with. When you are afraid to take risks because of scarcity conditioning you did not choose, when you censor yourself because of shame that was installed through repeated social punishment, when you perform and achieve and accumulate not from genuine desire but from a desperate need to feel worthy in the eyes of others—you are not free. You are running code that someone else wrote, and you are mistaking that code for yourself.

The path out of this condition requires you to take control of the very mechanisms that have been used to control you. If frequency determines your location in the simulation, and if your frequency is composed of your attention, your emotional state, and your identity and beliefs, then mastering these three elements is the key to becoming a glitch.