Lena Luthor just wants to do the science (quantized) wrote in valarnet,
And this other version of you: Was he essentially the same person? I don't mean in the way you and your dream counterparts are similar if you disregard the spaceship; I'm asking if, disregarding differences in their respective histories that resulted in different decisions being made, they were essentially living the same life. Because dreaming of two versions of what is essentially the same life is extremely odd, not only because the majority of us only dream of one alternate life, but also because it's unclear what you're meant to learn from seeing them both (the leading theory as to why we dream alternate lives is that it is a lesson of some kind). It isn't as if the life you're currently leading is that of a starship captain, in which case one could argue that seeing another version of the same life was intended to be a sort of 'what if' exercise that acted as a cautionary tale. No, your life is vastly different, so it stands to reason that whatever lesson you were to learn from Star Captain James could have been learned the first time. I, of course, haven't seen your dreams, so I'm just theorizing. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.