The past of Sci-fi predicts the future of Paradise

Maybe I'll be proven wrong but I think the idea that Paradise is exploring has a lineage starting with Gregory Benford's 1980 novel "Timescape".

In that novel, physicists in the near future send messages to physicists in the 1960s by interfering with experiments they are conducting. They do this to prevent an environmental collapse that is no longer preventable in the original timeline.

This novel was a hit at the time and inspired John Carpenter's 1987 movie "Prince Of Darkness". In that movie, scientists investigating paranormal phenomena at a church receive messages from the future in their dreams. These messages have been sent to prevent the return of Satan to the world, which has happened in the original timeline.

A recent take on this idea can be found in William Gibson's novels "The Peripheral" (2014) and "Agency" (2020.) In these novels, people in a future world recovering from a "slow apocalypse" called "the jackpot" are able to create high-bandwidth communication channels to points in the past, which spawn new timelines ("stubs") which remain in communication with the original timeline. They do this either as a hobby or to use people in the past as cheap labour via teleoperation of drones and other devices.

All of these involve people in the future communicating with the past, and some catastrophe. This communication creates new timelines but communication can continue between the new timeline and the original.

What's happening in Paradise seems like a mix of the Benford & Carpenter versions of this, where the nosebleeds and visions occur when some intervention from the future has occurred.