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6->''"My machine allows your mind to inhabit a body in the past."''
7-->-- '''H.G. Wells''', ''Series/Warehouse13''
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9A form of TimeTravel where you don't physically go back in time. Instead, your mind goes back to where it was in the state that it was, but you keep your memories from the future. The advantage is that, if done correctly, it neatly sidesteps many of the logical conundrums and paradoxes associated with time travel. The disadvantage is that your range of times to travel to is limited to the time your body can function for these purposes, a few decades at most.
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11A common variation is that the time traveler isn't going back to their own body, but to someone else's, maybe sharing their consciousness and having mental conversations or maybe a full GrandTheftMe. This gets around the disadvantage of the destination being within a few decades of the starting point, while still avoiding some of the logical problems with paradoxes.
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13Depending on what point the writer is trying to make, [[YouCantFightFate it sometimes turns out that you can't actually change anything in the past]], and are forced to live through all your mistakes again.
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15The line between this and sufficiently powerful {{Seers}} (who approach the problem of bringing knowledge of the future to the past from the other direction) can be blurry.
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17GroundhogDayLoop stories often (but not always) use this mechanism. Also see PeggySue fanfic. UnstuckInTime is usually a version of this.
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19More effective with a RippleEffectProofMemory. Contrast with IntangibleTimeTravel.
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21!!Examples:
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26* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
27** After rescuing Grisha from Gross, [[spoiler: Kruger tells Grisha all of the information he gathered while posing as a Marleyan officer. During this time, he divulges a theory by Marleyan researchers that all Subjects of Ymir are connected by "Invisible Paths" which transcend time and space and converge at a single point: The "Coordinate" ability. These paths are speculated to not only carry the flesh and bones to make up Titan bodies, but also the memories and wills held by other Subjects of Ymir. Kruger then adds a considerable amount of merit to this theory when he tells Grisha that he must complete his mission if he wants to save Mikasa, Armin, and everyone else, ''years'' before they were actually born. After Grisha questions who those people were, Kruger didn't know either, and wonders whose memories he was seeing at that moment It's later revealed he was unknowingly tapping into Eren Yeager's memories and was confused because he was not aware of his Titan's true power.]]
28** Eren and Zeke travel [[spoiler:through Eren's childhood memories along with Grisha's memories while in the Paths. It is revealed Eren used his memories to manipulate Grisha into murdering the Reiss family sans Rod.]]
29* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Hitsugaya becomes trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop, forced to repeat the same fight over and over again. Every time he kills his enemy, the loop resets to his original starting point with his memories of previous loops intact. After too many loops, he becomes paralysed. While the "time travel" is actually just a drug manipulating his memory and spatial awareness, the paralysis it causes is very real. [[spoiler:Due to being an enslaved zombie, fighting on behalf of Giselle, Hitsugaya ends up fighting [[MadScientist Mayuri]], who's known for infecting his enemies (and allies) with weird concoctions ForScience]]
30* Basically how [[spoiler:Shunsuke]]'s power works in ''Anime/{{Charlotte}}''. He uses it repeatedly to [[spoiler:figure out ways to protect other ability-users]], though it comes with the additional drawback of [[PowerAtAPrice degrading his eyesight]].
31%%* [[spoiler:Tomoya]] from ''Anime/{{Clannad}}'' seems to undergo this.
32* In ''Cleopatra, Queen of Sex'', a trio of astronauts have their consciousness transferred into bodies of ancient Egyptians. Well, two of them do - the third gets stuck as a [[ForcedTransformation pet leopard]].
33* ''Anime/CodeGeassLelouchOfTheResurrection'': Shamna's Geass works this way - on death, her consciousness returns to six hours prior to what killed her, with all knowledge intact. She later reveals her power was originally the ability to see the future before mutating into it's current form.
34* ''Manga/DarwinsGame'': In order to try to stop the Greed from being able to invade, Kaname is sent back into his own past to destroy the first known incursion.
35* ''Manga/EdensZero'': It turns out this is the true power of [[spoiler:Rebecca's]] Ether Gear [[spoiler:Cat Leaper, which allows her to use a TimeRewindMechanic in order to avoid danger.]] What makes this a notable spoiler is that [[spoiler:she [[AchievementsInIgnorance wasn't even consciously aware she had this power]] for nearly a decade of her life, instead interpreting her future experiences as more "gut feelings" that saved her from life-threatening situations. She only successfully pulled her first true travel with RippleEffectProofMemory after becoming aware of the power thanks to outside forces. It turns out to be a hereditary power she inherited from her own mother Rebecca who inherited it from her mother. In one timeline Rebecca and Shiki's own unborn son inherited Cat Leaper (along with his father's Satan Gravity) and instinctively used it to travel to the past, merging with the Eden One's A.I.]]
36* ''Manga/{{Erased}}'' has Satoru able to jump back in time to prevent some kind of tragedy, although he doesn't really have any control over when it happens.
37* The premise of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' is that there are people with PsychicPowers, called "The Whispered", who receive information from the distant future. This is how they can have various bits of supertech, most notably HumongousMecha, being built in an otherwise PresentDay setting.
38* In the ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' novels, this is true for Yuki Nagato and ''only'' for Yuki Nagato. In the GroundhogDayLoop short story ''Endless Eight'', everyone's [[spoiler:memories get reset, although they start experiencing déjà vu. Apparently, Yuki is not affected by this because time is not an obstacle for her]]. This isn't the first time either. When Kyon and Mikuru travel to [[ArcWords three years ago]], Yuki from that time effectively downloads the memories of her future self, becoming her future self in the process, [[StableTimeLoop however much sense that makes]].
39* [[spoiler:Rika and Hanyuu]] in ''Anime/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', though they're not always able to keep ''all'' of their memories.
40* [[spoiler:Rat/Nezumi]] from ''Literature/JuniTaisenZodiacWar'' has an ability that's a variation of this: they get to experience up to 100 potential futures branching from a single point in time, and then they go back to the branching point and can choose any one future they like to become real. The tradeoff is that they [[spoiler:become chronically fatigued as a result]]. Their ability also does not guarantee a good outcome for them, as shown when they attempted to confess to a crush by using their ability, but was rejected in every single timeline.
41* In ''Konpeki no Kantai'', when Isoroku Yamamoto's plane is shot down in 1943, he wakes up in 1905 on the cruiser Nisshin just after the Battle of Tsushima. He uses his knowledge to prevent Japan making the mistakes it made.
42%% Needs context * Zeff does this to himself in the first chapter of ''Manga/TheMageWillMasterMagicEfficientlyInHisSecondLife''.
43%%* ''Ore ga Doutei wo Sutetara Shinu Ken ni Tsuite'' employs this trope as a major feature.
44* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': This is how [[spoiler:Homura's GroundhogDayLoop ability]] seems to work -- every time it is used she wakes up in the same hospital bed on the same date, but with the memories of what will happen in the future retained.
45* Combined with standard TimeTravel in ''Manga/{{Reborn|2004}}''. [[spoiler:After the Vongola return to the past, the Arcobaleno send the memories of the future versions of the non-time travelling characters to their present versions.]]
46* Hanagaki Takemichi in ''Manga/TokyoRevengers''. He becomes his middle-school self rather than who he is in the future, leading to some confusing and embarrassing situations when the past has changed since he was last there.
47* In ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' the Goddesses send Keima and Elsie to the past. Keima returns to his kid body but he and Elsie keep all the memories of the present. In an interesting twist, his younger self actually inhabits his older body; the minds were literally switched. The goddesses decide to try and use this opportunity to [[WifeHusbandry imprint young Keima with affections for their hosts]].
48* In ''Anime/YourName'', [[spoiler:the big reveal is that Taki and Mitsuha were actually three years apart, which is part of the reason their attempts to meet face-to-face (or at least to speak to each other via cellphones) always failed. The other part is that Mitsuha [[DeadAllAlong died when a passing comet destroyed her town]]]].
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52* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfBarryWeenBoyGenius'': In the final story, the titular character's prototype time machine essentially works like this by overwriting his past self with his current self cell by cell. It only had a range of 18 minutes, leaving him just barely enough time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, and he mentions that the only time he tested it previously he had a heart attack.
53* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Professor Carter Nichols invented "time-travel hypnosis" in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] stories, although the stories were [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane always vague]] as to whether the subject ''actually'' travelled in time or not. He inevitably returned in ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison''.
54* ''ComicBook/{{Black Knight|MarvelComics}}'': Marvel's modern-day Black Knight Dane Whitman is prone to this, having repeatedly had his consciousness hurtled backwards in time into the body of a medieval ancestor who previously carried the name.
55* In the Marvel Universe, time traveling by magic often seems to work this way, with ComicBook/DoctorStrange or some other magician sending the traveler back in astral form, to temporarily usurp the body of someone from that period. Both ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/SpiderWoman have gone on missions to the distant past this way.
56* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': The 13th issue of John Byrne's run had Robotman send his brain back to when he was Cliff Steele to try and prevent the accident that required putting his brain into a robotic body to save his life, finding that he still sees himself as Robotman but appears as if in his original human body to everyone else who sees him and when reflected in mirrors. Rita Farr also uses this method to try and convince Cliff not to alter history and turns up in a body where she was 13 years old. Once she catches up with Cliff, she confesses her feelings for him and the two embrace, which leads to trouble due to Cliff's girlfriend and the police seeing [[MistakenForPedophile what looks like Cliff Steele making out with an underage girl]].
57* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'': While on a planet searching for clues about Thragg, Mark comes into contact with an alien lifeform that sends him back to the day he first obtained his superpowers. In a state of confusion, Mark ends up causing major alterations by stopping Nolan before he killed the Guardians of the Globe, only to fall into a HeroicBSOD upon realizing that he's alter history so much, his brother and his daughter will no longer exist. When the alien lifeform offers him to permanently stay in the new timeline, Mark refuses and returns back to his original time, but discovers he's been [[YearOutsideHourInside gone for five years]].
58* ''[[Magazine/RedDwarf Red Dwarf Smegazine]]'': The plot of "Time After Time" has Kryten attempting a mind-swap on Lister with his younger self in the past so that he can try to prevent the radiation leak. This naturally fails and Lister is sent time-traveling to different more stressful moments in his timestream.
59* Alex Robinson's graphic novella ''Too Cool To Be Forgotten'' has the main character Andy Wicks relive a portion of his high school years during hypnotherapy.
60* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Dr. Manhattan perceives all moments of his life simultaneously, though his ability to comprehend the full story they form seems to be limited. He also claims that he can't change the events he observes: "I'm just a puppet who can see the strings."
61* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
62** In the original ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'' storyline, ComicBook/KittyPryde travels back in time by switching minds with her younger self.
63** Done into the future by ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} and ComicBook/JeanGrey during their honeymoon, thanks to their time-displaced alternate universe daughter arranging to have cloned bodies made for them. Their own bodies spend a few minutes lying comatose on a beach, while they spend ten or more ''years'' in the distant future, raising Cyclops' [[TangledFamilyTree time-displaced son by Jean's clone]] to become [[ComicBook/{{Cable}} a warrior capable of defeating Apocalypse]].
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68* The [[FandomSpecificPlot/BuffyTheVampireSlayer popularity]] of this premise in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fanfics has led to some fansites making 'time-travel' [[http://dark-solace.org/elysian/browse.php?type=categories&catid=19 its own category]].
69* A remarkably high percentage of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' AU fics are like this. Usually, it's Harry that does the rewind, sometimes the 'Golden Trio', occasionally Ginny to mix things up, and at least once it's the Trio, Ginny, Neville, Luna, Sirius, and Lupin, and maybe a few more in addition. After the seventh book, there were fanfics with Snape going back to the "Snape's Worst Memory" scene right after his death. Usually with the purpose of him [[LoserGetsTheGirl getting the girl]].
70* A [[FandomSpecificPlot/{{Naruto}} popular plotline]] for ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfics is having one or several characters wake up in their old bodies, having been sent back to try and prevent the Fourth Shinobi War or some other grim outcome.
71* ''Franchise/StarWars'' fics involving [[http://delicious.com/Lanta/star_wars+timetravel time travel]] are surprisingly common, and a high percentage of them involve various characters being sent back to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong after dying.
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73* ''Fanfic/AllButOne'': One man's Quirk enables him to send people's consciousness back to any moment in time, provided he was alive during that period. With the aid of other Quirks and government technology, he's able to push his power to the absolute limit, sending All Might back approximately twenty-six years, right around the time the Quirk bearer had just been born.
74* In ''Fanfic/BackwardWithPurpose'', Ron and Ginny's parents immediately notice how different their children are behaving after their minds are overwritten by the memories of their adult selves. Unaware of the actual cause, they think Harry is being a ToxicFriendInfluence.
75* ''Been There Blown That Up'' has Tony and Nebula go back in time to 2012 with their future memories. Needless to say, the two of them have a hard time explaining the events of the future in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.
76* This is the underlying concept of [=BairnSidhe=]'s ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/7970908/chapters/18232489 Bodies in Time]]''.
77* ''Fanfic/BornOfTheSameImpulse'' has Dr. Strange use the time stone to send himself and Tony back to five years before the climax of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' to change the future and stop Thanos from winning. However, while Tony managed to prevent the [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Age of Ultron]] and [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Civil War]] from happening, he cannot immediately get over the emotional hurt and trust issues that arose from those aforementioned conflict, and this adds another source of drama since he cannot really open up to his teammates about his pain, when the events that caused them has been undone.
78* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17645477 the bridge that always burns behind us]]'', Shikamaru and Neji are sent back further than they originally intended, finding themselves landing on the day ''right'' before the Uchiha Massacre. A {{Flashback}} reveals that Naruto [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not]] have done this intentionally; though he wistfully expressed a desire to avert that tragedy, he agreed with Shikamaru that they likely wouldn't be able to do anything as children.
79* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/47804596/chapters/120513832 A Countable Infinity]]'' sees Ash returned from his peak of accomplishment to the morning he set out as a trainer, remembering everything from his adventures... but with a twist: he's in the ''VideoGame/PokemonInfiniteFusion'' universe.
80* ''Fanfic/TheCuttingEdge'': Laurel laments the downsides of this; while it ensures that her appearance doesn't radically change, she's also forced to work hard to get her body back into shape in order to become a vigilante again.
81* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': Shinji, Asuka and Rei's minds were sent back in time to three months before the beginning of the Angel War (and later they find out they are not the only returnees). Asuka jokingly suggests they pretend everything was just a prophetic dream or something, and theorizes Kaworu has something to do with their return.
82* ''Fanfic/EchoesOfBeljoxa'' has Willow spend Buffy and Spike back in time this way in order to prevent the rise of the First Evil.
83* The ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Days of Future Smurfed" has Empath flashing between his present-time self and his future-time self at various points in time after he received visions of the future from his great-grandson Traveler. During his "visits" he sees [[KingOnHisDeathBed Papa Smurf die]], then he sees [[ImMelting Smurfette die]], then he sees [[SugarApocalypse the Smurf Village destroyed by an earthquake]] and [[DeathByMaterialism Brainy die trying to save his works from perishing]].
84* This trope is heavily {{deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/FightingForTheFuture''. Weiss' memories up to Volume 7 travel through time to before the start of the series, but they end up completely overwhelming the then eight-year-old Schnee. This caused her to try and arrest her father for crimes he had yet to commit, and was subsequently thrown into a mental asylum for her troubles. In addition, by the time the story starts, she has trouble recalling some of the less important memories and has trouble discerning her memories from reality.
85* ''Fanfic/FlashbackMHA'' has [[AscendedExtra Eri]] do this, going from a BadFuture to when [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Toshinori Yagi]] was about to pass [[BequeathedPower One for All]] to Izuku. Thing is, Izuku from the main timeline had passed One for All to Eri during the Bad Future to enable her to go back...and it was still with her when she arrived in the past.
86* ''Fanfic/TheFundamentalEssenceOfVillainy'': ZigZagged. Izuku is taking the place of his past self; however, he has his more muscular frame from around the time he was sent back, as well as a vestigeless One for All despite not having met All Might yet, not to mention [[spoiler:All for One and all of the quirks that entails, similarly without vestiges]].
87-->'''Izuku:''' If my consciousness got rewinded back to 2 years in the past, [[LampshadeHanging why am I still in-shape?!]]
88* ''Fanfic/HogyokuExMachina'' contains this form of time travel for [[PeggySue Aizen and Ichigo]]. However, due to the nature of how they go back, Ichigo keeps all his power-ups from the final battle, while Aizen does not. This has advantages and disadvantages for both of them.
89* PlayedForLaughs in ''Fanfic/IAmNotGoingThroughPubertyAgain'', which parodies the usual premise: none of the participants actually ''wanted'' to go back in time, having been satisfied with how their lives turned out.
90* Thor himself isn't sent back to the past in ''Fanfic/IfICouldStartAgain'', but rather his mind after he killed Thanos in ''Infinity War'' is sent back to his pre-coronation body after he picks up the Time Stone from the gauntlet (later speculated by the Ancient One to be the result of Thanos creating a link between the Time and Mind Stones moments prior to Thor's arrival when he used Time to undo Mind's destruction).
91* "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8835418/1/If-I-Knew-Then-What-I-Know-Now If I Knew Then What I Know Now]]" features Dean being sent back to the moment of his mother’s death, with his memories of the future possessing his four-year-old self. Despite this, Dean is also able to bring back various artefacts from the future, including John’s journal and weapons such as the Colt, and Castiel travels back in his usual state.
92* ''Fanfic/KarmaInRetrograde'' has a variation. When Dabi is hit with a [[FountainOfYouth deaging Quirk]], he's reverted physically, mentally, and emotionally to his sixteen-year-old self as Touya Todoroki. From Touya's perspective, he suddenly jumped five years into the future where Shouto is the same age as him, Endeavor is the number one hero, and All Might is a retired, shriveled husk of his former glory. The last thing he remembers is calling home to speak to Shouto while studying for one of Midnight's exams before waking up in the warehouse where Shouto and Dabi were fighting.
93* ''Fanfic/LettersFromTomorrow'' does a twist. Max already had this power in the main game (though she didn't use it much), and the fic takes the perspective of present!Max being occasionally taken over by future!Max, who will take actions and leave notes intended to lead to a better future. The exact future future!Max is from is unclear, but she is utterly ruthless and amoral--her first act was to ''brutally murder someone in public'', use that as a distraction to steal something, then rewind time so that no one remembered the murder but the stolen object was still in her possession. She also set up a fatal accident for Victoria so that her present self could save her and earn her trust.
94* In ''Fanfic/TheLifeIsAGameMultiverse'', [[Franchise/MassEffect John Shepherd]] gets to loop back this way. Jane isn't as lucky; her trip back is triggered by a more traumatic event.
