Have you time dilated?

[glitchthe3rd]

There's no brain activity during a coma.

[Guest Anonymous]

 

 

Yes, I have had lucid dreams where I live entire lives in a few hours, sometimes in a few seconds, but I was just trying to figure out a good place to start.

 

You don't experience actual time dilation during dreams, but rather, it's something like unconscious confirmation bias. You actually only "dream" very small segments lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes each depending on which R.E.M cycle you're on. Once you wake up and try to recall the dream, your brain automatically fills in the gaps to make it relatively cohesive. This is why it's possible to feel like you experienced an entire lifetime when recalling a dream, despite it only being a few tiny scattered fragments.

 

Actual time dilation is actually much harder to achieve than most people believe. Unless you hire someone to hide behind your back and randomly pop out, holding a gun up to your head while screaming in German so that you get a kick of adrenaline and a tiny bit of time distortion, the only way to practice is through meditation. And a lot of it. I've been practicing meditation for about 10 years and I'm still only able to alter very small segments of my perception of time without going into deep meditation. Although on a 12 hour Vipassana session I lost my entire perception of time, making it feel both like a fraction of a second and infinity at the same time. Alternatively, DMT can give you true loss of perception of time without having to work for it.

 

There's no brain activity during a coma.

Exactly.

[Kadoh]

Ah, well, I am mistaken then.

[Nobillis]

O.k. Short answer to this question is yes, I have time dilated a number of times (in the Matter World a.k.a. real world). What I mean by this is that my subjective time sense has been sped up so that everything appears to happen slowly.

 

Longer answer is more complex. There are a number of ways to achieve time dilation effect (altering subjective time). I'll give a few examples from personal experience, and from the experience of my associates.

 

1) A friend of mine at Main Roads Western Australia would compete on weekends in a pistol shooting competition (at his pistol club). The aim of the contest was to be the fastest in a course with 6 set targets in different rooms (points gained for accuracy). He would plan out all his movements in advance, and when the start shot was fired he said it was like time'd slowed down for him. He said the gun felt heavier and it was like trying to move through treacle. To those observing him however he was moving so fast through the course they didn't even see him fire the gun (though he did hit every target).

 

2) There is an old trick in martial arts where the sensei (teacher) will ask you to hold your hands about 2 inches apart. He then holds a 12" ruler just above your hands (I think it was so that about 4 inces of the ruler was above the hands, the rest hanging down) and (without warning) drops it (between them). The aim is for the student to catch the ruler before it falls through. Most people trying this miss (try it yourself with a friend). I catch it pretty much every time. All I do is concentrate to change my perception of subjective time so that everything appears to be about 1/2 speed. That way it is easy for me to catch the ruler as it is falling slowly relative to my perception. This trick is easier if you know self hypnosis but can be learned just with practice (I've had more then 40 years to learn).

 

3) Once, in a car accident, my subjective time slowed so much that I could see the cracks in the windscreen slowly inching across the glass as the windscreen shattered in the impact. In that state I felt little or no acceleration from the impact. Where I was holding the (metal) steering wheel it was twisted (like a pretzel). Where my knee was leaning against the handbrake it bent the 1/2 inch steel rod into a right angle. My only injury was a small cut on one toe. The utility I was driving was bent like a banana such that the front and back of the car were facing the same direction.

I attribute my survival to the Lord of Heaven helping me. That is my personal belief based on what I have observed in my life - I don't expect anyone else to be of then same opinion.

 

4) If I want to concentrate very much on something I alter subjective time the other way (slow me down - everyone else moves fast). That way I can process much more complex concepts at what seems greater speed to me. But, a 4 hour tulpa concentration session for me can take 12 hours elapsed as measured by the clock. (Perceptions: In that situation I tend to move and talk very slowly. Most people seem to be talking too quick to understand [except Americans, who generally only speak about half the number of words per minute as an Australian does].)

 

 

I hope these examples from my life help you in your inquiries.

 

Sincerely,

Kevin

[Purlox]

I don't know if everyone is getting it, so I'll clarify for Fuliam. Considering this is in the tulpa section and not off topic and how time dilatation is used in the IRC channels sometimes, then I would guess he is talking about "time dilatation" in mindscape/wonderland rather than in reality. More specifically he is talking about changing his perception of time in the mindscape compared to the flow of time in the real world.

 

You don't experience actual time dilation during dreams, but rather, it's something like unconscious confirmation bias. You actually only "dream" very small segments lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes each depending on which R.E.M cycle you're on. Once you wake up and try to recall the dream, your brain automatically fills in the gaps to make it relatively cohesive. This is why it's possible to feel like you experienced an entire lifetime when recalling a dream, despite it only being a few tiny scattered fragments.

You only dream "small" amount of time in real life, but you could perceive much more time during the dream. What says that it has been his brain that filled in the gaps instead of it actually happening?

[Guest Anonymous]

I don't know if everyone is getting it, so I'll clarify for Fuliam. Considering this is in the tulpa section and not off topic and how time dilatation is used in the IRC channels sometimes, then I would guess he is talking about "time dilatation" in mindscape/wonderland rather than in reality. More specifically he is talking about changing his perception of time in the mindscape compared to the flow of time in the real world.

In that case meditation is really all you need to do. Managing just an hour of meditation before going into your wonderland would surely make time move much slower as long as you maintain concentration.

 

You only dream "small" amount of time in real life, but you could perceive much more time during the dream. What says that it has been his brain that filled in the gaps instead of it actually happening?

I don't understand what you're trying to say. That instead of his mind filling in the gaps later, it happens in the dream? Or that he actually experienced an entire lifetime in the course of 10 minutes?

[Purlox]

I don't understand what you're trying to say. That instead of his mind filling in the gaps later, it happens in the dream? Or that he actually experienced an entire lifetime in the course of 10 minutes?

Not necessarily an entire lifetime in few minutes, but basically yes.

[motorheadlk]

Now, this is science.

[Guest]

Nothing here is science. We're just rambling.

[motorheadlk]

Nothing here is science. We're just rambling.

 

What? Can't hear you, too much science going on right now.