Let me tell you about the time I succeeded in time leaping

[97] I had an experience—not sure if it was a time leap or moving to a parallel world—is it okay to write about it here?

• [98] Go ahead. Even if there are negative opinions, please ignore them or don’t worry about them.
• [99] >>97 Please do.

[100] >>98 >>99 Thank you. I just wanted to check first, so I’ll come back to post later.

[102] I’m the one who announced earlier that I would post. I thought it might be better to write in response to replies if I get any along the way, so I haven’t written it all out beforehand. It might be a slow pace. Please understand this in advance. Also, I’ve always liked occult-related things, including reading various summary sites and the like, but this is my first time seriously posting, so if there’s anything lacking, I’d appreciate it if you could point it out. First, the reason I wanted to go back to the past was my divorce from my wife. Basically, I wanted to return to the days before the divorce, when we lived together. Leading up to the divorce, I caused my wife a lot of trouble, but the final trigger was when I got involved with the police. This part is quite private, or rather sensitive, so I’ll omit the details, but I’m writing it because it becomes relevant later. (By the way, regarding this police incident, I was essentially caught up in it, and the result was non-prosecution/charges dropped.)

• [103] I see.

[105] For now, I’ll write about the events leading up to the present. If there are questions in the replies along the way, I’ll answer them. First, after hearing my wife’s intention to divorce, we started living separately, with her returning to her parents’ house. (Since I wanted to reconcile, I didn’t readily agree.) For a while after that, I was completely listless, but feeling like I needed something to cling to, I somehow started searching for things like “how to return to the past.” Even though I said I liked the occult board, it was mostly for truly scary stories, unsettling tales, spirit photos, and that sort of thing, so this was the first time I looked for information related to leaping. As a result of my search, I started trying methods like leaping through lucid dreams, looking into a mirror in the dark and burning a paper with the desired date written on it, and also things like salt spells. Of course, I couldn’t fully believe it at first, I was skeptical, but thinking it was important to continue, I kept up with the dream leaping and the dark mirror. Well, rather than saying it was important to continue, it’s more accurate to say that clinging to such things helped me maintain my mental stability. Also, at the same time, I constantly thought things like, “This isn’t the world I belong in,” and “I will return to the world where I lived with my wife.” It was a form of escapism and just a wish, but I thought this constantly, even while at work. Additionally, I frequently reminisced about the past.

• [107] Does the law of attraction also become important? This is truly helpful. I’m really looking forward to hearing more.

[108] Also, this isn’t directly related to leaping methods, but I also did things like spontaneously going to places that popped into my head. For example, going to a shrine I often visited with my father when I was little (a place I hadn’t visited in over 20 years), or the site of a supermarket my mother took me to long ago (it’s closed now, so the site), or the district where I was born (near my current address). These weren’t places I ended up remembering after much thought, but places that truly just popped into my head, places I felt I somehow had to go to, even though I felt like staying home on my days off. Also, apart from work, which couldn’t be helped, I cut off external contact as much as possible. Partly because I didn’t feel up to it, but also because I felt that interacting with the outside world would solidify the present where I was about to divorce my wife, and I might just proceed down that path. Essentially, refusing to proceed into the future as much as possible, that kind of feeling. It’s a bit hard to explain. Living my days like that, the number of things I found strange in daily life started to increase (probably including things I imagined or misunderstood).

Shrines are facilities for worship in Shinto, Japan’s indigenous religion. People pray to the gods or express gratitude there (omairi).

• [109] That’s amazing. Wow. I’m envious. Can I ask just one thing? This isn’t a made-up story, right?

