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One does not know the time or the hour
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by deadeyedick
...What do bibles have to do with anything we're talking about here?
Originally posted by LABTECH767
reply to post by Blue Shift
Would you feel so isolated as to feel like an alien on your own world or think maybe you have stepped across an invisible barrier between reality's to the point were you begin to spend a large amount of your thought process on trying to figure out what may have happened and you come up with the following hypothesis.
Originally posted by darkbake
I thought this was an interesting way to explain that it is not necessarily possible to predict something 100% correctly due to unforeseen changes, however minor, happening prior to the event.
I have another friend who was looking into lucid dreaming as a way to experience time travel and astral travel, which is coincidentally what I've been looking into recently.
Originally posted by Blue Shift
Originally posted by LABTECH767
reply to post by Blue Shift
Would you feel so isolated as to feel like an alien on your own world or think maybe you have stepped across an invisible barrier between reality's to the point were you begin to spend a large amount of your thought process on trying to figure out what may have happened and you come up with the following hypothesis.
Unless I experience a high degree of mental illness at some point, either as a result of natural or artificial means (like somebody bashes me in the head, or drugs), I generally understand that the reality I'm experiencing while I'm awake is nice and stable and "real" from one moment to the next. In fact, that's how we often determine if we're awake. Ordinary things morph and change before our eyes in ways they never do while we're awake. Overall, however, things can change subconsciously in such a way that you would never know the difference until it's brought to your attention. You can't constantly be monitoring everything you perceive about reality. So if somebody tells you some TV star died, and then you actively remember them dying years before, then it becomes more obvious to you.
I have what I think is a pretty good grasp of reality most of the time. I know the difference between being awake and dreaming. And it follows that I can recognize the difference between the real reality that I live in during my waking hours and an imaginary reality generated by stray impulses in my brain when I'm asleep. One has a much more consistent and solid quality. The others don't.
And again, if I existed in essentially an infinite number of alternate universes (my infinity as a subset of a greater infinity of all potential universes, with and without me), how come I'm only seeing through one set of eyeballs? Why am I not experiencing any of these other universes with the clarity and consistency of this one?
edit on 9-8-2013 by Blue Shift because: (no reason given)