Any of you guys wanna redo your life? Come here, I’ll tell you about when I time-leaped

[1] It doesn’t always work, but I’ve succeeded three times so far. Dunno if others can do it, but I’ll tell you how.

• [3] I wanna time-leap back to when I was sperm and let some other guy take my place.

[8]>>3 That’s impossible, but the time-leap thing I do seems to let me jump within the range of my own consciousness and memories. I can’t choose the exact time I jump to, and the world is probably slightly different each time, so I have no idea what will happen when I land.

• [4] Hurry up.
• [5] Please find a way that doesn’t involve using a cell phone.

[17]>>5 No tools involved. What I use for my time leap is the world of dreams, especially when they’re deep and feel vivid – that’s when I have the best success rate. I think it happens to everyone sometimes, where you know it was a dream when you wake up, but you have no clue while you’re asleep. I use those kinds of dreams.

• [6] Yeah, yeah.
• [9] Please please please tell us.
• [12] Get on with it. This is the time when us unemployed folks start falling asleep.
• [13] Slightly different worlds, huh?
• [21] Looking forward to it.

[24] The first time I time-leaped, I was 21. Back then, I was unemployed, had no friends, it was miserable. All I thought about every day was “If only I’d tried harder back then,” or “The past was better,” just negative stuff like that. Before sleep, I’d often think, “What am I even doing?” I’ve realized recently that this part is pretty important. Before sleeping, I vaguely think about the time I want to jump to. Doing that drastically increases the chances of getting an opportunity to attempt a time leap in a dream.

• [25] Entering the consciousness of your past self… What do you mean?

[27] So yeah, if you keep doing that every day, rarely, you’ll encounter a dream that feels so incredibly real, you might mistake it for reality. I still don’t know why it happens, but it can happen even when sleeping normally, so maybe it’s just coincidence. The dream itself can be anything, as long as it’s you from the past time you want to return to. The dream I had when I first time-leaped was from my middle school days.

• [29]>>27 What the heck do you mean? Does it have to be a dream about the past?

[36]>>29 It feels like using the dream to reflect the past and move through time, or rather, worlds. As for the future, maybe my imagination is too poor, or for some other reason, it doesn’t work.

• [30] Let’s see how you can redo your life with this. If I mastered it, I’d probably just give up on reality and get lost in dreams.

[33] The dream was about playing soccer with friends I was close to in middle school. We were playing on a completely white field, I didn’t know where it was. We were all in school uniforms even though we were outside school, and for some reason, even our homeroom teacher was there. Of course, in my actual memories, there’s no such field, and I don’t remember playing soccer with my teacher.

• [34] Huh? So you came to this world?

[36]>>34 Something like that. Anyway, continuing… When you’re dreaming, I think you usually don’t realize it’s a dream at first. The moment you realize “This is a dream,” you often wake up or the dream fades away, so you have to be careful about that first. The important thing is to focus on the dream itself. In my case, it was soccer with friends, so it was easy to focus, which was good.

[41] Then, you just keep focusing on the dream for a while. This is something you just have to train yourself for by telling yourself every night before sleep, but it’s important to make a habit of not thinking “This is a dream” normally. Gradually, the way you perceive the dream, or your sensation of it, starts to change. At first, it feels like you’re vaguely observing yourself in the dream, but then it shifts to feeling like your consciousness is entering the self within the dream. As that continues, your consciousness becomes even clearer, and you start to feel the sensation of the ball hitting your leg, the movement of your own body. It’s kind of like your consciousness entering a game character.

• [38] Did reality change?

[43]>>38 I’m not even sure if this is reality, but I don’t feel much resistance to doing things, and many things are different. Once you reach this point, the world switch is imminent. After that, you just need to focus intently on the action, to connect your consciousness with your body. Of course, you’re focusing desperately, but while dreaming, you’re not thinking about going to the past. The moment you think that, the dream will fade. If you truly want to return to that time, you should naturally be able to focus on what’s happening there, so you don’t need to think too deeply about it.

• [42] Lucid dreaming?
• [44] Is it just your memories that change?

