So I'm an indie developer who is also of the Christian Faith and after working on my rpg for a while I've noticed it's sort of depressing. The premise of it is that you play a corrupting entity who possess others. You are a tempter of sorts though curiously during one arc you corrupt a pure evil soul devouring monster by tricking her into doing good via her consumed prey. Canonically at least one version of the player, whether it's the player themselves is a Christian. One of the major antagonists is a also a Christian though instead of going around evangelizing, he goes about causing distortions and corrupting others to disunion. Thankfully I do have plans to make a sequel where instead of leading others to their ruin, well except for that one pure evil soul devouring monster where you lead others to her to their ruin, you are given the opportunity to try to make amends in case the player ends feeling guilty. Since I have not finished my game however I will hold that off, though considering that the plot is about 80% done, I don't see much reason to change it now.

This leads me to my point. Given the rather dismal premise, I've figured I should make a spin off visual novel or two that's a little more uplifting.

My first ideal is that you play as a Catholic bodysnatcher who can override the physical free will of others, namely those not of the faith. Your mission is to try and convert or evangelize a community of Satanic worshippers all while remaining pleasing to the Lord. Aside from the demonically possessed you'll also have to contend with exorcists and the moral dilemma of whether your powers and means of converting others are pleasing to the Lord. I'll try not to sanction it and instead leave it open as to whether the protagonist of this visual novel even with the best of intent could still remain pleasing to the Lord despite having such powers.

My second ideal is that instead of playing as a member of the faith, you are a demon of lust who has the power to imitate Christ. Specifically you do this by arming yourself with Scripture to abuse and in an inversion of the first, you go around either tempting or deconverting others. Similar to the first you will also have to contend with exorcists along with those who can read the soul. To make things challenging because you are a demon, you have an aversion to the Holy. Eventually your mission culminates in attempting to deconvert an extremely devout parish who is also scripturally well versed both by carefully abusing Scripture, disordering the good, tricking the parish into expelling their own shepherds (the exorcists and those who can read souls), and posing as Christ. But be be careful. For you have a limited amount of Scripture you can abuse per mission. At no point are you meant to be sympathetic. You are the villain in this story, leading souls to their damnation. It is meant as an educational game where it teaches players how to reason like a demon and understand the methods of their deception.

Anyways what do you think? If I ever end up making these visual novels, would you consider giving them a try? I did try asking my pastor and he said they could be scandalous.

The following are cases of which I am confidant, well initially the first I was pretty sure there was an ordinary explanation but the more I reasoned it the more I realized taking the ordinary approach was just obsession and so in retrospective I consider it anomalous, are anomalous. I shall detail them in increasing order of confidence with the last one being the one to suggest to me that I may indeed by psychic or rather psychokinetic. 

Staircase Event = December 20, 2010; 

~ 11 PM to 12 AM 

I go to bed. 

December 21, 2010 ~3 AM 

I awake myself up in order to see the blood red moon. I carefully make my way downstairs, deliberate pausing, crawling and pawing so that my descent blends into the environmental sounds. I observe the blood red moon from the dinning table. It's big, red and beautiful. I hear a noise upstairs. I can't tell if I've been detected or if someone just so happened to need to go to the restroom. In retrospective it looks like it was the latter. I quietly go down to the basement, wait a while before ascending back to the first floor to continue admiring the blood red moon. 

3:17 AM 

 I have observed its totality. To make sure I'm not caught I proceed to head to the staircase. Now, because this 14 step staircase is guaranteed to creak when being ascended from steps 8 - 12 I deliberately try to crawl, pause and paw at the steps, or at least that was my plan so that once I cross over the sounds would blend in with the rest of the house noises but that's not what happened... 

To keep myself alert I use my the small beep from my stopwatch about once or twice before resetting it. So far nothing unusual. I used the stopwatch beep because I felt comfortable that it wouldn't wake anyone else up while keeping me alert. ~3:19 AM I had made it halfway up. The next 5 steps will require timing. I am at a standstill on step 7. I start my stopwatch with the intention of climbing only to then find myself immediately on step 12 with no sensation of movement, no blurring of the sense. It is silent...that's not suppose to happen. I immediately pause the stopwatch. 

It reads 0.17 ms (or 170 ms if I misread it). I'm filled with awe. I climb up the last step and make my way to my bedroom all without resetting my stopwatch. I ponder to myself if I may have just spontaneously teleported. I've never had tactile sensations in my dreams so I highly doubt I was sleepwalking at the time. ~ Morning I wake up. My stopwatch still reads 0.17 ms or 170 ms. (Alas some time in the future someone threw away my stopwatch but even if I still had it how convincing would the number even be?) In case you haven't caught it by now, I could physically feel stuff. That's not something I can do in my dreams but even if you don't buy that there's the stopwatch recording in the morning. I did not activate it prior to falling asleep. 

RetroPK = 

 I ran some fourmilabs retroPK runs, about 500 in an attempt to see if I could passively cause rare events, i.e. events that had no more than a 1/40 chance of occurring to appear more often than what would be statistically expected during 2025:  

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/RPKPreport?control=&html=-h&all=&email=Ddr1va1&practice= 

Out of 500 runs I got 28 successes where a success is defined as a run of no more than a 1/40 chance of occurring and where I only needed 20. I didn't feel a sense of altered time, in fact I hardly felt anything at all. Yes, I know this is rather anticlimactic but it's the one case that more or less convinced me that I may indeed be psychic or rather psychokinetic. Unfortunately even if we assume that's the case, given that all of my cases aside from this one have been spontaneous, it doesn't mean I can control it and even this one only suggests that I can cause rare tail events, as defined above, to appear more often than would be statistically expected, not that I can control their direction, in fact the data seems to suggest not. So uh, not impressive in terms of reliability.  

Now that I have shared the complete onset of my experiences thus far I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on what they could mean. For sure some of them are probably more easy to believe than others. I have pondered whether or not they could be my spiritual gift but since I haven't been baptized yet it makes me question that. Still since they have not turned me away from Christ I am more inclined to believe they are at the very least natural though whether I should start calling myself psychokinetic is another question especially given the spontaneity of my experiences of which I would like to address. Thoughts?

Anyways if I haven't made myself clear, none of these experiences drew me away from Christ and in one case, the staircase one, it further deepened my faith and certainty of Christ's Providence and Power. One could say that thanks to these experiences I was drawn towards the mystical path of the Christian. That plus Christ's premature stirrings within definitely helped to stir me. Still, how would you approach these from a Christian Mystical viewpoint?

For the next 2 cases or perhaps case if you don't count dreams I would consider them to be on the borderline of the anomalous:

Dream Powers;

Let me preface this by saying ever since I started dreaming I've been aware that I'm dreaming. I'm a natural lucid dreamer. I may not have always known that's what it's called but the awareness was there from the start. This doesn't mean I can control my dream, only that I have awareness... of course I'm not sure if that's because I never bothered to or if it's genuinely one of my limitations. It wouldn't surprise me if that's the case but continuing on.

