Is time going by faster?

[dreamtime]

and as John Nada points out our time dependant devices made donkeys years ago would be out of phase with such devices made in 2021-2001 for example and they don't

I don't know a lot about mechanics, but could there be a way those devices depend on a variable like the ether/sun activity?

Pay attention to surrounding electrical appliances because time indicated on timepieces may become incorrect if they are affected by magnetism.​

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Source: https://www.jcwa.or.jp/en/time/qa/qa10.html

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A mechanical watch affected by magnetism remains magnetized even after removing it from the magnetic source. This may cause a gain or loss of time and influence its accuracy. So we recommend that you have it demagnetized in order to improve accuracy.​

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Source: How does magnetism affect a watch? | FAQs | Customer Service | Seiko Watch Corporation

The intention of the present paper is to point out a defect in the construction of time-pieces of every description in which balances are used, and at the same time a source of error in their performance, which has been hitherto little, if at all, suspected, but which, where it occurs, completely defeats all the ends intended to be answered by the application of the above-mentioned ingenious contrivances; and that it does occur very frequently will be made sufficiently obvious by a simple detail of facts supported by actual experiments.​

Source: Effect of Magnetism on Time-Pieces, paper from August 7, 1869

 

[Jd755]

A mechanical watch affected by magnetism remains magnetized even after removing it from the magnetic source. This may cause a gain or loss of time and influence its accuracy. So we recommend that you have it demagnetized in order to improve accuracy.

Apparently the earth in all its variety has a magnetic field ergo everything is magnetised to some degree or other. Seems blindingly obvious.

 

[dreamtime]

Also, as mentioned above, I just can't do as much in a day anymore. Simple, quick little activities definately take longer, I barely have time for the basics anymore never mind anything else like hobbies!

My personal experience was that the biggest noticable change in time perception happened somewhere between 2012 and 2015. Of course this could be only me and entirely subjective.

 

[Silent Bob]

My personal experience was that the biggest noticable change in time perception happened somewhere between 2012 and 2015. Of course this could be only me and entirely subjective.

For me it really started to pick up from late 2011 onward - something definitely happened around this time that affected our reality. In particular I recall the riots in London in August 2011, many otherwise ordinary people going crazy, all at the same time, not only in London but in other major UK cities too. This was when our government ordered water cannons to deal with future riots/protests, planning ahead for Covid protests no doubt! This time period felt like the end of a cycle (Nov 2011 felt like it to me) after which a new cycle began, the one we're in now where time seems to move so much quicker.

It was also around this time that people seemed to change into the type of person who accepts everything they're told by official sources - before this people used to question a lot more in my experience. Almost as though a lot of real people were replaced by npcs. Before 2012 I used to have some great discussions with other scientists I worked with about various topics, from the global warming scam (most agreed back then) to the flu vaccines (we discussed the Cochrane collaboration and how the flu shot was pretty worthless and just a money maker for the pharma industry). When we had the swine flu thing in 2009 nobody fell for it, every scientist I knew thought it was just scaremongering as usual. Today the same people won't question global warming, vaccines or Covid and they're all wearing masks even though they know they are useless, they've fallen so far so fast!

 

[JWW427]

If time (an illusion) exists all at once---the past, present, and future---and is ever changing, then our perception of it may change with age & experience & wisdom. This theory makes a lot of sense for me, but why our perception changes I don't know.
Perhaps as we grow older our vibration rate speeds up.
This gets into the holographic universe theory, which says we are just beings of light, a frequency.
Yes, 2012 was a big year for me waking up further.

 

[Referent]

The expression "time flies when you're having fun" might fit for broad definitions of "fun" that include being entertained, tuned into web updates, the news, shopping, streaming, business, or other activities whose amplification (speed-up, or intensity or complexity increase) may be facilitated by digitization.

In the "attention economy" of present, there are arguably (if not certainly) more things (including media and ideas) within reach competing for our attention today than in the past.

Time spent while "distracted" by "fun" might slip away nearly without notice.

