Time Slip Anecdotes

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Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby BrandonD » Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:15 am

Something odd happened lately, so I felt inspired to start a thread about people's experiences with regard to time acting in a non-linear fashion.

Here is my most recent example:

I am a big fan of board games. Well, I really enjoy designing them more than playing them - I've designed many dozens over the years.

I've also watched a lot of board game reviews on youtube over the years, the different themes and mechanics always interest me. Occasionally I'll buy them, though I don't actually have any friends that are interested in playing them. I have a large stack of board games that I've never played with anyone, they just sit on my shelf. Maybe I just feel motivated to support designers who've created ingenious games.

Anyway, about a week ago I watched a youtube video review of a game and I thought the concept was very clever so I bought it. It just arrived yesterday and I played the game against myself, before putting it up on the shelf with the rest.

Here's the weird part: I just returned to the youtube review I watched, in order to leave a thank you comment, and I saw that I had actually already written a thank you comment on his video... 1 year ago.

My comment said, "Bought this game because of your review, thanks!"

I clicked the profile of the commenter, and yes indeed it was me. I don't remember making this comment, and I definitely did not buy the game until now.

My first thought was, I've watched a lot of reviews in the past... maybe I planned to buy this game a year ago but never went through with it?

If so, why did I use the past tense as though it had already been purchased? Why did I not say "You've persuaded me to buy this game", which is what I believe I would've said in that instance?

The comment already there is pretty much exactly what I was planning to write.

Anyway, the whole incident could be something or it could be nothing, but it gave me the creeps when I saw it. Perhaps others here have interesting stories along these lines.
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby zangtang » Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:39 pm

you have of course checked to see that you don't now have 2 copies of the game?

( and fogot buying & playing it a year ago.............)
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby BrandonD » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:01 pm

zangtang » Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:39 pm wrote:you have of course checked to see that you don't now have 2 copies of the game?

( and fogot buying & playing it a year ago.............)


Haha definitely not, I don't own THAT many games (about 20 or so). I'm not really a collector, I just buy the ones that I think are especially clever or interesting.

But that thought certainly did occur to me, and I thought long and hard about it!
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:14 pm

I have spent the day in the office with my VPN to DC crashing every 20 minutes or so.

Every time I get logged back in, my email inbox is re-set and Internet Explorer pops up with a Wikipedia article on Groundhog Day.

It's just the fruits of a shitty IT system rather than any paranormal wink, but still: appropriate.
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby Luther Blissett » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:20 pm

Well, I did type out a response in this thread, just a few minutes ago, regarding the sheer volume of time slippage stories to be found on /r/glitchinthematrix, and then linked to one.
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby coffin_dodger » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:31 pm

and I saw that I had actually already written a thank you comment on his video... 1 year ago.


Are you absolutely sure you are the 'real' you? :bigsmile

Maybe the 'real' you signed that comment a year ago - and between then and now you've fractured into at least two seperate entities - and at least one of you (you) has memory holes of the previous existence. Not all the data came across. :starz:

Perhaps caution is advised when visiting relatives etc in case you run into the other you with the ensuing wormhole swallowing the universe.
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby Nordic » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:32 pm

Wait. I'm being serious here -- didn't you have something of a Close Encounter during the past year??

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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby BrandonD » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:38 pm

Nordic » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:32 pm wrote:Wait. I'm being serious here -- didn't you have something of a Close Encounter during the past year??

:shock:


Yes, a huge one. It was in the middle of downtown and I was completely expecting it to be prominent on the internet the next day. Which of course it wasn't.

That wasn't a year ago, though. It was a few months ago.
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby BrandonD » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:39 pm

coffin_dodger » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:31 pm wrote:
and I saw that I had actually already written a thank you comment on his video... 1 year ago.


Are you absolutely sure you are the 'real' you? :bigsmile

Maybe the 'real' you signed that comment a year ago - and between then and now you've fractured into at least two seperate entities - and at least one of you (you) has memory holes of the previous existence. Not all the data came across. :starz:

Perhaps caution is advised when visiting relatives etc in case you run into the other you with the ensuing wormhole swallowing the universe.
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby Nordic » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:41 pm

BrandonD » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:38 pm wrote:
Nordic » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:32 pm wrote:Wait. I'm being serious here -- didn't you have something of a Close Encounter during the past year??

:shock:


Yes, a huge one. It was in the middle of downtown and I was completely expecting it to be prominent on the internet the next day. Which of course it wasn't.

That wasn't a year ago, though. It was a few months ago.



Ah, but you only remember it as a few months ago! (sorta kidding)

That is definitely a weird one. That would freak me out.

