Dead but Dreaming...Are we the Ghost Folk?
As Contradictory ‘Realities’ Collide in an Age of High Strangeness, Broken Pasts and Lost Futures
I am starting to wonder if there is a link between the Mandela Effect and Hauntology? Hauntology is the longing for a lost future which never manifested, while the Mandela Effect is all about lost/contradictory pasts.
They both seem to be rooted—or more correctly, catalysed—within a 1970s/80s cultural timeshift. As if these decades are recalled as the past and future racing each other in opposite directions at almost the same speed. But with just enough space-time distance between them so as to trigger the lost or double memories/emotions which they give rise to. Along with the strange sensation of disjointed melancholy which often manifests in place of nostalgia when recalling these past cultural memories.
Both states also fit into this present era of quantum Wave Function Collapse. Which I have theroized might help explain the sheer oddness and disjointed nature of the world right now. As well as also indicate that—at some level during the early 2000s—we all died as an increasing number of Forteans have speculated.
Now we have become the ghosts who are haunting themselves. While subconcsiously recalling the trauma of this mass demise of our species. The specific nature of this obliteration we can’t specifically remember in detail. Hauntology is generally—but not exclusively—experienced through childhood memories of odd children’s TV shows, paranormal and horror programs all running in tandem with public service broadcasts and government warnings.
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Interesting. I've just decided that hauntology is my new favorite word. Longing for a lost future that never manifested...
I can believe that the collective is traumatized. All of us being ghosts would explain the lack of substance.
I recall a somewhat "out there" character in a truther by the name of Pattie Brassard. She said in one of her lengthy ramblings about the time working backwards and forwards at the same time. This was the goal of the Silver Legion (who or whatever they are) to get everyone to a singular point in time i.e a thousand years in reverse and a thousand years going forward culminating in an arrival at a singular point in time equalling enlightenment. How you quantify such theories is beyond me, I hasten to guess something of this nature may be happening currently--especially with the general bizarre nature of reality post the thing that should not be. Just thought I would add this to your post dude.