[111] I’ll list the things I found strange in daily life now. ● I live on the 7th floor of an apartment building. One night, I went to go to the convenience store and pressed the elevator button, but both of the two elevators just kept going back and forth between the 1st and 2nd floors and wouldn’t come up. I reluctantly took the stairs down. When I came back from the store, I got into one of them. But this time, the door wouldn’t close (it kept closing partway and reopening). At a loss, I stepped out, and someone came down from an upper floor in the other elevator. After that, it worked normally. ● Similarly with the elevator. When I returned home from going out, someone came out just as I arrived, so I thought it was good timing and tried to get in, but the elevator had already gone up. ● I went to get my sleeping pants from where I keep them, but they weren’t there. I carefully took out each piece of neatly folded clothing and searched thoroughly, but couldn’t find them. A few days later, they were just there normally.

[112] >>109 It’s not made up. ● Since I live alone, the room is dark when I come home from work. I carefully made my way to the living room, and when I turned around, the light in the washroom was on. ● There’s a building under construction near my apartment, and I’d casually look at it on my way home from work. One day, the scaffolding and the covering cloth(?) were removed, and I thought, “Is it almost finished?” The next day, I looked, and it was covered with the scaffolding and cloth again. This happened twice. I thought these things might be my own misunderstandings or imagination, or maybe it was depersonalization? Had I seriously lost it mentally? That’s what I wondered. However, around this time, I started consciously observing landscapes and things I hadn’t paid attention to before, and I also started to convince myself that maybe the world axis was actually shifting.

• [113] Looking forward to it.
• [114] There are many people here who are seriously aiming to leap, you know. I’ll believe it’s not made up. I’m really looking forward to it. Please go at your own pace.

[115] >>107 I also learned about the ‘law of attraction’ by searching, so I was somewhat conscious of it. Though, it was mostly just constantly chanting that I wasn’t here, that I would go to the world I was thinking of. Also, I’ll list the dreams I had during this time. As a result of various searches, I started keeping a dream diary every day. Incidentally, I’m the type who remembers dreams very well; I even remember dreams from elementary school. Back then, (thinking about it now) I used to have lucid dreams. I’d realize it was a dream and think of various fun things, but somehow it would always turn bad. I’d remember ‘Oh yeah, this is a dream,’ find a nearby phone, say ‘Wake me up from the dream!’ and I’d wake up. I remember having dreams like that several times. ● I’m in the elevator of my apartment building. I get off at my floor, feel a chill, and think I shouldn’t go back home, then wake up. (The scenery wasn’t explicitly dream-like, but extremely realistic.) ● Unlike my actual apartment, I return to a place I recognize in the dream as where I live alone. It has a damp, basement-like atmosphere. Again, I feel a chill before reaching the room and wake up. ● I’m watching a scene of overlapping, rotating rings of light. Someone says, ‘If you open this box, you’ll wake up on a Sunday morning from several years ago,’ and offers me a box, but for some reason, I hesitate and don’t open it. Also, I had several dreams of mundane daily life with my wife. Again, they didn’t feel like typical dreams; I don’t know if they were past memories or wishful thinking, but either way, unfortunately, I couldn’t hold onto consciousness and woke up quickly.

[116] After everything I’ve written about so far, the divorce was finalized earlier this year. Once the papers were actually signed and it was decided, I became even more depressed. I truly started to feel like the world before my eyes wasn’t the world I was living in, that I couldn’t accept it. If you say I was simply not recognizing reality, that’s true. As a result, I became even more dedicated to leaping than before, and additionally, I tried as much as possible not to think about tomorrow. Even work that could wait until tomorrow, I did it all that day. When shopping at the supermarket, I didn’t think about the next day or beyond, just bought food for that day. It’s trivial stuff, but in a strange way, it was like not leaving any attachment to tomorrow, not thinking about a tomorrow that was continuous with today.

• [117] Truly fascinating.
• [118] Thoroughly rejecting the world you’re currently in must be important, huh?

[119] >>114 I don’t think there will be anything dramatic, so I doubt I can meet your expectations. I apologize in advance. It’s just content that was strange for me personally. After that, there’s a place where I usually buy canned coffee and take a break on my way to work. As I approached it, it somehow felt like a movie or drama set, and for a moment I thought, ‘Why am I here?’ before snapping back to reality. That day, I felt strangely hyper, even to myself. Also, my rent is automatically withdrawn, but (since my mind was kind of detached from reality) I forgot to put money in that account. When I went to apologize to the landlord, they said, ‘It’s already been withdrawn.’ I checked, and indeed it had been. Thoughts of sleepwalking or something crossed my mind, but instead of thinking rationally, I tried to convince myself that maybe I was intersecting with a different worldline.

