What if your character's experiences could count as your own?

A specific character or including multiple characters/stories? For the current story:

-Had a man come back from the future to warn me of trouble
-Talked to a ghost

If I draw across multiple stories then I would have also:

-Lived in the future
-Been rejected by my family for helping a stranger in trouble
-Had a son and then saved him from my satanic mother-in-law
-Chopped a person into pieces and stuffed them in a trash can
-Had a drinking problem
-Been eaten by a zombie

I don't want my characters' lives.

You mean, like, I got my late husband to eat the mushrooms?

I've gone back in time; got put in jail; fell in love with Benjamin Franklin's niece; searched for another time traveler bent on changing history; fought with the Continental Army; killed an evil scientist.

And, yes, this is all in one story.

Whooo, boy. Let's see... off the top of my head... would have been burned at the stake for witchcraft in Tudor England and been a whore in Newton, KS, during the Big Gun Fight therein.

I'll just throw out my favorite. I would have tried to eat the sun, and basically succeed at it

Died. A lot. In various ways. Natural death, stabbed in the back, strangled, burnt, smoke inhalation, soul forced out of body, exploded by magic...

Maybe I should stop killing so many characters.

...Nah.

Well, I'm a memoirist

what a fun thread!
I would have: been the cause of my mom's death *knocks on wood, crosses self*; broken my dad's only rule; nearly died from drowning twice and smoke inhalation once; failed at a love mission or two; been an amazing sketch artist; found artifact to break a curse; B&E. Nothing too crazy, I suppose ://

Hmm. Let's see. Some of my favorite characters. Some of which are not exactly "good guys".

-been tricked into climbing down a well to fight a demon
-been possessed by a bloodthirsty wood spirit that thrives on destruction
-tried to kill my best friend out of a twisted sense of honor and duty
-led a revolt against a slave trader
-spent a millennia periodically kidnapping infant girls to be brides for a dragon prince
-prowl the night alleys of a steampunk Victorian city, for fun and games, and people to eat


(The two that sound the worst are actually the protagonists of their stories. Go figure. )

I don't think I would like that very much... I wouldn't be alive... over, and over, and over, and over.

Let's see --

Dies, but gets better
Witnesses rape of sister
Gets possessed by another's soul
Survives apocalypse
Shoots a dead guy
Hears voices in my head