95* ''A Life Rescued'' starts off in the not-too-distant future, where a now-adult Jess Aarons, volunteering to be part of a mental time-travel project, realize he can use this opportunity to send his mind back to several decades ago to prevent the childhood incident which killed Leslie Burke from even taking place. It doesn't work as perfectly as expected, though (TemporalSickness, for starters, making him throw up on Mr. Burke when trying to find Leslie) and there's a bunch of hiccups along the way which took several chapters (1 until 5) to fix.
96* In the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4936328/1/Mistress-Ciel Mistress Ciel]]'' by Archaon, Ciel uses this to go back in time to make things better.
97* ''Fanfic/OhGodNotAgain'': Harry is less than pleased at finding himself back in his childhood due to this. [[spoiler:Sirius]] is also affected.
98* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeelingCrazy88'': When Shinji decides in Third Impact to 'go back', Lilith takes a different idea of what 'go back' means. She inserts a steel rod into his back to make up for his complete lack of a spine, then sends him back into the past. Shinji then wakes up in his fourteen-year-old body, staring at the payphone he was trying to use right when Sachiel attacked at the beginning of the series.
99* ''Fanfic/PetalsInTheAsh'' twists this around: Cinder is sent back from the Fall of Beacon to Ruby's first day... inside of Ruby's body.
100* Played with in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. Arceus sends Ash's consciousness back to the day he began his Pokémon journey to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, but things get garbled in the transition creating an entirely new timeline. And one of the first things Ash notices when he wakes up is that he has physically aged ''up'' instead of down, unlike most cases of this trope. His Pokemon can also do this, but unlike Ash they tend to end up at the power and evolutionary level they had at the time of arrival, meaning that all of them have to retrain themselves.
101* In ''Fanfic/{{Prescience}}'', Izuku's Quirk works this way: he experiences events, then blinks and finds himself back before they played out, giving him a chance to avert what happened.
102* ''Fanfic/AQuestionOfWhen'': Romilda gained this ability through unspecified means, and uses it to try and win Harry's heart through SaveScumming. As opposed to, say, warning the Wizarding World about Voldemort's return.
103* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13528077/chapters/31032834 Ranma's Sudden Wedding]]'', Ranma finds himself jumping to random points in his timeline.
104* ''Fanfic/TheRavensPlan'' does this to an unspecified but considerable number of people in '''the entirety of Planetos'''. Originally, the remnants of an alliance between the Starks, Lannisters, Targaryens, wildlings and such were making a LastStand against the Others, but the situation became so bleak that they resorted to some sort of ritual on the Isle of Faces with this trope in mind. It was only meant to affect a select few people, but the ritual went awry and countless people, nobles and peasants alike, carry memories up to when they died in the course of the original story when they all awaken prior to King Robert's departure for Winterfell. This leads to such events as: [[OffTheRails Ser Jaime, Ser Barristan and Sandor leaving King's Landing with the entirety of the capital's Lannister contingent, King Robert killing the High Sparrow when the latter tries to jump start the Faith Militant and Daenerys immediately taking Pentos when she cottons on that the Unsullied there also remember the past]], among many others. A few people, such as Petyr Baelish, Cersei Lannister and Euron Greyjoy were deliberately prevented from having this done to them while others like Mace Tyrell and Viserys Targaryen were among those randomly spared. [[spoiler:Melisandre doesn't have her memories either, but this is because the act of being what is essentially a surge protector for the ritual rendered her [[EmptyShell brain-dead]].]]
105* ''Fanfic/SecondChanceMoDaoZuShi'' asks what if ''every'' character does this. The repercussions are significant.
106* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': After spending over six years surviving in the post-Third Impact world, Shinji and Asuka wake up one morning to find that mankind has returned, they are in their younger bodies and living in Misato's apartment again, and only they have any memories of what has happened, and what is happening again. Upon waking up, Shinji right away notices his body feels "different", and among other things, his face skin is soft again.
107-->''He didn't finish the sentence. The last remains of sleep vanished instantly as he saw it.\
108Her hair. Her long, flowing hair.\
109And it wasn't just that. Her face, what he could see of it in the dark, seemed more round and soft, her cheeks not as defined; her body as well was shorter and slimmer, the muscles on her bare arms that had been toned from strenuous work with the garden and the machines seemingly faded...\
110She was young.\
111She didn't look much older than on the day they had met so long ago.\
112His mind was racing, trying to comprehend such an impossibility, but none of the thousands of thoughts could give him an answer he liked. He literally jumped out of the bed, almost throwing Asuka aside, as he unbelievingly took in the surroundings. A small and tidy room. He could make out the shape of a cello case in one corner, the familiar silhouette of a S-DAT player on the desk near the bed.\
113This wasn't their bedroom at home, this was his old room in Misato's apartment, but without any dirt and debris, without any sign of destruction at all.\
114But it wasn't just everything around him. His body, too, felt different as though changes that were supposed to come slow enough to adapt to had been made instantly. He may never have had as distinctive and hard features as his father, but reaching up to his face, he also could only feel smooth skin, not even a hint of stubble.''
115* This is how time travel seems to work in ''[[https://a-student-out-of-time.tumblr.com/ A Student Out of Time]]''. In a direct nod to ''Danganronpa''[='s=] sister series ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'', a person's consciousness is able able to swap places with another version of themselves along the timeline, as happened with Hajime Hinata [[spoiler:and [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpaAnother2 Yoruko Kabuya]]]]. The only way to detect that someone is a time traveler is to follow their tachyon trace, which maps out both where they'd been at any given moment in the previous timeline and where they are in the new one.
116* ''Fanfic/TheSwordOfJusticeAndTheShieldOfTime'' has [[spoiler:Homura ''[[DidntSeeThatComing accidentally]]'' doing this to Sayaka due to holding her hand while she activated her shield to turn back time, not expecting her powers to drag Sayaka back with her and merely meaning it as a gesture of affirming her newly awakened desire to get a GoldenEnding where EverybodyLives. Thankfully, Sayaka had become a staunch ally, so she managed to adjust rather quickly once she tracked down Homura for answers]].
117* In ''Fanfic/ThingsThoughtLost'', Ace wakes up back in his twenty-year-old body, a few months before Teach's betrayal and murder of Thatch.
118* ''Fanfic/AWrinkleInTimeNaruto'': While Naruto, Shikamaru and Lee all ''deliberately'' made the trip back with Kurama's help, they later discover that [[spoiler:Gaara was also]] unintentionally subjected to this, despite the fact that they'd already ''died'' by the time the group leapt back. Kurama speculates that this is due to [[spoiler:Shukaku's influence]].
119* ''Fanfic/ZToA'' opens with Peter and Wanda being sent back from two years post-''Film/AvengersEndgame'' to the Battle of Leipzig Airport (''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'') by the remnants of the Infinity Stones. Each Stone choses one key individual to send back in a similar manner, with the other four heroes sent back being Tony, T'Challa, Fury and Thor (each chosen because they had particular contact with key Stones).
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123%%* ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty''
124* In ''57 Seconds'', protagonist Franklin gets hold of a ring that, when pressed, rewinds time by [[TitleDrop 57 seconds]], but allows the user to remember everything that happened during that time. [[spoiler:Anyone who touches the user also retains their memory.]] It then goes inert for the same time span, so you can't unwind time further back. [[spoiler:The BigGood says he wants ''everyone'' to have this power, so accidents and pain can be avoided at all times.]]
125* In ''Film/AboutTime'', Tim can send his mind back into his past self. It's only one way though.
126* In ''Film/{{Arrival}}'', by studying the [[StarfishLanguage alien language]], Louise acquires the ability to incarnate into her future self. Knowledge gained during those experiences later help her solve the crisis in the present.
127* In ''Film/AssassinsCreed2016'', protagonist Cal Lynch uses the Aminus to relive the experiences of his ancestor, spectating the past behind his ancestor’s eyes.
128* In the 1933 film ''Berkeley Square'' starring Creator/LeslieHoward, a man of the 1930s switches minds with his identical ancestor in the 1780s. It was remade in 1951 as ''The House in the Square'', starring Tyrone Power.
129* ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'': Evan finds that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he travels back in time, and he is able to "redo" parts of his past, thereby causing the blackouts he experienced as a child. There are consequences to his choices, however as he continues to do this he realizes that [[NotQuiteTheRightThing even though his intentions are good his actions have unforeseen consequences.]]
130%%* ''Film/{{Click}}'', traveling into the future instead of the past.
131* The timeloop in ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' works like a GroundhogDayLoop, where the primary object traveling back in time is information in the hero's mind, while everybody else' memory is reset.
132* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' featured the Omega 13, a machine that sets the universe back 13 seconds ("just enough time to correct ''one'' mistake") while allowing a particular person to keep his or her memories.
133* ''Film/GroundhogDay'': For Phil, Groundhog Day begins each morning at 6:00 A.M., when he wakes up in his room in a Victorian bed and breakfast. His clock radio is always playing the same song and it is always February 2nd. His memories of the ''previous'' day are intact, but he's trapped in a seemingly endless time loop, repeating the same day in the same small town.
134* In ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'', everyone takes the appearance of their younger selves with the exception of Jacob, who was conceived on the day the group travel to.
135* ''Film/InHisFathersShoes'' features a pair of magical shoes from a gypsy, which allow Clay Crosby to go back in time -- and briefly experience life as his father, Frank, when he was Clay's age.
136* ''Film/LaJetee'' employs a form of this, with the time travellers going to periods on their memories (but they don't go to their past bodies).