[120] I’ve been writing matter-of-factly, but during this time, besides the divorce, other things happened, and I was truly mentally cornered. I managed to work with minimal social interaction, but talking to clients on the phone was the hardest. Partly because of my mood, but I also wanted to avoid contact with outsiders more than necessary. It felt like I didn’t want them to recognize the ‘me of now’. I thought, ‘I will absolutely not proceed into the future of this world’. Also, other things I did besides what’s mentioned above: looking through old photos extensively, immersing myself in that time and recalling things, thinking about what I’d do differently if I had regrets from the past, maintaining the lifestyle habits from when my wife was there even after she left (like saying ‘Tadaima/I’m home’ normally when returning home. I know that’s completely not normal, though).

• [121] >>120 Everyone here is someone who’s been pushed into a corner. I don’t think there’s anything abnormal about that!

[122] I apologize for this getting longer than expected. I plan to finish writing today, so I’d appreciate it if you’d bear with me. Here, I return to the initial police incident. One day, I suddenly remembered. During the interrogation process, they naturally asked my name, address, etc. They asked for my honseki (registered family domicile). I didn’t remember the exact street number, so I answered, ‘I think it was ●●, but I don’t know the number…’ But during the next interrogation, they said, ‘We checked, and it was ●● (a different district).’ I thought, ‘Huh?’ but didn’t think it was important at the time, so I didn’t dwell on it. Later, when I renewed my driver’s license, I checked, and it was the district I recognized. I wondered, what was that district they mentioned during the interrogation? Also, when I was first taken to the police, my phone was turned off and confiscated before I could contact my wife or family. Of course, during the interrogation, there should have been multiple missed call notifications from my wife and family, but when I got it back later and turned it on, not a single missed call email came through. I didn’t think much of it at the time either, but looking back now, I thought it was a little strange. >>121 Thank you! Actually, even now, I sometimes suspect I might have schizophrenia (lol).

Honseki refers to the place where an individual’s family register (koseki, which records family relationships) is officially kept under Japan’s family registration system. It may differ from one’s actual place of residence.

[123] Up to this point, the world I was living in felt increasingly distant, like it was someone else’s affair. Then, one night last week, I went to sleep as usual, reminiscing about the past. I woke up twice during the night, remembered the dreams I’d had, thought ‘boring dreams,’ and went back to sleep a third time. As I was dozing off, whether in a dream or reality, I felt my whole body start to vibrate intensely, like it was trembling. In a hazy state, I thought, ‘Is this the phenomenon you often read about on summary sites?’ The next time I woke up, I was in the room I had been sleeping in. Since living with my wife, I’d slept on a futon in the tatami room, but the door to the adjacent room (with wooden flooring) was slightly open. I saw a pair of slippers there, confirming I was alone, and felt disappointed. As I turned over… I saw my wife coming back from the veranda after hanging laundry. I instinctively hugged her, wanting to anchor my consciousness, and said, ‘Let’s stay like this for a while!’ At that moment, I woke up again, alone. I thought, ‘It didn’t work after all,’ and felt down, but then I heard pattering footsteps from the next room. My wife was there. She was making me a bento lunch box.

Tatami are traditional Japanese flooring mats made from woven Igusa rushes.

• [124] >>123 !?!?!? Congratulations!

