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To when would you go back, in time, under the following conditions?

Asked by rebbel (35549points) December 11th, 2019

You can go back to any date in your life on Earth so far.
Be it to last week, an hour ago, beginning of last year, or to when you were 12 years old.
You won’t be able to change a thing, you will experience everything that you have experienced already (the first time), and, most important, in the decision to choose the date; you’ll have to life through all the time until you are back to today.
So, if I decide to go back forty years, to when I was twelve, I’ll have to life all forty years again, including all hardships and happy events.

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lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I’ll go back to age 35 to a day I was running at a park with my husband.
What about you?

josie's avatar

I don’t think I would do it.

I’ve had too many close calls.

I would be afraid some tiny unanticipated glitch in the process would make the difference between making it back to now, or not.

rebbel's avatar

I think I wouldn’t do it either.
Not so much because I had too many close calls (only had a couple) but because of the sad events that have happened.
Some of which were so traumatic that I don’t really would be looking forward to experience them again.

elbanditoroso's avatar

I wouldn’t either, unless I could change things. If I am constrained to relive what I already did, then what’s the point?

SEKA's avatar

I’ve thoroughly ENJOYED my life the first time…even with the bad shit that happened…so I think I’m good just where I am!!! Most days I’m in a really good place with some WONDERFUL memories. My biggest fear with this offer is that some little something could go wrong & I’d lose all the memories that are so precious to me!!!

Zaku's avatar

You didn’t define the offer well enough for me. I’d need answers to:

* Would I have to do exactly what I did before?

* Would I have knowledge of what had happened before?

I would be love if the answers were NO and YES, but apparently not if nothing can change.

NO and NO would be interesting, and I might go for it. Especially if my spirit’s development would still be there.

YES and YES (mentally knowing what I’d done, but being forced to re-experience doing everything the same) would be interesting but in some aspects hellish.

YES and NO is what my guru says is actually the current situation. Time is an illusion, and our experience of it is what we are paying attention to. So by definition, yes, that’s what we’re all choosing all the time, or some aspect of us is choosing that, if not always our egos.

kritiper's avatar

I wouldn’t do it. My life has been enough of a train wreck without reliving it.

rebbel's avatar

It would be yes and no.

zenvelo's avatar

I would not go back, the only reason for me to go back would be to change my behavior.

ucme's avatar

Friday June 5th 1992 7pm.
First ever date with the wife.

gondwanalon's avatar

If I could maintain all that I’ve learned up to my present age then I would like to go back to when I was 3 years old. They would probably shoot me. HA!

Patty_Melt's avatar

Since my memory allows me to choose which moments I relive, I decline.
Now, if I were about to die, and was given one day to relive in real time, I would choose the day my baby boy looked me eye to eye and said “I luhyoo.”

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