[46]>>44 Memories are carried over from before the time leap. I remember things from before leaping, and I don’t forget them no matter how many times I do it. My consciousness enters the self in a past-like world within the dream, and the world is slightly different each time. As I continue to focus, the surrounding scenery gradually becomes clearer. Familiar landscapes, the neighborhood near my house, the town I live in – they get reconstructed bit by bit based on my memories. Of course, it’s not exactly the same as the world before I went to sleep; it’s more like another world reconstructed based on my memories. Places where my memory is fuzzy get filled in appropriately, and sometimes, in extreme cases, even the shape of the country can change.

• [57]>>46 Seriously, that’s not time leaping.

[60]>>57 Yeah, maybe not. But I can’t think of another name for it.

• [45] But you said it’s unconscious focusing.

[56]>>45 That’s why I can’t do it whenever I want.

• [47] Are you okay?

[56]>>47 I know I sound crazy myself. After that, things closer to me get reconstructed first. The field where I was playing soccer changes into my old middle school grounds, other things gradually appear, and finally, people are reconstructed. While I’m unconsciously focusing, these things appear as if they were there from the beginning. Then, a strange feeling washes over me: “What am I doing right now? Where am I?” But when I look around, the world is no longer the vague one from the beginning; my consciousness and the world feel just like when I’m awake in reality. Once it reaches this point, it’s over. You can’t go back to the world you were in before sleeping. Or rather, you even start to feel like the world you thought you were in was the dream.

• [49] Continue.
• [50] So, successful people are time leapers too?
• [52] Not what I expected.

[59] Even if you think “This is a dream,” you can’t go back anymore. Your consciousness gets too deeply embedded in the body of the dream world, and you can’t escape. I’ve tried various things, but it’s no use. Unlike in anime or something, you can’t return to your original world even if you want to. This time leap is one-way; there’s no method to return to the original world. Places where my memories are clear, like the path to my house and my house itself, are clearly there. All that’s left is to go back there and sleep. Once you sleep and wake up, it’s over. From the next day on, you have no choice but to live in that world.

• [61]>>1 How many years back did you time leap?

[65]>>61 From 21 to 13, then from 15 to 11, and the last one was from 24 to 19. The first time was accidental, the second and third times I aimed for it to some extent.

• [63] Maybe this world we’re in now is also just part of >>1’s dream.

[65]>>63 I don’t even know what’s what anymore. I wonder if I’ll leap when I die too; thinking that makes dying less scary. Importantly, the new world reflects my memories, so the world is slightly different each time. Classmates, the town layout, they’re different every time. Sometimes strangers suddenly talk to me, which is startling. It’s like I have amnesia. Also, the further back in years I jump, the weirder the world gets.

• [64] It’d be interesting if parallel worlds exist.
• [66] How old are you now? How long ago was the last time you did it?

[68]>>66 I’m 20 now. Did it about a year ago. Until now, I’ve just been repeating the fun times without hardship. I want to live properly from now on, but there’s a possibility that because of the training, I might naturally enter a dream and go back again. I have a lot of regrets now.

• [69] Did you get a girlfriend?

[72]>>69 I have my memories, and no matter what weird stuff I do, I know I can eventually go back (even if it takes time), so I don’t worry much and can do pretty much anything. That makes me more assertive with women, so I’ve had girlfriends a few times. But whether I make a girlfriend, get married, or have kids, if I unconsciously time-leap, it all becomes nothing. That scares me recently.

• [70] That’s kinda scary.
• [71] Stop it, you’re making me scared to sleep.

[74]>>71 Don’t worry. Even if you were to jump accidentally, I don’t think it would happen unless you truly wished for it from the bottom of your heart. My mistake was training myself to focus easily within dreams.

• [73] In the world you redid, are things like the economy, lottery numbers, or people who won big the same? Or is it parallel?

[75]>>73 Let’s say you desperately memorized lottery numbers before leaping. I think there’s a possibility that lottery itself might exist in the leaped world, but since I’m leaping to the past and can’t choose the exact time, it’s quite difficult. Plus, I don’t think the lottery is guaranteed to exist, and my memories significantly alter the world, so it’s tough.

• [77]>>75 Do things like stocks change too? I thought those would be more solid. For example, buying Yahoo! Japan or Livedoor stock. Do things like that change too? If it changes that much, it doesn’t really feel like going back to the past.

