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Personal Narrative Analysis

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My mind teleporting itself to multiple universes is a constant in my life. Each individual universe is connected in a fractal-like fashion, consisting of spindly chains of universes in arms not unlike the Milky Way’s spiral arms. Imagine the famous Mandelbrot Set: narrowing in on a particular point will reveal the set’s characteristic bulbous shape, but scaled down; in the same way, zooming in on a set of temporally-linked universes will eventually reveal a branching-out shape not unlike the central shape of the multiverse.
Within the center of the hundred or so main branches of the multiverse exists the Void, which is akin to a restricted version of the night sky, in that any splattering of color created by the Moon or stars is replaced with a pitch black background and infinitely many, infinitesimally thin white dots, dubbed the Illumines. Upon initial entry, several perception changes occur simultaneously. The Illumines seem to revolve around me as if I were inside an active gyroscope with Illumine-strung frames; however, just as the Earth’s rotation gives the illusion of the Sun revolving around it, I am indeed the one rotating. An absence of matter and energy means nothing is towing my center of mass anywhere… that is until now. Instantly after imagining a downward force, I could sense my inertia weakening as my body accelerates …show more content…

Although my rotation slows, the Illumines are still swirling around; that, along with the gritty vomit creeping up my throat, leads me to believe that my

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