That reminds me, Alan, of a meditation I did a few times many years ago. It involved focusing on time. I focused first on the present moment, and then, in gradually larger increments of time, on vast distances in the past or future.

For me, this was an excellent meditation to put all present circumstances in perspective.

Simply to stretch the mind in this way changes present values.

At my workplace we played a joke on my supervisor a couple of weeks ago, and we loved it so much we haven't "stopped the clock" :

We have a clock which has all the numbers arranged backwards.

It actually tells correct time, but you have to read the clock backwards. It is a large, white round clock with black numerals.

We put this above my supervisor's mailbox, where everyone comes in and drops off documents. It gets a laugh. Not only that, we are learning not to place so much value on time, and the sense of time-urgency that people in modern offices are often "trapped" within.

Your experiment sounds fascinating, Alan. I didn't mean to go off track, but, well, I guess I just don't have any "normal" sense of time, and haven't for about 10 years now. I took my watch off long ago.

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Hi Varga,

It was not subjective but actual different  and measurable between clocks located in various locations, near the meditator

Time being elastic snapps back after a brief momemt. All one needs to establish the validity of this phenonemen is to take the time and effort to try it. Anyone can do it i feel.

alan

Hi Dave,

I have experienced some sort of a speed barrier while in a lucid dream.  At approaching infinite speed I came across an increasing force fied of some kind, until finally breaking through, to what could have been a parrallel universe as you suggested.

alan

Alan-
Interesting observation about speed barrier.

My take on time is that what we actually measure is the rate at which reality crystallizes into history. As such, we only need three dimensions to fit together all the various kinds of relationships that the world provides us.  However, prior to the formation of historical arrangements, t seems that the "instant of Now" is actually stretched out between the start and the conclusion of everything that is going on - which means a lot of different intervals of process that we refer to as "Now". The "surface of time" seems to be very bumpy and irregular.

If this is correct, then every interaction presents a collection of locally defined oddball dimensions that later reconcile themselves into the three spatial dimensions of experience. That would suggest that as you exceed the rate available on the level at which things turn into history, then you wind up with one of the oddball dimensions.  Or, if you use the Lorentz equation, when you exceed the maximum process rate, you go into imaginary space - and again, a new dimension.

I thnk a conservative expression might be that you generated your own mental black hole. - Again, that reminds me of the CS thing where they redefine their reality. Somewhere at the bottom of this line of thought there's gotta be a profound truth.

dave

George,

There is also a New Castle in South Africa a very large coal mining area.

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