I think somewhere between my tenth and eleven birthdays I crossed over into another Timeline. I remember my tenth birthday as being perfectly normal, the strangeness started on my eleven birthday. It began ordinary enough in the early morning as a "Happy Birthday" with present and a party to come. The whole family was together and happily talking about the War being over and the five Northern European countries again being free -Germany had capitulated. What were they talking about, what War? I do not remember that we were at War with anybody. I do not remember any Germany.
Well anyway, it is my birthday -it is August 6, 1945 and today I am 11 years old and I have a brand new dress, it is white with bright blue Bachelor-buttons flowers. And, I was very happy until Lunch time. Lunch started with everybody eating, talking and laughing. Father turned on the Radio, background music for our lunch, until the news announcer came on and said the first Atomic Bomb had been dropped over Hiroshima. Japan -estimated dead 100.000 and the whole city had been destroyed. The estimated death toll had been low, it was actually 152.000 people.
The stillness around the lunch table was something I never forgot and since that day I have never been able to get past my birthday without thinking about 152.000 people being killed all at once, in a few minutes without anything, but a few ashes left, while I was eating my birthday breakfast.
I don't celebrate my birthdays anymore.
But, what is really strange is that my memories, before my eleven birthday do not match other peoples' memory of the past. I remember the world as being different. I do not remember any wars with anybody and my world did not have all those different countries. My world also many more trees, especially Oak trees and our Sun was more Red than Yellow. The Light was much dimmer, you do not need sunglasses and no matter how long you stayed out in the sun, you do not get a sun burn. Here I have to wear sunglasses all the time, even on cloudy days, my eyes never did get use to the bright glare of a yellow sun.
On my world there was Forest everywhere; mushrooms grew as big as chairs and solid enough to sit on. I remember many of time sitting on a toadstool having a philosophical discussion with Nim; he is a Gnome friend of mine, Gnomes are great philosophers and love a good discussion.
Many things seem the same -my parents for one. Here my father is also a Gardner; we are surrounded by trees, bushes, plants and flowers. If, my family were shifted too, they do not seem to remember, and where are the Dragonflies as big as dogs and the dwarf kittens that never grow old? And, I have not seen even one dragon.
What happen to the world I remember? Is there a long row of parallel worlds and somehow I crossed from one world to another. Is someone like me now living in my place on the world I remember or did something happened to change reality? Did someone, some bodies or something do something that changed our reality into what we have today -the fusing of Timelines, where some things remained the same, but other things were lost. Am I the only one remembering a Past different from the History Books? Are there others who have noticed the changes and who can also remember a different past or pasts -it could be a fusion of more than just two Timelines.
The world, I remember, is more like some of the stories with people and animals of the type they here call "Myth." The world I remember, before I was eleven, is a world full of Gnomes, Elves, and Dragons, and where Magic works; except we did not call it Magic, we thought of it as being normal.
What I miss most of all is my friends, especially Nim, my kitten Leggi and Grandma Knorri; she is a Wise-women and a Healer. She is not really anyone's Grandmother, but everyone called her 'Grandma' and her cottage in Wych-Wood is a real Gathering Place. Sometimes it seem that the whole world knew the path to her house, always something interesting going on or people to talk to, and she gave help to all who asked. Her cottage was the most fascinating place for a growing young girl; it was full of herbs, fresh and dried fruit, all types of lotion, potions, salves and other medicine. I always learned something new every time I visited Grandma's house.
I have not been able to find my way back to my world, but I have never stopped looking. Now that I have been living in this world since 1945, it has not improved any, it had gotten worse; full of conflicts, terror, turmoil and wars and with enough stored atomic weapon to destroy the Earth many time over. Even the nuclear power-plants are not safe and nobody has yet to solve the problem of what to do with all the nuclear waste. The air is getting more polluted every day and the soil everywhere shows signs of toxic waste. Plus, all the oceans, the lakes and the rivers are full of chemical affluence and oil spills. It has been long years since I found out the world and reality are not what most people think they are, but recently I came across something that gave me hope and more than ever I want my world back. I have discovered an old magazine, with a story of an experience of two ladies had in 1978. The two ladies thought they had experience a weird UFO encounter. They did not realize that they perchance were caught in the middle of a reality change and a parallel dimension overlap. Neither did the writer of article understand, but recognized what they were describing. Making me believe that I did not cross-over, it is more likely that I/we was removed from one parallel dimension to another by a reality change -the fusion of realities, but, unlike most people I remembered my old world.
Since then I have become aware that similar changes are still occurring and I know now that there are many other parallel Timelines (Earths) and Dimensions. And, many or all of those parallel Timelines are now being fused into the one and all those changes seem to have produced a world in chaos or maybe in flux -a New Reality is being created and I have hope that some of my world may show up as the different Timelines are combine with this one. But, it seems that not everything from the different Timelines shows up here, they did not from my World. Where do they go, they cannot cease to exist, I did not. Did they go elsewhere, like I did, I hope! Lately I have noticed the changes are occurring faster, why can't people see the changes, maybe for most people reality is getting upgraded like a computer program and for them the past in gone, as it never was. Over-night changes occur in the landscape, in lamps, buildings and roads -some things just disappear and in other places new things appear. This also applies to people, thousand of people have disappeared from all over the world in the last 30 years and no one, but a few people seem to be able to remember those people. The changes seem to come in waves and there appear to be a Time speed up in the change process, with the result that this world past history also seem to recede into the far past, maybe sliding from History into Myth. Is this what happened to my world's history, becoming a Myth and is this how Myth are created; almost forgotten memories. The hope I felt is gone, It is now likely that the world I remember have ceased to exist as I remember it, I think we are in a total change-over of Reality, not only this Timeline/s, but our Solar System and this Universe, and I do not think it is something new, it is something that occurs at regular interval. These dramatic Reality changes happen between long periods of Time that people forgot, even the one who was aware of them, never mind the one who did or does not notice; History certainly do not remember; Historians seems only to be concerned with rather mundane things. I do not know what will happen from now on, but many of us, like me, could again find themselves relocated to elsewhere, at least the ones, like me, with a long memory, will remember our whole Past History.