[83]>>77 Companies too, sometimes unknown companies become the top players in their industry. Also, if I have a strong aversion to something, it might not appear.

• [85]>>83 Your Japanese is a bit weird sometimes lol
• [76]>>1 What do you think about all this?

[83]>>76 I’ve half given up. If I’m lucky and don’t time-leap until I die, I can die, but that probably won’t happen. Well, I’m still alive, so it’s kind of fun for now.

• [78] For example, if you went back to being a middle schooler, you’d have to go through all the middle and high school classes again? That sounds rough.

[83]>>78 I keep my memories, you know. So yeah, it’s like New Game Plus, fun at first.

• [80] Thinking about it realistically, going back to the past… there’d be a lot of tedious parts since you’ve already experienced things and can predict what happens. You could probably dominate with money or women, but they’d just be women based on past tastes.
• [84] Anyway, if I could go back to the past, I’d put all my money into Yahoo! Japan stock. Next, Edge Co. (which became Livedoor). Those two alone would net enough cash to live comfortably forever.

[88]>>84 It’d be nice if I could, but when I leap, I become a kid, so that option isn’t available. Worse still, when the world changes, I have to adapt to it all over again, which is tough.

• [87] So you’re actually like 40 years old mentally?

[91]>>87 Mentally, I haven’t really grown up though.

• [90] Is this real, not just a made-up story?

[96]>>90 If I’m not crazy, then yes, it’s real.

• [94] What about earthquakes?

[96]>>94 They’re slightly different each time. The recent earthquake hadn’t happened yet in the previous world. Actually, even the government administration is different. Everything’s different. The only thing that stays the same is maybe my immediate neighborhood.

• [95] If you thoroughly researched Horiemon before going back, wouldn’t your chances of getting rich be better than doing nothing?

[102]>>95 Suppose I did that and successfully got rich. But if an unconscious time leap happens, it’s all for nothing. And each time I leap, the world changes more and more from the very first one I lived in, which is scary. Sure, repeating childhood and living freely is fun, but even with just three world shifts, things have changed drastically. If I keep this up, I’m worried my own family and the town I grew up in might disappear. I can’t help but feel anxious.

• [97] Basically, you’re just getting younger, right? It might be an attractive proposition if you were like 50, but for people in their 20s or 30s with a future ahead of them, going back sounds like more trouble lol

[105]>>97 You get younger while keeping your memories, so there are advantages in that sense. Maybe successful young people are my kind.

• [109]>>105 If your dad, mom, hometown, country, even yourself are different, that’s crazy. You’d have to start by learning the language all over again.

[112]>>109 When things change drastically, I really panic. I don’t have the courage to risk losing my family and everything.

• [115]>>112 I want to hear about the world >>1 was originally from. Was it even the same Japan? What are the major differences?

[123]>>115 Japan is basically the same, but the prime minister and stuff are completely different. Earthquakes are different too. Also, people weren’t talking about the world ending in 2012.

• [126]>>123 What about companies or famous people? Were there any tools or things that don’t exist in this world?

[128]>>126 Basically, the companies and famous people I remembered are the same. If there were unknown famous people or if they were altered, I wouldn’t notice anyway. But regarding companies, in my original world, Japan wasn’t thriving this much. Maybe my subconscious patriotism kicked in, gradually guiding me towards worlds where Japan is more prosperous. As for tools, my first world, or rather Japan, wasn’t very developed, so this world is more surprising. You know, like the Showa era? My world felt kind of like that.

• “Showa” is the name of a Japanese era, referring to the period from 1926 to 1989. It encompasses pre-WWII Japan and the post-war period of high economic growth, so it’s sometimes used to refer to a specific historical atmosphere or nostalgic feeling.*

• [130]>>128 How was entertainment different? Like games, manga, the so-called 2D stuff.

[137]>>130 Anime and manga exist, though fewer than in this world. Entertainment is hard to define, but there were often citizen-participation car and bike races. There were tons of festivals. It was like a world out of an anime from this world.

• [141]>>137 In terms of world affairs, were there countries that don’t exist here, or countries doing completely different things? Was there a World War?

