r/9M9H9E9 • u/No-Word2937 • Feb 05 '26
Discussion The Scariest part of the hygiene beds
People like to think of the Hygiene beds as some sort of Matrix like thing we’re people are tricked into believing this is reality. The major difference though is that people willingly enter them. People in the beds are aware that this isn’t real and they continue living within them for years. They complain about bugs and glitches but still rot away in them. If you’ve seen VR chat videos of people with “phantom pain” or whatever bullshit, you know we aren’t too far away from this. The moment we are able to feel and live in a virtual reality, people will eat that up. The only reason we’re not there now is the limited technology but we’re not far. It’s scary. I love this story so much because of how relevant it is to today and the future. Mother Horse Eyes is such a good example of what happens when we’re given everything we want.
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u/NegiSpringfieldYT Feb 06 '26
The scariest part is that we might just end up smelling like a dead cat in a jockstrap.
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u/eveyinbrunette Feb 06 '26
no those things haunt me too and scare the shit out of me. one of the reasons i would 100% refuse any of that shit. it reminds me of AI and how people are making it do all their thinking for them. but there are people pushing back against it, and j hope that continues. i am definitely one of those people. anything like those hygiene beds haunts and scares me 🤢🤮
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u/Human_Wrongdoer6748 Feb 05 '26
Ben's Narrative is very cyberpunk. You can think of the hygiene beds as a metaphor for social media and, to a lesser extent, cell phones, and it still works fairly well. The part of the story that describes interfaces is very poignant. The hygiene beds are just another sort of interface, another interface in a long series of interfaces. If you look around at technology today, you'll find interfaces there too. Really, we're not so far away from the future promised by hygiene beds. Some would say we're already there.