Fragmented Paths
Dr. Aline
Knorr was a brilliant neuroscientist who had dedicated her life to unraveling
the mysteries of the human mind. Together with her assistant Esther, a
passionate young researcher, they had been working on an experimental project
that combined the study of brain frequencies and concentration. What began as
an investigation into different neural states had taken an unexpected turn
towards a deeper discovery.
During a
routine session in the laboratory, Aline was adjusting the scales to measure
the brain frequency of a test subject, when something strange occurred in the
device intended to measure brain activity.
The results
did not match the expected patterns. Esther, sitting next to the patient, was
watching the screen cautiously when she whispered to Dr. Knorr : "Look at those spikes, Aline... they
are not normal. The brain resonance is outside of what we have recorded so
far."
Aline stared
at the screen . "I know... But
there's something here. It's like the waves are responding to something else...
something more external than the subject's concentration. We're going to repeat
the experiment, but this time we'll set the frequency generator to maximum
resonance. I want to see what happens when it reaches the limit."
Esther
agreed and adjusted the generator. They both watched in silence as the
subject's brain waves aligned with the new frequency. Suddenly, the readings
changed dramatically, showing completely unknown patterns at a very high
frequency.
Aline said
quietly, almost to herself , "This
isn't just normal brain activity... It seems we're picking up something
else."
Esther
looked on in amazement . “Aline, do you
know what this means? “It's unlike anything we've seen in previous
measurements.”
Aline was
excited and answered very quietly to avoid upsetting Frank, the test subject
whose brain they were studying -
"Esther, I think Frank has come into contact with a higher plane of
consciousness. Do you remember the theory of superconsciousness? The concept
that all minds are linked at a deeper level, beyond time and space..." -
Esther was
perplexed - "Yes, but that's just
speculative theory. Are you saying that Frank found a way to access that
plane?" -
Aline said , "It seems so. What we're seeing here
isn't simply Frank's mind activity in the present. If that's what I'm saying...
it's as if his brain waves are interacting with his own versions of the past.
The superconsciousness works on timeless planes. If I'm right, Frank could be
sending thoughts, intentions... into the past... into the
superconsciousness."
Esther
frowned, doubtful . “Sending thoughts
back in time? That sounds… impossible, Aline. How could something like that
work without breaking every law we know of?”
Aline smiled
with a mix of excitement and fear .
“That’s also where quantum physics reigns. At the most fundamental level of
superconsciousness, time is not linear, it’s a series of probabilities. If
consciousness can navigate that space… it could influence past events. What I’m
suggesting is that our minds, through superconsciousness, may be able to alter
the past. Think about what this means: we could rewrite decisions, modify the
course of our current lives to better standards.”
Esther
stepped back a little, impressed but uneasy.
"It's fascinating, but also dangerous. If we change something in the past,
what would happen to our present? How would we control paradoxes?"
Frank, the
test subject, seemed to come out of the deep trance he was experiencing as his
brain waves returned to normal waking state. Both Aline and Esther watched him
with curiosity. Once the man was conscious and awake, he sat up from the table.
Dr. Knorr and her assistant set about removing the sensors and probes attached
to different parts of his body.
She didn't
want to influence the man's observations, so Aline asked him casually, trying
not to sound nervous. "So, Frank?
How's your meditation going?"
Frank
stretched out in satisfaction, as if he had been sleeping for a long time . "Excellent, doctor! For the first
time since you studied me, I reached a state of deep meditation... I managed to
locate my Akashic records." The man seemed excited.
Aline
confirmed - "We saw something
different today in the brain waves. Something we didn't see in the previous
sessions." She didn't want to be more specific. - "Tell me, Frank, what did you do with your Akashic
records?"
Frank
replied as the last electrodes were being removed from his arms - "Well, nothing unusual. I tried to
open them up, look for what was bothering me and somehow draw conclusions and
see how the problem would go away... the usual." He made a small
movement with his shoulders.
If Aline and
Esther's conclusions were correct, then it was precisely man's contact with
these Akashic records that was what scientists called the superconsciousness.
To make contact with it was to reach the collective unconscious of
psychiatrists, which governed the basic morphology of human thoughts. And above
all, it connected living beings in a space outside the material reality of
three dimensions and operated outside of time.
If all had
gone well, Frank, through interaction with the superconsciousness, should have
operated on his problems in the immediate past and generated changes that would
somehow modify his present.
