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AIBU to believe FIL time slip experience?

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 20:06

FIL was round yesterday evening for dinner with his wife. We were talking about the Uncanny podcast & recent TV episode then he told us of two experiences he'd had in the same place a number of years apart. After I went & did some research & asked a couple questions today, he's told us of another experience he had in the same place that was similar to one of the other experiences but that happened when he as a child.

I'm quite sceptical about paranormal type events I guess because I've never witnessed anything myself but am generally quite open minded. I don't believe FIL to be the type to make this sort of thing up & he was almost unwilling to tell us in case we thought he was crazy. He's never told anyone before.

AIBU to think what he experienced could've been real? In one of the instances he interacted with people in the past, his recall was quite genuine & he had some significant detail that you couldn't just make up. Has anyone else experienced a time slip or some other paranormal event they couldn't explain? I'm intrigued!

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 21:12

BananaPyjamaLlama · 15/10/2023 21:02

Up until I was about 12 I quite often had dreams (at night whilst in bed) that then happened some months or years later. And a few more in my late teens too.
eg I would have a dream featuring people Id never met before and then sometime later........... Id meet those people/person. Very weird and unsettling!
Sounds different to what you are describing though op.

How surreal! I thought you couldn't dream faces you'd never seen before. Are you glad they stopped or do you wish you could still do it?

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MasterBeth · 15/10/2023 21:12

I'm quite sceptical about paranormal type events

...but if my father in law says it happened, that's good enough for me!

Get a grip.

MsCactus · 15/10/2023 21:12

I've had loads of premonitions throughout my life. In fact when I'm stressed about something I kind of try to "feel" the future and usually get a flash of something.

I know people might think I'm crazy, but all my premonitions have come true so now I just keep it to myself. Never really mention it to anyone at all.

As a result I don't think time is linear - I think everything has already happened and the way we experience time passing (past, present, future) is a bit of an illusion.

There's lots of really interesting physics podcasts I've listened to on time. The reality is no one knows for sure how time works!

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 21:13

MasterBeth · 15/10/2023 21:12

I'm quite sceptical about paranormal type events

...but if my father in law says it happened, that's good enough for me!

Get a grip.

Lol. Thanks for the reality check :-P

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MasterBeth · 15/10/2023 21:13

I thought you couldn't dream faces you'd never seen before.

How would anyone be able to prove that?

Bellyblueboy · 15/10/2023 21:14

elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 20:16

How do you know it's not? I'm not saying I think it is, but people experience things that can't always be explained. So how do you explain it?

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Imagination? Mental health crisis? Drugs? Drink? Good story teller?

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 21:15

MasterBeth · 15/10/2023 21:13

I thought you couldn't dream faces you'd never seen before.

How would anyone be able to prove that?

Good point. On that note, how could they prove that time slips don't exist?

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BananaPyjamaLlama · 15/10/2023 21:16

@elsiesbonnet Im glad they stopped for sure. Every time the real version of the dream occurred (it would literally be a 5-30 realisation that things were familiar) I found it deeply unsettling.

As a teen I had a dream about a handsome young chap.......a few weeks later I walked into a friends bedroom and there he was - same guy in the same room he had been in, in my dream. He hadnt ever visited that city before whilst I was living there so no chance I could have met him before.

BananaPyjamaLlama · 15/10/2023 21:17

Goodness knows how such things occur but as someone said upthread, the human brain is very complex and not fully understood.

Devilsmommy · 15/10/2023 21:18

Op I'd believe him myself. Also for everyone saying get a grip etc, if you don't believe in these kinds of things then why do you get so annoyed and angry about it? What's it to you if someone else believes in it? Genuine question

Graciebobcat · 15/10/2023 21:18

elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 21:08

@Graciebobcat perhaps, but who honestly has time for that these days. Actually my "research" was related to the area and if what he experienced fitted how it was laid out prior and if there were any significant events that also corroborated what he saw. It did. Not to say he couldn't have known that himself already.

I also "googled" if anyone had experienced any similar time slips in the same location to no avail.

I think you meant to reply to @NineteenOhEight

Bellyblueboy · 15/10/2023 21:19

My friend is a police officer.

