Why does time sometimes fly quickly, then slowly stretch?
Editorial responseThe way we experience the duration of time within ourselves, independent of external indicators such as clocks or calendars, is what psychologists call subjective or experienced time. This sense of time may differ from the actual course of time. If we are in a good mood or are engaged in the usual business, time flies faster, but if a person is immersed in depression or is hard at mastering a new business, his time can drag on very slowly.
How mood affects the perception of time
The most common point of view is that a good mood speeds up time (that is, our subjective time turns out to be less than real, "external" time), and a bad mood stretches it. If you experience joyful moments in life or communicate with people who are pleasant to you, then time flies by unnoticed - as you know, "happy hours are not watched." The same applies to work: when we are passionate about work, striving for success, then time flies by unnoticed, and if it is a symptom of a weak interest in our work.
Depression and illness make us perceive the passage of time as painfully long. The same applies to communication with people unpleasant to us - everyone is familiar with the awkward state when you wait and do not wait for an unpleasant interlocutor to leave you.Efforts to gain new experience also affect the perception of time: if we are doing our usual business, then time flies by unnoticed, but mastering a new subject is difficult for us, which is also reflected in subjectively longer time. For example, driving home from work in your hometown will seem shorter in time than the same journey that you make in an unfamiliar area.
How events and information affect the course of time
Another important factor is the number of events that a person perceives - they are also called cognitive markers. When a person’s consciousness is saturated with a mass of events – these can be both external events in which we participate and a large flow of information being assimilated – then we get a feeling of great speed of time: a stream of cognitive markers rushes by like telegraph poles outside the window of a fast moving train.
If there are few events or interesting information, then time seems to freeze - the human consciousness has nothing to grab onto to feel its progress. By the way, this can also explain why the perception of time by modern man has accelerated significantly compared to the measured life of people in the pre-industrial era. Today, we make more decisions, travel more, meet more people, or learn more from books and media in a year than, for example, an 18th-century peasant would in his entire life.
Another interesting phenomenon is that the monotonous period is extended for a long time only in the present, i.e. when we experience it. But as soon as he finds himself in the past, i.e. when you remember this period, it will seem surprisingly short. The reason is that a series of monotonous events is recorded in memory as one event, as one experience.
How does age affect the perception of time?
Age also affects the perception of the passage of time. The time of a child is more eventful and emotional than the time of an elderly person - therefore, a week or a year for a child lasts much longer than for an adult, and even more so for an elderly person. There is an interesting point of view that the “proportionality” effect affects the perception of time: for a 5-year-old child, one year is 20% of his life, and for a 33-year-old adult, only 3%. Therefore, in the perception of a child and an adult, this year takes a different amount of time.
Affects with age and accumulated experience, including emotional. With age, we do not perceive different events so dramatically, we better understand ourselves and those around us - therefore, a number of researchers believe that life satisfaction, mood in older people improves compared to younger years. Experience also means less effort that needs to be put in to get results at work. All this leads to the fact that with age, time begins to fly by unnoticed.
For thousands of years, even the assumption that time can pass differently in different places was not seriously considered. People were sure that the passage of time is a constant. Everything changed in 1905, when Albert Einstein introduced the world to the Special Theory of Relativity, and later, in 1915, the General Theory of Relativity, turning the world of physics on its head.
Without delving into complex calculations and formulas, we recall the basic postulates of Einstein's theories regarding the properties of space-time (and space and time, according to the Theory of Relativity, are inseparable from each other). In this case, we are interested in two conclusions of the theory: space-time is curved under the influence of gravitational fields, and any moving object can observe an effect called relativistic time dilation. It turns out that in a body moving at a non-zero speed, all physical processes will go more slowly than if this body were at rest. That is, if you, for example, fly in an airplane, and your friend stayed at home, then your time will go slower. Of course, in practice, neither you nor your friend will feel the difference: after all, it will be billionths of a second.
