Time flies when you are having fun - is that good?

[GarethBKK]

I was reading a yesterday how a writer thought time flies when watching an engrossing movie Etc., and I started wondering if I actually want time to fly. The more I think about it the more I realise that I like it when time grinds to a halt. My daydreams are fantastically long affairs compared to 'real' time. Reading books and letting my mind wonder slows down time wonderfully. I want to put some banana skins in the way of time and carry on dreaming my life.

What do other Avalonians think? Is time to be grounded or encouraged to fly? Or is there another reality I should know about?

[ulli]

It's more about perception than about time.
Time itself is measured by the Earth's rotation around it's own axis (day) and it's orbit around the sun (year)
so the movement of time itself is a constant.

The fast and slow parts are to do with one's attitude...either rejecting or trying to cling to what is happening here and now.

Impatience means intolerance of what is...
nothing to do with time, but everything to do with desiring change.

Nostalgia is clinging to times gone by, the "good old' days".
Another form of rejecting he now, and in a way the opposite of impatience.

[GarethBKK]

Hi ulli, I've never been described as nostalgic but have frequently been accused of being impatient - so not sure why I would appreciate doing the things that appear to happen slowly. I've read near-death experiences (NDE) where the time of connecting to the 'light' doesn't match the time we are used to. I've also read of people reaching other experiences where time is also out of step. I wonder if my day-dreaming is a sign of making a connection. By the same token, I wonder if getting engrossed in a movie somehow disconnects us.

[danceblackcatdance]

my tai chi teacher talks about slowing down by being focused... a movie is between 24 frames & 29.9 per second, slow motion is like 1000 fps.. concentrating on each frame or being focused and utterly 'present' in the moment should stretch time out a little, most of the time we're unconsciously going through life in a trance... i've been practising asking myself 'am i being conscious?' at intervals (when i remember!), to try and see how much time has just gone past on autopilot... its quite difficult, for me anyway

he uses the idea of being in a car crash (heaven forbid) but time slows down because you're 100% in that moment, you can see the other car coming, plenty of time to take in all the details etc and have a good think of refection on your life all in a split second.... hope that helps

[ulli]

Posted by GarethBKK (here)
Hi ulli, I've never been described as nostalgic but have frequently been accused of being impatient - so not sure why I would appreciate doing the things that appear to happen slowly. I've read near-death experiences (NDE) where the time of connecting to the 'light' doesn't match the time we are used to. I've also read of people reaching other experiences where time is also out of step. I wonder if my day-dreaming is a sign of making a connection. By the same token, I wonder if getting engrossed in a movie somehow disconnects us.

It makes sense to me, as I have had similar experiences.
On the whole I am considered more of a futurist than a nostalgic, although I must confess as I am getting older there are more and more moments in my life when I feel nostalgia, especially for 1974, which was an extraordinary year in my life.

Anyway, when impatient people find themselves in the circumstances that they were looking for its like finding the Holy Grail, and magic happens. Here one has reached Point Zero, a god moment...where everything seems possible, and one only has to choose. Which makes all the other moments in life seem worthwhile.

[Anchor]

Cause and effect are resolved against a timeline. Well its starts out easy. Until one day your watch says you will miss a train, but somehow you don't.

Then if your consciousness "is engrossed" on higher things and functions more outside of linear time, funny things can happen on "re-entry"!

The more you notice it, the weirder it gets. Until you just stop wondering about it and let things just play out as they will

Here is a great tip.... "My advice on making sense of temporal paradoxes is simple: don't even try." (Captain Janeway, Star Trek Voyager)

[Fred Steeves]

Posted by ulli (here)
It's more about perception than about time.
Time itself is measured by the Earth's rotation around it's own axis (day) and it's orbit around the sun (year)
so the movement of time itself is a constant.

True Ulli, in one certain dimension anyway. But if we get down to brass tacks, there is really no time or space at all. Viewed from this perspective, it would seem to me that "time" can be, or not be, whatever/whenever we want.

I've been noticing some distortions in time/space lately that have absolutely nothing to do with the rotations and orbits of planets.

What do you think?

[ulli]

Posted by Fred Steeves (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
It's more about perception than about time.
Time itself is measured by the Earth's rotation around it's own axis (day) and it's orbit around the sun (year)
so the movement of time itself is a constant.

True Ulli, in one certain dimension anyway. But if we get down to brass tacks, there is really no time or space at all. Viewed from this perspective, it would seem to me that "time" can be, or not be, whatever/whenever we want.

I've been noticing some distortions in time/space lately that have absolutely nothing to do with the rotations and orbits of planets.

What do you think?

You mean you didn't read me between the (time) lines?

That's exactly what I think, and I was getting there.
You just beat me to it.

I was just biding my time; excuse the pfun.

[Falcor]

time flies when you are having fun simply because you are present. and what is always present? our true nature.......love

love is

[Fred Steeves]

Posted by ulli (here)
On the whole I am considered more of a futurist than a nostalgic, although I must confess as I am getting older there are more and more moments in my life when I feel nostalgia, especially for 1974, which was an extraordinary year in my life.

And Terry Jacks was all over the AM dial.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_Fdly3rX8

[Karunai]

Of course it's good!. The 'I' likes to think that 'body' doesn't age when I'm 'out of -the- time' lol (Talking seriously, seriously... I do wonder that sometimes, if that could be.)

[Maia Gabrial]

Someone on the forum talked about this same thing. Sorry, I can't remember who. When time flies, it means that you're vibrating more towards the higher dimensions and closing the gap. I like it. It makes sense to me....

[meeradas]

If it's that kinda fun, i'd say yeah.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1q-UQaYayI

[GarethBKK]

danceblackcatdance, wow. Thinking of experience in terms of variable frames per second. That's amazing. I've always thought I should learn tai chi.

Maia Gabrial, Thanks. "When time flies, it means that you're vibrating more towards the higher dimensions" - interesting. My starting point was that perhaps the opposite was true, but maybe 'letting go' is what we should be doing. As Falcor says it brings us to our natural state of 'love'. I'll search out that thread and stop looking at clocks.

[Anchor]

Time is a component of the co-created illusion we assume is "reality".

The flow of time is VARIABLE and one of the factors is your consciousness.

Watching wet paint dry, or a kettle boil, takes a lot longer than it should

However, if you put the kettle on and then start working on something else the kettle never gives you enough time - it seems to work faster ! By the time you get to the kettle to get the tea ready you may even have to switch it on again just to get it hot again.....

This is of course non-sense. If you calibrated the time with a clock, nothing changed ( assuming you were not messing with the flow of time through that instrument - which is possible).

The only thing that changed was the state of consciousness.

[araucaria]

You know the old Groucho Marx quip, “Time flies like an arrow ; fruit flies like a banana !”

I have my own take on this: “Time flies like a banana”, meaning :
a) time follows a curved trajectory (like a boomerang /banana); and
b) we are “time flies”, and can enjoy time the way fruit flies enjoy a banana