Time slips are unexplained events that some people have claimed to experience where all of a sudden, they have miraculously for whatever reason found themselves suddenly in a different time period, most often it is in the past but sometimes some people have even claimed to have accidentally slipped into the future. It is a mind-bending thing to comprehend… could time travel actually be real? Can people, given the correct conditions, travel back and even forwards in time? If it were to be true it would obviously change everything and time would no longer really exist anymore as it would constantly most likely be manipulated and changed… maybe it already is and we just don’t notice it? How would we really know? The Mandela Effect perhaps? Maybe even de ja vu… of the type where you feel like a scenario has already played out before, itching at the back of your head?
It can be quite scary to think about and even scarier still to think that it could happen to you by accident, just on a usual typical day, doing usual things, you just, poof, gone and into the past or future… perhaps some it happens to, if real, never make it back? If so, maybe it could explain some unexplained disappearances of people or maybe these people who do disappear into time also vanish from our memory, as perhaps it would make them no longer an existence in our time, and so we never even notice it and never will. The more you really try and think about it, the bigger it can make an existential crisis, maybe it has already happened to you, but you just don’t know?
The two main theories are that time is either linear and we all live in the present, the past is finished and can never be accessed again and the future does not yet exist, this is the most widely accepted theory and the theory accepted by science. Or the other theory is that all time exists at once and the past, present and future become relative terms dependent on where you currently are.
One very interesting thing though is that when we look far out in space, we are technically looking back in time, as what we see, we are seeing from light-years away, they are so far away that the light depicting their actions is lagging behind, for example, a star many light years away that has since died can still be observed from Earth as its light is still travelling, this is another argument against linear time. It is said that if we are further enough away from Earth with a powerful enough telescope to view Earth, we would be able to see the dinosaurs alive and well, even though they are long gone.
It gets even more interesting when we look into Einstein’s theory of relativity, specifically from this about a human on a spacecraft travelling close to the speed of light would have time pass differently than on Earth, for example 14 years on the spacecraft would be 65 years on Earth. This was also put into action in the movie Interstellar. It is technically a way in which someone can travel further in time on Earth. It is another argument against time being linear.
People who argue that all time exists at once say that prediction of events, such as by psychics, could be proof that things have already happened. J.W Dunne was one believer in time existing all at once, which he says he proved to himself through an experiment which he wrote a book on in the 1920s called, An Experiment with Time. In it was analysis of his dreams which he recorded over a long period of time, he claims that his dreams frequently predicted personal events in his life and also events of global significance and that his dreams were a mixture of past, present and future events, which he concludes is proof all time exists at once.
Anyway, back to time slips, some people who have made it back from these, if they are real, claim they remember it… so let’s go over a couple.
Back to the Past
One incident of a slip back in time allegedly happened to a pensioner called Mrs. Charlotte Warburton near Tunbrige Wells in Kent, United Kingdon, which is where she also lived with her husband. The incident happened on a Tuesday on 18th June 1968, Mrs. Warburton and her husband had arrived at a town to do some shopping, they split up and planned to meet again later in the day for some coffee.
After a while of typical shopping Mrs. Warburton decided to visit a few shops to find a tin of short-cake, in one particular shop she entered, which was a small self-service shop she wasn’t familiar with, she would not find short-cake but she did come across something that stuck out, Mrs. Warburton came to notice an opening in the left-hand wall of the shop and being curious she decided to check it out.
The entrance led into a large rectangular room, the walls were paneled with mahogany, which Mrs. Warburton noted was a sudden change from the more modern chrome and plastic fitments of the shop. Mrs. Warburton would go on to describe the place by saying it had no windows and was illuminated by a few electric lightbulbs which had small frosted-glass shades. She then said she saw two couples wearing mid-century dress. She noted one woman in particular who was wearing a beige felt hat that was tilted at an angle and trimmed on the left-hand side with a wisp of dark fur.
