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Shower thoughts about time travel ⏳ Paradoxes, the future, and yesterday quietly becoming history — mind-bending shower thoughts about time. The best of the bunch, funniest first — with new ones joining as they're released.
“Old McDonald” gets a lot darker when you realize everything is past tense.
It’s both creepy and impressive how quickly Wikipedia articles are edited after someone’s death to change certain verbs to past tense
The assassination of archduke Ferdinand has indirectly lead to almost every memorable event of the past century
To some generation in the near(ish) future, the reason for saying things like "roll up the window" and "hang up the phone" will be nothing more than useless interesting historical facts.
Instead of all the prequel and sequel movies coming out, they need to start making equeles; films shot in the same time period as the original film, but from an entirely different perspective.
You may have walked past someone you've played against online.
Car alarms aren't very effective since they go off accidentally all the time
Every time we invent a new technology, it becomes a metaphor for everything. E.g. if you have a hammer, everything’s a nail. Psychology used to be really into ideas about stress and pressure (this came from trains and steam-power). More recently, we say ‘recharge your batteries’ etc.
The real Paleo diet is spending all your time and calories looking for food.
The first time you were relaxed, you were just laxed.
Holding the Earth in the palm of your hand is gonna be the “propping up the leaning tower of Pisa” tourist photo of the future
We laugh at how wrong scientists from the past were, but people from the future will be laughing at us in just the same way.
Future archaeologists will discover a thin layer in our species' fossil record that is completely and totally littered with fidget spinners.
If humans don’t destroy the world by then, year 42,069 will be the memiest year of all time
The longer time goes on, the more kids will have to learn in History class
Human mouths always had the ability to beat-box. Someone a thousand years ago could have dropped the sickest beats of all time.