137* ''Franchise/{{Jumanji}}'':
138** At the end of ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', after finishing the [[DeathWorld game]] where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou, the two protagonists return to when their bodies when they first started it, 26 years earlier.
139** ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' reverses the perspective. The main story focuses on four teenagers who get sucked into the game in 2016, where they [[spoiler:meet Alex who's been stuck in the game since 1996. Yet when they escape, Alex is returned to 1996 and the events caused by his being sucked into the game in the first place never appeared to have happened, despite the main characters, who were returned to 2016, clearly remembering the old timeline]].
140* In ''Film/LastNightInSoho'', Eloise's consciousness travels back to the 1960s every night she spends in her new apartment, allowing her to witness the past through the eyes of an aspiring singer named Sandie while her body remains asleep in the present day.
141* In ''Film/Next2007'', Cris Johnson has a power somewhat like this. He has two-minute-long precognition, but what he sees are merely possible futures. It's difficult to explain but a few examples should do a trick. He 'tried out' different approaches when hitting on a girl. He saw that casually beating up the girl's stalker ex boyfriend (who was present at the time) would prompt the girl to just walk away, but letting the guy punch him in the face would win the girl's sympathy, so he let this happen. He can also dodge bullets or search a huge area in almost no time using his ability.
142%%* ''Film/PeggySueGotMarried''
143* ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' has this, with CGI effects showing Dastan watching the events rewind from a third-person perspective. [[spoiler:At the end, he rewinds time to just after the invasion of Alamut.]]
144* ''Film/{{Retroactive}}'' has a machine that reverses time for a set period up to an hour while allowing one or more people to keep their memories. It also preserves the video on a VHS tape at one point.
145* ''Film/SantoEnElTesoroDeDracula'' features an odd variant. The movie's heroine, Luisa, travels back in time to 19th century Mexico, where she inhabits the body of a young woman (identical, from the audience's perspective). But the details are a bit muddled - for example, her body seems to disappear from "the present".
146* The hero in ''Film/SomewhereInTime'' is able to cross time through the means of self hypnosis.
147* In the movie ''Film/SourceCode'', Jake Gyllenhaal's character performs a virtual version of this, taking over the body of an anonymous, doomed man in a simulation of the minutes before his death in an attempt to find out who planted the bomb that doomed him.
148* The girl in the film ''Film/SplitInfinity'' doesn't go back to a younger or older version of herself, but to a different person, her late great aunt. A.J. Knowlton's time travel method? [[spoiler:She fell out of a hayloft to go back to 1929, and rode a homemade amusement park to get back to 1992. One that a bunch of kids had ridden earlier.]] One may assume that Sam prefers the technological route...
149* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': When Kirk and Picard exit the timeless Nexus to stop a villain's actions (which had inadvertently put Picard there in the first place), only the latter captain experiences this (instead of HelpYourselfInThePast), while the former travels physically to the same location.
150* Discussed in ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002''.
151-->'''Über-Morlock''': We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
152* In ''Film/{{Trancers}}'' both the bad guy and the cop chasing him go back in time, but must inhabit the bodies of distant ancestors. This movie also has people killed in the past with their "present day" descendants vanishing - but are still remembered.
153* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': 2023 Wolverine's mind gets beamed back in time into his younger self's body in 1973. Also goes in reverse when [[spoiler:Past Charles has a conversation with his future self by way of Logan's mind]].
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157* ''Literature/AllYouNeedIsKill'': The protagonist is trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where he gets killed in battle, then wakes up 30 hours before his death. He's later told that he's not actually going back in time, but when he dies a tachyon pulse of his memories to that moment are sent back in time, and he perceives the events that led to his death as an extremely detailed dream. The alien invaders he accidentally got the power from have been using it to adapt to all human strategies; he uses it to become a OneManArmy by learning from experience over and over in the course of a day.
158* Used by [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan Quatermain]] to visit past lives in ''The Ancient Allan'' and ''Allan and the Ice Gods''.
159* Caspian and the Keepers in the second entry of ''Literature/AstralDawn'' accomplish this by travelling through time as ethereal beings. They also take temporary residence in physical bodies along the way.
160* ''Literature/BlackVeinProphecy'' ends with the hero Maior confronting the spirit of his evil father, Benzieval the sorceror, where Benzieval will force Maior to re-live what happened two centuries ago, getting imprisoned as a child and becoming a HumanPopsicle before his awakening in a mausoleum later on. Maior ends up outsmarting Benzieval and breaks the curse, escaping from Benzieval's trap and leaving the villain permanently trapped in the past for good.
161* In the Russian novel ''Literature/CubeWithBlurredEdges'' by Vladimir Ilyin, this is the only possible method of TimeTravel. Originally used exclusively by the special forces-like Harders with brain implants called Iscapes, which throw their consciousness back a few seconds at the moment of death (how death is determined is not clear). To an outsider, it looks like a Harder is impossible to kill, as they look like they can dodge bullets and have a sixth sense. In reality, the Harders are just using the foreknowledge to avoid the same deadly outcome. Later on, a rival organization obtains an Iscape and builds a similar-functioning device called a Regr that works by thinking of the time you want to go back to. This is one-way, however, as the timeline is changed by this action. They then start selling the devices to the general public and eliminating anyone who tries to investigate them (easy when you can always go back to fix a mistake). The knowledge of the original timeline quickly fades if any changes are made.
162** The protagonist (a Harder) starts suspecting the existence of these bootleg devices when a space liner explodes. While it looks like a typical malfunction (and it is), he does find it strange that a full third of the passengers have cancelled their tickets several days before boarding. It turns out they all have these devices. He also finds out that a Harder was on the same flight but managed to survive. The Harder reveals that he spent countless iterations trying to stop the explosion. Eventually, though, his traumatized mind forced him to board an EscapePod moments before the explosion. He ends up having his Iscape removed and committing suicide.
163** A member of the rival organization is a criminal psychiatrist who has installed a static version of the Regr device in order to try to rehabilitate criminals in the most direct way possible. After convincing them not to do it, he sends them back to a few minutes before the crime that got them to him in the first place. If successful, he only has a vague notion that he helped someone, no longer remembering the details. If not, he remembers that he tried before. He normally gives a criminal three tries before giving up and handing him back to the justice system.
164* The plot of ''Literature/TheCuckooClockOfDoom'' is based around a cuckoo clock which causes the protagonist to jump back to earlier points in his life starting with the previous day. The problem is that it keeps going further back in time with no sign of stopping, probably [[RetGone erasing him from existence]] eventually.
165* ''Literature/{{Flight}}'' has the protagonist inhabiting various people's bodies, ranging in time from the Indian wars to present day.
166* ''Literature/ForKingAndCountry'', by Robert Asprin and Linda Evans, features [[spoiler:what seems to be]] a TerminatorTwosome of an IRA agent traveling back to Arthurian times to change history in Ireland's favor or simply punish England, and a British soldier trying to stop it. They go all the way back to around 500 AD or so and share the bodies of people close to King Arthur. It seems like a StableTimeLoop and/or TrickedOutTime, but the ending is a little ambiguous. MeanwhileInTheFuture their bodies remain in a comatose state while they are in the past.
167* The premise of ''Literature/FutureHistory'' is the protagonist suddenly receiving memories from her own future and trying to figure out why.
168* In ''Literature/AGameOfUniverse'', Germain possesses a powerful bit of magic that can rewind time, but only for seven seconds (and it can only be used once).
169* ''Literature/AGiftOfMagic'' has a main character who has (among other powers) the ability to look into the past. It comes in handy, because her grandmother had the ability to look into the future, allowing the two of them to "meet" on the day the grandmother died.
170* ''Literature/HouseholdGods'': Nicole is sent into the body of her ancestor, Roman woman Umma, in the 2nd century. Her body meanwhile is in a coma the whole time.
171* In ''Literature/ALordFromPlanetEarth'', the main character finds himself on an alien planet in the middle of an invasion. He is given a pair of [[{{Precursors}} Seeder]] artifacts with an unknown function. During the first confrontation with the BigBad, one of his new friends is brutally killed, and the BigBad is an inch away from slicing the protagonist open. In desperation, he breaks one of the pencil-shaped crystals and [[TimeStandsStill time freezes]], while he hears a voice telling him of a "temporal event" of some sort. He then finds himself several hours prior with full knowledge of things to come. The only difference is he only has one artifact left. He also finds that it's pretty difficult to try to change things, as the universe keeps trying to maintain continuity. He does manage to save his friend (twice, by using the other crystal) and alter the final fight with the villain to strike him while the BigBad is moving in for the kill. Also, physical time travel is possible as well.
172* ''Literature/MedusasWeb'' features a form of mental time travel anchored by mysterious sigils called "spiders". Anybody who looks at a particular copy of a spider can travel to any other time that it's been looked at -- in the future as well as in the past -- and stay there for a few minutes in the body of the person who looked at it then. Variations include riding along in another person's body, being able to take partial or full control, or even completely swapping places with the mind at the other end. Some people deliberately try to learn about the future by looking at a spider with the intention of keeping it safe until later and then looking at it again to provide a waypoint for their past self to visit; the novel showcases several ways this can go wrong, of which one of the less dramatic but more ominous is the one that's been increasingly happening... people looking to the future and seeing ''nothing''.
173* ''Literature/TheMessengerSeries'': Although Rose often meets Favour on the moor, or wakes up from her adventures there, she doesn't physically travel into the past. She travels into the bodies of the people there, and has to find clues to help her unravel the mystery of the past wrong that she needs to fix.
