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Please read the previous parallel worlds blog post before this one.
Story 1.
When I was 7 my father built a fence around a new above-ground swimming pool in our backyard. The fence was wood and by local council standards at the time we had to install an automatically locking swimming pool door for safety. (So that if kids wandered in off the street they couldn’t accidentally open the door, walk into the pool area and drown while the area was unattended) When it was ready, dad created a long black rubber stopper to stop the door slamming and locking while we were using it. When dad first made this rubber thing it was short and had a round piece hanging off the end, with a ring in the top to hang it on the door between the latch and the fence. About 15cm long.
A week later I looked at the rubber stopper again and it had grown to 20cm and didn’t have the round piece on the end. It still had the ring at the top though. I asked him about it and he looked at me incredulously saying. “What are you talking about. I only made one. That was the one I put there last week” or something like that. I was adamant that there was another one and we had a big fight about it followed by him telling me to go search his tool shed. I did and didn’t find anything that was even remotely like it.
Story 2.
When I was 8 we went on a trip up the coast for a month. When we came back the sink in the bathroom was pink. I thought it might be just the way the light shone through the window but how would that explain a blue sink looking pink? The next day it was blue again. I remember that happening again when I was 10 and I remember saying to myself, “oh, not this pink sink thing again.”
Story 3.
After that I got busy with school and work and didn’t really notice anything until about 2000 when I came home one day to find the indicators on my microwave had moved. I just stared at it in shock. “What? Of all the things to change, the positions of low, medium, high, on a microwave???” I thought it would return to normal but it never did.
It might not seem much but it proves the parallel worlds concept in my mind.