Plantation Mansion™
 (copyright © 2012 by Towne Square America™)

You decide to “go for it” and step into the red circle at the far corner of the room. You take one last look at the upside down clock ...
           

As you somehow absorb and, more surprisingly, actually understand these complex Magnetic Time Tunnel Travel diagrams, along with very complicated methods and routines, the words and diagrams (along with this text YOU are now reading) all began to rotate in a twisting spin of whitish, gold, sparkly dust that keeps increasing in velocity and size, mixing the letters, symbols, and punctuation in with the surrounding space until it all bubbles up outward to form gigantic a holographic sphere through which YOU can see yourself - only you are now inside of this newly created sphere, looking out at your own image who is looking in - right into this monitor you are now laser-staring into. You suddenly realize, as the sphere you are in starts to actually move, that the sphere is open on the top. And, that top opening continues to open and fold downward until it is like you are sitting on a translucent magic carpet of sorts. You think to yourself that no one is going to believe this!

Then all of the knowledge and long hidden secrets about time, alternate dimensions, and the universe, much of which seemed incomprehensible, solidifies in your mind. You know this sphere, this magic carpet is most certainly time itself, held together by interlocking dimensions - all of which a person - someone like YOU who for whatever reasons was able to understand the dynamics of it - could travel right through those dimensions, places and time - backwards and forwards, up and down, even inside out. Now inside of time and limitless dimensions, you hold on to part of the translucent structure (actually, it feels more like velvety fabric, only you can see through it). This is all happening right where you slipped into the sphere in the first place.  Looking out and around the sphere you now can see virtually thousands of chrome-like images of dates, times, and places extending limitlessly off into forever. And, you can still see yourself peering into the monitor reading these very words!

The noise and atmospheric conditions as you ride this time sphere/magic carpet are quite distracting, but that is how magnetic solar winds work in this dimension of time itself. Air and wind-like sensations rush and swish all around you in deafening hissing sounds. Tiny red, blue, yellow, and green lights move in circular orbs all around you and  the sphere, outlining the dimensional limits you are transgressing, and, while the sphere initially seemed tiny, riding on it is a whole different perspective - one on a universal and cosmic scale. You are intrigued by all of this, but not overwhelmed by any of it. And, what amazes you most is that you are extremely calm ... so much so that you feel in complete control, sorta, kinda, maybe.

You realize that your grasp to hold on is quite tight and rigid, but since you have no idea how to control what going on, since, well, you are "going along for the ride" without a clue as to what to do next or where this will all end up. You now realize the speed has slowed down and that you are now floating - at least that is what it seems like. You might be going so fast it feels like you’re going slow. You have no way of telling. Still holding on, you move one leg in and out through the translucent metallic fabric of the sphere to where you see yourself ... now all you see there is the secret room where this wild adventure started.

The movement of your leg was so effortless to do that you swung yourself out of the sphere back to the secret room.  You stand there, looking around as well as back and forth from the surreal looking sphere hovering over the red circle and overlapping into the dimension of the two walls that meet in the corner. Those walls now seem to have disappeared or melted away. You easily your put hand hand back into the sphere, then quickly pull it out. Hundreds of the tiny flecks of light temporarily glow on your hand, but then they fade into dust and your hand returns to looking quite normal. You wonder for a moment how to "turn the sphere off," but then you think maybe you should see where all of this goes. You've come this far so why not "go for a ride" in time?

Frowning and deep in thought, you consider all of this for a moment long. You quickly jump back into the sphere, only this time you don't grab hold of the fabric (or whatever it is) that you had buoyed yourself with before. It only takes an instant for you to realize your mistake, because, without something to hold on to, you tumble through the sphere's time and dimensions in free fall amid even higher pitched sounds of air and millions of bits of light rushing past you. It is all a very bumpy sensation and somewhat disorienting. Those specs of light zip and swirl past AND through you, coming at you from all directions as you watch the interlacing support structures of the sphere's framework slip up and down, moving back and forth, and even around and through itself in time and different dimensions. Looking through a framework of struts in time and all of the copper beams crisscrossing dimensions, you catch quick glimpses of many points and events in history - all swirling and whizzing past you. A sailing ship, cannons firing, a guillotine lopping off someone's head, and so much more rushes by and all around you, some of the points, times, and dimensions even pass right through you.

It seems like this goes on forever, but then you think about the time formulas and schematics you had looked at earlier.  You use this knowledge to stop the tumbling just enough so you can grab onto one of the shinny hand holds near a brass railing within one of the many overlapping scaffoldings of time. You are now out of the sphere which is zigzagging all around you as if waiting for you to jump back on - that is, if you can catch it. You have no idea where you are in time. As you watch the sphere's movement, you realize you can attempt to jump back onto and into the sphere, but it is going to be tricky.

There are four options for you here:

Climb up perilously higher and then, it looks like you can leap and free-fall right into the middle of the sphere.

You can jump from where you are, snag hold of the sphere at the front end of it and climb your way back up on to the sphere.

You can chase after sphere because it looks like you can outrun it and then jump on from the back.

You can sit down, fold your arms, and wait for the sphere to come right up to you so you can effortless step right back into it.

Time to decide ...