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Higher Consciousness. Wink wink nudge nudge.
2001-05-16 5:49 a.m.

Hello, 239 fellow diarists!

Man. That's one sweet feature. I've got such a sense of community right now.

***

So, yeah. As I was just thinking right now, (You can read my thoughts! Don't even try to deny it, you reading-my-thoughts person you!)

This isn't really stream of consciousness. It's more like puddles, I think. Waves, perhaps.

Mmmm. Waves.

Now I know why I don't do this sort of thing more often.

Splash!

It is far too early in the day for time travel. Or maybe it's too late. It's fucking 6:14, dude. What the hell's wrong with me? Oh, wait. Now I remember.

Just because it seems really really important to me right now, I'm going to talk about time travel. (I almost lost my train of thought right there. Now that I've stopped talking to tell you that I almost lost track of what I was saying, I'll bet you anything I've forgotten right now. I won't let myself go back and check either. Maybe it wasn't that important in the first place. Crap! OK. I was just kidding around there, but now, I've seriously forgotten it. No shit. Stay away from drugs, kids. I'm pretty sure I never actually wrote it down, so it's just gone forever now. I hope it wasn't important.

Ok. I cheated. I went back and checked. Time travel. I have no idea what I was going to say about it. But now I'm pretty sure it was really good.

The essential problem is that I'm thinking so much faster than I'm typing. The other essential problem is that I keep getting distracted. Sometimes, I deliberately try to retrace my thoughts. Other times, I just do it accidentally. And then, I think I'm time traveling. It's probably not really time travel, but that's how I always describe it. It's one of my favorite side effects, actually. Even if you don't notice it while it's happening, you can always tell, because you come back and it's either way too late or way too early.

Everyone time travels. I first heard of the idea from my dad. I have no idea when or why the conversation happened, but I have a very clear memory of my dad saying "I used to time travel." And then, I started doing it too.

One time, this guy who was in my astronomy class was in Rick's room. I hadn't even known he did that sort of thing. But there he was. He said, "And remember, riboflavin makes you time travel." and then he left.

He was right, of course. Every single time I ate cold cereal, especially Captain Crunch, I'd have at least a little bit of this time dilation/deja vu experience that I thought of as time travel.

***

Splash!

***

I'm tired now. And wet. I'm going to bed.

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