174* In ''The Mirror'', by Marlys Millhiser, it goes both directions. Brandy, in 1900, and granddaughter Shay, in 1976, swap bodies via the titular family heirloom. They manage a brief reversal, but wind up living out each others' lives (Shay-in-Brandy's-body gives birth to Rachel, who then gives birth to Shay's body, later to be inhabited by Brandy).
175* ''Literature/TheNightRoom'' features teenagers who are being shown their ten-year high school renunion via virtual reality.
176* Used by Tolkien in ''[[Literature/TheHistoryOfMiddleEarth The Notion Club Papers]]'', combined with mental space travel (astral projection). The effects of time passing at a much more rapid rate means that the traveller in question looks down on what he initially thinks to be some sort of fetid anthill, but turns out to be his home city of Oxford through the ages...
177* ''Literature/ThePerfectRun'': Quicksave's actual power is a ResurrectionDeathLoop. He prefers to think of it as him just having a RippleEffectProofMemory, as that's much less disturbing than his power actually destroying reality every time he dies.
178* ''Literature/ThePowerOfUn'': A boy meets a mysterious stranger who hands him a giant calculator-like thing and says it's for going back in time and making sure that -- wait, dang it, the guy disappeared before he quite finished the instructions. And the boy isn't impressed by the odd machine. But his flippant attitude turns serious when [[spoiler:his little sister ends up getting hit by a truck, and he figures out how to use the device to replay the day so he can save her]]. Of course, it's not that easy...
179* In Eric Norden's novella ''Literature/ThePrimalSolution'', an elderly Jewish scientist -- a Holocaust survivor who had lost his entire family -- discovers a means of mental time travel, which enables him to project his mind into the past and take over the body of the young UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in the Vienna of the early 1910s. Resolved to force Hitler into suicide, the vengeful professor can't resist humiliating him first and forcing him to drink sewer water in front of surprised passersby, before making him jump into the Danube -- but in the moment before drowning, Hitler regains control of his body and returns home shaken. The Professor is trapped inside Hitler's mind, but is able to "hear" him think "The Jews? Why did the Jews do this to me? I have never harmed them!". Able to access Hitler's memories, the trapped Professor suddenly realizes that until this moment the young Hitler had not at all been an anti-Semite and was in fact on good terms with some Jews. Only because something inexplicable had entered Hitler's mind -- something which totally hated him and was implacably bent on his destruction, and which identified itself as being Jewish and acting on behalf of all Jews -- did he become the genocidal Hitler known to history. Never daring to tell anybody of this presence in his mind, for fear of being considered insane, Hitler would gradually develop the idea that only by killing all Jews would he be free of that haunting presence. In short, the very act intended to avert the Holocaust ends up being its direct cause.
180* ''Literature/ThePrincessWeiYang'': Thirty-six-year-old Wei Yang time-travels into the body of her thirteen-year-old self.
181* In ''Literature/QualiaThePurple'', this turns out to be the way that [[spoiler:Hatou Manabu]] manages to survive fatal events. Any time they die in one world, they wake up in a parallel world where events are slightly different and the decision leading to their death in the previous world hasn't occurred. They also retain the knowledge and experience of every single, parallel world they have experienced.
182%% * ''Literature/{{Replay}}'', by Ken Grimwood.
183* In ''Literature/TheSchizogenicMan'', the supercomputer MEQMAT is able to send people's minds back in time while their body lies unconscious. Each time traveler shares a brain with someone who lived in the past, and is able to access that person's knowledge and memories. How much control the time traveler has depends on the strength of the body's personality -- when Heron shares a brain with Nikias Rhodios, he is able to do whatever he wants, but when he's placed in the body of Diomedes, he has trouble doing anything other than what Diomedes wants to do. The target never realizes what's happening. [[spoiler:When Heron was a young man, he and his friend Jemmy assassinated three politicians. He learns years later that a time traveler forced him to do it in a failed attempt to avert war with [[DividedStatesOfAmerica Texas]].]]
184* ''Literature/TheShadowOutOfTime'' twists this trope by combining it with GrandTheftMe: the protagonist has his body stolen by a researcher from a {{Starfish Alien|s}} civilization that flourished on Earth millennia in the past, and spends several years living in the researcher's body while the researcher uses his to learn about the twentieth century.
185%% * ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'', by Kurt Vonnegut
186* ''Literature/TheStarRover'' by Creator/JackLondon has the hero placed in a straight jacket as a punishment in San Quentin Prison. He wanders through space and time while confined.
187* ''Literature/StartingOver'' begins when the 20-year-old protagonist suddenly finds himself a 10-year-old again, reliving Christmas exactly as it was back then, while still remembering his first life.
188* This is how Charles Wallace time travels in ''Literature/ASwiftlyTiltingPlanet'': he is able to enter the minds of people in the past and, though he has ''very'' little control over what they do, he still influences them in tiny ways. The fact that he has a time-traveling unicorn helps a lot.
189* ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'' has an entire species who use this ability regularly: "The Yeti is able to save its time at a certain point, and then venture forth knowing that if it dies, it can just resume its life from the point it saved at with the knowledge it acquired before death. It is effectively a highly evolved, albeit slightly painful form of foretelling." This is, in all likelihood, a direct reference to [[SaveScumming saving in video games]].
190%% * ''Literature/TheTimeOfAchamoth'' by M.K. Joseph.
191* ''Literature/TimeAndAgain'' by Jack Finney, and its sequel ''Time After Time''. BornInTheWrongCentury, the protagonist goes back in time mentally by imagining himself to be in TheGayNineties and surrounding himself with items from that period until he becomes temporally dislocated. Partly averted in that he does not travel back into his own memories, but that of an alternate self.
192* "Literature/TimeAndTimeAgain": The main character, dying in WorldWarIII in 1975, awoke in his thirteen-year-old body in 1945. Being a trained chemist with the scientific knowledge of 1975, he'd have an advantage going into the chemical industry; he also had quite a good memory for horse-race winners. He planned to build a fortune and use it to prevent the war he'd died in by, among other things, getting his father elected president in 1960. Two of Creator/HBeamPiper's later stories, set in the '60s, imply that he was successful in that part, at least.
193-->''"All right, son, I'll do just what you tell me, and when you grow up, I'll be president..."''
194* ''Literature/{{Timequake}}'', by Creator/KurtVonnegut, features the ''entire world'' -- and, it's implied, the ''entire '''universe''''' -- being mentally sent back 10 years and completely unable to change anything until that period is over.
195* "Unsound Variations", a short story by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, has an antagonist who utilises this repeatedly and obsessively to wreck/steal the successes of his former college buddies.
196* After the prosecution of the boyfriend for the rape-murder of his girlfriend is abandoned in ''Literature/VengeanceAndBeyond'', the boyfriend, his attorney, and others who aided the boyfriend's freedom are sent back into the girlfriend, to experience the crime. [[spoiler:This prevents the murder although not the brutal rape, and brings the actual rapists to justice.]]
197* ''Literature/WarlockSeries'': In ''Forerunner Foray'', Ziantha is sent back by the artifact into the body of Vintra, entombed with the corpse of Turan -- which is revived by another mind sent back. After they hunt for the artifact's other element, Ziatha is sent back again into the body of D'Eyree of the Eyes. She apports the other eye back to that time, and they return to the tomb, which allows her to apport them both back.
198* ''Literature/WeAreTam'' by Patricia Bernard features a form of mental time travel that allows a person to visit other times if somebody in that time period is their genetic double.
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202* ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'' primarily uses physical time travel, but Season 2 reveals that drinking tea made from the leaves of the Red Forest (the EldritchLocation created by [[TimeCrash paradox time storms]]) allows the mind of the drinker to leave the physical constrains of time. In the season finale, [[spoiler:Cole, stranded in 1959 after failing to prevent the murder of a [[CosmicKeystone Primary]] and subsequent paradox in 1957, uses this method to go back into his younger self and prevent the murder and paradox, restoring the timeline.]]
203* In season 3 of ''Series/BabylonFive'', Sheridan becomes UnstuckInTime and travels forward in time 20 years, when he sees the devastating effects on Centauri Prime of his victory over the Shadows. Delenn takes the opportunity to warn him not to go to Z'ha'dum, but doesn't explain why [[spoiler:he dies ([[ItsComplicated sort of]])]]; after returning to his own time he figures that the devastation was caused by his taking that advice, and therefore if he goes to Z'ha'dum, he can save Centauri Prime. It doesn't work - [[StableTimeLoop time is fixed]] ([[https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65637/how-does-time-travel-work-in-babylon-5 sort of]]) in the B5 universe, but time travel is so rare that even the ancient races don't really know how it works.
204* Canadian comedy ''Series/BeingErica'' is about a woman offered the chance by a supposed therapist to go back and change a long list of bad decisions that have led to her life being a dead end.
205* This is premise behind ''Series/BestFriendsWhenever'', following a lab accident best friends Shelby and Cyd, gain the power to travel into their past or future bodies, by touching each other and thinking of a date/event.
206* An episode of ''Series/Charmed1998'' has Paige going back into her younger self to re-live the day her adoptive parents died.
207** An earlier episode had Phoebe switching places with her past self, an evil witch in the 1920s.
208* ''Series/CinderellaChef'': Jia Yao, a modern woman, time-travels into the body of Jin Xuan, a woman in ImperialChina.
209* ''Series/DoOver'', a short-lived 2002 sitcom about a man reliving his school years.
210* ''Series/TheEternalLove'': Xiao Tan, a modern woman, time-travels into the body of Tan Er, a woman in ImperialChina. They end up SharingABody.
