Dead World

[garcia5]

I was laying down in bed last night and I started thinking about this for no real reason at all and thought it would make a pretty fantastic concept.

Lets just say that there is no such thing as heaven and hell. In our concious life we have the ability to dream and imagine worlds that cannot exist in reality. In our minds we can be heroes or villains, men can be women or women men if it floats your boat. The power of our minds are so powerful we can fly or die and ressurect ourselves. Its that subconcious that really exists in place of our souls and according to Einsteins theory we are but energy and when we die that energy lives on. What if that energy were our thoughts. Say when you die that your life energy explodes and like the big bang theory new life sprouts up out of that energy, except the world that you now exist in is one of your own creation that you unknowingly control.

Ever notice how things just come together. Maybe one day your watching the trailer for a film and you wish desperatly that you could see it and then you just happen to stumble upon this very website by a mistyped word in a search engine or see something in a chat room or forum and you put in for passes and get them. Little things like that , that just connect are largely overlooked because we chalk it up to luck or chance. What if they exist because the life your living isn't real but one that you've made up out of wishful thinking and an overactive imagination built from the many lives that you've lived throughout time inside your own energy. Everything and everyone within your imagination is an offspring of your own energy thus becoming a live energy themselves slowly collecting thought and conciousess and branching off eventually into their own parallel world of conciousness.

Before I kill the concept with to much technical stuff lets go into the more detailed aspect of the concept. Okay, you know how when people say they see ghosts and how the air is chilled or what not. Lets just say that when a person dies within your concious dream that they become this energy, lets just call it a dream within a dream. The dead cannot see the living and vice versa because they are wrapped up in their own lane of conciousness but because the origin of all that energy is like a confined space all dreams must co-exist one on top of the other in layers. Every now and then a remembered thought acts as a bridge to the former world and the two world are allowed to interconnect and its here where, if to people of different plains cross, the chilled ghost thing comes in. Its not actually a ghost but two living energy waves being crossed which gives both people on either side the same chill, both, depending on the rules of each world, think they have felt a ghost.

Anyway. I thought that would be a pretty cool story. Kind of a complex one but I had some fun thinking about it. Let me know what you think.

[nikorobin]

Sounds like a mix of that one Robin Williams film where he went to hell to rescue his wife when she suicided after his death and The Matrix.

It sounds great for a new cult, but for a movie or novel it needs some kind of conflict or purpose. In the matrix this worked because the antagonist fights the machines that are opressing humanity and people can latch onto the cool powers to shape the reality because they are fighting against the system. When you make people themselves the sytem in their own self created universe what is there to rebel against.

Maybe you could spin it where this one person is aware of this and is able to jump into other peoples worlds like sliders and he is on a journey to find the first energy to have created, or what supposedly would be god to answer the age old question why. Maybe have angels instead of so called agent smiths. I guess it still sounds like The Matrix.

[garcia5]

Actually you hit the nail one the head with the Sliders thing. This was just a conceptual thought without regard to genre or anything but I like what you did there. Like some sort of scientist, or even a religious person who has been doubting their faith who somehow stumbles upon a clue and puts things together. I don't see it as a film but a novel because it would take some slow character development as well as story development. There doesn't really have to be a protagonist though. It would be like a journey of self disovery. For me it would end where our guy stumbles in and out of conciousness' and finally discovers the origin of all the energy only to come to the realization that even the origin is just a structure from another much larger creation. In the end he realizes that the only way to truly be happy and content is to keep his faith strong because the mysteries of life are far to complex for anyone to understand and that if you spend your life trying to figure things out the best parts of life simply pass you by and you miss out.

Thanks for the reply though that was a fascinating add on.

[jonbravo]

robin williams film [what dreams may come]great film,the whole ghost thing reminds me of,a film,nicole kidman stars,cant think of the name of that film.in terms of it being a move or a novel i think your right,would have to be a novel or short story because it would be very complex to write,old school writing is needed if you know what i mean,and of course you wouldnt want the reader to realise 2 early,that would be complex in itself,the characters emotions should come into play near the end,the energy around someone aka your soul,very had to write without complex lol;-],great idea!!