Now came the
important part: they would compare his vital signs before the meditation with
his current vital signs to see if the change had taken place. Aline waited
anxiously while Esther took the new parameters. Frank's blood pressure had
dropped slightly, his heart rate had decreased by five percent. His muscle tone
had relaxed by ten percent. The rest of the parameters remained the same and
stable.
Esther knew
that this research had special value for Aline.
Dr. Knorr
had spent years trapped in a loveless marriage, where the initial glow of the
relationship had long since faded. Although she deeply loved her two children,
the weight of unhappiness she felt with her husband was suffocating her. What
tormented the researcher most was not the present, but a persistent question
she had never been able to silence: what
would have happened if she had not left Roger, her boyfriend?
Roger had
been her youthful boyfriend, the man who had made her feel complete, understood
and loved. They had separated for reasons that at the time seemed
insurmountable: divergent life goals and professional dreams that led them down
different paths.
Then Aline
met her future husband, a stable and reliable man, but over time he had lost
his passion and connection. The affection she had once felt for him had
dissolved into routine and indifference. Doubts and regrets about her
relationship with Roger had begun to blossom like shadows she could not ignore.
That all
changed the day Aline made a groundbreaking discovery in her lab. As a
neuroscientist, she was one of the most brilliant minds of her generation, and
together with her young assistant Esther, they had been investigating the
limits of human consciousness. In the midst of an experiment with brain
frequencies and quantum theories of time, Aline had accidentally unlocked a
technique that apparently allowed people to send thoughts into the past – more
specifically, to their past selves who were part of what scientists had begun
to call “Superconsciousness . ”
This
technique not only allowed her to communicate with previous versions of
herself, but also to influence her past decisions to modify the present. Aline
immediately understood the power she had in her hands, and the temptation was
impossible to resist. What if she could
change that one decision that had ruined her life? What would have become of
her life if she had chosen to stay with Roger, the love of her life?
Sitting in
the lab, with the lights dimmed and their brain waves synchronized, Aline
breathed deeply. Esther watched from a corner, worried. After the initial
success with Frank, Dr. Knorr did not want to waste any more time and had
decided to become a guinea pig for her own research.
Esther asked
for the umpteenth time - "Aline,
are you sure about this? You know we can't foresee the consequences."
Aline stared
into space as she reflected on her own life. She replied , “I can’t keep wondering ‘ what
if… ’. I can’t keep living with that doubt. I have to try.”
The device
was ready, her brain waves said that her consciousness was about to integrate
into the superconsciousness, into that space where time was an eternal present.
Aline fixed her mind on the exact moment: the day she met her current husband,
twenty years ago. If she could influence her past self to reject that
encounter, she could try to rebuild her relationship with Roger.
The machine
hummed softly as the process began. Aline closed her eyes and concentrated,
sending a single thought to her younger self: "Don't choose him. Stay with
Roger ." She applied the same technique that Frank had used just a
couple of days before. Her body began to relax as she felt the sensation of
everything spinning around her. Somehow, she felt her consciousness recede and
a sensation of walking through a tunnel backwards made her feel like she was
being drawn into superconsciousness. Time seemed to have stopped as external
stimuli slowly faded away. The last thing she felt before total blackness
enveloped her were Esther's words that barely reached her as whispers entering
her mind.
She had no
notion of the time that had passed. When Aline opened her eyes, she immediately
realized that something had changed. She was home, but the atmosphere was
different. The walls that had been decorated with photos of her family now
displayed images of her and Roger. Her heart skipped a beat. "I've
done it ," she thought.
She walked
down the stairs and saw him. There was Roger, his hair a little grayer, but the
same warm smile. Memories began to reorganize in her mind: how they had stayed
together, how they got married and built a life. She felt happy, at peace,
until her children entered the room. But something wasn't right.
They were
different.
The two
children looking at her did not seem to be her children. They were others.
Different features, different personalities, different names. A void opened in
her chest. She realized that her family was no longer the same. She had lost
them. By changing her past, she had also changed the nature of the children she
knew and loved. Her happiness with Roger had erased the existence of her
children.
Aline,
devastated by the result, decided to try again. She called Esther, but it was
unnecessary. They had already agreed to meet in the laboratory to perform the
first time regression experiment on herself. It had only been a couple of days
since Frank had tried it. Curious and strange . In this
timeline, she would experience regression for the first time. But in her own
timeline, today she would try it for the second time.
She spoke
with Roger for a few minutes and then returned to the lab to adjust the device.