[125] Huh? Why? I thought, checking my phone, but the date wasn’t in the past, just a normal current date. Even though this was what I had wished for so desperately, now that it actually happened, I didn’t know how to accept it. My wife must have noticed I was acting strangely and asked, ‘Are you okay?’ but at that moment, feelings of discomfort and creepiness were stronger, and I left the house with a somewhat sullen attitude. After leaving, walking to the station, I observed my surroundings, looking for anything out of place. One thing caught my eye: a high-rise apartment building under construction. It shouldn’t have been there according to my memory, but I wondered if I was mistaken. Still, who was the wife who was just at home? I pondered various things on the way to work. Work was unchanged from before. Feeling ungrounded, I finished the day’s tasks.

[126] Wondering if I was really mentally unwell, I headed home. Before entering, I saw light leaking from the hallway-side window. Thinking ‘Ah, someone’s there,’ meaning my wife, I went inside, and she was making dinner. Even though this was the environment I wanted, I couldn’t help but think, ‘Is this person really the wife I know?’ Trying my best to act calm, I checked with her. I said I had a weird dream yesterday, about getting into trouble with the police, and asked, ‘I know it sounds crazy, but did something like that happen to me?’ She replied, ‘What are you talking about? You’ve been acting strange since this morning.’ I said sorry and let it go, but I’ve felt a sense of wrongness ever since, right up to now. Also, when I try to recall the police incident, I remember the things I wrote earlier, but the scene itself feels hazy, like a dream. Similarly, my memories of living alone have become blurry, like I can’t tell if they were dreams or reality. However, the strong thoughts and feelings I had at those times, those I remember clearly.

[127] This is where the sequence of events ends for now. Initially, I wrote whether it was a time leap or moving to a parallel world. If my current situation is real, then perhaps saying I came to a parallel world is more accurate. I imagine some of you might be disappointed. I apologize. For now, I just wanted to write the flow of events, so if you have any questions about the details, I’ll answer them.

• [128] I want to go back.
• [129] How long did it take?
• [130] Are the only changes your wife and the high-rise apartment? Any changes in history? Also, did this thread exist in the previous world?
• [131] I felt sorry for you until now, but suddenly I’m envious (lol). Maybe time leaps are the same thing? Just moving to a parallel world that happens to be in the past. Did she not remember about the wife or the divorce?
• [132] Which specific action do you think made the leap successful?

[133] >>129 It took about half a year until now. Also, a supplement: The inside of the house seems basically unchanged. I feel like something is subtly different somewhere, but I can’t pinpoint it. The same goes for my wife’s appearance and atmosphere. I can’t say for sure, but places with complete strangers, like my workplace, seem to be the same as before. There’s a subtle sense of wrongness in the environment closer to my private life, which I wanted to change.

[134] >>130 History and such are the same. I was sad enough to cry when David Bowie died, so I wished he were alive, but… Also, unrelated, but I had a dream that only Nakai-san left SMAP (lol). Regarding the thread, I had been reading a thread titled “Is there a way to turn back time?” for a long time. Then, when I decided to post, this thread caught my eye, so I decided to post here. >>131 She said we’d thought about divorce many times before… but the police incident that led to this time apparently didn’t happen, so there seems to be no decisive trigger. >>132 Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe just continuously believing in and practicing dream leaping. But I didn’t go back to the past, and I don’t understand what this is myself, so I thought I’d ask for opinions here.

• [135] How old are you?
• [137] Is there any possibility that your wife just came back?
• [138] Is this more like a law of attraction story than a leap? Far from not being dramatic, I think this is incredibly amazing… Are you now living in a world completely unrelated to the divorce issue?

[139] >>135 I’m 35. >>137 We both wrote and stamped the divorce papers, and my wife was the only one holding them. Later, a notification came home from the city office, confirming the divorce was completely finalized. It’s hard to imagine her just coming back as if nothing happened under those circumstances.

• [140] How long did you actually do the dark mirror ritual?
• [141] For others who knew about the divorce, like your company or parents, has the divorce also become something that never happened?

[142] >>138 It’s a world unrelated to divorce. Regarding the law of attraction, I tried not to think about anything other than the world I desired. >>140 The dark mirror, maybe about a month? I stopped midway because I felt it was pointless. However, I did feel like it influenced my mindset/convictions. >>141 That’s right. It’s like a world where that fact doesn’t exist. It was a divorce by agreement, so my father should have signed as a witness, but when I gently tried to confirm it with him, he told me, “Well, I’m divorced myself, you know!” – a fact I never knew before.

