My theory...
Jan. 8th, 2004 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jim_p...which is mine, etc.
A friend posted in her journal about skipping an event she'd planned on going to because she got a "bad feeling" about it.
I have a theory about these things. It's a little off the wall and totally unprovable, but it's no better or worse than reading tea leaves:
There is a theory, born of quantum theory, that says that at every decision point the universe splits and creates one universe where the decision went one way and another where the decision went the other (so take heart, there exists a parallel universe where you *did* accept that hot date and have a great time!).
If this is the case, it may be possible that sufficiently intense and focused psychic energy can make the jump from one reality to another one "nearby". If you come to a very crucial decision point (say, whether to try and gun it through that yellow light or not) and you come to ruin in another universe, you'll feel the "echoes" of that intense feeling in this one.
The other day I was working alone at the top of a ladder on the outside of my house... maybe eighteen feet off the ground. High enough that a fall could be very painful, send me to the hospital, perhaps be fatal if I fell exactly wrong. I was maybe 95% sure of the ladder's footing, but not 100%. I'm working away, when suddenly I get this really bad feeling, totally out of the blue. I decide to stop and not move until the feeling passed, which it did in a few minutes. I could only wonder if, in a parallel universe, I had in my haste perhaps reached just a little too far over and had a painful mishap...
A friend posted in her journal about skipping an event she'd planned on going to because she got a "bad feeling" about it.
I have a theory about these things. It's a little off the wall and totally unprovable, but it's no better or worse than reading tea leaves:
There is a theory, born of quantum theory, that says that at every decision point the universe splits and creates one universe where the decision went one way and another where the decision went the other (so take heart, there exists a parallel universe where you *did* accept that hot date and have a great time!).
If this is the case, it may be possible that sufficiently intense and focused psychic energy can make the jump from one reality to another one "nearby". If you come to a very crucial decision point (say, whether to try and gun it through that yellow light or not) and you come to ruin in another universe, you'll feel the "echoes" of that intense feeling in this one.
The other day I was working alone at the top of a ladder on the outside of my house... maybe eighteen feet off the ground. High enough that a fall could be very painful, send me to the hospital, perhaps be fatal if I fell exactly wrong. I was maybe 95% sure of the ladder's footing, but not 100%. I'm working away, when suddenly I get this really bad feeling, totally out of the blue. I decide to stop and not move until the feeling passed, which it did in a few minutes. I could only wonder if, in a parallel universe, I had in my haste perhaps reached just a little too far over and had a painful mishap...
