No, I didn’t see ghosts from centuries past. As we walked the narrow paths through the own and when I climbed the watchtower on this small hill that overlooks the plain of the river Ain, I did feel myself back in time. This medieval walled town is northeast of Lyon and has been kept very much intact over the centuries. We were walking through the little town of Pérouges. When I look through old photo albums, it is a kind of time traveling to the past.Ī third time-traveling method came to mind recently when my wife and I went to France. The black and white photos my parents took of me as a child still exist in their original format and don’t require conversions – though I have scanned a lot of them so they could enter the digital age. Those tapes were converted to DVDs eventually and now I suppose I should convert them to digital files if I want them to survive. Film and processing and printing were expensive, so I was a bit limited pre-digital. My sons grew up with me photographing them with film cameras. I often wonder how my grandchildren’s memories will be different than mine simply because of the unbelievable amount of photo and video evidence of their lives that already exist. Photographs and video are also commonly used for traveling back in time. He surrounds himself with that time and place. He stays in the historic hotel and buys an 1890s suit to wear to help reinforce his traveling back to that place and time. He is motivated by a picture of a woman on a hotel wall that he finds himself attracted to – although she was a famous stage actress who performed at the hotel in the 1890s. He decides he wants to spend his last days back in time. Priestley‘s very odd book Man and Time about many theories of time) that involves performing self-hypnosis to convince his mind that he’s in the past. In the 1975 science fiction novel Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson and movie version ( Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour), the protagonist, Richard, finds a method of time travel (found in J. Still, it is the most common time travel tool. They are, of course, somewhat inaccurate as each time we recall something from the past, we seem to alter it slightly. (I haven’t figured out any travel to the future methods yet.) I have come to the somewhat disappointing conclusion that there are only a few ways that I can travel back in time.

Readers of this blog know that time travel is a topic I write about rather often.

Despite all the stories and films and my own best efforts, it doesn’t seem like we will be able to time travel in my lifetime.

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