High Strangeness

[Skeptical]

I usually don't have much use for articles on Inexplicata, but Scott Corrales just posted a really intriguing article about a handful of high strangeness cases:

http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2011...imensions.html

The one about the woman who feels she has been deposited here from a parallel universe is particularly interesting. Assuming it is not a hoax, there may be some medical explanation for what she is experiencing. But if not, what the heck happened to this person?

S

[orangekea]

Originally Posted by Skeptical

I usually don't have much use for articles on Inexplicata, but Scott Corrales just posted a really intriguing article about a handful of high strangeness cases:

http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2011...imensions.html

The one about the woman who feels she has been deposited here from a parallel universe is particularly interesting. Assuming it is not a hoax, there may be some medical explanation for what she is experiencing. But if not, what the heck happened to this person?

S

Hi Skeptical, thanks for sharing the link on Mrs. Lerina GarcÃ*a. Personally I think her experience, even a real multiverse-jump, is possible in principle. Ties in nicely with various multi-verse theories. Not nice if it happens to you, of course.

I'd consider believing in her individual case if I'd had a chance of interviewing this lady at length. Otherwise, due to the extra-ordinary nature of the claim, I keep adding that important grain of salt.


orangekea

[Skeptical]

I just read an article about a woman from Australia who went to extraordinary lengths to convince people on various websites that she was dying of cancer. This went on for a couple years before someone finally figured out she was lying. Apparently she had some pathological need for the attention and sympathy of others.

I'm not saying that Garcia's experience falls into that same category but how do you rule that out? She has no way to provide any objective proof of what she's saying - you're left to take her word for it alone.

Still, it is intriguing - the idea that multiple versions of you may exist in various parallel universes. I'm hoping to drop into the universe in which I'm married to Angelina Jolie.

S

[DD2011]

I don't understand her sudden illness initially over the situation. There's no talk about thinking someone was pulling a prank on her at work when she arrived? Wouldn't she be confused, asking people or trying to figure out - at least initially rather than just looking at names and directories and running off ill?

She contradicts herself in the story when she begins to write, she explains that she woke up on the same day and year that she went to bed in (maybe she went to bed at 1am?), then she describes again 2 paragraphs from that how her situation began and that she paid no attention to the time. She does not describe how she realized she was on the same day that she went to bed on? Then further into her story, she describes looking on the internet, expecting the time to be different, but the date was as it should be?

Clues about the mindset sprout out when she writes "In fact, if this is a dream, then you’re all in a dream, because what I’m writing about doesn’t exist. So if someone replies, it means that they are experiencing the same reality as I am, whether it’s a dream or not." Her fact is not a fact, although the second part of what she writes may be the fact - "because what I'm writing about doesn't exist".

Again she contradicts herself where in the beginning, she writes she woke but the bed linens were different. Later in the story she describes how she woke to having nothing in the apartment change, everything was the same. She did not mention the strangeness of only her bed linens changing, she writes nothing was changed and everything was the same in the entire apartment.

Later she writes, "...people with a grasp on “the truth” can refrain from commenting". Why would she not want the people commenting on the truth? I can understand not wanting pranksters, but 'the truth'? She doesn't want the truth of her situation?

Why would she go to a social security doctor, why not a family physician? Did she go to be tested specifically for drugs and alcohol or did he test her because she described not remembering? Why is there no discussion of further medical testing, like looking for brain tumors, or other medical problems besides drugs and alcohol that could be having her thinking this way?

I find it strange that her work place would change floors within a five month period, but nothing else in the world changed - just her bed linens, some clothing in her closet, her boyfriend, and her parents memories? It really appears her story is full of holes and that she's having some sort of memory lapse and hallucinations of small trivial things and two major areas of her own life - work and a boyfriend. If she jumped between dimensions and two major areas were different, it seems there would be other major differences in other areas of the world or with people, not just with her and her situation (if that's how parallel universes exist). From the story she tells, I would definitely have to believe until further investigation, questioning, and medical testing that she had some sort of brain mishap, personal memory lapse, that can be medically and scientifically explained.

[Elara]

This type of case can often be ascribed to a psychological response to a crisis, and is not as uncommon as one would think. A constructed reality can be very real to the one experiencing it, often triggered by the lost of a loved one or a similarly critical event. Whatever this woman's trigger was, I hope she is in actuality receiving help for what she is experiencing, despite what she may be posting--wether she believes it or not.
IMO~she probably believes it, the inconsistencies in these constructs are often not apparent to the mind constructing the "alternate reality." Of course there are always hoaxers, jokesters, and liars seeking attention (a whole pathology unto itself) and there is always the remote possibility that its all true, but in my mind, I just hope this person has the support of people who can help her through this frightening experience.

[lee934]

shades of K-pax I think.

[eaavendano]

I read this about a month ago and now I find it is being mentioned here. It's very likely this lady is actually telling the truth because this is too odd a subject to get attention from. Has anyone looked into people with schizophrenia? People with this condition often report hearing voices, among other things, they are just explained as hallucinations and that is it. It is better to explain strange stuff as some sort of mental disorder or hallucinations because they are easier to deal with and better able to help the individual going through this.

Let me explain something, a few months ago I was asleep on the living room one morning and a family member was on the phone. I remember hearing the conversation with my eyes still closed. I opened my eyes and slightly raised my head, the voice on the phone changed to that of another person. Not thinking much of it at this time I laid my head back down and closed my eyes. The voice on the phone changed to that of another person. I was a little surprised and so I lifted my head back up to pay attention and the voice changed back to that of the other person. I laid back down and without closing my eyes the voice changed back to the other person. I did this several times, more than 5 times or so. My dad was on the phone talking with my aunt, but as I did this the voice changed to that of a family friend. The voices I heard change were between my aunt and a family friend, both women of about the same age. I thought it was weird how I could make the voices change like that. When my dad finished talking on the phone I asked him and he confirmed he was actually talking with my aunt, and when I told him what happened he told me I must have been hallucinating or half asleep.

I'm guessing strange things do happen, but if they are too severe, a person might end up in a mental hospital or something if they're lucky.

[Carol Nistri]

I wonder how many people in mental hospitals are there because of things like this,or a ufo experience.Im saying that the person couldnt cope with what was happening and hid inside of themselves.

[front243]

One thing I noticed about her story is that she said that the news-stories were the same as yesterday. If such subtle changes were happening in her own life, wouldn't the changes be more dramatic world-wide? I think the news-stories from TV and papers would be dramatically different.

[orangekea]

Originally Posted by front243

One thing I noticed about her story is that she said that the news-stories were the same as yesterday. If such subtle changes were happening in her own life, wouldn't the changes be more dramatic world-wide? I think the news-stories from TV and papers would be dramatically different.

Hi front243, I doubt anyone could sleuth their way through the difference between someone having some cerebral incident causing distorted memories of reality, and someone who really shifted from another world to ours. (Unless you find they had a stroke or the like!)

To determine this, we'd need to discover a marker (like a form of radiation from our bodies) connecting life forms to our version of Space-Time. Someone without that marker, or with a different one, could hail from another reality.


orangekea