stopping time?

[kittynh]

Here is one of my allexperts questions. I"m not sure how to respond. No, I never just write YOU ARE DELUSIONAL!!!

Anyway, perhaps this person isn't. Well, you never know.

But is there an explaination about time seeming to move at different speeds?

a psychological one!

If not I'm going with the old...keep a record of it in a book thingy. I think if it is more carefully observed it will go away!

here is the question.......................................... ...............

Subject: Gain time?

Question:
I actually gain time on occasions, have you heard of this before? I can
be in a hurry getting ready to go out, check my clock and watch, and
ten minuets later look at the time again and only a minuet has passed!!

This has happened a few times over the last two years. I smile when
this happens although I really can't explain it at all!!

I have had several UFO experiences over time, it's as if someone can
stop time but I keep going. Do you think it is possible that TIME STOPS
for a few minuets?

Look forward to your reply
Kaz XX

[fls]

This actually has a scientific basis (although the 10 to 1 ratio seems too much). We have an internal clock which is a circuit running from pre-frontal cortex to basal ganglia to substantia nigra and back to pre-frontal cortex. It takes about 1/10th of a second for each impluse around the circuit. It speeds up under the influence of heat or adrenaline, so we think more time has passed than actually has.

I can look for web-based references for this if you want (the above is from a book, but I remember reading a web-based article on this a year or two ago). But it will have to be later.

Linda

[Apathia]

Once and I while I read the time on my watch wrongly and them get surprised.
I've seen second hands on the first glance at a watch seem to linger longer than a second or jump backward. These are misperceptions.

As for how long a given measure of time feels to last, that is psychological. In the same sense a watched pot never boils, a clock slows down to an intolerable drag if you are continually checking it for progress.

My last last unwanted eternity was when on some stupid temp job binding up and boxing leaflets, I got a repetitive strain injury. Two hours before the end of the shift, the pain was becoming awful. I was stupid. I decided to finish the shift.
Two hours of pain to go!
One hour of pain to go! But it felt like two.
One half hour of pain to go! But it felt like an hour!
15 minutes of masochistic pain to go. And it still felt like am hour and that
relief would never come!
10 Minutes of pain to go. 10 forever minutes!

[kittynh]

a link would be great!

thanks!!

a couple of days is fine. Unless the aliens come for this person!

[Luke T.]

Subject: Gain time?

Question:
I actually gain time on occasions, have you heard of this before?

Most UFO believers talk about "lost time". He needs to get with the program.

I can be in a hurry

Now there's a clue. It happens when he is in a hurry. Hmmm.

getting ready to go out, check my clock and watch,

He checks his clock AND watch. Ah! The scientific method in action!

and ten minuets later

He has time to do ten minuets? While getting ready to go out? Maybe he really is gaining time!

Oh! Did he mean ten minutes? How does he know ten minutes has passed?

Could it be because he is in a hurry and doing more things in less time than it normally takes to do them? Hmmm.

"It takes me ten minutes to put on my tin foil hat. But when I am in a hurry, I put on my tin foil hat..."

look at the time again and only a minuet has passed!!

He is hallucinating minuets left and right!

This has happened a few times over the last two years.

Well, really, it has been twenty years. But only two years have passed.

I smile when
this happens although I really can't explain it at all!!

And as we all know, when you can't explain something, then supernatural forces are clearly at work here. Like the way the blue fairies on the moon keep stealing my socks from the dryer.

I have had several UFO experiences over time, it's as if someone can stop time but I keep going.

I have had several UFO experiences over time, it's as if other people are making coffee while I am making a cup of tea.

I have had several UFO experiences over time, it's as if other people pee standing up while I pee sitting down.

I have had several UFO experiences over time, it's as if other people are mechanical robots while I am the only human in the universe.

I have had several UFO experiences over time, it's as if other people are my slaves while I am the master of the universe.

Do you think it is possible that TIME STOPS
for a few minuets?

I do think it is possible for time to stop for a few minuets. And maybe a waltz or two.

As for time stopping for a few minutes, how do you know it stopped for a few minutes if it is stopped?

[enjoytheview]

I do think it is possible for time to stop for a few minuets. And maybe a waltz or two.

haha hilarious :)

As for the time stopping thing.. seems a tad too surreal for me, the only example i can think of where time may be lost is if your watch happens to be working slightly faster or and you lose 1/1000 of a second every minute or something.. but even then, it's not like the whole world is going fast or time's being changed in some way.. You just need to buy another $5 watch.

[personable]

He has time to do ten minuets? While getting ready to go out? Maybe he really is gaining time!

Classic!


Anyway, his claim breaks down when he says "ten minutes later", because since his watch shows only one minute has elapsed, it is not ten minutes later, but only one minute. His perception of one minute seems to him to be ten, is all.

[Harlequin]

Certain drugs will also affect your perception of the passage of time...so I've heard...

"Getting ready to go out" wouldn't be going out to a rave would it?

[rudar]

for what it's worth, anecdotally, I kinda slipped while on one of my first rock-climb leads, a good 20 feet of low-angle slab above my last piece of protection, which was maybe 10 feet of vertical rock above a ledge. For those who know how climbing works, this is a rather bad situation to be in. I had *plenty* of time to analyse the ropework, remember every feature of the rock over the past 30 feet, come up with and discard several plans for dealing with the impending doom, and then recall some advice about friction climbing given to me several weeks earlier. On the strength of this advice, I kicked my heel outwards to force more weight straight onto my toes, which gave enough friction to stop my downwards slide. Total distance travelled was maybe a few inches, which can't possibly have taken enough time to account for the lengthy and leisurely thought processes I went through. I chalked it up to adrenaline causing me to think really really fast, rather than anything mystical, though :)

[Starthinker]

It took me years to read this thread but only minutes have passed.

[fls]

a link would be great!

I tried following the references from the book I was referring to, but they only led to more books.

I did find this site, though...
http://ticktockbraintalk.blogspot.com/index.html
which seems to deal with the same information.

And random googling brings up this stuff, which corresponds to what I was reading. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the reporting.

http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1996/149-07/14907-09.pdf

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15621065.300-when-a-second-lasts-forever--its-not-just-in-the-movies-that-momentsof-crisis-seem-to-pass-in-slow-motion-john-mccrone-investigates-the-tricks-ourminds-play-with-time.html

Linda

[Dunstan]

Well, there's always this quote attributed to Einstein: "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."

[Nucular]

Look forward to your reply
Kaz XX

Kaz??? :eek:

[AWPrime]

haha hilarious :)

As for the time stopping thing.. seems a tad too surreal for me, the only example i can think of where time may be lost is if your watch happens to be working slightly faster or and you lose 1/1000 of a second every minute or something.. but even then, it's not like the whole world is going fast or time's being changed in some way.. You just need to buy another $5 watch.
So true


If someone does find a way to stop time, hten he/she needs to be taken out, for stopping time has a good chance of destroying the universe.

[This Guy]

Time always slows down while your at work (or school), and makes up for it by speeding up while you sleep.

It's true! :D

[Old man]

And then there are those times when you're stoned...

[shemp]

I haven't got time to read this thread.