"Who are 'they'?"
When Li Yao saw this, he was stunned for a moment.
It could be seen that the Dream Traveler had not received a good education. His words were a little messy and incoherent. However, it was this simple and straightforward way of writing that carried an eerie ghostly aura that immediately attracted Li Yao's attention.
"When I fell into the reservoir, I struggled desperately at first and choked on a few mouthfuls of water. My body was clearly cold, but my chest and abdomen seemed to be burning. It was extremely uncomfortable."
The Dream Traveler wrote, "But soon, I sank into the dark and bottomless depths. I felt like a mosquito embedded in amber and spent countless years in amber.
"Some people say that when a person is on the verge of death, their brain cells will carry out one last intense activity, making the memories of their life flash before their eyes like a racing lantern. It was the same for me at that time. However, what flashed before my eyes was not only my 'current life', but also my previous life, the life before that, and the life before that.
"At that time, I was just an elementary school student who had always lived in a small town in my hometown. At most, I saw the bright lights of the big city on the blurry black-and-white television. However, when I was entangled in the memories of my near-death, I 'saw' myself become a well-dressed white-collar worker working in the CBD of a big city. I racked my brains in the office, scheming against each other, and sharpening my head to climb up. You must know that when I was in the third grade of elementary school, even the provincial capital and the national metropolis did not have a CBD. Many of the details of office politics in my 'memories' of my white-collar life were absolutely impossible for an elementary school student to think of.
"While I was hesitating and confused, this memory suddenly broke. I seemed to have become a different person again. I was no longer a white-collar elite in the CBD of a big city, but a mechanical worker in a resource city in the west. The new 'memories' were even stranger. I remembered very clearly the details of a lot of machinery manufacturing and operation, as well as the natural scenery of this western city, including the taste and preparation methods of the famous local delicacies. They were all very obscure things. In the era when transportation was inconvenient and information was scarce, it was impossible for an elementary school student living in a third-tier town in the southeast to come into contact with relevant information from any channel.
"I don't know if I've written it clearly enough. Can you understand what I mean?
"That is to say, a child in the third grade of elementary school, at most ten years old, fell into a reservoir and drowned severely. When he was on the verge of death, he should have recalled the short ten years of his life. But somehow, I broke through the boundary between 'previous life' and 'this life.' I saw the images of my previous life as a white-collar worker in the CBD and my previous life as a mechanical worker two lives ago. These images were extremely clear, and the delicacies in the images were all delicious. Until today, I still can't forget everything I 'saw' and 'smelled' at that time.
"When I woke up and my soul returned to the shell of a ten-year-old primary school student, I found myself lying on the bed at home next to my mother, who couldn't even cry. It was not until later that I learned that it had been more than half an hour since I was rescued from the reservoir. My face was blue, my hands and feet were pale, and I was no longer breathing. It was not until half a day later that I was finally saved. I lay on the bed for another month before I finally woke up.
"But that was not the end.
"Since then, although my body had recovered, my soul had always been in a trance. I often saw things that ordinary people couldn't see and heard sounds that ordinary people couldn't hear. In the dead of the night, when I entered a dream, I often returned to the two dreams that I had hundreds of times, or rather, to the memories of my previous life and the life before that.
"As I grew older and older, my brain gradually matured, and the dreams of my previous life and the life before that became clearer and clearer. I even had a feeling that I was very clear that I was dreaming, and the world in the dream was the world of my previous life and the life before that. It was a 'lucid dream', and I was a traveler in the dream — the memories of my previous life.
"When I was sixteen, the third dream, or the memories of my previous life, was awakened.
"It seemed to be a very dark and miserable world where wars, famine, and chaos were everywhere. Like most people, I was bathed in smoke and gunfire in the army at first. After I was wounded and disabled on the battlefield, I returned to the local military factories to provide weapons and ammunition for the frontline. Just like that, I lived the most gloomy life. In the end, a million super-enormous bombs exploded above the entire Earth, and the light that was even more intense than a solar storm completely purged the entire world.
