Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day
Spin tall tales about journeys through the past or future, and leave folks with raised eyebrows and a confused chuckle.
Leverage playful time-travel roleplay and sci-fi fandom to drive engagement through user-generated content and community events around streaming, gaming, and pop culture.
- Share your best time-traveler costume or roleplay moment—tag us for a chance to be featured
- Binge-watch time-travel classics: Doctor Who, Quantum Leap, Being Erica—what's your favorite era?
- Host a public time-traveler scavenger hunt or flash mob in your city and tag #TimeTraveIerDay
- Create a 'message from the future' video predicting 2025 trends in your industry
Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day was created in 2007 by Senna Diaz, author of the webcomic Dresden Codak, but the dream of the human race one day being able to travel through time is much older than that. The first known mention of such a concept is in ancient Hindu mythology.
In one of the stories, the King Revaita travels far away to met the creator, Brahma. Upon his return to his kingdom, he is shocked to find that many ages have passed during his relatively short absence. Time travel has also been brought up in the Talmud and early Japanese tales.
A bit more recently, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” tells us about how the main character, Ebeneezer Scrooge, is transported back and forth through time to witness various events, leading to his eventual change of heart towards mankind.
And even more recently, the cult classic Back to the Future Trilogy depicts the adventures of American teen Marty McFly, as he travels both into the future and the past to right wrongs. As you can see, time travel has fascinated mankind for millennia.
Pretend to Travel Time with Friends
As the name itself suggests, the basic premise of the day is to pretend to be a time traveler, either from the past or from the future, who has somehow ended up in the present day. For maximum effect, this role play should involve group of friends and should take place in public places and should involve conversations complete strangers. So get a group of friends together, and hit the town! Be sure to do everything a time traveler from the past or future might do: ask strangers what year it is and respond in horror, regard everything you see with curious fascination and a touch of skittishness for good measure.
Watch Time Travel Shows
Have loads of fun on Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day by engaging in some fiction and fantasy series through books or shows. Browse through the many seasons of Doctor Who, check out Quantum Leap from the 1980s or Being Erica, which ran from 2009-2011. The possibilities are almost endless, so take this day to allow yourself to be astonished anew by all of the things you presently take for granted every day. Besides being great fun, Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day will help you appreciate what you have in life. What more could a weary time traveler want?