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      Time Dilation

      First of all, this topic is NOT for debating the existence or truth of the following. This topic is for discussion, and to see if others have had similar experiences.

      When saying "time dilation", I'm talking about something close to:

      You're, let's say, in a car. Riding, not driving. You look at the clock - it says 4:38. You look out the window for a bit, then close your eyes and meditate for a little while. You open your eyes, and look at the clock. It says 4:32.

      ^^ My most recent and strangest encounter with this phenomenon. I'd bet my life on those times. It was 4:38, and several minutes later that clock read 4:32.

      This sort of thing has happened to me a couple times before (albeit not this drastic). In most of these situations, several minutes pass and the clock stays the same throughout. The above is the first major "jump" backward I've had.


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      Do you mean this occured in a dream or real life?
      I know it's a silly question, as I think I know what you mean, just wanted to make sure I have it straight, lol

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      That sounds amazing to me.

      I mean I have deft gotten from point A to point B without speeding in shorter times than it should take when I'm running behind but..

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      Quote Originally Posted by Guyinthehall8 View Post
      Do you mean this occured in a dream or real life?
      I know it's a silly question, as I think I know what you mean, just wanted to make sure I have it straight, lol
      This is a real life thing, yeah. Sorry if that wasn't clear



      It's not like this happens to me every day though. About once a month, probably, and even then not as significant as the one I mentioned. This one was just O_O REALLY weird, so I posted it to see if anyone else has had this happen.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Vanota View Post
      This is a real life thing, yeah. Sorry if that wasn't clear



      It's not like this happens to me every day though. About once a month, probably, and even then not as significant as the one I mentioned. This one was just O_O REALLY weird, so I posted it to see if anyone else has had this happen.
      You're mind could just be wandering. You could think it's a time one time and convince yourself that it happened.

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      I know what happened. It's one of those clocks that has the 0 and 8 look so much alike... so you got confused... and stuff.

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      Quote Originally Posted by What??Me?? View Post
      I know what happened. It's one of those clocks that has the 0 and 8 look so much alike... so you got confused... and stuff.
      Quote Originally Posted by DeathCell View Post
      You're mind could just be wandering. You could think it's a time one time and convince yourself that it happened.

      No.


      EDIT: I'd like to reiterate that this is not for discussing whether or not it actually happened. It DID happen: this is given. This thread is to discuss other, similar experiences that other people have had. If you do not accept my story as true, and do not have any other significant thoughts to post, please leave. Thank you.
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      I think you should be open to criticism if you're going to post something like this.

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      I think you should reread the first two paragraphs of this: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=46286
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      One time I was going to be late for school, because I woke up at 6:24, and my bus comes at 6:30. I rushed ahead and got dressed, did my hair, brushed my teeth, all that stuff. When I was finished getting ready, and was about to bolt out the door, I glanced at the clock. 6:25. o.O
      What if I told you that I am dreaming right now?
      That your whole life is a lie?
      That the laws of physics as you know them are incorrect?

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      most of my time dilation happens in the early morning

      I don't use an alarm, I shamelessly admit I can wake up intentionally on time. but usually that has me waking up BEFORE I need to wake up. and then what happens is, I fall asleep, I wake, I fall asleep, I wake up. and in between I look at my clock, to make sure I get up on time. so I know what time I fell asleep, and what time I woke up between dreaming.

      now mostly what happens is, I have this incredible amazing lucid dream, in the span of a minute or less. but one time I do remember, I swear the clock went backwards, but since I was between waking and sleeping I passed it as nonsense. . .

      the only other thing I noticed was the slowing down of time

      I experienced this at school. where I had to stare at a clock for a measure of time for photography class. I was alone. It was quiet. Just me, my film, and the clock.

      and the entire time, the second hand would either speed up, slow down, or stop. and I mean drastically. and when ever it stopped I would scream in my head MOOOOVEEEE, PLEEASE I AM SO BORED STARING AT YOU. but wow, it was weird seeing the second hand move at various speeds, because of my perspective of time alone. there was nothing wrong with the clock. it was acting normal when I wasn't so fixated on it.

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      I've had 2 instances of this happening in my life. Although on a grander scale. I only realized because I was watching some t.v. at the time and was keeping an eye on the clock so I didn't miss anything good.

      On both occasions I watched a show waiting for another to come on then when the show ended it then proceeded to restart. I was all huh? but the other show is supposed to be on! Then I looked at the clock again and noticed it was the same hour I had just spent watching that specific show.

      The first time it happened I immediantly called a friend. Who of course denied it being even plausible but I was able to say exactly what was going to happen in that show. Though before watching it the first time "in that same hour mind you, confusing as it seems" I had never seen that episode before.

      Does not happen often to me but every time I realize its happening its very odd.
      Time loops are fun!

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      I had an episode of time slowing down when i was still at primary school.

      It was lunch time and i was down at what was then the "new" playground. I was realy bored because i couldnt think of what i wanted to do so in my bordom i picked up a small fist sized rock and thew it at a much larger rock on the ground. As soon as the small rock hit the larger one everything around me slowed right down. The smaller rock ricoceted of the larger one but was now slowly spinning around and away from the larger roc towards my direction. I looked around and to my amazement the other kids were moving at something like 1/4 of normal on things like sliding down slides, swinging, jumping of the playground etc . After about a minute as it was to me i had a sudden sharp pain in my ear and everything went back to normal. At this point i also heard something drop to the ground at my feet and found that it was the small rock and that it had hit me on the ear.

      My ear hurt for a couple of days after that experiance and my only regret was that i didnt try running around because while everything else was slowed down, Iwas Able to turn around normaly.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Vanota View Post
      First of all, this topic is NOT for debating the existence or truth of the following. This topic is for discussion, and to see if others have had similar experiences.

