Controlling Time

[Andrew Brunelle]

Here's something I'm starting to experiment with: controlling the speed of time. There are times when I want time to go slower and times when I want it to go faster. But I'm just curious if anyone has ever tried this. I guess you could call it time dilation, but I haven't read any stories about it, so I was wondering if there is anyone who knows how to do such a thing. I know time is just an illusion anyway, so it should be easy to break the whole speed of time thing. But let me know if you've done anything with it.

[Amit]

Just curios, what's you definition of time anyway? If you time scale is measured by your watch then of course you won't know if you've affected time or not.

IMHO - you have to escape any current perceptions of the time of seconds, minutes etc in order to be able to control time.

I agree with you it's probably something easy to do though!

[Andy]

I've really wondered about this myself. There's been times when I was so enthralled with something that I'd think only 5 minutes had passed, but then I actually checked it was on the order of 40 minutes. Strangely enough I don't remember trying much to change my perception of time. Maybe I'll go experiment with that, but I'd love to hear of anyone else's experience with all this.

[JOE]

Whilst Nothing To Do With The Topics Of This Website

You Might Be Interested In A Chaos Magick Website I Frequent, Very Occassionally

There Is An Entity (correct Term, A Servitor Or Godform) Called


Fotamecus



Do A Google Search For This Entity Along With Or Seperate Forum

Chaosmatrix.org


Fotamecus Is A Time Dilation Entity That I Have Had One Exceptionally Impressiv Experince With


A Walk That Would Normally Take Me 1 Hour 20 Mins....took Me Fifty Minutes....with No Conscious Effort To Walk Faster

A Girl Who I Work With, Had Similarly Effective Results When Shopping

Her Normal Shopping Trip Took 2 Hours And Yet She Accomplished This In Half An Hour Less Despite Pondering Over Clothes For Longer Than Usual That Day (and She Was Totaly Unaware Of The Magick Symbols Intent When I Gave It To Her .........adding Weight To The Idea That Magick.intention Whatever Is Effective For The Universe.....not Only Our Own Subconscious)

[Dating Specialist]

Originally Posted by Andrew Brunelle

Here's something I'm starting to experiment with: controlling the speed of time. There are times when I want time to go slower and times when I want it to go faster. But I'm just curious if anyone has ever tried this. I guess you could call it time dilation, but I haven't read any stories about it, so I was wondering if there is anyone who knows how to do such a thing. I know time is just an illusion anyway, so it should be easy to break the whole speed of time thing. But let me know if you've done anything with it.

I'm not sure if this is NLP related, but we do such stuff in our coaching anyway. It's called time distortion.

For example, if I'm badly deprived of sleep and I only have say, 4 hours to sleep, I will close my eyes and slow everything down. So, my breathing slows down, the images I see inside my head slowed down considerably. It's like watching a video playing on slow-motion mode. Then I tell myself I will wake up feeling refreshed and as if I slept for 8 hours.

Originally Posted by Amit

IMHO - you have to escape any current perceptions of the time of seconds, minutes etc in order to be able to control time.

IMHO - In My Humble Opinion? Have a good feeling that my guess is right ha! Am I?

Originally Posted by Andy

I've really wondered about this myself. There's been times when I was so enthralled with something that I'd think only 5 minutes had passed, but then I actually checked it was on the order of 40 minutes. Strangely enough I don't remember trying much to change my perception of time. Maybe I'll go experiment with that, but I'd love to hear of anyone else's experience with all this.

Yup! I've blogged about this perception on time in the past too. When we feel that time is crawling, chances are we are stuck in a situation where we dread or doing something that we don't enjoy.

Similarly, when time flies, you know you are in love (with the thing you're doing or person you're with haha).

The rate and speed time moves is fixed. Yet it is our perception of time that is giving us the illusion of reality. That's why we find waiting 5 minutes in queue sooo long while 50 minutes of cuddle just isn't enough!

[Amit]

You would be correct!

