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Mental time travel may be one of several processes enabled by a general scenario building or construction system in the brain. [ 22 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] This general capacity to generate and reflect on mental scenarios has been compared to a theatre in the mind that depends on the working together of a host of components.
Depiction of a larrikin, from Nelson P. Whitelocke's book A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side (1885). Larrikin is an Australian English term meaning "a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good-hearted person", or "a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions".
A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. [12] [13] The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]
A member of a league of time travelers, called Voyagers, and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history. 1986 1986 Outlaws: Nicholas Corea: Five cowboys of the 1880s are sent to 1986 by a lightning strike. With no way to get back home, they start a detective agency to make a living. 1988 1988 Moondial: Helen Cresswell
In 1952, Bob Wilson locks himself in his room to finish his graduate thesis on a mathematical aspect of metaphysics, using the concept of time travel as a case in point.. Bob does not care much at this point whether his thesis (that time travel is impossible) is valid; he is desperate for sleep and just wants to get it done and typed up by the deadline the next day to become an academic, since ...
The Psychology of Time Travel is the debut novel published by British author Kate Mascarenhas in 2018.. In the Los Angeles Times the author said that "I thought, well this could actually be a really interesting route into a story, to think about how if we’d invented time travel rather than space travel, what involvement would psychologists have had?
Showtime’s new miniseries Fellow Travelers—adapted from the 2007 novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon—hits so many of the right notes, and looks great doing it. The story follows a star ...
Beyond the Time Barrier is a 1960 American science fiction film. It was released in September 1960 on a double bill with The Angry Red Planet. [3] It starred Robert Clarke (who also served as producer) and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Ulmer's wife Shirley acted as a script editor while their daughter Arianne Arden appeared as a Russian pilot.