what if I saw a glimpse of the past theme
A character is shown a sight of a past occurrence. This might be on account that the character invoked a magical incantation, appealed to some speculative technology, or was shown a vision of the future by another entity.
Notes
If a character has an innate ability to see into the past, then "retrocognition" is the more appropriate theme.
7 total · 2 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| as1985e2x13 | major | Scenes of Charlene's past unfolded before her eyes as she drove down the road on a stormy night. In one such scene, she beheld her child self crying in the backseat of a car on the way home from her mother's funeral. In another, she witnessed her possibly alcohol fueled wedding motorcade speeding past her on the highway. |
| movie: Deja Vu (2006) | major | Agent Carlin and the FBI people were using the Snow White system to watch a sequence of events unfold starting from four days in the past. |
| movie: Scrooge (1951) | minor | The Ghost of Christmas Past showed Scrooge scenes of his past to show him what a cold-hearted, miser was a as a young man. |
| movie: The Invisible Ray (1936) | minor | Janos Rukh invented a telescope that can look far out into deep space, into the Andromeda Galaxy, and photograph light rays that show the Earth's past. |
| nightgallery2x12b | minor | One of Mr. Gingold's camera obscuras could be used to see the into past. |
| tz1959e5x24 | minor | Joe was might befuddled when the TV started showing him scenes form his own past. |
| tz1994a | minor | Melissa watched scenes of her own past unfold before her eyes on a movie theater screen during a film screening. |