Michael Ellick

Maybe a few minutes has now come by total, maybe more.

But every new encounter just continues to floor me.

You know, meanwhile, my consciousness is that of someone who is, you know, 30 plus, whatever I was in 2006, who's a meditator, who is a Buddhist philosophically trained.

And so in my mind, I'm like...

somehow I've learned how to move through space and time.

I'm also a kid of science fiction.

I'm like, I've done it.

I've hit the jackpot.

I know how to time travel.

I thought that, right?

And so I'm thinking this as my parents are talking to me and they're trying to like,

Because whatever I look like to them, in addition to the bandage, whatever my face is doing, it must have looked crazy to them, right?

Like, I'm in astonishment, but they're seeing me through the lens of someone who might have had a concussion.

And they're like, is my son, you know, messed up or whatever?

So they're, like, they're trying to, like, get me to sit down, and I'm, like, I'm just in shock.

So I finally, I say at some point out loud, like, mom, from now on, everything is going to be really different, right?

And I mean in my head, like...

My whole life has just changed, right?

Like the fundamental existential ground of my world has changed.

I am no longer stuck in one timeline, right?