Regardless of whether it's a dream or a nightmare I always have these 3 abilities and I've pretty much always had them. They did not derive from something I observed in the waking world. I shall list them in the order that I decided to test them out along with my initial findings followed then by later ratifications once more data came in.

1. Levitation

To float/stand, sit, walk or even run on air.

Initial Findings: Taking off is no problem but safely ascending and descending... oh and I'm stuck horizontally, not so much vertically, in fact I find it hard to land at all. Also any excess weight I'm carrying acts like an anchor drawing me closer to the ground. I guess that's how I initially learned how to land.

Later ratifications: I appear to be emitting some kind of anti-gravity field. No wonder movement was so difficult. I've since improved but I still can't fly. I've discovered this ability is passive as in always on.

1. Possession

To inhabit another.

Initial Findings: I can inhabit another dream character gaining access to their stats like a general read of them and some of their emotions but I don't have access to their thoughts and I can't directly control them. Having said that I can influence them by I guess telepathically implanting suggestions. They remain unaware of my presence.

Later Ratifications: I can possess multiple dream characters however the more hosts I have the more spread out and weaker my influence becomes. My hosts don't really gain anything and aside from the willing, none of them know that I am possessing them. Since I can't actually control them, my possession type seems to be of the manipulation stalking variant. Also there are some dream characters I can't even possess... bosses obviously. Fun fact, most of of my nightmares involve me trying to either preserve my hosts or getting detected by an exorcist or a force with exorcism powers. And I'm Christian, how ironic! it's funny though, one of my dream abilities is more akin to a demon than an angel despite my religion. Anyways...

1. Warping

A combination between teleportation/dimensional travel & time travel depending on whether or not the verse considers time and space to be the same thing. If it is, I can time travel, but if not...

Initial Findings: On demand, recursive type (meaning that in the event that I warp into a non/anti warping reality/dimension/timeline) this ability will return to me as soon as possible and break me out once certain procedures are met. The procedures are always possible to be achieved/accomplished. My warping is completely random. I am unable to warp to a specific reality/dimension/timeline.

Later Ratifications: On the other hand, if I'm warping someone else, then even if I were to warp them into a non/anti warping reality/dimension/timeline I would still be able to warp them again even without following the procedures needed to reinstate my warping abilities. Also while warping myself is randomized, if I warp someone else, I tend to have better precision and general accuracy, but never 100%. Interestingly as I've grown older I've warped into those anti-warp zones less often. I can't tell if that's became my initial assumptions were mistaken, if I developed a resistance to an outright immunity or if I've become better at detecting them. If you asked me, I'd say my initial findings were probably incomplete. Also I've come to realize that while I can't control the destination or at least I'm pretty sure I can't control it unless I eventually develop that skill, the destination always has one rule;

It is never a lethal spawn point. No rules about it being hostile it just can't be lethal.

Anyways for those of those wondering how I am able to distinguish dreams from reality, let's just say it's primarily because of an absence. While I can sense sight, sounds, thoughts and emotions I lack the sense of touch, of tactile sensation. Keep this in mind for it shall become very important later on. Also do any of you have similar dream motifs and architects?

Hallway Event;

Age: ~ 13

It is springtime, early in the morning. I have a doctor's appointment so my parent drops me off at school. It's close to 8 AM, before first period begins. My 3 combination locker is on the first floor somewhere nearby the front entrance and near the staircase to the second floor. I was carrying a bookbag. Now, I'm either putting my stuff into my locker or I've already done so. In any regards I notice a female classmate of mine. She looks tired. I should mention that prior to this I had been practicing empathic sensing, the sensing of the emotions of others without taking them on. I greet her.

"Hello"

F.Classmate: "What do you want?" (irritated tone)

All of a sudden while I'm giving her eye contact I suddenly see things from her perspective and no I don't mean that figuratively. It was only for a brief mental second but I could literally see myself and the hallway behind me as if I was directly looking through her eyes. At first I thought this might have been the reflection in her eye but considering the dimension to the extent I could see, which was not confined not to mention the resolution, I quickly realized such an explanation was inadequate. Besides she had brown eyes. It's really hard to see a reflection of yourself with brown eyes. Unfortunately because the spontaneous experience didn't last that long I didn't get to see if I could do anything other than see through her eyes. Afterwards it didn't seem as though she noticed anything and well for several years I didn't bother asking.

Several years later...

“Oh yes. Hello [F.classmate’s first name]”

F.Classmate: “Hello.”

“Remember me?”

F.Classmate: “Your face looks familiar but I do not remember your name.”

“Ah haha. It’s a long time… [name of middle school]?”

F.Classmate: “Ah, yeah yeah yeah.”

“Yeah do you remember anything like back from 2007, 2008 when we like crossed paths in the- um, hallway?”

F.Classmate: “Yeah.”

“Do you recall anything there or nothing?”

F.Classmate: “Huh?”

“(breath) Do you recall anything when we like crossed paths in the hallway of [years redacted]… nothing at all?”

F.Classmate: “I- like I said your face soun- your face looks familiar but… I can’t put…”

“Oh, huh.”

F.Classmate: “Heheh.”

“I see. So that’s a no then. I’m [redacted first name].”

F.Classmate: “[redacted first name]. Okay.”

“Yeah, so you don’t recall anything?”

F.Classmate: “Like I said, I- I know your name now that you’ve mentioned it but yeah, no.”

“Thank you. That’s all I needed to know.”

F.Classmate: “Okay.”

PS.

When sharing this experience with my parapsychology class a while back, my professor said this would be an example of telepathy however it would not be evidence suggestive of survival after death but rather of consciousness transferal. I didn't mention what I can do in my dreams however. Also this may or may not constitute as an obe based on a technicality. While this experience was outside of my body, it still was in another's. Thoughts? Also the course I took was taught by a Roman Catholic.

So I've had a number of experiences which I've tried sharing in order to get some feedback. I understand that some of them may be more and some less believable than others but I am curious as to how a Christian Mysticism perspective would take them. For my part I'm a Christian not because of my parent or family but because Christ made it possible for me to be a Christian in the first place.

While I've had experiences, I don't consider all of them to be anomalous yet they are adjacent. In a way you could call me a skeptic but not of the new atheism militant. To be specific, I am skeptical of the claim of the most popular claim, there is no such thing as the anomalous' as well as its counterpart. It is with this that I have decided to share the experiences/cases which are relevant first in order to build a rapport. Without any further ado let's begin.

Case 0;

Age: ~3

The daycare I'm attending has an outing at a public outdoor swimming pool. I'm floating in the water alongside a bunch of other kids. Some of them are bobbing up and down as though there is a competition. Monkey see, monkey do. Not to be out done I start mimicking them. Up and down, up and down, faster and faster. Then it becomes automatic. I'm gasping in the pool water. I can't swim. My eyes... My throat. This sucks then I feel a sensation of great peace. A serenity like no other.
And then a lifeguard pulled me out but I was still in a state of serenity.
So in short ~3 I had a near death experience where I almost drowned and years later I would learn how to swim. The drowning part I don't recommend, 0 stars but the peace at the brink of death? Oh, it was a peace like no other, probably one similar to the one Christ gives. I'm a Christian by the way.

