Is It Possible To Have A Distorted Sense Of Time?

Question

People have distortions in other senses, eyes, ears, taste, etc...Do you think it is possible to have distortions in the way one perceives time?
Thanks for your thoughtful thoughts :)

Answer 1

EVERYONE DISTORTS TIME ALL THE TIME.

Time is a elusive and arbitrary measurement to create order in human life and except for the human need for such a measurement, it really doesn't exist.

Humans created the measurement of time to give a sense of order and control but in reality it really can't be measured as the universe can not be measured. Anything that is infinite, can not be sufficiently measured. Time is an illusion and everyone distorts it to their own reality. Sometimes a few minutes feels like hours and hours feel like minutes...years can feel like days...Time...I love the illusion of time!

Answer 2

I think that it is possible to have a distorted sense of time, in a sense. I know when I was deployed to the desert, it got to the point where I could tell you what day of the week is was but not what the actual day (ie March 15th). I had been working 12 hours days, 7 days a week for about 3 months and just ceased to have a decent perception of time.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Time is a product of our perception of reality. It is a part of the reality that we are constructing as we go through our day. We distort it continuously. We seem to see the time that we spend doing the things that we enjoy fly by, while the time we spend doing things we don't want to do, seems to crawl by in a painfully slow manner.

Your idea that everyone else is a holographic image that is here to teach you is very insightful.

You are closer to the truth than you could ever imagine. Many people understand this as small children but adults tell them that it is silly so they stop believing it. There is nothing silly about it at all. The only mistake that people make is that they see the truth about everyone else but they fail to understand that the are in the same situation that everyone else is in.

They all tend to assume that the are real, or unique within the hologram instead of an integral part of the hologram. They fail to understand that they are one of the teachers too.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

When I was a child I remember having a strong sense of distorted time. I was very sick lying on a couch under a blanket. We had a clock hanging on the wall that had a pendulum. I remember looking at the pendulum moving back and forth at least twice as fast as it normally should have been moving. I also remember people talking very fast. I’m not sure if it was an effect of the medication I was on, or an effect of being sick, but it seemed very real.

Answer 5

Yes. Many drugs affect the time sense, making things seem to either accelerate or slow to a crawl, sometimes both at once. While I am not aware of any non-pharmaceutical causes of time sense distortion, I assume the same effects could be caused by damage or disorder.

Answer 6

The answer to that is yes, of course.

When your body is flying high on an adrenaline surge, the world around you seems to be moving so slowly, that it is literally just like it shows in the movies.

I have had this happen to me twice--unfortunately for me, both times occurred when I was hit by cars.

The latest was exactly one week before Christmas in 1992. I was hurrying home on a Saturday morning from work (I always worked graveyard), and had taken one step out onto a four lane roadway to cross, when I saw a car turn onto the roadway a block away from me, and start towards me. Me and this car were the ONLY things on this road, moving or otherwise. Being a prudent person, I stopped in the middle of the curb lane, with two full lanes between me and the lane the car was travelling in. When the car was about 100 ft away, it swerved to point straight at me and accelerated. I only had enough time to turn to face the car directly, and I was airborne.

That was when the world switched into slow motion. I was up in the air with the windshield coming closer to me, and I had time to turn my body so that my left side would take the impact instead of my face. I don't remember the actual impact at all, but I had just gotten a new pair of glasses and I felt them leave my face, and hit the windshield in front of the driver and slide up and they were just disappearing over the top of the car when I snatched them with my right hand.

And then I was landing in the roadway about twenty feet in front of the car, and skidding backwards on my knees (which didn't hurt then because of the adrenaline), and watching the car come towards my nose the whole time. The guy in the car finally stood on the brakes, and brought the car to a halt 6 inches in front of my nose. I told myself that I would be an idiot if I didn't memorize his license plate while I had the chance since it was right there, so I did that as I was putting on my glasses (and noting that I had also managed to keep possession of my cigarette, which I was holding in my right hand as well).

That was when the world just snapped right back into real time.

