As my mind often tends to do today it dropped into one of those what if passages I so frequently step into.
In the movie BACK TO THE FUTURE Pt 2 Doc and Marty find themselves in a situation where they've jumped back in time only to discover the future they were familiar with was no longer an option. Due to some event the future they had experienced was erased and rewritten yet only they were aware of it. In the movie X-Men Days of Future Past, we find Logan being sent back in time to cause the change that will rewrite the future. Again, if the change is effective, then only Logan will remember the original timeline as it will be changed for everyone else.
So the idea of one or two people somehow going through time, experiencing or causing some change, then they being the only ones to remember the original future is pretty common in story telling. Granted most instances it involves a changed future but occasionally it also will involve a changed past as well as a changed future. Figure with Marty and Doc Brown their current present and forward changes. With Logan his current present changes but not as drastically though he seem's disconnected in his recall.
So would such an event occurring to the common person cause a mental breakdown? To be the only person alive who remembers a lived future or present that is totally different from what everyone else will experience or recall. I would think it would really screw with their sense of reality.
Now as a side line of though pause to reflect upon the notion that what if the future is constantly being shifted about us. Yet sometimes we might seem to connect to the timelines. What if the idea of Deja Vu was in some capacity our own minds attempt to reset and realign the time stream. On some level that we are aware of it and to avoid the mind crusher our minds have to reset which leads to the deja vu aspect. For just an instance of time, for perhaps a few seconds, our minds reset and realign the way we relate to the future we knew or once knew.
So while Marty, Doc Brown, Logan experience severe time rips and changes they are not alone. Ours perhaps not so great nor as catastrophic as theirs but still a mind screw on some level. Just a short adjustment of the playing needle to get us back on track and prevent our reality from screwing with us.
Yet would you go crazy if it occurred on such a scale that the change was significant and only you could recall what the original future, past or present was?
In the movie BACK TO THE FUTURE Pt 2 Doc and Marty find themselves in a situation where they've jumped back in time only to discover the future they were familiar with was no longer an option. Due to some event the future they had experienced was erased and rewritten yet only they were aware of it. In the movie X-Men Days of Future Past, we find Logan being sent back in time to cause the change that will rewrite the future. Again, if the change is effective, then only Logan will remember the original timeline as it will be changed for everyone else.
So the idea of one or two people somehow going through time, experiencing or causing some change, then they being the only ones to remember the original future is pretty common in story telling. Granted most instances it involves a changed future but occasionally it also will involve a changed past as well as a changed future. Figure with Marty and Doc Brown their current present and forward changes. With Logan his current present changes but not as drastically though he seem's disconnected in his recall.
So would such an event occurring to the common person cause a mental breakdown? To be the only person alive who remembers a lived future or present that is totally different from what everyone else will experience or recall. I would think it would really screw with their sense of reality.
Now as a side line of though pause to reflect upon the notion that what if the future is constantly being shifted about us. Yet sometimes we might seem to connect to the timelines. What if the idea of Deja Vu was in some capacity our own minds attempt to reset and realign the time stream. On some level that we are aware of it and to avoid the mind crusher our minds have to reset which leads to the deja vu aspect. For just an instance of time, for perhaps a few seconds, our minds reset and realign the way we relate to the future we knew or once knew.
So while Marty, Doc Brown, Logan experience severe time rips and changes they are not alone. Ours perhaps not so great nor as catastrophic as theirs but still a mind screw on some level. Just a short adjustment of the playing needle to get us back on track and prevent our reality from screwing with us.
Yet would you go crazy if it occurred on such a scale that the change was significant and only you could recall what the original future, past or present was?
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