Remember Me - A Star Trek episode illustrating Subjective Reality

[bluedragon]

After reading that Steve considered Star Trek illustrates where personal development could take humanity, I knew I wanted to watch it. And after watching only a few episodes, I was hooked. I really like a good TV series (that I never watch on TV, but on my computer at my own convenience). Anyway, I stumbled upon many interesting and intriguing episodes, notably 2 of them illustrating exactly what would happen if reality suddenly became intensely subjective.
For those who haven't seen the TNG episodes Remember Me, its summary is here: Remember Me (episode) - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki but really, only watching it will have the effect of showing you what it would really feel like if reality was responding to thoughts, and what it would mean to not know that it does.

It is the second episode where the character called "The Traveler" appears and helps the crew of the Enterprise navigate their way through an altered reality, ability which only he had mastered and with his help, the young ensign Westley learns to control as well.

[pyrogen]

Blue: I really relate to a lot of stuff in Trek.

The episode "The Inner Light" is what my most recent visualization session felt like... see that ep!

[magi13]

I like the quotes posted on that site. ^^, It's an intelligent series.

[supertom]

Anybody watch stargate kinda similar

[bluedragon]

I found it's on Youtube: YouTube - Star Trek TNG - 4x05 - Remember Me (Part 1)

It's amazing how, watching it, you can really feel how it could happen for real, since it is plausible. Think about how many times people find themselves in situations that are getting worse and worse, and they keep thinking "this is getting worse and worse"... "I'm never gonna get out of this hole" and they make it harder for themselves. Nobody else seems to understand, they all tell them "but I don't understand why it's so much of a problem", or "you're exaggerating" and they seem to be the only person who realizes how hopeless their situation is.
The same way Dr. Crusher, after thinking about her friend who said that "when we get old, we realize that everyone we knew is now gone", she begins manifesting exactly that - people start disappearing. And everybody seems perfectly cool with it - they don't even remember that the missing people ever existed. Entire decks from the spaceship are deserted, and everybody is convinced that nobody ever inhabited those decks. Even top ranking officers star disappearing, and the captain doesn't remember them. At one point, Dr. Crusher and the captain are the only two person left on board the ship, and he is convince that this is how things always were - they never needed any crew. Simple as that. And after that, of course, the captain disappears as well, and the ship's computer assures her that nobody else was ever on board. Of course, the computer confirms that she doesn't possess the skills to carry out the ship's exploration mission by herself, but when she asks "then why am I the only one on board?", she gets the reply "that information is not available".
This is a perfect example of how things progress slowly from one plausible unfortunate event to another, all of them plausible events. And in the end, in light of all the previous events, even an unimaginable catastrophe seems plausible, cause the perception of "normality" has been so much altered by a stream of negative events.
And guess what? It a person believes what is happening to them is normal for them - it is! But a better situation would also be normal. But there is something that chooses the hopeless situation over all the other equally possible ones. Some call it "bad luck" (as if this was a more scientific term that LoA), others call it karma, other call it subjective reality. The thing is, something or somebody IS choosing that situation over another. Even if it is "pure coincidence" - it doesn't change anything. That which chooses a certain life for you - that IS YOU. The only "you" that matters is "he who chooses", and whatever you attribute the choice to, you can't deny that a choice is made.
And you really can't tell if your reality is the only one possible, as long as you believe that it is. Nobody can.