[Belle]

I started doing this earlier this year, with some pretty good results. It requires that I start in a positive frame of mind. All I do is put out an intention that I will get through a project quickly and easily.

I have to admit, every time I do this, I'm a little bit nervous - "will it work again?". Because I'm usually working on a deadline, and if it doesn't work, it means an all-nighter for me. I also find that I have to really make an effort to hold the intention, to remember that I'm intending it. Sometimes it doesn't work but then I remember to hold the intention and it clicks right into place.

The last time I did this, I had the most amazing experience of watching the minutes go by one by one on my computer. I'd finish up something that would normally take me maybe fifteen minutes to do, and I'd look at the little clock in the corner and a minute had passed.

So it does work.

[Michael Chui]

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -- Attributed to Albert Einstein

[songwriter]

Well Science says that our perception of time is affected by how we feel.
In Spain we have a saying "It's longer than a day without bread to eat"
or "longer than a Monday".
"time goes by so quickly when you're having fun"..."and time goes by so slowly..." to quote some songs...

The thing I don't know is if you can make your perception of time change without changing how do you feel.
Imagine you're bored during a lesson... How to make the time goes by faster without going out of your boredom? I don't know.
But if you go out of your boredom time will go faster for you.

And if times goes by faster for you, you may be get out of your boredom :-D.

The more you look at the clock, the slower it goes. So one good thing is to try to forget about time and to focus on what you're doing. That is good when you work.

[Adam Sargant]

Originally Posted by Andrew Brunelle

Here's something I'm starting to experiment with: controlling the speed of time. There are times when I want time to go slower and times when I want it to go faster. But I'm just curious if anyone has ever tried this. I guess you could call it time dilation, but I haven't read any stories about it, so I was wondering if there is anyone who knows how to do such a thing. I know time is just an illusion anyway, so it should be easy to break the whole speed of time thing. But let me know if you've done anything with it.

As Dating Specialist says, we use the concept of time distortion pretty heavily in NLP and hypnosis/trance work... time distortion is one of the trance phenomena I use to provide clients with a convincer that they have experienced a profoundly altered state.

You can distort time (well, actually, we cannot NOT distort time, but one can distort it intentionally) through what is known as timeline work, through deep (or moderate) trance, through anchoring specific triggers to specific states within which distortion occurs, through standing in the queue at the supermarket...

Reference... Time for a Change, Richard Bandler

In love and light

Adam

[Adam Sargant]

Originally Posted by songwriter

The thing I don't know is if you can make your perception of time change without changing how do you feel.
Imagine you're bored during a lesson... How to make the time goes by faster without going out of your boredom? I don't know.
But if you go out of your boredom time will go faster for you.

Aye, spot on. Perception of rate of time is state dependant. Change state, and you alter (among everthing else) perception of rate of passage of time.

In love and light

Adam

[jdiddy]

Originally Posted by Andrew Brunelle

Here's something I'm starting to experiment with: controlling the speed of time. There are times when I want time to go slower and times when I want it to go faster. But I'm just curious if anyone has ever tried this. I guess you could call it time dilation, but I haven't read any stories about it, so I was wondering if there is anyone who knows how to do such a thing. I know time is just an illusion anyway, so it should be easy to break the whole speed of time thing. But let me know if you've done anything with it.

As far as I can tell, "time" is only a way to measure rate of change. If you slow change, you slow "time". If you speed up "change" you speed up time.

The closer you get to the speed of light (pure energy), time slows down (change slows). If pure energy = perfection (which is my personal opinion based on phyics reading), it makes sense that you could control time by manipulating your energy level. Increasing your energy by being fully present in the current moment would raise your energy level and slow time, focusing on something else (say, daydreaming during a boring class) would make you less present in the current moment, lower your energy level, and make time go slower. Just my 2 cents.

[A.K.Light]

If you just sit there and think, time will seem to go by slower.

If your always busy, time will seem to go by faster.

But, time in memory is the oppositite.