Case 1:

Growing up my parents had an employee who they hired to sometimes watch over me. I was probably around 4 at this time. Up to this point no one did drugs. We didn't even talk about drugs. I did not grow up with drug users nor did I know of anyone who did drugs. Anyways this employee (whose name I'm not sharing out of privacy concerns) smokes. I observe they need to take smoking breaks. They ask if I know what the word addiction means. I deduce that it must be something bad. The employee confirms and asks that I don't get started with smoking. Years later in Elementary we would go through the mandatory drug prevention program but here's the thing:

I'm already adverse to drugs, meaning I disdain taking them. No one taught me and yet I shunned them. Some may say my parents' employee was the one who taught me. No, they were a smoker, not a drinker. When I share this case it seems hard for some folks to fathom that some of us may have an innate aversion to drug use. I have never done drugs and I plan to keep it that way. Of course I'm not sure if I can detect whether someone secretly tries to drug me and it's one thing to take drugs, it's another to be forcibly drugged. I despise it, this chemical lobotomy. To restrict someone from being authentic. While these drug prevention programs may not have started my aversion to drugs they only helped to amplify it. Before loath them. Now I can rationalize further.

If anyone's wondering how I am able to remember these events, let's say it has something to do with a certain movie that came out during that time. Obviously since sharing the name of the movie may be a privacy concern I will not do that.
These first 2 cases I would describe as being more natural than anything anomalous let alone psychic. These next cases however I would describe as more coincidences &/ possibly skill:

A lucky random guess;

Date: June 25, 2009

Location: Either Albuquerque, New Mexico or Las Vegas, Nevada but in either case a run down motel or at most a 2 star hotel. Probably not the latter.

Time: In the morning, or at least I think it's the morning. Looking back it was so bright that I guess I assumed it was morning when it could just as easily been the afternoon.

Prior to this day one of my parents had a business trip. Now, we had either already gone to the White Sands or Carlsbad Caverns or we were going there today or we were returning the rentals. That part I can't recall exactly but overall that's not important. The motel, again, I think it's a motel, it has the smell of cigarettes. As I wake up I notice something. It's quiet. Too quiet as though someone very important and beloved as just died. "Did Michael Jackson die?" My parent tries to shush me but just then- News reporter from the other room's tv: "to confirm that Michael Jackson has just died." "Wait... what?!? I got it right?!" And here's the thing. I'm not the type of person to just randomly guess who's going to die today, in fact that was the first time I'd ever done this. Furthermore while I knew his name, I wasn't a fan of his... more apathetic actually. At the time I didn't own a cellphone so I couldn't have kept up with news about him and even if I had one I wouldn't have searched him up. During the business trip week while my parent listened to the Christian radio and I to my music player with no Michael Jackson songs, not once was there any mention of Michael Jackson whether through the news, word of mouth, video, board advertising. Zilch. My dreams aren't even precognitive. Up to this point I haven't even been thinking about Michael Jackson. I just made a random guess. Guess I must've gotten lucky, extremely lucky. Or maybe it's something else.

My pets;

When I was a kid my family had a dog who hardly ever listened to anyone except for me. Well I was the one who spent the most time with him. When I was a preteen I had female pet rat who was indifferent to being handled. In 2020 I got a pet rabbit. In all 3 cases the pets fully bonded to me in just 3 days. While I never had them all at the same time, looking back on it the way they all bonded to me in just 3 days... even if we were to considered that with the exception of the family dog I had done my research it's incredible especially considering they were all intact and yet despite this they did not exhibit the behaviours you'd expect as such, well at least not to me that is. The family dog would get excited and sometimes accidentally scratch my other family members but not to me. My female rat one time chewed her way out of her old home and made her way to my father to get fed some rice and afterwards stayed in her cage which was left open all night without venturing forth. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out. As for my rabbit... my rabbit never growled or sprayed and was fine with being handled. I don't know if I just got lucky or if I have some sort of psychic calming effect on animals which charms them over time and distance but in either case I've never mentally heard their voices. Hmm. Perhaps I'm psychokinetically influencing them. Or maybe it's just skill.

So I've got a question:

Suppose you have never felt comfort nor discomfort while praying, not before, during or even afterwards. You are basically neutral to created things in general and also to the things of God even though you may be driven towards them. And suppose you also have a complete faith in the providence of God such that you are not anxious when it comes to God.

How would you tell when or even whether you are going through the dark night of the senses in this case?

So I've got a question:

Suppose you have never felt comfort nor discomfort while praying, not before, during or even afterwards. You are basically neutral to created things in general and also to the things of God even though you may be driven towards them. And suppose you also have a complete faith in the providence of God such that you are not anxious when it comes to God.

How would you tell when or even whether you are going through the dark night of the senses in this case?

So recently I asked a transitional deacon the following question:

"So you know how in life we are faced with a myriad of options and we can either pick the one that aligns with God or does not. So just hypothetically speaking, suppose we have a person other than Mary or Jesus who goes their entire life only picking the options which align with the Kingdom of God. Such a hypothetical sinless person would still require Christ, yes?"

To which the deacon responded with yes. Even if we could find another sinless person other than Christ or Mary, they would still require Christ for salvation. The more you are loved, the more you give out love or something to that extent. He said something about Mary being saved by Christ not because she sinned but because she was prevented, like being barred from falling into a pit as opposed to being brought out. For such a hypothetical sinless person other than Christ or Mary we can assume they would likely also be graced in such a way.

Now I don't know about you but for me this does not diminish Christ but exemplifies his love.

Original Proposal:

The main temptation that the serpent presented to Eve seems to be centered on becoming more like God, not distrust. It is telling that the serpent claims that by eating of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve will become like God, thus one could say the serpent alluded to their communion with God as though it was not good enough. Indeed, one possible interpretation of the first temptation is that it's not about distrust and pride but of an unsanctioned way to have fellowship with God. After all, the increase of something good does not necessitate that the process itself or its invoker is good. If we consider reverse psychology, the serpent could claim that God in truth wanted them to eat of the fruit and that the prohibition is merely a smokescreen. It's the ideal that eventually the prohibition might be lifted or perhaps it has been and the serpent is claiming it as such. Such an ideal would not undermine trust in God, in fact it would require it. In short, the first temptation could still have been reliant on a form of trust that doesn't claim God isn't giving them what is best, what they ought to have or believing they know better than God but that the real test is about seizing the opportunity and that's what God really wants from them or to put that another way, believing that one isn't fully abiding in God. We must not forget however that there is no indication that God spoke directly to Eve, Adam yes, but not Eve. To Adam, if taken at face value God's command was unambiguous but because Eve had to defer to Adam, apparently some of the message got altered. On the other hand one could say that the serpent is claiming that by not eating of the fruit, just because they obeyed God's commandment on the face of it doesn't mean they passed the hidden test, in essence claiming that obeying just the word and not the spirit is tatamount to a less pleased God and wouldn't it be better to fully do that which would please God the most? And thus with this understanding, even if this is heretical to some, wouldn't this type of temptation be more insidious because it uses the forces of good to enact an evil?

