Hypothetical Scenarios

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Creative 'what if' situations that test decision-making and values.

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If you could know the complete and honest answer to any one question, what would you ask?

You discover a pill that lets you experience synesthesia (mixing of senses, like 'seeing' sounds or 'tasting' colors) for 24 hours. Do you take it?

If you could create a new sense for humans (beyond the traditional five), what would it detect?

You can permanently increase one human ability for everyone on Earth. Which do you choose?

You find a store that sells memories in bottles. You can buy any memory and experience it as if it were your own. Whose memory do you purchase?

You discover a museum filled with items you've lost throughout your life. What's the first thing you look for?

You can add one bizarre but harmless feature to all humans. What evolutionary trait do you give us?

You find a magic pen that makes anything you draw become real, but the items disappear after 24 hours. What do you draw first?

If your biography was going to be written, which three people in your life would you want interviewed about you?

You can choose one extinct civilization to bring back and integrate into modern society. Which do you choose?

You discover a cave that allows you to speak to your alternate selves from parallel universes. What would you ask them?

If you could blend two different animals to create a new species, which would you combine and why?

If you could master any skill instantly, which would you choose and why?

You're given a box that can hold and preserve anything, but it can only be opened once every 10 years. What do you put in it?

If you could safely experience the sensation of any dangerous activity without risk, what would you try?

If you could create a new tradition that everyone in the world would follow, what would it be?

You discover a hidden room in your home that no one knew existed. What do you hope to find inside?

If plants could talk but only to their owners, how would your relationship with your houseplants change?

You're granted the power to make any two people or groups of people truly understand each other's perspectives. Who would you choose?

If you could make one historical event widely known that currently isn't, what would you choose?

If your home came alive and could speak to you about everything it has witnessed, would you want to have that conversation?

You discover a button that, when pressed, skips you ahead exactly one month in time. Would you ever use it?

You can give everyone in the world the same dream for one night. What dream do you choose?

You discover a restaurant that serves any meal from any point in history, perfectly recreated. What do you order?

You find a book that accurately predicts the weather anywhere in the world for the next 100 years. How would you use this information?

You discover a button that, when pressed, gives everyone in the world exactly what they need (not want). Do you press it?

You're granted the ability to make one meal that, no matter how many people share it, it would always be the best thing they've ever tasted. What would you cook?

If you could safely experience the world through the perspective of any person for 24 hours, who would you choose?

If you could replace all car horns with a sound of your choosing, what would it be?

You discover a headset that lets you enter the fictional world of any book while you read it. Which book do you read first?

If you could choose any fictional character to be your life coach for a year, who would you pick?

If you could safely teleport anywhere once per month, how would this change your life?

If you could have a conversation with any statue in the world, which would you choose?

You're given a time machine that can only take you to music concerts in the past. Which three would you attend?

You discover a bakery that can bake emotions into their goods, causing whoever eats them to feel that emotion. What do you order?

If you could merge any two existing cities to create a new one, which would you choose and why?

If you could change the color of the sky permanently, would you? What color would you choose?

If you could make one fictional technology real, what would it be and how would it change society?

You discover a library where books contain the lives of people not yet born. Whose future would you want to read about?

If you could relive your life with all your current knowledge but one major aspect of the world was different, what change would make for the most interesting life?

If your pet could answer three questions with complete honesty and understanding, what would you ask?

You're given the opportunity to create a new subject that will be taught in all schools. What subject do you create?

If you could create a new emotion that humans could feel, what would it be and in what situations would people feel it?

You discover you can understand and speak the secret language of inanimate objects for 24 hours. Which items would you talk to first?

You're given the ability to solve one global problem completely and permanently. Which do you choose?

If you could turn into a cloud for one day and travel anywhere on Earth, where would you go?

You can send a message to yourself 10 years ago, but it can only be 10 words long. What do you say?

You discover you can freeze time for everyone except yourself for one hour each day. How do you use this power?

If you could spend one day in the body of any living creature other than a human, what would you choose?

You wake up to discover that everyone on Earth has disappeared except for you and one other random person. What's your plan?

If you could pick any location on Earth to have a small home that no one could ever find unless invited, where would it be?

