Imagine a time slowmotion

[radi6404]

What do you think of the idea, that we could use some technique, go inside a special room with altered dimensions or something similar and experience time much slower. Imagine what we could do, we could work much more and earn more money. We could listen to much more music than we can, read interesting books, draw complexart, produce many interesting tracks, it would be a dream. In my opinion we have way too little time to go after such things. The golden years of goa trance passed and I am sure that I have not even heart 20 percent of all goa tracks, the most some people have heart here is 50 percent of all goa tracks. But what about the other music, ambient? It would be incredible to be able to slow down the time and go after such kind of things, when we are done, we can go after the normal time. What we can do in our world is, sleep little, but that is easier said than done. Some doctors say, even 5 hours is enough, but sometimes I need 10 hours of sleep. Would we be able to sleep only 5 hours a day, we could experience much more, than we can with normal sleep.

 

People who do not have to work a lot or do a job that is fun to them, and besides that only sleep a few hours, are really lucky.

[Shpongled247]

I have experienced time dilation many times, im sure others experienced with psychedelics have as well. It is indeed a unique experience.. I know you aren't interested in psychedelics though. But still, having time slow to a crawl, along with music and visual perception altering, stopping, slowing, changing bpm etc is an incredible thing.

 

Also if you have ever had a 12/20 or 32 hour trip (heh) you certainly feel you have been through days and possibly lifetimes of experiences in that period..

 

Perhaps a bit off topic from what u want to hear but it is what it is.

[ouroboros]

i saw an interesting experiment once involving how we experience time.

 

a man had a device on his wrist that would display numbers, it was set to display the numbers too quickly to be able to read. the man then jumped off a very high platform (he was going to land on an air bag, like stunt people do in movies). it was determined that during free fall, he could easily make out the numbers that were previously changing too fast to make out.

 

he experienced time more slowly. im not saying that time actually moved slower, but that his experience of it was slower, probably due to adrenaline. the real purpose was to demonstrate that, in times of stress, when people say things like "time seemed to slow down", they arent just making it up, its not just a feeling they have. for them, in that moment, time did slow down.

 

it has also been shown that young people experience time slower than older people. not entirely scientific i admit, but groups of people of varying ages were asked to count off 60 seconds in their heads (without being able to see a clock). young people consistently counted off a minute as being longer than it is and older people consistently counted it off as shorter than it is.

 

so great...the closer you are to death, the faster it approaches. yay

 

if i recall correctly is was brian cox doing the experiments for a tv show...but i cant find it on youtube.

[Rotwang]

Here's a fun perception of time experiment you can do on your own: find a clock that counts seconds. Look away from it, at something that's a different distance so that your eyes refocus, then look back at the clock. If you do this a few times, you'll probably notice that sometimes the second hand/digits seem to hang on the same value for slightly longer than a second, as if the clock only starts ticking after it notices that it's being watched. Do you know why? Hint:

 

 

It has nothing to do with motherboards.

 

[ouroboros]

 

Here's a fun perception of time experiment you can do on your own: find a clock that counts seconds. Look away from it, at something that's a different distance so that your eyes refocus, then look back at the clock. If you do this a few times, you'll probably notice that sometimes the second hand/digits seem to hang on the same value for slightly longer than a second, as if the clock only starts ticking after it notices that it's being watched. Do you know why? Hint:

It has nothing to do with motherboards.

 

lol

 

i have noticed that on my own before. i figured it had something to do with the refocusing of the eyes. maybe you miss a tick while your eyes refocus so it seems like it takes whatever the difference is you missed between ticks longer? i dont know...just guessing.

 

i used to be a competitive runner, and because of that i developed a very accurate internal clock. i can count off a minute in my head within 2 seconds, or can usually, accurately (within about 3 minutes) guess the current time many many hours after the last time i looked at a clock.

[Rotwang]

i have noticed that on my own before. i figured it had something to do with the refocusing of the eyes. maybe you miss a tick while your eyes refocus so it seems like it takes whatever the difference is you missed between ticks longer?

Pretty much, if my layman's understanding is correct. But the cool/scary thing is that your brain hides the moment when your eyes were out of focus by retroactively replacing it with the image it sees when the clock comes into focus. In other words your brain is continually lying to you about the passage of time.

 

More here.

[ouroboros]

pretty cool....and also chronostasis is a cool name for a track...now ill have to make one...and mess with the time in it.

[trancenonZENsedance]

What do you think of the idea, that we could use some technique, go inside a special room with altered dimensions or something similar and experience time much slower.

 

Sounds nice. Could feel a bit like cheating, though, unless everybody does it.

 

People who do not have to work a lot or do a job that is fun to them, and besides that only sleep a few hours, are really lucky.

 

I probably sleep only 5 hours a day on average, maybe less, and I only work 30 hours per month on a normal job (not fun, but also not terrible). But unless I'm around friends or on parties, I feel like I'm working all the time. Even when I'm doing relaxing-activites, like writing this text, it feels to me a bit like work, because it's more like a necessary break from "work" than a true leisure activity. So, I guess I do actually have a lot of time, but at the same time there's so much I want to do that I have to prioritize all the time, which makes me feel more like I have very little time.

 

A proper adrenaline rush is really great, btw. I think I only really experienced it once, when I was very young (around 12 or 13) and had to prevent an accident with my bike. Time slowed down to about a 1/10 of its normal speed and I was able to pull off a perfect braking (from going really fast to stopping in a few meters).

[abasio]

The only problem with having a special room you could go into that would slow the passage of time (I'm guessing that time moves slowly outside the room as if it was moving slowly inside the room then you'd just experience it as normal because we'd be in the same time stream) is that we'd still age at the usual rate, get tired at the usual rate but to others, outside the room, only a short time would have passed. We'd seem to age more quickly than others and I don't think you'd end up doing more in your lifetime, you'd just appear to get stuff done quicker.

 

I think it would be excellent for getting things done quickly, meeting important deadlines, developing new ideas ahead of the competition, or to take an extended break from work when you've only a little time but the ideas in OP would not be of any real benefit I fear.

[technosomy]

that's if you think time actually exists

just the now if you ask me