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p.s If you want to perceive time as going slower look at your watch every five minutes or so and the days will take forever
Originally posted by zigmeister
reply to post by 1littlewolf
I totally agree. And I could see the possibility of this if a rouge wormhole was present, or even a time displacement phenomenon. But I find it difficult to believe the human mind has influence over one of the most mysterious, fundamental, and complicated force in the cosmos. I see it sort of like willing gravity to dissapear. It's just not going to happen. But speeding/slowing time sounds an awful lot like time dilation as apprised to time "warp".
Originally posted by TinkerHaus
Time is constant, your perception is not. (at least time is constant for all practical purposes for you and I.)
Remember the phrase "time flies when you're having fun?" There's a reason we've all heard it.
Time passes quickly for me in the shower too - especially if it's a "just woke up" shower.edit on 13-11-2011 by TinkerHaus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by autowrench
Greetings, thanks for posting this. I have come onto to this glitch in time a few times before. The best one was in Indiana, where I lived for a long time. There is a crossroads, and driving over in a car has no effect whatsoever. But walk across, ride a bicycle, or even a motorcycle over the crossroads, you lose one hour's time, each and every time. We began to notice this after I obtained my HD motorcycle. I would ride to, or from work, and be an hour late every time. Took me a long time to figure it all out. You cannot "feel" anything, when you cross it is quite normal, but that hour is gone forever.
Originally posted by mistermonculous
reply to post by 1littlewolf
I played around a little bit with this, and with the most mundane of aims: to cut a few minutes off a bike commute.
I left @ 1:45. It takes me a half hour to bike to my destination, and I was due there at 2:00. AS I rode, I imagined myself in a discrete bubble of time, bobbing along in the linear course. I imagined accelerating my bubble "downstream".
I noticed no perceptible differences in my environment. Cars drove at their regular rates, no spatial stuff, everything normal. But!
I arrived at my destination @ 1:55. I had managed to shave 20 min. off my commute, and was pretty freaked out about that. I hesitate to muck around with time distortion, as I've no idea what I'm doing, nor how I do it.
Originally posted by 1littlewolf
And it all seems to be over in like 5 minutes. Yet when I step out guaranteed nearly half an hour minimum seems to have elapsed.
Originally posted by zigmeister
reply to post by 1littlewolf
Touché, touché. You're persistent, and that's admirable. I'm really not a "sciency" guy, per se, rather, I just like to check known channels before leaning towards something that science can't explain. I'm not completely devoid of spirituality. I practice Buddhist meditation techniques. I've even attempted spells, to an actual degree of success. And I do know of the influence of the human mind on a quantum level. People can tune their quantum states to an entangled state, and practice quantum telepathy (not very practical, but amazing nonetheless.) Time dilation is very real, and not just a calculational discrepancy, as wormholes may be. I have no letters after my name, rather years of independent research. I wholly agree. Science isn't always the means to explain things. On a scale it attempts to analyze and process nature, but it can't tell us about our own consciousness, or what's after death. It can't tell us the origins of everything, and it never will. Don't get the wrong idea when I try to use science, I'm only trying to rationalize things to myself. And I can sometimes be over analytical. You are right on, when you say that science isn't always the answer.
Originally posted by zigmeister
reply to post by 1littlewolf
Ahh chaos magic. Belief is a powerful tool, indeed. I do remember things being overly complicated. In one instance I required tapered candles, with certain runic inscriptions, parchment made from the skin of a calf, a silver bowl, filled with an herb-water mixture, and a mirror that would fit into the bowl and float. Some of these things, I had to drive for an hour to acquire. Not to mention, I had to chant for an hour, and burn each of my fingers. Lol. It worked, though. But I attribute that more to my state of mind, or my belief that it would happen, rather than the ritual itself. The mind can and almost certainly does have influence on its surroundings. But it does, imo, require more than willpower. You need a fundamental understanding o the workings of the mind, and of the environment.