Whidden's Vegas Trip

I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

Shhh... stop jamming this thread, we're waiting for Whidden to return.

Okay, I was just joshin' you, you can jam up this thread if you want.

Don't got no jam brother, I got some peanut butter though.

Mr. F wrote:

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=74549

I wonder if Dave is flying Southwest

Dammit, I was way too pretty in the face for that plane.

I must say, Vegas was awesome. Spent 3 hours walking up and down the strip, got so tired my feet felt like lead.

Hard to describe that place.

I also had a strong moment of deja-vu/semi religious/previous life experience. I almost don't want to talk about it, as I don't want to cheapen it. Feels like expressing it makes it cheap, but I will do a post on it in a few. It won't translate, you won't get the jist of it, but I will try.

O.K., this will certify me as pure out nuts, but here goes.
I had a time travel/deja vu/something weird experience in Vegas. You will see the picture and think nothing of it, but here goes.


I cruise out of the hotel, (MGM Grand) and start to cruise the Strip. It's still daylight, about an hour before sunset. I'm walking, having a good time. A little overwhelmed by the sights.

But nothing abnormal. It was awesome, real awesome. I went around the MGM Grand, then went to New York, New York, then was just walking looking at the buildings, and the paintings and the statues.

I could go on for hours about it, it really was just eye candy every single place you looked. So it's all cool, you get the picture.

Then, I cruise up on Ceasers Palace, and it was just flooring to see all that. It was so big and I dug the statues, and yada yada yada, it was some of the most beautiful things I have seen.

Here comes the funky part. I round this rotunda thing, and see the building behind the main building, and it has these 3 column looking building on top of it,
and I went into some strange deja vu zone, that completly overpowered The Whid.

How to describe it....

impossible, but I will try.

Heres the deal: It was like seeing the home you lived in before you entered this world, it was like seeing the place you lived before the universe existed, it was like seeing a secret place from a different timeline when you are some other place.

This will seem extreeme, but it felt like seeing the face of God. I kind of backed away some, cause I was like, dude, that's almost idol worship.

It was like seeing the Dark Tower.

Plus, here is the deja vu time travel part, I remembered taking a trip to Wyoming in 1997, and I was on the road and saw a bill board. A vison of this building hit me, and overpowered me, the same one I was looking at. I started freaking out in Wyoming, it was like I was seeing something spiritual or supernatural.

So, I'm looking at this building in Vegas, and the feelings were so overwhelming, and I actually had the thought, "Am I sending my 1997 self some kind of time mental message or what?"

This moment, unlike Deja Vu, didn't last a minute and go away, I stood looking at that sucker for more that ten mintues. I couldn't shake the feelings like I was looking at something....no word here. It's more emotion that anything else.

Here is a pic I found on the net of the building. It is pretty, but it's not the face of God or nothing.





So, in hindsight, what happened there? Did I have some kind of mental break down? Did I remember something that never happened, or did I really have that vison in Wyoming in 1997?

Was it just some random brain chemistry? Was it just some shape that triggered a genetic memory from some ansestor?

Was it just seeing something I thought of as so beautiful, it short circuited my brain?

Or does it remind me of some place I used to live on a spiritual plane?

I got so clue. I don't get the feeling looking at the picture, so I don't know what it was.

I'd say brain chemistry, but it was definitely triggered by something. I kind of like that surreal feeling you get when you're looking around at places when you're on holidays.

I get that same feeling a lot when I'm on holidays and seeing awesome shit. Usually there's one really truly awesome thing that triggers it though.

Man, I need some of that stuff in a pill. Cause mental illness or not, it was an awesome experience.

I've heard epileptics get it a lot, because of some kind of imbalance. If you can give yourself epilepsy, I think you're half way there.



Note: epilepsy can be fatal.

I will play lots and lots of flashy lights video games.

That picture above is so awesome.

gaboman wrote:

That picture above is so awesome.

I just bit my tounge. However you spell it. I'm choking on it, and my eyes are doing the rolling thing.

How did you get the clouds to do that in the picture? Fantastic job.

The building is all vervical lines from that angle- like prison bars. Maybe your brain is flashing back to some repressed memories. You dont have a period of 3-5 years unaccounted for in your history, do you?

I don't know.

It reminds me a bit of "The Talisman" when Wolf is transformed and is running around eating lots of animals, but it says he comes on one spot that's "sacred" or something and doesn't kill anything there. It doesn't go into any more detail, it doesn't tie into the plot, it's just thrown in there. Some spots just have some kind of weird energy going through them.

Don't know how much a thing like that would actually have anything to do with reality, but it's neat to think about.

Deja vu? Nah, it's just you not being used to unsalted beer.

If it was sacred ground, I would have been forbidden to take any heads, but I decapitated 3 immortals in that very spot.