      When saying "time dilation", I'm talking about something close to:

      You're, let's say, in a car. Riding, not driving. You look at the clock - it says 4:38. You look out the window for a bit, then close your eyes and meditate for a little while. You open your eyes, and look at the clock. It says 4:32.

      ^^ My most recent and strangest encounter with this phenomenon. I'd bet my life on those times. It was 4:38, and several minutes later that clock read 4:32.

      This sort of thing has happened to me a couple times before (albeit not this drastic). In most of these situations, several minutes pass and the clock stays the same throughout. The above is the first major "jump" backward I've had.


      Similar happenings? Discuss.
      That's called not paying attention.

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      What you are describing is not time dilation, more like time travel. Surely you understand the difference?

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      Like DuB said, you are describing time travel which I find hard to believe even with an open mind.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Lan View Post
      Like DuB said, you are describing time travel which I find hard to believe even with an open mind.
      eh. wierder things have happened to me I've had time slow down for me while playing football. Made the ball really easy to catch. You can recreate time slowing through cliff diving / parachuting / bunji jumping / anything with very high adreniline. Its the phenomenon of your eyes reacting to extreme stress, they go from seeing 30 frames per second as normal to 60 frames per second. Making everything apear to slow down.

      As for the speeding up of things, You've got me, maybe theres something wrong with yer eyes? making you see slower. There could be a underlying cause.
      Time loops are fun!

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      Quote Originally Posted by Thorkis View Post
      eh. wierder things have happened to me I've had time slow down for me while playing football. Made the ball really easy to catch. You can recreate time slowing through cliff diving / parachuting / bunji jumping / anything with very high adreniline. Its the phenomenon of your eyes reacting to extreme stress, they go from seeing 30 frames per second as normal to 60 frames per second. Making everything apear to slow down.
      Sure that adrenaline and dangerous situations can heighten your senses. But that's different.

      Vanota is describing that he can "rewind" time.

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      Do people correct others on this forum just to correct people? I swear read my earlier post. It describes that as well. Others were saying that wasnt Time Dilation blah blah blah so i posted one for that as well.
      Time loops are fun!

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      Your experiences of your subjective sense of waking time slowing down, while certainly interesting, ultimately have little to do with the topic of time dilation as it pertains to dreaming. So far the only poster who has actually described an experience that could be rightfully labeled 'time dilation' is juroara, with the comment, "...I have this incredible amazing lucid dream, in the span of a minute or less." In dreaming, time dilation refers to the phenomenon of experiencing a great amount of dream time in a small amount of waking time. For example, someone may take a brief 20-minute nap and then wake up reporting that they went on a 3-hour long adventure in their dream. In extreme cases, people have even claimed to have experienced literal years of dream time in a single night.

      Some people may say that I am nitpicking, but I think it's important that we at least keep our terms straight.

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      Time dilation is the phenomenon whereby an observer finds that another's clock, which is physically identical to their own, is ticking at a slower rate as measured by their own clock. This is often interpreted as time "slowing down" for the other clock, but that is only true in the context of the observer's frame of reference. Locally (i.e., from the perspective of any observer within the same frame of reference, without reference to another frame of reference), time always passes at the same rate. The time dilation phenomenon applies to any process that manifests change over time.

      My last description met this wikipedia explanation. It doesnt have to be in a dream...
      Time loops are fun!

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      Quote Originally Posted by Lan View Post
      Vanota is describing that he can "rewind" time.
      HELL no! Where did I say that? This just happened. I was not in control or anything.

      As for you, DuB, this is in the BEYOND DREAMING subforum because... it's beyond dreaming. This doesn't have anything to do with something happening within a dream, nor did I say so. Sorry for your misunderstanding.




      I do like that adrenaline explanation for that sort of activity. I support that point of view - it is logical and plausible. But just sitting in a car, bored? That doesn't really sound like an adrenaline rush to me.
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      Has any1 gone through this with you or is it just you... Now when this happened did the events of the last... what 6 minutes? Replay out or did everything not... go weird?

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      I've had many experiences with the clock staying the same because of extreme time dilation, but it doesn't rewind lol, I think that was a bug in the software of your clock, it only happened once right? Or maybe you had a dream while meditating? Try doing it again and let us know..
      Quote Originally Posted by What??Me?? View Post
      Has any1 gone through this with you or is it just you... Now when this happened did the events of the last... what 6 minutes? Replay out or did everything not... go weird?
      Yeah good point. If you would jump back 6 minutes in time, the old you would also be there! Or did you rewind the entire universe?
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      Quote Originally Posted by Thorkis View Post
      I've had 2 instances of this happening in my life. Although on a grander scale. I only realized because I was watching some t.v. at the time and was keeping an eye on the clock so I didn't miss anything good.

      On both occasions I watched a show waiting for another to come on then when the show ended it then proceeded to restart. I was all huh? but the other show is supposed to be on! Then I looked at the clock again and noticed it was the same hour I had just spent watching that specific show.

      The first time it happened I immediantly called a friend. Who of course denied it being even plausible but I was able to say exactly what was going to happen in that show. Though before watching it the first time "in that same hour mind you, confusing as it seems" I had never seen that episode before.

      Does not happen often to me but every time I realize its happening its very odd.
      So what if like, the president got shot within that hour?
      Would you be able to save him?

      Slowing down I can understand, but the concept of time rewinding
      just doesn't make any sense...
      What if I told you that I am dreaming right now?
      That your whole life is a lie?
      That the laws of physics as you know them are incorrect?

      Furthermore, what would you do if I told you I'm going to wake up as soon as you finish reading my signature?

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