Do you think when you've lived as long as the Emperor, it skews your perception of time to the point that if you or I were to ask circa 30k Big E "I'm from the 21st century, remember that?"
He'd be like "Sure, of course. That's around the time Saladin recaptured Jerusalem, the Medicis came into power in Florence, and Napoleon invaded Russia right? Crazy period in history"
And you'd have to reply "No those...those things are separated by 100's of years? Saladin was 12th century, the Medicis came to power in the 15th century and Napoleon was in the 19th? Which is different from the 21st?"
Because what is the span of 1000 years to a guy who's been alive for 38,000?
Well I'll tell you, my brain illness made me do the math: 1000 years is 2.6% of 38,000 years. 2.6% of a normal human life is around 2 years.
So him mixing shit up and thinking Saladin existed at the same time as Cosimo de Medici--a difference of ~300 years, or 0.79% of 38k, which is the equivalent of ~7mo in a normal human lifespan--would be on par with you mistakenly believing you bought your first car in March 2017 only to realize it was actually October.
God I bet it would be such a trip trying to get him to understand that, no, you do not in fact "remember World War II"
EDIT: well I mean thats not even necessarily accurate because I'm comparing 38k years to a FULL human lifespan, or 70-80 something years.
If we look at 38k as being more like the Perpetual version of a 38-year-old and 1000 years as 1 year:
β’ the 247 years between Saladin and Cosimo de Medici would be like 3 months to him
β’ The 214 years between Napoleon in 1812 and 2026 would be 2.5 months
β’ The 378 years between de Medici taking Florence and Napoleon invading Russia would be 4.5 months
β’ The time between Saladin and us, or 839 years, would be 10 months
β’ The 86 years between the start of WWII and 2026 would be 1 month
If I asked you to guess the exact month a song came out, how accurate would your guess be. This man would think you were alive when the Titanic sank, I'm sure of it.