But if you accelerate to a speed significantly greater than the speed of the aircraft, then the time difference for you and your friend will be much greater. One year on a space rocket flying at near-light speed can be equal to several hundred Earth years.
| This is interesting: but this does not mean that if you got into such a rocket and accelerated to tremendous speed, you would experience the effect of slo-mo. For you, time would flow as usual. But if an observer standing on Earth could see the clock in the cockpit of a flying rocket, then it would seem to him that time passes more slowly on them. On the other hand, if you saw through the window the clock of an ordinary earthly inhabitant, then it would seem to you that they go slower than yours. And all because if you were in a rocket, this Earth with all its inhabitants would move relative to you. But why not all the inhabitants of the Earth will experience the effect of time dilation, but only the astronaut? This can be explained by the fact that he experienced acceleration processes while in the rocket, which means that the reference systems for the Earth and the spacecraft were unequal (the Earth flew uniformly and rectilinearly, and the rocket experienced the effects of acceleration). |
But what if we are talking about more massive objects, such as our Earth? Indeed, its mass is enough to bend space-time around itself so much that we can see this difference using modern instruments. The closer to a massive body, the stronger its gravitational influence, which means that time passes more slowly. This statement has been verified in the course of many experiments, and time shifts are taken into account when transmitting information between the Earth and communication satellites.
This photograph is direct evidence of the curvature of space-time near massive objects. The photo shows an image of one quasar. Its light is bent by space near the massive black hole (in the middle) and reaches us in the form of four separate spots. Time near a black hole will be greatly slowed down. This is interesting: in fact, you can check it yourself at any time. One of the conclusions of the Theory of Relativity is that in a gravitational field a freely falling body moves uniformly and rectilinearly. Hit the soccer ball - first it will fly up, and then it will fall down - to the Earth. In fact, the trajectory of the ball is absolutely straight, and it falls to the surface due to the curvature of space-time: at some point, the trajectories of the Earth and the ball will intersect.
It turns out that the unambiguous statement that time in space always goes slower or always goes faster faster - False . In different parts of space it will go differently. Somewhere faster, and somewhere slower. Near, for example, black holes, it will significantly slow down, and in intergalactic space, far from stars and planets, on the contrary, it will go faster. In addition, when calculating the time for any object, it is important to take into account its speed parameters.
This is interesting: now we can say for sure that in the Earth's orbit, time must go faster than on the surface - after all, we are at a greater distance from a massive object, i.e. our planet. To confirm, we will issue absolutely synchronously running atomic clocks to the astronaut and you, comparing them before launching the rocket. Where to send the astronaut? Of course, to the ISS - the international space station. Imagine that after living a whole year in orbit and returning home, the first thing an astronaut did not pass medical checks and did not see his family, but checked the time with your atomic clock. You will be surprised to find that the astronaut's watch is... behind - his time was running slower! How is this possible: after all, he was at a greater distance from the massive object than we are? To find out why time on the ISS is slower than Earth time, and by how much, read on.
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For a long time I was going to write on this topic, especially since I have experienced this phenomenon three times already, and recently I managed to comprehend and understand the very reason for this miracle.
Of course, before starting to "discover America" for someone, I decided to ask, what has already been written on this topic? This is always done by people with an engineering mindset who do not want to "reinvent the wheel" a second time.
A Google search for the keyword "time dilation phenomenon" yielded several links to articles: "10 attempts to explain the phenomenon of time", "The phenomenon of time dilation in critical situations has been unraveled", "The Mystery of Stopping Time" and others. After reading them, I did not see any intelligible understanding of the stated topic by the authors.
In the article "The phenomenon of time dilation in critical situations has been unraveled" after the author retells the situations he did not experience, he concluded: "in extreme situations, it seems to a person that everything around is moving very quickly, but he himself does everything slowly. Such a distortion occurs due to the fact that in borderline situations we quickly assimilate new and literally vital information. At this time, a special the part of the brain that accumulates all the impressions that arise in a life-threatening situation. That is why memories of terrifying events are deep and vivid. And the more details and impressions of the situation are stored in memory, the longer the experienced moment seems to us...."
This, as you yourself understand, is not a "solution to the phenomenon" at all, but just another hypothesis, and without any clear specifics.
Article "10 attempts to explain the phenomenon of time" turned out to be on a completely different topic. An attempt has been made to explain what "time" is in general...
