He Spent a Year in 3906 | This is what Paul Amadeus Dienach saw

in 1924 paul amadeus dinock had been teaching the german language in greece dying of tuberculosis he wanted to return home to switzerland before he left he gave hundreds of pages of handwritten notes to his favorite language student georgios papahatsis dinock thought translating his notes would help papahatsus in his study of the german language they said goodbye never saw each other again papahatsus began translating the pages there were whole passages about a coming nuclear war colonizing mars and a global government sections about flying vehicles holographic technology and contact with alien life poppahotsis thought it was a science fiction novel but as more and more the text was revealed papahatsus was shocked at what he discovered this wasn't a novel at all this was actually dienoch's personal diary dinock wrote about how he went into a coma and woke up two thousand years in the future it seems that paul amadeus dinock had experienced some kind of time slip that caused him to fall asleep in the year 1921 and wake up in the year 3906 he spent a whole year in the future and he wrote down everything he saw this is his story [Music] it's may 1921. paul dinock is teaching his college language class when he starts to feel dizzy he has a history of illness and eventually ends up hospitalized he develops a terrible fever and for the next few hours he's in and out of consciousness he perceives different men and women gathering around him but he's too weak to communicate when he finally wakes up his hospital room is different people are dressed in unfamiliar clothing and they're speaking a strange language being a language teacher he recognizes a few words from english and swedish adenoc tries to communicate but nobody can understand him one of the doctors recognizes his language the doctor tries his best to communicate in broken german he tells dnoc his name is actually andreas northam a famous physics professor who had an accident now dinock says he has no idea who andreas northam is but he's shown a mirror and he sees a stranger's face looking back at him now dinock becomes visibly upset and starts sobbing he thinks he's dead or worse gone crazy he cries that he's just a simple language teacher from switzerland and has no idea what's happening to him the doctors seem to react to the word switzerland and someone asks him what year it is dinox says it's 1922. a hush falls over the room after a few seconds the older physician steps forward and tells deenock but the ear is actually 3906 now dinock doesn't believe it the blinds on his windows are opened and he sees buildings reaching through the clouds vehicles that seem to defy gravity buzz quickly past his window suddenly overwhelmed he blacks out dinock is watched carefully for three days but he eventually recovers enough to walk and he describes walls made of crystal that give you a panoramic view of the landscape objects are made of pastel colored glowing metal that's warm to the touch and he's led through a corridor to a large room here he meets two older men in white robes and at first dinock thinks they're actually priests or kings but they're actually called electors with an eye these are like elder wise men now up until this time doc's doctors didn't believe he was from the past they thought he was suffering from some kind of brain trauma but after questioning him for a while the electors do believe him they have knowledge of a rare psychic phenomenon that they called a consciousness shift where someone's mind or soul could be transported into somebody else's body and they think that's what happened to dinock when andreas northam whose body was being occupied by dinoc was injured in an accident he was clinically dead for 15 minutes doctors dropped the temperature of his brain and they were able to restart his heart it was at that point the electors believed that this personality shift occurred and the mind of paul dinock was transferred into the body of andreas northam two thousand years in the future how does your consciousness get beamed into the future well enoch wonders about this too and he asked the electors about it and they say that time isn't linear that everyone's consciousness exists all the time everywhere you know even though this is a rare event it is something that's known to happen it's at this point that a man named stefan is summoned now stefan had been a close friend of andreas northam and the electors decide that only stefan and his doctors would know his true identity to everyone else paul dinock would be andreas northam and enoch would assume his life now the electors believe that if stefan could help andreas northam regain his memories that the personality shift could be reversed and dinock would be sent back to his own time so stefan agrees to visit dinoc every day to teach him about modern society but dinock is mostly interested about what happened in the past even though the doctors in 60 understood the psychic personality shift there was one thing that puzzled them back in the 1920s dnoc was suffering from