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 this has been addressed many times in the Grandfather paradox

I'm the exact same with premonitions and feeling the future - very handy when I'm stressed, I tune in and know something's going to be okay.. Less nice when I know it's not :-(

Right! If you had 'slipped' into another time you wouldn't be observing yourself and be so clear on what your hair and body and clothing looked like because you'd be IN your body.

stop, there are many reasons eg star trek with the prime directive with time travel, think about the computer game series command and conquer, change history and its a ripple in the pond of time etc

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

It maybe it isn't time travel at all but like I said in my post above, the equivalent of watching an immerisve video. A recording by the universe of something that happened before So it's set in stone and you can't alter it any more than you could alter the film you are watching on TV.

Even if time travel does exist, it's likely that its laws in some way prohibit interfering with what happened before - whether that's because you subscribe to the idea that each moment is like a fan with millions of co-existing alternate moments - so out there are millions of people co-existing in a world where Hitler died of typhoid aged 12 or something - or because that it is something the laws of physics prevent in someway - like you can't stop gravity from making the apple hit the ground.

So you think we know everything there is to know?

Thanks for those recommendations- I’ve only read the Rovelli book (which I really enjoyed)

The grandfather paradox centres this round tge lack of free will I recall.

Plus Time travel is a fascinating idea, but it comes with a lot of tricky problems and moral questions. It might seem cool to prevent bad things from happening in the past, but it could also lead to some really unexpected and confusing stuff. Think of it like this: what if you went back in time and accidentally stopped your own grandparents from meeting? That could mean you'd never be born!

People love to write stories and make movies about time travel because it lets them explore all these complicated ideas. It's like a big puzzle that keeps our imaginations running.

i bet humanity has only understood 0.1% of whats achievable

I was driving my car, close to my home when the engine suddenly died. A BT workman had a wi-fi broadcasting box open and looked over sheepishly. The man had disappeared by the time the AA arrived and after some random (and entirely incorrect suggestions) we rolled the car twenty yards back down the hill and the engine started easily.
I'm sure that some kind of pulse that would normally be shielded by the BT cabinet being closed, interfered with the electronics in the car, stopping it in its tracks.
I wonder if these 'timeslips' are caused by electronic or magnetic fields interfering with people's brains and inducing hallucinations?
For those asking why those having these experiences don't use mobile phones or cameras, a relative recently suffered a brain injury which resulted in unusual language and perception affects that caused his friends to call an ambulance. The friends were surprised to be asked by the doctors if they'd filmed the affects - as though it was entirely normal to start filming someone you are having a conversation with.

My experience of woo stuff is that it comes unbidden & without warning; therefore if my stuff is real timetravel it's not possible to decide to go to a particular time, & then go there & do something, as someone suggested upthread.

Roughly half of mine are about things which happened within 24 hours, but I've had three such things which took years to come true. It's like I know at the time that something is significant & that makes it stick in my mind, but I've no idea what it relates to until the real life situation comes along.

There's a fascinating book, and I forget the name of it, that talks about things like this, and how essentially our sub conscious recognises things without us realising. So in this instance, you probably heard something - the door opening, or the sound of your toddler getting on his stool. Something that your sub conscious registered and didn't have time to translate to "wait, what was that sound? Oh, it sounded like the bathroom door" and instead, because it signalled danger, just translated it to "get him, NOW" (I mean, essentially intuition, but the book talks about how it's grounded in something real that we notice without realising we've noticed it)

Yes of course. But nevertheless, not impossible. 🙂

YANBU there are a lot of experiences people have that we can’t account for, and that is ok. I think sometimes we just have to accept it and not desperately try to rationalise everything.

Your phone doesn't need mobile service to record or take a photo. If the device is in your pocket, so are its lenses, microphone and memory chips.

The fact that that you had all been watching Uncanny is an indicator , that you are open to this nonsense in the first place.

Or open to the possibility that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy

Sorry what?

He could be experiencing ghosts perhaps who reside in that place. Is he open to people having an after life?

Whenever I'm there I yearn for a temporary time slip! It would be amazing. There has been mention in the past of the phenomena being liked to electro magnetic currents from nearby Central Station. I'm a total believer in time slips though.

basically altering the time line causes to many ripples that humans cannot always predict would be a better outcome

I don't think he has a mh condition like bi-polar or schizophrenia etc It doesn't sound anything like a psychotic condition.

However, I now seem to recall that this might be associated with a mild epileptic fit. I would suggest he keeps a record, and if it repeats itself more than once, consult his GP.

I think it's possible time slips could be responsible for many so called "paranormal" events. Ghosts, cryptids, UAPs, premonitions etc.

And before the naysayers jump on me, please let me underline that I said "it's possible".

But it’s not the same thing as saying it’s not possible 🤣😀😂😂😂🤦‍♀️

I think you’re looking for the word probable