Not that it's all fruitless games. The attention-paying mode might itself pay dividends if spent properly.

For good measure, the etymonline entry for "fun" is as follows:

fun (n.)
"diversion, amusement, mirthful sport," 1727, earlier "a cheat, trick" (c. 1700), from verb fun (1680s) "to cheat, hoax," which is of uncertain origin, probably a variant of Middle English fonnen "befool" (c. 1400; see fond). Scantly recorded in 18c. and stigmatized by Johnson as "a low cant word." Older senses are preserved in phrase to make fun of (1737) and funny money "counterfeit bills" (1938, though this use of the word may be more for the sake of the rhyme). See also funny. Fun and games "mirthful carryings-on" is from 1906.

The question remains, whether time itself is getting faster. I tend to agree that time does not exist ("is simultaneous") and is just a reference system we use, which I think is the thing we are talking about though.

One could posit that time-rate experienced depends on one's environment (to be almost meaninglessly general). IMO, it would be hard to find an environment (anywhere) like the 1990s much less the 1890s to "go back" into, but if one did, I would not be surprised if time were experienced more as in those times if there long enough to let the worries and stupidity of the true present be forgotten.

Did people talk or write about time seeming to speed up, synced with other communication innovations (telegraph, telephone, radio, television)?

I wonder if the big speed up in time came with web speeds and especially "smart" phones.

If one tried to read or study at a library today, one might get as much done as they would have 15 or 20 years ago, and time might be experienced the same, only if the distractions could be kept at bay.

Epictetus (modernized by Lebell in The Art of Living, 1994) reminds us as follows (emphasis mine):

- "Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern"
- "There is a time and place for diversion an amusement, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes....Keep your attention direct at the ship. Getting distracted by trifles can be the easiest thing in the world."
- "Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses....Your life is too short and you have important things to do....Be discriminating about what images and ideas your permit in your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself too, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest."

 

[Myrrinda]

Thank you for briging this up. It's getting worse (or to be more neutral: I notice it more) "by the minute". The last few years went by so fast, so much happened for me and if I think about things (for example my Dad, Grandma and uncles who died, having to go to the hospital, getting a new job...) it's totally paradox: it feels like yesterday, but also as if it has already been a long time ago.

One of the main things I got from my near death experience was "everything happens at the same time" (+ everything in the universe is perfect), maybe we are moving to a point where we can actually feel it and have that understaning in our waking consciousness permanently. The moments of realizing this are seldomly experienced, like for example in life threatening situations or with psychedelics, but it could all come down to feeling it permanently?

 

[dreamtime]

For me it really started to pick up from late 2011 onward - something definitely happened around this time that affected our reality. In particular I recall the riots in London in August 2011, many otherwise ordinary people going crazy, all at the same time, not only in London but in other major UK cities too. This was when our government ordered water cannons to deal with future riots/protests, planning ahead for Covid protests no doubt! This time period felt like the end of a cycle (Nov 2011 felt like it to me) after which a new cycle began, the one we're in now where time seems to move so much quicker.

This is a good point. I had thought about the Occupy-Movement in this context as well. It was the last true bottom-up movement I can recall, and it was powerfully suppressed and diverted. Maybe when the energy of that movement fizzled out, it did something to the collective psyche? We also got smartphones shortly after, and the toxic social media giants became very powerful.

Bascially it feels like ever since 2011, everyone of us is fighting alone, as before there was at least a slight sense of connection left between people.

Some have used the historic term Biedermeier to describe the current atmosphere in society:

The Biedermeier period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and ended with the onset of the Revolutions of 1848. Although the term itself derives from a literary reference from the period, it is used mostly to denote the artistic styles that flourished in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design. It has influenced later styles, especially those originating in Vienna.​

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Due to the strict control of publication and official censorship, Biedermeier writers primarily concerned themselves with non-political subjects, like historical fiction and country life. Political discussion was usually confined to the home, in the presence of close friends.​

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Interesting that it happened after the Congres of Vienna re-structured Europe.

