FelinaTheDevil22
Neutral Medic
Parallel Universes, or Alternate Universes as some call it. String Theory.
Here's how I see it:
Imagine an outline (like a rough sketch drawing) of yourself. There are five main colours. The one in the middle is a drawing of you in black. The drawing of you behind you is red. The right one is yellow. The left one is blue. The one in front of you is green.
These four colours are the main way we can go. Right now, you could have taken a step back, or maybe a step left. Whatever you do, the other four colours of you do the opposite. One goes backwards while doing it (red), one goes right (yellow), one left (blue), and one forwards (green). Between these four colours are different shades of that colour turning into another colour.
Think of the four colours as a different path you could have taken today. The shades between them are also different paths you could have taken. Every millisecond, you are walking through one of the main colours, or a shade.
So basically, as you are moving, there are different coloured versions of you doing something else.
Maybe, each one thousand or more years, there is another primary colour added because you have wider options in life. Or maybe because you have met more people who have influenced you. Or something happened that changed your view/opinion on life.
Get it so far?
If not, then here is another version: You are in the middle, the emotion of mixed feelings. Behind you is a door representing the emotion anger, to the right is happiness/love, the left sadness, and the front fear. Between these four doors are other doors, emotions you feel when you are stuck between two of them.
Now, think back to a certain event that happened today. Think of the main emotion you felt right then. Imagine it is something between love and hate, which places you directly between anger and happiness/love; or does it? If you feel more love then hate, then you are a bit closer to the happiness/love door, the same applying if you feel more hate then love.
These doors are linked together. Maybe you are three doors away from the happiness/love door; maybe thirteen. Maybe more.
No matter what, you will go through one of those doors, through a hallway that lasts as long as you have that main feeling, and enter another door when you feel a different main emotion.
So right now, you could have stopped reading this. Or you could still be reading. Stopped for a moment to answer someone calling your name/asking you a question. Accidently spilled you coffee over a paper, or maybe your laptop. You could be sitting down reading this, wondering when it will end, or maybe you are absorbing this like a sponge. Waiting to get to the next paragraph. Finally had enough and stopped reading, never coming back to it. Or maybe bookmarking it for later. You haven't even realised I could have left this to finish next week, or in the next 37 minutes, or 48.31 seconds.
That is a parallel universe.
Us fanfiction writers? We are constantly creating parallel universes. We rewrite the story with another character, usually a "better" version of yourself, and sometimes put them together with a character in that fandom. Or maybe you put two characters from a fandom together; fluff, smut, angst, etc. One word can make a parallel universe, by selecting one word over another. And thus, a domino effect that causes others to keep reading the story, or grow bored of it. Same applies to RP's.
We are both creating and destroying parallel universes.
Do you think this is a plausible explanation? Why or why not? What's your opinion?
Here's how I see it:
Imagine an outline (like a rough sketch drawing) of yourself. There are five main colours. The one in the middle is a drawing of you in black. The drawing of you behind you is red. The right one is yellow. The left one is blue. The one in front of you is green.
These four colours are the main way we can go. Right now, you could have taken a step back, or maybe a step left. Whatever you do, the other four colours of you do the opposite. One goes backwards while doing it (red), one goes right (yellow), one left (blue), and one forwards (green). Between these four colours are different shades of that colour turning into another colour.
Think of the four colours as a different path you could have taken today. The shades between them are also different paths you could have taken. Every millisecond, you are walking through one of the main colours, or a shade.
So basically, as you are moving, there are different coloured versions of you doing something else.
Maybe, each one thousand or more years, there is another primary colour added because you have wider options in life. Or maybe because you have met more people who have influenced you. Or something happened that changed your view/opinion on life.
Get it so far?
If not, then here is another version: You are in the middle, the emotion of mixed feelings. Behind you is a door representing the emotion anger, to the right is happiness/love, the left sadness, and the front fear. Between these four doors are other doors, emotions you feel when you are stuck between two of them.
Now, think back to a certain event that happened today. Think of the main emotion you felt right then. Imagine it is something between love and hate, which places you directly between anger and happiness/love; or does it? If you feel more love then hate, then you are a bit closer to the happiness/love door, the same applying if you feel more hate then love.
These doors are linked together. Maybe you are three doors away from the happiness/love door; maybe thirteen. Maybe more.
No matter what, you will go through one of those doors, through a hallway that lasts as long as you have that main feeling, and enter another door when you feel a different main emotion.
So right now, you could have stopped reading this. Or you could still be reading. Stopped for a moment to answer someone calling your name/asking you a question. Accidently spilled you coffee over a paper, or maybe your laptop. You could be sitting down reading this, wondering when it will end, or maybe you are absorbing this like a sponge. Waiting to get to the next paragraph. Finally had enough and stopped reading, never coming back to it. Or maybe bookmarking it for later. You haven't even realised I could have left this to finish next week, or in the next 37 minutes, or 48.31 seconds.
That is a parallel universe.
Us fanfiction writers? We are constantly creating parallel universes. We rewrite the story with another character, usually a "better" version of yourself, and sometimes put them together with a character in that fandom. Or maybe you put two characters from a fandom together; fluff, smut, angst, etc. One word can make a parallel universe, by selecting one word over another. And thus, a domino effect that causes others to keep reading the story, or grow bored of it. Same applies to RP's.
We are both creating and destroying parallel universes.
Do you think this is a plausible explanation? Why or why not? What's your opinion?
