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If you have already gone through our lists of Would You Rather questions and confusing questions to ask your friends, now would be the appropriate time for some What if questions just to add to that turmoil state left by the previous queries. So if you are ready for some good What if questions to mull over, keep reading!
Many of us play the What if game quite a lot in our heads. We often catch ourselves thinking, what if we had done something differently? What if what we did was wrong? While learning from past mistakes is good, the past can't be changed, so there's no reason for it to occupy so much space in your head. Overthinking isn't the same as healthy problem-solving and is literally good for naught.
However, there are plenty of What if game questions and deep questions to ask that will not put you in a bad mood or leave you worried. On the contrary, asking thought-provoking, deep questions or just asking questions in general builds emotional intelligence and, most importantly, helps you learn. No wonder most dialogues with children consist of questions and answering them!
Whether to learn more about yourself, get to know your friends better, or simply fantasize, the What if game is great for either! Below, we've compiled a list of What if questions to ask to rack one's brain and hopefully establish stronger connections with people. Is there a What if question on the list that got your brain hurting or sparked a heated debate? Let us know!
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#1
What if you dropped everything to pursue your dreams?
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I'm not really sure what my dreams are at this point. Survival has been key as long as I can remember.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Gainning the lotery, starting a cat sanctuary for all the Strays i could find, maybe get that Pickup truck colection that i always wanted, and making a house similar to the One of ," Tony Stark " from the Marvel movies, yes i could live with that.
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#2
What if you woke up and discovered you were the only person on earth?
Kookamunga 3 years ago
Are there animals? I can make it if there are some animals. But I'll be lonely without being able to talk to another human, too.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago (edited)
We have the highest cliff in Europe " cabo girão " 680m of sheer vertical drop, i would use it. I like being Alone, but i need people to live, imagine having no One to talk, to fall in love with, yea death os a better fate.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I think I'll be alright. It would be tough but I'll survive for a while.
#3
What if you switched places with your pet?
Kookamunga 3 years ago
I love my cat, but the hairball thing - that looks awful, no thanks. hairball-6...5659f4.jpg 
Tamra 3 years ago
Then I'd be living a sweet life filled with lots of love, a soft, warm bed, and lots of belly rubs. Pooping outside might bother me, though.
Nathaniel 3 years ago
It does not bother you pooping outside now, so why would that change if you were the pet?
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In any other ocasion i'd say it would be amazing, however lmao, i just made the apointment at the vet to snip my male cat " marbles " friday, só..... No thanks.
#4
What if there was no electricity for a year anywhere in the world?
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago (edited)
You see the movie " the purge " It would be like that but every day.....
#5
What if you found out your spouse had another family in another state?
Kookamunga 3 years ago
Doesn't matter where he's located. The other family could be across the street and I'd be upset.
K W 3 years ago
I've not had the experience of a spouse with an extra family but I have had a spouse with an entire hidden split life and it messed me up for a long time. It made me realize those craziest Law and Order episodes aren't just over dramatized fiction but that stuff happens to real people. I can also relate a lot to shows/movies where somebody close turns out to be an alien/pod person/monster. It's also just super scary because if a person can live two completely different lives like that and lie to everyone there's a fear they can be capable of anything since they don't care about society's rules. Luckily my spouse didn't turn out to be physically dangerous but the psychological, financial, and emotional fallout was bad.
#6
What if you suddenly understood your dog (or cat)?
#7
What if owls showed up with a letter telling you that you were a wizard?
#8
What if you found a genie lamp? Would you rub it? What would you wish for?
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I'd give it a rub and see what happens. Three wishes or one? One wish, I'd go with a trillion dollars. I can help sooo many people and animals with that cash.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Fortune, power, and happyness, fortune to help the ones i love ( mostly cats i love cats ), power to stop the s**t i see everyday like that f*****g Russian c**t, and happyness because having money and power widout happiness its useless.
Alan White 3 years ago
That all billionaires and corporations paid taxes like the rest of us and couldn't shift their tax burden to wherever is cheapest
Kady LaHaie 3 years ago
I would not rub it. I've read those stories and it always ends up bad.
#9
What if you could take a serum that would block fear forever?
Alexia 3 years ago (edited)
I'd definitely refuse. Fear is a natural reaction triggered by your limbic system, which is responsible with your survival. It signals potential danger and helps you stay out of danger's way. Why would you want to block it?
Robert B 3 years ago
I’m already not smart enough to be afraid of almost everything I’ve encountered personally so far. I don’t like medical stuff, shots especially. I’d take it. On the plus side, I’m too broke and too much of a homebody to actually go seek out situations to test it. I’m 38 and barely made it here, my days of doing dumb s**t are over( for now).
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Jodie Gastel 3 years ago
I have 3 people in my life who are paralyzed by fear due to C- PTSD from severe childhood abuse. I'd give/offer it to them in a heartbeat so they could live the second halves of their lies being able to function.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago (edited)
I don't think I will. I do fear a lot of things but it helps me stay out of harms way.
#10
What if all the oceans dried up?
#11
What if you could spend your life never sleeping? What would you do with the extra hours in each day?
