Okay weird hypotheticals again lol:

Rules (sorry, I know someone is gonna ask for rules, cuz its a time travel scenario mmkay?):

TLDR: Basically you have 24 hours, you can end it at anytime and go back to the future, but once you end it, its over. You can only do it once. You can save this ability for any time in the future, or use it immediately.

Full rules:

  • Basically, you are back inside the body of your past self at any point in time after you were born. Obviously you can’t bring anything back, only your consciousness goes back.
  • You have up to 24 hours, you can end the time travel session earlier if you want. If you loses consciousless in your past self’s body, or fall asleep, the time travel session immediately ends.
  • You can only do this once.
  • You don’t have to immediately use it, you can save this ability for any time in the future.
  • You must be awake to use it, you can’t use it in the middle sleep of while unconscious. Although, you can travel back to a time when you were asleep and you would immediately wake up in your past self’s body.
  • When you go back, your past self’s memories are merged with your memory, and you keep this even when you travel back to the future.
  • When the time travel session ends, you return to the moment in time when you originally left, but now you are in the new timeline with a future that could have changed from your actions in the past.
  • Your past self would immediately resume control the moment you left, if you were still awake at the time of leaving. If your time travel session ended by losing consciousness, then your past self resume control when they wake up. Your past self would remember roughly what happened but wouldn’t understand that your future self was in control (unless you leave yourself a note or record a video or something), and wouldn’t retain your future memories.
  • If you end up in a timeline where you died before the moment in time when your left your original timeline, you basically just see the last 24 hours of yourself in the new timeline before you died, in 3rd person view, then your consciousness fades and you are gone.

Basically the point is to ask yourself: What are things in your life you wished you could change. Or what period of 24 hours would you like to revisit again.

  • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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    12 days ago

    I’d go back few years and quit my job and start my own business sooner rather than wait to be fired first.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I return to my zygote phase and renegotiate some CGTA’s for BDE turned up to 11

  • fool@programming.dev
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    12 days ago

    I pop out the womb

    Good evening, mother. Wait, I forgot I’m not supposed to talk. Um… wah?

    I return to the future

  • maxalmonte14@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I’ll do like in Back to the Future and win the lottery, come back, put it in the back and live from the returns. Yes I’m that boring, but the best timeline IMO is one where I don’t have to break my back working 9 to 5.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Too complicated to really do anything far back, best option is to do a lottery winning by going back after a big jackpot.

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Buy a lottery ticket on a state where I don’t have to publicly state that I won. Wait until it’s close to a $1,000,000,000 USD and there was no winner. Retire. Help my family but not tell them I won. Just say I invested really well and have done extra cash.

    I’d wait for a cure to alzheimer’s then go back and hand over the cure to my younger self, but I doubt I’ll see that cure in my lifetime. So yeah go for the money.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I’d go back to the day of my birth and smother myself. I have a good life but wouldn’t mind having not existed to begin with.

  • Elaine@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    I’m old and I like my life now well enough to not want to fuck with changing things. But your rule about merging memories - I’d absolutely love to go back to any holiday in my childhood when I could see my dad, cousin, and grandma one more time. I could come back with fresh memories of them all healthy and happy. I’d sell my soul for that.

  • Fleur_@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I’d go back something like 3 or 4 years ago and write a list of things to do. Would write things like

    Don’t go to therapy it didn’t really help and just made it more difficult to apply for jobs with psychology requirements

    NVIDIA stock

    Lotto numbers

    Would spend the rest of my time thinking of more things to write down lol

  • sprack@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Go back to a holiday when my parents and grandparents were alive and got together so I could spend time with them again.

  • theherk@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I was sitting at my computer one night watching standup way too late. I was thinking, “I should move my bitcoin off the exchange into my local wallet.” But I was too sleepy and I just went to bed like an idiot, ignoring my gut. The next morning I found out that in the last few hours Mt. Gox had gone crazy and my wallet had been emptied. Still think of that regularly. I get emails from the trustee doling out what they get back but I was rejected. Doesn’t matter how much but it was enough that my life would look very different. Very.

    But I like my life so maybe for the better.