Alternatives.

What if, when we allow our imaginations to run free as they will, without boundaries or the shackles of logic and rationale, we create alternate universes where the thoughts and possibilities imagined are created and move forth in their own space and time. We could be creating realities just outside of our reality that we will never experience.

As limited as the average person is in the knowledge of how we became and exist and considering that all the above average minds who could weigh in on the subject are drowning in vast oceans of their own theories I believe the possibilities are just as endless as they were when the first man stood upright and stared out at the black star strewn night sky.

The great difference that divides us from our prehistoric ancestry is our expanded frame of reference. It is our good fortune to see the trends that allow our imagination to soar to new heights. With the knowledge that only 60 years ago things like cell phones, laptops, mp3s and hybrid cars couldn't be considered anything more than science fiction. We gain the ability to imagine great things to come in the next 50 years. Personal flight, invisibility,teleportation, recombinate DNA for re-growing limbs.

I've strayed a bit in my own imagination but I digress. My point is that as logical as we can be its important to have an active imagination. Its what keeps our new digital world interesting.

Next time you get on a plane and the inevitable thought of the plane going down creeps in briefly I say go with it. Imagine the plane landing safely on a strange remote island. Look around at the rest of the passengers and decide who will be the leader, who will go crazy? Who will wait for the opportune moment to rifle through the luggage for tawdry baubles to steal. What would you do? Would you freak out? Would you start to build a hut? Would you get killed by a smoke monster? (you were expecting a LOST reference so who am I to deny you?) And the beauty of this whole process is that when you get bored you can just fly home or teleport there.

So I've illustrated my point but what if all that you just imagined became its own reality? Or what if by me imagining that imagining something makes it real in an alternate universe that it just became real thus making all imagined person places or things real from this point on.

Yes. I just did that for you. Now. Start populating those unfilled alternative universes.

Your welcome.

Cheers

-SCRaM