Sebastián Garrido was traveling to visit his dying grandfather in the hospital when he had what he calls a ‘time slip’ that changed his view on what happens after death.
Often dramatized in science fiction, a “time slip” is defined as a moment when someone accidentally travels back in time, but Garrido said his all-too-real “time slip” hit him on the street when he noticed a mysterious figure standing nearby.
He told DailyMail.com that a mysterious figure stood along the path, and a closer look revealed it was his grandfather, but younger, as he was in his 40s or 50s.
‘I’m glad to find you here, everything will be fine. Tell your dad I’ll be fine,’ the man said before disappearing.
During the disturbing encounter, Garrido, 26, said he “got goosebumps and then vomited.” He then rushed to the hospital to see his current grandfather and discovered that the man was still alive, resting in his bed and with only a few weeks to live.
When Garrido arrived at the hospital, his grandfather told him: ‘I saw you in a dream.’
While there is no scientific evidence to support time delays, doctors have suggested that these experiences could be related to déjà vu, external stimuli impacting the brain, or simply a way that some people psychologically cope with trauma.
Sebastián Garrido said he met his grandfather during a “slip in time.” Here he is with his grandfather as a child.
“Time lags could be explained by electromagnetic fields,” says the psychologist at Buckinghamshire New University Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe wrote for the Daily Mail this June.
“Research by Canadian academics shows that these energy fields can produce hallucinations,” Dr. O’Keeffe explained, “by playing with signals in the brain.”
But although the psychologist does not believe in the phenomena of time lags, he admits that modern physics does not exclude them.
“If you’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s science fiction film Interstellar, or even know Einstein, you know that time is not necessarily linear,” he argued in his essay.
Garrido, like many experimenters, said it felt very real. The life-changing experience occurred in 2021 while Garrido was studying and had the support of his grandfather, Hiram Garrido, with whom he was very close during college.
Hiram died at the age of 86.
Garrido described the encounter as the “strangest experience of his life,” saying he had never experienced anything like it before or since, except for a childhood episode in which he saw someone in a dream and then saw someone identical in the dream. real life.
He said his experience of this “time slip” and other traumas he experienced at this time in his life “forged” him as a person.
‘The experience affected me deeply; I was shocked and didn’t know what to think,’ Garrido confessed. “I was very excited during those weeks.”
“I felt closer to my grandfather and, although it was strange, I think it was his way of reassuring me that everything would be okay, despite his imminent passing,” she said. “It was a difficult time.”
According to Garrido, the experience changed his view of life and made it easier for him to think that there could be some form of life or consciousness after death.
Before the experience, Garrido was unsure of his views, but encountering this younger version of his grandfather “made him wonder” about the true nature of reality.
“It definitely gave me a different perspective on life and death,” he said.
‘Time slip’ stories first appeared in fiction in the 19th century, including Mark Twain’s novel. A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court.
But the Internet and social media are full of people who truly believe they have briefly “slipped” in time.
DailyMail.com also spoke to podcasters Carrie and Sean McCabe from ‘Isn’t it scary?,’ who investigated the topic. Podcasters said reports of “time slips” are common, but less so than Bigfoot sightings and UFO encounters.
And yet, certain “time slip” stories have achieved cult status, they told DailyMail.com.
Sebastián Garrido said the experience forever changed who he is as a person and said the loss of his grandfather in 2021 was easier to bear.
“The most famous and craziest story is the ‘Moberly-Jordain incident’ at the turn of the century,” McCabe said.
The alleged incident, as witnessed by witnesses Charlotte Anne Moberly (1846-1937) and Eleanor Jourdain (1863-1924), was dramatized by ITV in 1981.
The two ladies, both English literary academics at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, said their time was wasted while visiting the Palace of Versailles in France, the famous former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV.
As they would later state in their best-selling book of 1911, an adventureThe couple got lost in the Petit Trianon castle located on the grounds when they suddenly traveled back in time to Marie Antoinette’s garden party.
Marie Antoinette was the last queen and wife of Louis XVI. Both were tried and convicted of treason and died by guillotine eight months apart.
In their book, they said that suddenly everything seemed unnatural, and then they saw a lady in an old-fashioned dress who was drawing and looked at them.
After comparing notes, they came to believe that they had traveled until 1792, just before the abolition of the French monarchy.
One of the most infamous alleged “time slip” incidents, witnessed by witnesses Charlotte Anne Moberly (1846-1937) and Eleanor Jourdain (1863-1924), was dramatized by ITV in 1981. The women, both academics, claimed having been taken back to Versailles in 1792.
In 1965, a biographer of the French poet and aristocrat Robert de Montesquiou, Philippe Jullian, proposed an innocent mistake in which the two women had crashed an 18th-century themed party hosted by the poet and his eccentric friends. (Above, a still from the ITV film version)
The book, published under assumed names, caused a sensation and the couple later claimed to have had other supernatural experiences, including seeing Emperor Constantine at the Louvre.
Theories abound about what may have really happened to Moberly and Jordain during that fateful trip to Versailles.
In 1965, a biographer of the French poet and aristocrat Robert de Montesquiou, Philippe Jullian, proposed an innocent mistake in which the two women had accidentally crashed an 18th-century themed party hosted by the poet and his eccentric friends.
Although by no means definitive, Jullian maintains that de Montesquiou organized such evenings and that his circle was exactly the type that could maintain its character with strangers.
As podcasters dove into the topic, the McCabes think that some “time slip” experiences may also come from the fact that people are familiar with the idea through television and movies, so When something unusual happens, it’s a ready-made explanation.
But for Garrido, and others like him, a concrete explanation for what happened during his curious episode is often less important than the life-changing change in his own thinking that arose from his perceived “time slip.”
“No one knows what happens after death, but this experience changed my vision,” Garrido told DailyMail.com.
“It made grieving a little easier, although grieving is never easy.”
