I experienced a ‘time slip’ that doctors say aren’t possible

Sebastian Garrido was traveling to visit his dying grandfather in the hospital when he suffered a ‘time slip’ that changed his view of what happens after we die.

A ‘time slip’, often dramatized in science fiction, is defined as a moment when someone accidentally travels through time – but Garrido said his all-too-real ‘time slip’ struck him on the street when he encountered a mysterious figure in the saw in the neighborhood.

He told DailyMail.com that there was a mysterious figure standing by the roadside, and on closer inspection it turned out that it was his grandfather, but younger, as he was in his forties or fifties.

“It’s nice to meet you here, everything will be fine. Tell your father I’m fine,” the man said before disappearing.

During the grisly encounter, Garrido, 26, said he “got goosebumps and then threw up.” He then ran to the hospital to visit his current grandfather, where he discovered the man was still alive and resting in his bed with only a few weeks left to live.

When Garrido arrived at the hospital, his grandfather said, “I saw you in a dream.”

Although there is no scientific evidence to support time slips, doctors have suggested that these experiences may be related to déjà vu, external stimuli affecting the brain, or simply just one way some people cope psychologically with trauma.

‘Time shifts can be explained by electromagnetic fields,’ says psychologist Buckinghamshire New University Dr. Ciaran O’Keeffe wrote for the Daily Mail in June.

“Research by Canadian academics shows that such energy fields can cause hallucinations,” Dr. O’Keeffe explained, “by playing with signals in the brain.”

But although the psychologist himself does not believe in the phenomenon of time shifts, he admits that modern physics does not rule this out.

“If you’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s science fiction film Interstellar – or even know Einstein – you will be aware that time is not necessarily linear,” he argued in his essay.

Garrido, like many other experts, said it felt very real. The life-changing experience took place in 2021 while Garrido was in college and was supported throughout his studies by his grandfather, Hiram Garrido, with whom he was very close.

Hiram died at the age of 86.

Garrido described the encounter as the “strangest experience of his life” and said he has never experienced anything like it before or since – apart from a childhood episode where he saw someone in a dream and then saw someone in real life who was identical was.

He said his experience with this “time slip” and other traumas he experienced around 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 admitted. ‘I was very emotional during those weeks.’

“I felt closer to my grandfather, and even though it was strange, I think it was his way of reassuring me that everything would be okay, despite his impending death,” he said. ‘It was a difficult time.’

According to Garrido, the experience changed his view of life and made it easier to think that there might be some form of life or consciousness after death.

Before the experience, Garrido was uncertain in his views, but meeting 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.

Stories of “time slips” 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 sincerely believe they have momentarily ‘slipped through’ time.

DailyMail.com also spoke to podcasters Carrie and Sean McCabe from ‘Isn’t it scary?,” who researched the subject. The podcasters said “time slip” reports are common, but less common than Bigfoot sightings and UFO encounters.

And yet certain ‘time slip’ stories have achieved cult status, they told DailyMail.com.

“The most famous and craziest story is the ‘Moberly-Jordain Incident’ at the turn of the century,” McCabe said.

The alleged incident, as revealed 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 they ran out of time during a visit to the Palace of Versailles in France, the famous former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV.

As they would later claim in their best-selling 1911 book: An adventurethe couple became lost in the Petit Trianon castle 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 everything suddenly looked unnatural, and then they saw a lady in an old-fashioned dress who was sketching and looked at them.

After the pair compared their notes, they came to believe that they had traveled back to 1792, just before the abolition of the French monarchy.

The book, published under assumed names, caused a sensation and the couple later claimed to have had further supernatural experiences, including seeing Emperor Constantine at the Louvre.

Theories abound as to what might have really happened to Moberly and Jordain during that fateful trip to Versailles.

In 1965, Philippe Jullian, a biographer of the French poet and aristocrat Robert de Montesquiou, proposed an innocent mistake in which the two women had accidentally disrupted an 18th-century themed party held by the poet and his eccentric friends.

Although certainly not definitive, Jullian argues that De Montesquiou organized such soirées and that his circle was precisely the type that could stay in character with strangers.

As podcasters delve into the subject, the McCabes think some ‘time slip’ experiences may also stem from the fact that people are familiar with the idea from TV and film – so when something unusual happens, it’s a side-effect -clear statement.

But for Garrido, and others like him, a concrete explanation for what happened during their peculiar episode is often less important than the life-altering shift in their own mindset that resulted from their perceived “time slip.”

“No one knows what happens after death, but this experience has changed my opinion,” Garrido told DailyMail.com.

“It made the grief a little easier, even though grief is never easy.”