If you had the power to switch bodies with someone you know personally, who would it be and what would you do after swapping? Also, how long would you like the swap to last for?
There’s a neighbor kid I don’t especially like - young, lithe, athletic, arrogant. I’ll take a body swap, no problem, as long as I keep my own mind and memories. How long to stay swapped? For the rest of our lives, heh heh.
Donald Trump
It’d be a painful thing to do, I know, but I’d be able to to do something reasonable about the coronavirus response, then work to reverse some of his more ludicrous policy decisions. I might even be able to do some exercise and change his dietary habits while I’m in there.
When I couldn’t take it anymore, if I hadn’t found some positive evidence of his wrongdoing (or maybe the pee tape), I’d commit some obvious crime, like maybe shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight. Then I’d switch back.
I gotta say, when I first read this question I didn’t think much of it. But THIS?
Makes me the you’ve got the makings of a pretty good [del]Twilight Zone[/del] [del]Outer Limits[/del] [del]Night Gallery[/del] Black Mirror episode there.
ETA: TO the OP, it’s only fair that you get to set the parameters of the hypothetical. Does the switch (and switch back) have to be consensual on the part of both parties?
I missed the restriction to “people you know personally” in the OP. My apologies, but it’s still my fantasy. And I do feel, after all these years, that I know Trump. At least as much as I would like to.
Prince William. And yes, my motivation is impure, sorry Brits.
There was a story years ago in either Analog or Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine that featured this subject. I believe it started with “The first thing men do when switching to a woman’s body is feel their breasts. The first thing women do when switching to a man’s body is pee standing up.”
That’d be a great sci-fi story: a personal trainer who takes over your body and gets it back in shape while you inhabit a tank somewhere.
Cool, that’s very interesting…
No, let’s say the person you want to swap bodies with has no choice…
Interesting. What would you do after you swapped bodies with Prince William?
Thank you for that information. I would like to find and read that article sometime.
Cool, so you have thought of this idea before…
Significant other. I’d be currious to know what a female orgasm feels like. I’m also currious what it’s like to interact with the world as a woman.
A day should suffice.
People seem to be forgetting the part of the OP that days this is a swap or switch so presumably the person you switch with is also in your body right? That may change the choice.
I mean you want Donald Trump in your body?
I’d switch with Bob. He’s my dog. He seems to live a pretty decent life. And it would be hilarious to see him jumping around like an idiot in my trainwreck of a body.
My wife and I played this mind game, about switching with each other for a day. I knew I had the right woman when she said “No deal – I’d be afraid you wouldn’t give mine back”.
Yeah but then you have to, you know, make sweet love to yourself.
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The real Twilight Zone ending to that would be that he would only learn how to fake orgasms.
I’m thinking it has something to do with Kate…