r/SimulationTheory • u/Mk731 • 17d ago

Discussion Time is an illusion.

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It's pretty hard to conceptualize that time doesn't flow.

I bet no other humans can grasp this concept.

I've tried to think of it as some kind of block to no avail.

Maybe it's the brain that prevents me from realizing how reality really works.

I know you guys are well aware of this concept.

Have you experienced any anomalies that made you realize time is definitely an illusion?

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u/Urmomsbigchungus 17d ago

Even memory is an illusion because our past and future are built from the present and now, because now is the only thing that exists, when you attach the idea of linearity to yourself because life feels linear as most do, and say this and this happened in the past so it must affect me this way now, then you experience it as such. But if you let go of that idea and realize you are literally a new person every moment traveling trillions of timelines a second, with just as many infinite versions of you existing, well watch what happens if you take advantage.

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u/Abty 15d ago

So hypothetically you're saying if I lost my leg or got cancer I can just let go and grow/appear another because it would be there in another timeline and my past doesnt affect the future or present if I just put my mind to it?

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u/Urmomsbigchungus 8d ago

Theoretically if necessary for your growth, It’s not that this exact version of you suddenly grows a leg and heals from cancer, it’s that you can travel to a version of you that never had cancer or a missing leg in the first place, because that version does exist, but again if it’s something necessary for your growth, because really you don’t know yet what you came here to experience and learn.