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{{quote|''"My machine allows your mind to inhabit a body in the past."''
|'''H.G. Wells''', ''[[Warehouse 13]]''}}
A form of [[Time Travel]] where you don't physically go back in time. Instead, your body goes back to where it was in the state that it was, but you keep your memories from the future. The advantage is that, if done correctly, it neatly sidesteps many of the logical conundrums and paradoxes associated with time travel. The disadvantage is that your range of times to travel to is limited to the time your body can function for these purposes, a few decades at most. The other disadvantage is that it doesn't make physical sense.
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== Anime
* {{spoiler|Rika and Hanyuu}} in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', though they're not always able to keep ''all'' of their memories.
** Most of the cast, actually, they just drop more memories.
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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''
* 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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* ''[[Star Wars]]'' fics involving [http://delicious.com/Lanta/star_wars+timetravel time travel] are surprisingly common, and a high percentage of them involve various characters being sent back to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] after dying.
* ''Tons'' of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' fanfics use this trope. Usually Shinji is the one who goes back from the time of Third Impact and goes on to prevent it without alerting NERV's higher-ups (e.g. Misato, Ritsuko and his father).
** There is one fic where Shinji discovers that not only the other pilots are parts of the rewinds too (humorously shown when he and Rei abuse the rewinds for training while Asuka ends up face first in a door every time a rewind occurs), he can rewind at any time by ''killing himself''. It eventually desensitizes him to the prospect of death so much that even Asuka is freaked out.
** Similarly, ''[https://archiveofourown.org/works/5671597 Doing It Right This Time]]'' by JakeGrey features not just the pilots getting a [[Peggy Sue]] due to Mental Time Travel, but practically ''everyone else'' as well. Unlike most fics, we see the mechanism used to send their minds/memories back in time after Third Impact -- and [[Your Head Asplode|what it does to their post-Impact selves]] is [[Played for Laughs]]. Kinda.
* A remarkably high percentage of AU fics for ''[[Harry Potter]]'' are like this. Usually it's Harry that does the rewind, sometimes the 'Golden Trio', occasionally Ginny to mix things up, and at least once it was the Trio, Ginny, Neville, Luna, Sirius, and Lupin, and maybe a few more in addition.
** After the seventh book there were fanfics with Snape going back to the "Snape's Worst Memory" scene right after his death. Usually with the purpose of him [[Loser Gets the Girl|getting the girl]].
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