Mental Time Travel: Difference between revisions

{{quote| "All right, son, I'll do just what you tell me, and when you grow up, I'll be president...."}}

* In the ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' novels, this is true for Yuki Nagato and ''only'' for Yuki Nagato. In the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] short story ''Endless Eight'', everyone's {{spoiler|memories get reset, although they start experiencing déjà vu. Apparently, Yuki is not affected by this because time is not an obstacle for her}}.

* In ''Cube with Faceted Edges'', this is the only possible method of [[Time Travel]]. Originally used exclusively by the special forces-like Harders with brain implants called Iscapes, which throw their consciousness back a few seconds at the moment of death (how death is determined is not clear). To an outsider, it looks like a Harder is impossible to kill, as they look like they can dodge bullets and have a sixth sense. In reality, the Harders are just using the foreknowledge to avoid the same deadly outcome. Later on, a rival organization obtains an Iscape and builds a similar-functioning device that works by thinking of the time you want to go back to. This is one-way, however, as the timeline is changed by this action. They then start selling the devices to the general public and eliminating anyone who tries to investigate them (easy when you can always go back to fix a mistake). The knowledge of the original timeline quickly fades if any changes are made.

** The protagonist (a Harder) starts suspecting the existence of these bootleg devices when a space liner explodes. While it looks like a typical malfunction (and it is), he does find it strange that a full third of the passengers have cancelled their tickets several days before boarding. It turns out they all have these devices.

** Ten seconds? Right before the end, the Prince {{spoiler|rewinds time all the way to prior the start of the game}}.

** ''Warrior Within'' also has physical time travel.

** It's also pretty much the whole point of ''[[The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]''.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'', Ellone has the power to make people mentally time travel into other people's bodies. It happens to the playable characters a few times in the game.

 

== Web Comics ==

* The "rewind device" in ''[[City of Reality]]'' uses this method to allow characters, in the story, to retry their actions until they get them right.

* [[Girl Genius|Othar Tryggvassen]]'s twitter adventures had this at one point. Quite a [[Tear Jerker]], too.

** This is also how the "Go God Go!" two-parter ended, with Cartman (having been stuck in the far future) being transferred back in time to "fuse with his past self."

{{quote| '''[[It Makes Sense in Context|Blavius the Talking Sea Otter]]:''' Don't worry, my son. When you return to your time you will merge with your other self. It's all very Zen.}}

* Inverted in ''[[Rugrats]]'', during the [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] for the spinoff, ''[[All Grown Up]]''. Granted, there is no logical reason why what they did should have worked, suggesting that it may have been [[All Just a Dream]], but it was way too consistent with the actual plot to discount. At the end, the babies emerge from the closet they fled into at the beginning of the episode (apparently only moments later), and Tommy says, "Well guys, only ten more years until Angelica is nice to us."

 

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