"When my adolescence was completely over, when I was in my early twenties, I dreamed of myself in my previous seven lives. Other than that, there were also some bizarre, mottled dreams that were very sci-fi and futuristic, as if I was wandering in the sea of stars. However, those weird dreams were not as clear as the memories of my previous life. It was hard to tell what they meant exactly.
"All in all, the memories of my seven lives had a few things in common.
"First, they all happened on Earth. Although the general trend and details were different each time, such as the names of countries and cities, the social landscape, and the international political situation, they were basically limited to the 1970s and the 2030s of the 21st century. The basic language, technology, and civilization development were also very similar.
"Second, no matter how hard I worked or how decadent I was in each life, I could not change the direction of the entire world. In the 2030s of the 21st century, the world went from prosperity to decline, from stability to collapse, and from peace to war. Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, ozone holes, melting glaciers, drastic changes in solar activity, mutated plagues, extremism, fanatical politicians with nuclear weapons … All of these pushed the entire world to the brink of destruction.
"Third, I don't know if it's a coincidence, but I clearly remember in the memories of each life that the collapse of the world began with the unexpected deaths of a group of science fiction, magic, and fantasy novelists, cartoonists, movie makers, and game makers. First, it was these 'creators' who used their imaginations to create absurd illusory worlds. Then, it was the astrophysicists who had richer imaginations but were not easy to be understood by the public. Then, it was the scientists in various fields and the cutting-edge scholars who represented the limits of human wisdom … It was like a domino that had been pushed down. Nothing could stop its complete collapse.
"In that case, the scenes that appeared in my dreams could not simply be described as the memories of my previous life.
"Because the memories of my previous life should be one-dimensional and single-threaded, not unfolding in parallel at the same time. My 'current life' was born in the 1970s and 1980s of the 20th century, so my previous life should have been born in the early 20th century, and the life before that should have been born in the late 19th century. That makes sense.
"Why did I see seven different 'me' in my dreams, appearing in seven Earths that were subtly different but had the same bleak ending? What about before and after the 21st century?
"From the age of ten until today, this question has puzzled me for the first half of my life. I tried to find the answer in countless science fiction, philosophy, physics, and absurd miscellaneous books, but I never found anything. I can only say that, compared to the inaccurate term 'memories of my previous life', what happened to me was more like the 'parallel worlds' or even the concept of 'reincarnation' that some science fiction novels and movies mentioned.
"That is to say, there is not only one Earth, but at least seven, no, eight Earths. The eight Earths were subtly different, but their paths of development were generally the same. The Earths that were constantly reincarnated between the 1970s and 1980s of the 20th century and the 1920s and 1930s of the 21st century were like an automatic computer game. Every time an Earth was destroyed in the 1920s and 1930s of the 21st century, it would be 'rebooted' and returned to the 1970s and 1980s of the 20th century. Everyone living on Earth would have their memories of their previous life erased, and they would enter a new cycle with a new attitude. As for me, perhaps because the memories of my previous life were not completely erased, and I awakened an extreme near-death experience when I was drowning, I actually saw the pictures of the previous cycle and the cycle before that.
"I don't know why it is like this. What is the meaning of such a 'reincarnation'? I only know that we are not far from the end of this cycle, because the creators of the fantasy world in our life are gradually dying. This is the horn of the coming destruction.
"Yes, you can say that I'm just spouting nonsense, that it's the imagination of a mentally challenged person. But before you mock and criticize me, take five minutes to think about it. Then, look at the other answers to this question. I'm not the only one who has encountered such a strange 'supernatural event'. There are millions of people who have encountered strange things that science can't explain. They've all encountered strange things that are completely unreasonable and unexplainable!
"Even you, who are reading the post right now, do you not have a similar experience?
"Tell me, have you ever been to a completely unfamiliar place for the first time, but you vaguely remember the streets and the scenery nearby as if you had been here in your 'previous life'?
"Have you ever done something or said something, but your head suddenly skipped a beat, and you felt that the same thing and the same words had been done and said in a certain place before?
"Have you ever seen a stranger and suddenly felt an unusual sense of familiarity in your heart, as if you had a very close relationship with him before, but in fact, you had absolutely no interaction at all, unless … it was in your previous life?
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