211%%* The ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' season 1 finale, and the first half of the GroundhogDayLoop episode "I Do Again".
212%%** Later on, they introduce physical time travel.
213* ''Series/TheFlash2014'' has an episode where ComicBook/TheFlash accidentally does this, though he only goes back about a day. It's also debatable if it's mental, since Barry clearly sees another version of him running by, except his past self fades away. Possibly a case of NeverTheSelvesShallMeet. In fact, physical time travel is not only possible but [[spoiler:serves to create the show's 'verse by having the Reverse-Flash travel back from the future and kill Barry's mother, resulting in a new timeline]].
214* ''Series/GoPrincessGo'': Zhang Peng, a man in the 21st century, time-travels into the body of Zhang Peng Peng, a woman in ImperialChina.
215* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' gives an interesting twist on this with the Yesterday [[MonsterOfTheWeek Dopant]], whose power causes people to do whatever they were doing exactly 24 hours ago because they think they're doing it right now. This is demonstrated first when it causes a man to leap to his death by making him think he's diving into his swimming pool; later on, it [[EvilPlan sets up a fight with the hero so that his actions can be used to attack someone the Dopant wants to murder]].
216* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has a few characters that become UnstuckInTime. The most notable example is Desmond, whose consciousness keeps jumping back and forth between 1996 and 2004.
217** This one is also unique, because unlike normal (when we follow someone who jumps back into their life) we're following Desmond's 1996 self as he jumps into his 2004 self and back.
218** And then all of the survivors on the island become [[UnstuckInTime unstuck]]. Good for them. However, this version was physical time travel, not mental. Except for Charlotte before [[spoiler:she dies. Her last words to Daniel are her first words to him when she met him as a little girl. [[MindScrew Yeah, I know]]]].
219--->'''Charlotte:''' I'm not allowed to have chocolate before dinner.
220%%* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': This might be what happens to Mac in "Good Knight, [=MacGyver=]". Or it might be AllJustADream.
221%%* Similarly, ''Series/{{Medium}}'''s protagonist will occasionally have this.
222* Curtis' power in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' is to mentally travel back to before something he feels guilty about. While this is problematic when he's trying to break up with his girlfriend and keeps feeling guilty about it, it's certainly one of the more useful powers.
223* ''Series/MoonLovers'' and ''Series/ScarletHeart'' both use this to transport the protagonist to the past (the Goryeo era in the former, the Qing Dynasty in the latter). ''Scarlet Heart'' doesn't explain how this happened, while ''Moon Lovers'' comes up with a convoluted explanation involving eclipses and near-death experiences.
224* ''Series/OdysseyFive'', a short-lived 2002 sci-fi series about a group of astronauts who witness the [[EarthShatteringKaboom Earth exploding]] while on a mission, and are sent back 5 years by a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien in order to prevent it.
225* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
226** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E19FallingStar Falling Star]]", technology exists in the future which allows people to transfer their consciousnesses back in time and occupy the bodies of people from the past. This allows future historians to view historical events from the perspective of those involved. Security precautions exist which prevent the time travelers from making their presence known to the host, but they can be overridden. When necessary, the time travelers can also take control of the host bodies.
227** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E6Joyride Joyride]]", the aliens send Colonel Theodore Harris back in time to September 16, 1963 with all of his memories of the intervening 38 years intact.
228* ''Series/QuantumLeap'' is a variation, where the protagonist time-travels into ''other people's'' lives. In the episode "The Leap Home, Part 1," though, Sam did leap into his sixteen-year-old self. He was distressed to find out that he wasn't allowed to help his own family with his knowledge of their futures, and that when he tried to do so, [[CassandraTruth they just thought he was crazy.]] He could also only travel within the span of his own lifetime, apart from a few exceptions.
229* Season 2 of ''Series/RussianDoll'' has Nadia going back in time while inhabiting the body of an ancestor - her mother (pregnant with herself, no less) in 1982, and her grandmother in 1944. Her friend Alan also manages this, going to 1962 as his grandmother.
230* Though ''Series/StargateSG1'' usually goes the physical route, they had the obligatory GroundhogDayLoop episode with O'Neill and Teal'c which was entirely mental. However, after the end of the loop, they discovered that the rest of the universe was operating normally, while Earth and a few other worlds were stuck in the loop. From the outside universe's perspective (and that of O'Neill and Teal'c), Earth was stuck in that loop for several months, so time travel was only local.
231* In the ''Series/SleepyHollow'' episode ''Awaking'', Katrina time travels back to 1781 to make sure her husband dies after his confrontation with the horseman so she doesn’t need to abandon her son. Once she arrives back in the past, she takes control of her past self who is still pregnant.
232* ''Series/SomedayOrOneDay'': This is the main premise of the plot.
233** By listening to an old Walkman that plays Wu Bai's "Last Dance," Huang Yu Xuan's consciousness goes from 2019 to 1998, and lands her in IdenticalStranger Chen Yun Ru's body.
234** [[spoiler: Li Zi Wei's consciousness goes from 2003 to 2010 and lands him in Wang Quan Sheng's physical form in the same manner, and he travels from 2017 back to 2003 in the plane accident that kills Quan Sheng's body.]]
235** [[spoiler: PsychoPsychologist Xie Zhi Qi uses the Walkman to travel [[FamilialBodySnatcher to his brother's body]]. Unlike Yu Xuan and Zi Wei, he is able to be woken up by outside stimulus.]]
236** In the final episode, [[spoiler: Yu Xuan takes the cassette out of the broken Walkman and puts it in the car player while thinking of Zi Wei, traveling back to Yun Ru's body by accident.]]
237* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': Emperor Georgiou meets a mysterious figure named Carl, who sends her back to the Mirror Universe, just before Captain Lorca's attempted coup and given the chance to change her past, similar to what Picard went through in "Tapestry" below. Georgiou realizes that she has changed too much to return to her old way of life, and in the end [[spoiler: Carl is revealed to be the Guardian of Forever, and gives her a chance to time travel someplace new and find a new life somewhen else.]]
238* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
239** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E14Tapestry Tapestry]]", Picard dies and to his horror is greeted by Q in the afterlife. After admitting that he regrets a lot of his brash actions as a young man, Q sends him back to the incident that gave Picard his artificial heart so he can change things.
240** In the series finale "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24AllGoodThings All Good Things...]]", Picard finds himself continuously shifting between three separate timelines, one in the "present", one several years ago when the Enterprise was just launched, and one 25 years in the future when Picard is mostly retired.
241* The ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E20BeforeAndAfter Before and After]]" starts at the end of Kes' life and progressively hops backwards with her through her life. The only consequence of this is to help the then present-day ''Voyager'' avoid a deadly enemy. Other than that, it's a giant SnapBack and ResetButton.
242* ''That Was Then'', a short-lived 2002 drama about a man reliving his school years.
243* The main premise of the Japanese drama series ''Time Taxi'' is a man who drives a special time taxi to help people by rewinding them back to the desired time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. However, the passengers still have to pay a fee, depending on how far back they want to go (for example: 30 yen to rewind the time to 1 hour ago, 60 yen for 2 hours ago, etc.).
244* In ''Series/{{Travelers}}'' the BenevolentConspiracy sends it agents back in time this way. The process tortuously kills the original person. Usually they only take over the bodies of people who were supposed to die in order to minimize unintentional changes (Travelers do not get the memories of their host so replacing a person part way through their life would mean them not doing things they were supposed to). Travelers convicted of treason are also executed by having their minds overwritten with a new Traveler.
245%%* ''Series/TruCalling''
246* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E20Static Static]]" features a bitter, regretful old man who is able to pick up nostalgia-inducing radio signals from twenty years in the past. In the final scene, he discovers that he is a young man in that past again, with a chance to try again.
247* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E10 Time and Teresa Golowitz]]", Bluestone's mind is sent back in time to the body of his 16-year-old self in October 1948.
248* ''Series/Warehouse13'':
249** Creator/HGWells's TimeMachine is a pair of armchairs with headbands and some electrical contraption. It works by sending the (up to 2) users' consciousness back in time into specific bodies for no more than 22 hours 19 minutes (she has no idea why that is the limit), during which time the owners of the bodies in the past black out. Helena mentions that the machine makes use of the gestalt phenomenon. Also, since changing the past is virtually impossible, time travel poses no risk to the body owners (unless they were meant to die during this time). The time travelers, however, run the risk of being lost in the ether, never finding their way back. The machine was only used three times. In fact, all uses happened due to {{Stable Time Loop}}s. HG knew she was somehow there the night of her daughter's death by the killer's description of another person's fighting style. She knew kempo, but her maid (whose body she inhabited) did not. Pete and Myka travel back because of a recording they made to themselves in the past, and solve a case. Rebecca needed to go back to initiate her relationship with Jack. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she does not make it back. But then again, she wanted to die.]].
250** [[spoiler:Ferdinand Magellan's Astrolabe]] also has this effect for the user, although it can only go back 24 hours and can have some nasty side effects. One of the more famous users of the artifact was Maximilien Robespierre, which resulted in the Reign of Terror costing the lives of tens of thousands of people. Additionally, the artifact actually travels back in time with the user and disappears from its hiding place. According to [[spoiler:Brother Adrian]], using the artifact will release an unspeakable evil. In a twist, the evil turns out to be [[spoiler:an evil split personality of the person using the Astrolabe. In Artie's case, he perceived his evil side as Brother Adrian attempting to force Artie to use the Astrolabe to undo the time change. The real Brother Adrian was trapped in an Artifact painting in Vatican. Eventually, Artie completely snaps, kills Leena, and tries to destroy the world to force the Warehouse agents to let him use the Astrolabe. Claudia is able to save him, but he never gets over Leena's death]].