[143] Also, regarding the divorce, besides my parent mentioned above, I didn’t tell anyone. I probably should have, but I didn’t tell my company either. (My wife had already opted for full-time work when the divorce talk started, so she was removed from my dependent status). I never took off my wedding ring. I thought doing so would mean acknowledging or accepting it.

• [144] So, is it correct to say you were able to go to a parallel world through lucid dreaming?
• [145] At what specific timing do you think you leaped, or rather, moved to the parallel world?

[146] I’ve looked into various things, but major historical events are the same as my previous understanding. The occult summary sites I used to read are also the same. It really feels like only my immediate surroundings have changed. That said, I hesitated to write this, but there’s something that slightly bothers me, so I’ll write it. It’s not a big deal, though. I live in Osaka, and before all the talk of police incidents and such, I was exploring the area around my company and found a shrine with a nice atmosphere. Just my kind of place. Later, after the events described above, while searching through summary sites about leaps and other worlds, I found a thread titled “Listen to the story of the auntie who life-looped.” I read it, thinking, ‘That’s nice, but I don’t want to die,’ and then I realized the place where the thread starter had their accident was coincidentally right in front of the shrine I liked. I felt some kind of fate connecting them, and I went back to visit the shrine again. That’s all, but I was surprised, like, ‘It was that shrine!’ >>144 Ultimately, maybe that’s what happened? But I still feel mentally unstable somehow. Conversely, I’m scared of sleeping now.

[147] >>145 Rather than a specific decisive moment, as I went through the process described above, I had a feeling of gradually approaching some world in stages. Simultaneously, the world I was in at the time felt like it was gradually becoming unstable. Of course, as I wrote earlier, I suspected possibilities like depersonalization or schizophrenia. If that were really the case, being a company employee, I’d cause trouble for my company. Not that I felt like going to a hospital, though.

• [148] >>146 What’s the name of that shrine?

[149] >>148 The shrine is called Yatsurugi Shrine. It’s in Joto Ward, Osaka City. The nearest station would be Shigino Station on the subway or JR line. It’s kind of unnaturally plopped down amidst schools and houses in the neighborhood, and the grounds have a unique atmosphere. I think it’s a good shrine. Thank you to everyone who has read this far and replied. I’ll step away for a bit, but if there are any questions, I’ll answer them.

• [153] It’s altering the past.
• [159] Have your own appearance or abilities changed compared to the previous world? For example, has your acne gotten worse, has your sense of taste changed, or can you do things you couldn’t before?

[174] >>159 I myself haven’t changed, but my wife, who used to dislike spicy food and always used mild curry roux, made curry using medium-spicy roux. When I asked if she was okay, she replied, “I’ve been fine with this level for a while now.” Also, during work today, a colleague was handling a case I thought I was in charge of. When I asked why, they said, “This was originally the case you were handling.” I feel subtle changes in my surroundings.

• [177] >>174 So you haven’t changed, but your surroundings have? Thank you for telling me!
• [185] >>174 How do you feel now that you’ve successfully time leaped, in effect? Are you happier before or after the time leap?

[195] >>185 I still feel somewhat out of place. I find myself wondering if acquaintances or relatives I haven’t seen in a while might be different people. Comparing before and after, I think if I had been able to live without problems in the previous world (?), that would have been best.

• [197] >>195 What do you think was the secret to succeeding in the time leap?
• [202] >>149 Does this mean that praying at that shrine will grant wishes? If word spreads, the number of visitors might increase.

[203] >>197 It’s hard to call it a secret, but basically, not accepting the current situation, and during the day, constantly thinking about normal life with my wife, or about places we could go together next. Also, repeatedly recalling past memories. At home, I spent my time trying as much as possible to live as if my wife were living with me. While doing so, I started having extremely mundane dreams within my dreams. At first, I thought they were just past memories or wishes surfacing, but I started to convince myself that this might be life in a parallel world.

