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The Strange Progress of Time

Steven

Hello. Slight smile

Normally, I don't see any particular significance in dreams - so often, these just seem like a mix-up of different elements of a day's incidents. A while back, though, I had a dream that featured my late father *as if, in quite a matter-of-fact way, he were still alive*. Now, I'm wary of thinking that was merely consolation on my part and, besides, dreams are frequently nonsensical in nature and content; but this incredible feeling nagged away at me that my Dad was still living. And this feeling wasn't encouraged by anything especially emotional or important in that dream - if anything, it actually felt like I was foolish to believe that death might be the end...

This was a really strange, uncanny experience: to 'know' that my father had not really passed on, and to feel like a fool for believing the seemingly definite fact that he has passed on.

I've read that autists have issues with time, in various ways...but could this actually be an aspect of ASD that is, again, wrongly portrayed as a failing on our collective part in contrast to neurotypicals' 'success' in understanding the supposedly-linear flow of time? Is their understanding of time wrong, and the actual truth far more multi-dimensional than appearances might suggest?

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  • I do wonder about linearity of time as well. Tough I focused more on the speed of time passing. Supposedly Eninstein once said that it's theoretically possible to move through time with different speeds. We can see evidence of that for example in twins paradox, where one is sent into space with with a relativistic speed and the other remains on earth, or when you space out for a second and during that second you witness an hour passing by.

    During moments of intense focus on something I feel like time, I exist in, is moving faster, or a lot faster. 

    On the other hand during meditation when I focus on tranquility it feels as if time almost stopped for me, and I exist unchanging while the world is speeding past me.

    So

    Caelus said:
    perhaps outside of our bodies in a different state we can freely move any direction in time

    How do we get there?

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  • I do wonder about linearity of time as well. Tough I focused more on the speed of time passing. Supposedly Eninstein once said that it's theoretically possible to move through time with different speeds. We can see evidence of that for example in twins paradox, where one is sent into space with with a relativistic speed and the other remains on earth, or when you space out for a second and during that second you witness an hour passing by.

    During moments of intense focus on something I feel like time, I exist in, is moving faster, or a lot faster. 

    On the other hand during meditation when I focus on tranquility it feels as if time almost stopped for me, and I exist unchanging while the world is speeding past me.

    So

    Caelus said:
    perhaps outside of our bodies in a different state we can freely move any direction in time

    How do we get there?

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