Alexia 3 years ago (edited)
My brain would probably be very confused. Sleeping is not a waste of time. It's a time of complex brain processes that involve several organs and systems. So thanks but no thanks, I'd rather sleep. I would change, however, my chronotype - from "night owl" to "early riser" :))
#12
What if you could live anywhere in the world? Where would you live?
#13
What if you were excellent at a sport? Which sport would you choose and why?
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Football(soccer). I already play but I'm rubbish at it. Being skilled would be nice.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Rally i love rally, the only reason i never tryed it its because its frikking expencive.
#14
What if you had a friend that you spoke to the same way you speak to yourself? Would that friend stay your friend?
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Yea, i speak to my friends the same way i speak to me, and i demanda they do the same lol, but then again i have Aspergers só, its not like i have a choices...
#15
What if you were chosen to go into space?
Kookamunga 3 years ago
I wouldn't - I ask them to take all that money and help the people that are already on THIS planet.
#16
What if you could talk to animals? What would you say or ask?
Kookamunga 3 years ago
Create a Cat Army (trained and motivated with salmon & chicken). Our motto: "We Sit on Those Who Dislike Us!" cat-army-6...d92e6b.jpg 
#17
What if you could snap your fingers and food appeared? What food would you want to show up?
Kookamunga 3 years ago
This giant mozzarella stick from this restaurant in New Jersey. mozz-stick...b4290f.jpg 
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
There's a dish at a restaurant in Colorado that has a dish that has biscuits and gravy on hash browns with eggs smothered in green chili. One of the best meals I've ever had.
#18
What if you could change the price of any item at the store to $1? What would you change?
pat martin 3 years ago
Food. Save gas, and have to work less to afford everything else and have more time for my fam and farm. I have a family of 6, sick wife, and 4 teenage kids. Food be 'spensive!
#19
What if you died and had to haunt something or someone? Who or what would you haunt?
pat martin 3 years ago
Biker bar bathroom. I love scattergories and to teach grown men it's ok to cry🥲
#20
What if you could create your own fashion trend? What would it be?
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago (edited)
Sweat pants and t-shirts all the time every time, and shorts in hot weather. Lol
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago (edited)
Butt naked, as nature intended, and as i normaly walk at home, just don't do it outside because the " Nice men in blue with the flashy flashy blue lights car " would take me away.
#21
What if you woke up to a zombie apocalypse?
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Bah just let them eat me, staying Alive on those conditions is way to troublesome and not really Worth it.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I've seen enough zombie movies to know I'd be dead within the first day. The zoologist in me would say first find a safe space to observe. See what they can and can't do then find a place to set up shelter, possibly in the forest but where I can forage for food and have a good supply of running water (not close enough to be eaten by mosquitoes). Figure out how I'm gonna keep warm or cook without raising any alarms.
Kady LaHaie 3 years ago
Plywood. Nails. Hammer. Cover windows and doors. Stack basement with water and food and guns. I already know how to can, bake bread, live without power. I can sew, pickle and process a deer. I have a thousand books. See ya in 20 years.
#22
What if you became a transformer? What vehicle would you want to be?
#23
What if you lost all your memories except for one? Which would you keep?
#24
What if money cannot buy happiness? Can one be happy with no money?
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Yes you can be happy with no money but money will give you the comfort to focus on what makes you happy.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Like a wise troll once Said, " money does not being happiness, but its a lot more confortable to cry in the massaging leather seat of a Maybach, than in a bus seat... )
lenka 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, one can be happy with no money but its easier to be happy when you are not stressing about rent, food, bills, getting sick etc, and even easier if you have enough money to pursue the things that do make you happy - even if thats just enough to buy a good pair of hiking boots (for eg).
#26
What if you could change one awful event in world history, but it might mean you would never have been born?
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
It's a strong tie between Hitler's holocaust and Columbus' genocide.
#27
What if you could have a free chip put in your child’s brain to provide all basic knowledge – math, language, and history facts, etc.?
#28
What if you woke up and could not speak your native language, but only one that you could not understand?
#29
What if you discovered you could heal diseases?
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Id move to the US, and in no time Besus and Musk would be my bitches lol.
#30
What if you had three wishes? What would you wish for?
Jodie Gastel 3 years ago
1. The ability to always know the best decision to make that would have the best outcome for as many people, including myself, as possible. The rest will take care of itself.
#31
What if you could read minds?
Kookamunga 3 years ago
Only if I could turn it on and off easily - if it's just a free flow of other people's thoughts, that's a no-go.
#32
What if you could choose how you were going to die?
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
I'd want to go like my grandfather, peaceful in his sleep. Definitely not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.
#33
What if you were allowed to eat only one food for the rest of your life? Which food would you choose and why?
#34
What if your closet led to a magical land?
#35
What if you found out your mom or dad was actually a spy?
#36
What if you got stranded on a deserted island for 5 years?
#37
What if you could do one thing so well you could be famous? What would you do?
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Novels, i had a gf that Said i was amazing at writting, and that i should try it, but the thing is..... Im embatased of trying to write " adult books " só never tried it.
