Time

[Lynnbrown]

I can't believe I'm starting this, as a topic, but I'm sincerely interested if any one else is experiencing strange phenomenon regarding time....

Like I'll sometimes be really obsessed with time, and keep looking at it (on my phone) and maybe 30 minutes to 1 hour would have passed and I would have thought 2 to 3 hours.

Then other times, I'll think that only an hour has passed since I sat on the couch - and like 4 hours have passed.


I've been finding odd things lately that I lost last year - an example being a joint I had rolled and put in a little plastic holder last year as I was waiting for Steph to come down. She came down, I'd been walking outside, and it was lost. dang. I just knew ( but wouldn't have sworn on a bible, but still thought strongly) I lost it outside. I HAD to lose it out there, I thought... Whatever - even less chance of finding it again, I thought.
The other week, after I'd been sweeping the kitchen floor and fiddling around, I happened to look down at the kitchen floor - and saw this..thing...in the middle of the floor. I bent over, got it - and there it was - the joint I'd rolled about a year ago in its little plastic container.

There's been other stuff, but that is the first thing to come to mind. As funky stuff happens, I'll add it...but I'm mostly interested in hearing about any body else's experiences.

[Din Djarin]

Very common to lose track of time here. No stories come to mind, but one of my fav experiences is like on a sunny day and you could determine the right time somewhat by looking at the position of the sun but you are off in your estimation for hours. Feels like there was no time :-D Also, usually a good sign if hours have passed and I thought it was only 1 hour

[WritersPanic]

[WritersPanic]

This happens to me when I go from a super-tight schedule like 80-hour weeks in the Middle East for months to returning home and suddenly having no obligations for the next weeks while I look for or await the beginning of the next gig. So I go from having every minute planned to having nearly no plan aside from remembering to eat. That's where the time warps creep in for me.

Getting laid off during Covid and going months without working at all shifted everything. I started staying up until 2AM, barely crawling out of bed before noon. Daylight savings time kicked my ass and I missed a dentist's appointment and had to pay the no-show fee (which cut into my limited weed budget).

But it was getting into my late 50s that I really began to perceive time as advancing faster than I ever imagined. It seems like yesterday that I was working in the Caribbean but it was a decade ago. 9/11 was 20 years ago. The 80s, were 40 years ago!!!!

[niftypebble21]

Hi Lynnbrown I think a thread on the topic of time is very cool : )

If I think about 'Time' I associate it with our 'human existence' that then triggers me to think creatively from my perspective how do I think perceive visualise interpret Time⌚

Thinking about 'Time' at this moment in 'time' : ) I'm reminded (going back in 'time' in my childhood memories) of an Arts project from highschool when I was around 16.

The Arts project was connected with exploring the concept of 'Time' I'm reminded of the Arts movement 'Surrealism' and 'Surrealist Artists' such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernest and others🎨 who've all tried to express the experience the idea of what is 'Time.' I just now did a quick search online and found Salvador Dali's famous art work his masterpiece painting with some melted-looking clocks has always made me think of the subject of 'Time' and our own unique journey of experiencing time in our human life existence.

[WritersPanic]

Hi Lynnbrown I think a thread on the topic of time is very cool : )

If I think about 'Time' I associate it with our 'human existence' that then triggers me to think creatively from my perspective how do I think perceive visualise interpret Time⌚

Thinking about 'Time' at this moment in 'time' : ) I'm reminded (going back in 'time' in my childhood memories) of an Arts project from highschool when I was around 16.

The Arts project was connected with exploring the concept of 'Time' I'm reminded of the Arts movement 'Surrealism' and 'Surrealist Artists' such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernest and others🎨 who've all tried to express the experience the idea of what is 'Time.' I just now did a quick search online and found Salvador Dali's famous art work his masterpiece painting with some melted-looking clocks has always made me think of the subject of 'Time' and our own unique journey of experiencing time in our human life existence.

Years ago there was a member over at Hick Fornicators in the chat room named Dali. Usually on Sundays. I think he worked at the Dali museum in Tampa.

[Lynnbrown]

I don't know which I'm more amazed by - Dali's mind or his work...of course they are inseparable. Beethoven and his ability to compose some of the most beautiful music in the world while living in deafness is far beyond my comprehension.

Only certain gifted people can see and hear certain things. I guess.

Certain authors, wordsmiths were my first "creative artists" - for they took me far away to all kinds of places and worlds. Books were my friends as early as I can remember. Being able to turn words brilliantly isn't enough either! Oh No! Authors have to be organized. good grief. Keeping everything together, and not losing it at least twice in a computer would be beyond my ability.

[Meliai]

I don't know which I'm more amazed by - Dali's mind or his work...of course they are inseparable. Beethoven and his ability to compose some of the most beautiful music in the world while living in deafness is far beyond my comprehension.

Only certain gifted people can see and hear certain things. I guess.

