Unplanned Spontaneous Time Travel

(Dr. Who would be considered planned traveling)

Perhaps you haven't paused lately to consider the ill affects of unplanned, spontaneous time travel - but I have.

During a recent near hallucinatory episode, that occurred whilst traveling through the night from sunny Florida to drab uncommitted winter Virginia, I was struck by how inconvenient it would be to participate in unplanned spontaneous time travel.

I find that some of my most lucid thoughts occur after little sleep and on a full bladder.

No one wants unplanned, spontaneous time travel to happen to them. Surely we all like the idea of time travel for the obvious advantages, but not having the ability to control said travel would be truly disconcerting. In a recent film, "The Time Travelers Wife", this topic is explored to a degree but also includes an aspect of teleportation that I just can't buy into. Its either one or the other folks. You can have teleportation or you can have time travel but you can't have both. It seemed to me that spending all that money to make a movie about those two fascinating albeit mutually exclusive topics was a real waste... but I digress.

And now the crux of the matter. Unplanned, spontaneous time travel is so difficult because you can't plan for it and it is instant. For example what if the traveling occurred while you were in a hot air balloon. Or on a ladder. Or riding a pony. What if it happened while your were using the rest room in an old factory turned trendy brewery. I'm sure the laborers on their lunch break wouldn't appreciate your sudden and inappropriate appearance. What if you were in your home taking a shower and traveled back in time 100 years. It is possible you'd be staring at a farmer in his fields and farming would be far from his mind.

What if you traveled forward in time. What if through some turn of events the only way to move was using a hovercraft... and you didn't have one. What if machines had over taken the world and turned all the humans into battery's and the first human you set free was named Morpheus and looked an awful lot like Lawrence Fishburn.

Avoid unplanned spontaneous time travel by keeping your eye out for it and being careful. Being really really careful.