Hi,

as most of you may know: There's a theory (it's origins in the quantum-theory) that's called "multiverse". It's saying that, if every tiny bit in the universe exists not in one place, but in all possible places at once (as is proven), there may be a "multiverse", which means that every possible thing that CAN happen DOES happen. Thus, in this process, creating a really really big amount of parallel universes, the multiverse.

Well - this theory always seemed possible to me, but as I cannot prove it whatsoever, I never really was sure about it (how could I? How could anyone?)

Last weekend however, I met a guy and he had this story to tell: He had a car accident, crashed into a tree and was in a vegetative state for about 6 months then. He was in a hospital for these 6 months, drooling, with his eyes open but seeing nothing.
He himself however did know nothing of this car accident. He just "lived on" with his life, for the full six months: He went to work, he had sex with his girlfriend, he lived a fully normal life. As if he never had this accident. And then, one day, after about 6 months, he suddenly woke up inside a hospital bed.

He said he really remembers this life he had for these six months. He said it felt "real", not like a dream. And all things that happened seemed to be real, too. There was nothing as you may have it in dreams, extraordinary happenings or so. Just plain normal life. For him, that is. Everyone in "our" universe only saw a drooling young man in a hospital bed.

So what *MAY* be concluded from this is: His mind/consciousness went into a parallel dimension for these 6 months. He really "lived" there, but wasn't even aware that this wasn't our world.
That means ... well, possibly his counsciousness slipped into a parallel-universe strikingly similar to ours - with the small difference that he didn't drive his car into that tree there. This universe (and a heap of slightly changed ones) may exist.

I know this sounds crazy. But it's the most logic explanation for me. Why else does he still have vivid memories of six whole months?

multiple universes? How can you distiguish them, if none of them has end? I mean they will be fully overlapped by each other, same as being one universe

If your conciousness did slip into another universe, then wouldn't your brain flat-line.
If we are to believe that there is a coorolation between brainwaves and conciousness, then the precese of one implies the other or the absence of one implies the other.

When you are in a coma, you are not brain flat-lined.
When you are asleep, you are not brain flat-lined.

The best arguement for cross universe travel would therefore be a case where a person is in a true vegetative state (brain flat-line) and they come back and can relate experiences. This would show that conciousness is not tied into brain waves and therefore is tied into something else.

So it boils down to your story teller using vegetative in the right sense of the word (brain flat-line) or in the wrong sense (merely unconcious or comatose). It boils down to having a brain monitor on him the whole six months or merely sampling (so that it's sometimes flat but sometimes active)

Bottome line however dude is I would not trust my universal worldview on the story of one person. And look up occam's razor when it comes to logic: multiple universes is not the simplest explanation and thus according to the razor it's likely not the right on.

The multi universe theory is not so popular nowadays, in the scientific comunity even though it is still supported by great scientists

Obviously it has nothing to do with the example provided in this thread

Although it seems a crazy theory, the alternative and widly accepted theories are even worse.
Briefly, the supporters of the multi universe theory simply beleive that :

a) two entities can interact just in case they are in direct contac or if they can exchange messages

b)
an atom is just a particle
It can not be both a wave and a particle at the same time

Probably you ( and me ) have no problem to agree with above claims
Unfortunatly the lab evidence are against a) and b)

The multi universe theory claims that a) and b) are still true but we have a limited knowledge of our universe

Although the theory of multi universe has been almost abandoned the most popular theory nowadays ,the theory of string has actually strong similaritis with the theory of the multi universe

You guys should watch this movie with Tim Robins called "Jacob's Ladder". Similar idea to the multiverse theory. A vietnam vet gets shotup badly and is taken to the hospital. He then wakes up and realizes it was only a flashback nightmare. He continues to live his life years later but strange events keeps on occuring which eventually led up to him finding out he was infected by a chemical agent in vietnam. The film ends with us finding out that he never actually made it ouf of vietnam, and that his whole life experience was just a "dying hallucination". Frickin trippy...

Another interesting "multiverse" a short story is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

(I watched "Jacob's Ladder" a number of times years and years ago, and I think that I probably could have recommended it (also), except that Neuro might have just spoiled the ending.)