Certain authors, wordsmiths were my first "creative artists" - for they took me far away to all kinds of places and worlds. Books were my friends as early as I can remember. Being able to turn words brilliantly isn't enough either! Oh No! Authors have to be organized. good grief. Keeping everything together, and not losing it at least twice in a computer would be beyond my ability.

Speaking of time
that's one of the most incredible aspects of human existence I think, that artists can create works of art (or music, or writing) and so many other people can emotionally connect with it so powerfully across time and space

It's especially interesting to think about artists, musicians, writers who died before their work was well known and then became famous after death. They had no way of knowing someone would connect with and take their creations to heart 100 years later.

[WritersPanic]

That's why I wrote a ridiculous 400-page stoner novel. (And because I was stoned a lot back then)

[Lynnbrown]

YES...you get it. <3 This evening - Friday through Sunday morning have consistently become busy, odd spells for me. Time and workwise - the hours speed by faster than I'm going, and I'm going like a rail-road train. I usually manage to accomplish more during those hours, beginning Sat morning than I do throughout all of the week. Some chores you can't do ahead of time...

[Audiogen]

I made a Time thread on here awhile ago, I definitely am fascinated by it.

I believe we have a few internal clocks which process time slightly different and it is fascinating how the mind and body synthesizes this into a unified whole. The gestalt concept of this dynamic interaction is called Circadian Rhythm and explains stuff like sleep cycles and various activities organisms perform in a temporal manner.

As far as the perception of time, the most drastic time distortion I've experienced is via Psychedelics. I've had some LSD trips where time felt like it was reaching a stand still and even stuff like DMT can seem much longer than the actual ~10 mins trip. I am not sure if these drugs affect the internal clock(s) or having such altered frames of reference makes it more difficult to perceive time, maybe it's a bit of both. I've experienced significant time distortion from a few other peak experiences and during flow states as well. Sports is probably the most accessible example of the flow state. When I was "in the zone" playing baseball, as a pitcher, time seemed to slow down to where my mechanics, accuracy and control were effortless, it's like facing the batter was an afterthought.

I've pondered going relativistic speeds where time actually slows down, the notion that we have these perceptual experiences of time but then there is this whole temporal reality we will never experience where time can warp is mind boggling.

[Pete's Draggun]

It's TIME for me to paint the computer room

[neonspectraltoast]

Consciousness transcends time. Sounds hokey, but it's true.

[Lynnbrown]

The whole concept of everything is happening all the time, simultaneously, is very popular. And I don't really understand it.

It seems to me as if time has changed, as in been tampered with...I read this book - The Montauk Project. It blew my mind...I read it while in my early 30's and it made a definite impact on me as it is written by an engineer and its about time, etc.

Its a super good read....I'll do some digging and find the exact title and author for anyone that is interested.

[niftypebble21]

It's been a long time since treating myself to a chillaxing wash & blow dry I can't afford at the moment for a trim aswell💇♀️ (save that for another time: )) there's an awesome decent prices good quality hair salon in Cambridge that you can walk in at right time & if there's availability you can immediately have an appointment

I'm feeling this gonna be a fun plan go have a chillaxing wash & blow dry at my fav walk-in hair salon in Cambridge hopefully I'll have good timing this afternoon when I get there.

^^wowww some many times using the word 'time' in my writing🤔

[Audiogen]

We experience an arrow of time and are bound by it. There are wild speculations about the nature of time, even going so far as to suggest it may not be a fundamental aspect to reality. But even if that were the case, we are bound to time's emergence and as such, suggesting we can know anything outside of time might be interesting to consider on paper but is incoherent to our experience.

[Lynnbrown]

At the risk of showing my poor comprehension skills...I don't understand your last sentence. I do think it is not only quite interesting to discuss on paper...but there are times I, and others I'm sure feel this "confusion" about time for the very reason I thought i was coherent, not just idling away time, trying to pass it. As one is want to do. I feel coherent during the experiences of "strange passage of time".

[Audiogen]

Lynnbrown Sorry, missed your comment. By interesting to consider on paper, I am referring to stuff like Grand Unified Theories in physics. Hypothetical frameworks where time is apparently not necessary in the way it is for Newtonian physics or the time-like aspects of General Relativity, which pretty much cover how we mostly think of time when we track and utilize it. I wasn't really addressing our perceptions of time or anything.

[Din Djarin]

The whole concept of everything is happening all the time, simultaneously, is very popular. And I don't really understand it.

It seems to me as if time has changed, as in been tampered with...I read this book - The Montauk Project. It blew my mind...I read it while in my early 30's and it made a definite impact on me as it is written by an engineer and its about time, etc.

Its a super good read....I'll do some digging and find the exact title and author for anyone that is interested.

Seems that outside of our reality time may work differently. I don't think we should crave experiencing it like that (no time, or everything happening simultaneously), it will not suit us, as long as we are so adjusted to our reality.