A New Theory Of Time Perception

I have been always fascinated by how time passes and how we fell it. Before in a previous post, a long time ago, I talked about a theory that maybe our base perception of time comes from the hearth and the autonomic nervous system. Well, there is evidence about that, our nervous system has a signal for time and it perceives it in around roughly 24 hours as we have aligned our clocks to it. Not only because of that but it is a strange correlation. In a study, where a man spent some time underground without any light to see how our body clock works, they concluded that the Moon is more connected to time and the lunar cycles work as a transmitter of time. Because of the Moon, we may have this sensation of roughly 24 hours cycle and the body works with that time even without any light source so we are bound by it with other impulses unknown to us.

We are here not to talk about our internal clock, we may have the opportunity to change this clock or it gets absorbed by what our environment present but I am more attracted to talk about other strange sensations. Why does time slows and gets faster if there is a cycle that is defined? First of all, let's talk about what time is and how many types of time there are!

I have said that a million times I think but time is an outcome of change. There are 3 main laws in physics - Energy, frequency and cycles. Energy works in different frequencies when a certain frequency changes from a higher to a lower or the other way around - one cycle finishes. That cycle marks the change in the energy and it defines time. Time is the outcome of this constant change and nothing more, our time as we see it is created by small cycles and larger ones which are always changing. To answer the second question, there are two main types of time - personal time and an astrological time. Astrological means that it is a type of time that is independent of us and we do not control it, the cycles of the Earth for example. The other type is an independent time to everyone, Einstein pretty well-defined these two types in his theory of relativity, but we won't talk about that.

What is interesting is how we slow our perception of time but we all experience day in the same big cycle. So the day to day cycle is all the same but we experience time being longer or slower from one another which is strange, isn't it? "My day passed slowly," said the first dude and the other was like "Was this the whole day? Whoa, it went like a rocket!" So why is that?

So the main key to discovering the answer is kept in the definition of time - constant change. That is why I again explained what time is. So the other key to the puzzle is the adaptive mind that we have. Our consciousness not only adapts to change it dives deep in it as time goes by and it totally gets comfortable in all situations, even in dangerous ones - that why some exploit it to benefit from trauma-induced control. We absorb everything around us and by absorbing it we perceive it - that creates a "false" perception of time. In other words, imagine being in a totally still room, everything is bright, there is nothing in the room, it seems as time has stopped. Well, indeed the time has stopped because nothing happens. There is no change. Imagine you going in that room and staying for a day, you will absorb the situation which will make you feel as nothing happens, everything is still and time never passes it seems. That is your perception of time, it absorbs the situation and it creates this state in which your mind is either slowly experiencing change or it gets faster. But the overall cycle of entropy and constant change that happens in other dimensions like the quantum world will still influence even the room where there is nothing. Because never does anything is exactly nothing and change cannot be made to zero, so time seems to have stopped in the room situation but the other dimensional (mostly lower dimensional cycles, because beyond our current time there is a dimension without time) cycles of time still influence it, we just experience slower or faster time. Slower or faster than what? Than our usual neutral perception which is different for all of us.

What is your neutral perception of change? If you are always on your computer, time will feel way faster and then going into the real world you feel "bored" because time (change) is no longer keeping up with your neutrally created perception. So slower time or faster is defined by our neutral state - for me slow may be sitting on a chair waiting for someone, for them this may be a neutral state of constant meditation - they may feel it as normal. So we all have neutral perceptions.

What happens is that in every different environment we experience time differently because we absorb its variables which define its change - absorb means we measure it by our consciousness. So time is defined by the environment. If you are a monk and you meditate a lot - life will seem to pass slowly accordingly to the natural cycles of nature you perceive all the time. If I am in a computer, a high tech programming environment, for example, the constant changes of the computer digits will sync with my perception and time will seem to fly away. Every change is perceived by time passing in our brain, we get delusional when we experience something faster or slower than our neutral state. We can't say how long time has passed. We get used to a different cycle and when our cycle changes to a slower one we get bored because we don't know what to do with reality anymore, "it is so slow" some say. It is a problem mostly produced by electronics and mobile phones because they make our perception of time to be instant. So we develop instant gratification and we simply have a hard time adapting back to the real world. We may experience a hyper boost of energy after watching a movie, movies are fast and do make time fly by. I am certain that you have experienced a boost in energy so to speak after watching a movie, it may have influenced you to the point where you want to have this fast-paced life in the world. You start to act, to feel as of you are in that movie. We all have experienced that it is because it changes our perception of time and life in general for a bit.

When we add emotion to the equation it gets a bit more complicated. Emotions have the power to slow even more time or to speed it up. How is that? Well, when we experience a dynamic time passing by it is due to our sensors saying that we like this activity. We begin to experience the known "flow state" where we get so focused into this activity that we begin to do it dynamically and with a lot of passion. That makes changes fly by because of the constant flow of the state. It just gets faster and focused that we experience another perception of time. If we feel overwhelmed by the state we are in, maybe bored or we don't enjoy a bit of it. Our mind is like repressing the reality, it makes it even slower because we experience a reality we do not want to and that overwhelms us so much that we get angry sometimes which even more slows time. We are battling with current reality. That makes it go slower because of the thoughts that are trying to counter reality and find pleasure in it.

Another strange phenomenon is a near death experience. I have talked about them but it is connected to the perception of time also. When we feel threatened our mind gets hyperactive to find another moment in which we have experienced the same situation to know how to deal with it. When we don't have an example to follow and there is no instinct for this particular situation - our perception of time gets even slower, we tend to see life flashing by because we are searching for answers to correctly respond to this situation. When we find even the slightest of similarities we act so fast that it is a signal basically. It may have been influenced by a movie we have watched where the actor was in the same situation and we copy or from anywhere else basically but the point is that we act based on a total recollection of everything, searching for answers if there is no instinct to act upon, that is why we see our life flash in front of our eyes so to speak. We search for the same situation.

There are even more situations that can be explained by my theory. I find it interesting to see how we experience time the same and different at the same time. We have a totally explainable system of digits which may influence us by their astrological cycles. How much they influence us is still unknown to me as I don't know if we can adapt and change our internal clock to feel a different cycle beside the 24 hour one. The problem is that day and night are strictly set which are a form of restriction for our perception of day and night, but in an individual level, we all have a different sensation of time passing by.

To conclude, I would say that in different situations we measure changes differently based on their occurrences. We absorb the variables around us which make our perception of time. Our consciousness can and it does influence our internal clock because consciousness does control our body and we can even do other stuff with it as to heal the body, strengthen it or higher its vibrating pattern. Consciousness defines reality and time is a part of this reality, we can elevate beyond time but that is a talk for another topic. If our consciousness is off, we are sleeping, our internal clock takes hold and we are bound to the cycle of 24 hours I believe. Our consciousness lives beyond time, it can perceive it differently and that is fascinating. There is a lot of potential for us. That is everything for today! As always, thank you for reading! Love and peace <3