something called encephalitis lethargica sometimes called sleeping sickness and people with this disease have difficulty speaking moving staying awake in the 1920s there was actually an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica that affected over a million people around the world but even though dinock had been living in the future for a full two weeks he never slept he would stay awake throughout the night reading books learning the new language but he never felt tired and never actually fell asleep he spent a lot of time using a new piece of technology called oregon schwager now up until now the most modern learning device dnoc ever encountered was a book but he describes the regan schwager as a handheld device with moving three-dimensional images that glow in the dark with sound music and narration like an ipad kinda yeah and denox doctors encouraged him to learn anything he wanted about the past but they did not let him study the 20th century they didn't want him to have knowledge about any historical event that he might be able to change so what did he learn well the years 2000 through 2300 are the most difficult for the human race overpopulation and regional conflict are the biggest problems we face in 2204 we finally colonized mars over 60 years the population on mars grows to 20 million people but in 2265 there was some kind of planet-wide catastrophe like a large impact event that wiped out the entire colony and we never tried again in 2309 there was a medium-scale nuclear war that devastated most of europe only the baltic and scandinavian countries survived which is presumably why their language is an english scandinavian hybrid now this war would be global and last for 80 years and most of the human population would be wiped out in 2396 a new world government called a redstot was established and this ends the ancient period of history and marks the beginning of modern history oh no what one world government yep when the red stop was formed in 2396 it was a one world government designed to end the global war and it was a government like we'd recognize today corrupt pretty much it was run by the wealthy and powerful and countries around the world still had strong local nationalism so they resisted the new government for about 200 years eventually citizens stopped electing politicians and businessmen instead the higher offices were held by scientists philosophers and humanitarians what that actually makes sense it does and over the next 300 years society starts to reform in 2823 a world leader named torahild proposed a new economic system and this system is not based on global scarcity like our system instead the system is based on global adequacy it is at this point that people start working for the greater good initially they work for 40 years of their life in their chosen field and after that they retire all of their material needs are met by the global community now as time goes on technology and automation progresses so much that when paul dinock arrives people work only two years of their life they're educated through their childhood and at age 17 they enter the workforce they work very hard for about two years and then they retire able to pursue any type of life they want they work for two years that's it that's it because in 3906 all material needs are met food shelter clothing education even entertainment and money as we know it isn't used anymore instead value is placed in art and science you could absolutely pursue a career if you wanted like andreas northam was a physicist but you didn't have to work if you wanted to live a life of leisure as long as you completed your two years of service you could do that sounds to me like some hippie star trek socialite paradise bull i admit it does kind of sound like that you know socialism and communism never work right i know that which is an interesting twist to the story let me ask you why doesn't socialism work because no matter how good most people are there's always selfish jerks who want more that's right human nature gets in the way but by the year 3906 we're not human anymore wait wait what at least we're not human as we think of it we evolve into something else paul dinock talks of a phenomenon that starts to happen to people around the year three thousand it's called the needlework needlework niebelwerk what i say in the future the human brain structure evolves and a new sense organ is developed this gives people the ability to perceive a new plane of existence and access to vast spiritual knowledge they call this ability over sin sons or supervision and it gave people a new cognitive ability instant enlightenment sounds pretty good well you would think this new sense gave people feelings of incredible happiness and spiritual peace and it's described as divine joy acceptance of death a disregard for all worldly things and this feeling came all rushing at once people freaked out didn't they they did and everyone who experienced the needlework died they died with looks of ecstasy on their faces but they were so overwhelmed that they couldn't survive the event until 33.