You discover a door that leads to a parallel universe where one major historical event happened differently. Which event do you hope it is?

You're offered complete fluency in a language that hasn't been spoken in 1,000 years. Which language do you choose?

If water could hold any flavor while remaining healthy and hydrating, what flavor would you want your tap water to be?

If you could have a lifetime supply of any one food without health consequences, what would you choose?

If you could choose one person in the world to swap lives with for a month, who would it be?

You find a magical photo album where you can alter any memory by changing the photo. Which memory would you modify?

You discover a hat that makes people tell you their honest thoughts about you. Do you wear it, and with whom?

You find a locket that, when opened, allows you to visit your memories and interact with them like a ghost (not changing anything, just observing). Which memories would you revisit?

You find a pair of glasses that allows you to see one year into the future when worn. How often would you wear them?

If you could give everyone in the world one identical physical characteristic, what would it be?

If you could have a miniature (mouse-sized) version of any animal as a perfectly loyal pet, what would you choose?

You discover a coffee shop where each beverage gives you a different superpower for exactly one hour. Which drink do you order first?

If you could redesign sleep for humans (how long, how often, what happens during it), what changes would you make?

You're given a device that lets you experience anyone's dreams. Whose dreams would you be most curious to explore?

If you could live in any fictional universe but as a background character, which would you choose?

You can choose one food to become completely nutritionally perfect (containing all necessary vitamins and nutrients). What food do you pick?

You discover a closet that contains the perfect outfit for any occasion, but whatever you take from it disappears at midnight. How do you use it?

You find a ring that makes you invisible but only when no one is looking for you. How would you use it?

If you could design a theme park attraction based on any experience from your life, what would it be?

You're given a box that produces a new, random, legal $100 bill once per day. How does your life change?

If you could create a new planet for humans to inhabit, what would be its most unique feature?

If you could add one feature to the human body that doesn't currently exist, what would it be?

You're offered perfect knowledge of either all human languages or all animal languages. Which do you choose?

If you could bring back one extinct animal species, which would you choose and why?

If you could instantly make any one place on Earth completely free of pollution and environmental damage, where would you choose?

You're given a plant that grows a different fruit each day, with each fruit having a unique magical property. What's the first property you hope for?

You're given $10,000 but must spend it all in a single day without buying assets or investments. What do you do?

You discover a tree whose fruit grants the ability to learn one subject instantly, but you can only eat from it once. What subject do you choose?

You discover a device that reveals the history of any object you touch. What objects would you be most curious about?

If your shadow became a sentient being for one day, what would the two of you do together?

You're offered a pill that would allow you to live to 200 in perfect health, but everyone would think you died at a normal age. Would you take it?

You're given a watch that lets you pause time for everyone except yourself, but you age normally while time is stopped. How would you use it?

You find a store that sells bottled emotions. Which one would you be most curious to try?

If you could broadcast one 30-second message to everyone in the world, what would you say?

If your home could grow one new room that would self-maintain forever, what kind of room would you want it to grow?

You're given a device that lets you taste any food or drink without actually consuming it. How would this change your relationship with food?

You find a mirror that shows you not your reflection, but how others genuinely see you. Would you look into it?

If you could choose one dream to have every night for the rest of your life alongside your regular dreams, what would it be?

If you could permanently swap two colors in the world (e.g., the sky is now green and grass is now blue), which would you switch?

If you could pick one person from history to see how the world has changed, who would you bring to the present?

You wake up and discover you're famous overnight for something you're proud of. What is it?

You discover you can communicate with animals for 24 hours. How do you use this ability?

If you could choose one fictional character to become real and be your roommate, who would you pick?

You're given a notebook where anything you write comes true, but each time you use it, something random in your life changes. Do you use it?

If you could have dinner with any three people, living or dead, who would you choose?

If you could create a new holiday that everyone would celebrate, what would it be for and how would people celebrate it?

You can instantly and painlessly change one physical feature of yourself. What do you change, if anything?

If you could create a new national park of unlimited size anywhere on Earth, where would you place it and what would it contain?

If clouds could be sculpted and would hold their shape permanently, what would you create in the sky?

If you could live one day of your life over again without changing anything, just to experience it once more, which day would you choose?

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