the non existence of time perception?

Question

after realizing the perception of time does not exist .. has this changed the way you live ? or the way you perceive other things? (detailed please)

do you know of any good reads ?

message me if you care to chat

Cathy ..

Nots not even close to what i ment

*thats not*

Answer 1

Time perception does exist, since we perceive ourselves to be moving along a linear line, that is measurable by changes in our surroundings. What you must have meant was the content of the fourth dimension, and how, if one can conceptualize it correctly, that the linear model of time becomes questionable.
When I studied the nature of time, and its relative, inverse relationship to space, it changed the way I thought, certainly. It didn't change the way I lived, however, since it's impossible to escape one's perception of time without forcibly altering one's brain chemistry, which would have other disastrous effects beyond time dilation. If you're actually championing the idea that perception of time itself can be escaped, then you have already taken the plunge into heavy drugs. Have fun with that.

Answer 2

The perception of time exists. That is the point, it is just a perception. (I geuss you meant "does not exist for you as an individual"?)

What I have realised through many realisations and states of consciousness is that they will pass. That is, the bliss eventually seems to fade to the background, something you can 'tune in' to but not necessarily as predominant as it once was. Then you have to get down to the business of living life and living with an expanded view, which can be tricky. I have noticed that expanded states often come with a sort of 'spiritual bonk', like the crash after a sugar buzz. An expanded state is fantastic, blissful, beautiful. An expanded state will not, however, pay the mortgage.

I have found that there is wisdom and balance in the fact that these states tend to come and go, giving you an opportunity for reflection, contrast, and a time of 'ripening'/turning experience into wisdom. When the spiritual bonk comes, that has been my opportunity to turn experience into wisdom and approach a small, old life from a fresh perspective.

My life has changed in that I have stopped chasing enlightenment, stopped chasing states and realisations. I have found that I am much more relaxed. This is not so much related to a particular experience like 'no time' or 'we are all connected'. It is more a way of receiving states and realisations without grasping or trying to 'have it' again.

Consciousness moves like an ocean, and I have found it easier to float on the waves when they come than to try and create waves of my own. Nothing is special, it just is.

Thanks for the great question-answering it helped me integrate a recent expanded state, post-bonk.

Answer 3

i would say that i perceive time in much the same way as evolution; a constant state of adaptation. (Im basically disregarding linear measure, in the following rant so bear with me) What i mean to say is that there is no past or future, only an ever adapting present, a present dictated by my environment, and nothing else. My environment dictates my reactions, and my reactions dictate my environments in a constant here and now. And i suppose this lends to a sense of immediacy, and of validity; there arent any do overs, and everyone is striving for hapiness, or for contentness. I mean, even if the universe is cyclical, this moment will not happen again, so you do the best you can with it.

As for the books, I like Franz Kafka's books of anecdotes, and Dofstoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and The Idiot.
Hope i can have helped even a little, take care.

Answer 4

Time is clearly perceived. Did you mean to say this. It is not the perception of time that we question, but whether it is in the nature of the universe to contain something we perceive, or if the perception is because we are conscious during what we measure as time. Try reading the very difficult "Phenomenlogy of Internal Time Consciousness," by Eduard Husserl. If you can understand it, you will learn more than you ever thought there was to know about the perception of time.

Answer 5

The interaction between energy and space-time IS existence.

Sentience is the perception of of this interaction.

Nothing exists that does not tick.

To perceive the tick is to live.

The only silence is oblivion.

What did I do after realizing the perception of time does not exist? I gave up Zen and got a life.

Answer 6

i feel time is commonly percived as space between two events. if u r without events than the perception of time ceases only for u.
i feel an event begins with a stimuli & response. i think when u go empty u feel like that.

Answer 7

one time i did mushrooms and i had no idea what time it was or how long it had been , once it felt like 2 hours and then (prolly a few mins later) it would feel like it had only been 5 mins !!! i dont think it has changed my life . i dont know of any good reads but do some mushrooms and youll experince time dissapear

Answer 8

there is a perseption of time ,but it changes as we age for example when I was a child time seemed very slow a few minutes seemed like hours and as I got older my perception changed . the older you get the less time you feel you have.

Answer 9

well, it is an illusion. i'll give you that. thing is, even if it is a figment of our imaginations, we, for the most part, seem to build our worlds around it, save for those few precious moments when time really does stand still . example: during an epiphany

Answer 10

No. It has not changed the way I live, But it has put things into perspective. Good question.