• [204] Reading about the origin of Yatsurugi Shrine, it seems the god of Atsuta appeared in the dreams of multiple people, so maybe this god is relatively skilled at manipulating dreams? Also, being good at lucid dreaming in childhood might mean you had some predisposition? It’s interesting how you meticulously described the depersonalization-like sensations during waking hours and the phenomena suggesting an overlap with a parallel world.

[206] >>202 >>204 I only knew about Yatsurugi Shrine by chance originally, and then confirmed the name on a summary site for a certain story, so I wonder about that. Besides, the thread starter on the summary site had an accident rather than praying. My lucid dreaming ability faded as I grew up. When I could do it, I just needed to find a phone and talk to wake up, so I tried it with my home phone, but trying that just left me feeling a bit down afterwards…

• [207] Could using the law of attraction, like imagining that the time leap has succeeded, be effective?

[210] >>207 I can’t say for sure if it’s actually effective, and I wasn’t consciously thinking about the law of attraction, but at least my mindset was leaning in that direction.

• [222] Did you gradually fix your consciousness onto the dream, or did you just wake up one morning and realize you had leaped?
• [225] Also, in >>123, you wrote, “The next time I woke up, I was in the room I had been sleeping in. Since living with my wife, I’d slept on a futon in the tatami room, but the door to the adjacent room (with wooden flooring) was slightly open. I saw a pair of slippers there, confirming I was alone, and felt disappointed. As I turned over… I saw my wife coming back from the veranda after hanging laundry. I instinctively hugged her, wanting to anchor my consciousness, and said, ‘Let’s stay like this for a while!’ At that moment, I woke up again, alone.” At this time, were you aware it was a dream? Or did you think it was reality?

[229] >>222 Since I initially wrote just the basic flow, my explanation was insufficient, but the progression of dreams went like this:

↓ Very dreamlike, fantastical dreams.
↓ Still fantastical, but whereas before I only remembered scenery and atmosphere, now conversations were clearly memorable.
↓ Although different from actual scenery, the locations in the dreams started linking to reality, like “I’m in Kyoto,” for example.
※ Around here, as many of you might have experienced, I began to recognize that point A I was currently at (in the dream) and point B I had previously visited (in the dream) were part of the same world. Even in dreams of walking through a normal town, I knew what was around the corner, or that I had been here before (in a dream).
↓ The fantastical dreamlike feeling faded, and the scenery became more realistic.
↓ Dreams set inside a house became extremely similar to reality, like my current home or the family home where I lived with my parents.
↓ I frequently started dreaming about my current or previous workplaces. The work content linked to reality, and if there were problems, I found myself thinking realistically about how to solve them.
↓ I frequently started having dreams of the extremely mundane daily life I used to live.
※ Talking with my wife about plans for an outing, deciding who would cook dinner, simply relaxing together in a room, etc.

This progression led to >>123. Perhaps I was unconsciously solidifying my focus.

[230] >>225 At that time, I felt it was completely real. The disappointment when I saw the slippers was real, and when I saw my wife entering from the veranda, I was genuinely surprised. When I hugged her, she said, “I can’t make breakfast if you keep doing this,” and I clearly remember replying, “It’s okay today.” Also, I remember an alarm clock ringing before this. However, I felt like it rang too early and ignored it. Thinking back later, I use my iPhone alarm as my alarm clock, but the sound I heard was the alarm from the clock my wife used. She wakes up earlier than me to make breakfast and bento.

• [243] In this person’s case, the wish was for “a world where the divorce didn’t happen,” so the era didn’t change. But if they had imagined a different era, maybe that would have changed too? Meaning, the leap phenomenon might not be an effect of “time jump, regression,” but rather one type of the often-mentioned “attraction.” I also have past experience where something I strongly imagined (a physical phenomenon) had changed when I noticed it, and I feel it’s all related to attraction.**