I'd go back in time and buy properties when they were so cheap! ♥ The real estate market is crazy here!

I'd go back in time to see how certain things in history really occurred but are only speculated on today. Too many to list here.

I wonder if the theory that if one goes back in time and changes even the littlest something that the entire future might also change, and one may not exist in that future?

When I saw Al Bielek at one of the UFO Expo West conventions, he said that when you go back in time, you go back to the past as it is now - not as how it was. Also, when you travel to the future, you go to the future as it is now, and the future is always fluid.

Al Bielek wrote The Philadelphia Experiment, which is about time travel used (supposedly) by the Navy to make a ship invisible, with rather disastrous results. They made a movie out of it, which I found interesting, even if somewhat fictional.

When speculating about time travel, there are no rules, however. If I were time traveling, I would probably want to go at least 1000 years into the future, but humans might be speaking very different languages by then. However, if I went very far back in time, I still would be speaking a different language.

Al Bielek said that in the case of the Philadelphia Experiment, there were windows of opportunity for time travel that happened every 20 years, and people could jump forwards or backwards 20 years during those openings. Of course he also said that there were evil gray aliens occupying an underground compound in Montauk, NY, where they performed experiments on humans (usually teenage boys) that they kidnapped and tortured. These aliens had a lifespan of several hundred years, almost a thousand years.

I would definitely go back in a heartbeat. I’d want to go far back enough that I would still have my husband and other family members who’ve passed.

I would go back and see my parents and grandparents when they were young. Maybe even meet my great grandparents and ask them some questions about their lives.

Go back in a heartbeat...I have lost so many I loved...to see them once again,

would be wonderful. But, I am a great believer in what Lucille says, and, the

old saying, "be careful what you wish for, there's always a catch".

Back in time. I'd like to meet my great-grandparents.

I would definitely go to the past. I'd set myself up so that the future me as in me now and in the future were financially stable.

I would go into the past, for sure (wait, is the catch that I would be there permanently? LOL). I would love to see what life was like for my ancestors, and just in general. Too many time periods to explore though!

I would go into the past but only as an observer. I'd like to see what parts of the world looked like in various eras, see how people lived, from my parents to ancient times.

To the future

I go back and buy stock in Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and some Bitcoin.

I told my friend Jimmy to invest in Amazon in 1995, but he did not do it. I would have if I had been able, but I did not have spare cash to invest back then, probably because I spent too much on clothes and shoes.

I would go back in time because as it seems right now, the further ahead we get the more selfish and violent we seem to be. I would go back to the 60's and 70's.

The past. I would love to meet the grandmother I resemble, who died when my dad was twelve. All of my other grandparents died when I was a young child, and I wish I could get to know them as an adult. Any further back wouldn't help because I don't speak Russian. If I could meet younger me, I'd tell her not to be so depressed, because she was going to get out of that crappy little town and have a nice a life in New York City. I'd also tell her about Lasik surgery and how she'd be able to ditch those thick lenses.

Yes, I too would go to the past and see my family that I have lost. I would not change my financial circumstances or do anything that I think would affect the future. I would just like to roam through and see what their lives were really like, perhaps when they were young. Things that shaped the family.

Do they get to see me as I am now? Would they know who I am or would I be a visitor; a stranger?

probably because I spent too much on clothes and shoes.

Your love of clothes and shoes are part of what makes you who you are. Had you denied yourself that creativeness, (because you really do know your fabrics) and bought some stock instead, you might be wealthier but not near as attractive a personality.

but only as an observer

You're never only an observer. You might inadvertently squash a mosquito. Is that enough to change the future? I don't know.

But you would also need food, shelter, etc. in a place that might not recognize your money. Most chilling of all, you bring all sorts of things with you when you go somewhere and somewhen. What if someone should bring Covid to the past?

Probably neither since I don't see the future to be that bright. Humans will never learn. Not interested in going back in time either.

