Marrakech – It’s 9 a.m., and someone on Twitter tweets, “Time doesn’t feel real anymore.”
By 10 a.m., five other people have said the exact same thing. No retweets, no copying. Just… same.
The weird part? You were thinking that too. Not out loud. Not typed. Just felt.
Coincidence? Or are we living in the age of collective consciousness, sponsored by X and TikTok Inc.?
Let’s be honest — Twitter doesn’t just show us what people are thinking.
It amplifies what we’re all lowkey feeling but too scared, tired, or emotionally burnt out to say first.
Someone makes a joke about spiraling over an ex who never replied to their meme, and suddenly, it’s not just their story — it’s ours.
And TikTok? That’s where things get metaphysical. It’s less of a feed, more of a psychic mirror.
You scroll past a video about healing your inner child, even though you just journaled about it. Then you get served three more.
And suddenly, you’re crying to an audio clip from 2004 because someone else said what you were afraid to admit: you’re still trying to be loved the way you never were.
It’s not prediction. It’s participation.
Both platforms are designed to take in what we react to and give it back to us, faster and louder.
Likes, retweets, comments, and watch time aren’t just vanity metrics — they’re the heartbeat of the hive mind.
The moment something hits, it ripples across the digital ether, pulling everyone into the same emotional frequency.
We’re not just tweeting anymore. We’re syncing. We’re not just watching videos — we’re co-dreaming in short-form vertical reality.
Call it what you want: digital synchronicity, algorithmic sorcery, or just plain internet weirdness.
But one thing’s for sure — when thousands of strangers around the world are crying to the same TikTok at 2 a.m. or spiraling over the same tweet in real-time, it feels a lot less like scrolling and a lot more like sharing one big, collective mind.
So maybe collective consciousness isn’t some abstract philosophy from a dusty textbook.
Maybe it’s just you, me, and 10 million others feeling the exact same thing — at the exact same time — on the exact same app.
And maybe, just maybe, that’s what connection looks like in 2025.
