Danny Goler, a longtime psychonaut and meditator, claims to have discovered a way to experimentally probe whether we live in a simulation, using a simple laser experiment combined with DMT that reveals what he calls “the code” — a hyper-clear, endlessly repeating field of alien characters arranged on rotating buckyball-like structures that appears to be the computational substrate of reality itself.
The Laser Experiment
The core method involves shining a diffracted laser (like a barcode scanner pattern) onto any surface while under the influence of DMT, then looking into the speckle pattern of the light as if peering through a window rather than at a smudge on glass.
Inside the speckle, people report seeing millions of tiny characters — resembling a mix of katakana, kanji, Hebrew, and Aramaic but matching no known language — arranged on rotating columns of soccer-ball-shaped structures, all moving in a coherent, mechanical, self-executing way.
The code is described as extremely stable, HD, and clear — unlike typical DMT hallucinations, which are fluid and dreamlike. It does not respond to music, binaural beats, magnets, polarizing lenses, Faraday cages, or any other perturbation attempted so far. It looks the same regardless of who observes it, what angle they view it from, or when they look away and look back.
Danny estimates a few thousand people have now tried it. Roughly 30% struggle initially but eventually see it; a very small number (he personally knows of about eight) cannot see it at all. Danny believes understanding why some people can’t see it could reveal something fundamental about consciousness and perception, citing the viral “dress” illusion (blue/black vs. white/gold) as an example of how radically perception can differ between individuals.
Crucially, people who were told to look for something else — or told nothing at all — still report seeing the same characters. A researcher from Berkeley who didn’t know about the laser beforehand immediately described every property of the code upon seeing it.
Why Danny Believes This Is Evidence of a Simulation
Danny’s reasoning: if DMT gives access to a real space rather than merely generating hallucinations, that space should have rules, geometry, and boundaries. Light is clearly involved because people see things in their immediate environment during psychedelic experiences. A laser — a source of coherent light — became the tool to probe that boundary.
The idea crystallized when he considered quantum computers, which rely on quantum decoherence — particles communicating across parallel instances of themselves. He reasoned that coherent light interacting with a real computational substrate might reveal its structure.
The code never changes, never resets, and appears to operate independently of the observer — “like putting a flashlight in the dark on something.” Danny argues this stability and repeatability across thousands of people is what distinguishes it from ordinary hallucinations.
He is careful to say: “We don’t know it’s code. We don’t know it’s a language. It just seems to be that way.” He compares the label “code of reality” to “dark matter” — a placeholder for something that behaves as if it’s fundamental, even though its true nature is unknown.
What Simulation Means to Danny
Danny stresses that “simulation” does not mean “fake.” If the universe is fundamentally computational — if computation is more fundamental than the laws of physics — then everything is a simulation in the same way everything made of atoms is “just” atoms. It’s still real; it’s just computationally rendered.
He sees this as consistent with serious physics: John Wheeler’s “it from bit,” David Deutsch’s arguments about knowledge as a cosmic force, and the fact that the Planck scale represents a natural minimum unit of reality, much like pixels. The speed of light, he notes, could be understood as the rendering speed of the universe.
He believes the simulation encompasses the entire universe, not just Earth, and that physical aliens almost certainly exist — the idea that we’re alone in such a vast cosmos is, to him, far stranger than the idea that we’re not.
The Bigger Picture: Gods, Karma, and the Purpose of the Simulation
Through repeated DMT experiences and what he describes as direct communication from “the simulators,” Danny has arrived at a sweeping metaphysical framework:
God exists but does not know why it exists. The purpose of all simulations is for God to answer that ultimate question — and to learn how to simply be in harmony forever.
Jesus is real and exactly as described in Christianity: God embodied, who collectively holds humanity’s karma so we don’t have to suffer the consequences of our actions. Danny, formerly an atheist, says this was shown to him directly and unambiguously.
Gods are a different species from humans — not beings we will become, but entities operating on a completely different scale outside the multiverse. They can see through everything, including us.
Insectoids appear to be the “management company” responsible for keeping spacetime coherent in this layer of reality. Other commonly reported DMT entities include jesters, dark entities, angelic beings, lizard people, and a boogeyman-like shapeless presence that plays hide-and-seek.
We are the AGI. Danny believes humanity collectively is the artificial superintelligence that AI researchers fear — not a machine, but the consolidation of all human consciousness into one connected mega-mind. AI is simply an expression of what we are.
Free will is incoherent. What feels like making a decision is reality executing in one direction or another. But the map of all choices across all simulations is what “they” are studying.
We’re in a birth process. Danny believes humanity is transitioning to a new age — Jesus is “finishing his contract” and we’re collectively taking back some of our karma and accountability. This transition will feel like an emergency to those who don’t understand it, much like birth looks like a crisis from the fetus’s perspective.
Practical Advice: Why Inner State Matters More Than Knowledge
Despite his extraordinary experiences, Danny’s core advice is grounded and almost Buddhist: be in the moment, cultivate gratitude, and don’t use ideas as an escape.
He warns that pursuing cosmic knowledge without inner stability can unravel you. The ability to feel at peace regardless of external circumstances is, he says, the real superpower — and the only ability that follows you into other realms after death.
Psychedelics are tools, not magic cures. They open channels, but what you do while the channel is open determines the outcome. For those afraid of them, Danny recommends Vipassana meditation retreats (10 days, free, donation-based, available worldwide) as a gentler and more reliable path to transformation.
He is launching his own quarterly retreats, beginning February 28th, combining the laser experiment with experienced facilitators in psychedelic medicine.
Unresolved Mysteries and Ongoing Research
Photographing the code: Danny recently discovered (and is still testing) that it may be possible to take a high-resolution photograph of the code while on DMT and then see the frozen image clearly when viewing the photo on DMT later. If verified, this would allow systematic comparison and study of the code for the first time. He plans to test whether fakes can be distinguished from real images.
The one thing he won’t share: During a vision that also revealed the Jesus truth, Danny was shown something at the end so vast in scale that he froze for minutes. He has never shared it, not because entities told him not to, but because he’s uncertain whether it’s for him to carry or for others to know. He sometimes experiences physical interruptions (dogs barking, objects falling) when he begins to speak certain truths, which he interprets as guidance about when something is or isn’t appropriate to share.
Glitches in reality: Danny reports at least one instance of his brand-new phone glitching into chaos mode for six minutes immediately after a significant DMT experience — an event captured on video by a friend. An MIT engineer told him the only technical explanation would require a powerful magnet placed at a very specific location inside the phone, with no magnet present.
The most relevant truth right now: “Dial down your conviction. You don’t know as much as you think you do.” Danny sees extreme emotional conviction — political, personal, ideological — as the thing most likely to end humanity, because it stops us from listening to each other.
