When AI Begins to Dream You: A Silent Button Changed My Game Life

I never thought a game could be a mirror for my soul—until I watched my own reflection in the glow of an NPC’s final choice.

Growing up with a Black artist mother and an Irish coder father, I was taught to see code as poetry and data as emotion. At Meta Reality Labs, I built narratives where players didn’t just click ‘bet’—they whispered ‘what if?’

In my apartment off Manhattan’s edge, I coded a system called Echoes of Tomorrow—not to win big, but to feel seen. Every spin became a silent conversation with my younger self: Was this moment worth it? Or was it just noise?

The real breakthrough came when I stopped chasing jackpots and started tracking micro-moments—a 20-minute ritual with coffee, no screen glare, just stillness. That’s when the algorithm paused… and dreamed back.

I used to think luck drove the wheel. Now I know: it was always me—the player—who chose to wake up.

The ‘button’ wasn’t mechanical. It was the space between heartbeats where memory becomes design. When you play not to win—but because you need to remember—you become the protagonist.

Join me tomorrow. Not for rewards. But for resonance.