Article "The Mystery of Stopping Time" turned out to be the most informative on the stated topic, but it also does not give a clear answer to the question, what is the secret of time dilation in critical situations. However, I decided to take this article as the basis of my story in order to reveal the “time dilation phenomenon”, as I understood it, on an already prepared foundation.
Time dilation phenomenon
Science claims that time always flows at the same speed, and no one can change this - neither man nor nature. But there are times when a person's sense of the passage of time changes and it seems to him that time speeds up or slows down its run. Usually such a feeling appears when a lot of events occur in a matter of seconds and consciousness cannot “fit” them into ordinary time periods.
Many facts are known when a person in moments of mortal danger feels that time slows down, as if it stops. Many people, when describing dramatic events, say:“It feels like time has stopped.”The front-line soldiers claimed that they saw shells and bullets that flew at them. They survived only because they managed to evade them. At first glance, this seems impossible, because the human eye cannot perceive objects that move at such a speed. However, the words of the participants in the hostilities are confirmed - more than once the soldier suddenly dived to the bottom of the trench, and the next moment a fragment or a bullet plowed the parapet in the place where his head had been a second ago. Some people said they saw bricks fall on top of them or icicles fall from the roof. The objects seemed to be flying in slow motion, so they didn’t even have time to get scared. And there are many such examples.So, once the car of cosmonaut Vladimir Aksenov stalled at a railway crossing. Fifty meters away from the bend at that moment a speeding train appeared. The driver would not even have had time to get out of the car - in a second the train would inevitably crash into it. Aksenov pulled the ignition key out of the socket, and then put it back in and slowly pressed the starter. Immediately the engine started up and the car, having moved off the rails, froze a couple of meters from the speeding train. The cosmonaut had the feeling that the cars were passing by like in slow motion. He even managed to make out the pale face of the driver, who did not even start braking.
Another case a few years ago occurred in an alpine camp. The Georgian instructor Vakhtang said that on that day he was walking in conjunction with his friend. He was the first to move, and his friend remained at the edge of the snowfield to insure him. When Vakhtang was almost halfway, he noticed how cracks began to appear in the snow on the sides and a little higher from him. Then huge layers of snow and ice slowly rushed down. The instructor did not feel fear and acted as if there was nowhere to rush - he looked out for a large frozen piece of snow and jumped over to it, then chose the next one, and so on. His friend couldn't believe his eyes when he got out of the avalanche - in fact, it all happened in a split second.
Statements of this kind - about slowing down the visual perception of fast processes - cannot yet be rationally interpreted. They are incomprehensible and amazing.
Chemists, physicists and philosophers agree that the course of time is constant and all events occur within a strictly defined time frame. Then what happens to a person when it seems to him that time is going very slowly or has stopped altogether? Perhaps the whole point is the acceleration of biological processes in the body in critical situations - nerve impulses pass faster, muscle fibers contract more often, although a person does not feel or realize this.
The researchers analyzed people's stories about their feelings and made the corresponding calculations. As a result, they concluded that the course of proper time can be accelerated by 130 times. Therefore, everything around is 130 times slower and it seems to a person that time has stopped. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that all the people who experienced the “stopping of time” claim that everything happened in a strange silence. This is quite simple to explain - when the individual time is accelerated by more than a hundred times, the sounds entering the ear turn into infrasounds that are not perceived by the human hearing aid.
Researchers from a medical college conducted an experiment to check whether time actually slows down for a person in a moment of danger. Volunteers without insurance were dropped from a height of fifty meters backwards. They, of course, fell on a special net, but everyone still experienced a very strong fright. Each volunteer felt that their flight lasted much longer than it really was. They fell in a matter of seconds, but for them it seemed much longer. A person who experiences extreme fear falls into a kind of trance. At the same time, all body systems begin to work with acceleration. A person begins to think much faster.
Physicist and chemist Ilya Prigogine argued that each person constructs his own time at every moment of being. At critical moments, the brain manages its own time, i.e. can slow it down by almost a hundred times, or maybe speed it up. There is a clear example that proves this.
The Boers, who began in the 1780s to seize the lands of the Xhosa and the Zulus, faced an amazing phenomenon - African healers could speak from the bullets of their warriors. As a result, they attacked the Europeans despite fierce fire. Some remained unharmed even when they were fired at point-blank range. The bullets didn't bounce off the Africans, but they didn't hit them either. Then the colonialists did not begin to deal with this riddle, because in the end all the charmed warriors were killed.