Biedermeier basically means that people withdraw into private life, because you aren't allowed to talk freely without consequences, and there's a sense of resignation. When structures change on the outside, people withdraw into private life, as opposing the development isn't possible due to a lack of organization between individuals.

 

[Citezenship]

Interesting article about acceleration' ism.

Accelerationism and New World Order – Coronacircus

I think time 'feels' faster when the heat is turned up, like water in a pressure cooker, still the same water but with heat applied it gains pressure, I think if pressure is applied to the psyche then it just feels faster.

 

[Silent Bob]

Thank you for briging this up. It's getting worse (or to be more neutral: I notice it more) "by the minute". The last few years went by so fast, so much happened for me and if I think about things (for example my Dad, Grandma and uncles who died, having to go to the hospital, getting a new job...) it's totally paradox: it feels like yesterday, but also as if it has already been a long time ago.

One of the main things I got from my near death experience was "everything happens at the same time" (+ everything in the universe is perfect), maybe we are moving to a point where we can actually feel it and have that understaning in our waking consciousness permanently. The moments of realizing this are seldomly experienced, like for example in life threatening situations or with psychedelics, but it could all come down to feeling it permanently?

I know just what you mean about the last few years, in some ways feels like yesterday but also feels like a long time ago simultaneously. Very confusing feeling that I have noticed, especially since Covid started.

I have never had an NDE but funnily enough, especially over the last year or two, I have become increasingly aware that everything happens at the same time. I was actually discussing this with my sister not long ago, how moments from our childhood over 40 years ago feel like they are directly connected to the moment we're in now. It's hard to fully explain this feeling, words cant really do it justice. I like the DVD explanation, i.e. the entire film/story is there in its entirety, the beggining middle and end all at the same time, but we just choose to view it in sequence to create the illusion that it happens over time. I also have partial memories from the future, nothing concrete - more like reactions to people I've just met. So many times in my life I have thought someone I just met looked and seemed really familiar. Without exception, I have then gone on to get to know this person better, as if I already knew them because I got to know them in the future. All info present in the only moment that actually exists, now. I don't get 'spoilers' though, just feelings of recognition, familiarity - places aswell as people.

A great example has just occured to me. For years, maybe 30 years, I have had a recurring dream from time to time that I am wandering around a residential type area. In the dream the area and the route I walk is familiar although I don't feel fully 'there'. When awake I has no idea where this place was until last year. During the first lockdown I watched a lot of Jeff Berwick on his walks with Lucy, almost everyday he released a video and of course we were all stuck at home. After watching him walk the same route a few times around where he lives in Mexico I finally recognised the area from my dream - it was Jeff's neighbourhood. It was as if I had the memory of watching his walks early in my life, again all info is already there somewhere and maybe 'leaked' out a little in my dreams.

 

[Safranek]

In the physical realm, time is measured by the motion of the sun for short periods and the 'heavens' for longer periods. This is natural as we can see the effect of this time on our physical bodies and in the physical world around us as it changes by the minute, hour, day, etc. So the motion of the heavens above us rules physical time, which seems to be the same today as when we were born.

Then another aspect is our perception of time. This is outside of the physical realm and is experienced by us on a 'spiritual' level, depending on our spiritual state of the moment, day, week, month, etc. A good example of this is how time seems longer or shorter during certain activities.

So what we are talking about here is the latter, our perception of time and as some have stated, overall human perception and activity can have an effect on the mass consciousness to create the phenomena of time speeding up or slowing down. I would say this depends on the lifestyle of the individual and how much he/she may be affected by the mass consciousness.

 

[SonofaBor]

No.

It may or not, but I certainly feel-- subjectively-- that time/world/conversation/being is out-of-joint.

Discombobulation-- with or without a beer-- seems perversely normal. (And unbearable).

Every conversation-- except those streamlined by state/corporate discourse-- seem to require immense energy to maintain the human in it all. Despite all the static/interference/feelings of living a world that doesn't line up with itself, I'm very happy when I can yet connect with others.

