>What would it take for you to be convinced after you wake up this morning that you had this condition and the year was actually 2035 right now? Looking in the

>What would it take for you to be convinced after you wake up this morning that you had this condition and the year was actually 2035 right now? Looking in the mirror? Even getting out of bed? I mean seriously, it seems straight forward, albeit with a minor complication. On the simple side, well 15 years quite a while right? A mirror and the feeling of moving around and my own body alone would drive home it wasn't 2020 quite directly. My significant other/kids/family will be changed (this may also be immensely painful, beloved pets will certainly be gone and maybe some family too). Friends, jobs, companies, all will be different. Not just the news but the environment in general will probably be pretty different in many places. And of course as this is HN, by 2035 there will be fairly massive technology changes one way or another too. Wearable displays, far more ubiquitous connected stuff, etc., or if not only because of devastating societal changes which themselves would be fairly obvious. I guess one minor complication though is that an inability to form long term memories would mean that new things and tech couldn't be persistently learned either, and in turn there'd be direct reason to keep much of your home frozen in time to keep things more comfortable, which might slightly disrupt belief for a short period (before aging made it impossible to ignore). Anything that couldn't be relearned in a matter of minutes would probably be disfavored. Even in theoretical future shock type scenarios where somebody wakes up after being frozen or something, there is the inherent fact usually that they can at least start learning about what they missed and begin building a new life. Not being able to do that would be particularly painful, so much incredible cool stuff but not being able to hack on it. Future shock every single day. Somebody talked about checking their phone, but in 2005 we didn't have smartphones at all, and in 2035 we may not either (because they'll all have been obsoleted by advanced WDs or implants or who knows). Far better AI assistants though could probably be a big differentiator. Full human quality natural language interaction, a full daily rundown and routine, explanations and handling advanced tech, it'd be a clear change that could be experienced and probed conversationally. But my real hope would be that by 2035 neuroscience has advanced enough to be able to deal with it!