What is it?

Time... It's very interesting subject to talk about, I have been thinking about posting a thread about time for some time now.

Many people seem to simplify this to themselves, thinking that time is a line, which comes from past, is here now and goes to the unfoseen future. Where it starts? where it ends? Most people don't think of that because it just ties your thoughts into unsolvable knot.

I think Mayans for example were quite smart seeing time as cycles, or a circle, or as a spiral. From simple human point of view time sure looks like its a line, but I don't think it's really that simple. For some years now, I think from about 1990 I have felt time getting faster and faster, specially in last four years. "This happens when you get older" yea right, it probably does, but how didn't I hear anything like that when I was kid? There was some talk about this in 2012 DOOM thread also..

Time is relative to the perception of it... That's for sure! I have took note how time seems to crawl or rush by depending on the mood I have or the things I'm doing. When I'm late from somewhere, it's rushing by, when I'm calm and I have nothing to horry about, it goes slow, when I have fun, it's again rushing by.

I remember reading something about north american indians, who when in horry, used to "make time." Just sit down for a while, take it easy for a moment and suddenly, there's nothing to horry about and you're not late from where you should be going. I have tested this and it really seems to work. It's like my own perception changes how much I'm able to do in same timeframe, when I take it easy, I can do a lot in short time, if I worry, the time slips through my fingers.

Talk about how you see time, what it means to you, talk about how it works and what not. I'll pop back hear later on, for now I'm in horry and have no time to type more. See ya soon!

Perhaps time is the perception of change. If every'thing' is enfolding and unfolding to and from the vacuum/infinite possibility and nothing is really moving, time may just be an illusion born of our obervance of 'change'.
As in like Janis Joplin said "It's all the same fucking day maaaaan"


Or maybe it's just the bit between two drum hits

dubmeup wrote:
Yeah the 'gap'

Is time a dimension?
Some bloke a while back was talking to me about time being a dimension, because he said, "if I have a parcel, and I want you to pick it up outside a shop on wednesday the 2nd, if you don't know what time the parcel is going to be there, then you won't be able to pick it up". Something like that anyway. I'm not sure I knew wtf he was on about, I still don't I think.

Mr. Wolf wrote:
I think if time was buffered and had lag and events already took place before we physically experience them, it could be dimensional, and the time between actual events and realization of them could be changeable by yourself or a higher power or just controlled.
Pure speculation on my part

Half 3

hugorune wrote:

Nice replies!

Time as a dimension is interesting thought.. That's a fact at least that perception of time is relative to speed of moving objects. Clocks in moving cars/planes etc. are ticking slower in relation to clocks that are stationary. I remember reading about an experiment which proved this.. Would time reverse if you would be moving fast enough?

Other interesting phenomenon is how time seems to slow down a LOT when something shocking or unexpected happens. I have had this happen few times. Once I was nearly hit by a car, I was riding my bike, luckily I able to hit the brakes and stop just before the car would have hit me. The moment it happened was like in a movie, slow motion... It took maybe two seconds, yet it felt like I have whole day to react to the situation.

Other time was when I broke a bone from my left palm.. I was about 10 years old at the time. When I realized I have a broken bone and my hand doesn't work time seemed to slow down considerably..

Hexhammer wrote:
Let the record show that I have abstained from making drummer jokes in relation to time and that I have absolutely not even considered dropping innuendos about 10yr old Hex breaking a bone in his palm. (much).

Sorry Feather, I don't get what you're saying... I blame my bad english. Goddamn brainfreeze..

Maybe time is just cycles, lifespan. And what we call time is just a measure. Maybe there is no time, only decay. What causes decay? We can measure decay, it takes a certain amount of time. I'm fucked if I know what I'm talking about.

Tricky subject it is.

I know that time isn't constant - and my theory is that it isn't purely perception either!

When at work, I can look at the clock -let's say it reads 3.30pm.

I think, "Flipping heck - another 90 minutes until home time"! I then sigh; fidget; compose an email full of facts & figures & grovelling ingratiation to a client; go downstairs to the kitchen & brew up for 10 people on our floor; have a telephone conversation, then look at the clock again, and see it's now 3.32pm!!!

88 minutes still to go! Now, how is that possible?

Have to say I absolutely love the fact that our resident drummer is asking what time is

So reminds me of various bands I've been in

Time seems to speed up as we get older as it is always relative, for example, a 2 year old and a 40 year old both have to wait 2 years for something, for one it's a lifetime for the other it is 1/20 of a lifetime. Similarly time 'seems' to slow down in an accident or stressful situation as the brain switches to hyper processing so has in one second as many thoughts as we may usually have in 10 seconds.

Hehe, Dubs you made my day.

Bythe way, our bassist has very good time in relation my time, but there's inconsistencies when his time is compared to itself... haha brainfreeze.

Oi, that's the conventional idea about it. Call me woowoo, but I thinks there's more to it than just brainprocess.

I remember when I was a kid on Christmas eve, waiting two weeks for Christmas day.

Hexhammer wrote:
No, the conventional idea is that we can measure it and establish it in our minds as a constant, ie. 1hr=60 minutes. If we measured time in experiences, keeping in mind our experience of time seems to be dependent upon what we are experiencing at that moment, then our perception of what time is would be vastly different.

Time is on my side, yes it is.


I think time is just a way to confuse people with something simple or in the case of clocks etc to simplify something complex. It is all about your perspective as pointed out by smarter replies beforehand.

We constantly refer to time so it is a big part of our lives. Like money perhaps we would be better off without it.

I watched an episode of wife swap once where a super mum type came to live with a hippy family for two weeks. The dad was all like "I don't live inside of time" or something like that which of course caused problems when it came to work and school etc. So I think his kids were home schooled and he had a hippy type job and the new mum for the show tried to suit and tie him and get him in time.

There was no real point there but that is all it is. If you are the hippy time still passes but perhaps it's role is less intrusive. Maybe you don't dread your birthday or look at the clock to see when you must stop having fun and go to work. It is a deep issue but that is as deep as I want to get at this time. (Pun intended)

For Hex