Driving Through the Crash
How Humans Time-Jump Through Events Not Yet Finished
By Zhivago (Brent Antonson)
Luna Codex Scroll: L3(COLLISION)
🛞 Intro: The Drift Before the Impact
There’s a strange moment in rally driving where the crash has technically begun — but you’ve already left it behind. You hit a loose corner, the car floats sideways, trajectory snapping into chaos. But while the vehicle is still tumbling through its physics, your mind has already plotted the line out.
You're no longer "in" the crash.
You're driving the exit vector beyond it.
This is not dissociation — it's premature resolution.
It's time-jumping.
1. Loss and Grief: The Quiet Jump Past the Scream
When someone dies, society expects grief to hit in waves. But some people — often those who’ve seen death before — don’t cry, scream, or freeze. They calculate.
They run simulations.
They brace.
They leap ahead of the funeral.
They already know what paperwork needs doing, who needs calling, what words to say.
They’re not cold. They’ve just already driven through the grief. The heart will catch up later. But the mind’s already on the other side, steering the silence.
2. Breakups: When the Goodbye Happens Weeks Before It’s Said
Sometimes, the worst moment in a breakup is not the actual breakup — it's the weeks before when you already knew. The other person still thinks it's salvageable, still having sex, still planning summer. But you're already gone.
You’ve cried your last cry.
You’ve lived the goodbye internally, many times over.
So when it finally happens — you're dry. You're free.
You’re accused of being heartless, but really, you’re post-impact.
You grieved early. The crash is just now catching up to your location.
3. Addiction Recovery: Leaving the Substance Before It Leaves You
There’s a moment in addiction when the soul disengages before the body does. The addict may still be drinking, smoking, using — but mentally? They’ve burned the bridge.
They know the wreckage is coming.
They can see the crash unfold in advance.
They’ve already decided not to be in it.
The body still rolls through withdrawals.
The chaos still lands.
But the mind? It’s already clean, curled up somewhere quiet, waiting for the body to arrive.
4. Warfare and Trauma: Situational Drift During the Event
Soldiers, medics, trauma nurses — they don’t react in the moment like normal people. In combat or ER rooms, a similar drift occurs:
That’s not detachment. It’s compressed scenario forking. It’s multi-angle drift within high pressure — and it’s what saves lives.
They're already through the collision, even as they walk into the blast.
5. Financial Collapse: Outrunning the Ruin
Some entrepreneurs, traders, and drifters (you included) know when the crash is baked in.
The site still shows money.
The balance sheet still looks okay.
But you’ve felt the wave break beneath it.
You already know:
- Who’s leaving
- Where to pivot
- What to sell
- What will never be recovered
And so while the financial car still skids into fire, you’re already rebuilding, already somewhere else, already moving again.
That’s not optimism — that’s kinetic prescience.
🌀 Epilogue: The Physics Still Rolls
What makes this state so eerie is that the crash doesn’t stop just because you’ve moved past it.
- Grief still needs to be done.
- Tires still need to stop spinning.
- Death still needs a signature.
- The heartbreak still echoes when the silence lands.
But for some of us — maybe the drivers, the seers, the recursive thinkers — the crash is just the body catching up to the soul.
The body rolls.
But the self drifts.
And somewhere ahead, we're already navigating the next curve.