[The Count]

I preface further comments with the announcement that THIS IS MY THIRTEENTH POST!

In the realm of the Forgotten wherein we dwell, amid us Children of the Night, this is truly a landmark occasion! Sorta akin to a Bar Mitvah, a Confirmation in blood ... a Rite of Passage ...

Or. As Novakru. dear cohort in the shadows, would say: A "RIGHT" Of Passage! :-)))

Which brings me to the incentive for this post ...

Your sharing is apropos to ANY thread, Novakru. All feeble attempts at humor aside, THINGS LIKE THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO ME!

I read a fascinating book once that discussed exactly such phenomena. Instances where things seem to have changed in a subtle manner -- we so easily can overlook such things, attribute them to a memory loss on our part or some other such "rational" explanation. However, deep-down, we know DAMN WELL that somehow reality changed!

A common example of this (from same article) is "things gone missing." Example, I misplace my keys, I search & search ... I overturn my whole house doing so (move furniture, crawl under rugs ...). I find nothing.

Days pass, weeks even. One day, I casually sit down in a place I thoroughly searched long ago (i.e., my sofa). My quest for the missing keys is long forgotten. As I sit there, peroccupied with an unrelated task, I suddenly feel somethong cutting into my butt cheeks, I reach down & ... viola! ... the long estranged keys!

Trivial? Oversight? The keys surface in the very place I prainstakingly & thoroughly searched before! There is no doubt that I looked in that very place for them. My "natural inclination" is to dismiss the relevance of that fact! To assume that I just "overlooked" them during my earlier quest.

But in the depths of my soul, I know it wasn't an oversight! They weren't there when I searched that same place earlier! They ARE there now.

The author of the article attributed such occurrences to some sort of inter-dimensional paradox. He suggested that there are co-existing alternate universes ... & that sometimes, through some fluctuating portal of existence, there is an exchange ... my keys leave this present reality ... They are STILL on that couch in my living room, only not in THIS dimension but in the parrallel universe!

This would be one writer's explanation for your LEFT-RIGHT directions example. You read exactly what you remember having read! Reality changed, not your perception of it!

Fodder for consideration! Such examples are so trivial; we can so easily dismiss them. Do such things happen also on a grander scale?

Many have memories of more significant events that, in retrospect, "never happened." The article gave examples. One person reported memories of having seen JFK deliver his SECOND inaugaural acceptance speech! He remembered this in great detail.

This was a worthy topic to examine. "KEVIN McCARTHY" ... I just typed that so I can justify this post in this forum. I've now included a reference to "Invasion."

This 13th is now posted. We all have read it. The question is, will it still be here tomorrow? Or will it be posted on Horror.dimension.com in a realm we dare not imagine?