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.
I had a good friend slip in the shower, hit his head, and die. He was 27. Life can change abruptly in ways you would never expect. Be careful out there please.
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.
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
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.
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? 😅
Read Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Fantastic book that actually hits that topic, especially near the end.
I used to want to be immortal. Now I understand those who don’t want to.
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
If my life is the result of my successful re-loads, that’s a really bad sign.
Then who ever is playing this character is fucking dumb for even playing the game. Plz uninstall.
I’m an Orc from Warcraft II who keeps getting clicked on until I become self aware and yell “Stop poking me!”
How do I reload an old save. I think I messed up my build.
Sorry, that’s not an option but if you install the buddhism dlc then you can respawn with new specs. But don’t kill yourself to re-spec because I’m pretty sure you get significant de-buffs for doing so. Your best bet would be to just wander into a pvp zone and hope for the best.
Unfortunately the devs didn’t have the budget to add multiple save slots. Your old save is long gone.
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.
Damn I didn’t realise other people thought like this
Bold of you to assume other people exist
As far as I know, there’s no evidence of the many-worlds interpretation, which quantum immortality relies on.
Also, quantum immortality doesn’t mean you can’t die, it means you’ll go to hell when you do. Eventually you’ll be reduced to a state where you can only think, with no way to interact with, or senses the world at all, making you dead for any observer who is not you. And you’ll stay in this state forever.
Did you respond to the wrong comment
I was sort of still thinking of this quantum hell thought experiment, and wanted to write about it. I should probably have started my comment with “I believe the interpretation presented in OP’s post to be false because …”
Fair. I mean, quantum immortality is dumb and wrong anyway so it doesn’t really matter either way.
I mustve died many many times cause the universe im in now sucks
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.
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.
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.
Some options I know of:
- The Forgotten City
- Deathloop
- Stuck in Time
Returnal
All good, but not enough fourth wall fuckery in those time loops
Maybe the closest that I know of so far: Rue Valley?
Just looked it up, there happens to be a 50% sale for it on steam right now.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5607616/
Re:Zero kinda has this plot
Slay the Princess kind of goes in that direction.
I hear good things about it, but am not particularly one for horror, still considering picking it up at some point though
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.
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
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.
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.
Quit the nonsense. It is plot armor
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
I don’t understand what you’re saying but I believe you
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
Ran from a wildfire recently when the wind turned suddenly. In a few universes I am now BBQ.
Yet in all universes, you taste delicious to me. ❤️
Calm down, Jeffery.
It isn’t always binary (dead vs alive) you are more likely to slip, fall and become disabled. How does that fit the quantum immortality?
As JcbAzPx said, you’ll continue in all timelines where you’re alive. No matter of how injured you are. Eventually, you’ll be just a brain kept alive through thermal fluctuation. (Theoretically, entropy can spontaneously go down, the chances of this happening going down exponentially the more entropy we’re talking about. Think about shuffling a deck of cards, and getting a completely sorted deck of cards. Certain at 1 card, 25% chance at 2 cards, and basically zero at a full deck, but still theoretically possible.) Eventually, you’ll be a disembodied brain suffering for all eternity from phantom pain.
My dude, you are just a cloud of random particles interacting in space whose unpredictable fluctuations have resulted in a structure exactly mimicking a human brain, complete with memories and knowledge of “the universe”
Boltzmann has entered the chat!
Quantum Hell.
Thanks, I hate it.
You continue in any time lines you’re still alive in. Even if you don’t want to be.
Relatable.
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.
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.
I actually think about this a lot.
Everything that can happen, does happen. Everything, everywhere, all at once!
Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Douglas Adams
Impossible since “Nothing ever happens”
Nothing happens at all
Heat Death should be a cocktail at the bar at The End Of The Universe
I guess I’ll happen myself up a cup of tea
I made a bagel. And put everything on it.
oh no
And everything that had happened will happen again.
Quantum foam makes me roam…
Quantum puns make me …
Don’t have this in the shower.
The stairs, however, have probably done me in dozens of times. I frequently say “how have I not died on these stairs yet??” As I nearly slip once more.
If you constantly are pondering how your stairs have yet to kill you, perhaps it’s time to do something different with the stairs? Like I know way easier said than done but even something like changing the railing or what they’re covered in might be useful.
Wouldn’t want your last moments to be you wondering why you didn’t listen to yourself.
Thanks, but theres really nothing to be done about it short of rebuilding both flights entirely, and I’m not even sure that would fix them. The problem is the way they are built; the stairs to the second floor turn a corner, and the triangular stairs in said corner narrow to the point on the inside corner that it drops immediately 3 stairs down if you miss-step, and the miss-step is like a third of the stair. Incredibly dangerous, and I hold the rails for dear life every time.
The back stairs from the addition just aren’t even. They all have different rise because they needed to meet into three already-existing floors - main floor, back door at ground level, and basement floor, and they had to turn 3 corners to do that. I’ve tried to math out a way to make them even and I can’t. I’ll still have substantial differences between sections.
It’s a very old house full of very bad choices that can’t really be fixed without major overhaul. I’ll probably hire someone at some point to see if they can fix it, if I can ever afford that, but I’ll probably bite it on the stairs well before that happens :) I’m planning to paint the quarter rounds with glow pigment to help delineate the stairs in the dark, and add some glowing non-slip tape to the bullnose, but thats about the best I’ve got, and it won’t really help that much.
Wow that does sound like a borderline purposeful booby trap of a design. Stay safe!
Legitimately sounds scary especially if you’re fucked up - drunk me would be terrified lol
The cat at the top of the stairs
ftfy
I think when a cat almost trips you they get to see your multiverse selves go tumbling and crumbling down the stairs.
Explains why cats are so smug too.
I don’t walk up/down stairs with my hands in my pockets anymore. Seems unnecessarily risky, like running out into traffic without looking or stepping into the ring with a hungry lion.
