Is time an illusion?

Question

Do you not agree that time is a synthetic phenomenon, thus time becomes an illusion, and therefore time can be bended and twisted repeatedly? Doesn’t my hypothesis answer the un-natural occurrences that have been reported? In addition, isn’t it possible that our history, our present and our future are all occurring with in the same time period? As you are reading these questions who is to say that you weren’t meant to read these questions because you had already have done it and it was ought to happen? Thus, wouldn’t that mean that you are reading this question because there was no other option for this happening at this time, and I ask this question because I was meant to ask this question one way or another? And so you couldn't have changed this from happening because it had already happend and is happening and will happen in future?

In addition when you chose to answer this question wouldn't that be because you were meant to answer this question and if you chose not to answer who is to say you weren't meant to not answer this question?

Do you not agree that time was created on earth because of the day and night? Now imagine going to outer space and stay still at one place without any earthly technology. Do you think time still exists?

Answer 1

Think you hit the nail on the head in the second added paragraph. Time was created on earth because of day and night. Time is not necessarily an illusion, but a THOUGHTFORM, and one which has been perpetuated throughout history by human thinking - each and every day.

If humans upped sticks and moved to another planet in this solar system, we would probably 'take time with us' because the very entities of night and day would still exist on those planets, and would necessitate the creation of another 'time thoughtform' in our minds. We have a sense of time, and we even have things to measure it by, but I don't think it is a physical thing, just a mentality.

Those are just my thoughts. Einstein did think that time was physical, and could bend around the curvature of the Earth. So you could time travel, starting at a particular moment in time, and move so far round this trajectory that you could come back and find yourself again. By the 'you' which does the time travelling and finds the 'you' at your starting point, would be you in the future, observing you in the past.

Answer 2

If time is an illusion, how can anything be fixed in it, in something that is really non-existent.

That is to say, time is not an illusion but something around which the illusion of our life has been created. We wrap our lives around time, giving it all the importance it never demanded by us, it is we who want to be fixated on time, not the other way around.

Time is a continuum. But it is also a linear flow that creates spiral out of itself so that it appears as if everything is happening simultaneously while it might be happening centuries apart, just like the phenomenon of parallax in Optics.

One more thing, once we are centered in the present moment as we know it, we can really access all the times, and time stands still in that very moment for us to access all its dimensionless existence.

No wonder, meditators experience this phenomenon so often when they meditate for five minute and it turns out to be an hour and half. That is when we slow down the motion of time, by being more and more centered in the present moment, this is the power of Now, and so many people talk about in books and meditation concepts.

Answer 3

I think there are 2 kinds of time in our brain the....

Chronological time means the day and night, and distance from here to there.

Psychological time means the past, the present and the future.

Chronological time is real and factual.


Psychological time is illusion. We are clinging to our past experiences and trying to have it now or wish that the sad past will be happy now or in the future.

This longings of the past and creating a future is created by our illussioned mind.

There is only the everlasting now. And this is timeless.

Answer 4

Along with everything else time is an illusion. Reality is an illusion. It is a projection of our consciousness, but no two consciousnesses are the same. Therfore no reality can be validated by the existance of that same reality in any other. Perhaps then reality is not a constant and we do not exist in reality, instead reality exists in us. However becuase we do not exist in a reality except for the one projected by our supposed being, nothing exists at all, including time.

Answer 5

Of course.