Although I have to say I often have ZERO MEMORY of half the stuff I write on the internet. Sometimes here at RI, even, I'll be reading a comment, and only later realize that I wrote it. Seriously, I can just write away and not remember it later.

(I'm that way with words. With images I remember everything)
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby BrandonD » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:47 pm

Nordic » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:41 pm wrote:Ah, but you only remember it as a few months ago! (sorta kidding)

That is definitely a weird one. That would freak me out.

Although I have to say I often have ZERO MEMORY of half the stuff I write on the internet. Sometimes here at RI, even, I'll be reading a comment, and only later realize that I wrote it. Seriously, I can just write away and not remember it later.

(I'm that way with words. With images I remember everything)


Yea I've definitely considered that, my memory is not stellar about that stuff either. It's just odd that in my comment I said that I "bought" it, when I've definitely never bought it.

Another thing I've considered is that perhaps I bid on that game on ebay, so I assumed that it was "bought" when I made that comment, but then afterwards I lost the auction. Lol the mind gets very creative when trying to figure out a logical reason for a weird occurrence.
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby coffin_dodger » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:50 pm

Maybe you and I have switched places.


And there I was thinking I had gotten away with it. You know when you do things you're not supposed to? - that's me making you do it. HA!
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby zangtang » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:56 pm

can you see yourself in the mirror?

i'm veering towards you're having bled into your doppelganger ?

....Yes, thats it....obvious when you think about it!
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby Searcher08 » Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:04 pm

I have (rarely) had something which is like a 'glitch in the Matrix'. A former gf lived in the east of England and that entailed quite a long bus trip to see her. Several times on the way back, which went through very lovely Norfolk countryside, I experienced looking out the window, seeing a piece of countryside with various features go past, falling asleep and then waking a few minutes later and seeing the same scene go past.

Phyllis Attwater wrote a great book in this area called "Future Memory"
http://pmhatwater.hypermart.net/Shop/Shop/products_files/Future_Memory.html

Summary...

"Do events in your life reflect something that you thought you had previously experienced? If you are thinking deja vu, P.M.H. Atwater says think again. Unlike deja vu that resurrects surreal shadows of the past, Atwater claims that you may find a life-transforming phenomenon she calls a "brain shift" that brings sensory-rich experiences of the future into the present and, at some point later in your life, the actual event triggers the memory of the scenario you are now part of.

This event is no mysterious link with phantom memories or images, Atwater explains. While engaged in the present moment we are simultaneously immersed in a future activity with full mental and sensual awareness. Our recall of the incident "registers in the mind as if a segment of physical reality was just experienced in its complete entirety - as if the future had unfolded in the present." In her new book,Future Memory (Hampton Roads), Atwater juxtaposes examples from her near-death experiences with interviews from other time travelers to show that transcending space-time dimensions is possible and necessary.

"We remember the future because our true nature is in remembering who and what we really are, and then behaving accordingly."

Atwater finds that trauma triggers future memory. An episode such as a near death experience jump-starts the limbic system and creates a neural network expansion that leads to higher brain development, or brain shift. The consequent shift in consciousness displaces the traditional bias of conditioned existence toward an awakening to higher levels of knowledge or wisdom. However, we can leap into the future with less turbulence than an NDE creates through spontaneous calamity.

Atwater's research shows a discernible pattern of what happens during future memory.


Future memory may last a few seconds to a minute of clock time, while foretelling several hours that later manifest. It can be rather lengthy and encompass several days or months of future activities.

During this brief interlude the time traveler experiences the following:
1) a physical sensation of rushing heat with a feeling of exhilaration;
2) heightened senses, yet nothing moves in the present;
3) a feeling of expansion while surrounding elements diminish;
4) a future scenario manifests without warning or guidance and is nearly impossible to differentiate from the present;
5) the scenario ends as quickly as it began and the present time-space dimension resumes, although there is a lingering feeling that something has happened;
6) emotional aftereffects help to keep the event alive, but eventually it is forgotten or set aside;
7) the future event physically manifests and a key element triggers the memory of the entire affair as having done this before, but with the idea of self control rather than resignation to fate; and
8) a resolution that future memory instills a sense of orderliness or gift from God.

After comparing these experiences with other studies of the inner workings of expanded awareness, Atwater found a future memory development technique through its creator James Van Avery, an electronics design specialist for a Seattle, Washington aerospace company.
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Re: Time Slip Anecdotes

Postby coffin_dodger » Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:09 pm

coffin_dodger » Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:50 pm wrote:
Maybe you and I have switched places.


And there I was thinking I had gotten away with it. You know when you do things you're not supposed to? - that's me making you do it. HA!


hang on a minute... oh, you fiendishly clever devil, you... it was you that switched places with me, but made me think I'd switched with you!
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