So Colin Farrell is describing something to me. He hands me a pair of what look like sunglasses. I put them on, and notice something strange about what I see through the lenses. When I move my hand, it appears there is some delay between when I start to move and when I see the movement in the glasses, the delay becoming greater the more complicated of an action I perform with my hands (touching two fingers versus signing the alphabet).

"It's a time delay device," Farrell explains. "You put on the glasses, and you set your mind to a certain task. The glasses then fracture the universe, and you keep doing the task, and you're also freed of the task."

"The universe?"

"Well, maybe that's overly dramatic. More like it draws a line between you and now, and holds on to that line while you do something else," being no less opaque. "I'll show you."

He puts on the glasses, and starts on a chore, cleaning the toilet, I think. After about a minute, he puts on the glasses, which immediately vanish, but he keeps on working. I try to talk to him, but he doesn't respond until he's finished with the task, at which point the glasses reappear, and he starts talking to me again.

"See? I'm free to do other things, while I'm doing menial or unimportant stuff here."

"What other things can you be doing? You're not in your body, it seems."

"I have an entirely different life on the other side."

"Other side?"

He explains how the glasses create an entirely different universe, which he can live in without need or consequence.

A few minutes later, I'm talking with his daughter. She tells me how she hates the glasses and what they do to her father.

"How would you like it if half of the time you wanted to talk to your parent, they didn't respond because they chose to be somewhere else? Away from you?"

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4:14am.