 

[Jd755]

Who has a watch or clock from their grandparents or great grandparents which has gone out of sync with 2021 time?
We are appalling at figuring time out without a device of some sort to hand or in view calibrated to the artificial man made agreement of the length of a second as measured by the same devices.
For what its worth time only came on the scene when commerce did. Both are control measures that keep the overwhelming majority of humanity out of 'god mode' for want of a phrase.
The 365 calendar is the ultimate expression of this delusion we are born into as it is based on the artificial length of a second not the 'natural' changing length of day as decided by when it is light as opposed to dark.

As an aside we are equally appalling at estimating distances be they small or large. The reason is distance is tied to time in the controllers world knot.
Polynesians sing a song that guides them across the sea, well they did probably don't do it so much these days, from island to island with usually unerring accuracy. Aborigines and various other peoples around the world create stories and songs relating to physical objects plants blooming birds flocking etc to navigate without a watch compass or any other device.
We ourselves do it when we walk anywhere. We guess how long it may take but honestly we have no clue. We know the route as we have done it before. When someone stops and asks for directions we do not use the bloody clock to guide them we give them physical objects as the guide.

But theory is much more fascinating than dropping into our innate god mode and using what we were born with to live our lives in the practical physical tangible for many folks I get that. However as you may be able to tell I am not one of them. I put the theories into the practical wherever possible. So if this aside is too far aside for you dreamtime then delete it or let me know and I'll delete it.

Edit to add a missing k

 

[Deleted member 1432]

Personally, I'm struggling to see the stolen history relevance of the oh-so-cheerful OP. However, as it seems we are all rushing headlong into a biblical extermination event at an ever increasing rate, we won't have to put up with pandemics, green passports, blackouts, global warming or general tyranny for as long as we thought. Plus, while we are in the queue for the final judgement, we'll have the added bonus of 'knowing' that God really is the psychopath he was portrayed to be in the OT and that it was all true after all ...yippie.

 

[Jd755]

Personally, I'm struggling to see the stolen history relevance of the oh-so-cheerful OP

Me too but when in Rome!

 

[Oracle]

I have an analog watch that I wear dail

Interestingly, when digital watches came out, I had three before I gave up on wearing them. Everyone of them would run for a day or so and then go blank.

As for with increased age, life tends to become more repetitive and less exciting, that depends on the individual, clearly.

Some days can be slow and some fast for everyone depending on what you're doing. We've all experienced the slow passing of time when bored or working at a boring task. Yet if we're very busy and focused it can fly by.
That seems to point out how it relates very much to how occupied our minds are in some cases, as @Sasyexa says perhaps a shift in consciousness is relative.

I also think it relates to how we are in the world, for instance spend some time living nomadic in a forest and time remains consistent. When immersed in living within society and all that that entails, it can fluctuate. Worlds within Worlds is my take on it.
In higher frequency levels such as the Astral World, Time is nonexistant along with the amazing fact you can be in two places at once. This seems to be consistent with night and day as in, I have astral traveled to places in my own country at night and it has also been night where I went to. On the other hand, I have gone from here at night to the opposite hemisphere and it has been daytime there.
Very interesting thread Dreamtime.

people seemed to change into the type of person who accepts everything they're told by official sources

Very interesting observation! I can't think when it happened

If time (an illusion) exists all at once---the past, present, and future---and is ever changing, then our perception of it may change with age & experience & wisdom. This theory makes a lot of sense for me, but why our perception changes I don't know.
Perhaps as we grow older our vibration rate speeds up.
This gets into the holographic universe theory, which says we are just beings of light, a frequency.
Yes, 2012 was a big year for me waking up further.

but critical thinking definitely disappeared seemingly overnight. I was putting it down to people's total immersion in the satisfaction of the physical Self in our materialistic current world while also thinking it seems like a spell cast and a new reality created within the ordinary one for the majority.

our perception of it may change with age & experience & wisdom.

