BETWEEN TWO WORLDS | Chapter 3: The Threshold
Aarav didn't sleep. How could he? His laptop sat open on the coffee table, work emails piling up unread, but his mind was elsewhere. He'd spent the evening doing what any rational person would do when confronted with the impossible—he'd researched. Parallel universes quantum physics Shared psychosis folie à deux Schizophrenia creative people writers Reality perception disorders Dissociative identity disorder symptoms Every search led him deeper into rabbit holes of scientific theories and psychiatric diagnoses, none of which fully explained what was happening with Meera. The quantum physics suggested parallel worlds might theoretically exist, but not in ways humans could physically access. The psychiatric literature described delusions so vivid they felt real to the person experiencing them. But what about the bookstore? What about that feeling —that pressure, that vibration he'd experienced in the alcove? He'd felt something . Something his engineering brain couldn't r…
