Thread: Time Dilation

My son has nighttime asthma, so we were noting the time he would have attacks in order to establish a pattern. I awoke at, let's say 4:30am, noted the time, then went back to sleep. When he next coughed it was at an EARLIER time - when I awoke it was maybe 4:05am. It was VERY strange but I am confident I did not misunderstand the time. My clock is digital and HUGE, and right on my nightstand.

man i am so glad i found this site, i'll post about my lucid dreams later but for now ima stay on topic - adrenaline is definitely a factor in the time dilation phenom, but i think the time rewind thing is different altogether - i used to race motocross, drag cars, go-karts, roadrace, supermoto, skate, bmx, basically all the "xtreme" stuff, tae kwon do and i still surf - time has slowed down more times for me than i can count, it comes in handy when making decisions and ur doing 125mph or at treetop level coming down on flat ground and u have completely let go of the bike or u have a 200lb dude trying to sucker punch u...

i have also worked in a lot of resturaunts and have experienced time literally speeding up during a lunch rush - i had the time on the ticket and a clock right in front of me, it takes 5 minutes to cook the food and less than 2 to get it plated, plus it was all fried so it was easy...i would get several tickets at once, drop all the food, plate it up and the servers would complain it had been more than 15 minutes - i would shout at them and throw stuff, insisting it had not been - until i looked at the clock and my tickets in disbelief. 15 minutes had indeed passed since i had recieved the LAST ticket and i would always drop everything i needed, the food was not burnt and i was not slacking in my duties. what the hell happened?

this also occurs under the influence of psychotropic drugs, or anything that speeds ur body up - i have been at many a bar with drunk friends and i was on amphetamines and therefore NOT drunk and witnessed my buddy proceed to literally fall off the bar stool, hit the floor and NOT spill his drink, even better i was the only one in the bar who saw it and he jumped up and was like "did anybody see that?" him falling from the stool seemed to me to take about 10-15 seconds, i tried to reach out and catch him which is prolly why he didn't spill his drink - but i remember thinking "oh crap he's falling, i should probably catch him. that would suck if he spilled that expensive drink i just bought him. yea i should prolly go ahead and grab him." when i replay it in my mind i have 2 versions - the split-second of him falling and the 10-15 second version...

later that nite him and another friend almost got into a fight, i was still amped up and he went to swing at this dude in the back seat when he was sitting in my passenger seat, i was in the drivers seat and saw it coming and thought "aw crap he's gonna bust this dudes face all over my car. better stop him. naw it'll be funny, screw it. no, i can't let him clock this old man." i caught his fist in midswing, time returned to normal, when he went to swing again with his free hand time slowed down again and i caught his other fist...i had time to make an observation and decision all in the span of about .25 seconds...

maybe this (reflexes) comes from the combination of the motorsports and tae kwon do (u learn to anticipate opponents moves and react accordingly, kinda like passive-aggressive self-defense - ima hit u before u hit me cuz i know when and where ur gonna hit me) or it was because i was on speed, everytime i am on it time seems to slow down for me...

funny side note: i was fixing computers when windows issued the service pack that "fixed" the daylight saving time debacle and some computers would set themselves backwards, forwards or remain the same time - when i set them to the correct time they would reset themselves - i thought i was losing my freaking mind...

Originally Posted by Aryaxon

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.

now as for slowing down at the playground that kind of thing happened to me at a dance i was breakdancin then when i got up i was given high 5s and shit and it was like it was in slow motion tho cuz of the exitment that i believe was an adrenaline rush

tho speakin of slowing down time in school i had an experience once where i was takin standardized tests like teranova or somtin and was starin at the clock(this happened a lot that week) and the second hand sort of slowed down for a bit then went normal it was like i was focusing in and slowin time
it was probly 1 of 3 things
1.the clock was messin up
Or
2. i was slowin down time sorta
OR
3.i was controling the second hand rather than time itself

This whole time slowing down thing when something exciting happens is a survival mechanism... Reserved for the case of, "Hmm, that guy just threw a spear at me... Maybe I should get out of the way..."

As for your clock experience, MagicoA, it was probably neither of the three. Your perception of time had changed because you were focusing on it... Just your mind playing tricks.

hey mini, like i said about tha whole xtreme sports thing and shit...

in my opinion time is one of the weirdest inventions we've ever made. it's completely relative to your perception. you no how some days at work time wil draaaaag and then others you can make like 500 hamburgers in a second (ok so i used to work at mcdonalds so wat haha) or like wen your about to crash and you have so much time to think...
i reckon that if we changed our perception of time we wud get so much stuff done! i dont no, mayb this involves going backward? haha no idea bout that a. soz bro. one time i went on my break at "4:15" and then like ages later thort i shud prob go back checked the time and it was 4:05. except i think that was my dumbass reading of the clock the first time haha

Okay now i really like this topic

I like to find these phenomena a possible explanation. Which is acceptable by me and not THAT crazy Its like half way between scientific and scifi.

I think time travel will be possible but only in one direction: forward. If it is backwards there will be the paradox stuff. I can imagine the backward version but that would mean parralel universes, different timelines etc which is harder to believe than an individual skipping a few years and not changing anything in the past. You can actually time travel forward by crygoenics

The problem is with the hallucination word or phenomenon that reading it triggers the "omg this guy is another sceptic" part of your mind And it is somewhat different than what you've experienced.

Whatever, my point is that you actually began to leap FORWARD in time at or before near 4:32. If i'd say u had a hallucination i might be wrong, but the next 6+ minutes werent real thats all im saying. Call it a dream or anything. And the different time perception part is, that 6 minutes in dream-time or hallucination-time were only a total of a few minutes in real time. So when you "woke up" you still saw the 4:32 whereas your mind showed you 4:38 in this dream like session. I get the idea of that some people can or maybe see the near future like in the movies Final Destination 1-2-3 I think those movies have a point. So the sitting in the car stuff got actually so boring your mind precreated the next 6 minutes just to try to kill the time, but since you cannot jump 6 minutes forward in time, it stopped and you were back.

My idea is to what to call your "session" is: enhanced reality when the real world which got through your retinas is enhanced by your mind's dream engine, creating an absolutely acceptable but modified semi-real world. (In which machines may not work properly. Remember dream signs? In the movie: Waking Life when I guess a digital clock went crazy...)

That makes a lot of sense to me, Firsh. I like that explanation.

Time is relative... Topics like these always get me thinking about relativity... I really shouldn't be in this forum section. It's really interesting what your brain can do with time though. They did a huge test with people jumping off (with bunjee cables) a very high platform, and they could make out a series of randomly flashing numbers, when the casual observer would simply see 88 (it was a digital clock that looked like
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type of thing, btw. Just something interesting.

Originally Posted by Mini Man56

This whole time slowing down thing when something exciting happens is a survival mechanism... Reserved for the case of, "Hmm, that guy just threw a spear at me... Maybe I should get out of the way..."

As for your clock experience, MagicoA, it was probably neither of the three. Your perception of time had changed because you were focusing on it... Just your mind playing tricks.

well that was b4 i thought of time dilation like thinking of it hear it happened 1st b4 i thought about it and maybe i harnessed somthing to control it but who knows

good observation firsh...