Anything that seemed to take a long time because you were bored, actually seems like it happened fast once you look back on it.

And when you were busy and time was flying, it seems like you've done so much that it must have been years ago, when it might have only been a month ago.

That's my take on time. The more you do, the faster it goes and the more fun you have, but you still seem to have had more of it.

[Paul C]

Originally Posted by jdiddy

If pure energy = perfection (which is my personal opinion based on phyics reading), it makes sense that you could control time by manipulating your energy level. Increasing your energy by being fully present in the current moment would raise your energy level and slow time, focusing on something else (say, daydreaming during a boring class) would make you less present in the current moment, lower your energy level, and make time go slower. Just my 2 cents.

This made alot of sense to me. This may even explain why people who make meditation a life long habit, for example, don't appear as old as they might otherwise be without employing meditation (or raising your energy/vibration level some other way). Just a thought.

Alot of potential for this topic.

[MindReality]

I have written an article about time perception and time manipulation. You can literally manipulate time with you mind because all time is mental. I believe this is exactly what you are looking for.

Here it is:

Rapid Perception - Slowing Time Down » Secrets of Mind and Reality

[Ati]

This is a real interesting topic, let me add my 2c--

Once you've been around awhile (that'd be 53 years for me), it seems time goes rocket fast. Why? Who knows, but most of us in this age group seem to agree on this notion.

I remember when the 3 months of summer vacation from school (that is, elementary school especially, junior high pretty much and high school probably_---but I remember elementary school especially. That 3 months was an eternity in heaven, no kidding! Anybody remember that?

Now it's oh so typical to talk abt something as if it just happened yesterday and it was actually maybe 5 years ago.

This doesn't seem to get in the way at all, for me it's mostly a bit of humor.

And at the same time, if I'm doing something that I'm real involved with, time is a separate issue altogether, it doesn't go fast or slow, it simply doesn't matter at the time.

I agree with your idea about making time go longer if you only have a little while to sleep. And I do think that we can make time go slower just by paying more attention, don't you?

All best

[Sadhana]

Hmm. I don't think it's possible to change the speed of time itself, but I do agree that we can definitely change our perception of it, which, practically-speaking, amounts to the same thing.

Like other people said: when I'm completed immersed in a task I like, time seems to fly. When I'm waiting for a doctor's appointment, it's slower than a snail. There's no reason why we can't actively control that perception and make time faster/slower, according to our needs.

[Mad101daN]

Originally Posted by Ati

This is a real interesting topic, let me add my 2c--

Once you've been around awhile (that'd be 53 years for me), it seems time goes rocket fast. Why? Who knows, but most of us in this age group seem to agree on this notion.

I remember when the 3 months of summer vacation from school (that is, elementary school especially, junior high pretty much and high school probably_---but I remember elementary school especially. That 3 months was an eternity in heaven, no kidding! Anybody remember that?

I read an intresting explanation for this. It is to do with how long you have been alive.

So if you are six years old the 3 months summer holiday would take up a large portion of you life. As we know 3 months when you are six is equal to 1/24 of your life or 4%.

Now you said your 53, the same 3 months period account for 1/212 or 0.47%

You now have had 9 times more life experience and it may well feel as though it is going ten times faster. 4% compared to .47% .

I am sure you can consiously control time as people have stated. If you put your mind to it. I generally find, like most people, that time does the exact reverse of what you want it to do. If I'm out having a great time, but have something to do later, you can bet that time will fly by. If I'm sat listening to a boring speech, it will drag and drag.

Have fun

Dan

[MindReality]

I thought that when you are old and retired, then you can leave the busy and hectic lifestyle at last. So you are able to observe life with perceptive awareness and a day would seem like an eternity to go by...

Read my post on slowing time down to learn about perceptive awareness if you haven't done so already. Here it is once again:

Rapid Perception - Slowing Time Down » Secrets of Mind and Reality

Time moves according to your rate of consciousness.