If the CURRENT you could go back in time and appear in a very lucid dream of the 17-year-old version of you and give you specific and important advice, how much of it do you think you would listen to?
May 7, 2026
If the CURRENT you could go back in time and appear in a very lucid dream of the 17-year-old version of you and give you specific and important advice, how much of it do you think you would listen to?
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The advice would be: stop whatever the fuck you’re doing and buy some Nvidia.
Hopefully everything, but that kid was a fucking idiot so I doubt he’d pay much attention
More than I’d expect, less than I should.
Buy Bitcoin
None of it, realistically.
I was a very skeptical teen, and wouldn’t even think the current me was like a subconscious thought or anything; just random neurons firing and managing to sound like something coherent by coincidence.
“Hey kid, I’m you from the future, go buy as much of this as you can and sell it all on October 6 2025”
And I’d listen because I’ve seen BTTF pt.2, it would be my Grays Sports Almanac.
Probably like 30%
Dude I could lay out a perfect smooth safe road and knowing me I would still have to walkinto every wall every possible chance to learn and go the easy way I still got to hit the wallfirst
No Blondes ever bud. None.
All of it
Not a man, but the paradox here is that if 17 yr old you DID listen to the current you, you wouldnt be the same current you and so if you did that it would inevitably create a black hole vortex in the space time continuum and you’d probably have to reload from your last save.
Everything I could apply over the next year for sure. The rest? Maybe.. Assuming I believe I’m seeing myself from the future
I aged well and don’t look too far from my 17 year old self just….fatter. So I’m pretty sure the monment they believe it’s them from the future they’ll believe whatever I say.
all of it
Obviously the whole Bitcoin thing any time one of these is asked. I even though about mining it back in 2012 when it was still financially viable on a modest gaming rig. Just never followed through with learning how to do it *sigh*
Anyway, realistically, nothing. I like my life now and don’t want to risk changing anything. But that’s no fun is it?
So: I’d definitely listen to the professional advice, might listen to the relationship advice, and probably wouldn’t listen to the advice on personal growth. I trusted myself then and now, so I’d imagine my former self would trust my future self just as well.
Depends how much I believed the dream was actually me form the future or just a hallucination of the dream world.
Put $2000 in XRP and pull it out in 2025
Have none of you ever read much science fiction or watched scfi movies? Nothing good can come of that.
17-year-old me fantasized frequently about future me visiting and giving me life advice, so you better believe I’d listen with rapt attention to whatever he had to say.
None
He would. Because I’d tell him our dad will die in 5 years unless he stops smoking and gets treatment for the cancer. I’d tell him to find Allan Carr’s book.
My younger self would listen, not remember what was said and end up doing it anyway lmao
Assuming i wasn’t just creeped out or thought it was a random dream I’d listen intently, think about it alot and very likely make virtually no changes, or actually no changes.
I know my younger self would listen. I’d listen now, too. I wish everyday future me could visit in my dreams and set me right. Sometimes I think I can feel him, myself in the future, but he never tells me anything. Just makes me feel vaguely concerned for the future.
First of all, I’d tell me 2 or 3 things that are going to happen that will prove that the dream is real, then I will give me a list of stocks to invest in and sporting events to bet on. I’d maybe even give me the name of a certain girl and where to bump into her in my early twenties.
“Save Harambe”
If I told my 17 year old self 1% of what was coming, he;d have killed himself
28 comments
The advice would be: stop whatever the fuck you’re doing and buy some Nvidia.
Hopefully everything, but that kid was a fucking idiot so I doubt he’d pay much attention
More than I’d expect, less than I should.
Buy Bitcoin
None of it, realistically.
I was a very skeptical teen, and wouldn’t even think the current me was like a subconscious thought or anything; just random neurons firing and managing to sound like something coherent by coincidence.
17-year old me should be just in time to buy bitcoin at “[I paid 10.000BTC for Two Pizzas](https://fortune.com/article/pizza-bitcoin-day-story-laszlo-hanyecz-papa-johns-pizzas-value/)” prices.
“Hey kid, I’m you from the future, go buy as much of this as you can and sell it all on October 6 2025”
And I’d listen because I’ve seen BTTF pt.2, it would be my Grays Sports Almanac.
Probably like 30%
Dude I could lay out a perfect smooth safe road and knowing me I would still have to walkinto every wall every possible chance to learn and go the easy way I still got to hit the wallfirst
No Blondes ever bud. None.
All of it
Not a man, but the paradox here is that if 17 yr old you DID listen to the current you, you wouldnt be the same current you and so if you did that it would inevitably create a black hole vortex in the space time continuum and you’d probably have to reload from your last save.
Everything I could apply over the next year for sure. The rest? Maybe.. Assuming I believe I’m seeing myself from the future
I aged well and don’t look too far from my 17 year old self just….fatter. So I’m pretty sure the monment they believe it’s them from the future they’ll believe whatever I say.
all of it
Obviously the whole Bitcoin thing any time one of these is asked. I even though about mining it back in 2012 when it was still financially viable on a modest gaming rig. Just never followed through with learning how to do it *sigh*
Anyway, realistically, nothing. I like my life now and don’t want to risk changing anything. But that’s no fun is it?
So: I’d definitely listen to the professional advice, might listen to the relationship advice, and probably wouldn’t listen to the advice on personal growth. I trusted myself then and now, so I’d imagine my former self would trust my future self just as well.
Depends how much I believed the dream was actually me form the future or just a hallucination of the dream world.
Put $2000 in XRP and pull it out in 2025
Have none of you ever read much science fiction or watched scfi movies? Nothing good can come of that.
17-year-old me fantasized frequently about future me visiting and giving me life advice, so you better believe I’d listen with rapt attention to whatever he had to say.
None
He would. Because I’d tell him our dad will die in 5 years unless he stops smoking and gets treatment for the cancer. I’d tell him to find Allan Carr’s book.
My younger self would listen, not remember what was said and end up doing it anyway lmao
Assuming i wasn’t just creeped out or thought it was a random dream I’d listen intently, think about it alot and very likely make virtually no changes, or actually no changes.
I know my younger self would listen. I’d listen now, too. I wish everyday future me could visit in my dreams and set me right. Sometimes I think I can feel him, myself in the future, but he never tells me anything. Just makes me feel vaguely concerned for the future.
First of all, I’d tell me 2 or 3 things that are going to happen that will prove that the dream is real, then I will give me a list of stocks to invest in and sporting events to bet on. I’d maybe even give me the name of a certain girl and where to bump into her in my early twenties.
“Save Harambe”
If I told my 17 year old self 1% of what was coming, he;d have killed himself
Tell myself about bitcoin 😂