- But first, imagine you
can actually go back in time
to visit any moment in your life.
There's this guy from San
Fransisco who's done just that.
He built his own time
machine so he can go back
to all sorts of moments in
the past year of his life.
All right, let's get him on the line
to tell us all about it.
Lucas, can you hear me?
- Hi, Kelly.
- Hey, what's up Lucas, how are you doing?
- I'm doing fantastic.
- So you really built a time
machine, so explain what it is.
- So, yeah, I built the closest thing
to a realized time machine.
And the way that this one's
done is that basically in 2019
I was doing a little bit of a gap here,
so, I decided to take a year
off to travel the world,
see what's out there,
find out what I wanted to do with my life,
all of those young people things.
And because I have a really bad memory,
I forget everything.
I've forgotten my birthday at airports,
all this sorts of things,
I decided to wear these for a year.
So these aren't just spectacles,
they're camera glasses
that record footage from
your point of view in 3D.
And I wasn't planning on
making a time machine at first
so I just recorded my life for 2019
just as some record keeping measure.
But then quarantine hit.
And I was so, so bored and I
was sitting on all this footage
then I was like, "But wait,
what if I get virtual reality
and all this stuff that I collected."
Then I built a real time machine
that lets me re-live 2019.
And the timing works out
because living in 2020 right now
is a little bit of a chore, so,
and yeah, it was super exciting
and I learnt tons of interesting things
about the human mind.
- So, what have you learnt about yourself
during this process, watching it all back?
- Yeah, so there's a very
interesting thing that happens
when you get to watch yourself
live life as an outsider.
I got a very unique perspective
of just like,
I got to understand myself
as a different person
like how I walk on environments,
how I talk to people,
just how I conduct myself.
And there's so much you learn
just by watching yourself
live life like that
and every now and then during my travels
whenever I saw something
that really resonated with me
or made me have a spike of emotions,
I would just start
talking to my future self,
just talking to the camera.
Sometimes it would be
just to show something,
but sometimes it would be just to have
an actual conversation, ask
my future self how he's doing,
tell a little bit about how I'm feeling
and just having this
dialogue with future me.
And I didn't think much of it at all
until I started seeing those
memories in the time machine.
It's just so weird to be able
to communicate with yourself
across time and have this conversations.
And what I realized is that
during those conversations
I was being extremely kind to myself
and that's not usually the case.
I'm very harsh on myself in general,
I'm very demanding, sometimes
I'm even my worst enemy
and my worst bully.
But seeing myself be so
kind to me across time
and watching myself as an outsider
really taught me to be kinder to myself.
And-
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that's the gist of the art,
it's really perspectives.
- And we are all always
under construction,
especially for (audio glitch)
or trying to just be better.
Well, thank you so much
Lucas for joining us.
- Bye Kelly, thank you.
