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Do you mean he sort of "wakes up" in someone else's head? That's one of the well-established ways of alternate universe travel in fiction. Or is the universe changing around him and he's the only one who notices... oh, dear, this comment is more relevant to Bear's idea than yours, isn't it?

Ok, maybe your guy... has two bodies? Or maybe a time machine so he can live the same moment over as a different person?

Oh wel. Three weeks from today, it begins!

Or maybe a time machine so he can live the same moment over as a different person?

I think that's it. He knows what he is doing and somewhere behind it there's a purpose. He's not just playing politics, but there is a greater cause. I just need to figure that part out...

I once had a story idea... perhaps one of you well-read types would be able to tell me if it has been done or if it is actually a new idea.

The story is the life of a one dollar bill... or rather all the people it passes to in it's lifetime. bank teller passes it to a grandpa who give it to his grandchild who draws a happy face on it and his initials, and saves it up until he has enough money to buy a bike. The store owner has it and gives it out in change to someone else who drops it. The bum who finds it and uses it to buy wine. That store owner is robbed and it passes to a crook who uses it to buy drugs. A woman has it who is trying to come up with enough money for rent. The landlord passes it to someone else, and so on and so on...

I don't have any of it worked up, I just made up all those scenarios off the top of my head, but the idea is that it passes from hand to hand, some people are ordinary, some extraordinary, some buy simple things, some unusual, years pass and it goes all over the place, and ends up back in the hands of the original little boy a long time later, tattered and worn, but he recognizes the smiley face and his initials on it and wonders where it has been.