AIBU to believe FIL time slip experience?

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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!

I think dreams and memories being triggered as a day dream

So your prediction was incorrect?

This is the thing, right? If a whole group of people met a person with futuristic tools that they’d never seen before, it’s fair to say that at least one of them would have made a record of it somewhere, or passed tales down about what they’d seen. How come nobody ever has?

Can you recommend any books? I have tried to read some quantum physics before and found my brain fried very quickly. Would love to understand a tiny bit of it.

I have experienced delusional hypomania, brains do funny things.

On a previous, similar, thread, someone said they saw a troop of horsemen from the Old Days, somewhere in London. Another poster piped up that the Royal Horse Artillery tend to practise in the early dawn, when the streets are clearer...

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Precisely. It's nothing to do with a time slip. Just a coincidence. I've had more remarkable coincidences than that happen to me but I see them for what they are.

In what possible way did I say that was a timeslip, I said it was an odd dream.

Ok, your door number just happened to be identical to a raffle ticket you were handed, then you go through a box of things you kept and find another single raffle ticket inside it with the exact same number on it, your door number. Not something that happens every day really, is it?

@boredfuckinsenseless there is a fascinating theory called inherited memory where it may be possible for people to inherit the memory of events etc from your parents. Was the memory something that your mum or dad remember experiencing?

Is it possible that you actually visited this house as a child but forgot that you had done so?

I find it interesting that the same house reappeared many times as a setting, no matter what was going on. I've had this for years: in my dreams there's a garden centre, a road system & a pub which don't exist in reality (as far as I know) but which reappear in my dreams from time to time. Over the years it's got more elaborate: at first I just drove to the garden centre & back on this big, busy road with a traffic light controlled crossroads, & the garden centre never had anything I wanted. Then the pub appeared, then I went inside it, then I would arrive at the pub from different directions, & now things link up via more roads. But the core things remain the same & I've no idea why.

I have another similar scenario which recurs & when I'm in it now I guess I'm lucid dreaming, because I think, 'Oh yeah, it's this one, I know what happens now."

"Time slips | Mumsnet" https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_unexplained/2982837-Time-slips

I remembered this thread

That's part of the experience 🤦🏻‍♀️

He should go to his doctor. This sounds like a mental health issue. People dismiss these early symptoms.

Hallucinations occur frequently in psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic disorder and borderline personality disorder, as well as in other disorders such as dementia and Parkinson's.

It is highly unlikely he experienced a time slip. But if he goes to his GP qnd
explains he honestly believes this he will get checked out. You aren’t doing him any favours by believing him.

I know @MasterBeth you may scream at me in a minute, but my experience was at Kirkham Priory not Fountains Abbey, which would have been a totally different experience road wise.

Started watching a series on Amazon Prime tonight that covers time slips really gave me the woo. It's called Outer Range.

@ChristmasKraken
Out of curiosity, are there stories of these time slips happening in reverse? So people from earlier times mentioning people with futuristic clothes or gadgets walking in to their toy shop? Or do we have instances of people now having someone who looks like they're from the future appearing? And if not, why not?

I read something interesting on another thread (sorry can't remember who by think it was one of the spooky stories threads running) about how recordings of the past exist in the form of film and photographs which are man made inventions.

So we know "a live" recording of something that happened in the past can exist in the form of a film or video.

Who's to say that outside the existing sphere of human knowledge that the "universe" can't itself have that kind of thing - a sort of past recording as it were.

and it could appear to you that you are having a live interaction when you aren't.

so if you walk into a shop and see an oldie worldie shopkeeper who says "how can a help you" it maybe what he was saying to anothr person historically.

Not saying I'm a believer but I was really interested in this idea of the fact of a recording of past times existing.

You hadn't been speaking to Derren Brown just before that, had you? 😂I once saw him on TV somehow convince someone that the London Eye had disappeared & they really couldn't see it, but there it was.

I had a similar thing happen. I had a dream about going upstairs to hide from a party and hiding in a room. Some time later maybe a few months later I went to visit someone's house for the first time, never been there before, none of the rest of the house was familiar at all. But they opened the door to their parent's bedroom and I nearly collapsed in shock, it was the room in the dream. Every detail.

There were parties there later and I did want to hide. But I never did hide and definitely never went in that room again. I was only 14 and pretty freaked out.

I have had a few dreams with very detailed buildings. Sometimes wondered if any of them exist too. But it doesn't bear thinking about does it! Life goes on as normal and that's all we can say.

Thank you so much - that’s brilliant

Think about it. There would be no masts.

No, but that's why it's a coincidence. I would expect it to happen somewhere. It would be odder if it never did.

If time travel was real, don't you think we would all know someone from the future, or Hitler would have been executed by a Jewish person, or we would have been warned about covid/Spanish flu/chernobyl/etc

You’ve been watching too much woo woo Pre-Halloween crap TV.

I had something not completely unlike this happen today on a smaller scale.

I was on the sofa this eve writing a shopping list and toddler DS was toddling in and out of the living room. Not unusual, the flat is quite well baby-proofed, and he's free to go between the living room and his bedroom.

Out of nowhere I was overcome with an all encompassing and terrifying urge to run like fuck and find him even though I'd only seen him a few seconds prior. I've never had a feeling like that before and it was completely out of the blue

I shot up like a bolt of lightning and found him in the bathroom, stood on his toddler steps leaning over the (full) bath that I had run ready to get into once DH returned from the shop.

After running the bath I had most definitely closed the door and clicked it shut. DS cannot reach the handle. I had no reason to worry or suspect he'd be able to get into that bathroom. But he did.

In hindsight my older DC must have opened it but the thought wouldn't have even crossed my mind, yet alarm bells went off in my head and, like your mums story, it was almost as if a voice was shouting "get DS NOW!"

So I'm not sure about paranormal involvement but mother's intuition is definitely a thing.