Original Proposal as clarified by Perplexity:

A Theological Reframing of the Primordial Temptation

The traditional interpretation of the Genesis 3 narrative emphasizes pride and distrust as the central dynamics of the primordial temptation. While this reading is textually grounded, it may not fully exhaust the conceptual depth of the serpent’s strategy. A more precise theological account understands the temptation not as a direct appeal to evil, but as a distortion of the good—specifically, the human vocation to divine likeness—by severing that end from its proper mode of attainment. In this sense, the fall is best construed as the pursuit of a true good through illegitimate means, under the guise of a higher fidelity to God’s will.

The serpent’s claim that “you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5) does not introduce an intrinsically disordered telos. The desire for likeness to God is deeply embedded within the broader biblical and theological framework; humanity is created in the imago Dei (Genesis 1:27) and called toward participation in the divine life (2 Peter 1:4). The temptation, therefore, does not lie in the object of desire itself, but in its reconfiguration. The serpent subtly detaches the end—divine likeness—from the relational and moral conditions established by God, thereby presenting it as something attainable through autonomous appropriation.

This reframing complicates the standard emphasis on distrust. The serpent does not merely deny God’s truth (“you will not surely die,” Genesis 3:4), but offers an alternative interpretive framework in which God’s command is rendered incomplete or provisional. The prohibition against eating from the tree may be implicitly recast as pedagogical, concealing a deeper intention that must be discerned rather than simply obeyed. In this way, the temptation introduces a hermeneutic of suspicion toward the surface meaning of divine revelation, inviting the human subject to privilege inferred intention over explicit command.

Within such a framework, the act of disobedience can be construed not as a rejection of God per se, but as an attempt to align with what is perceived to be a higher or fuller realization of God’s will. The serpent’s strategy, on this reading, is not to eliminate the category of trust, but to redirect it—away from God’s spoken word and toward an alternative account of divine intention. This creates the possibility of a paradoxical form of misdirected fidelity, wherein the human agent believes they are moving toward, rather than away from, the good.

This interpretation aligns with a longstanding theological principle: evil often operates not through outright opposition to the good, but through its distortion. As Augustine observes, sin frequently involves disordered love rather than the pursuit of sheer non-being (City of God, XIV.13). Similarly, Aquinas argues that moral failure arises when a genuine good is sought outside the order of reason and divine law (Summa Theologiae I-II, q.84, a.2). The Genesis account can thus be understood as an instance of this broader metaphysical pattern, in which the good is neither denied nor abandoned, but reappropriated in a manner that undermines its own conditions of possibility.

Moreover, this reading helps to explain the psychological plausibility and enduring theological significance of the narrative. A temptation toward obvious evil lacks the subtlety required to account for the fall of uncorrupted agents. By contrast, a temptation that presents itself as a deeper participation in the good—one that appears to transcend mere literal obedience—possesses a far greater degree of existential plausibility. It engages not only desire, but interpretation, inviting the human person to assume the role of arbiter over the meaning of divine command.

The fall, therefore, may be understood as the moment in which interpretive autonomy displaces relational obedience. The human agent does not simply choose against God, but chooses to mediate their relationship to God through their own judgment rather than through trust in divine revelation. In doing so, the structure of participation is inverted: what ought to be received as gift is grasped as possession, and what ought to be grounded in communion is relocated within the sphere of self-authorizing reason.

In conclusion, the primordial temptation is most coherently understood not as a straightforward rejection of the good, but as its subtle reconfiguration. The serpent’s deception lies in presenting disobedience as a pathway to a higher good, thereby transforming the act of transgression into an apparent act of fulfillment. This interpretation preserves the centrality of trust while deepening its complexity: the issue is not merely whether humanity trusts, but whom—or what interpretive authority—it ultimately trusts. The tragedy of the fall, then, is not that humanity desired too much, but that it sought the right end in the wrong way, and in doing so, severed itself from the very source of the good it pursued.

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Not sure how well you guys think Perplexity did in clarifying my points and position and if anyone wants to ask, I am Christian. Anyways this is just a proposal on what the first temptation might actually be, not a declaration.

Lore-wise, Young Xehanort is a time traveler. According to the rules established by Nomura, time travel requires you to cast aside your body, have a version of yourself waiting at the destination, and then let time continue forward as normal.

With that in mind, the question becomes whether Young Xehanort is actually time traveling during his boss fights, or whether what we’re seeing is closer to teleportation.

The way I’d test this is through positioning. If Kingdom Hearts’ time-travel rules are being enforced even in gameplay, then Young Xehanort should only be able to reposition to places he has already been to. If Ansem and Xemnas are also treated as versions of Xehanort, then that restriction might extend to locations they’ve occupied as well.

Of course, there’s another possibility. There’s no rule saying Young Xehanort couldn’t go back in time, take different actions, and physically travel to places he hadn’t previously reached, thereby making those places valid return points later on.

From a coding perspective, teleportation is obviously the simpler explanation. But if a game like Achron can build time travel around state-based mechanics, then it’s not impossible for Kingdom Hearts to do something similar. It would just be much more difficult.

https://the-akumatizer.itch.io/4XAB6GTVY3

Currently looking for play testers to double check I didn't miss any files. Sale lasts until the start of July. Do be warned I was greatly inspired by the Sierra Adventure games while making this. Also this offer has a limit of 10.

Gameplay and plot is roughly 80% done, just need to make sure I didn't forget any files.

I'm not looking for design feedback at this stage. I'm only interested in technical issues such as missing files, installation problems or content that fails to load correctly.

Please do not redistribute or reupload the files. This build is intended only for the people participating in this playtest. You may however post a video or livestream which may or may not be used as part of the remaining 20% or back lore.

Thank you in advance.

https://the-akumatizer.itch.io/4XAB6GTVY3

Currently looking for play testers to double check I didn't miss any files. Sale lasts until the start of July. Do be warned I was greatly inspired by the Sierra Adventure games while making this. Also this offer has a limit of 10.

Gameplay and plot is roughly 80% done, just need to make sure I didn't forget any files.

I'm not looking for design feedback at this stage. I'm only interested in technical issues such as missing files, installation problems or content that fails to load correctly.

Please do not redistribute or reupload the files. This build is intended only for the people participating in this playtest. You may however post a video or livestream which may or may not be used as part of the remaining 20% or back lore.

Thank you in advance.

Case 1: Innate Drug Aversion

Before I had those drug prevention programs I used to be tutored by some of my parent's employees. None of them used drugs or if they did I definitely did not know about it however one of them smoked. I saw how they often times had to take a smoke break and putting 2 and 2 together figured they must've had a mental compulsion of some sort. From them I learned the word 'addiction' and from my observation, inferred it must be something bad.

