To think I can’t be the only one who fantasises about this scenario?

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You wake up one morning and everyone has disappeared. You’re completely alone - you have the whole country to yourself.

Everyone else will come back eventually but for a few weeks, it’s just you.

You can do whatever you want with no consequence. Tear-arse down the M1 at 100mph, have a wander around Buckingham palace … what would you do?

And tell me I’m not the only one who has this daydream?

YABU - it’s just you
YANBU - I have this fantasy too!

Surely all the shops/palaces etc would be shut and locked with lights off, so you couldn't go in. Your own electric/internet might work for a while but not for long. What would you do next?

My teenager used to love skateboarding through the empty town centre in lockdown. It felt like a nuclear apocalypse apparently. A year later he was in The Priory. Just saying.

I'd worry myself into a coronary episode about the unstable and unmonitored nuclear reactors all over the place.
On a slightly more positive note, if I knew all the people were coming back I'd probably just enjoy feeding the pigeons, gulls and rats without fear of being told off. I wonder if a few weeks is long enough to tame or train them?

I'd change a few laws and agreements including committing to internet regulation more fairly distributing the worlds wealth and tackling climate change

It was a bit like that on the day of the total eclipse in the 90s. The world stopped. Odder though was there being no bird song and the darkness like twilight. There was no traffic on the road. It was eerily silent. Not quite what OP is thinking of, but there being no traffic, no sounds from other humans is how it would be. No functioning infrastructure. Not a comfortable thought for me at all. Apart from what would have happened to the disappeared people.

Anyone remember the tv series from years ago, the survivors, when one of the surviving members woke up from the virus that killed most people and her first thought was, please don’t let me be the only one!. I think that is how I would be and I’m an introvert too!

I’m scared of the dark and would be even more so on my own, so could you make this happen in the middle of summer please, OP? 😆

I'd be thieving money. I’d be a multi-millionaire by the end. 🤑

I think my mental health would be in the pits by the time everyone came back!

😂😂 way to make it all about you 😂

Even in this scenario I didn’t think I’d be brave enough to smash windows to get in houses if I thought everyone was coming back, so I don’t think I’d be able to wander around famous buildings or houses..

The only one I’d have access to would be my own..

I can’t say this is a fantasy I’ve ever considered, but I do sometimes imagine a world that’s gone through an apocalyptic event and having to survive without all the infrastructure we currently rely on. I loved Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes when younger and feel that, unpleasant as it would be initially, I might well thrive in a world that has fewer people and more physical than mental challenges. I remember watching Castaway 2000 and wishing It’d been free to join them. My ex would have hated it.

Your fantasy, with all the infrastructure intact sounds more fun in many ways! I’m not introverted enough to want to be completely alone for several weeks though. I like the horse idea, but I’d want a series of comfortable guest houses that could be accessed, where I could stop overnight in comfort.

I’m amazed by the negativity on the thread. Do these people never read and imagine themselves in different circumstances? Just imagine, in your no-people fantasy, there would be nobody to whinge that you didn’t put a disclaimer/reassurance on your first post saying that nobody was hurt during the writing of this episode!

I'm enjoying the irony of calling yourself @BloodAndFire and calling the OP the psychopath just for having nonsense daydreams.

Luckily if the OP did go and see someone for their mental health they'd explain that nonsense pops into people's heads all the time. They don't actually harm anyone though and it's the worry that this makes you a bad person that can eventually turn the thoughts into intrusive thoughts and cause MH issues.

They'd also explain that real mental health professionals don't diagnose people over the internet from MN posts. The only people who do that are assholes with no medical training

On the one hand I'm shocked that so many people seem to have such boring ass brains that never day dream about weird stuff and on the other hand I'm an adult that understands people are different to me and as long as they're not hurting anyone it doesn't matter.

Anyway op it's the kind of thing that would go through my head pre kids when I was sitting on the bus. I don't really get quiet time alone with my thoughts anymore.

I wonder if Stephen King gets told he needs therapy?

BloodAndFire

Ok so you’ve accused the OP of basically being disturbed and sociopathic, all because she has thought of this fantasy. But that’s just what it is, a fantasy.

The OP doesn’t want anyone dead, or to be gone for good, and like everyone else agrees, her post is lighthearted.
Most people can see that it’s lighthearted, apart from you and just one other poster.

The two of you concern me more that you can’t seem to differentiate between somebody simply using their imagination to create a scenario that they know would never happen, nor would they want for others to disappear completely (and that it’s purely just a ‘what if’ fantasy) from reality.

What’s more, with a username like yours, well, I’m saying nothing.

Before I retired I had a very long and tedious drive to work, and I often fantasised about every other driver being killed by some extinction event or other, just to have the roads to myself. (Of course I always realised “if everyone else is dead I certainly won’t be going to work”.)

God I would absolutely love that. Even if it were permanent.

She probably diagnoses everyone around her as narcissists as well. It's a theme on mn

OP please tell me you're working on a new series of Black Mirror?

Smiling at posters taking this WAY TOO SERIOUSLY, OP IS GOING TO KILL OFF THEIR KIDS etc. It's obviously a time slip type scenario, everyone is fine and will be back soon.

Having said that if you want a dark version Alice in Borderland is disturbing.

I read a book at secondary school in the late 90s called Empty World by John Christopher. The plot was very similar to this - a boy who find himself alone in the world after a deadly virus wipes out the rest of the planet. He goes around places looking for survivors. I remember finding it equally disturbing and fascinating!

I'd looooove that

Sounds terrifying op .I don't like being in the house on my own much.need other people even though they can be annoying at times

I'll preface this by saying I'm autistic with a significant history of trauma.

I feel like my life is like this sometimes anyway.

I walked out on my life once. No one noticed.

I used to play a game in school where I'd not look at anyone or talk to anyone and see if anyone noticed. None of the pupils ever did.

But if I had free reign, and I'm assuming no cctv to trace you later, I'd go round all the houses of people who've abused me and others and burn them down.

I'd go into hospital and use the equipment I need.

I'd steal everything I'd need to be self sufficient for the rest of my life.

If all the passwords and security was disabled I'd go into all the government etc databases and print all the state secrets, get the lists of sex offenders etc. I'd want to know everything. I'd expose it all once everyone came back.

On a more positive note, if it would be possible for one person in 6 weeks, I'd try to disable and hide all the nuclear and bio/Chem weapons in the world.

No but I do often fantasise that I live in the countryside with several acres of land and my own meadows and woods and fields and orchard and I can walk round in my own mini park area and not see a single other person or signs of civilisation.

Getting into the pedantic side, the problem with this daydream nowadays is that so much important stuff is on computers. No chance of breaking into MI5 and rifling through a file cabinet of secrets.

I guess you'd want the people to disappear during the daytime so all the buildings would be unlocked, but what about the cars? If they stopped where they were then a lot of roads would be literally impassible. Hmm.