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Conference hydra::dejavu

Title:Psychic Phenomena
Notice:Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing
Moderator:JARETH::PAINTER
Created:Wed Jan 22 1986
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2143
Total number of notes:41773

1270.0. "A reality shift" by CRUISE::CFEUERSTEIN (Why is there air?) Mon Jun 04 1990 15:16

    I have had an experience on Friday night that I have to tell
    someone. First, let me say that I am within the society's 
    definition of normalacy. Although, a few of the people that
    know me might argue...
    
    Anyway, I have had a reality shift. I was laying on the couch
    watching the sports on the local news. I saw a picture of
    Larry Bird and Bob Lowvell (sp?) was saying Larry Bird has
    been traded to Portland for Clyde Drexler. OK, I said. Seems
    to be a reasonable trade. I'll check it out in the morning and
    went to bed. Well, everyone I talked to did NOT hear that. No
    newspaper reported it (I even bought other varieties to check).
    Needless to say, it did not happen in this reality. But it did
    happen in the reality in which I went to bed on Friday night.
    
    This raises a question or two. Basically, is the reality we go to
    sleep at night the SAME reality in which we wake? This has happened
    to me in the past, but with only smallo things. Things that didn't
    really matter, in which I was able to easily convince myself it
    was a matter of memory. But this last episode, I really paid attention
    to, it really mattered since I am a die-hard Celtics fan.
    
    There is no stress in my life that really matters. Just the day to day
    stuff. I am not going crazy. I consantly ask my self if I am.
    There is no other reasonable explanation. I went through a 
    reality shift.
    
    Craig
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1270.1USAT05::KASPERI'm dreaming the BIG dream...Mon Jun 04 1990 15:2718
Hi Craig,

   There are lots and lots of books on this subject from noted physicists
   to metaphisical types.  A recent novel by Richard Bach titled _One_
   discusses this in some detail.  Some QM folks talk about parallel
   universes and some philosophers (P.D. Ouspensky for one) dig into it
   a bunch.  Since you are a "die-hard" Celtics fan, perhaps, at each
   game, you can jump to the reality in which they are the winner :-)...

   > This raises a question or two. Basically, is the reality we go to
   > sleep at night the SAME reality in which we wake? 

   Actually, the reality we are in *now* isn't the same as the one we
   will be in in the next instant.  The world as we know it, ends every
   second.  Then again, all there is now - perhaps there are just a lot
   of alternate "nows"...

   Terry
1270.2Maybe a future event?AIADM::MALLORYI am what I amMon Jun 04 1990 15:426
    
    Maybe you have a gift that you are unaware of. Let's see if that trade
    actually happens in the future.
    
    Wes
1270.4CGVAX2::CONNELLTrepanation, I need it like a hole in the headMon Jun 04 1990 19:2113
    I have had this happen to me also. It's usually just little things.
    Something that I believed was true is no longer true or vice-versa.
    It's never anything along the lines of what the base noter has
    suggested. The feeling is similar to the feeling one gets experiencing
    dejavu (as opposed to DEJAVU :-) ). One just seems to remember
    something that isn't real.
    
    Of course, and this isn't to suggest that what the basenoter has said
    didn't happen, the person might have heard the announcement wrong and
    it might have been a rumored trade possibility. One never knows. It has
    been said that there is a hell of a great universe next door so maybe.
    
    Phil
1270.5Its called 'cross-over'.HKFINN::STANLEYWhat a long strange trip its been...Tue Jun 05 1990 14:2411
    
    Reality is interesting, isn't it Craig?  It isn't nearly as solid
    as some would have us believe.  In the old days, some magicians
    could shift back and forth between various dimensions of reality
    using the dream world as a door.  They didn't so much go to a different
    reality as they brought the alternate reality to them.
    
    Its quite possible that you have a natural talent for cross-overs.
    My son does too.  Why not see where a little practice leads? :-)
    
    Mary
1270.6Thank youCRUISE::CFEUERSTEINWhy is there air?Wed Jun 06 1990 15:139
    Hi Mary,
    
      I have no idea how to practice this. And I'm not sure that I would
      to practice it. I agree, reality is such a tenuous thing. A sad
      note, one of my closest friends died the other night from lung
      cancer. She was 33. In the other reality, she was healthy. Her
      husband indicated she checked into the hospital 3 weeks ago.
    
    And so it goes...
1270.7Like Bobby Orr being traded to Chicago...ROULET::RUDMANAlways the Black Knight.Fri Jun 08 1990 01:078
    On the other hand, since you were laying (alone?!?) on the couch,
    you may have dozed off, dreamed a bit & awoke, all w/o knowing it.
    
    Ever have your spouse say "You're snoring; wake up and go to bed."
    and you not only deny you were asleep, *you don't even snore*!
    (Maybe they're making it all up just to harrass you...)
    
    						Don