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Contrast with [[Intangible Time Travel]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* In the original "Days of Future Past" storyline in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', Kitty Pryde travels back in time by switching minds with her younger self.
* Alex Robinson's graphic novella ''Too Cool To Be Forgotten'' has the main character Andy Wicks relive a portion of his high school years during hypnotherapy.
* Professor Carter Nichols invented "time-travel hypnosis" in [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] and [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] Batman stories, although the stories were [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|always vague]] as to whether the subject ''actually'' travelled in time or not. He inevitably returned in [[Grant Morrisons Batman]].
* Dr. Manhattan of ''[[Watchmen]]'' perceives all moments of his life simultaneously, though his ability to comprehend the full story they form seems to be limited. He also claims that he can't change the events he observes: "I'm just a puppet who can see the strings."
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* ''[[Peggy Sue Got Married]]''
* The ending of ''[[Jumanji]]''. Also done at the end of its [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[Zathura]]'', though less notable because in the latter case the game was finished on the same day it began.
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* ''In His Father's Shoes'' features a pair of magical shoes from a gypsy, which allow Clay Crosby to go back in time -- and briefly experience life as his father, Frank, when he was Clay's age.
* Similar to ''Quantum Leap'', the girl in the film ''Split Infinity'' doesn't go back to a younger or older version of herself, but to a different person, her late great aunt. A.J. Knowlton's time travel method? {{spoiler|She fell out of a hayloft to go back to 1929, and rode a homemade amusement park to get back to 1992. One that a bunch of kids had ridden earlier.}} One may assume that Sam prefers the technological route....
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* Used by Tolkien in ''The Notion Club Papers'', combined with mental space travel (astral projection). The effects of time passing at a much more rapid rate means that the traveller in question looks down on what he initially thinks to be some sort of fetid anthill, but turns out to be his home city of Oxford through the ages...
* The book ''[[A Gift of Magic (Literature)|A Gift of Magic]]'' by Lois Duncan has the main character who has (among other things) to look into the future. It comes in handy, because her grandmother had the exact same set of powers, and left the main character a message on the day she died.
* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s first published story (1947), "Time and Time Again" (no relation to Jack Finney's book): The main character, dying in [[World War III]] in 1975, awoke in his thirteen-year-old body in 1945. Being a trained chemist with the scientific knowledge of 1975, he'd have an advantage going into the chemical industry; he also had quite a good memory for horse-race winners. He planned to build a fortune and use it to prevent the war he'd died in by, among other things, getting his father elected president in 1960. Two of Piper's later stories, set in the '60s, imply that he was successful in that part, at least.
{{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}}.
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** Also the fact that it can't retcon out someone's death.
* ''[[South Park]]'' lampshades this with Eric trying to induce a temporal coma so he can travel back into the past and learn about the Founding Fathers. By dropping weights onto his head.
** Notably, this [[Averted Trope|averts]] the limit to one's own life; apparently, a Cartman-body just magically generated in the past when Cartman's mind needed it. (Or it was [[All Just a Dream]], the episode was [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|kind of ambiguous]].)
** 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.}}
* ''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman]]'' features Francis Grey, who discovers he can [[Save Scumming|"turn back the clock" 20 seconds]], allowing him to relive his past and relearn his mistakes. [[Charles Atlas Superpower|He discovered this power]] [[Ninety Percent of Your Brain|through his obsession with time]]
* Inverted in ''[[Rugrats]]'', during the [[Poorly
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