Willful real-life time dilation using tulpa

[Captain Nemo]

This is a brilliant and 100% possible idea I just had.

 

Time dilation is the apparent slowing down of time. This occurs often in dreams, where a short dream time seems to cover a much longer time span in the dream. It's also been observed in the waking life, where those under extreme stress or adrenaline have seen time slow down, and everything around them is in slow motion.

 

Normally, this occurs because the brain drops all other tasks and focuses on making decisions. However, using a tulpa to tap into your subconscious' extra "cpu cycles", I think it's entirely possible to slow down time under normal circumstances.

 

It may take a bit of practice to make it happen for longer periods of time than a few seconds, but it should definitely be possible. Who wants to try?

[ThatOneGuy]

Actually kind of easy to achieve without tuppers, but I suppose that they could make it much easier. I'll have to give it a go.

[glitchthe3rd]

This works by altering your perception of time, I've managed it successfully but the dilation isn't very noticeable.

[Guest applesauce99]

I think there was an experiment done on if your perception was actually slowed, or if you just remembered it later in greater detail/slower. Don't exactly remember the result, but I'm sure it was the 'remembered as slower' deal.

[Zero]

This is possible, at least it has been for me. I mention it in http://community.tulpa.info/thread-chronostasis-time-dilation , though I haven't figured out the exact method of it yet, I'll write a guide on it as soon as I have.

[zerofox21898]

Just to clear things up, how exactly does the majority of the community feel this would work? The only possible explanation I can think of would be that you are just thinking faster, and because all slowing down time would do is give you more time to think, the difference in speed between your thoughts and your senses gives off the effect of 'slowed time.' Is this the general consensus among us?

[Shui]

There are different kinds of time dilation. For time dilation in dreams, where you seem to live out an entire lifetime in the span of an hour or two, I believe that's an illusion. You might experience the highlights of the lifetime, and your mind fills in the remainder. It's like when you hear a sound in a dream, and your mind seems to put that sound in context before the sound actually happens. Like a bell rings, and you dream of seeing the bell before it actually rings -- it's because your mind has changed the memory of the dream to put your experience into context.

 

That's one kind of dilation. But there are actually cases where people perceive time flowing slower or faster. In fact, this happens naturally. After meditation, or a prolonged period of solitude, when people are asked to gauge how long a minute is, they usually overestimate by several minutes, suggesting that time has sped up for them. This also happens naturally over the course of a human life -- people in their 20s are usually pretty accurate at telling how long a minute is, whereas people in their sixties experience minutes about 30% faster.

 

In the latter kind of time dilation, I believe you're actually thinking faster, but in the first kind, I think you're fooling yourself.