The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #36914   Message #512627
Posted By: Amos
23-Jul-01 - 12:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Time on Mudcat - Expanded/Compressed?
Subject: RE: BS: Time on Mudcat - Expanded/Compressed?
TIme is (phsyicists notwithstanding) (duck and cover) actually a relationship that changes relative to the reaching, acting, or withdrawing being done by the individual. This is a very scary thought, in some ways, but I think it is true. When your emphasis is on reaching for, and acting on, the world, time speeds up and a lot of time fits into a "wall-clock" hour, so it feels like three hours have gone by when one has. When you are focussing on resisting, defending, or pulling back from the world in various ways, such as procrastinating, time slows down, and a "wall-clock" hour seems to have forever built into it, one gigantic second at a time! Consider the last hour of work on Friday afternoon, for example!

The real problem with this observation is that it raises the question of whether there really is such a thing as a wall-clock!

Regards,

A