A Soul’s Journey Through Parallel Realities

What if every choice you didn’t make lives on in another version of you?

Last year, I wrote about sliding door moments. Those subtle and seemingly insignificant decisions that split our lives into distinct paths, often without us realizing their significance at the time.

This concept was inspired by the 1998 movie, Sliding Doors. In the movie the main character’s life branches off into two distinct paths based on a seemingly insignificant event. Whether she catches a train or not.

Due to a recent experience, I’ve felt called to revisit this idea and share my experience. But this time, I feel called to go beyond the concept of life changing choices. I felt drawn into the realm of parallel realities.

Have you ever wondered, or experienced something that made you question whether another version of you exists somewhere, living out a different timeline? One that’s shaped by a single decision made differently?

Have you ever felt it?

What Are Parallel Realities?

The concept of parallel realities suggests that multiple versions of our lives exist simultaneously, with each playing out different possibilities based on the choices we do or don’t make. Every decision creates a fork in the road, leading to different outcomes. Some we consciously experience, and others that unfold in an alternate reality.

It’s the shadow of the life we didn’t live.

The version of us who said yes instead of no.

The one who stayed instead of left.

It’s the what if version of our lives, where every road not taken is still taken. Just not by this version of us.

“Every universe exists over every other universe. Like a million pictures on tracing paper, all with slight variations within the same frame. The many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics suggests there are an infinite number of divergent parallel universes. Every moment of your life you enter a new universe. With every decision you make. And traditionally it was thought that there could be no communication or transference between those worlds, even though they happen in the same space, even though they happen literally millimetres away from us.”

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

A Question That Opened a Door to a Profound Experience

Last week, someone from my soul family asked me a question that hit me in a way I wasn’t expecting:

"How many lifetimes do you think you’ve lived as Darcy Dudeck?"

I didn’t have an answer, but I was intrigued by the question, so I knew I needed to meditate on it. What followed was a profound experience that left me certain that parallel realities are not just a theory. Just because we don’t see them or feel them doesn’t mean they don’t exist, the same way we don’t see or feel wifi signals.

I was shown a sliding door moment from my early twenties. It was a bit of a dark period for me. I had fallen into a pattern of drinking to forget. I was spending time with an old high school friend who I can see now, was also trying to forget something. So, we gravitated towards each other, and in a lot of ways she was like a mirror reflecting back to me how I was feeling. Lost, drifting, and numbing something.

I was able to pull myself out of that phase fairly quickly and move through what I was trying to forget. But for her, the path kept going.

And that was where our paths branched off. In that meditation I was shown that was when the sliding door closed behind me…and opened for her.

During my meditation, I was shown something rather chilling. I was shown that in another reality, I went down that path too. The same path she took.

And it wasn’t just a vague idea. I saw it. And I felt it.

The Jail Connection

Years later, when I worked in a jail, I sometimes found myself working in the women’s unit. There were occasions I remember walking through those doors with a strange feeling, like the walls themselves were almost speaking to me. More than once I had the thought:

"If I had taken the wrong path in life, I could have been on the other side of these walls."

It was a disturbing thought. But it wasn’t just a thought because on some level, I almost felt like I could relate to some of the women who were locked up. And I was never entirely sure where it came from.

And then, one day, I walked into that unit and there she was sitting at a table. The friend from my past. The one who had taken the other path. We spoke briefly, and she told me how her path had brought her there. All I could think about was how we had been connected in the past, and how I could have been exactly where she was.

Seeing her in jail that day felt like our connection belonged to a completely different lifetime altogether.

Because maybe…it did.

Being shown these moments in that meditation felt eerie. Almost like a ripple in reality.

“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”

-Ann Rule

The Dreams That Weren’t Just Dreams

During this experience I was also shown memories of vivid, recurring dreams I used to have. In these dreams, I always found myself lost in bad neighborhoods and trapped in unsafe places. Places that felt haunted by something unseen, yet vaguely familiar.

In one of these dreams, I found myself in a really scary, run down house in a dilapidated neighborhood. The house and neighborhood didn’t look familiar but they felt very familiar. And after all the years that have passed since I’ve had these dreams, I can still feel them, like they are echoes of something real.

I was also shown how certain places I visited during my time as a Community Corrections Worker made my skin crawl and how I’d leave some of those places feeling contaminated or tainted in ways I can’t explain. Some of my reactions felt extreme and almost irrational. And for so long, I couldn’t understand why.

But during my meditation, I was shown something that made it all click. Those weren’t just dreams or random feelings. It felt like they were glimpses. Glimpses of the other me, the one who had taken the other path.

In both realities, jails and unsafe neighborhoods were significant. But in opposite roles. In this life, I entered them professionally. In the other…I didn’t.

"In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you’ve ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes."

-Nick Payne

Coincidence?

After my meditation that day, something else clicked. I remembered something my brother had told me a few months ago. He, too, used to have recurring dreams about being lost in bad neighborhoods. I was shocked when he told me that.

Why would he have dreams that mirrored mine?

I don’t believe in coincidences. I never have. But I do believe in parallel realities. Especially after the experience I had in meditation that day. And I believe that sometimes, when the veil thins, we get glimpses of them. In our dreams, through deja vu, and through the strong reactions and gut feelings we can’t quite explain.

Maybe the choices we don’t make never truly disappear. Maybe they live on, just beyond the sliding doors. And maybe, just maybe, we are much more than the choices we remember.

What if these parallels aren’t imagination, but memory? Not memory from this life, but from one that’s still being lived.

Somewhere else. By another you.

If you’ve ever had an experience that’s made you wonder, or convinced you that parallel realities exist, I would love to hear from you!

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