I’m not talking about using a time machine to travel to the past. Instead, it’s closer to waking up as your past self (your childhood) with memories from the present and inherited traits from when you’re older (adult you), so you are in the body of when you’re 10 years old but have thoughts inherited from when you’re actually 35 years old, basically from the future.
You know events that’ll happen, from positive to negative (that stems from your current memories) within the same time frame during your childhood, physically you appear as your past self when looking at the mirror, you also have the voice of a child even though your thoughts are basically mature as an adult (from your future self).
You are bound to the limits of the technology and resources available in the past, the only thing from the future are your thoughts. You don’t have an iPhone in 1990 but inherit knowledge of a smartphone from the future (all will remain skeptical if you brought up the topic in the past) so it’s best to lay a low profile not being deemed insane.
Even if this version of time travel happened to you: what it would be like? You could prevent “bad” things from occurring as you know the outcome, but keep in mind your past self is a kid meaning your approach has to be adjusted to fit the role of a kid whilst having adult thoughts without drawing in suspicion from others.
It’s a horror story and most people would probably go insane rather than manage to do anything with their knowledge. Besides getting rich because you know about what will get big ahead of time you are very different from all your peers. Any childhood crush much less a gf/bf is more perverse than thrilling and you have basically no chance of being able to meet and keep the same long-term partner much less having the same child if you’re a parent.
There’s a few movie takes on this mentioned in other comments, they always run into paradox problems.
About Time handles this in an interesting way. Won’t spoil it, worth the watch. Richard Curtis kicked me right in the feelings with that one, which I wasn’t expecting.
Well I’d get in trouble for my mouth constantly. “Don’t talk down to me like that you rotten pile of shit!” Ohh fuck, right, I’m supposed to be a 10 year old…
I’d ruffle feathers with my hot takes on geopolitics and others, though even my mom will say I was already aggressively anti corporations since I was young. Shes said I was a lefty since before I knew what it was. Speaking of, I’d be wiser about her attempts to propagandize me. Now it’s turning against her, as I push and shove her left.
Unfortunately, the answer to all time “travel to the near past” questions is “Buy bitcoin”.
$1,000 investment in 2009 becomes a billion dollars in 2020
There’s been lots of books and movies that explore this, so might as well start reading and watching rather than ask people on a forum.
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Best ‘title’ suggestion ! Also, imagine the speedrunner gaming crowd ! I mean we know that we end up being sent back in time again, so leeeeets gooooooooooo… Holy crap they would find EVERY crack/bug in reality and use those to skip, cheat and loop faster… not sure we are safe ;-)
What is the movie The Butterfly Effect
The technical term is:
X-men, Days of Future Past
My long-term narrative memory is terrible. I only have vague ideas of my childhood. So I feel like it would be more annoying than anything.
