Awhile back I brought up the significance of memory in understanding the 5-dimensional perspective. We need the information about past experiences that feeds our ability to generate expectations about future outcomes. But is this forward flow of information inviolable?
I've suggested that true freedom/mobility in 5 dimensions involves overriding the influence of memory. But what happens if the circuitry of memory is circumvented too often?
Perhaps I should back up and give an example of 5-dimensional navigation might involve overriding the influence of memory... Okay, suppose you are at the store. You want a frozen mushroom pizza. The store is having a sale on the brand of pizza that you want to buy, but you scan the shelves and there isn't a mushroom pizza of this brand to be found. 'I don't like this universe', you mutter to yourself. But you know that it is theoretically possible to find a future that is inconsistent with the observation you have just experienced. 'I can UNDO this', you smugly think to yourself.
Now, the majority of people would never see a future outcome that is inconsistent with that observation. Or, if they did, undoubtedly they would assume that they simply hadn't seen something the first time they looked. But you have practiced and can willfully shift your attention, alter your expectations, and override the influence of that past observation upon your next observation. In effect, you aren't horribly anchored yet in this particular universe, so you dive back into the smear and re-emerge in a slightly more-satisfying universe. ;)
Memory is a powerful anchor to be sure, and its mechanisms are not completely understood. (For example, sleep does not involve the cessation of visual imagery or a feeling of experience; it simply has a different relationship to the mechanisms of memory. I know I am awake again when I can willfully access and reflect on the contents of my past experience.) But what happens if we become slightly less dependent on having a past that is consistent with the future?
Let's assume you have discovered that you like being able to jump universes. How are the influence and the architectures of memory altered to cope with this type of inconsistency in observations? What are the consequences of too much of this UNDOing?
So far I have two observations of note in this area...
1) I have a hideous short-term memory, and it seems to me that this has gotten worse over time. It now requires much more of an effort on my part to hold information in short-term memory.
2) Non-local drift.
