Pick Your Perception Filter

Trying your best to be calm was failing miserably, your nerves were high strung, and your mind was racing full of wild ideas. Gazing towards the window with your backpack on your lap to hide the tent you were pitching from the excitement racing through you from the sheer possibilities, fretting on what to do now as the bus slowly made its way to it’s next pickup.

This was probably the first time you were excited to just be going to school in your entire life.

Sitting beside your crush probably wasn’t helping either, how you could skip straight to home base with Amelia right here and now, and make it so no one on the bus would care that you were plowing her on the school bus seat.

Shifting you flinched at the chafing of your cock in the cloth confinement of your pants, and the weight of your backpack pressing down on it. Making your dick cry out for attention, to get your hand around it and start jerking it to all the wonderful ideas racing around in the gutter of your head.

You could do that.

But, if only you could decide how!

Oblivious?

Oh, there’s the thrill of everyone's inability to even notice your flouting of taboos, of breaking norms and to whatever you're doing to them. Perhaps add a twist where pre-established moments leading to sex remain normal so you don’t accidentally get busy and your date is utterly ignorant, even if you’d fooled around with her for a whole date until that moment.

Side-glancing at Ameila who was reviewing some notes of hers from class, you could imagine how much easier it would be to have the courage to ask her out when your jizz was dripping from her lips.

Normality?

It was a different thrill, maybe not perfectly normal as breathing, you wanted the awareness of your actions, for people to possess the ability to see, comment, joke and understand what you’re doing, and yet they’d see no wrong with it as normal. A boyfriend on a romantic date would find nothing out of the ordinary if right beside him you were facefucking his girlfriend as they held hands, or no one, not even Amelia would think twice about you getting it on with her or one of the hotter girls on the bus.

But, just that alone could be quickly boring, too close to oblivious. Yes, maybe tact on the ability to make new social norms, a lighter tool than the omnipotence of the notebook which you could use to facilitate larger changes.

What about something more involved? Where would you work your creative muscles?

What if you could explain anything away?

You’d get the chance to enjoy unfiltered initial reactions of others, but give yourself breathing space to ‘explain’ to them something they’d find completely reasonable. Then following the initial explanation you’d be able to keep doing it with everyone following or believing whatever zany logic you’d told them.

Feeling the heat under your collar, you could easily see yourself doing something to cause a stir, taking your pants off, groping Amelia or such, then by giving a utterly bewildering explanation everyone would operate under whatever logic you’d given when you did it in the future.

That’s when it struck you.

Why choose one? When you could have them all.

In an excited fervor you began crafting this masterstroke.

‘I have an electronic smartwatch-like device, that’s unbreakable and with an endless battery that only I can use. Fiddling, or interacting with it won’t be perceived by other people, and if ever separated from me, whoever finds it will seek to return it to me.

This device will have the ability to impose selected perception filters onto the universe.

As of now it has four unique settings.

Oblivious: When performing taboo actions, breaking norms or otherwise out of bounds of the socially acceptable. Everyone will become oblivious to my actions, unable to perceive them or associate any following effects back to me.

Normality: My actions, no matter what they are, are perceived as utterly normal by observers, recipients and any other parties. They can see actions for what they are, but even the most outrageous acts or transgressions are dulled to a level of unoffensive or something to make light of.

Exemptions, changes or imposing norms can be achieved by prefacing a statement with the word ‘Normal’.

Third setting is the explanation setting: Everyone apart from myself is now extremely gullible as they will completely believe, be convinced and accept anything I tell them, no matter how contrary, obviously false or fraudulent it may be.

When explained once, anyone else in the world will intuitively know my explanation without having any need for me or someone else to explain it to them. When I perform an inappropriate act, no matter what it is, I’ll always be given the opportunity on the spot to explain myself before any action is taken in regards to it.’

The final setting is: Revert.

A simple option to revert to reality and everyone’s perceptions back to their original baseline. An option is also given to preserve or to remove any alterations made when using any of the other settings.

The device also can auto-generate sub-options and modifications for any of these choices above accessible in a sub-menu after selecting a perception filter. There’s even the ability to generate whole new perception filters by just using the device.’

Finishing the thought, a weight settled on your right wrist, jerking it up into sight, you found exactly what you described, a smartwatch-like device with its screen divided into four squares labeled R, O, N, E. Of them the R square was highlighted indicating unaltered reality was currently imposed.

‘Cool’ you thought as the bus came to a stop to pick up some more students.

Looking to the front of the bus you recognized this was the stop several of the hottest girls in school got on. And you’d seen some of the families around here, as their parents and just the neighborhood seemed to be a cosmic coincidence of a concentration of good looking women in one neighborhood.

The world was your oyster, and now you could season it to taste.