Lucille, since it is magic, I would be only a Spirit. I don’t want to be physically present, I don’t want to interact. I want to be able to pass through walls and bodies or have them pass through me. And I’d want to be able so “soar” over landscapes and cities, underwater through rivers and underground streams. Across time,

Never the future. I would love to go back in time during my childhood and remember everything I was told by grandparents and parents. Also help those that needed help back then and we did not know.

I would go back. Waaaaay back to the court of Henry VII and would like to stay and watch AAAAALLL the way through the reign of Elizabeth I. As an observer. I would like to be the type of time traveler that could not be seen or heard, and therefore cannot interfere. I would go back even further to ancient Egypt to watch them build their empires. And then watch them fall and see why.

Lots of people want to go back to being a child. I would not, though I had a happy childhood. I am so much happier not being under someone's thumb. I would use my time traveler superpower to indulge my fascinations with certain time periods that I have held all my life.

Yes, invisibility. Walking through walls. very cool.

Okay, if I can just observe and not have to live through it myself, I'd go back to Japan and see what my mom's childhood was like and what her parents were like. I know my dad's childhood was not a good one, so I wouldn't want to see that.

My son recently said that he envies his toddlers for all they'll see in their lifetimes. I didn't say it but thought that I'm not nearly as optimistic and feel we are on the cusp of some very dark and gruesome times. World population shows no sign of decreasing leading to depletion of natural resources, contamination of our oceans, more frequent and possibly more severe pandemics, etc. So, though I wouldn't want to live in the future, I also wouldn't be keen on going back in time.

I would not want to go back and meet my ancestors, as I think that a lot of them were mean and cruel, at least from what I know about them. My father was bad enough, and he learned his cruel behavior from his male ancestors. His great-grandfather did free his slaves, however, and paid them wages instead of making them work for free. I never met my paternal grandfather, but my cousins told me that he was cruel, and some of my male cousins on that side of the family were also cruel. It seems that mainly the men were bad, but not all of them.

If you go to the future by only a few years, or up to 100 years, things might be bleak, but if you go to the future 1000 years from now, things might have worked themselves out. I would want to travel to a time in the future when there are no more fundamentalist religions and no more religious conflicts or wars. I don't know how long it will take humans to learn to live peacefully, since wars have been prevalent as long as civilization has existed. I would like to go to a time in the future when greed would be a thing of the past.

Life isn’t exactly perfect, but I am thankful for this journey I’m on right now. I wouldn’t trade it for another.

I‘m curious about some of the family history. It doesn’t eat away at me though.

The horrible human behavior we’ve witnessed recently? Is it worse than what we’ve read about what went on in the past? Unfortunately people are capable of atrocities. Maybe things will change now that there is no denying it goes on. Cellphone recording much of it.

I couldn’t tolerate it if I couldn’t see all the good in the world. People are also capable of brilliance, kindness, creativity, charity....

I still see the beauty in this world. The natural and the human made.

I miss my father. He died on Mother’s Day, which also fell on the 9th in 1982. He was a wonderful person. I wish he was here today so my kids would have known him, but I couldn’t wish to go back in time.

I hope you all have a peaceful day. Everyone.

I'd travel way back in time but only with magic transportation, logistics, etc. Don't want to be stuck like this Gary Larson professor:

I would love to see North and South America before humans ... so at least 15 to 20 thousand years ago. Would also want to avoid the worst of the glaciers too. I want to see the large ice age mammals before us humans killed them off, what did our landscape really look like.

Travel to the future ... well, like Lars, only if I can skip the next thousand years.

Too much insight into more recent human life might break my heart further, so I'll avoid that.

I would go back in time to my Mom's life on the family farm. It would be fun to see my Mom, aunts and uncle as little kids playing on the farm. They had a good life, plenty to eat, and wonderful places to play. And I want to see when the "gypsies" came through, and the kids hid, and Grandma fed the gypsies, while other gypsies stole chickens and laundry off the line.

I'd love to go back to the late 1880s. I read a lot of books and wonder how hard it was living back then.