• M137@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I had a few years where every time I was about to fall asleep I had that very immediate feeling of falling that wakes you up but it was 100 times stronger than I’d ever felt before. It went from “oh, I’m nice and comfortable and just drifting off” to “HOLY FUCK I JUST ALMOST FUCKING DIED” in less than a second, it was absolutely horrifying and took a deep mental toll during and for a good while after it stopped. I still think about it in the context of this post, just the idea of “what if all those times were some sort of universe switching?” (To be clear, not in a serious way, it’s just a fun philosophical thing).

  • distal@lemmy.ml
    1·
    8 hours ago

    I never bought into quantum immortality. Isn’t it obvious to everyone that this is just circular reasoning?

    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Any time I see the word quantum I am immediately skeptical. In this case a large part of the skepticism comes from the apparent assumption that quantum weirdness relies on or is in any way impacted by concious observation, when it definitely doesn’t.

  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 hours ago

    I once bit of a piece of sausage, quickly noticed it was too hot to chew, and decided in my infinite wisdom that the best way to handle this situation was to swallow the unchewed piece. It was too big to go down on its own, but whatever self preservation reflex kicked in also took forever to make it go back up, so I had enough time to decide I didn’t want to make a scene at the dinner table, so I had to force it down by swallowing more and more spit to make my esophagus move the right way again. Pretty sure alternative reality me chocked on that.

    Almost impossible to make a series of worse decisions in my lifetime.

  • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
    17·
    18 hours ago

    The thing about quantum immortality is that as you age and you start running out of timelines, the circumstances for you to still be alive get weirder and weirder.

    Imagine you are 90 and are about to die in all other timelines and the only way you survive is for aliens to show up with a cure for death.

  • rounding_error@lemmy.today
    9·
    1 day ago

    My dumbass was a bitch at cycling and nearly tried eating a headlong collision to make a crowded left turn. I had dreams about what my dead body would look like. This is seriously no joke

  • curiousaur@reddthat.com
    29·
    1 day ago

    This is too real, I absolutely ate it once in a hotel shower all alone. I was stunned and had the wind knocked out of me while getting waterboarded by the shower. I don’t think I ever felt so helpless and actually started thinking this is how it ends.

      • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        I’ve been more careful in the shower lately, especially since ours is all stone tile. It’s got good traction, but I keep wondering what happens when people fall in showers–whether it’s usually a traction thing, or whether it’s significantly an orientation thing (due to temperature change, scalp massaging , head angle, etc. affecting blood pressure and equilibrium…).

        Every time I saw a roadway accident in bad weather, I thought of it like something that wasn’t going to happen to me, until I had my own moment and realized my traction on fresh rainfall wasn’t what I thought it was.

        Showers seem like the next “oh, that can happen to me” thing.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
          2·
          23 hours ago

          Have eaten absolute shit in the shower. I was young, in shape, just had a moment of complacency and slipped. Other than some bruising and scaring the shit out of me, I was fine thankfully.

          My dad felt horrible and immediately bought sticky grip pads for the tub lol.

          It can definitely happen to anyone, anytime. Be careful out there, eh

  • Cypress@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been leaving behind a few more dead timelines than usual lately. deja-vu-like flashes of mistakes I’m concurrently avoiding AND making at once. tripping down stairs that i actually made it safely to the bottom of. catastrophic car accidents that everyone actually ends up driving away from unscathed. I see it flash before my eyes and divert my course… I try to tell myself it’s just experiential pattern recognition providing examples of what could go wrong, why to be cautious and take care. But… Yeah, this hits freaky

    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 day ago

      Having literally just now finished re-reading If This Book Exists You’re In The Wrong Universe, I’m compelled to ask if you’ve come into contact with any thick black goo that seemingly moved on its own?

    • TheColonel@reddthat.com
      5·
      1 day ago

      I’ve also had these.

      Not always mistakes.

      The one I had at the farmers market when I saw a flash and the entire thing obliterated by a nuke ala T2 was the worst.

      So bad my wife noticed my expression change.

      Had fun with that in therapy.

    • anugeshtu@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      I also got some Mickey 17 vibes. Nothing over the feeling of your bones getting crushed between some heavy machinery while nothing actually happened. But yeah, it’s just “dreams”, alright? 😅

  • laranis@lemmy.zip
    29·
    2 days ago

    Crawling around a claustrophobic attic in a heatwave recently and I had a panicked moment where I decided I had better get out before hyperthermia made it so I physically couldn’t.

    Pretty sure there is a parallel universe where firefighters are cutting holes in the ceiling to extract my rotting corpse from behind an aging air handler.

    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
      73·
      2 days ago

      The universe seems to be as far as we know now physically infinite and homogeneous. That means all possible arrangements of matter exits. In any direction you can point there would be an atom for atom copy of the earth and it’s entire history including a copy ofe writing this comment as well as all others permutations. There’s no need for jumping to new universes at all depending on the nature of consciousness.

      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
        231·
        2 days ago

        The universe seems to be as far as we know now physically infinite and homogeneous. That means all possible arrangements of matter exits.

