Dimensional Travel and its effects on Psychology

[ScornedTramp]

Astronauts often say that leaving the planet, watching down on it from space, changes your perception on many things.

My idea is, that travelling through time, or relocating to a foreign dimension, would cause a similar shift in thinking as travelling to space does. And perhaps this is why so many fail in their attempts to convince others they they have done just that.

The awe of the experience would be inconceivable to most, and therefore have a great impact on the psychology of any who have.

 

[Cosmo]

Your post immediately made me think of The Man Who Folded Himself. I found it while beginning to work on the book database and started reading it last night:

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold | Time Travel Institute

I've not read enough to be able to speak to the philosophies being explored, but there's a short review on Goodreads about it here:

a review of The Man Who Folded Himself

 

[ScornedTramp]

I might have to give that a read. It sounds like something I could gain inspiration from. I was given a copy of cloud Atlas recently. I saw the film, and as all books to films go, I was excited to explore the details of the original work. I'm always thinking I need to read more.

 

[Hyborean]

I've heard it is hard to remember what you are doing in the future, easier in the past. Travelers would go through focus training in order to remember what they had to do, which was a set up for it locking in the choice when they traveled to the future. Imagine going to the future to kill someone and seeing how terrible the world was because of what you were doing, but being unable to stop yourself from killing the person. Anyway, sort of a damnation game on steroids.

In a hypothetical future travelers had to move and set back up their traveling array inside a enclosed living structure that was built because the Earth's surface had become too greenhouse to live openly upon. It didn't seem to bother then when questioned if they should try to do something about the situation in the past before it the ecosystem got that bad. The idea was that, "It was the future we had access to. If we changed something, it might not exist anymore."