Author of the Universe

“How awesome would it be to just sprint right up that building?” – subscriber to Maxim magazine

“Ch’yeah, that’d be bo wicked diesel….but I’d rather just fly.” – subscriber’s friend who borrows a lot

“No way, if we’re picking powers, I’m totally going with invisibility.” - subscriber

“Mind Control.” – friend

“Time travel.” – actual nerd, eavesdropping

(End of discussion)

That’s the breakdown of your standard super-hero power discussion-slash-argument. A random power comes up because some slack jawed yokel was looking around waiting for the short bus, then flying and invisibility go at it, sometimes a mildly better ability surfaces, and then the actual genius trumps everybody with time travel.

A brief aside for the nay-sayers: time-travel lets you edit anything you want. The Time Travel advocate has the easiest time defending himself by saying “oh really? In that case, I’ll just go back in time and stop you beforehand.” Not much that Superman or the Invisible Woman can do about Bill and Ted or Marty McFly.

The reason I bring this up is I discovered a time machine the other day. It allows me to continually rocket out of the past and into the future. I call it brain. I’m constantly speeding via the grey matter Delorean in my head. Every night I even skip 6-7 hours ~SNAP~ just like that. You have one too, but if you’re like most people – you don’t even realize you’re using it.

Don’t believe me? I'll live. I’m not Tinkerbell. Take a look around you. What do you see? A computer? Walls? An impossible cube? I’m sorry, none of you actually saw any of those things. What you saw was your perception of said things.

This is important.


I have a quote to emphasize my point.


“This is important.” - me

If you can break through the barrier that you’ve most likely assumed was there your whole life, you’ll realize that reality around you is completely malleable. Since you experience reality through your perception, “actual” reality’s basically irrelevant and quite possibly, might not even exist. Your perception is vastly more important. Through editing that perception, you can edit the real world.

Case and point – dreams. When you’re in a dream it “seems real” no matter how bizarre things may get. Running in slow motion no matter how much you push your legs? Wow that was close, the stalker almost got you! Falling off a cliff/bridge/building/airplane? I hope you wake-up before you hit the ground. Kool Aide crimping your style? You’re not dreaming on that last one.

When thinking about this, things start to get a little Gnarls Barkley. It’s unorthodox thinking, and it exists in this realm of disbelief and skepticism. To the cynics, realists, and pessimists out there, I ask you – since you’re making up your perception of reality, why did you choose one that sucks so bad? When you look at Himalayan monks with crazy biofeedback powers, or psychics that receive communications from the universe, why is the default position disbelief?

Hopefully someone will read this and understand what it’s about. There’s so much more about this that I could write. Seriously, start living your life instead your life living you.

-Ry