Time

[Fred Steeves]

It seems quite a common experience that people are noticing time speeding up. Sure we have the phenomena that as we get older time passes more quickly, but there certainly seems to be more to it than just that.

I was at a museum recently where they have one of those coin drop wishing wells, and as I watched the first penny(yes, we sacrificed quite a few) spiral faster and faster towards the end, I thought: "That's exactly what it feels like, what a perfect visual demonstration!"

Was wondering then what ya'll think. If you happen to concur, and we're the penny, at what point are we now? For me, the 47 second mark looks about right.

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Invoking "as above so below, as below so above", what happens to us at the point our coin disappears? Would that be a dimensional shift, a wormhole, a...?

Cheers,
Fred

[spiritguide]

Time is not matter nor energy it is only a construct of convenience. Is there a definition? To me it is another four letter word with many perceptions such as love. IMHO

There is only the now that is tangible.

[sleepy]

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[markpierre]

I'm with you Fred.
I don't think it can be explained the way I've heard it as the 'pulse' of the earth speeding up. I'd think that would be relative.
But time as it's experienced as duration is mind comparing one moment to another. Or the interval between experience and the analysis of it. Those other moments are either gone or are imagined.
The chronic inability to 'be here now' in the real sense of the statement.

I know the last two years have felt like 6 months, a month feels like a week and a week is only two days long now. Good thing. Some of the weeks I've had I wouldn't
have lasted for more than a couple of days. I just regard it as phenomena, and like all phenomena defies explanations.

Could view it this way. Consciousness in focus loses the 'phenomena of time', which you notice every time you're fully and freely absorbed in something. If you consider time as 'change'
which is all of the purpose of time and the only value in comparisons, maybe consciousness is simply coming into the present more and more. I'd just be grateful.

[Cheyne]

I remember as a child of approx 4 or 5 years of age asking my Mum "how long before we go on holidays". She told me "6 weeks" and I was so disappointed because at the time that seemed like an eternity and as it passed it felt like an awful long time of waiting.I've never forgotten this because I often thought of that time in the following years and noticed how the feeling of "time passing" diminished as I grew older.Even in my adult years,I'm 55 now,I still think of that time as a child and I ponder at how fast time goes by the older I get....I decided as a young adult that it was because my life was busier compared to when I was a child.But I do so enjoy the thoughts on this thread,some of which I've stumbled on over the past decade of awakening and "I ponder" yet again.

[Dorjezigzag]

Yes many people do seem to feel time is accelerating
Your video made me think of this video, which I will circle-late

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Definitely see what you're saying Fred. I see time as a continuum of energy, with us moving through it, and it isn't static but quite fluid. I have been well aware for some 'time' now that at the very least my perception of our passing through it has kicked up a gear so to speak. It seems very much like the spiralling coin rapidly approaching singularity. 2012 has absolutely shot by.

[Fred Steeves]

Fred ,

That is an interesting question. If in fact time were accelerating, perhaps that would explain why these scientists believe the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Another way to look at it would be that, cosmic time is speeding up and the rate of expansion is the same.



We always hear about the outbreath/inbreath of Creation. What if that's not quite the way it really is? A year or so ago, I cut a belt sander belt, gave one twist, retaped it, and it's been on the dashboard of my truck ever since. Why? Because it creates a crude Mobius strip, and this is what I like my sub-conscious to ponder when driving. The Universe going In/out sounds rather abrupt, but merely coming back in on itself, without ever having to change a thing, makes a lot of sense.

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Here's a better depiction, almost resembles a DNA strand too, doesn't it?

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If we want to ponder just what happens to the penny once it disappears down the hole at the end, the fractal universe makes sense.

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There is no beginning or end, just a different scale. If you turn this third picture upside down, doesn't that resemble the playing field our penny in the OP was operating on? Just thinking aloud.

[WhiteFeather]

I agree Fred time does seem to be moving quickly. As I believe that technology interfered with our 24 hr. Day. Think if we had no technology and we were living back 100 years ago, taking care of our farms and living this old way of life, time would not move as quick. And 24 hrs. would be suffice. Technology IMO might very well be the culprit. Today 24 hrs seems like 12 hrs. Time cut in half. Technology is this disruption of time. But what is time. Time is the only thing that cannot be measured.