Answer 7

pond ripples? radio waves-isn't the music itself a kind of distortion, it would be much more possible without clocks; some days seem to last so much longer than others; rain is a distortion of air but then it's just plain old air again; nothing was wrong with the rain, though

Answer 8

Hey you should check out the relativity theory by einstein. it basically says that each one of us has our own clock.

He demonstrated this by two sets of twins. On remained on earth and the other went into space and travelled very fast. 50 years later the one on earth had aged much more than the one who went on the trip.

Okay imagine you are watching people eat a meal on a train that is going by you through the window. From your perspective the plate will appear smaller but the length of time it takes to eat will be longer.

Look up: space contraction, time dialation. Its pretty crazy stuff. But you can only really see its effects when you get near the speed of light.

Answer 9

absolutely, I've been on both sides of the fence. I can still tell you what time it is within 10 minutes and be correct even if I haVEN'T looked at a clock all day ........... go figure. But I had some brain damage at age 51, and I used to be on time for everything, always, not any more.

Answer 10

The ancient Hindu texts say that Kalpa is the
period of 4320000 years which consists of Krita
Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dwapara Yuga and Kali Yuga.
The word Krita is congnate with Chatur in Sanskrit
which means 4 parts - 4 x 432000 years.
Treta represents 3 parts - 3 x 432000 years.
Dwapara represents 2 parts - 2 x 432000 years.
Kali Yuga represents 1 part - 432000 years.

Kalpa was said to be equal to a day and night of Lord
Brahma. According to ancient Hindu science, the
counting of time for begining of the day is from 6 AM.
The interpretation for the running of time is that -
time runs slowest during the first 6 hours of the day,
from 6 AM to 12 noon. It runs fastest during the last 6
hours of the day, from 12 AM to 6 AM.

Read some book during the early hours of the day.
You will wonder how the time went off fast!
That was the wisdom of ancient India.

Children with ADHD have a distorted sense of time. Time seems to pass much slower when performing an activity.
http://add.about.com/od/adultadd/a/distortiontime.htm

The child is also experiencing a distorted sense of time. A minute can be a very long time or very short— but it is never the same. A person who experiences time uniformly can develop an inherent sense of how long it takes a minute to go by. Most children have an awareness of the passage of time by age five; by age seven, they can sense the passage of five minutes. But the disorienting child doesn't experience the passage of time uniformly, and so does not develop an inherent sense of the passage of time at all, even as a teenager or adult.
http://www.dyslexia.com/library/add.htm

Learning through time distortion is harnessing the subconscious through conscious direction. "Instant" mental calculators and high speed readers (over 2,000 wpm) experience a sense of time distortion as information flashes through their mind in only seconds. Through self-hypnosis, you too can learn to review information in a time distorted fashion.
http://www.braincourse.com/timea.html

Is pot good for sex? A lot of people believe it is. Many men say that it increases their endurance (in fact, their sense of time may be distorted by the drug), and many women rapturously report that it increases their enjoyment. But watch out. Long-term puffing, a new report concludes, can interfere with the production of reproductive hormones, suppressing the supply of the male sex hormone testosterone enough to produce impotence or infertility.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913480,00.html

Frontiers of time perception:
mans_watch.jpgBBC Radio 4 science programme Frontiers examines the psychology and neuroscience of time perception and considers how the sense of time can be warped when we're put under stress.
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/05/frontiers_of_time_pe.html

Since very early days, time has bedazzled and intrigued humans. More than 1500 years ago, Indians identified time as the basis for mundane reality. They equated the creation of time as the first step in the creation of the universe. This age-old belief received scientific confirmation in Einstein's theory of relativity. Einstein also added support to the concept that time and the mundane reality are both non-substantial. Time, Einstein showed, was relative and therefore, the mundane world with time as its basis also had to be ephemeral. Change in the flow of time triggers drastic changes in matter and its formations. The flow of time is subject to influence by such factors as gravity, and it does not flow at the same rate in different parts of the universe. Even here on Mother Earth, atomic clocks have been shown to tick at different rates on mountaintops and in supersonic jets.

The mathematical concept of time has a better scientific basis and is preferred by the purists. Nevertheless, for most people, time means a personal experience of time. Humans experience time both subjectively and objectively.
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v11n2/11245mat.html