If I would be perfectly safe and could return to the present, my choice would be to travel to all of the mysterious or controversial events/time in history:
- The day the meteorite hit the Yucatan penisula in Mexico 65 million years ago
- The building of the pyramids
- The time of Christ
- The assassination of JFK (I'd stake out the grassy noll one time, & the book depository another time)
If it was a one way trip, I would choose to visit my hometown in the late 1940s, or early 1950s. When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s it was just another economically depressed northeastern steel mill town, but in the postwar years, it was booming. I would love to experience first hand what a vibrant, affulent town it was then. An alternate choice would be the period between WWI and the Great Depression.
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I've often had a similar fantasy - sort of wake up one day in the body of my younger self anywhere from age 8 to about 14 with all my present knowledge and skills. There isn't much about my own life I would change, because I've had a good life, largely free from hardship or tragedy, and I'd be afraid that changing my decisions about certain things would lead me down a less desireable path.|
Originally Posted by Kinrad
I suppose it depends on the mechanism. I have often fantasized about going back in time to my childhood, essentially replacing myself with all of my current knowledge. I could change a lot of things in my life. If I cannot replace myself, I would probably choose to travel to the future and see whats going on a few hundred years from now.
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Some things I would do though - buy multiple copies of collectibles that I knew would eventually be of enormous value (Giant Size X-Men #1, Incredible Hulk #181, vinyl-caped Jawas, double-telescoping Vaders, etc.), and encourage my dad to invest in companies like Microsoft or Apple.
I'd also ask out the girl I had a crush on all through high school, but was too shy to ask out. And even if she rejected me, I would do my best to find a way to warn her about the breast cancer that took her life at age 36. I'd also treat my parents with a hell of a more respect than I did the first time.
ETA: I don't think I would try to warn people about tragedies like the Challenger disaster, or 9/11. In the case of the Challenger, even if someone believed a college freshman from Pennsylvania, it might well lead to an even worse disaster in the future. With regard to 9/11, showing foreknowledge of such an event could get a person in a LOT of trouble. However, I would make sure I was in Manhattan that day, just out of morbid curiousity.
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Oh yeah being considered a witch/warlock situation ... well guess I'll just have to take a trip to the future to get some cloaking tech and THEN go back into the past. Of course, I'd have to figure out some way to bring a power source with me...oh well.