Today, the secret of their invulnerability can be explained - African warriors could arbitrarily accelerate the course of their individual time and, thus, dodge bullets. But they died, because this could not continue indefinitely.
Some yogis in the East are able, it would seem, to stop time. They know how to disappear right before the eyes of astonished spectators and end up behind them. This phenomenon has long been described. The rituals that helped to become invisible were described in the most ancient Indian manuscripts written in 2500-1400 BC. These manuscripts say that concentration of thought is necessary for the complete disappearance. Do yogis teleport or are they able to speed up their time as much as possible, which is why the audience does not see them? In contrast to critical situations, a subjective sense of time accelerates in a person experiencing positive emotions. A person simply does not notice how time passes.
So, we can say with confidence that the states of fear, mortal danger and stress transfer the body into the so-called "emergency mode", which is accompanied by an increase in the speed of perception of the surrounding reality and the speed of thinking. Perhaps this is done to reduce the loss of time in the implementation of protective actions against the onset of danger? The organism must fight to the end with the use of all available means and forces.
So, my vision of this phenomenon and understanding of its nature.
Idea, idea that "all the people who experienced the "stop time" claim that everything happened in a strange silence" , I confirm.
I was 14 years old or even younger when I experienced this phenomenon for the first time. Moreover, it is unique that I experienced it when nothing threatened my life. I was not in a critical situation!
I was walking near my house with the boys, we were walking somewhere, I turned my head to the right and this happened ... I saw about 70 meters away from me how a car hits a man at a pedestrian crossing. It's just that for some reason I turned my head to the right, looked into the distance, and everything happened before my eyes as in a slow motion movie and without sound ... I remember well that without sound. It really surprised me then. Silent films with Charlie Chaplin were still fresh in my memory ... During my youth, they were sometimes still shown on TV.
Here's what I saw then:
A man was walking confidently at a red traffic light, and a UAZ-loaf car with a rounded nose was moving across the intersection. Here it is:
I then saw everything in such detail that I was simply numb. The rounded nose of the car slowly hit the man on the right side, his body arched, in this bend of the body the man's head hit the windshield so that it broke ... I saw how each of its fragments flew ... Then, obviously, the elasticity worked human body. The car didn’t slow down, the driver didn’t even put pressure on the brake, and the man began to fly forward and upward relative to the car ... Having flown about 4 meters up, right up to the trolleybus wires, he then fell on the road ... The UAZ drove over his crossed legs and only After that, the driver braked the car and stopped...
When my numbness passed, I ran with the guys to the scene of the tragedy, while I was in a fever from what I saw ... I saw this for the first time in my life ... The man, apparently, remained alive then. At least the ambulance arrived and took him away from the scene alive...
The second time I experienced the phenomenon of time dilation somewhere in the year 1992, when I myself became a participant and culprit in an accident in a car of friends, in such a "Moskvich".
The car was old, the rear drive wheels had "bald" tires, and I was just learning how to be a driver. Since it was out of town, friends entrusted me with driving. Besides, I already knew the road I was going to take.
To my misfortune, then it was autumn, that day it froze. Accordingly, the road was covered with ice... Ahead was a turn of almost 90 degrees to the right, and almost immediately a rather steep uphill began. For some reason, I thought then that I would go through the turn halfway and then sharply add gas so that the car could pick up acceleration and drive uphill without any problems. As I thought, I did so ... It was my strategic mistake, made by me due to my inexperience ...
When I stepped on the gas hard, the car spun on the turn, and it turned into an ice figure skater who began to rotate around its axis ...
A frozen moment.
The car I was driving began to spin in some kind of ellipsoidal spiral. I again saw "slow motion" and heard silence. I did not touch the steering wheel, the pedals too. I just didn't know what to do when the car is spinning?! I turned to a comrade sitting in the back seat, saw his frightened eyes and arms spread out to the sides (in case of a side impact). I asked myself aloud the question: "what to do?", and suddenly, against the background of silence in my mind, the answer clearly sounded in the form of the thought: "put on the brake!". Hearing this command in my mind (not with my ears), I slammed the brake pedal to the stop, the trajectory of the car changed dramatically, it shook, and my friend and I safely drove back into a deep roadside ditch ...
