The Rembis Report And Other Fascinating Topics - Volume CXXXVI

This essay is the fifth in a weekly series about the personal nature of thinking, thought progression, dreams, and ponderings on the subject of quantum entanglement.

I recommend reading this from the beginning.

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CLICK HERE for Albatross - Part II

CLICK HERE for Albatross - Part III

CLICK HERE for Albatross - Part IV

My ideas about dreams are certainly not unique. Every time I feel that I may be experiencing an original thought on the subject, I search for it on the internet to find that somebody else had the same idea, usually years, if not centuries before.

Dream interpretation has been prolific throughout the ages. Some have published dream books, where you can look up the subject of your dream to find out what it means. The psychiatric field offers multiple explanations for how and why we dream, in varying degrees, based on one’s life experience and whatever strife they may endure. I’m not into dream interpretation, so much. It may be a fun pastime for discussion, but interpretations are just that, and open to interpretation themselves, so pointing at a dream and saying this is what that is about, is not something that I heartily buy into.

This week I had three vivid dreams. In one, I was riding in the back of a moving truck filled with boxes of our stuff. It was driven by my dear, sweet wife Ellen. I don’t know where we were going, but it felt more like Dreamland Three than Mall City or the Mountain Roads. I don’t recall anything else about that dream. Later, I dreamed that I was in a sort of community center, maybe in a church, with a bunch of kids and parents around. It seemed like we were trying to get organized for something, or I was waiting for an event to begin. I can’t say that this happened in one of my specific Dreamlands. Last night, I know I was in Dreamland Three because I recognized the streets. I was hanging around with some people and we were going from building to building, like we were closing down a camp or cottage area, like a resort where we worked. I was then a passenger riding in a big semi-truck, and an older gentleman was driving. We were headed into hill country. It was all just blurs, really, devoid of narrative form.

So, as far as interpretation is concerned, these dreams could mean anything. Got an explanation? I’m all ears. Have at it. I claim nothing.

I prefer exploration of the hardest explanation there is to prove; infinite parallel timelines in an alternate universe. No way are we ever going to find proof that such places exist. At least, I don’t think so. But I find this possibility (because we can’t prove it is impossible) the most intriguing concept of all.

Maybe there is another universe where we are enroute to another home, and another where I am hanging out in some community center waiting for something to happen, and I only get glimpses of these places in my sleep.

But as always, there is no proof, so my dreams don’t mean much of anything.

Dream or no dream there are plenty of people who have faith in alternate timelines and stories of people crossing over. Proof is unfounded, but some of the stories, if not absolute fiction from Creepypasta websites, offer provocative and disturbing things to think about.

One of the most notorious stories is that of Lerina Garcia Gordo, who believes that she woke up one morning on the wrong side of the veil of another reality, in a parallel universe. In the account first posted on a Spanish web chat forum, now lost somewhere in the internet, she reached out to say she does not belong here, that she woke up living with a boyfriend she had previously broken up with, and the man she had been dating had completely vanished, like he never existed. Those are big life events to have changed so instantaneously.

This story has been reposted many times, basically cut and pasted, over and over again, all leading back to July 16, 2008, when it first appeared online. They all say the same things with minor variations. Some have more spelling errors than others. Included here is one of the most detailed. Take a look.

There are podcasts and discussions about Lerina Garcia Gordo all over the internet. But I have never found a single interview, if one exists. I heard about this years ago and it has always intrigued me. While I agree that this sounds most like an urban legend, a crazy story by an unknown author who might have got a kick out of creating a fiction that eventually went viral among its intended audience, it nevertheless begs the question, what if it is true?

So, let’s go there.

What if Lerina Garcia Gordo is a real person who believes that this truly happened to her? Looking objectively at the evidence all we have is her word. Let’s suppose that she was living with her boyfriend and from his perspective, all was good. She never acted weird before.

If we ask her friends and family about her, they may all say the same things. Typical things, about her life, her boyfriend, her job, her style, her mannerisms, what she likes to eat, her taste in entertainment, etc. She never acted weird before.

But then, one day, her attitude switches like a light bulb, suddenly surging with a different hue. She tells people, this is not my life. These are not my pillowcases. This is not my job, my car, my pots and pans, not exactly. Some of it is the same, but not my boyfriend, that is the one thing I am sure of! We broke up! We are not together, I have another man now, and he is missing! This is all wrong!

Imagine hearing that story first hand from a close friend, face to face with somebody you know, who truly believes what they are telling you. They are not playing a prank, not trying to be funny. They are terrified. You will think that something in their mind snapped. You would have no explanation. A person who believes such an impossible thing, especially when you have known them for years, and know their entire life story, will soon appear to you as a stranger.

