What if when we die, our minds continue on for an infinite period of time from our own perspectives, even if from the outside it seems like function has ceased immediately? Kind of like mental relativity. Could this perhaps be the source of the concept of the afterlife — an eternity of our mind’s own making?

I just had an interesting discussion about this and similar ideas with another guy here at Ad Astra, and I think this one might be a good idea to work with to create a story. Could people brought back from death (or the brink of death) have seen this infinite time of the mind and remember maybe some of it? Where do the people in everyone’s personal heaven or hell come from — rather than be the actual souls of other people, perhaps they are simply the mind’s image of those people from the perspective of the “deceased”?

I might try something with this. It certainly seems to be an interesting concept to work on.

(Source: ifyouwatchitbackwards)

Following on the heels of my earlier mad science, I’ve gone and built an entire generator for visual novel ideas. After a bunch of derping about with Firefox, Firebug and jQuery for slurping, and PHP and SQLite for developing, I’ve put together the Visual Novel Random Idea Generator (Mk I)!

This fun little toy lets you choose a number of elements (defaults to five) that are randomly selected to challenge you to create the plot of a visual novel. I’m planning to add the ability to post ideas and vote on them some time in the near future, although chances are I’ll only give the ability to do this to certain people I know or are involved in the EVN scene. In the meantime, however, feel free to roll them dice and see what kinds of crazy stories you can make.