Mirror Universes

Do you believe in there being alternate universes out there?

So, you walk through a door and decide to turn left because you always turn left when you walk through a door. That leads you to a person who you have never met before and ZAP! You are dancing and getting close and your life takes on a new meaning.

Who would you have met if you decided to turn right?

We like doing the WHAT IF? scenarios. There have been plenty of books on the subject, such as what if the Nazis won the Second World War; or Napoleon had decided not to invade Russia. What if JFK had not been shot, or if the Soviets had sent the first person to the moon. Yet, is it a game to play, or is there another dimension where all of this is true?

We use 10% of our brain according to most things that you read; we are connected to the universe in the way that we are made of all the atoms which make up the fabric of what is around us. So, our brains are connected to the universe, time is a man-made construct, so we (tenuous unscientific link here) have the ability to open our brains up to more dimensions. At the moment we are stuck in a sort of 4D version of life which is potentially so much richer.

It seems to have been proved that we have doppelgangers dotted around the planet, so why not other versions of us dotted throughout the galaxy? Are we living on a planet surrounded by one vast mirror? We would not know because it would all be black anyway.

Voyager has passed into the deeper parts of the universe, out of our sphere and into another realm. On it, for some strange reason, is a gold disc with operating instructions for any life form who might be able to read a human language to construct a record player in order to play the disc. They will then be serenaded with a history of humans, mostly containing war I would imagine, and some music, probably not of its time, which would have been the Seventies. So, when the aliens land they will be expecting something very different to what the reality is. It wold be like thinking the world is like Live and Let Die, but actually getting Skyfall.

So, as far as Voyager is concerned, we are time travellers; time stands still for the small satellite but we continue to evolve, or devolve, depending on your political point of view.

I like the idea of there being an alternate universe where I decided to do the opposite of what I am currently doing. Does not make either right or wrong, just makes it alive, sometimes it would be logic versus imagination and vice versa. Lots of what ifs, it’s a good game to play, and opens up your brain training towards thinking outside of the box.

Life gives us all sorts of scenarios, we can play them out before making a decision logically or trust our instinct. Perhaps our instinct is our brain having played out all possible scenarios far quicker than any computer is able to do. If only we trusted in that, rather than algorithms, then perhaps we can be amazing.

Zac Thraves is a storyteller and writer living in Kent; if you wish to book him to come along to your party, young or old,  or to give a speech at your local school then please contact him at zacharystories@outlook.com