Years later I would start the drug prevention program however unlike my peers I already had an aversion to drugs, not because I was taught to do so, well at least not directly and nor was it because I was in the company of drug users. You could say I don't like having my mind altered. I desire to be genuine. Is this possible? Yes. Does it require a psi hypothesis? No.

My guess is that just as some of us are risk averse, genetically some may be predisposed to being against certain things even if we don't initially understand why. People can be genetically predisposed to personality traits (such as risk aversion, harm avoidance, or disgust sensitivity) that indirectly make them more likely to avoid drugs. Of course I haven't run a gene test to see if that may be the reason but let's consider another factor;

Even though I've never been around a drug user while growing up, I was around a smoker. Now from this you may expect that I would be against smoking, which I am however interestingly this early exposure may have bled over into my aversion towards drugs due to being closely related. Still we must not completely dismiss the possibility of psi. So what are the psi hypotheses?

1. Innate moral or spiritual intuition
2. Protective Influence
3. Past Life Trauma involving drugs
4. Subconscious awareness of spiritual harm from substance use.
5. Divine instinct placed as part of a greater plan or mission.

Examining these I would say 1 is possible. I mean, I am averse to being forced into something I am not, to force others to go against their person though whether that's just my preference, morals or spiritual intuition is another matter. For the second one, if there is some sort of protective influence it's hard to say where it's coming from. Is it divine, a spiritual trait, some combination? As for the 3rd hypothesis I have never recalled a past life however just because I can't recall it doesn't mean it's never happened. Indeed it would be fair to say that given the type of society I grew up in, perhaps I suppress those memories? Except no. I do not and have never recall a single past life however I will admit perhaps there's another explanation for that other than suppression. Perhaps if we assume past lives or reincarnation, the awareness of having thus experience may not be guaranteed to transfer over. Think of it like new game+ but without the benefit of knowledge. As for the 4th and 5th hypothesis... I guess? Still if there is some sort of divine instinct I for one cannot tell what greater plan or purpose being innately averse to drugs may be.

By the way, I probably should clarify that my aversion may not protect me from being drugged without my awareness as I have never tested to see if I can tell if I'm being secretly drugged or not and nor do I want to find out.

Now in my opinion, while I am curious as to why I innately loathe drugs I find that the non-supernatural explanations suffice. That's not to say there can't be anomalous ones but if they are there then it's hard to see if they are primarily the reason why or only a secondary factor. So would I say the first case shows psi?

Eh, even if we assume it's a factor I'd say the nonsupernatural clause suffices either through possible genetics, risk aversion and inference or some combination thereof.

TL;DR1: I’ve always had a natural aversion to drugs—not because of education or exposure, but because I instinctively dislike altering my mind. Growing up around a smoker may have reinforced this, and genetics (like risk or harm avoidance traits) could explain it. Still, I consider whether a psi or spiritual cause—like innate intuition, protection, or past-life trauma—might play a role. In the end, I lean toward psychological and genetic factors, though I don’t fully dismiss the possibility of a subtle paranormal influence.

Case 2: Rapid Animal Bonding

Growing up I've had various pets. The first, the family dog which I think may have been a Shih Tzu hardly ever listened to anyone with one notable exception. Of course perhaps the reason for this is that out of all of the family, I was the one who spent the most time with the dog and I opted to use encouragements. Sure he did get very excited and would sometimes scratch the others in his excitement but that never happened to me. For some of you pet owners you may be aware that out pets can click naturally well with some of us and less some with others. From being exposed to each other it only took me about 3 days for the dog to bond with me but considering we're talking about a dog, this isn't too surprising or at least I don't think that it is. Unfortunately as some of you may be aware, having a pet that only likes or listens to one family member is not great for a family pet and thus we were forced to give him away which we did to one of my parent's employees. A couple of months later I would learn he had been neutered which means all the time he was a family pet he had never been neutered and still he pretty much only listened to me. To note this isn't unprecedented among unaltered pets in particular with dogs. Perhaps I had interacted with him during his formative years and perhaps he saw me as a leader of sorts which may have explained my ease with him compared to the rest of the family.

The second pet or rather my actual first that wasn't a family pet was an intact female rat whom I purchased from the pet store. Prior to getting my pet rat I had done research on what to feed them, handling them so that get used to humans, bedding, ideals for toys, socialization among other things so I wasn't going in blind. From the start I handled her everyday and rather than being skittish she was rather accepting. Of course I never got groomed by her and perhaps it would be more accurate to say she was more indifferent to being handled if anything else. Well she did urinate on me a couple of times but I'd say that's likely because I had no ideal how to tell when rats need to go to the restroom. Anyways it only took me 3 days for my rat to effectively fully bond with me. She lived to be 2 years which is pretty normal for a rat, like even if you do everything right, rats aren't known to live that long. Speaking of my rat-

I'd like to share that one time during the night she had chewed her way out of her old home (I don't let her sleep with me because I didn't want to roll over and accidentally crush her), climbed her way upstairs to my parents' bedroom, woke up the one who usually feeds her grains and after being brought back downstairs into the secondary home which was being prepared for her and of course being fed just stayed there with the door opened. When I awoke the next day I had assumed she had made her way to the secondary home but when I learned the truth I was even more amazed. She had never been to the 2nd floor, only staying on the first but of course rats are known to be excellent navigators so it wasn't too surprising that she would learn how to make her way to my parents. What was more amazing however is that she did not pee nor poop or chew any of the wires laying around and that after being fed, she just stayed inside of her 2nd home even though she had never been placed in there before. Talk about restraint! I'd say my rat must've been pretty smart.

My 3rd and most recently pet I got was a rabbit. Like with my rat I had done my research on their dietary needs, socialization, how to do a basic health checkup on them, etc. I had all sorts of cases of how rabbits are not low maintenance but rather high maintenance and that they are really challenging...

What a joke or maybe I just got lucky. As with my rat, my rabbit, an intact male rabbit who only took 3 days after being bought to fully bond with me. He was young at the time, about 8 weeks old and I pretty much had him initially sleep with me before being required to move him elsewhere for my own sleep. Now what was really amazing however is that for the 2.5 years that I had him he had never once demonstrated any of the behaviours you'd expect of an intact male rabbit. Zilch. No spraying, grunting, aggression or fear (in fact he would even insist on grooming me at times). You think I found him to be high maintenance, no. He was pretty much low maintenance. I had initially treated him like a cat however given that he bonded with me in just 3 days it would seem I would need to alter my approach which I did.

Looking back at these 3 cases I honestly can't tell whether they are sufficiently explained by nonsupernatural means or not. I mean, I did do my homework and even with the family dog where that wasn't the case I was the one who spend the most time with them. Still 3 days and across multiple species especially prey animals is something to take notice but if there is a psi effect my guess is that it appears to be restricted only to bonding speed and possibly affect. I suppose in addition to skill I may have just gotten lucky but then again it is interesting. As with case 1 let us examine the anomalous hypotheses.

