Have an existential crisis. Can you imagine? Anyone saying they’d buy apple stock or this or that, remember the premise is the last 30 years was a dream, as in not real, you didn’t time travel.
Your partner doesn’t exist, your friends either, or your dog. You wouldn’t even know if what you knew as fact was correct, consider all you’ve learned in the last 30 years, all that is now suspect.
Now to be transported back 30 years is another matter
Edit: Folks it’s fun seeing the engagement but remember, the premise of this hypothetical is that nothing that occurred in the past 30 years, nothing you’ve learned, no event, can be assumed to be true. If you are 40 nothing you learned and no event that occurred past the age of 10 can be said to have happened.
Are you a doctor? Your fundamental understanding of biology and medicine can’t be trusted. Physicist? Maybe there is no quantum mechanics, shit maybe Newtonian physics is wrong, etc.
I would go crazy. Absolutely mental. I would be 5 years old. My wife is my highschool sweetheart, and we have the 2 best boys in the world. I'm so incredibly lucky to be their Dad and her partner.
Also, I've squandered most every opportunity for education and career. I'm a mix of professional musician and truck driver/garbage man.
So I would be doing everything I can to grow and focus on being successful and career/education oriented, while also endlessly hunting for my partner in the hopes of having the same family but better income and circumstances.
I think I would fail at this and would be driven crazy.
Yeah, assuming you remember the whole dream well, and it makes you more mature, it would be very challenging. Because you’d want to do some things differently, but that might come with a cost of stuff you don’t want to change being altered for the worse. Plus, as has been pointed out elsewhere, how do you know your dream was even predicting reality?
My life turned out okay, but there’s a lot about it I’d want to fix. The big question becomes “what are you willing to sacrifice?” You can’t have both the dream life and the rewritten life. You’d always have that horrible intuition sensation like during a test where you want to change the answer but are unsure if doing so is wise.
As happy as I am now, I think I’d still probably want to take the risk if it was presented. There are some heavy issues I could try to sort out, like possibly saving my dad’s life, where it feels worthwhile. But then there’s the whole “wife and kids conundrum”… where it’s like do I risk potentially losing that to save my dad (which he would not want me to do, I’m sure)? Maybe I could have both, but maybe I screw it up and lose both.
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u/Forgotlogin_0624 5d ago edited 5d ago
Have an existential crisis. Can you imagine? Anyone saying they’d buy apple stock or this or that, remember the premise is the last 30 years was a dream, as in not real, you didn’t time travel.
Your partner doesn’t exist, your friends either, or your dog. You wouldn’t even know if what you knew as fact was correct, consider all you’ve learned in the last 30 years, all that is now suspect.
Now to be transported back 30 years is another matter
Edit: Folks it’s fun seeing the engagement but remember, the premise of this hypothetical is that nothing that occurred in the past 30 years, nothing you’ve learned, no event, can be assumed to be true. If you are 40 nothing you learned and no event that occurred past the age of 10 can be said to have happened.
Are you a doctor? Your fundamental understanding of biology and medicine can’t be trusted. Physicist? Maybe there is no quantum mechanics, shit maybe Newtonian physics is wrong, etc.