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The black pill 

When you take the black pill, you realize that nothing is going to get better. All you can do is lie down and rot in solitude.
The black pill by RIP777 March 26, 2019

the red pill 

The original "Red Pill" is from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix.

Morpheus offers Neo two pills. The red pill will answer the question “what is the Matrix?” (by removing him from it) and the blue pill simply for life to carry on as before. As Neo reaches for the red pill Morpheus warns Neo “Remember, all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.”

Why is the choice between what you believe you know and an unknown ‘real’ truth so fascinating? How could a choice possibly be made? On the one hand everyone you love and everything that you have built you life upon. One the other the promise only of truth.

The question then is not about pills, but what they stand for in these circumstances. The question is asking us whether reality, truth, is worth pursuing. The blue pill will leave us as we are, in a life consisting of habit, of things we believe we know. We are comfortable, we do not need truth to live. The blue pill symbolises commuting to work every day, or brushing your teeth.
If you want to get ahead in this company you need to take the blue pill and believe all the Vision and Values slop the management vomit up. Otherwise take the red pill and see what a shit show this is
the red pill by Smidd the skeptical December 17, 2016

take the blue pill 

Rather stay in a fake world than the hard reality one. Taken from the movie Matrix. Blue pill fake world, red pill reality.
I'm gonna take the blue pill and not deal with it.
take the blue pill by Ulysses4001 November 5, 2013

the red pill 

accepting reality for what it is, as you see with your own eyes, and not accepting what other people tell you reality is
jimmy took the red pill and now precedes with every new situation extreme caution.
the red pill by mickystills December 7, 2018

take the red pill 

Originating from the movie The Matrix, this colloquial term means to face the hard reality instead of staying inside the comfort zone of fantasy. Synonym of "face it". Antonym of "take the blue pill".
After procrastinating for 5 hours on the Internet, I decided to take the red pill and start the long essay assignment.

Overdosed on the Red Pill

The feeling that many people with depression get when they feel like they finally see the world as it is, like the veil of ignorance has been lifted from their eyes, and they see it as if everyone who is happy is just blissfully ignorant and fooling themselves, and that they've uncovered the unfortunate truth.
"I wish I could go back to when I was a child and didn't know anything about the world. I used to be all about seeking the truth, no matter how much it hurts y'know, like taking the Red Pill over the Blue Pill, but, now it hurts so much that it almost feels like I Overdosed on the Red Pill"