[154]>>141 There was a Great War. That’s common knowledge, so I guess even moving worlds couldn’t unconsciously alter that memory. Japan was still culturally like Showa, anti-isolationist (“han-sakoku”), America strong, Korea quiet.

• “Showa” is a Japanese era name (1926-1989). “Han-sakoku” (反鎖国) is not a standard term but likely means the opposite of “sakoku” (鎖国), the policy of national isolation during the Edo period (1603-1867). Contextually, it might imply being open to the world, not isolationist.*

• [156]>>154 What things in this world did you find unusual or liked?

[161]>>156 First, anime. I never thought my country would be altered into something this crazy. Next is the internet. I knew it existed, but it’s a miracle that it’s so easily accessible in Japan like this. Then there are women. Regarding this, the women in my original world were more modest and better.

• [165]>>161 So regarding earthquakes, it’s not that the past before the time leap changed. But if the Showa vibe continued, that means the past world did change in that respect. Does that mean Emperor Showa lived to be around 100 in your previous world? Because in our modern timeline, the Heisei era started in 1989, way before you (>>1) were born around 1992/1993.*

• “Showa” is a Japanese era (1926-1989). “Emperor Showa” was the Emperor of Japan during the Showa era (reigned 1926-1989). “Heisei” is the era following Showa, spanning from 1989 to 2019. Eras (gengō) are a Japanese system of counting years, changing with the accession of a new Emperor.*

[167]>>165 Sorry, seems there was a misunderstanding. It just had a Showa atmosphere; technically it was the Heisei era.

• “Showa” and “Heisei” are Japanese era names. See previous note for details.*

• [116]>>112 If possible, you really shouldn’t leap anymore. Your leaping is too dangerous. Seriously.

[123]>>116 I don’t want to, but there’s a possibility of an unconscious leap happening in the dream world.

• [99] Can’t get rich. Lots of things change. What you’ve experienced is just experience, doesn’t mean it’ll happen the same way. Annoying rules lol

[105]>>99 Maybe things would be different if I did this when I was a bit older.

• [100] Got any proof?

[105]>>100 Proof? The worlds are different, there’s no way to prove anything.

• [101] So even if you go back, you just end up repeating the same things?

[105]>>101 No, my memories remain the same and I have freedom of action, so I can do various things. If I time-leaped after getting older, say around 50, it might be more effective in various ways, but leaping back further in time seems to cause greater changes to the world, so it’s hard to say.

• [103] Man, that’s a hopeful story. If I could do this, I’d go back before my divorce and prostrate myself begging for forgiveness.
• [104]>>103 Your wife might not even exist in that world lol Or who knows what could happen to yourself? You might turn into a human caterpillar or something lol Risky leap.
• [110]>>104 Dude, a human caterpillar? lol
• [111]>>110 Since you don’t know what will happen, it’s not impossible, is it? Thinking the world changes but you stay the same is just wishful thinking. This leap is seriously dangerous.

[118]>>110 I think it’s probably possible to change yourself too. Things you’re used to seeing, like your face, might be difficult, but maybe things like weight or height could be managed through visualization during the dream stage. I don’t think you can change things drastically just with visualization, but if the world itself underwent a major change, maybe you could become a giant or a fairy or something. Well, I’ve only done it three times, I’m still an amateur, so I can’t say for sure.

• [108] So the >>1 who’s in this thread right now leaped here from another world?

[112]>>108 Yeah, either that or I’m just crazy.

• [113] Time leap & moving to a parallel world, maybe… The logic might be that you can’t time leap within the same worldline? If this is real, it’s amazing.

[123]>>113 I think that interpretation is fine.

• [117] Is this real? The beginning part just sounds like lucid dreaming.
• [127] Can you tell us more about the first world where you lived until you were 24? By calculation, you were there until 2016, right?

[137]>>127 Actually, I was 21 the first time, but the world back then was almost completely different from now. Japan wasn’t very developed. It was more peaceful than this world’s Japan, but foreign goods were too expensive to buy. America, or rather the Allied forces, were fighting somewhere, but Japan was uninvolved and just chilling.

• [132] Write down the method step-by-step, in detail. I want to try it, nothing to lose. I was planning to kill myself this week anyway.
• [135]>>132 If you fail, you’ll be a human caterpillar!

