What If You Could Skip Any Moment of Time ?

What if you could skip any moment you didn't want to experience? Boring meetings, endless flights, awkward conversations, sleepless nights—gone in a blink. Your body keeps moving, your life keeps going, but your mind jumps straight to the good part. Sounds like the perfect shortcut, right? Now imagine skipping a week... then a month... then realizing you have no idea what happened while you were away. Who made your choices? What did you promise? And what precious moments slipped past without you noticing? In this What If story, the power to save time might cost more than you imagined. Subscribe to Ifblitz for more what-ifs and sci-fi stories. Every what if becomes a story. FACT LEDGER: Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010: about 2,250 people sampled by phone; minds wandered about 47 percent of the time, and people were generally less happy when they did. Wendy Wood, 2002: about 43 percent of everyday actions are done out of habit. The holiday paradox: weeks full of new experiences feel longer in memory, while routine weeks shrink. Claudia Hammond’s term. Most babies say their first real word around twelve months. University of Warwick, 2019: sleep took up to six years to fully recover after a first child. The script says “mothers” because the effect was strongest in mothers and smaller in fathers; that’s narrower than the card’s “parents.” Paulson and Bazemore, 2010: about one in ten new fathers experience depression around a birth. The world’s longest flights last around eighteen hours. (contested) Does time flow? The block-universe reading of relativity versus Lee Smolin’s view that time is fundamentally real. Presented as unresolved.