savetheearth | [handwritten / audio]

[The beginning of this entry is filled with what looks like pieces of lecture notes, a mishmash of engineering calculations and medical facts, mixed in with half explanations and unfinished anecdotes. It's mostly organized, equations on one side and medical concerns on the other, but the overall result is probably still a bit confusing, as Benjamin writes whatever comes to his mind. It's how he's taken to preparing lecture notes for his classes - only this time, he's written down the number that's stuck in his mind and then continued on without realizing it.

Fortunately, it isn't too long before he notices the change in his whiteboard, and then his attention is, quite obviously, very far from lecture preparation.]

This is quite unexpected. And - fascinating. How is this possible? I'm quite certain I would have noticed before now, had my whiteboard been capable of user interface. Did they replace it while I was gone? This would be much more convenient, though there was nothing wrong with the traditional version, I can easily make do with markers and -

No, this is something far different. How many people can read this?

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[ just for fun, Noel has added some other calculations to the other side of the engineering ones. they're mostly pointless, but rather elaborate for their pointlessness. ]

You had a string of numbers stuck in your head, right? Anybody who's had the same sort of experience can access this network.

[There's no such thing as pointless calculations, especially when they're surprising additions to his half-forgotten work. Delighted, he scribbles a few back.]

Yes, that's it exactly. I suppose it's somewhat a relief to know it's not a singular occurrence.

[ the next additions he makes are a little slower, but perhaps more thought through. ]

Surprisingly, it's not uncommon. There must be a decent pool of us now, in a variety of ages and backgrounds, it seems.

[He adds a few more, a bit more detailed as well, although his come nearly as quickly as before.]

I suppose something could be said for bringing different people together as such. Even if it is sets of mysterious numbers and visions of another person's life.

[ there are a few more, but then he stops and writes a note in its place: "Sorry. That's about all I can think of." ]

Depending on who you talk to, some might tell you that they could be visions of your life.

Other lives, that none of us can quite remember.

[There's no further calculations, but a note back that reads: "No apologies! That was quite enjoyable."]

I think that unlikely, in my case. Whoever it was in my vision, I may have felt his emotions, but I was certainly not myself.

[He wasn't human, for starters.]

[ "Glad you thought so!" also, there's an emoticon there... it's probably a smile, but it's kind of lopsided. ]

Yes... that was kind of how I felt, too. I think that's common. "It's impossible that this could be true, but I feel like it is anyway."

[That's all right, Benjamin's reasonably sure what it's supposed to be. He draws his own smile in return.]

Hmm. Perhaps it's time to begin research into emotional contagion or cryptomnesia.

... Cryptomnesia...?

[ he could probably google this. but. ]

The feeling as though someone else's memory is your own. It's becoming quite the documented phenomenon, actually, usually involving hearing a story and it becoming so internalized that one forgets it was merely heard, and instead believes it to be their own experience or idea.

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