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254* ''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'': In ''Journey to the Moon'' / ''Operation Luna'', the presence of the Time Travellers causes Jet's mind to travel back in time to his childhood in Edinburgh when his great-uncle Hector was tutoring him about UsefulNotes/TheMoon.
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258* Most time-travel abilities in ''Tabletopgame/DungeonsAndDragons'' work like this, although there are exceptions such as an epic spell that grabs a version of you from about six seconds into the future.
259* A LARP game called ''Nepenthe'' featured time-travellers with the "jump into someone else's body" variant. They came from a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic future]] destroyed by the mysterious Nepenthe, and jumped back to early in its creation, ending up in the bodies of [[SelfReferentialHumour a bunch of D&D players]] at [[MindScrew the gaming convention at which the LARP was sent]]. Nepenthe turned out to be a highly-addictive VirtualReality game.
260* Vajra Enterprises soon-to-be-released rpg ''End Times'' is all about this. The player characters find they can project their minds ten years into future and learn of an upcoming apocalypse. They switch back and forth between the present and future to prevent it (whatever it may be). Problem is that these apocalypses actively work to thwart them, even sending back powerful, in-human Hunters. Player characters may also have to deal with the remnants of other apocalypses defeated by past generations of time travelers.
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264* Emily from ''Theatre/OurTown'' [[spoiler:is transported into her body on one of her birthdays in an attempt to experience life again after she dies in childbirth]].
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268* This is your primary power as an eponymous achron in ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}''. Do note that all other players can do this too, so be prepared for some very interesting multiplayer battles.
269* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': If Ann doesn't locate and defeat Castor before entering the deepest level of The Consortium's facility, this leads to a FissionMailed ending where [[spoiler:C obtains the ArtifactOfDoom but ends up unleashing [[EldritchAbomination Amok]] who brings about total destruction]]. The Masked Woman then intervenes by rescuing Ann and sending her back to an earlier time where she can locate Castor and defeat him.
270* This is basically what the FramingDevice of ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' is. The Animus allows one to sift through genetic memories inherited from distant ancestors by reliving those memories as if you were really there and were your own ancestor. Most of the series had a "synchronization" mechanic which encouraged/required the player character to behave or complete missions in certain ways, such as not being allowed to kill civilians because of a general "don't harm the innocent" rule or even not being allowed to kill future assassination targets before you're supposed to because it conflicts with the memories, but this was relaxed in more recent games. It's also done away with the concept that one needs to be descended from a certain person in order to relive those memories--which was why the first player character Desmond Miles was needed--and instead only requires a genetic sample from that person. This came about as [[spoiler:Desmond's death forced the Animus engineers to upgrade to allow samples to work instead, allowing anyone with a 2013 or newer Animus to view the memories of anyone whose genetic data is accessible]].
271* ''VideoGame/BatenKaitosOrigins'' has the battles with the Afterlings that trigger Sagi to travel back in time and inhabit the body of a boy named Marno. The first time he goes alone, and the second time his entire party comes with him but, while they can still interact with Sagi and the world nobody else can see or hear them. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Marno and his friends became Malpercio and that the Ar End Magnus that contained Marno's spirit was used to turn Sagi into an artificial spiriter]].
272%%* ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'''s rewind feature.
273* {{Implied|Trope}} in the {{Roguelike}} ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow'', where the main character retrains the experience he has gotten over the playthroughs, and sometimes mentions the he dimly remembers that he has seen or dreamt about similar things before. This being an [[Creator/HPLovecraft lovecraftian]] story, he of course thinks it is a sign that he is going insane.
274* ''VideoGame/DressUpTimePrincess'' combines mental time travel with the PortalBook that serves to transport the player character into the game's various stories, placing her within the role of the heroine of each story she enters. She retains the memories of the character she's assumed within the story, and frequently takes on elements of their personality as well, with the division between herself and the character she occupies often becoming rather blurry as she grows more and more invested in the events she's experiencing.
275* ''Franchise/FateSeries'': Physical time travel is one of the few abilities that is considered to be impossible unless it's in very specific conditions or part of a special ability wielded by a select few. However, sending back mental information is an achievable task for people to accomplish with the catch being that it's usually a one-way trip from the present/future to the past and will undo the original timeline from where they were sent.
276** In ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'', "Body" Hakuno sends his "Mind" counterpart a record of everything that has happened in the former's route/timeline to give the latter the information they need to avert the villain's plans. Since "Body" Hakuno inevitably dies in every timeline, they're fine with their erasure that will ensue.
277** In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', the Chaldea Security Organization claims to let people physically time travel via their Rayshifting technology, but it more accurately puts people into an isolated unconscious state inside a Rayshift coffin, scans their mental data, and then projects this data onto the global simulator Chaldeas, which serves as the medium via which characters interact with history. The reason they need the coffin setup is because they can be marked as "Unknown" in the present, their bodies will then be safely projected in the past for their mental data to arrive somewhere, and then it can be safely undone in the present to retrieve characters from their trip into the past by turning off the mental projection. However, Rayshifting is possible without that setup if a past recipient exists but will be a one-way trip without the technology to retrieve that data from the past. This is used in the Sixth Lostbelt to the advantage of [[spoiler:[[Myth/ArthurianLegend Morgan le Fay]] who scries an alternate Britain's AlternateHistory and discovers what happened to its Morgan, mentally Rayshifting her all this information via as well as her own memories and knowledge of Proper Human History to let her manipulate history into what it becomes by the present when the protagonists arrive. This comes at the cost of original Morgan ceasing to exist completely even before history changes.]]
278* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', this is a supernatural ability of [[spoiler:Ellone]]. Those who travel back in time this way cannot affect the past, but they can watch events occur from a first-person perspective, and grant the people of the past all their modern-day powers. [[spoiler:Ultimecia is the exception to this rule, being so powerful that she can fully possess the bodies of those who she inhabits in the past. This ability is the crux of her plot to cast Time Compression]].
279* One possible interpretation of how the protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Gorogoa}}'' is able to travel throughout different times of his life to obtain the fruits is that [[spoiler:he is reminiscing about his past mistakes and folly in pursuing the dragon, projecting himself as his younger, more innocent self]].
280* ''VideoGame/HarvestTown'' uses this as its premise. Unlike most other FarmLifeSim, whose main characters simply migrate to the town after inheriting a dilapidated farm, ''Harvest Town'''s protagonist starts as an aging individual who misses their home town after leaving it for the city years ago. After getting some sleep, the protagonist finds themselves back at their hometown as a youth. They immediately cancel their plans to leave, and restart a life in the town.
281* The obscure 3DO FirstPersonShooter ''VideoGame/{{Immercenary}}'' features an odd variant: the player's consciousness is projected into the future and directly into a virtual reality game in which much of humanity will eventually become trapped, in the hopes of shutting it down from within.
282* In ''VideoGame/KatanaZERO'', the main character has precognition from a drug called Chronos. Any in-game deaths are just failed plans that the protagonist runs through in his head.
283* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' has time travel work this way: if one goes back in time, they need to have a physical body waiting at the destination [[spoiler:unless they don't ''have'' a physical body to begin with, like a Heartless]].
284* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Link can use the Master Sword to travel back and forth between his child and adult selves. Unusually for this trope, despite not actually physically travelling anywhere, he still managed to create two alternate [[TemporalMutability branched-off timelines]] in the process.
285* In Episode 3 of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', [[spoiler:Max is able to travel back into the body of her 13-year-old self by looking at a photograph of that day. This enables her to save Chloe's father, altering the past five years significantly. When that doesn't pan out as well as she hoped, she undoes it and swears not to use that power again. She does this for about half Episode 5 too, in order to save herself from [[BigBad Mark Jefferson]]]].
286* ''VideoGame/{{Mabinogi}}'' invokes Mental Time Travel for many of the "RP" quests -- the PlayerCharacter(s) experience the memories of other characters after placing items personal to those characters on dungeon altars. An early example is a party of three characters experiencing the memories of the Three Missing Warriors, which puts the players on the path to saving a Goddess.
287* ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou'': Main character Rindo's special ability is "Replay," which allows him to shift backward and forward in time. It's limited by the fact that he needs to stay within that day, and when he chooses to "Change Our Fate" (finalize the new timeline) he cannot use Replay again until the next day. [[spoiler:And the old timelines leave behind remnants that are key to the BigBad's plan.]]
288* The way the [[spoiler:TEMPEST machine]] from ''VideoGame/NoOneHasToDie'' works is actually quite different from other examples: forward time travel works like normal, but travelling backwards [[spoiler:destroys your body and takes your consciousness to any number of alternate universes]].
289* The second ''Franchise/PrinceOfPersia'' trilogy allows you to rewind up to ten seconds. Near the end of ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime The Sands of Time]]'', the [[NoNameGiven Prince]] uses it to kiss a girl without her knowing it. ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin Warrior Within]]'' also has physical time travel.
290* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'' involves you jumping through time to points where you already existed. While your body technically still ages as you go through time, you replace the "you" that would've been in that moment of time, so that paradoxes are avoided.
291* ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' has the Time Tourists visiting the Akarana Corridor, who prefer using this method instead of risking getting UnstuckInTime.
292%% Needs context * ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': [[spoiler:Done by Sally at the end of the game.]]
