If you went back in time… what would you do? Let’s say back to more ancient times. I know that I would improve my quality of life to bring it up to standards with how I’m used to living in modern times. Hypothetically if I went to ancient Greece… I’d keep my house nice, hygienic and clean, I’d “invent” things that would keep up with mundanities in life. Perhaps umbrellas weren’t invented, that could easily be fashioned out of tied sticks and layers of leather. Or maybe mechanical systems weren’t widely used and implemented. Just maybe certain combinations of material and design weren’t put together. Language I used would be noticed and seen as odd. If someone asked why I was how I was I could say it’s psychology, then break it down into parts, or that I have certain disorders and what those mean. To me, all these things are common and easily accessible to learn in our time. But back then, they’d be eccentric, strange, out of place.
I like to imagine, perhaps through some lens of delusion, that this would be the correct case made for those who claim to be from other worlds or more advanced species, civilization, or what not. Perhaps this is a measurable and more confirmable way to tell if someone could indeed be used to alternative means of living in reality. A step towards learning mundanities that aren’t just odd but are instead for a different time, or people.
The measure of how confirmable and practical would be difficult to gauge. What inventions could someone reasonably “reinvent” but in our time, or how to tell what behaviour was modified to accompany a lack of something that otherwise would be there. If I went to ancient Greece but didn’t know what an umbrella was though had the impulse to raise something high over my head the spans my comfort zone and immediate surroundings I’d be a bit confused.
I think when it comes to these impulses the individual should understand as much of themselves as possible to know what may accompany or lead astray from the true cause of it.