A man used to come to station about events that he saw in the news - he claimed he had dreamed about them years before, forgotten about them and then remembered when he watched the news. He though his sixth sense could be useful to the police.

she kindly explained to this poor man that if he only remembered the dream after the actual event took place it wasn’t much help. He couldn’t grasp her point!

MasterBeth · 15/10/2023 21:20

elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 21:15

Good point. On that note, how could they prove that time slips don't exist?

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You can never prove that supernatural phenomena don't exist. You can only show that there is no good evidence and/or that there are better explanations.

You can't prove that I haven't developed the power of flight, but you would be sensible to believe I haven't unless I give you good evidence that I have.

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 21:20

@Graciebobcat you're right, sorry & thanks for re-tagging!

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Alltheyearround · 15/10/2023 21:22

@elsiesbonnet Microfiche mate. That's what you need for proper research. That's what we scrolled before the internet.

I think there is a lot we don't know about the brain and a lot we don't know about the universe.

MasterBeth · 15/10/2023 21:23

Devilsmommy · 15/10/2023 21:18

Op I'd believe him myself. Also for everyone saying get a grip etc, if you don't believe in these kinds of things then why do you get so annoyed and angry about it? What's it to you if someone else believes in it? Genuine question

I don't get angry about it. I am bemused that people will believe any old shit when all the evidence points the other way.

Why would you believe the reported testimony of someone on the internet's father in law over everything we know about the laws of physics? Genuine question.

SomeCatFromJapan · 15/10/2023 21:27

@MsCactus I was just thinking about this today. I think we obviously experience time as linear as we live within four dimensions but that is just our reality. And some people maybe have some sort of ability to view the dimension of time in a more objective way, or certain events leak back or forward from their time point and some people are sensitive to that.

There's some interesting theoretical maths and physics around the subject.

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elsiesbonnet · 15/10/2023 21:27

@MasterBeth true. I would expect you to show me though as it is apparently something you can command by choice.

Honestly, I neither believe nor disbelieve. It's the first time someone so close and completely unlikely to say such a thing has made me think for a moment it could be possible, hence my AIBU & intrigue about others experiences'.

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Devilsmommy · 15/10/2023 21:29

But there's the thing, yes we know about the laws of physics but don't tell me that scientists know absolutely everything about everything. There's alot of testimony about many things that scientists can't explain, doesn't mean it's bullshit. My mind's open, I'm not stating categorically that we know everything there is to know about space time and the human brain so I don't think anyone can state that all this stuff is bollocks either

PurpleChrayne · 15/10/2023 21:32

Every time I'm on Bold Street, I loiter about, trying to disappear into the time slip 🤫

SomeCatFromJapan · 15/10/2023 21:32

@Devilsmommy they still haven't worked out how to reconcile quantum theory with the general theory of relativity so yes there's a lot we don't understand in the fascinating world of theoretical physics.

QueenOfTheLabyrinth · 15/10/2023 21:34

I’m as skeptical as the next person but I’m not so arrogant as to believe that we know everything there is to know about the universe. There may well be a scientific explanation that we just haven’t discovered yet.

Throughout human history, the greatest scientific minds of their time had theories which were later disproven and the way in which people viewed their surroundings, turned on its head as science advanced.

Those of you who think we know everything there is to know, are the ones who need to get a grip.

Blackandwhitemakesgrey · 15/10/2023 21:34

I have been told about two incidents by two different people.

An old classmate of mine was waiting for a bus. Her brother who was walking with some other kids, quite a bit behind her suddenly screamed. As they neared my classmate, the bus arrived and knocked her down! She was seriously injured and spent quite a few weeks in hospital.

Another was told by my MIL. She's in her 80s but is given to being dramatic so I took this with a pinch of salt. SIL was travelling around Europe one summer. MIL said she had a premonition that something was wrong with SIL and screamed. They later received a phonecall that SIL had been attacked around the time MIL had screamed.

Bigbadmama · 15/10/2023 21:34

@Namechangedagain20 anecdotal evidence is that mobile phones don't work if you are in a time slip.

Devilsmommy · 15/10/2023 21:35

Exactly @SomeCatFromJapan . I really wish I was a brainiac cuz I'm fascinated by quantum physics. I just don't think you can say all those peoples experience are bullshit when science cannot explain everything anyway iyswim