293%% Needs context * The astral projection ability in ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'' could be explained this way.
294* In ''VideoGame/SecondSight'', there are moments where the psychic player character, John Vattic has flashbacks that allow him to change events in the past which in turn alter the present (for example, saving the life of someone who had died). [[spoiler:Subverted when it is revealed that you're not traveling to the past at all. The "past" is actually the ''present'' and the "present" is actually Vattic seeing into the future.]]
295* One ending of ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' sends Yuri back to the beginning of the first game looking exactly like he did in the original's opening cinematic, but apparently with all his memories of the future, while the other heroes are shuffled through time the regular way.
296* In ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'', running a corpse in a [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Weft of Unravelling Time]] can cause a weird version of this: the careening through possible times can cause its mind can be reunited with it, resulting in a RevenantZombie of sorts.
297* This is how ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' [[JustifiedSavePoint justifies its save points]]; somehow or another, it's caused by [[TheDeterminator determination]]. Most major characters have a little bit of RippleEffectProofMemory, except [[spoiler:Sans]], who gets by just being CrazyPrepared, and [[spoiler:Flowey]], who actually has ''full'' ripple-proof memory... because until you fell into the ruins, ''he'' was the one with this power. [[spoiler:And at the end of a Neutral run, he turns the situation back around on you.]]
298* When the party goes to Shion's ruined home planet Miltia in the third episode of ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'', it is revealed that the recurrence of the disaster is entirely mental and similar to an [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind encephalon dive]].
299* A substory in ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'' has Kiryu talking with a girl named Miku who believes she did this jumping from 2017 to 2016. The story's name is ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime''.
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303* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'': This is how Sorin sees his anterograde amnesia. Since he constantly forgets the events of each day, to him it's like his past self from the day of the accident is constantly time-traveling to replace his future self. Ellen also ''thinks'' she did this, [[spoiler:but the true culprit was actually gaslighting her.]]
304* ''VisualNovel/ScienceAdventureSeries'':
305** The Phonewave [[RunningGag (name subject to change)]] in ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' is eventually upgraded in such a way that it allows to send a person's memories back in time, effectively letting the person in question relive up to the past 48 hours since they used the machine while retaining the memories from the future. The mechanics of this are tied to Okabe's cell phone, so in theory, anyone who picks it can receive the memories, even if they didn't originally belong to the receiver. This is frequently used by Okabe to [[spoiler:find a timeline where Mayuri and (later) Kurisu don't die]], and once by [[spoiler:a future version of Nae seeking revenge for her father's death]]. Notably, the process itself is shown to hurt like hell, with Okabe screaming in agony and describing the pain in creatively gruesome ways, at least the first couple of times before he gets used to it.
306** In the spinoff game ''Linear Bounded Phenogram'', it is also used by [[spoiler:Kurisu, Luka, and Mayuri in their respective chapters; Kurisu uses it to speak to Okabe before he becomes catatonic and encourages him to save Mayuri, Luka uses it to make Mayuri's last day fun and later to help Okabe regain his drive to save Mayuri, and Mayuri herself uses it in an attempt to find a way to save Kurisu without sacrificing herself]].
307** Also used in ''VisualNovel/SteinsGateZero'' when [[spoiler:Okabe sees the death of Mayuri and Suzuha. Though he has to make it from scratch and without Kurusu, using only his knowledge and assistance from Daru and Maho]]. It's also used in a different path where [[spoiler:Okabe ends up ''decades'' ahead of where he's supposed to be, still with the 48 hour limit for each time leap. He somehow ends up back where he was before, even when there are many situations where he shouldn't have been able to use it]].
308* The protagonist of ''VisualNovel/YoJinBo'' ends up traveling through time via a magical pendant that puts her in the body of a princess.
309* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'':
310** In ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', [[spoiler:June/Akane Kurashiki/Zero has this ability, and can in fact explore multiple possibilities. All the game's MultipleEndings are essentially just her SaveScumming in the future, trying to find the sequence of events that leads to her own life being saved in the past/present, which is part of the purpose of the Nonary Game she created]].
311** The sequel, ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' takes the concept even further. [[spoiler:The entire second Nonary game ([[HijackedByGanon once again made by Akane]]) exists to train Sigma and Phi in mental time-travel so they can go back in time and stop an outbreak of a virus.]]
312** Rounding up the trilogy is ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', which takes place [[spoiler:a year after ''999'' and before ''VLR'', with the cast of VLR trying to win the Decision Game ''and'' prevent Radical-6 being released]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Zero II/Delta is well aware of their powers]]. Fortunately, [[StealthMentor he is the one who set things up so they would master their powers in the first place]], [[TheExtremistWasRight all as part of his plan]] to create a perfect timeline where the world [[spoiler:does not get destroyed by either the virus or the religious fanatic he created the virus to stop]].
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316* The final strip of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' reveals that the world hasn't been transforming around Arthur all this time, his consciousness has been shifting to other incarnations.
317* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', "All Good Things" (a ShoutOut to the ''Star Trek'' episode).
318* The "rewind device" in ''Webcomic/CityOfReality'' uses this method to allow characters, in the story, to retry their actions until they get them right.
319* Used by [[TheRival Mizkit]] in ''Webcomic/BreakpointCity'' in an attempt to tarnish Ben's reputation [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2002/11/20/out-of-the-vault/ in one arc]].
320* In ''Webcomic/TheDreamer'', Beatrice travels back in time to the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution when she's asleep.
321* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' [[GentlemanAdventurer Othar Tryggvassen's]] twitter adventures had an older Tarvek send Othar's mind back to the point just before Othar rescued the woman who would become his wife after Othar left the island he's been living on with her and discovered that Europa was in ruins and the populace had been wiped out to ensure things went differently this time around.
322* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' has "Dave Davenport Is Unstuck on Time" (a ShoutOut to ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive''), with Dave bouncing between childhood, middle age, and his teenage years. At first, it seems like he wasn't able to change anything; he angsts, and decides to have a cigarette. Then Mell asks, "Since when do you smoke?"
323* The premise of ''Webcomic/{{Rebirth}}''. Noah wakes up in his younger body several years in the past, right before the apocalypse hits all over again.
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327* This is a large plot point in Podcast/TheBrightSessions.
328* The episode "Uncommon Cold" of ''WebAnimation/HumanKindOf'' has Judy go back and forth between sitting in her high school classroom and inhabiting the body of her future self at various points in time whenever she sneezes, thanks to a sudden cold. Her future husband isn't exactly pleased by this, as one of these moments is him trying to say goodbye to his family on his death bed.
329-->'''Judy''': ''Oh, God! Is this our ugly little slug?''\
330'''Husband''': ''Oh, goddammit, are you sixteen again!? Go home!''
331* Season 17 of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' has the main characters who caused a RealityBreakingParadox in the previous season trapped in a "soft time" singularity reliving their memories in a loop, [[AGlitchInTheMatrix and feeling familiarity in the process]]. The other protagonists who were absent during the paradox are able to jump into this singularity (nicknamed "Everwhen") and possess their past selves, [[PeggySue hoping to fix things back then]].
332* In ''Literature/SpesPhthisica'', this is all that is possible. Information (in the form of dreams, images, messages...) can travel back in time, but not physical objects.
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336* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake'': In "Casper and Nova", Simon ends up in the body of Shermy, 1000+ years into the future of the Ooo he knows.
337* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' features Francis Grey, who discovers he can [[SaveScumming "turn back the clock" 20 seconds]], allowing him to relive his past and relearn his mistakes. [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower He discovered this power]] [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain through his obsession with time]]
338* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'''s Returns to the Past. Although Jérémie retaining a picture taken before one of them caused massive speculation among the fanbase. Also the fact that it can't retcon out someone's death.
339* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', during the PoorlyDisguisedPilot for the spinoff, ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp''. Granted, there is no logical reason why what they did should have worked, suggesting that it may have been AllJustADream, but it was way too consistent with the actual plot to discount. At the end, the babies emerge from the closet they fled into at the beginning of the episode (apparently only moments later), and Tommy says, "Well guys, only ten more years until Angelica is nice to us."
340* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
341** The show parodies this with Eric trying to induce a temporal coma so he can travel back into the past and learn about the Founding Fathers. By dropping weights onto his head. Notably, this [[AvertedTrope averts]] the limit to one's own life; apparently, a Cartman-body just magically generated in the past when Cartman's mind needed it. (Or it was AllJustADream, the episode was [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane kind of ambiguous]].)
342** This is also how the "Go God Go!" two-parter ended, with Cartman (having been stuck in the far future) being transferred back in time to "fuse with his past self."
343--->'''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Blavius the Talking Sea Otter]]:''' Don't worry, my son. When you return to your time you will merge with your other self. It's all very Zen.
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347* You mentally time travel into the future at an incredible speed of 1 second per second.
348* The general human ability to contemplate the past and future in the form of (for instance) memory and planning is also called "mental time travel" or "chronosthesia". In a sense, that usage of the term is the inverse of this one: the body remaining in the present while the mind "goes" to another time.
349* The peripheral, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and other parts of the unconscious brain react to situations significantly faster than the conscious brain can even tell what's happening, let alone respond. Usually the few milliseconds of delay are imperceptible, but during extreme danger or skilled competition that puts instinct behind the wheel, one may feel as if they're reliving something that has already happened in which they knew exactly what to do. In fact, a study on decision making proved that the brain activity associated with committing to an action might occur up to several seconds before a person is conscious of the fact that they've decided anything.
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