Matt+Schueler+2014

Mental Journal: Chapter 1 I feel a huge rush of wind around me; I was amazed that I wasn’t instantly blown down by the incredible hurricane-force winds. Then there was the darkness. It wasn’t just any kind of darkness though. It was the kind of darkness that you could feel inside of your soul. It wasn’t anything like the darkness I had seen, or rather not seen, ever before. There was absolutely no light at all, I couldn’t see anything around me. I noticed that I also had no bearing on which direction I was facing. It was like I was floating around in space. I couldn’t feel any kind of gravity or anything, so I had no idea if I was facing up, down, or any other direction. As I looked around to try to get my bearings, I saw a tiny pinprick of light far off in the distance. I strained to see what it was, until I realize that the wind around me was getting faster and faster, and the light getting bigger and bigger. As the light got closer, I had to close my eyes because the light became too blinding for me. Suddenly, I feel the wind stop around me. I open my eyes and see an amazing landscape around me. With trees stretching up hundreds of feet in the air, I gaze around me, breathless at the incredible landscape I see unfolding around me. I turn around slowly, trying to take it all in. I feel the wind blowing over my skin, the cool air rustling the leaves on the trees. The soft sound of the wind relaxing me as I stare up at the trees. I had no idea this was how my trip would turn out. When I began this journey, I would never have even dreamed that I would be able to do something like this. But I suppose at this point I should really tell you how I got here. It all started two weeks ago when I was in the basement of my new house. I had just recently managed to save up enough to buy a small house in the country and renovate it to better fit my needs. It began with a trip to the nearest hardware store, which was quite far away from my home at the time, but I was still willing to make the trip to gather the supplies that I needed for the project. After gathering the supplies, I walked down the creaking stairs to the shabby underground room that came with the house and looked around. This would be where I would create my masterpiece. It took me only a few days to construct the room, which I decided to call The Lab from now on, and before long I was ready to begin my experiment. I had been sitting on an idea for some time now, and it was finally time for me to act on it. I could simply not wait to get on with this new project. Early tests were quite successful with the project. I managed to get ahold of a few small trinkets and every conducted test was a complete success. I couldn’t have been happier. Soon though, it was clear there was quite a large problem in my plan. I was beginning to run low on raw material, and it was all I had at the time. I had recently stumbled onto a metal that I could find no information on, but had quite incredible observable properties. As I observed the space around it, I could see slight but noticeable distortions within the vicinity of the material. I decided to dig it up and investigate. Upon further inspection, it appeared that the material was actually slowing down time around it! I couldn’t believe it; had I finally discovered the secret to time travel? So I decided to, as you already know, construct a lab and conduct experiments. But with my material running out with every test, as its properties appeared to disappear after being amplified by an electrical source, I knew I had to make the decision soon. It was time to try it on myself. I knew from experiments that applying electricity in greater amounts produced a stronger effect, and reversing the direction of current flow also reversed the travel direction. I decided to take equal amounts of material, and simply plug them in opposite directions when I went back and forward again. I hooked up the two sources to the power supplies, kept individual for safety reasons, and flipped the switch. Nothing happened at first, and I thought I had done something wrong. But after a few seconds I felt a tingle that only grew stronger, until I felt my body wrenched out of reality and the fabric of spacetime. And that, dear friend, was where my amazing journey begins.