@ZachWeinersmith She should have ended without the last word… 🙂

@ZachWeinersmith That comic took a lifetime to read.

@ZachWeinersmith regarding the reference: I'm not sure if this is the one you are looking for, but Tolstoy (yes, that one) wrote a story called "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria", where the namesake king experiences an entire life (not his own, though) as a mysterious old man is pouring a cup of water over his head - and wakes up when his other self is about to be executed to find that the water still has not fully run out. The main idea is "tat twam asi", "everything is you, and you are everything".

@ZachWeinersmith you'd think they'd either be hung up on it for the rest of their lives, or gain some sort of freedom as nothing else matters.
But most probably they wouldnt care and carry on with their lives as usual, which is also the philophical answer.

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Maybe part of Krishna's conversation with Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita?

@ZachWeinersmith (trying to answer the question in your alt text) It is reminiscent of sufi tradition, I remember a story in which a man leaves his travelling companions, meets a woman, marry her and lives a whole life with her (or have the illusion that he does), and then a day goes back to the place where he last saw his companions, and only a few minutes have elapsed. There were several others on the same idea.