Perpenormal...

A sillier than your average post kinda post. Everyone goes about their days thinking everything is normal. But every now and again something eerie happens. Something unexplainable. This next tier of normal lies "just above" or "parallel to" regular normality, and is therefore called "para-normal". Now say something even more insanely weird happens? Something so utterly inexplicable that your brain should explode, but it doesn't, because things are THAT weird. I like to call this experience "perpenormal". Using the geometric relation above, this type of strangeness is so wild it runs perpendicular to all other forms of normal. Rudely intersecting your perfectly average day!

The Whole World In The Sky

My girlfriend and I live in a place where lots of stars are visible in the night sky. The other evening we were laying on our backs looking up at the night sky and I thought it would be neat if rather than Earth being a globe floating in the vastness of space, it was a globe of space floating through a vast "Earthiness". I felt like I was hovering above, and at times even falling towards the giant space mass. Like stationary sky diving. After revelling in the moment for a bit, my girlfriend suggested that it would be really cool too if the stars were actually far away cities, a visual you would get if you lived on the interior surface of a hollow, earth sized globe. The idea really stuck with me because I felt like the visual of it was so powerful and interesting. Now almost every time I look at the night sky I envisage those cities, and how even something so natural and taken for granted, can still be viewed in an entirely new ways if you just take the time to look, and step outside the box even just a little bit. If anybody reading this has decent night sky viewing I highly recommend, even if just for a moment or two, for you to go outside, lay back, and imagine different ways of interpreting the stars, clouds, and everything out.

Sideways Through Time

We always travel forwards in time, and the idea of travelling backwards is out there. What about sideways though? If time were two dimensional and you could build a sideways time machine, what would it be like? If this were the case I like to imagine time as a kind of water drop along the glass wall of a shower. As the drop drips down the glass it creates a path behind it in the condensation which would be it's history, and the drop itself is the present. The gravity acting on to bring the drop lower and lower could be analogous to the entropy that drives time forward. Now, I build my machine, hop inside, and flip the switch. As the machine travels sideways my view from the inside would rapidly change from my present time in my universe, to the what the present looks like in the next nearest branch at my location, and so on as I continue further and further. Just like a time lapse video. I also like to think that perhaps as I stated earlier, the entropy would act as a gravitational force, drawing all time streams down. So to reach another time stream location exactly perpendicular to you, you would need to travel in a parabolic shape, like when playing catch with someone, and the further you travel away from your time stream, the more different things would become. In summary, As you travel sideways you travel to other temporal branches of your universe. The further away from your stream you travel, the more different things become. Depending on then location among the various streams you plan to travel to, you need to change your temporal angle to accommodate the entropic gravitation drawing all things toward the future. Finally, the fastest you can fall straight down temporally, is the speed of light (any faster and you would start crawling back up, since you would be going backward through time).