1. Empathic Resonance
2. Karmic/Soul Level familiarity
3. Telepathic Rapport

Of these 3 options I'd say only the first has any merit. As I've stated before, I do not recall any past lives and if there is some karma going on, then it's curious as to how I have no problem with hunting and consuming meat. As for telepathic rapport, I do not hear mental voices, or if I do, then I clearly don't recognize it. Of course some of you may notice what I just said technically relates to mindreading, not telepathy but rather than projecting thoughts perhaps it would be more accurate to say something else may be happening. If there is something anomalous going on then perhaps I am emitting a sort of emotional altering field on animals that effectively calms them down and encourages loyalty in them.

Again my conclusion for this case is that I am uncertain whether a psi effect may be present or not but assuming that there is one, it's probably restricted to a charming effect. Who knows.

Oh and if anyone's curious, my mini rex was free roam ever since the day I bought him.

TL;DR2: Across three pets—a dog, a rat, and a rabbit—I noticed they all bonded with me unusually quickly, within just three days each, even across different species. I always did my research, spent time with them, and used positive handling, so normal explanations like trust, attention, and timing could fit. Still, I wonder if there might be a subtle psi component like empathic resonance that helps animals feel calm and connected around me. I don’t claim anything supernatural for sure, but the coincidence across species is intriguing.

The nature of dreams & the abilities therein

Show of hands, how many of you lucid dream by default? Did it start out naturally for you or did you have to learn it? Well for me I naturally lucid dream though perhaps that might be because of the nature of my dreams or moreover what they lack. Ahem, allow me to back up and give some definitions so that we are on the same page.

Lucid dreaming is being aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming. It does not include dream control but nor does it exclude it and similarly dream control does not require lucidity but is bolstered by it. Now with that out of the way let's continue.

So most of my dreams are typically experienced through vision. Sometimes I can hear music, taste, feel the sensation of motion. What I cannot do or rather have yet to have done is feel tactile sensations. Sight, sound, taste, balance and yet no tactile sensation. Some of you may have similar experiences. How many of you have dreams which are completely devoid of one of the senses? Does this occur on a regular basis?

Sometimes when we dream we dream that we have superpowers or abilities. Often times this is induced by external sources but occasionally there are those which lack an external inspiration. And then there are those of us who consistently have certain abilities which persist even in nightmares, even regardless of our waking lives circumstances and desires. Taking myself as an example, ever since the beginning in my dreams I've been able to levitate, warp and possess others all at will. I did not need to learn how, it came naturally. Perhaps I saw a movie or read a book you say? No, these abilities existed way before I was introduced to the concept. Anyways as I grew older I decided to test them out and there were a couple of things I found out about them. Remember, just because they came naturally to me doesn't mean I would know the ins and outs of them. It just means I can use them at will or rather I didn't need to learn how to use them.

Levitation; Passive, effectively always on. Generates a field of anti-gravity. Not the same thing as flight, in fact the anti-gravity can cause some challenges when moving around.

Possession; State, like a daemon I am able to possess others, multiples even and observe from them while having a general reading of my hosts however either I am not able to control them like puppets on a string or it's not in my nature to do so. Also, the more hosts I am possessing the more spread out and thus weaker my influence becomes. Thankfully for some reason my hosts seem to never know that I am possessing them so I guess I have the stealthy variant.

Warping; Active. Teleport to a random location. It can be in the same plane, another dimension, what have you. The only requirements of the destination is that it cannot be lethal however that does not mean it cannot be hostile.

These traits persisted regardless of attempts to preprogram and regardless of whether I was having a nightmare or not I am able to use them with no penalty however as you can see they have in-built limitations. Sure it's easy to say you can dream up anything and let it would seem that my dreams have a sort of logic to them so for some of you that may be true but as for myself, based off of experience I'd say that seems unlikely.

What about you? Are your dreams subject to your will or are you like some of us where when we dream, we might be entering into another world entirely?

TL;DR@: I’ve always lucid-dreamed naturally, possibly due to how my dreams work—vivid in sight, sound, and taste but lacking tactile sensation. Since childhood, my dream-self has consistently had specific abilities: levitation (a passive anti-gravity field), possession (observing through others without control), and warping (non-lethal teleportation across locations or dimensions). These abilities appear stable across dreams, even nightmares, and resist attempts at preprogramming, suggesting a built-in structure or dream logic rather than simple imagination. I’m curious whether others experience their dreams as personal creations or as self-contained worlds with their own rules.

Case 3: A shift in Perspective

It is an early morning some time during spring. I am ~13 yrs old at the time. Anyways I had this appointment early in the morning so I was dropped off at school instead. As I walked to my locker which is on the first floor I met one of my classmates. My classmate looked to be irritated and tired. I said "Hello". My classmate replied "What do you want?" in a tired and irritated tone. To note we were not on bad terms with each other and prior to this I had been practicing sensing, but not taking on the emotions of others, a type of empathic sensing. Anyways the next thing I knew, like the literal next moment I was no longer looking at my classmate or their eyes but rather from their perspective;

I could see not only myself but the lockers and hallway behind me. It only lasted for like a mental second so I wasn't able to tell if I could've done more but this experience has stuck with me since especially since this reminded me of the things I experience in my dreams on a pretty regular basis. Years later when I would reconnect with my classmate they had forgotten my name and also reported that they did not experience anything unusual. For anyone concerned I might have led them on, all I asked was whether they recalled anything when we crossed paths that one time during middle school to which they said, no. Leaving dream logic to the side and not to mention my dreams came before my experiences and media input let us first examine the mundane explanations before considering the anomalous.

Now, even though I was awake at the time is it possible for the human brain to be able to reconstruct and envision what the perspective of another's vantage point would be? According to some studies, yes however with that said usually this would be done with the support of the other senses and clearly if the target is facing you there would be things you would not be able to sense behind you, things such as who is behind you. Through memory and exposure I could reconstruct the layout behind me however the real question to ask is, is this likely? To that and considering I could see other students behind me I would have to say, no. So what of the anomalous and or psi explanations?

1. Spontaneous psychic empathic merge / soul perception
2. Human based clairvoyance
3. Possession

Now we must not forget that not all psychic experiences are shared so assuming this is an anomalous case, clearly it would appear to be one way. Looking at these 3 hypotheses I would say the information available does not support the first as while there was spontaneity, there was no merging. I did not feel my classmate's emotions nor did I have access to their thoughts; only their vantage point and while being able to possess others is one of the abilities I have in my dreams, considering the incredibly short duration not to mention I wasn't able to see if I could do more than just observe, the 3rd explanation, i.e. possession while admittedly pretty cool does not have much merit to it when compared to the 2nd, human based clairvoyance where another human being is used to act as a remote viewing lens.

Of the cases so far I would have to say this is the first one where it would seem that the possibility of this being a genuine psychic event is quite reasonable. Of course I cannot ignore the possibility of my brain having envision what was going on behind me in perfect coincidence and while I may not have felt any confusion, nevertheless it is a possibility.

