Talk:Reading Steiner/@comment-174.109.207.177-20140403044637/@comment-7888499-20141203121813

An interesting theory, but I do not think that Okabe sent "his memories back to his much younger self circa 1999, resulting in the illness." In that case, I think he would have ended up more like the Nae of 0.000000% and 0.523307% who did multiple time leaps to get from 2025 to her childbody of 2010. Her mind was somewhat broken from the effects. However, she retained future memories.

In the VN same as the anime, it is strongly implied that it was due to Okabe's illness in 1999. I wonder if this implies that either Okabes across all world lines got sick like this, or Okabe can only change to world lines in which his past self got sick, otherwise his brain does not have the necessary capability to house him. Edit: Though in that case, Hyde of the Dark Dimension is confusing.

As the article and others have already mentioned, the fact that others have this ability but in a less active state is shown in the VN, anime, manga History's Strongest Slight Fever-I seem to recall-, and anime OVA episode via Faris, Mayuri, and Kurisu. And, the movie expounds further on that.

Further, in Epigraph of the Closed Curve, in November 2010 1.129848%, people nationwide are being treated by doctors for what is believed to be a special version of encephalitis that is thought to cause delusions and memory damage, very like the Reading Steiner déjà vu of those without active Reading Steiners. Mayuri's friends Kaede and Fubuki also experienced "dreams" of Mayuri dying back in summer, and Fubuki decides to see the doctor about it.

In A Posteriori Existence, when Suzuha discovers Kurisu's time travel research, Daru tells her that the reason he has been helping Kurisu out with it is because he and Mayuri have strong déjà vu feelings about a guy named "Okabe Rintarou" existing.

When Suzuha becomes the test pilot for Kurisu's time machine she begins to have vivid dreams, both waking and sleeping, of her traumatic experiences in the Alpha Attrator Field that are depicted in Rebellion of the Missing Ring. -Strangely enough, the dates do not match up fo these "memories", as I recall... Need to double check that sometime.- I also wonder why herself of the Alpha Attractor Field and other Beta world lines is never depicted having Reading Steiner dream episodes.

I kind of wonder if the time leap machine does not stimulate the part of the brain where Reading Steiner resides, and that is why in the movie "it is hinted at (strongly) that when one time leaps they become an observer of the world line increasing their reading steiner," as a poster above said. Okabe, on the other hand, already has a completely actived Reading Steiner from his childhood illness, and that is why he is able to retain memories even when the world line changes due to D-mails.

In 2011 in the Alpha Attractor Field after capturing Okabe, Daru, and Kurisu, SERN discovers Okabe's Reading Steiner ability -Valhalla short story-. And, in 2036, SERN researchers develop a theory on the means to transfer information to oneself across world lines similiar to Okabe Rintarou's "Reading Steiner". I wonder if that theory is not something similar to the time leap machine.

In Hyde of the Dark Dimension, it is revealed that the D-mails to Ruka's mother end up causing the Y2k crash to occur in the Gamma Attractor Field. However, I got the impression that SERN ordered Rounder Okabe to be in contact with Daru and Kurisu in order to develop the Phone Microwave, since it does not fit the Okabe of that Attractor Field's personality very well otherwise. -All personal conjecture, of course. I may be completely wrong.- If that is the case, I've always been curious as to why SERN knew to have Rounder Okabe do so. Perhaps, SERN in some world line succeeded in transferring information across world lines...?

EDIT: Hmm, come to think of it. I wonder, though, if the original Okabe of Hyde of the Dark Dimension Gamma Attractor Field, did have Reading Steiner fully activated. Since part of the problem Okabe faces once he arrives there from the Alpha Attractor Field after undoing Ruka's D-mail is that the lab members have never heard of Reading Steiner and do not believe that he could have come from another world line. But, in that case, how did they figure out in that world line that the Phone Microwave could send D-mails in the first place...? From the VN and anime, gellified bananas was something they all could observe, but D-mails were trickier. As I recall, Okabe would not remember receiving the D-mail sent to him. However, the others would wonder why they received the D-mail until the understood what happened at the moment they conducted the experiment that sent said mail.

Sorry, this ended up long and branching. ^^;