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\u201cIt was only brief, but I swear by what happened. Most people don\u2019t believe me, but I know it was a time slip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was an average sunny Monday afternoon when Grace Edwards experienced what many refer to as a time slip into the past. But these short-lived moments slipping back in time appear to be more common than you would think. Join us as we take a walk down memory lane, quite literally, and explore the notion of time travel. Welcome to Bold Street, where time itself likes to blur the lines between past and present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet 24-year-old Grace Edwards, who has lived in Liverpool for almost five years. Back in 2023, she was out on her own buying a last minute birthday present for a friend when she experienced a moment that would stay with her for years to come – a time slip. Grace was walking down the top of Bold Street next to St Luke\u2019s Church<\/a> when \u201ceverything went quiet\u201d, she recalls. \u201cAll the people walking past me a few seconds ago literally just disappeared, and the only person I could see was this weird man walking quite far ahead of me.\u201d She pauses, searching for the right words to recall the vivid details of his \u201cslow movements and weird cane he was leaning on to walk with.\u201d She remembers feeling \u201ccompletely freaked out at how he was now the only person on the street that was bustling just a few seconds before.\u201d Grace admits that she initially felt apprehensive of the experience, dismissing it as a strange hallucination or trick of the eye. But this disbelief soon turned into a lingering curiosity to understand the strange figure of the man and the altered environment she now found herself in. The man wore a big black top hat with a long black tailcoat, and was abnormally tall, \u201clike freakishly large\u201d, she adds. Her surroundings were distorted. \u201cEverywhere looked a lot dustier, like it was under a weird yellow-tinted filter.\u201d Grace recollects how she couldn\u2019t make out what the shop signs said, their lettering too faded to decipher, and how \u201cthey appeared old and dirty\u201d. Her experience lasted around 10 seconds, then before she had enough time to fully process what had happened to her, she blinked, and everything returned back to normal. \u201cAll the passersby returned, the ghostly figure of the man in black had vanished, and it was like nothing had ever happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Grace, this singular experience defines her years living in Liverpool, as she claims to have never seen anything like a time slip since. However, this story fits into an eerie pattern of narratives<\/a> that suggest there is potentially more to this world than meets the eye. But is this actually physically possible? Let\u2019s hear from Rob Cowen, a physicist from Manchester, who provides some insight into whether such a phenomenon as a time slip is scientifically possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explains that while a time slip is a fascinating concept, most physicists would agree that it is simply not possible. \u201cTime is not a constant, uniform thing that we all share,\u201d he says. \u201cEinstein set out two theories which explain how perception of time can vary between individuals: special and general relativity<\/a>.\u201d However, Rob is quick to point out that despite the fact that time can stretch or compress under certain conditions, neither of those theories can explain travelling back in time, as it violates the principle of causality. \u201cThis means that the cause of an event must precede the event\u201d, he says. \u201cBackwards time travel messes this up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physicist Rob suggests that the explanation for time slips is more likely to fall within the realm of psychology. \u201cPhysicists are often fascinated by the other sciences\u201d, he adds, \u201cso I bet they\u2019d love to find out what leads someone to believe they\u2019ve briefly gone back in time while out shopping.\u201d He proposes that possible triggers could be a form of psychological trauma response, so to investigate this, I spoke to Fiona C Davis-Grant, an integrative psychotherapist specialising in trauma, MBACP accredited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiona presents a different understanding of how our minds can distort our own perception of reality. \u201cI\u2019m old enough to think there are things that we can\u2019t explain by our mere average senses\u201d, she says. \u201cWhen someone is subjected to trauma, their natural coping mechanisms can become overloaded.\u201d Fiona explains how this in turn can affect your ability to live in the present, and feelings such as panic and despair are triggered. \u201cFrom the angle of an individual who is traumatised, I would use an eight-stage EMDR<\/a> (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) evidence-based therapy.\u201d This helps to treat the distress from it, allowing an individual to process unpleasant memories. Ultimately, Fiona agrees that there can be no real explanation on time slips, but still finds these cases interesting. \u201cI love a bit of the unexplained.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether the truth lies in physics, psychology, or even something beyond human comprehension, Bold Street remains a place where the past and present seem to coexist, even if only for fleeting moments. As Physicist Rob puts it plainly, \u201cwe all like to think of ourselves as rational beings, immune to suggestion, but in fact, we are constantly being guided through life by our unconscious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n