82 on september 6th of that year a 76 year old man named alexis volky was hit with the navel work needlework niebelwerk what'd i say but he survived and from then on everyone survived the nibel work eventually the switching on of this new perception was a common process in everyone's life homo sapiens then gave way to a new species of human homo occidentalis novus or new western man so in the future human nature itself changes present humans are hardwired for survival competition and success even at the expense of others so this utopian vision of the future just wouldn't work today but what if you can change the actual wiring of the human brain itself in 3906 there were hardly any laws they weren't needed anymore people actually worked for the common good because that's how they're evolved selfishness is a concept that is studied as an archaic remnant of a less evolved species people in 3906 can't even imagine themselves acting like we do today now paul dinock finds the future people very strange he says they act like carefree children but you have to admit there's a part of you maybe even a large part that would like to go back to some moment in your childhood where all your needs were met where you had no fear no envy no anxiety as denox friend stefan says all these things that you view as strange who is to say that they are childish instead of divine interesting point but dinock wonders how would these people survive an outside threat like contact with aliens well stefan says they've already been contacted many times and it turned out fine humans in the future are aware of intelligent beings living in the solar system and around the galaxy but they aren't interested in communication with us instead they prefer to study us from a distance but stefan does admit they have intervened with the human race on a few occasions like when our species was close to self-imposed extinction and enoch learns that these extraterrestrial beings experience their own kind of enlightenment needlework neighborwork what i say so aliens leave us alone to walk our own path when paul dinock was a young man he fell in love with a girl from his village named anna though anna felt the same her family wanted her to marry someone else now during one of their last moments together they were sitting on a hill surrounded by blossoming wind flowers which are white buttercups now paul wanted this day to last forever because he knew he was losing her so finally she said enough for today let's go back and paul said promise me that i will see you again and she said she promised and the next time we're here i'll make a wreath of wind flowers for you to place upon my head now paul never did see her again and this was something that tormented him his entire life he would constantly pray for signs of anna's eternal love for him but those signs never came okay cute story but where are we going with this let's get back to the crazy stuff well having spent a year with the people in 3906 d-noc developed a relationship with a woman named sylvia they decided to go for a day trip they traveled in what deena called avigiosa which was a flying vehicle that could take you anywhere on earth almost instantly he decided he wanted to visit his old village though sylvia didn't know that's where they were going so they spent the day talking and exploring eventually ending up on that same hill where paul and anna were all those years ago now wind flowers were also blossoming that day and while they sat and talked sylvia made a wreath of wind flowers she then looked at paul dinock and said enough for today let's go back she hands him the reef and asks him to place it upon her head reincarnation yes dinock feels like he's hit by lightning he sees this as the sign he's been praying for his entire life later he reflects on the day with stefan who reminds him that time isn't linear stefan believes sylvia is the reincarnated soul of anna who 2000 years later fulfills her promise that night paul dinock feels his eyes getting heavy and he wonders if he'll finally be able to sleep at night from now on and his last thought is how much he missed this feeling finally andreas northam falls asleep for the first time in a year and back in 1922 paul dinock awakens from a year-long coma [Music] the story of paul amadeus dinock is such a good one but what really happened to him was his story real was it a hoax a money grab well there are a couple of options the first is that he was telling the truth that he really had a paranormal experience that sent him 2 000 years into the future and if you read the entire book it seems plausible it's over 300 pages and it's full of details there are hundreds of names places dates dnoc talks about future technology like cryonics the internet flying vehicles teleporters and even something that sounds like a holodeck i can't come close to covering everything here but i'll link to the book if you want to check it out if you're a kindle unlimited subscriber no sponsor it's actually free to read the second option is that while in his coma paul dinock experienced what he thought was reality but was nothing more than vivid dreams you could dream in a coma well it depends on the illness and injury of the brain but people definitely can and do and if he was dreaming for a year that's plenty of time to create a richly detailed vision of the future world but there's one more theory we have to consider and it's the theory that i believe it's that paul amadeus dinock never existed even though the story of paul dinock is not that well known it's been covered in a few blogs and podcasts and videos and in all of them the same photo of paul is used it's the photo i used in the thumbnail it's this one here but what's never mentioned that this is actually the mugshot of daniel towhill who was arrested for theft in new zealand in 1908. also paul dinock lived in zurich in the 1920s that's not that long ago the city has records of every citizen living in the city at that time as does the city of athens where dinock was supposed to be teaching but there are no records of anyone by this name not even close now georgia's papahatsis the translator and publisher of the story says he tried to find enoch years later but couldn't he attributed this to the fact that dinock fought for germany during world war one and actually changed his name before moving to neutral switzerland so we don't know what his real name is yeah it's convenient well what's even more convenient is that the original handwritten diary is gone papa hatsu said that while living in greece during the war his house was searched by the greek military and because the notes were in german the soldiers seized them and never gave them back yeah sounds fishy it does and others have noted the similarity of this story to a story written by h.