It's something more than age related though. The months and the last two years I find are speeding past and I like you have crossed the half a century mark. But in the last two weeks I have experienced one day where I had achieved so much I was quite shocked when I looked at a clock and it was 10:30 am as I thought it must be close to 4pm.
I remarked on this to someone nearby, and they also expressed the same sentiment. Within a week I had a day that felt like two days long. Admittedly it was pouring rain so I could do nothing but read books, but normally time vanishes for me when I read and this day seemed endless.
It's almost like months and years have speeded up but days can fluctuate. All age groups seem to be noticing this so something strange is afoot alright in my opinion.

some time living nomadic in a forest and time remains consistent. When immersed in living within society and all that that entails, it can fluctuate

On considering this further, I suppose in Nature one is automatically synced with the Sun as @Safranek said, but with artifical light after dark for most and all our distractions ,instead of slipping into contemplation and then sleep,we lose that connectiveness.

 

[Starman]

It was also around this time that people seemed to change into the type of person who accepts everything they're told by official sources - before this people used to question a lot more in my experience. Almost as though a lot of real people were replaced by npcs. Before 2012 I used to have some great discussions with other scientists I worked with about various topics, from the global warming scam (most agreed back then) to the flu vaccines (we discussed the Cochrane collaboration and how the flu shot was pretty worthless and just a money maker for the pharma industry). When we had the swine flu thing in 2009 nobody fell for it, every scientist I knew thought it was just scaremongering as usual. Today the same people won't question global warming, vaccines or Covid and they're all wearing masks even though they know they are useless, they've fallen so far so fast!

Dreamtime:

This is a good point. I had thought about the Occupy-Movement in this context as well. It was the last true bottom-up movement I can recall, and it was powerfully suppressed and diverted. Maybe when the energy of that movement fizzled out, it did something to the collective psyche? We also got smartphones shortly after, and the toxic social media giants became very powerful.

Bascially it feels like ever since 2011, everyone of us is fighting alone, as before there was at least a slight sense of connection left between people.

I have exactly the same sentiments about a big turnabout around 2011. I felt like something in society got turned upside down. Previous to then I did not have any sense of being at odds with friends about anything political. There was no stigma about questioning authority or having doubts about government. We were brothers and sisters in arms, challenging injustice.

Then one day I woke up and found I had diverged from the previous unity I had been experiencing. A hidden marxist element arose, SJW became the example to follow, climate change fears captured peoples minds, and a new acceptance of mainstream views took hold. Some kind of bifurcation happened. I thought I was following a steady trajectory, but I saw almost all my friends get pulled into some kind of weird new "liberal" meme of intolerance. They were being duped into holding views expressed by a revised mainstream media.

At the time I couldn't understand what had happened, how everything seemed to have gotten off kilter. Friends that previously had questioning minds started parroting mainstream media and were no longer having doubts. As Silent Bob said, it was like part of these people's souls got truncated, or they became NPCs. I distinctly sensed that the world had changed during that time, and it happened almost overnight.

 

[Just]

I know just what you mean about the last few years, in some ways feels like yesterday but also feels like a long time ago simultaneously. Very confusing feeling that I have noticed, especially since Covid started.

I have never had an NDE but funnily enough, especially over the last year or two, I have become increasingly aware that everything happens at the same time. I was actually discussing this with my sister not long ago, how moments from our childhood over 40 years ago feel like they are directly connected to the moment we're in now. It's hard to fully explain this feeling, words cant really do it justice. I like the DVD explanation, i.e. the entire film/story is there in its entirety, the beggining middle and end all at the same time, but we just choose to view it in sequence to create the illusion that it happens over time. I also have partial memories from the future, nothing concrete - more like reactions to people I've just met. So many times in my life I have thought someone I just met looked and seemed really familiar. Without exception, I have then gone on to get to know this person better, as if I already knew them because I got to know them in the future. All info present in the only moment that actually exists, now. I don't get 'spoilers' though, just feelings of recognition, familiarity - places aswell as people.