#38
What if you could invent a new food? What would it taste like?
#39
What if you were at a bank and robbers came in?
#40
What if you could stop time whenever you wanted to?
#41
What if aliens landed in your back yard?
#42
What if you had to live one day over and over again? What would your chosen day be like?
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Ah, for sure the day my 1st GF, showed me She was interested in me
#43
What if you woke up and were twenty years younger? Older?
#44
What if you were dreaming about your teeth falling out, and you woke up to find that they had?
#45
What if you were a tree? What would you say to those who walk by?
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago (edited)
Nothing, i would just do haunting noises, and laugh my a*s off at the people running away in panic.
#46
What if you could only wear one set of clothes for the rest of your life? What would you choose to wear and why?
#48
What if you had to choose between Christmas and your birthday? What would you do?
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
Having a birthday so close to Christmas there was often not a choice.
#49
What if you found out you were actually a princess or prince? What would you do?
#50
What if you could colonize Mars? Would you?
#53
What if you started a secret society? What would it be about?
#58
What if you found out that you were really a clone of someone else?
#60
What if you needed to take in and raise someone else’s kids? What would you do?
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Call social servisses, i have Aspergers lol Im barelly fit to take care of a cat, imagine frikking kids lmao.
#61
What if someone wrote a story about you? Would you be a considered a hero or a villain in your story?
#62
What if we found live dinosaurs living on a remote island?
#63
What if you could find a cure for a disease? Which one would you want to cure?
#64
What if you could not make your own decisions, but you had to choose someone else to make them for you? Who would you choose and why?
#65
What if you were badly injured in an accident and your car ran off the road and was hidden from site?
Jodie Gastel 3 years ago
*sight And I'd hope that once I went missing, the people for whom I have granted access to my "where am I" tracking on Google Maps could use that info and give it to rescuers.
#67
What if you found out your house was infested with snakes?
#68
What if you had the chance to write a best-selling novel? Would it be a romance, mystery, or factual historical account?
#69
What if you could marry someone famous, either living or dead?
#70
What if you could only wear one color the rest of your life? Which color would you choose and why?
#71
What if you lost everything tomorrow? Who would you run to for comfort?
#72
What if you never had to work again? Would you? What would you do?
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
" putas e vinho verde " lol ( Portuguese expression, don't Google it lmao ) i would for sure get some of my dreams, 1st One by far would be a cat sanctuary, then travel, get my dreams house, etc etc etc.
#73
What if you could send a short message to the entire world? What would you say?
#75
What if you could watch a movie about everything that happened in your life until now? Would you enjoy it?
#76
What if you had to teach someone one thing? What would you teach?
#77
What if you had to choose between a wonderful romantic spouse to whom you would be married for only a few years or a boring, unromantic spouse for your entire life? Which would you choose and why?
#78
What if you used every moment of your life productively?
#80
What if you found a way to get really rich very quickly that was illegal?
#81
What if you had to choose between great wealth or great wisdom?
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
Well that depends, does getting one mean you'll never have the other? I think if you had great wisdom you could use it to acquire great wealth.
#84
What if you had to lose a body part? Which would you choose to give up and why?
Jodie Gastel 3 years ago
Internal or external? Internal: uterus. It's served me well, now it's only pain, inconvenience, and fear. External: boobs. They, too, have served me well. Now they are just in the way and inconvenient.
#86
What if you woke up and discovered you had changed sexes over night?
#98
What if you could have free, unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, a handsome chauffeur, or daily house cleaner? Which would you choose?
#99
What if you could have any one supernatural power (reading minds, great strength, flying, or being invisible)? Which would you choose and why?
#100
What if you found out you were really a robot?
#101
What if you could rename any city in the world? What city would you change the name to and why?
#104
What if the roles reversed and animals became humans and humans became animals?
#109
What if you had to choose between being a kid forever and growing up right now? Which would you choose?
#111
What if unicorns were real?
#112
What if you treated Monday like it were Friday? How would it be different?
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
Whenever anyone gets excited about Friday I get excited and say "One day closer to Monday!"
#113
What if you became the first person to do something? What would you want that first to be?
#123
What if you had to go through a natural disaster, but you could choose which one? What would you choose?
#125
What if you had one body part that started growing and wouldn’t stop? What would you want it to be?
#126
What if humans learned to tap into the rest of their brains and we became twice as intelligent?
#136
What if you could relive any moment in your life whenever you wished to? Which moment would you choose and why?
#141
What if you had to choose between money or no love or love and no money? Which would you choose and why?
#147
What if you could only live somewhere that was always above 100 degrees? Always below freezing?
What do you think ?
Miss Ann Thrope 3 months ago
I think asking someone what their passion is is a good idea. it's usually different from what they do for a living and will tell you more about what's important to them. If it's sports or video games, that tells you all you need to know about them. If it's something creative, reading, you know they are another kind of person.
Miss Ann Thrope 3 months ago
I think asking someone what their passion is is a good idea. it's usually different from what they do for a living and will tell you more about what's important to them. If it's sports or video games, that tells you all you need to know about them. If it's something creative, reading, you know they are another kind of person.
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