[ SECRET POST #3042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3042 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

12. http://i.imgur.com/mumfKdK.jpg

[morieris]

Well I know what i'm checking out.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

It's a bit thin, compared to the average subreddit, but the stories are super-creepy/cool. There are more over at GlitchInTheMatrix, too. Er, or Glitch_in_the_matrix, whichever one's active.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to try and achieve this via astral travel but it never worked and after 8 years I gave up.

[(Anonymous)]

.... lol.

[(Anonymous)]

How do you know for sure it didn't work?

You might be in another dimension right now, but the differences are so subtle you haven't noticed them.

[(Anonymous)]

I stopped trying after realizing that if infinite alternate dimensions really existed, then I could just think of a dimension where the alternate!me possesses the power to instantly materialize before all alt!mes at exactly this moment. And seeing as I'm currently alone in the room and there's no alt!me in sight, that universe simply does not exist. And if that universe doens't exist, then most others I can think of probably don't either.

Someone once explained to me that the deal with infinite dimensions is like the infinite numbers in math: there's infinite numbers between one and two, but none of those will be three.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the now-discredited superstring theory had a whole bit on how infinite dimensions must, by necessity (for the discredited theory to work) not ever have any contact with each other.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

And what does the standard model have to say about alternate dimensions? Hawking recently made a joke about discovering a dimension where that kid from One Direction never left.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the Standard Model was, "No extra dimensions for you!" No?

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea. My knowledge of physics is restricted to funny youtube videos.

[a_potato]

This reminds of the logic I used when I was younger to convince myself that I would never experience amnesia.

TRANSCRIPT BY OP

[(Anonymous)]

hoooooooly sorry guys I didn't realize how unreadable it was till I scrolled past LOL

[Pic is screenshot of subreddit thread "DimensionalJumping"]

This is the best SF I've read in YEARS.

SB it's non-fictional

[lb_lee]

Huh. Wonder how much of it is the same stuff I've seen from my pagan/astral/multi friends.

--Rogan

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, not sure about the pagan, tho' it's deffo a pagan-ish? ritual type thing...astral travel is more like the Eckankar people (please do not ask me how I know this please I'm begging you), ergo, "I stood on the Face on Mars today!" (Heard this from an actual Eckankar person ca. '86 or so. Don't get me started on dude who claimed to be able "access the Akashic records" when he was Eckie-ing or w/e) Whereas this thing is (there's literal research on it, posted to the sub) basically hacking your brain's pattern-recognition software, and then being hella pareidoliac for a day or so after.

Re: OP

[lb_lee]

I'm not familiar with Eckankar. *embarrassed* What little I know about pagan shit is mostly just by knowing a lot of pagan people and randomly hearing them talk about things. So while I KNOW people who do astral stuff, I actually know very little about it.

What you describe with the pareidolia kinda alarms me, but then again, the way our mind works, that'd be bad news for us. Whatever does it for them, I guess.

--Rogan

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, yeah, that would be interesting...if "you" jumped, which "you" would you be? (...I think I just gave myself a headache...) Pareidolia is basically seeing patterns where none exist, b/c we are programmed to see patterns as a part of being conscious/aware.

Eckankar is like the Church of Happyology, only invented a half-century earlier by another failed SF writer, and their recruiting model is more MLM meets the JWs. Which is as succinctly as I can put it.

Re: OP

[lb_lee]

Enh, depends on who was doing the "jump" and under what circumstances. We've had phenomenae like that in our headspace pretty regularly, and often, it's just one guy being like, "Okay, I'm off to work, see you at five!" It's not particularly spiritual or remarkable. But he practically never fronts. And I personally believe that it's not actual going anywhere, except maybe into a different part of our mind.

In our case, that kind of pareidolia is kind of a warning signal that something is wrong and we need to stop and take stock. Our original had a habit of hiding in a fantasy world rather than dealing with real life, and that kind of "Everything is connected!" can be associated with that here.

--Rogan

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, that's interesting. Because I'm religious myself (nothing as freaky as discussed), I do believe in a big picture way that everything happens for a reason. I just don't think it's meant for us (mere mortals LOL) to know what the reason is. Like the old proverb goes, "Men make plans and God laughs." Pareidolia, if I understand it correctly, is more small-scale "CheezWhiz Jesus on my toast" type stuff; it's what you make of the patterns you see, not necessarily the patterns themselves.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

"phenomena" is already plural :)

Re: OP

[lb_lee]

Oh jeez, and now I'm reading about Eckankar. Welp, I'll just add this to the list of cults I can learn about. Gross.

--Rogan

EDIT: It also made me realize more clearly why massive pareidolia makes me nervous; it's a thing cult leaders LOVE to take advantage of, and someone purposely trying to induce it in me (or get me to self-induce) feels like manipulation or an attempt to wear down my grip on reality. YECH.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Oop, sorry sorry sorry! If it makes you feel any better, the people I knew who were into it, were just super-enthusiastic and super-self-deluded, but mostly harmless? Like, they weren't manipulative, or anything. The "guy at the top" was only in their heads....He was literally an "Ascended Master" a thousand LOLs. The literature was basically a whole lot of "I stood on the Face on Mars!" and "I spoke with the Ascended Master yesterday and I felt so warm and fuzzy!" so nothing like, way sketch, or "Send me $100 for this vial of Healing Prayer Water and you'll be rich!" or anything in that vein. The "Institute" that published the stuff made good dollar, of course, but there wasn't any kind of hierarchy or anything, they were the only ones getting paid, and likely not that much, given there weren't too many Eckies around at the time. The UFO people were much more popular/populous, at the time.

Er. I should add the caveat that this was the PNW in the 1980s....

[ibbity]

Dare I ask what this is...? Something like astral wives or that kind of deal?

[(Anonymous)]

Basically people sit in front of a mirror in the dark, with a candle behind them, and see weird stuff in their reflection (I can't find the research paper on it right now, they did test it and seeing weird/distorted reflections actually happens in a certain number of people), and posters believe they can "jump" into an alternate dimension when they see the distorted reflection. That's basically the short version, and the sub is filled with "reports" of same.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: a Reddit forum on Dimensional Jumping

Text: This sub is the best SF iv'e read in YEARS

SB it's non-fictional