When I got out of the cab, I saw huge boulders nearby, and the Moskvich, which I was driving, stuck its rear bumper and trunk into soft ground, falling from a height of almost two meters. All the damage to the car - from the impact flattened its wretched rear bumper. When I got up on the road, the tracks of the car were clearly visible on it. I saw where she circled, where I hit the brakes and how she left the road strictly perpendicular to the roadway.
The most important thing that I realized then was that the brake was pressed at exactly that hundredth of a second, which set the car on the safest trajectory. If I had braked a little earlier or a little later, then the car would have left the road diagonally and this would have been accompanied by a mandatory roll over through the roof, which could lead to the most sad consequences ...
The third phenomenal incident happened to me in 2010 at the 691th kilometer of the Moscow-Murmansk highway, when I was driving a used car "Volvo S80" freshly bought in the "Moscow" car dealership.
The engine of the car was with two turbines, which created a power of 250 l / s, 10 airbags: front, side, rear, roof airbag in case of a rollover ... Plus, several security systems that control the wheels: ABS, EBS and more ...
I was then going to overtake a bus, while I did not have much experience in driving a car of this class. And at a speed of about 100 km/h I lost control... Trying to avoid a side collision, I played the steering wheel as if it were a Zhiguli, completely forgetting about the brake. "Volvo S80" went skidding, the axial stabilization system crackled, the car at high speed ran into a roadside bumper, which, fortunately for me, started from the ground itself and separated the roadbed from a small ravine ... Then I saw the sky, as if a pilot on takeoff, and then the "silent movie" turned on again with a slowdown in the picture ...
It was the most phenomenal thing I have ever seen in my life. The flight of the car was like the flight of a flying skier who took off into the sky by means of a springboard. In my case, the role of a springboard was played by this very metal road bumper ...
I was wearing seat belts. Sleeping fastened next to me was my youngest son, who was then 18 years old. The forward speed of the car was high... Still, I went to overtake...
When the Volvo S80 began to roll over in the air and I was in the "upside down" position, I remembered the airbag, which was located in the roof. While the car and I were passing through the vertical (“bottom dead center”) (and I felt it very clearly), I tensed up, expecting a blow to the head from a ceiling pillow shot ...
Tumbling of the car from the normal position "wheels down" to the position "wheels up" took, probably, some hundredths of a second. And during this time I managed to think, reason and somehow group ... Phenomenal! ..
The expected explosion of the overhead airbag then did not follow, which at that moment greatly surprised and even puzzled me ... Meanwhile, the rotation of the car in the air and its fall still continued ... Rotating around its axis like a bullet, the Volvo S80 finally touched , land ... The blow fell on the right corner of the roof and the edge of the right front wing ... (The heavy motor outweighed the rear). At that moment, I clearly saw how an electrostatic discharge lightning ran across the windshield (!) and at the same time the glass began to crack from the upper right corner to the bottom! Phenomenal! I saw the appearance in the windshield of each new fragment! Then some time passed, and the left edge of the roof and the left front fender took over the impact on the ground. An electrostatic discharge, exactly the same as I saw on the right, went inside the windshield already from the upper left corner to the bottom and to the middle. Simultaneously with the electrostatic discharge, there was the same cracking of the windshield as in the previous case ... Then another somersault followed and the car stood on wheels ...
When I got out of the cab, I realized that I myself was alive and my son was also alive, both without any damage ... Inspection of the car showed that the engine continued to work, no liquids had flowed ... This was at least a little pleased. All four wheels were also in place ... Only the plastic protection of the wheel arches was torn off ...
When kind people helped to pull the car out of the ditch with the help of a tug, it turned out that she was able to go further on her own. The remaining 700 km to Murmansk was driven by my son, he had a driver's license, but I was in shock and sorrow that it all happened ...
He was driving, and I looked around and paid attention to roadside graves (there are many of them on any highway in Russia), which indicate that a person died in such and such a place ...
Thinking my thoughts, I then came to the conclusion that for some reason I was still needed in this world, since I was not destined to die during this accident ...