        There’s a couple assumptions being made here that allow for this hypothesis to be possible. We do not know if the universe is actually infinite, it’s just a possibility based on what we can currently observe (around 93 billion light years). Even if something is incalculably large, it’s still miniscule compared to the infinite that this hypothesis requires.

        Secondly the universe is only homogeneous at a very large scale. The universe at a local scale is very diverse in its make-up, it’s only homogeneous at a scale of hundreds of millions of light years.

        If we disregard these assumptions is it possible that there are near copies of our perceived realities in other places in the universe, maybe…but is it likely?

        • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
          7·
          2 days ago

          Most definitely. It’s assuming our current understanding is accurate, spacetime is flat and the universe is at a large scale homogeneous. As of now those are the main assumptions given what we know and what we can measure. Any stories we make about reality including science are at most our current best bet and nothing more. We can always learn something new that will rewrite anything we know currently. Like imagine we prove last Thursdayism is true.

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        CMBR isn’t homogenous though within our bubble, how can we assume the universe beyond our horizon is the same. We are but fish in a pond

        • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 day ago

          It’s more so about scale. If you zoomed out far enough the CMBR is homogeneous. You can zoom in to about anything and it’ll not be homogeneous.

          • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            21 hours ago

            This map is covers the entire observable universe, it’s as zoomed out as it can go and it looks pretty rough in patches.

            Edit: Oh, unless by zoomed out you mean beyond the observable

            • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              19 hours ago

              Yup, the observable universe shouldn’t be anything special necessarily. That is the universe should to on beyond it.

              • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
                1·
                19 hours ago

                But the only assumptions we can make about the unobserved universe comes from particle/quantum physics, which we explore in an idealised form

                • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
                  2·
                  18 hours ago

                  There’s some gravitational drag that’s been observed that would really only make sense if the matter was being dragged by something massive beyond the observable universe.

      • EnchiladaRaisins@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        That depends on whether or not there was an infinite amount of energy in the Big Bang. Lacking that, you can’t have infinite matter (i.e. infinite copies and possible configurations) even if you have infinite space to put it in.

        • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          4·
          1 day ago

          When current theories say the universe is infinite they also mean an even distribution of matter in that infinite space.

          And for something like the big bang, when theories say that the universe originated from a singularity they actually mean the infinite sized universe had infinite density at one instance, not that it literally came from one single point.

          So there is technically infinite energy in the universe, but all that infinite energy is still experiencing entropy at on average the same rate.

        • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 day ago

          Imagine you have three coins, there’s only so many ways you can arrange them in a line. It’s essentially that idea but for matter

  • blarg_dunsen@sh.itjust.works
    65·
    2 days ago

    Somewhere, somewhen, there is a version of me who made all the right decisions and is living a truly great life.

    And everyday I give big props to them, while just doing the best I can each day and continue making questionable decisions sometimes.

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 days ago

      There are also versions of you who made all the right decisions and are still living garbage lives because no decision in their control actually had an influence on the overall outcome. These versions are far more numerous.

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
    39·
    2 days ago

    I sometimes think about this playing video games, especially Tomb Raider. The protagonist never ever failed. From their perspective they must feel invincible. Kind of explains Lara’s cocky attitude.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      23·
      2 days ago

      Game idea: narrative focused crpg, with a relatively straightforward plot, but the protagonist remembers every time you reload and his every death, progressively tries to figure out what’s happening, all while trying to actually succeed the original plot because that also seems important.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 days ago

          I hear good things about it, but am not particularly one for horror, still considering picking it up at some point though

          • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            It is horror, but it’s also not horror. StP brings so much more than just horror, it has comedic moments, romantic moments, thoughtful moments, and plenty of WTF moments. And, how it all plays out depends on what you choose.

            Steam has a two hour return policy, so I would recommend getting the game, and trying out the opening to see what you think. It’s not for everyone, but if you’re the type who likes to think deep thoughts about the universe like OP posted, then you’ll probably enjoy this game.

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 day ago

              So more the kind of horror that Gothic is (thinky horror) than the more visceral type? Because I actually love the more Gothic horror that’s more about making you sad than scared (like Frankenstein), I just hate the feeling of jumping at shadows after a scary movie/game

              • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 day ago

                It will definitely make you think, and feel. Yes, there are some gory moments, and some jump scare moments, but not many. It’s more about unsettling your view of reality type horror.

      • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        1 day ago

        Undertale is this but it’s not focused on too heavily unless you play multiple routes.

        Deltarune I think (I haven’t played it myself) has this kind of plot with the protagonist having an antagonist relationship to the player controlling them, but it’s more focused on player-made choices instead of save mechanics.

        I would also like to nominate In Stars and Time, which is about timeloops and is very meta but not in the fourth wall breaking way.

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Not a game, but I remember a choose your own adventure style video series on YouTube where if you choose some early bad ends, the main character will start acting more and more reluctant to follow your choices.

  • voodooattack@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 days ago

    Ok, but hear me out. What if the universe is the insides of a quantum computation doing a Levin search based on reversible computation? Aka every time you truly hesitate before making a decision you’re doing a quick-save?

    Edit: oh, and it’d be lazily evaluated in this case