Maybe Rome needs to install a new calendar. Cause The Gregorian Calendar is apparently becoming obsolete. My suggestion,,, 36 hrs a day. And 24 hrs. is just for relaxing.

"Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time, plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines. Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way, the time is gone this post is over,thought id something more to say" Time - by Pink Floyd


Has The Quickening Begun! Or The Shift Perhaps. I Watched this video awhile back, have a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHZkUiRP30&feature=related

[CD7]

Yes the 'speeding up' has been discussed for a couple years now and to me it seems that in addition to this feeling 'other' type of experiences with time are happening recently.

Now it seems that more and more i experience a sensation of being/feeling another 'time period' in my space. It can insight emotions within me almost as if certain type of emotions are associated with past or other memories...and its not really the 'type' of emotions we think of now...not necessarily like anger, joy, saddness...but more like an emotional compression feeling?

The season seems to be associated with the "memory" Fall has come up for me quite a few times as of late...its like the season in itself has an emotion connected to it

Love describing experiences we have no idea what were trying to convey?? Must be entertaining to watch.........

[Warlock]

Fred,
It is not that time is speeding up. It is that you are getting older and slowing down. :lock1:

Warlock

[truthseekerdan]

Prof. dr. Wubbo J. Ockels is a Dutch physicist, and also the Netherlands original astronaut. He is a Professor of Aerospace Sustainable Engineering and Technology at the University of Delft, and tries to stimulate a mentality change among Dutch citizens.

In his mind-bending TEDxAmsterdam talk, Ockels explains how time is created by human beings, as a way our brains can make sense of gravity. The speed of light is constant, because it is made by us: its the clock by which we have calibrated our existence. Based on this premise, Ockels proposes a new way to explore life in our galaxy.

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[cacophony]

For me, it just seems like its all now. it was now ten minutes ago and now right now and now ten minutes from now too. I like to explore time relative to it's psychosocial context. Its a pragmatic construct of our society: like a rabbit in a suit and tie running late, we are always running out of it...but (not to sound too paradoxical) that doesn't seem like a 'new' way to look at it.

That just seems like one perspective.

Is time a dependent variable, or independent of all variables? Considering that time can fly and time can crawl, I think its dependent. But of what? Some of my favorite memories are of concerts, where I would dance for ten hours straight in the course of what feels like five minutes. One of the fundamental truths of those experiences is that I forgot about time completely. In retrospect, time seems to have sped up severely in those moments, but only when I consider it.

And on considering that, I guess in twenty years ill be sitting on my couch in my underwear playing xsphere720, in five minutes.

maybe you're just looking back more these days?

[another bob]

Every moment is ever-new, whether or not we are attaching memory-based associations to its appearance, or projecting future-based expectations and desires onto it. In this regard, the only thing that actually remains constant in this life experience is the fact that it is always this moment. One truth remains unassailable, as our whole life unfolds within this moment: it's always Now!

When most people hear slogans like "Be here now", they think that "the present" is only appearing for a short time -- a moment -- and so needs to be grasped onto, in order to avoid "missing it". However, whatever happens to appear in the present moment is perhaps more accurately recognized as simply the manifestation of the present moment, a transient and non-binding expression or modification of Now.

Something comes into the space of Now momentarily and then disappears. Then something else arises and vanishes. What remains is a fundamental ground of Stillness, Vastness, out of which everything is emerging and into which everything is dissolving. This "Stillness" is another name for our own pure Awareness.

Consequently, when we realize what Now really Is - this fundamental ground of our own Awareness in which everything inheres and has its being - then we can naturally relax into the condition of our primordial peace, without the need to manipulate outcomes or create some reason to be apprehensive about the appearance or disappearance of any circumstance, event, or person.

The only challenge about all of this comes when we begin to complicate -- when we cling to and fixate on temporal beliefs, granting some sort of enduring reality to fantasies of interpretation on perception, otherwise known in this case as "past, present, and future". We are timeless awareness, and beyond that, where no words can go, we shine as the radiance of Source Itself, illuminating this all-inclusive moment Now.