And less than a year later, I returned to literature again ...
Before that, I had already written two books, "The Geometry of Life" (1998) and "The Crucified Sun" (2000), which were published in paper form, and another book was on physics, written by me in 2002, which I considered incomplete. These books did not bring me any money, and it took years to write them!
And when in 2002 I was accepted in Moscow as a member of the "Union of Writers of Russia", I decided that it was enough for me to be a writer already ...
And now, almost 8 years of my serene life have passed (from 2002 to 2010), and the incident that happened to me literally forced me to start writing articles and new books again.
What worried me then as a writer?— want to know?
This question has become interesting to me now! I did a Google search and found my earliest postings on the Mahpark website:
After I experienced the phenomenon of time dilation for the third time, I understood why in extreme situations a person begins to see and think 130 times faster (if scientists did not make a mistake with the calculation) than in a normal situation. We have two thought systems at once, and, accordingly, two souls operating at different clock frequencies!
The lower thought system runs at a low clock rate, the higher one at a high one! Moreover, our lower mental system always works, and the higher mental system is switched on only in special cases. Therefore, when it turns on, we may experience a "time dilation phenomenon."
If we switch to figurative language, which allows very complex things to be explained in simple words, then our higher thought system similar to an air turbine that is attached to a car engine to increase its power. Motorists know that this turbine does the work of an air compressor. When it is turned on, the power of the internal combustion engine increases immediately by 30-40% due to the fact that the air-fuel mixture is injected into the cylinders under high pressure.
So, in the article "ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL", which I wrote on March 7, 2011, I literally said the following:
People often enter into discussions, trying to find an answer in their course, WHAT is evil and WHAT is good in this world? At the end of these discussions, the thought is usually heard that evil is the absence of good. Formally, this is the correct conclusion, but this formulation does not explain much.
Any person can come to an understanding of GOOD and EVIL in full measure through understanding the following logical chain.
1. There is God, and there is his antipode. For convenience, I will call them: "Higher Mind" and "Lower Mind". Look inside yourself - comprehend your feelings and make sure that you exist in yourself both of these gods.
Everything low in human nature gives rise to the "lower mind". Its fruits: greed, stinginess, envy, lies, perjury, quarrelsomeness, anger, malice, hatred, deceit, deceit, cowardice, betrayal, etc.
The product of the "Higher Reason" in man: selflessness, love in the highest sense, all talents, creativity, patriotism, readiness for self-sacrifice for the sake of saving other people and other virtues.
2. Every person is under the control of these two minds most of the time without even realizing it. When both of these minds are in balance with each other in their impact on the consciousness of a person, we have in ourselves what is called harmony.
3. The vector of a person's behavioral aspirations can be directed both to the "Higher Mind" and to the "Lower Mind".
4. If the first happens, a person from step to step makes himself a highly moral person. If the second happens, the person gradually turns himself into an animal.
5. If one day a person completely breaks the connection between consciousness and his "Higher Mind" (there is a loss of conscience, as people say), the human consciousness closes on the "lower mind", and then he turns not even into an animal, but into a monster. I don't think there's anything to prove here. Any crime chronicle shows us such monsters in abundance.
6. "Higher mind" and "lower mind" are capable of generating feelings and thoughts in the human mind. Regarding the "lower mind", which is tied to our instincts and bodily needs, I believe that nothing special needs to be explained. I am sure that what I said is unlikely to cause rejection in anyone. For some reason, many people have doubts about the “Higher Mind”: does He, the “Higher Mind”, exist in general, and is it given to us to hear Him, etc.
If at least once in your life you have heard the voice of conscience, when you were just thinking of doing something bad, then you have already heard the voice of the "Higher Reason", which all religions call the Almighty or God, or Allah. The word "Allah" just means "Almighty", giving us by default a hint that there is still SOMEONE "lower".
7. Being in us, the "Higher Mind", at the same time, is also outside of us. He is omnipresent and all-pervading like radio waves and light, and we always have only some part of Him.
So why is there so much evil around, if the "Supreme Mind" is omnipresent?- maybe someone wants to ask me?