TL;DR3: When I was about 13, I briefly saw from a classmate’s perspective as though my awareness had swapped places with theirs. It lasted only a second, but it felt just like the “possession” viewpoint I experience regularly in dreams (see segment on dreams). My classmate didn’t notice anything unusual, which makes me question whether it was a spontaneous psychic event—like clairvoyance—or an extremely vivid mental reconstruction. Of all my experiences so far, this one seems the most plausibly psi-related.

RetroPK

Now, depending on your mileage this may or not may constitute as an experience. In 2025 in order to test for whether I had retroPK or not I endeavored to use a true rng to see how many times I could get a run with no more than a 1/40 chance of occurring out of a total of 500 runs. For clarity I did not prematurely stop and also I used the tail-event counting method as opposed to the standard hits vs misses. This was not done post-hoc but rather at the beginning.

In 2025, I set out to test whether I might exhibit retro-psychokinesis (retroPK) using a true random number generator (RNG). I used the Bell Curve experiment hosted here:
https://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/experiments/bellcurve/

Important note: I did not use the demo mode (which relies on a pseudo-RNG). I specifically used the version based on physical entropy, since pseudo-RNGs can, in principle, be predicted if the seed is known.

The general setup is similar to standard parapsychology RNG experiments: each run produces a result analogous to flipping a coin 1024 times. You’d expect an average score of 512 per run, and across many runs, the total should converge toward chance expectation.

Methodology

Before starting, I committed to running exactly 500 runs. There was no pre-stopping, no stopping based on intermediate results, and no adjustment of sample size mid-experiment.

I also committed in advance to using a tail-event counting method rather than the standard cumulative “hits vs misses” approach.

Specifically:

• A “tail event” was defined as any run with a ≤ 2.5% probability (two-tailed; roughly 1 in 40 odds)
• Total runs (n) = 500
• Expected number of tail events by chance = 500 × 0.025 = 12.5

Using a standard normal approximation, the minimum number of tail events required to reach p < 0.05 (Z ≈ 1.96) is approximately 20.

So, prior to running the experiment, the criterion for a statistically significant deviation was:
→ At least 20 tail events out of 500 runs

Results

• Total score: 255,817 / 512,000
• Z-score (cumulative method): 0.51 (not significant)

Using the tail-event method:

• Observed tail events: 28
• Expected: 12.5
• Threshold for significance: 20

This exceeds the pre-defined cutoff.

Using a binomial approximation, the probability of observing 28 or more tail events (p = 0.025, n = 500) is approximately:
→ p ≈ 0.0000856 (about 1 in 11,680)

Notes on Conditions

• My attention varied: sometimes focused, sometimes passive
• There was no deliberate attempt to stop or extend the session based on outcomes

If anyone's curious I've included a link to the results I got below:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/RPKPreport?control=&html=-h&all=&email=Ddr1va1&practice=

I originally wanted to just post an image but for whatever reason it kept getting deleted.

TL;DRetro: In 2025, I ran a controlled retroPK (retro-psychokinesis) test using a true random number generator—not a simulation—to see if focused intention could influence past RNG outcomes. I pre-registered my method, ran 500 trials, and used a “tail-event” threshold (≤ 1/40 chance per run) instead of standard hit counting. Statistically, 20 tail events would indicate significance; I got 28, which corresponds to p ≈ 0.0000856 (about 1 in 11,680). Though my focus varied, this result met the pre-defined significance cutoff, suggesting a potentially genuine retroPK effect.

Case 4: Did Michael Jackson die?

Age [redacted for privacy concerns].

I am with one of my parents on a business trip. For the past couple of days we have been visiting various landmarks such as Carlsbad Cavern and the White Sands to name a few while staying at cheap motels. Why? They like to save up on money to put it nicely. Anyways we had returned and during the entire trip I had been listing to music player which consisted of a list of video game music. So it's been a long day and after falling asleep I awake to a rather quiet motel... too quiet. It's as though something serious as happened. I then blurt out "Did Michael Jackson die?". My parent tries to shush me but then the tv next door confirms it when the news reporter announces him dead. I have never been a fan of the King of Pop nor has my parents. We saw and heard nothing about Michael Jackson during the business trip except for that one news report which we overheard and while it may comfort some of you to assume that teens make guesses all the time, that was not me. This was the first and only time where I guesses someone's death. I also at the time did not own a cellphone and so I couldn't have done earlier research but even if I could I wouldn't have any incentive to do so seeing how I was not a fan in the sense of being indifferent towards Michael Jackson.

Do I think that something psychic happened here? Honestly despite being surprising I think I'm going to have to chalk this one up to a lucky guess. Don't get me wrong, there was about a 1 in 39,000 chance that my guess would've been correct but lucky guesses inevitably happen. What matters more is consistency. Still we shouldn't completely disregard the anomalous so let's consider their hypotheses.

1. Precognition via Clairaudience
2. Precognition via Claircognizance
3. Precognition via clairsentience
4. Premonition

As I stated before, I do not hear mental voices so it's fair to rule out the first. I made a random guess so we can eliminate the 2nd and while I had a gut feeling that something serious had happened, arguably the unusual quietness of the motel could've served as a context clue. This leaves us with only a premonition. Premonitions as far as far as I can tell are usually divinely given for a purpose but as to what that could be... a sign maybe? It's too hard to tell. In any case I am more of the opinion that this case might be more of a case of luck independently then anything else however there's just one thing;

Some of you may recall that I eventually ran a retroPK session on myself to see if I could cause a trueRNG to output more tail end events, i.e. runs with no more than a 1/40 chance of occurring over 500 runs beyond statistical significance. Some of you may recall that in order to satisfy this I would need to get at least 20 such runs and that I ended up with 28, a probability of only 1 in 11,680. If we treat this as a parallel then perhaps we can include the possibility of some retroPK or to put that another way, given my retroPK results, it doesn't seem far fetched to say that my rate of randomly guessing an unusual event may be statistically higher than usual. Even then as they say, once is happenstance, twice a coincidence and 3 times a pattern.

For more information about the retroPK session I ran see please read the previous segment on retroPK.

TL;DR4: One time, while on a business trip and without any prior interest in Michael Jackson, I suddenly blurted out, “Did Michael Jackson die?” right before the motel TV confirmed it. I take that as probably a lucky guess rather than solid psychic evidence, though I briefly consider premonition. Still, in light of my later retroPK results, I wonder whether I may have a higher-than-average tendency to hit unusual events by chance—or whether there’s some subtle anomalous pattern at work.

Case 5: Blood Moon Staircase

Age; [redacted for privacy concerns].

Date; Dec 21, 8:00 to 8:19 [Adjusted to UTC & not local time for privacy concerns]

The night before I had researched on my parent's phone, again I did not own a cellphone at the time, that there will be a blood moon, a lunar eclipse where the crux is during the witching hour. I desired to see this event, to be witness to it so I snuck downstairs. It was beautiful... quiet large too and very red. Then after about a minute past the apex I decided to climb back upstairs. To ensure that my return would remain undetected I crawled, pawed and strategically paused to let the creakiness of the 14 step staircase from the first floor to the second die out. Before we go on, allow me to explain more about this staircase.