Knowing that the method worked, she decided that this time, she would send a
different thought, something that would lead her to keep her original children
but also allow her to be with Roger. With Esther, they adjusted the
frequencies, focusing on a new moment in the past, years after she met her
husband, but before her children were born.
-"Don't
leave Roger. Find a way to make the relationship work"- That was the message she sent to
her younger self, hoping to find a balance between both worlds.
When she
woke up again in the present, she found herself in a luxurious house, larger
than the one before. Memories of her years with Roger flooded back into her
mind: they were successful, financially stable, and most importantly, their
children were there. But as she examined her new life, she began to notice
small details that made her uneasy. Roger was not the same man she remembered
from years ago.
Her husband
was distant, cold, absorbed in work, and the connection they once shared was no
longer there. As she looked back on her life with him, she found that even
though they were together, he was never able to give her the same level of love
and commitment that he once had. In this new present, although her children
existed in the forms of her original children, her relationship with Roger had
deteriorated in a different way, and the emotional emptiness she felt from the
beginning was still present.
Desperate,
Aline decided to try one more time. She didn't tell Esther that this would be
the third attempt. She wasn't willing to accept any of these versions of her
life. She told herself that this time she should find the perfect way to keep
the original Roger, her beloved children, and the happiness she so longed for.
When she
sent the last message to her past self, some problem in the equipment's
electronics caused a short circuit, and as she was going back through the
tunnel to connect to the superconsciousness, something in the machine caused an
unexpected error. Timelines began to overlap in her mind, mixing fragments of
memories from diverse pasts and divergent presents. Suddenly, her mind was
entangled in multiple versions of her life. She was unable to determine which
of the realities she saw was part of her timeline. In one, Roger was alive and
with her, but her children did not exist; in another, her husband was still the
same, but she could not remember Roger; in a third, her professional life was
destroyed.
Reality
began to fragment around her. She felt incapable of maintaining coherence.
Through her analytical mind, Aline realized that, by trying to change the past
and thus correct her present, the exquisite choreography of each of the
components that made up her life was restructured, deformed or reconstructed.
It was a labyrinth of crossroads that only allowed her to travel towards the
future. She realized that she had completely lost her bearings. Her memories
began to fade, her past and present life collapsed into a series of paradoxes
that were impossible to reconcile.
Aline opened
her eyes. She was in the lab, in the midst of preparations to begin the
experiment… once again . Esther was
busy programming the equipment. She sat up straight on the table and was silent
for a moment, aware of the implications. The promise of changing her own life
had begun to cloud her judgment. In her mind, a single question arose: What
if this was not the way? Maybe the mistake was changing her husband.
Maybe if she could change herself to transform all the decisions she considered
wrong and that had tormented her in the last few years…
Aline said
whispering to herself , "If I could
talk to my twenty-year-old self... Change my own perspectives..."
Esther
turned around worried - "Aline?
What are you talking about?" -
Aline stood
up from the stretcher as she removed the electrodes. She walked over to look
out the laboratory window, her gaze lost.
She told
Esther , "My marriage, Esther. I've
spent years wondering if I made the right decision. Roger... he was the love of
my life before I met my husband. I've always wondered what my life would have
been like with him. If I had the chance to send a thought back and change that
decision... everything would end up being different. But I would still be
unhappy. There will always be wrong decisions."
Esther
replied cautiously , "Aline, this
could be dangerous. We don't know what consequences it could have. Playing with
the past, even in small doses, could destroy what we know."
Aline,
turning to her with determination -
"I've realized that, Esther. If we have the power to correct our
mistakes... is it worth risking what we've achieved?"
Esther takes
a deep breath, aware of the moral dilemma Aline faces. Unaware that the
experiment had already failed three times, and thinking that they were going to
perform it for the first time that morning, she felt a chill run down her spine
at the thought of what they were about to do.
Esther was
serious as she said , "If you do this,
Aline, there will be no turning back. And you have a lot to lose if something
goes wrong."
Aline
stopped looking out the window. She had her beloved children in the present,
but she had been abandoned by her husband more than twelve months ago.
Aline finally
said , "I'm not going to try."
Esther,
visibly relieved, began to turn off the equipment.
On the desk,
Aline's cell phone began to hum softly. It was an unknown number. Dr. Knorr
decided to answer it. On the other end of the line, she recognized the voice of
a ghost that had been haunting her for a long time. It was Roger .
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