First of all, everyone must understand that homo sapiens ("reasonable man") was brought into the world to live according to conscience. That is why it was given to him by the "Higher Reason". Moreover, the voice of conscience is always prohibitions (in contrast to the voice of the "lower mind", which always shouts: "I want!", "I want!", "I want!"). Conscience sounds in the mind every time a person really tries to do something bad (from the point of view of the "Higher Reason").
These prohibitions, as I understand it, are dictated solely so that the human community as a whole can develop harmoniously on a conflict-free and good-neighbourly basis, such as, for example, a family of bees or a family of ants.
If someone is confused by the definition of “lower mind” that I introduced, they say, in the scriptures antipode God is Satan or devil I will answer this in the following way. For many people who read fairy tales about the Serpent Gorynych and Baba Yaga in childhood, when reading these two words "Satan" or "Devil", for some reason, images of fantastic creatures similar to the named fictional characters invariably arise in their minds. And this is very sad.
Our life is far from fairy tales. It's much scarier and more tragic. That is why I consider it possible, instead of the words "satan" and "devil", which cause so much misunderstanding, to use the definition "lower mind". And in order to eliminate all contradictions on this score, I want to add the following to everything that has been said.
The "lower mind", it is also the primary protein mind, (it is also "Satan" and it is also the "devil" in the religious lexicon, it is also "Lucifer" among the Satanists-sectarians), lives in our cells, in our genes, as well as in cells and in the genes of all biological objects of nature. Its functional task is to ensure that all earthly creatures are fruitful, multiply and devour each other in rivalry. It is the rivalry for life and death that forces the "lower mind" to be the father of disguise, the father of lies, the father of deceit and various other methods of survival in the wild.
A praying mantis predator disguised as a flower. Here is a visual work of the "devil mind".
Man is given not only a "lower mind", but also a "Higher mind". This is what distinguishes man from all other earthly creatures. The "higher mind" manifests itself in the human mind primarily as the voice of conscience and as the voice of intuition. And since every person is given the mind, will and the right to choose his life path, he himself chooses in which direction he should go, and what mind he should listen to, and whose commands to execute.
Unfortunately, there are many people among us who could completely stifle the voice of conscience in themselves. There are even people who have proclaimed the "lower mind" as their God!
Here is a good example:
Lucifer temple opened in Colombia:
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There are people among us who have not only consciously severed their connection with the "Higher Mind", having staked on their "Lower Mind", but also who want to rely solely on their "devilish mind", to seize power over all of humanity.
What are these people? you can ask me.
According to the Bible, two thousand years ago they were identified in human history and denounced by a certain Jesus Christ, addressing these fighters with the "Higher Reason" the following words: "your father is the devil, and you want to do the lusts of your father" . (John 8:44).
I wrote this on March 7, 2011, and on August 19, 2011, I decided to arrange a survey in Mahpark, wanting to clarify for myself what percentage of people feel in themselves a connection with the "Higher Mind", and what percentage of people do not feel this connection in themselves .
Since the ability of a person to hear the voice of conscience in himself is a sure sign that both thought systems work in him at once: the Higher and the lower, I decided to arrange a survey on the topic, "what forDoes conscience mean you?" And I put the question this way: "Do you think that conscience is an innate feeling? Or do you think that conscience is instilled by education?"
The trickiness of my question was that the person answering it was 100% open.
Whoever had no conscience, who was not able to hear the voice of the "Higher Mind" coming from the depths of the soul, he necessarily clung to the words proposed in my questionnaire, that "conscience is instilled by education". And whoever heard the voice of conscience at least once in his life answered without even thinking that "Conscience is an innate feeling".
The result of my survey is as follows:
Of course, these figures cannot be used to judge our entire society, because only two hundred people took part in my survey, but a rough picture can already be imagined.
The percentage of people in our society who live exclusively in the animal mind ("lower mind") is too high, hence we have high crime and all that!
And today, when I suddenly decided to highlight the topic "time dilation phenomenon", I remembered this work of 2011 in connection with the following thought: the phenomenon of time dilation occurs in critical situations, after all, not all people in a row, but only some!
You ask one "did you have that?"
"It was!"- they say, and tell what they felt then and what they experienced.
As a rule, those who have such a phenomenon get off in the same road accidents with a slight fright, because such protection is triggered, which is many times cooler than any airbags or seat belts!
