IDEA - 9-17-2020
by
Patrick Ryan
1,497 Words
Every time Fred Jones goes to sleep and wakes up in the morning, the world is different. It's not like the typical passing of time; Fred is waking up in other places, times, universes, and planets. In a secret military experiment, Fred was a researcher working on a quantum mechanics project. According to the documents, Dr. Jones was performing the first test, and one moment he was there, and the next he was gone. The military jumped in quickly to cover up the calamity, making more people vanish than David Copperfield. But from Fred's point of view, he was in a nightmare. Fred believes that if he can appear near his own time and universe at some point, he can either persuade himself or others not to run the experiment. 'Fred claims that his consciousness holds the wormhole at bay, that's why teleportation occurs when he sleeps. Fred is convinced that the NREM sleep Theta waves are the ones that activate the teleportation. He knows this because he once teleported to the 1980s, where he met his college-aged wife before they met each other. Fearing what would happen if he interacted with his own life, he only admired her from afar. He tested the sleep deprivation limits, resisting NREM sleep for almost a month, before he couldn't prevent it, falling asleep without his alarm. He popped up in her childhood, held on for nearly a month and a half, never spoke to her, but the familiarity made him happy. At last, he skipped to a time right before she met him; he had held on for almost two months, crawling to her door, with bloodshot eyes, he could barely hold them open. He's decided to tell her about the experiment and the journey he's been on, damn the consequences. The next morning, he woke up in the desert, millions of light-years away, his confession had not succeeded. It wasn't until he traveled to the future and saw a toy that can teleport things around a room. Upon review, he found that the toy used the principles of his experiment. It was a ubiquitous technology of the time. When Fred realized that he did exist in this reality, there was a possibility that the wormhole might carry him to a desired time in the universe. Using the toy, he was able to limit his jumps to that reality. It took 37 jumps to get close enough to where the experiment could be halted. He told himself about the implications of the experiment, hard to believe, keeping what looked like a baby toy in his hands. Just as he's about to leave, his wife comes out of the kitchen; she immediately recognizes him, and he fades away, his nightmare is over.
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