Quantum dreaming

“What kind of dreams does the universe have? I’d like to have them too.”

 
“You know how a person will have dreams at night? Well, the universe has dreams, too. Our world hides all these different possibilities, things that could have been inside dreams. We call these ‘parallel worlds’ or ‘branch universes.’ [...] What we call ‘precognition’ or ‘premonition’ may actually be a kind of exchange of information about the branch universes that occurs at the quantum level within the brain.”
 

Quotes are from the anime film
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004).
Video shows a simulated collision and merging of the galaxies
Milky Way and Andromeda, starting 3 billion years from now.

“I am inside of her head.

I am a nice person, she is thinking. I deserve more, she wants to believe. She wants to believe it, but I can feel that she doesn’t. If only she could see herself through my eyes. If only she could see herself through my eyes looking through her eyes. I deserve to be loved, she thinks, but she doesn’t believe it. If only I could believe it for her. I want to believe in her, believe inside of her. Believe hard enough inside of her that it somehow seeps through.

She turns up the road and the hill gets steeper. The air gets hotter. I feel her sadness with every step, and then, right near the top of the hill, just the faintest hint of it: a smile. She is remembering us. The few happy moments we had.

I am standing on a hill. I am not at a funeral. I am thinking of someone I once loved. I don’t know if I am her thinking of me, or if I am me thinking of her, or if maybe, right at this moment, there is no difference.”
 

Text is from the science fiction short story
“Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu
Screenshots are from the movie Nothing Personal (2009)