The first 7 steps from the first floor to the second can be climbed without causing a creaking noise whereas if you try to climb the 8th to 12th step, they are guaranteed to creak. Years later when I returned to do an audio test on them I find out that the softest decibel I could make while climbing those steps was -23.42 dbfs over 2 minutes and 57 seconds. The fastest I could race up those stairs (again, 8 to 12) was 1 second with the softest output of - 17.57. Casually it only takes me 10 seconds for an output of -21.52 dbfs. In order to not wake up my parents I would have needed to produce no greater than -31 dbfs so how was I going to climb back up without waking them?

By timing it so that the creaks sounded natural, or at least that was my plan at the time. Using a stopwatch which was also my clock that I used to time myself to witness the blood moon, I used the tactile sensation and the soft beep, soft enough not to be a problem but loud enough to keep myself alert to help me with my assent. As a reminder I am incapable of tactile sensations in my dreams, that is to say I have never once felt a tactile sensation while dreaming. I make it to the halfway point, i.e. step 7. Hold. I press the stopwatch. The next thing I know I am at the 12th step. I immediately pause the stopwatch. Only 17 ms have passed and yet I felt no locomotion, no dizziness, confusion... well I definitely was surprised but that was to be given. It was silent. I quickly crawled my way up the last 2 steps and made my way to my bedroom and then went to bed. The next day or rather on the morning of December 21, 2010 I decided to check my stopwatch.

17 ms... that definitely wasn't there when I went to bed.

Okay, considering the physics of what happened, even if we assumed I may have misinterpret my stopwatch reading considering that not only would it be incredibly hard to find a stopwatch with such precision, it would also be unnecessary, we can make a fair adjustment and say that rather than 17ms having passed it was 170 ms. At that speed I would have to be going at say 5.88 ft per second or say about 4.01 mph. Physically speaking that's possible except there's one.. no wait. There's actually 2 major issues. First we have to consider the fact that we're talking about racing up the stairs from a standstill. As each step is 1ft in length and 1 ft in height, we can equate the minimal distance needed for travel to be ~7.07 ft.

Diagonal distance=sqr[(5)^2+(5)^2]=sqr(50)≈7.07 ft≈2.16 m

Using a kinematic equation:

s=0.5(at^2) from rest, constant acceleration)

Where:

• s = distance traveled (7.07 ft)
• t = time (0.17 s)
• a = acceleration

Plugging in:

a=2s/t^2=2×7.07/0.17^2≈14.14/0.0289≈489 ft/s²a ≈333 mph/s ≈ 56.7 mph

To travel this distance in just 170 miliseconds without tripping or exceeding this distance from standstill I would need to somehow accelerate to 56.7 mph and then somehow decelerate to 0.

Since we've established my fastest recorded time would woken up my parents, it's...

Okay let's just state what it is. At that speed there should've been a booming noise and yet that did not happen. Also we must consider that due to the physical limitations of the stopwatch, even if exactly 17 ms or dare I say, even if the event was instantaneous, there's no way the stopwatch would be able to capture that. Now some may say perhaps my stopwatch had a glitch. Even if we were to allow for that I still would've also felt locomotion not to mention a stopwatch prone to such errors of not registering presses should in principle be more prone to delays and besides, a double tap would not be missed. I felt it before when I was climbing so it would be very off for me to some reason not feel any for those 5 steps. Aside from that prior to this case and afterwards I did not find my stopwatch to have any such errors and even if there were, practically speaking this means the actual elapsed time might truly be shorter, not longer. Although measurement error or memory distortion remain possible, neither explanation fully accounts for the combination of observations. This case... although I prefer to default to the nonsupernatural, I'm afraid I'm going to have to side with the anomalous on this one as requiring fewer assumptions or what's known in philosophy circles as Occam's Razor. Of course if you don't like the way I used that term then how about we go with inference to the best explanation or abductive reasoning though in any regards the question then becomes, assuming that something anomalous did happen what could it be?

1. Time Distortion
2. Teleportation
3. Spatial-Temporal distortion

Honestly these 3 options are so similar that while they're technically different, functionally they still have the same output.

{sigh} I did a memory integrity test of this event and found that it was really high, say about 99%. Could this all have been a dream? Extremely unlikely. don't forget. I lack tactile sensation in my dreams but even if we assume this was that one instance, it still does not explain the result on my stopwatch not to mention the myriad and combination of other observations + the circumstances, well unless you want to then accuse me of fabricating the results. I suppose that would be a comfort to some of you though whatever happened or how it happened it definitely was not normal. Welcomed yes, but not normal... perhaps even anomalous or psionic? I am not claiming that this event proves anything psychic or supernatural. If someone chose to interpret it that way, that interpretation would still not imply that I understand how it happened or that I can repeat it on demand. Because such events, if real, seem to be rare and spontaneous, they do not currently allow for the kind of controlled, repeatable testing that would be needed to verify or falsify them. My conclusion is simply that, assuming no measurement or memory errors, the event would qualify as anomalous and currently unexplained. Well I leave you to decide how you'd like to interpret this case.

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Now, if we introduce religion, in case I haven't made it clear I've been a Christian for a very long time say about maybe 5 at the earliest. When it comes to the spiritual gifts, more particularly the more supernatural ones such as the gift of healing, prophecy and the working of miracles which I like to term as thaumaturgy, I am of the opinion and viewpoint that such gifts have not ceased, in other words a continuationalist however that doesn't mean I view them to be common. Ahem, that aside I have consider the possibility that perhaps this experience is that of divine intervention or maybe even a sign of a spiritual gift, perhaps thaumaturgy however there's one major problem to that:

I haven't been baptized, and by baptism I mean water baptism, yet and as far as I'm aware I've never had an infant baptism. From what I understand the spiritual gifts are given during the spiritual baptism which depending on denomination is sometimes tied with water baptism. Well I guess unlike plenty of peers after careful analysis I don't view psychic powers to be inherently demonic and am rather of the viewpoint that they are natural faculties of the soul. Of course I'm not expecting to change anyone's mind especially my fellow Christians and even if I were to give a list of Church fathers, priests, apologists and theologians who are of a similar thought, Thomas Aquinas, F.B Meyer and Douglas Wilson for example, I am well aware that in popular Christian thought especially on r/christianity psychic powers are not viewed as natural but rather demonic and that to suggest otherwise is a fool's errand. With that said and given my background with my other cases I suppose there is the possibility that I may have the spiritual gift of thaumaturgy however if that is so, then I find it rather curious it would manifest like this.

TL;DR5: While sneaking back upstairs to avoid waking my parents during a blood moon, I somehow ended up near the top of the stairs with only 17 ms on my stopwatch and no sense of movement, which seems hard to explain by normal means. I think the event is probably anomalous rather than a dream or simple measurement error, though I’m not claiming it proves anything supernatural. If anything, I see it as an unexplained experience that could be interpreted as time/spatial distortion, or possibly a rare spiritual gift, though I’m not sure how that would fit with my background.