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Do you think there are other timelines where a duplicate of you exists?

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Do you think there could be another timeline or perhaps dimension where there's a person with your exact DNA & physical appearance just living their life, but they decided to study or behave differently from you?
 
I think about alternate universes often. I don't believe or disbelieve. They could be a thing. It would be fascinating, horrifying, and ineffable to see alternate timelines and versions of ourselves. If, and this is a huge if, the number of universes is infinite, then that means there would be someone doing that. But I don't think we in our universe would ever have the technology to see others.
 
If I were to believe in multiverse theory, I'd go about it with the following : a timeline is ever-advancing, and each choice you make in life takes you on a different path that you cannot go back from. However, that doesn't mean the timeline itself can't cross paths with another (for example, you make a series of choice in an order that ultimately doesn't have a different outcome no matter what order you picked). Problem is, you cannot see what the other "you" would be doing in the timeline you didn't pick, and you'll never know for certain what would become of the other you, and vice versa.

I don't know if I made myself clear enough with this interpretation, though.
 
It's very possible that another separate universe could exist. But as for the likelihood of you actually meeting an alternate version of yourself? You have more chances of winning the lottery than actually encountering yourself from another universe, just saying.
 
see, i don't like to think about things like this too much because it goes into existential crisis territory for me. like, what if i've made x decision or y decision, and then i'd have to think about a split in the timeline where i've made the opposite decision? i'd then have to wonder what would've happen to me, the significance of that decision, etc. it takes me long enough to make hard choices as it is, so no thank you.
 
I tend to think that nothing is really outside the realm of possibility,but I am not really sure what I think about the multiverse theory myself. It could or could not exist and because of that an alternate version of me could or could not exist.
 
Not really, and even if that person had the same DNA and appearance as me we still wouldn't be the same person. Identical twins share DNA and they're rightfully treated as seperate individuals. Let's say there's an alternate reality where an identical twin of me exists, I'd consider them a seperate person for that reason. I suppose it depends on how you view "the self", for example whether one is still the same person if they hypothetically lost all their memories of their life up until that point. This concept is often explored in fiction anyway. I too can fantasise about that kind of scenario, but I don't seriously think it's a possibility. Speaking for myself, I believe any "alternative" version of myself would be different from who I am now and therefore we would be seperate people, strangers in fact.

Have you ever asked yourself who the Real Slim Shady is? If you stood up, is it you? If we both stood up who is it then? If I stood up, am I the Real Slim Shady? If you accepted I'm the Real Slim Shady, can anyone else ever be the Real Slim Shady? If you didn't recognise me as the Real Slim Shady when I stood up, am I still the Real Slim Shady? If I stood up and the only person who'd recognise me as the Real Slim Shady was myself, am I the Real Slim Shady? If there was no one to deny or recognise me when I stood up, am I the Real Slim Shady regardless? If I can't stand up, could I never be the Real Slim Shady? If every single person would stand up, who would be the Real Slim Shady? If there's no one left to stand up, who is the Real Slim Shady?

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I wouldn't mind if it were true because that version of me and all other people in that universe are separate from us so it technically doesn't matter
 
i already live my life aware to some degree of "multiple versions of me" with different perspectives, desires, or decisions on account of my DID so honestly the idea of totally alternate universe versions of me in the spacetime continuum does not bother me in the slightest. i am too aware of how malleable identity and general existence is because my current lived reality is disordered in that regard.

i'll be here living my life and if totally alternate versions of me exist out there, hope they're living their lives well too. if anything it is a fun thought experiment for me sometimes; i think it would be easy to focus on all of the regrets in my life and how things could be better and maybe there's an AU version of me that's doing better than i am, but actually i often think about how many AU versions of me there could be that are much worse off if i didn't make crucial decisions in my life, and like, sorry to those versions of me or whatever but i am grateful to be where i am; thinking about how many chances there were for me to go down the darker timeline makes me feel better about myself, LOL.
 
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