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30 Mar 2024, 10:36 am

How would you react if you woke up in someone else's body in a strange house?



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30 Mar 2024, 10:45 am

I did wake up one time and I didn't know where I was. I was in my own bed but that's all I knew. I needed to pee but I just lay there in bed for ages because I couldn't work out what the layout of the house was beyond my bedroom door.

It was the most bizarre feeling and also a little bit scary.

I've never thought I was in someone else's body though and I can't imagine how I would feel if I did


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30 Mar 2024, 10:47 am

^ I think he means actually in someone else's body, as an imaginary scenario.

Obviously no-one can actually switch bodies, lol.



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30 Mar 2024, 10:51 am

If I woke up in someone else's body people would think that person had gone crazy. I wouldn't know how to be them without having their memories.



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30 Mar 2024, 10:51 am

And I may ask myself, “How do I work this?”
And I may ask myself, “Where is that large automobile?”
And I may tell myself, “This is not my beautiful house”
And I may tell myself, “This is not my beautiful wife”

I may ask myself, “What is that beautiful house?”
I may ask myself, “Where does that highway go to?”
I you may ask myself, “Am I right? Am I wrong?”
And I may say to myself, “My God! What have I done?”


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30 Mar 2024, 11:00 am

Find out where the nearest shrink is, pronto.


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30 Mar 2024, 12:37 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
^ I think he means actually in someone else's body, as an imaginary scenario.

Obviously no-one can actually switch bodies, lol.


Oh yeah :lol:

I think I've got someone else's head today


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30 Mar 2024, 12:39 pm

babybird wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
^ I think he means actually in someone else's body, as an imaginary scenario.

Obviously no-one can actually switch bodies, lol.


Oh yeah :lol:

I think I've got someone else's head today


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30 Mar 2024, 1:26 pm

I'd assume I'm having a very bizarre dream or that some of my meds got mixed up with meds I don't take like the pharmacist put the wrong meds in the bottle or company put wrong strip of meds in the box :huh:


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30 Mar 2024, 5:01 pm

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How would you react if you woke up in someone else's body in a strange house?

I would be surprised.


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30 Mar 2024, 5:32 pm

NewTime wrote:
How would you react if you woke up in someone else's body in a strange house?



The first thing I'd do is look in my wallet :-)



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30 Mar 2024, 5:56 pm

NewTime wrote:
How would you react if you woke up in someone else's body in a strange house?
It would depend on whose body and in which 'house'.

• A convicted murderer in a 'house' on Death Row?  Not well at all.

• A junkie in shanty on Skid Row?  Not much better.

• A Mexican drug lord in a Cabo mansion?  Not very well.

• A terminally-ill cancer patient is a Hospice house? Pass the morphine . . .

There are many more people suffering through poverty or their own Hell-on-Earth to hope for a random leap into the life of a reasonably wealthy person with a good social reputation among his or her peers.


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30 Mar 2024, 7:09 pm

If "someone else" had a hot girlfriend.....

No, seriously, that's Quantum Leap. Good TV show.


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30 Mar 2024, 8:10 pm

I think it would be really freaky. Especially if it happened on a Friday.



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30 Mar 2024, 8:25 pm

Well, I was still in my own body...but...

When I had heart surgery there were complications. They kept me unconscious for 32 hours.

And when I woke up they seemed quite surprised and amused when I asked if we were in space.

And then I kept quiet for a bit while I figured out I was still on Earth and still in that hospital...and many decades had not transpired.

So, to answer your question, I suspect I would express surprise then shut up 'til I'd figured out what was going on.


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07 Apr 2024, 5:19 am

Fnord wrote:
NewTime wrote:
How would you react if you woke up in someone else's body in a strange house?
It would depend on whose body and in which 'house'.

• A convicted murderer in a 'house' on Death Row?  Not well at all.

• A junkie in shanty on Skid Row?  Not much better.

• A Mexican drug lord in a Cabo mansion?  Not very well.

• A terminally-ill cancer patient is a Hospice house? Pass the morphine . . .

There are many more people suffering through poverty or their own Hell-on-Earth to hope for a random leap into the life of a reasonably wealthy person with a good social reputation among his or her peers.
I'm thinking of the movie Bedazzled. The guy made a deal with tbe devil to get seven wishes(I"m not sure about the number). He kept wishing to change things about himself in order to make a woman like him. He kept having different lives with things going wrong including being a Mexican drug lord with people trying to kill him, & the worst was that the woman still didn't like him.


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