She went on to say that the coat she was wearing was also beige and that it was quite fashionable but noted it was quite long for 1968 fashion. She also talked of a few men in lounge suits and noted a glass-enclosed cash desk that was nearby. She said that everyone in the room was drinking coffee and chatting, which she said was not super unusual for the time of day, which was mid-morning, but she thought it was odd she had not heard of this coffee shop before that she found herself standing in, she also later noted that strangely she was unable to smell the coffee.
Mrs. Warburton eventually left the interesting place she had seemingly discovered and met back up with her husband and told him of her apparent discovery, they then agreed that they would give this new coffee shop a go the following Tuesday.
So, a week later when they returned to the town to do their usual shopping, they afterwards met back up and Mrs. Warburton led her husband to this new coffee shop, except upon reaching the place where the entrance was originally, instead the entrance was no longer there, instead in its place… was a frozen food display cabinet stood against the wall where this entrance apparently was only a week ago. Mrs. Warburton, decided to look into several similar shops just in case along with her husband, but still didn’t find this fabled entrance to an apparent new coffee shop.
After this Mrs. Warburton began to consider the possibility of momentarily slipping back in time and decided to do some research. She would contact a local woman who was interested in psychic matters, upon asking her if she remembered such a building, the woman would describe that a cinema once stood next to the shop and that over that and to the left of the shop was the Tunbrige Wells Constitutional Club, which the woman recalled visiting during World War II and that it had refreshments and mahogany-paneled walls.
Mrs. Warburton would then research further into this by tracing the present location of this club and talking to a steward, who had been in the position since 1919, the steward would tell Mrs. Warburton that the entrance to the old club was by a street door and a flight of stairs to the left of the said store and on the second floor was a refreshment room which matched up with Mrs. Warburton’s description.
So, what happened? It clearly appears that she saw something that was once there and real, but the question is, did she fully slip back into the time period… or was she simply observing a previous place and event play out that she was unable to interact with? Interestingly the note of there being no smell of coffee could entail that she was simply only able to observe it, like it was some kind of residual memory implanted into the Earth and she was unable to interact with it, this is also some explanations for what ghosts are, simply just a replay of events embedded in the Earth. Could she have made it up? I don’t see why, and it would have taken some collusion from the people she contacted.
Into the Future
The next incident describes a time slip into the future that a professor gave an account of to a Joan Forman, who decided to record the incident down. He said that it happened in 1896 when he was 7-years-old. He describes that he had been flogged at school and so decided to skip school in the afternoon, he walked around the streets of Hanley in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. The professor described scraping his iron-shod boots on the pavement which generated sparks and also listened to some organ music, which was coming from a church that was apparently empty and locked up.
He then described walking down a familiar back street which ended with a blank wall which simply had wasteland beyond, but this time there was something different about the wall, suddenly it had a doorway built into it, the professor said he went through it and found himself in what he described as different world he was unfamiliar with, a small town with buildings he didn’t recognize.
He walked along one of the streets and entered several of the houses which were all strangely empty. In one of these houses he went upstairs and looked across a valley that ended with tree covered hills. And that was that, 21-years-later the professor was fighting in the 1st World War where he was serving in France near the Somme and the Germans were in retreat. On one particular evening the professor said he had some free time and visited a local village to do some sketching.
The village was called Malaunay and he was shocked to realize he recognized the place from his previous childhood experience behind the blank wall at the end of the back street. The inhabitants had fled and he decided to enter several of the houses, but quickly left upon finding the bodies of dead German soldiers in them. He eventually found a house empty of this and went upstairs and looked out the window and was confronted with the same view from his childhood experience.
It is an interesting story but it doesn’t fully end there, the name of the street in his childhood vision was called Windmill street, which was rather an English name. When he eventually returned to Hanley the professor said some houses now actually occupied the wasteland and some of them were even on a road called Windmill street.
So, what on Earth happened here? Did the professor simply make it up? What did he see? Did he somehow see two futures combined into one vision on that one day in 1896? Was it simply his childhood memory playing tricks? Who knows…?
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