I had a few years where every time I was about to fall asleep I had that very immediate feeling of falling that wakes you up but it was 100 times stronger than I'd ever felt before. It went from "oh, I'm nice and comfortable and just drifting off" to "HOLY FUCK I JUST ALMOST FUCKING DIED" in less than a second, it was absolutely horrifying and took a deep mental toll during and for a good while after it stopped. I still think about it in the context of this post, just the idea of "what if all those times were some sort of universe switching?" (To be clear, not in a serious way, it's just a fun philosophical thing).

I hope my body melted into nasty goop by the time they find me.

I never bought into quantum immortality. Isn't it obvious to everyone that this is just circular reasoning?

I once bit of a piece of sausage, quickly noticed it was too hot to chew, and decided in my infinite wisdom that the best way to handle this situation was to swallow the unchewed piece. It was too big to go down on its own, but whatever self preservation reflex kicked in also took forever to make it go back up, so I had enough time to decide I didn't want to make a scene at the dinner table, so I had to force it down by swallowing more and more spit to make my esophagus move the right way again. Pretty sure alternative reality me chocked on that.

Almost impossible to make a series of worse decisions in my lifetime.

The thing about quantum immortality is that as you age and you start running out of timelines, the circumstances for you to still be alive get weirder and weirder.

Imagine you are 90 and are about to die in all other timelines and the only way you survive is for aliens to show up with a cure for death.

My dumbass was a bitch at cycling and nearly tried eating a headlong collision to make a crowded left turn. I had dreams about what my dead body would look like. This is seriously no joke

This is too real, I absolutely ate it once in a hotel shower all alone. I was stunned and had the wind knocked out of me while getting waterboarded by the shower. I don't think I ever felt so helpless and actually started thinking this is how it ends.

I've been leaving behind a few more dead timelines than usual lately. deja-vu-like flashes of mistakes I'm concurrently avoiding AND making at once. tripping down stairs that i actually made it safely to the bottom of. catastrophic car accidents that everyone actually ends up driving away from unscathed. I see it flash before my eyes and divert my course... I try to tell myself it's just experiential pattern recognition providing examples of what could go wrong, why to be cautious and take care. But... Yeah, this hits freaky

I actually think about this a lot.

Quit the nonsense. It is plot armor

I used to want to be immortal. Now I understand those who don't want to.

Crawling around a claustrophobic attic in a heatwave recently and I had a panicked moment where I decided I had better get out before hyperthermia made it so I physically couldn't.

Pretty sure there is a parallel universe where firefighters are cutting holes in the ceiling to extract my rotting corpse from behind an aging air handler.

Somewhere, somewhen, there is a version of me who made all the right decisions and is living a truly great life.

And everyday I give big props to them, while just doing the best I can each day and continue making questionable decisions sometimes.

I sometimes think about this playing video games, especially Tomb Raider. The protagonist never ever failed. From their perspective they must feel invincible. Kind of explains Lara's cocky attitude.

Ok, but hear me out. What if the universe is the insides of a quantum computation doing a Levin search based on reversible computation? Aka every time you truly hesitate before making a decision you’re doing a quick-save?

Edit: oh, and it’d be lazily evaluated in this case

I mustve died many many times cause the universe im in now sucks