Ok, so something weird happened today. So weird in fact that I feel compelled to document it, before the impact of the moment fades and my brain rationalizes it all away. It involves my old gym shirt. Ive had this thing for many years. Its comfy and distinctive, and also has a small, prominent hole on the front. I know it has a hole. Not only have I worn the bloody thing countless times, Ive also commented on the hole, bemoaning it as the reason I couldnt wear the shirt anywhere but the gym. Today the hole moved. It is no longer on the front of the shirt. It is on the back. The hole itself looks identical, its just on the opposite side of the damn shirt. Now I know what youre going to say. Jody and I have gone through the possible permutations of how we might have got this wrong or confused. We checked all my other shirts, to see if perhaps we had the shirt mixed up with another one. I really dont own very many shirts. We havent thrown anything out recently. Its the right damn shirt. I noticed the change immediately. Jody noticed it as soon as I put the shirt on. It was freaky. The hole is now on the back of the shirt. There is no way I could have been wearing the shirt backwards all this time. Its very clearly oriented. The shirt was washed last night. This appears to be the way it came out. There is no obvious rational explanation besides “you must be remembering wrong”, which seems very ad-hoc to me. The thing is, this kind of stuff is predicted in Quantum Mechanics. A quick google of “macroscopic quantum phenomena” brings up a plethora of theories and observable effects. The idea that an object can spontaneously rearrange itself into a chiralic duplicate of itself is possible in theory, the odds of it happening are simply so vanishingly small that it would be unlikely to happen within the lifetime of the universe. Unless of course there were other factors we are not yet aware of which could influence those odds. It would be really easy to dismiss this with a shrug and get on with my day. I did basically do that, except Ive taken this time to write things down while they are fresh. Maybe that is part of what contributes to these phenomena being so hard to track and verify. I dont have any photos of me wearing the damn shirt that I can think of. I almost asked the gym today if they had any high resolution cameras up in the exercise area which might have caught an image of me there on Tuesday. I chickened out because I dont want them to treat me like a lunatic. So there you go. Im pretty sure I experienced something bizarre. Not supernatural or unexplainable, but never-the-less very spooky and unusual. Not to mention mind-numbingly mundane. Unless I can dig up some footage of myself wearing the thing, which clearly shows a hole in the front where there is no hole now, there is no way I can convey the certainty of mine and Jodys recollections to anyone else. Even if I found the footage, there would no doubt be other rationalizations waiting in the wings. If I didnt have someone to corroborate what I experienced, it would just be put down to a mental episode, even though I nor my family have any history. That is of course as it should be, because mind, matter, energy, space and time are all twisted together into an inscrutable, complicated snarl which hurts to even think about, until of course you get a little peek, which your mind quickly sweeps under the rug, allowing you to get on with your day.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 06:40:04 +0000
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