How can you help them?

You certainly can’t find a way to usher them back to some other reality you can’t prove exists. You can’t help them unless you know some kind of science or magic the rest of us do not. There is simply no way to help. You must deal with them as they are now, and will likely try to convince them that they must be suffering some type of psychosis, and that they need professional counsel. Because - what else could you do? If they persist, and demand that they are now in the wrong place and time, and there is no way for them to get back, whether or not it is true is no longer of consequence. The fact remains that nothing can be done for them.

So, if this truly happened to Lerina Garcia Gordo, and she feels that the life she knew has been hijacked by reality as we know it, that is sad. We have no way to prove it one way or the other. Even if she is right.

That is what is truly scary. Because if it can happen to her, it can happen to anyone.

We have watched fictionalized accounts like this on TV many times. Twilight Zone, Fringe, The X-Files, Stranger Things, The Wizard Of Oz, all tell tales of alternate worlds and getting mixed up on parallel timelines. They are most frightening because, while inexplicable, some are grounded in scientific theory. Science fiction which suggests that another realm exists, and is only a blink away, is one of the most powerful ideas that can creep into our thoughts and make us worry.

It has been this way since the first tales of God and angels. An unseen force watching your every move and thought and decision is what explains conscience and morality to children. It can be frightening for a person with strong faith in their convictions because when they mess up, they may end up going to some place they don’t necessarily want to go. Like Purgatory. Or Detroit.

So, it doesn’t matter if those places are real when a person chooses faith over proof. Their belief is good enough. It is all they need.

Faith that there is a Heaven and Hell holds the same confidence factor in considering alternate realities, parallel timelines, and infinite universes. If you truly believe in the existence of any one of these places, then it should not be implausible that they all exist.

Can you visit another timeline and come back here? Has your consciousness jumped from your brain in another universe into this one? Did you die and come back to life? Have you glimpsed another world? Maybe, if you consider déjà vu.

You may be having déjà vu right now, if you think I have told you my theory before. While I think I wrote about it once, I can’t find it in my archives, but I know I have spoken about it. I like to think of déjà vu as evidence of parallel timelines and the multiverse. I can’t prove this, there is no way to run a test. But, if you consider that there may be infinite alternate realities, all running simultaneously, with minor differences between them, déjà vu could be that glitch that reveals a tear in the fabric of space time.

You have a real time sensation that something has happened before, exactly when it is happening. Some people have reported shared déjà vu events. It is usually mundane stuff. Nothing of consequence, like picking your keys up from a table and walking across the room to turn off the light switch. But you swear, you lived that exact moment before. It is creepy.

Maybe you did. Maybe you did it a moment before on a parallel timeline, and that fraction of a second was all it took for you to see it. Maybe it was that tiny, tiny thought, that you unknowingly shared with your other world self at that exact moment. That same thing just happened to you a millisecond ago on another plane of existence, and you felt it. You saw it. Maybe you just experienced quantum entanglement with yourself in another universe.

And there is nothing you can do about it. And this is why you can’t help your disconnected friend get back to whatever world they think they belong in. All you can do is either have faith, or not believe it.

Albert Einstein and his cohort scientists theorized quantum entanglement almost a century ago. Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance” and at first, railed against it, seeking an alternative theory, because it would require particles traveling beyond the speed of light, which he considered impossible.

Fast forward to 1982, when Caltech physicists proved that photons could entangle even when 12 meters away from each other. In 2012, a team of physicists working in the Canary Islands, proved photon entanglement at a distance of 89 miles. Then, in 2019, physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, attained the first photographic evidence of quantum entanglement. They captured an image of the interaction pattern caused by entangled photons. Doing this required a camera capable of taking pictures in nanoseconds, a bunch of equipment and gadgetry, and a lot more science than I want to get into, but they proved beyond doubt that quantum entanglement is a real thing. They showed that photons on the other side of a room could interact with each other in real time.

Now that we know reproducing the experiment will yield the same consistent results, if a photon, which we understand, can do it, asking if a thought, which we can not understand, can also do this, is not a real stretch. It is a natural progression of the scientific process.

So, what of dreams and déjà vu? Are they related? Are they real? Are there other worlds that we only see in glitchy time slips and sleep? If we are lucky, maybe so. If we are unlucky - I mean really, really unlucky - do we wake up or walk into a world that is foreign to us, like when Dorothy arrived in Oz?

And if that happens, how do we get back home?

Maybe we will make friends, meet a wizard, and find a good witch to guide us.

Thanks for reading.

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