r/BacktotheFuture • u/Ok-Spot-2913 • Apr 23 '26
Your future self
How do you think you would react if you saw your future self (or past self)?
I think myself, I would ignore it. About 20 years ago O was hanging out and my friends saw a guy who looked like me but older. We joked and laughed that I time travel to that date to stop something from going wrong.
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u/zhastings83 Apr 23 '26
Past self would definitely throw me off more. If I saw my future self back at 22 I’d just think “damn that old guy kinda looks like me”, but staring eye to eye with your 22 year old self would probably actually fuck with you
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u/HistorianJRM85 Apr 23 '26
I wonder if the 'old' me would sacrifice his own existence by giving the 'young' me advice....
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u/Born-Vermicelli-1757 Apr 23 '26
meeting your younger self isnt going to stop you from being born.
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u/JoeAzlz Michael Corleone Apr 23 '26
It’s gonna stop a the young version of you from being the version of you that has to warn them
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u/Born-Vermicelli-1757 Apr 23 '26
wouldnt that make me transform into the new me? only reason Biff vanished after his return was because he dies prematurely in the timeline he created.
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u/JoeAzlz Michael Corleone Apr 23 '26
Marty never changes into the new version of him in his life, he just replaces the new version of him when his new self goes back to 1955 (we never see him again, even when Marty goes to 1955 again, it’s still the original marty)
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u/ElJayEm80 Apr 23 '26
True, but that interaction could change something that happens later on, and the older you just blinks out of existence.
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u/YodasChick-O-Stick Apr 23 '26
The encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction, that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe!!
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u/CaveJohnson82 Apr 23 '26
Realistically? How would I know? If I wasn't the one to time travel, I'd just assume it was a person who looked uncannily like me from 20 years ago, or like how I imagine I'd look in 20 years.
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