CREATIVE ADVENTURES — 88
Imagine You Visit A Parallel Universe
A parallel universe is conceived of as coexisting with and having certain similarities to the known universe but different from it in some fundamental way. It is theorized as existing alongside our own, but it is undetectable.
In this thought experiment, you will imagine that you can visit a parallel universe. Please respond to the following prompts:
- Write the science fiction story where you are transported to this parallel universe. What do you witness or experience?
- Describe life in this parallel universe. How is it similar to or different from our universe and world?
- Imagine that you come across yourself in this parallel universe. What happens next? Write down your story.
- Write a science fiction and adventure story where you go to this parallel universe and then come back.
- Write a story where your life in the parallel universe is much better than the current one. Why is it better? Can you learn from this life to change your conditions here?
- Write a story where your life in the parallel universe is much worse than the current one (something to be grateful about). Why is it worse? Write a dystopia where you are trying to escape from these hellish conditions.
- Create 10 interesting scenarios regarding our world in the parallel universe. For example, you encounter a dinosaur civilization in one of them. Another world is stuck in the ice age. Yet another is an underwater civilization. What else?
- Imagine that our world in the parallel universe is beaming with advanced AI and robots helping humans. Write a science story set in this utopic and blissful world.
- Imagine that our world in the parallel universe is dominated by ultra-intelligent AI and robots. These robots and androids have humans as their pets. Write a dystopia set in this world. How will you free humans from their AI-powered ‘cages’?
- Write a story where your commute to the parallel universe creates grave dangers for our universe. Evil forces in the parallel universe are coming after your technology to take over and destroy our universe. What happens next?
- Write a story where your alternate version is a shadow and an evil version of you. You are on a mission to confront and prevent your evil twin. Write a story with this plot.
- Imagine a parallel universe where time operates differently. Imagine diverse scenarios: What if the time on the parallel Earth is accelerated? What if time is slower? What if gravity is greater than that of the Earth? What if gravity is less? How would these dynamics change life and human civilization on Earth?