Playing with time?

[Steve 2B]

Hi,

I've noticed periodically, when I'm awakening first thing in the morning I get some odd effects...I'm not sure whether I'm having a focus 15 experience/overlay, or something? What happens is I'll be laying there, just enjoying being warm and cozy and I can hear my alarm clock ticking (After I've switched the alarm off), in the background. I'd think to myself 'Gee this is nice, it'd be nice to slow time down, so I can just stay here a while longer' LoL. So I lie there and listen to the ticking in a sort of absent minded way, could swear that the spaces between ticks gets longer and longer, to the point where I just don't seem to hear them anymore. I'll then wander off into some reverie, mulling things over for what really seems ages and all of a sudden think YIKES! what's the time? I'll be late for work!! My eyes will snap to the clock, see only a few minutes has gone by.

Anyone ever experience this?


Steve

[MisterJingo]

The deeper into trance I have been, the slower time seems to go (or the slower I can make it go). On one occasion time was so slow I actually started to get worried.

[dmoney]

sounds a lot like this http://home.xtra.co.nz/hosts/Wingmakers/Chronokinesis.html

[Cereal-N-Milk]

yeah that happend to me twice last week. Once on monday and again on friday. On monday was i was mad tired when my mom told me to wake up and i just though that i want to rest some more, and then I closed my eyes, and after what seemed like 45 minutes, i looked at the clock and it was only like 8 minutes past.

[Stevo]

It's not that you slow down time, it's that you speed up your awareness.

In my oppinion, of course.

[Stookie]

I'm a music lover. When I go to a concert or just listen to really good music, time disappears. For example, I was at a concert last Friday night. Late in the night a friend asked me what time it was and all I could say was "somewhere between 11:30 and 3:00". I truly lose all sense of time.

[Selski]

Hi Steve and everyone

I have the exact same experiences as Steve.  I wake up to the alarm going off at 6.30am and I know I have 10-15 minutes before I have to get up.

I lie there and sometimes I drift so far that when I return, I am convinced it is midday.  And perhaps 90 seconds have gone by  

The worst is when I accidentally drift into a sort of semi-lucid dream and I'm dreaming that I'm late for work in that I've woken up and it's 3pm and there's no point in driving to work, but I have to ring my boss to explain and I'm so embarrassed - aaarrggghhh!  It's such a relief to find that only 5 minutes have gone by.   :dance:

Sarah

[MisterJingo]

Perhaps I shouldn't mention experiences from my past here - but there was one occasion on a certain substance where time nearly stopped.  The second hand on a clock was going so slow it had nearly stopped. I got a bit freaked out so would walk around my apartment – and after around 45 minutes (perceived time) I'd go back to my room to look at the clock and only a minute had gone by. At one point I took a very long shower – got back to my room and 3 minutes or so had gone by.

That has never happened before or since, but it showed me how real time dilation can be even when one is quite conscious and aware.

[Ben K]

slowed time is a sign of subjective perception. so yes you were not in the C1 state, but it probably wasnt F15. Probably a light trance.

People on drugs get the time dilation as well. its amazing to me there isnt a forum here for drugs because these two topics are so related(especially psychedelics). They are just another way to remove the veil, same as "astral projection" or "OBE" experiences.

Time is relative. Einstein figured that out relative is only another way of saying subjective.

The worst is when I accidentally drift into a sort of semi-lucid dream and I'm dreaming that I'm late for work in that I've woken up and it's 3pm and there's no point in driving to work, but I have to ring my boss to explain and I'm so embarrassed - aaarrggghhh! It's such a relief to find that only 5 minutes have gone by

haha this happens to me to- il dive into a dream concerning work because i just thought about turning my alarm clock to "snooze" and it sets off a chain reaction of work-thoughts. Sometimes it disturbes me enough to get off my lazy butt and get to work so its good for something!

[Tayesin]

Hi,
I always find that time spent in meditation or journeys seems like I am gone for ages, days even, while the clock shows 45 minutes to an hour has passed.

One time, I relived two or three days out of one life, half a day out of another and about three to four hours of another, all within the same journey, and saw that my house clock had only moved for just over two hours !

It made me understand that time is not real, unless you are having a perception of it. ha ha ha

[Stevo]

Tayesin,

Unlike the Easter Bunny, time is 'real'. Although it's more limited than we were to think. Time is directly related to space. It's the way matter keeps from being everywhere at the same time. Because if something is everywhere, how can it have depth, distance, or boundaries? Space wouldn't exist then.

The mind doesn't need space, so it doesn't need time. It is our bodies and our brains that percieve time. Otherwise a memory is no different than what we're currently experiencing to us.

So as it is real, it just doesn't effect very much.

[TishAnna]

What I've noticed to be interesting is that ever since I started initiating OBE's at will while awake a year ago, I can often "lose" time.  I get so engulfed in what I'm doing that I when look up at the clock, I notice that  a lot of time has passed, more time than what it used to take to finish a task.  I don't even remember doing all of the task neither.  It's kind of like when you drive down the road and don't remember the last 5 miles you drove, because you are on "auto pilot".  I go out of body at least once a week.  This "losing of time" is happening more and more lately.  I wonder if going out of body so much is altering my perception of time.