Riding the timeline groove of reality
The way a turntable's stylus sits in the groove of a vinyl record has some uncanny similarities to how real life seems to work.
If you have a high-end turntable, the stylus cartridge is replaceable. And they come in different sizes.
- A larger stylus will sit shallower in the record's groove and pick up fresh new sound details on a record that you thought was worn out.
- Meanwhile, a very narrow stylus will sit at a deeper level in the groove. It will also pick up different new untouched sound details of the record, but it will also pick up a lot of unwanted dirt and grit that has settled to the bottom of groove.
It's really odd, but our own lives are A LOT like that.
Or more particularly, the emotional state of a person seems to affect the altitude at which they "ride" through their current timeline.
In the lyrics of his 1967 song, People Are Strange, Jim Morrison observed that "streets are uneven when you're down."
Or to put it another way, being in a lower emotional state brings out a different set of observed details within the same timeline, since riding near the bottom puts you at a level full of unwanted low-energy grit and obstacles.
Meanwhile, people who are in love always note that being in an elevated emotional state seems to bring out beautiful new details in the world and cause mundane obstacles to disappear and move out of the way - there are plenty of songs about that too.
A quantum consciousness analogy?
What if what we call "emotions" aren't a human construct at all, but rather our energy level within a quantum energy well "groove" that we can't see in 3 dimensions, but is nonetheless the REAL mechanism that moves our consciousness forward through time?
A low emotional state is thus simply a low energy state of your "consciousness particle," where the path you follow is the same, but by riding at a lower level you observe more unwanted low-energy noise and unwanted details in your life, while being in a high energy state presents you with a different version of the same timeline where more beauty is observed?
