I love this kind of video!
These stories are so freaky and cool. I love the exquisite shiver of alienation and distortion they bring.
Plus, any one of these might be true Fortean phenomena.
Doot dooooo dadu doo.
The most obvious explanation for these things, at least to a brain nerd like me, is that they are the result of some transitory brain event, like a cascade failure of a region or a tiny tiny seizure in your time-processing center. The sort of thing that science doesn’t know about because it happens too fast and is far too rare to be studied.
I mean, how do you study something that happens once or twice in a lifetime to on person in a million when said people show no other signs of mental illness?
The answer is that unless you live in a science fiction dystopia where everyone wears a portable fMRI unit all the time, you don’t.
That is the most obvious explanation. It is also hopelessly boring.
It’s far more fun to speculate that these experiences represent something that genuinely happened to these people in objective reality and try to figure out how.
Could there be things that we don’t know about space/time that cause it to develop flaws and wrinkles that the occasional human falls into?
Could there be holes in space/time that protrude into a dimension we cannot perceive?
Could there be aliens running weird experiments on our minds and bodies in a bid to finally get tenure?
Could we be living in a massive simulation (like in the MatrIx) and these bizarre phenomena are merely software errors?
If so, is there going to be a patch? What version are we running? Is there DLC?
I have experienced a lot of minor glitches in the Matrix in my life. Loads of them, in fact,. My personal reality has always been a tad soft around the edges.
Perhaps that’s why I developed into such a hardcore rationalist. I wanted to conquer these problems with the power of my mighty mighty mind.
Through strict application of logic and reason, I could force my personal reality to make sense and behave.
Explains a lot, dunnit?
The thing is, I have never had ones as clear as the folks in the video had. So I have always just a case of my unusual brain doing unusual things.
It’s always been things like becoming extremely disoriented seemingly out of nowhere, or feeling like a room grew an extra door when I wasn’t looking, or all the many many MANY times in my life I completely missed something obvious and important until someone told me about it and then it was if that thing suddenly appeared.
I’ve always been absentminded, and that suggests something in my mind doesn’t work quite right and never has.
And the reality of the absentminded is always going to be wobbly because of the way things move in and out of our mind according to some inner set of rules to which we are not privy but that we know do not have maintaining a stable sense of reality as their highest priority set.
Add in my recent thoughts about whether my extreme open-mindedness is the cause of my feeling so dark and alone and cold, and my sky high IQ, and it all adds up to my living in a subjective world substantially different from that of most people.
And I choose to view that as a good thing.
Because it’s not like there’s anything I can do about it.
More after the break.
Being such an alien does come with some superpowers.
The high IQ is one of them, although whether that is why I am such an alien in the first place is debatable.
And while I rarely appreciate it consciously, there’s this thing called “school” which was never the problem for it that it was for others, and that’s cool and all.
Having an extremely tough and free mind is another. For good and for ill, I never had that controversal software called “religion” installed in my little head.
That meant that if i wanted answers, I had to figure them out myself, which i was happy to do. That’s what made me such a deep thinker,
And that, plus the outsider’s perspective on things, gave me deep insights into the way of the world and how things work that goes far beyond what most people understand.
Seems strange, when you think of it, that someone who is such an outsider as myself understands the world so much better than people who are part of it.
It’s all a matter of perspective, I suppose.
It might be lonely out here in the dark and the cold but the view is amazing.
I have my creative gifts too. I am a very talented writer and very funny. i can write stories of enormous scope and impact, and I can write soft and harmless little personal daydreams. I can write things full of sunshine and happiness and I can write things so sad it makes people cry like a waterfall.
This already seems like an embarrassment of riches. All this in one person?
But wait, there’s more. I also have a lot of presence, charisma, and charm. I can mesmerize people with my dream powers, and in theory I could use that to lead a charmed life if I wanted.
Maybe I already do and just don’t know it.
Oh, and I am also sweet-natured and kind and compassionate and very, very sensitive.
All in all, I am pretty fucking amazing.
So why does that fill me with fear instead of pride? What does even talking about my gifts give me a sense of rising panic?
Is it because it makes me feel like doing things that are outside my tiny comfort zone?
Is that the root fear behind all the things I theoretically could do, but can’t? Everything that might lead to actual action is pre-rejected?
If so, it seems like I have one hell of a paradox to sort out.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.