As far as I understand it, it was something similar to our current situation. There are other worlds out there that take us from our own, and they had met me in those. However I have no recollection of experiencing such a thing. Perhaps I lost them or there really is some kind of alternate reality or parallel universe at work.

[He hadn't put much stock into such theories before, but kind of hard not to now that he's been exposed to the whole different world thing here.]