This could be past or present and what’s your reasoning?
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I don’t want to go too far back, just want to experience something different so I’ll say the 1980’s. I really enjoy a lot of the movies, music and culture from that time period.
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lot’s of ages come to mind, but in the end I couldn’t give up all the luxuries I have now.
Living in the 80s/90s was fun, but going back there and not being able to talk to your best friend whenever you want or travelling all over the world on a moment’s notice? Nope.
Though if it were a ‘visit any era and come back’ thing I would go back to all the important events in our history back to see how things actually happened
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It’s not so much living in a different time period that appeals as being able to go back in time. Of course, it would depend on whether or not I also returned to the age I was at that previous time and if I had any future memory. If I could turn back the clock with just enough future knowledge to change my path at school and in university, I’d do that.
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Do I get to choose my social class as well? Because that makes kind of a BIG difference…
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A lot of great movies were released in the 80s, it’s true.
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Agreed, that does make a difference. So, yes, go for it.
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Yep, a little bit of knowledge at key moments would be great.
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So, quick trips to see big events, but not wanting to actually travel back and stay there - makes sense.
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Great answer. I feel like I have a hard time imagining myself going back and living in a place in history, but a trip throughout time just to witness everything first hand? Sign me up!
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There are two problems going back in time. 1)You have to make sure you don’t change history even if the change could benefit human kind- and 2)the risk you could do something which could make you “disappear” like Marty McFly from Back to the Future movie.
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I love the solutions some authors have come up with for these problems. Dean Koontz (I think) had a novel where you could visit your future and then return, but never visit your past.
Stephen King had a book where you could change the past, but the bigger the change, the harder it would be to actually make it happen. Bury some object in the past, and then dig it up in the present? Easy. Try to change the life of a world leader? Suddenly everything that can go wrong, does.
Fredrick Pohl suggested that some major historic events would fill with time travelling tourists doing their best to be inconspicuous.
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In the Time Traveller’s Wife. The titluar Time traveller Henry, has a “condition” and had for a very long time- of “travelling” to certain points in the past but yet know he can’t change anything. The only problem is his clothing doesn’t go with him so he has to steal clothes from whereever he goes. The other problem is that this causes not only his frost bite, but eventually leads to his death. But in the book he does travel once to the future because he got to see a daughter who was in the present time at that point not born be a schoolage child. And also at that “future Point” in the book more people had Henry’s condition.
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As an afab queer neurodivergent person there’s not really any time in history for me that’s better than now.
Assuming I get to somehow continue with my medical care, I’d want to live in the time of the dinosaurs, so I could see what they’re really like.
Someone else mentioned being able to go back and re-do their own life; that form of time travel is also appealing to me. I would choose to go back to very early in my life, so I could build myself up from the beginning using my current knowledge.
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This is actually the concept behind the Canadian TV series Being Erica: a “doctor” takes Erica to different decision points in her life and she gets to change her personal history.
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Could we choose where as well as when? And another vote for time travelling tourism.
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I keep thinking about locations and time periods, but then I think things like “modern legal system” and “modern medicine” and “plumbing”, and mentally flee back to today.
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The type of going-back-in-time I’d want is to wake up in my younger body, and as I said in my other post, with only just enough future knowledge to choose a different path in school and university. Nothing earth shaking that would be likely to change history. Not change the world but change things enough for me personally to have a job and career I enjoy instead of one I hate.
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You never know. Your career change could indirectly cause a nuclear apocalypse!
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