[146]>>132 It’s everything I wrote from the beginning. ① Spend your days constantly thinking about the past you want to return to, especially before sleep. ② Wait for a deep dream where fragments of that past appear. ③ Focus on the events within that dream, pouring your consciousness into the dream-self. ④ Take over the dream-self, and that’s it.

• [152]>>146 Thanks for the detailed explanation. You said the 2011/03/11 earthquake didn’t happen in your first or third worlds. When you came to this current world (the fourth one), had the earthquake disaster already occurred? Or did it happen after you arrived here?

[161]>>152 It happened a little while after I arrived. I got here around late January.

• [134] Wait, I got that wrong. Sorry. >>1 is 20 now, so born in 1992 or 1993. Lived in the first world until 21, so until 2013. Then the next world… It’s getting confusing. Could you maybe write it out step-by-step, like a timeline of the worlds >>1 has been in?

[146]>>134 Born 1992, lived until 2013, first time leap from there. Jumped to age 13 (year 2005), started living there. At age 15 (year 2007), experimented with time leap, jumped to year 2003. Age 11 (year 2003), started living in the third world. At age 24 (year 2016), performed time leap again. Jumped to age 19 (year 2011), started living in the fourth world, this world. Something like that.

• [140] Regarding the method you mentioned at the start, do you think we could succeed too? Or were you, >>1, somehow special… is that why you could do it?

[154]>>140 All I can say is I don’t know. Honestly, I lived a normal life for 21 years until my first time leap. Nothing special happened before that, and I haven’t met anyone else like me. Even if I used someone as an experiment, when they go to a different world, it might cause changes in the world I’m in, so I can’t do that. Even if someone else time-leaped, I wouldn’t be able to verify it. I think anyone can do it, but I can’t say for sure yet.

• [143] Wait? What happens to your original body before the time leap? Is it just an empty shell?

[154]>>143 I don’t know.

• [150] So, after living through all that, how do you perceive the world?

[158]>>150 The worlds are connected, but not side-by-side. They’re connected haphazardly across time and space. I’m not afraid of dying. I’ll probably just jump to another world when I die and repeat it all again anyway. What I really want to know now is how to escape this connection between worlds.

• [162]>>1 I want to ask you. About the explanation of parallel worlds, does this idea resonate with you? The world is like a game cartridge. All possibilities—whether Mario jumps or ducks, defeats a Goomba, or hits it and loses a life—are already programmed. Right now, at this very moment, all choices exist as possibilities. We can freely choose the program. Jump on the pipe, or jump before it.

[164]>>162 Based on my experience moving between worlds, the world is much more flexible than that. I mean, I believe I’m taking different actions in each world. However, acquaintances who died in my first world are always dead. Maybe only death is predetermined.

• [166]>>164 I think if you wished for it, you could bring that person back to life. By going to a world where they are alive. According to some guy named Bashar, you can move between parallel worlds by adjusting your frequency (the energy you emit to the world). That’s how aliens supposedly warp space.

[168]>>166 My time-leap-ish thing relies entirely on the images and memories during the dream. The death of an acquaintance isn’t something I can easily forget or erase. Maybe bringing them back is possible, but for me right now, I think it would be difficult to create a world where that person is still alive.

• [169] So you just go back and forth between parallel worlds forever? Sounds like material for a light novel. It’s an old idea, dating back to Zhuangzi though. But maybe in that time-leap dream, if you visualized yourself dying of old age, you could just pass away peacefully? Aren’t there a lot of threads about other worlds lately?

[170]>>169 I wonder. I think it would be pretty hard to dream while visualizing your own death. Anyway, that’s mostly what I wanted to talk about. Everyone, please cherish your own world.

• [172]>>1 Thank you so much for telling us. This will help with a lot of things.
• [174]>>1 Thanks for sharing. I’m gonna try it tonight. I want to go to the past and change the present. Make Japan safer.
• [176] I want to hang out with you guys a bit longer, so I’ll stay in this world.
• [177]>>176 We’ll be in the destination world too, won’t we?
• [179]>>177 Maybe not?
• [184] Wait, is this real?
• [185]>>184 Why don’t you try it? I’m going to.
• [197] That was an interesting story. See you in another world, >>1.