r/Time

Idk if this belongs here, can just remove it if not :)

I posted this in another group, but after posting I realized it could have something to do with the CERN machine. Like I said this is the first time I’ve really experienced something, at least something clear and that another person can kind of confirm. I’m kind of mostly posting this here to see if anyone else experienced this too? For context this was today (July 4th) around 6pm(CST), I’d also be more than happy to answer any questions. Anyways, here’s the original post:

Hey guys so I’ve always been real interested in time travel and conspiracies and things like that, but I haven’t had too much of anything happen to me. Today while I was at work I walked looked at the clock which said it was 6:43, then like 40 minutes to an hour ish went by and I went to text my girlfriend. I hadn’t even looked at the time yet when I had gone to text her, but you can see that she had the same experience. It didn’t seem like anyone around me at work noticed anything and I’m still pretty new so I didn’t wanna ask and sound crazy. So I’m risking sounding crazy here, how is it possible that we both saw the exact same thing? She was at our apartment and I was on the other side of town, so it’s not like we were looking at the same clock or anything.

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I should mention that I’ve also been seeing stuff about the CERN machine thing and how it’s been messing with stuff. Could it be related at all? I’m also very open to any suggestions or theories, even if it’s just we are both crazy and having some type of shared psychosis lol

EDIT: grammar n shit

I've been wondering this for a while, my only idea for now is that because consciousness is so mysterious, that... okay my brain broke. I need help to figure this out, how can one animal perceive time slower, yet still be on the same track so they can react to stuff in real time?

Can anyone explain why time flies so fast since 2020?
or is it just me

Most debates about daylight saving time are framed as only two options:

1. Keep the current system
2. Abolish seasonal clock changes completely

But maybe there is a third option: keep summer time, but change the way we enter it.

Every spring, many people experience the clock change as suddenly “losing” an hour. It is not only an administrative change. It affects sleep, alertness, routines, meals, commuting, children, pets and the general feeling of being slightly out of sync.

The biggest problem may not be summer time itself, but the sudden one-hour jump in spring.

Instead of moving clocks forward by one hour overnight, a country could move gradually into summer time: 10 minutes per day for six days.

Same final result. No sudden one-hour shock.

Important details:

This would apply only to the spring transition.

The autumn transition could remain unchanged, since gaining an hour is easier for most people.

The transition itself would last six days.

The mismatch with countries using the normal one-hour jump would last only five days.

On day six, the country would be fully aligned with ordinary summer time again.

In the digital world, the official clock change would not require people to adjust phones, computers, calendars or transport systems manually every day. These systems already handle time-zone rules and daylight saving changes automatically. Soft DST would simply be a different official transition rule.

Manual household clocks, ovens, microwaves and older watches would still exist, of course. But during Transition Week, people could rely on phones, computers and internet-connected devices for official time, meetings, travel and appointments. A manual clock being slightly off for a few days is inconvenient, but not the same as official timekeeping failing.

This is not a defence of DST as ideal. It is more a harm-reduction compromise if societies still value lighter summer evenings.

To me, the interesting question is whether people would experience this as less disruptive: not suddenly losing one hour, but gradually shifting into the new time.

Would a six-day gradual transition feel better than one abrupt spring jump, or would Transition Week feel more annoying than the current system?

For me it's usually constant notifications and context switching.

What's the thing that leaves you mentally exhausted even when you technically had plenty of time?

Has physics ever calculated time itself, or has it only refined the way we measure an originally human chosen convention?

10 minutes?

20?

30?

An hour?

At what point does a gap in your day feel worth starting something meaningful?

I kept hearing the usual explanation that time feels faster because every year becomes a smaller percentage of your life. That always made sense mathematically, but it never really explained why it actually feels that way.

So I looked into it, and I found a couple of interesting ideas.

One is that your brain is basically taking fewer "mental snapshots" as you get older. Your eyes move around less, your brain processes things a bit differently, and the result is that fewer moments get packed into the same amount of clock time. If that's true, it would make time seem like it's flying by.

The other idea is about memory. New experiences leave stronger, more detailed memories, while routines tend to blur together. That's why a two-week vacation can feel longer in hindsight than six months of doing the same thing every day.

Neither of these completely proves why time speeds up, but together they made a lot more sense to me than the "it's just a smaller percentage of your life" explanation.

Curious if anyone has come across other research or explanations.

There's only Consciousness in the "now" moment. Everything is Consciousness. The brain exists INSIDE of Consciousness.

Time doesn't exist. "Past" and "Future" are all POTENTIALS, not fixed. Someone go tell r/time it's time to shut it down. gg

So we live in the 4th dimension right? length, width, height and time. And we consider the 1st dimension to be just width. But wouldn't it make more sense for the 1st dimension to be time?

What I mean is, I know this is a theoretical dimension and not a place where people live, but to me it makes more sense that the 1st dimension which the rest would add on would be time. So basically 1st dimension would be you cruising through time without moving and then you add spatial dimensions which can be travelled through. And this would be why we can travel through space but not time, since we can't break the 1st primal dimension that is common to all other dimensions.

I am 20M and going through what feels like a severe quarter life crisis. Looking back, I realize I spent my teenage years wasting my potential. I was hooked on various addictions, escaped into video games, developed no transferable skills, and essentially leeched off my family.

The good news is that I want to change, and I am already actively making better choices. However, I am drowning in guilt over the time I threw away, time I can never get back. I can accept losing money, losing friends, and falling behind my peers. I can recover from that. What I cannot seem to accept is the loss of time.

My question is: Are there any psychological, neurological, or lifestyle methods to "slow down" the subjective perception of time?

My logic is that if I can make time feel longer, I will have the mental runway to gracefully acquire the skills I need to become the version of myself I always wanted to be. I know this sounds unrealistic, but the pressure feels so intense that I am willing to try anything to avoid staying stuck.

Change my mind:

If time travel ever exists in the future, than it exists in the present and past.

However, time travel will never exist in our timeline, because us as humans will make humankind extinct before it ever becomes invented.

We as humans are destined for extinction, otherwise we would have already been saved by the future generations to come.

The only way to change this will be for humans to change the way we live on a day-to-day basis.

And more importantly:

What's the actual first step?

Sometimes breaking it down makes it look way less intimidating.