Time

Earlier today I had a mushroom trip with an old friend. As the trip set in we discussed the past. I couldn't belive how long ago some of those memories were.


It just feels like somehow I'm losing time as I go... Like "wow... was that really 5 years ago?" It seems the older I get the faster the years go.

Then as the trip started I closed my eyes and had a visual. I was a balloon, and someone poked me with a pin, and all my memories and actually space and time was flying out. It was inane, I can even really describe how awsome it was.


Idk, it seems all those trips that seemed to last weeks when its really been an hour, or something is totally fucked up my sense of time. Anyone else feel this way?

 

Time can be dilated by consciousness.

Our bodies suck it in thru our skulls and spit it back out,
you can control it with your breath, with a good friend, with boredom, with sleep, with mushrooms . .

but, time isn't linear, that's an illusion we constructed.

Everything has already happened . .

 

Go on, you've interested me.

 

Life goes by pretty fast. If you're not careful, you just might miss it.
- Ferris Bueller

 

Time flies when you're having fun.

BUT WHY?

 

Because your busy doing something you enjoy and not thinking about negative things.

 

Thoughts slow
no thoughts flow

 

to the OP - I have also wondered that same thing about years going by faster as we get older.

It seems like just yesterday I was living with my dad, who I haven't seen in 9 years.

 

Now that you realize how quickly time goes by you can cherish every day from now on and really make the most of your life. Don't let your life pass you by.

 

yeah i feel the same as yall, you cant stop time passing so make the most of it

 

Yea, time will speed up even more when you get older. It seems like i graduated college last week and i am almost 26.

 

me and my long time best friend always talk about how fast time seems to go.
it seems like just yesterday we were in high school and all that.

now, 20 years of our lives have past already,
and before we know it, we are going to be graduating college and starting families.

it baffles me and her how fast the time goes,
it makes me think that the next 20 years are gonna go as fast as the first 20 years.
it scares me a little bit.

 

The concept of time scares me if I think about it too much.

Like when something terrible happens, you learn about the death of a loved one or something similar, in an instant everything changes and if time could just go back 5 seconds before it happened, everything would be perfectly fine.

I try to live in each moment, but usually this turns into getting so absorbed in each moment that I forget the past completely and reject the idea that things will change in the future.

And just reflecting, I hate thinking "Well, three years ago I was completely different, how did I get from here to there?" Every single choice I made makes me this person today, and the past is happening right now because i am a product of the past.

And infinity, terrifying. In terms of death and dying, believing that we have already lived many many times before and will continue to live forever scares me. It seems boring, makes me feel trapped and used. At the same time, if we just died and ceased to exist, time stopping, that scares me too. I'm just a big old ball of anxiety.

I remember the first time I really talked about time I was at summer camp and everyone else was blabbering away with theories and ideas and I just got a terrible sinking feeling in my stomach that everything was just going to stop at any moment if the conversation continued so i had to walk away. I just can't handle these big questions! I don't know, it's just something I cannot wrap my head around.

 

every day i sit down and wonder where the hell my life is going...things that happened years and years ago seem like it was just recently. all of our lives are passing before us with the blink of an eye and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

 

After high school, time seems to go by so fucking fast, while high school felt like forever. Even though I enjoyed it and some of my best memories are from high school.

 

There's no such thing as time. You can remember memories but time is fuckin gone and the only time is here and now.

 

but think, it'll still take 20 years.

a year is a year is a year.

doesn't matter if it seems like it takes longer or shorter, it's still a year.



which is basically my response to the whole thread

 

well yeah, i understand that concept.
but i'm seeing things from the point of view of like
sometimes a day/week/year goes SO fast, and some go slow.
i'm saying this 20 years went so fast, and i'm hoping the next 20 years don't go so fast.

get what i mean?
shit thats probably confusing, i'm stoned.

 

oh i get you, i'm just saying 20 years will take 20 years to pass. not 10, not 5, not 50. 20.

from this end it's like "holy shit, 20 years is a long time from now."

from that end it's like "holy shit, 20 years was just yesterday."

 

you got it, my friend. :tongue: