Poll Has Anyone Else Wanted Ability To Stop Time?

[Deleted member 20978]

This is a stupid question, but I'm curious. When I was younger, I often fantasized about having a magic watch or superpower that would allow me to stop time (a la Burgess Meredith in the Twilight Zone episode that I may be inventing as a false memory...) Like, I would largely use it to just take more naps. But also, could leave school/work, go to the park, run around inside the exhibits at the museum, whatever, and then return to school/work to your seat and restart time. (Again, fantasy started as a kid).

Has anyone else had this fantasy?

I wonder if it relates to trauma, to feeling constantly overwhelmed and fatigued. Is why I ask here.

 

[franciemarnie]

I had an intense desire for years to go back in time and change things. I loved The Time Machine with Rod Taylor. Alas, I never found that wrinkle in time.

 

[MissMacD]

Many times in my life I wished that the world would stop for a few minutes so I could catch my breath. When I was a kid I made up an imaginary family to cope with my abusive situation. It was what got me through when everything else (including basic human rights) was denied to me.

Trauma can be exhausting. Some days it takes everything out of me.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Nope.

I've always wanted a fast forward button. Still do as I'm sick of where I am right now but it's something I can't change.

 

[Leah123]

I'm a huge fan of time travel science-fiction, have been most of my life. I'd love time-travel and freezing ability, would definitely use it for more naps, lol. However, I've been working through some past issues in therapy, and it's triggered a lot of memories I haven't thought about in years: those memories are so intense that it literally feels like time travel as I re-experience them. That is hard and jarring.

 

[radicalgratitude]

Yes, I have the wish to stop time right now, actually. :) For me, it is due to PTSD. I have a ton of work to do and I am overwhelmed. I would be able to get more done if I didn't disassociate so much or think about memories/related issues.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I have always thought that when you fell asleep, time should stop for you and start up again when you woke. Sort of like hopping out of the river of time, and hopping back in at the same time you left. That way you could sleep enough and do a lot of other things too.

 

[Leah123]

Yes, I have the wish to stop time right now, actually. :) For me, it is due to PTSD. I have a ton of work to do and I am overwhelmed. I would be able to get more done if I didn't disassociate so much or think about memories/related issues.

Oh my gosh, I could have written that. Big agree.

 

[EverOnly358]

When I was a kid, there was a TV show like that, with a teenage girl as the star... I can't remember, maybe she was an alien? But she had the ability to stop time by putting her hands together in front of her (like praying) and then time would stop, and she would run around and fix things, sometimes she would touch other people and time would stop for them, too, and they would run around and do things, and eventually, they would all go back to their original poses, and she would put her hands together again, and time would start up again.

I WAS SO JEALOUS! I so wanted this ability. I still tell people about this stupid show to this day. Like it was stupidier (but similar to) Sabrina, the Teenaged Witch. Okay? Ridiculous.

I love, love, love time travel movies, too. That moment in the Matrix when the Oracle is explaining why Neo can't see what happens at the end of his dream... that feels like time travel to me, too.

So, yeah. I bet it has something to do with having experienced flashbacks or something, or wishing so hard to get to the future, where things will be better, or maybe something to do with an actual (kinda, sorta) connection to your younger self, trying to help them, like in that movie with Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams... umm... yeah, The Time Traveler's Wife.

MissMacD - yeah, when it was bad for me, I made up (in my mind) this beautiful house I would live in someday, where I would be safe. (So sorry for what you had to go through! Trauma IS exhausting.)

Just my two cents,
D

 

[senji]

No. I mean not excaly, I don't want to get older and still being "young".

I wanted to fall asleep (and stay the same age) and wake up when things will get better, brighter.
And until today, theres times that I want to fall asleep and wake up in another reality which things might have been gone different.

 

[StarChild]

This is a stupid question, but I'm curious.

It's not a stupid question at all! From my experience, a lot of people had at least one time in their life the wish to stop the time.

I love, love, love time travel movies, too.

Yes, I love them too - And also read such stories.

No. I mean not exactly, I don't want to get older and still being "young".

Oh senji... That's something I really struggle with. I always wanted and still wish with all my heart, that I could be 20 again, but had the knowledge I've got now. When I turned 30, I cried for days. Maybe because I felt, my life wasn't fulfilled, as I endured physical and emotional abuse since my early childhood = I had no life of my own (if that makes sense).

 

[EverOnly358]

I wish I could do what happens in Primer, the best time travel movie EVER. That I could create another copy of myself, several, and go back and do things differently. That stupid Everything'sFineGirl (that part of me that insists on being whatever everyone wants) could stay here and make Bob happy, take care of the kids, while the real me... the real me could be free.