A great example has just occured to me. For years, maybe 30 years, I have had a recurring dream from time to time that I am wandering around a residential type area. In the dream the area and the route I walk is familiar although I don't feel fully 'there'. When awake I has no idea where this place was until last year. During the first lockdown I watched a lot of Jeff Berwick on his walks with Lucy, almost everyday he released a video and of course we were all stuck at home. After watching him walk the same route a few times around where he lives in Mexico I finally recognised the area from my dream - it was Jeff's neighbourhood. It was as if I had the memory of watching his walks early in my life, again all info is already there somewhere and maybe 'leaked' out a little in my dreams.

My daughter was put on an anti-depressant and for the year she was on it used to dream about the same town / city as if it was a place she knew very well. She told me some names of the places there and she tried looking them up but nothing. She’s recently come off the tablets and as soon as she did the recurring dreams stopped. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[Jd755]

I'm clearly not of this world as I cannot recall anything that is year specific. Events stick for sure specific personal events like the births of my children, the deaths of my parents but I cannot recall the dates of my grandparents deaths nor do I recall where I was when the 9-11 Show was first broadcast, what year I sat and watched the moon landings 'live' on a black and white tellybox, where I was when 'the millennium' kicked over.

I've not noticed immediate changes within my circle of friends and acquaintances during any specific dated year or period of months. I've scared a fair few friends over the years with my answers to problems they deemed they needed a solution for as a result the circle of them has diminished rather a lot actually now I come to think about it. The diminishing took on a whole new level once the mask became fashionable in 2020 but there again I cannot pin down the month when that nonsense began.

I ditched mainstream print media sometime after leaving a job I had been doing since September 1977 (an event I recall) until either 1995 or 1996 another event I cannot recall! and I began employing myself (still cannot get my head around the madness that makes that phrase appear sensible). Telly box was still in use so I got a lot of news there and a radio was in use in my self employment time in real world retail and through into online retail.
With every change of situation school, employee, employee/employer, self unemployed the circle of friends changed dramatically. I still encounter the odd one from senior school days and one or two from primary school. Employed work none to speak of, retail, none and somewhere along the way towards the end of retailing days the telly went bye bye as the aerial wire corroded and the device it was attached to began leaking water.
A sign from the gods!!

Since then anything noteworthy in news terms comes from the world web, the human grapevine or where my attention takes me. I say takes me because it truly does take me as I notice I go through 'places' I have no inherent interest in and when I don't fight it or overthink it I usually get something interesting from the journey.

Point being I do not share any of the experiences others in this thread have had. This post is not to deride these experiences in any way shape of form. Theirs are as real to them as mine are to me. What I am seeing and have probably been fighting against in myself for a fair while is we are what we attend to.

Perhaps better put as I am what I attend to and so are we all hence the illusion of time is able to finagle its way in and hold attention in place. As in Neo's experience and Roddy's to use a film analogy, they seem quite popular amongst the contributors to this site.

 

[dreamtime]

At the time I couldn't understand what had happened, how everything seemed to have gotten off kilter. Friends that previously had questioning minds started parroting mainstream media and were no longer having doubts. As Silent Bob said, it was like part of these people's souls got truncated, or they became NPCs. I distinctly sensed that the world had changed during that time, and it happened almost overnight.

This was so strange. I had a friend I was really looking up to. He was a hero/teacher personality to me. Between 2011 and 2014 something changed with him. He slowly became leftist and authoritarian, while before he despised those people. He became exactly what he had criticized all those years. By around 2014, the change was so complete, since then I can't recognize him anymore. Nowadays he is pro-covid measures and all that. To me it seems he has disappeared or got replaced to some extent.

For the first 1-2 years, I doubted my perception, and wondered what had changed in me that he acted so differently, but slowly I started to realize that it was him who changed. Nowadays he is collectivist, materialist, and nihilist.

Another thing I had thought over the years, is that the internet was full of interesting people back in 2010, but it seems empty now. As if a lot of them lost interest in these topics.