Mind Paradox
“Time doesn’t just pass. Sometimes… it waits. Watches. Repeats. Consumes.”
Elias Rehn is a clockmaker in the fog-choked alleys of an unnamed city lost between Victorian London and ancient Kyoto. Quiet, solitary, and methodical—he lives a predictable life marked by one strange pattern:
He always wakes at 4:44 AM.
Every. Single. Day.
No alarm. No reason. No escape.
But on the forty-fourth morning, his reflection blinks half a second too late.
And whispers:
“I’m you. From tomorrow.”
Suddenly, Elias finds himself pulled into an endless loop of fractured time, cursed mirrors, and split identities across paradox-bound timelines.
In one life, he is a guilt-ridden clockmaker.
In another, a silent shinobi from a forgotten dynasty.
Elsewhere, a war historian who catalogues futures that never happened.
And in the deepest layer—a child who remembers everything, but has no mouth to scream.
Each version of himself leaves breadcrumbs behind—echoes of déjà vu, sleep paralysis, suicidal dreams, and whispers in glass.
But as the loops spiral out of control, Elias begins to understand:
He was never a man stuck in time.
He was Time's anomaly—the glitch in a system older than reality.
And something ancient, something not human, is trying to overwrite him.
The more he remembers, the less real the world becomes.
And the closer he gets to the truth…
…the more he forgets who he ever was.
“You don’t escape the mirror by breaking it.
You escape by becoming what it reflects.”