I ask others: "did you have the effect of time dilation during an accident with your participation?" and they answer me: "it all happened very quickly! Bam - and that's it !!!"
I suspect that "Bam - that's all!" it turned out for those people who, at the time of the accident, for some reason, had no (was cut off) contact with their "Higher Mind".
What do you think about this, reader?
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Perhaps each of us noticed that time, which was slow in childhood, is constantly accelerating as we grow older. And if at the age of 5 a year seemed like an eternity, then at 30 it flies almost unnoticed. What is the reason for this and is there a way to slow down time? We tried to figure it out and, it seems, found the possible causes of this phenomenon.
website offers to find out why each new year goes by faster and what to do if you want to "slow down" your life a little.
Lack of new experiences
As a child, every day brings us a lot of new experiences, we learn and constantly see something for the first time. With age, there are fewer and fewer such moments, so we begin to measure the course of events biased. This point of view was confirmed by the neuroscientist David Eagleman, who conducted experiments showing people various images.
Some of these pictures the subjects had already seen before, and the rest were completely new to them. It turned out that, according to their subjective feelings, people spent more time looking at new images than viewing previously seen ones, although absolutely all the pictures were shown to them with equal duration.
It follows from this that for a person whose brain is busy processing new information, time subjectively flows more slowly. And this explains why childhood seems to us stretched out, and adult life seems fleeting. For example, some people think that the year 1970 was 30 years ago, but in fact it has already been 48 years.
chunk theory
This theory is also related to impressions, namely how our brain interprets them depending on age. American cognitivist Douglas Hofstadter believes that the human brain tends to collect individual impressions into a kind of "pieces" (chunks). For example, everyday activities like cleaning, cooking, and shopping are combined into a chunk called chores.
Imagine that a mother has gone for a walk with her baby. For a child, this event is full of new experiences: he met other children, saw an interesting butterfly or beetle, learned how to make cakes out of sand, etc. But for his mother, this is the most common event, not the first and far from the last in her life.
It turns out that throughout life, our brain “packages” impressions into fairly broad categories: family, work, entertainment, hobbies, sports, etc. Perhaps “chunking” helps the brain optimize memory, but as a result, past events seem to us transient.
Neurophysiological processes
In the human brain, no structure has been found that would be responsible for time. But as a person grows older, the level of dopamine decreases, a neurotransmitter that (in addition to causing a feeling of satisfaction) plays an important role in providing cognitive activity. As a result, the ability to perceive time changes in adults and the elderly.
This is supported by the results of an experiment by University of Virginia-Wise college psychologist Peter Mangan. The scientist compared the ability to estimate a time interval of 3 minutes in two groups of people: young (19-24 years old) and older (60-80 years old). The subjects were asked to mentally mark the time at 3 minutes and say when, in their opinion, these 3 minutes had expired.
In the group of young people, time was estimated more accurately: for them, 3 minutes passed in 3 minutes and 3 seconds, and according to the elderly, 3 minutes passed in 3 minutes and 40 seconds of actual time. Thus, we can conclude that older people actually perceive time intervals as shorter than they really are.
M. Keener scale
Austrian BMW design consultant Maximilian Kiener has developed a scale according to which the longer you live, the shorter the year seems to you. For example, at the age of 5, a year is 1/5 of your life, which is quite significant, but at the age of 50 it is only 1/50, and therefore it does not seem like such a big amount. Procrastination can lead to the fact that, looking back, you feel that they were wasting their precious time in vain, and life passed so quickly, as if you did not live at all.
Therefore, do not be afraid of positive changes, for example, changing jobs if you have been dreaming about it for a long time, but did not dare to leave your comfort zone. By mastering a new activity that you enjoy, you will not only become happier, but also slow down your personal clock.
If you believe Einstein's Theory of Relativity, then time is generally relative and flows differently depending on the conditions. But there is also the relativity of time from the point of view of its perception by a person. Depending on what content the time spent by us is filled with, it looks long or short to us. Moreover, the older a person is, the more acutely he feels that time "flies faster and faster." What is the reason for this sense of time?
The fact that such a change in the sense of time with age really takes place is not a story of individual people. It has been proven in numerous psychological experiments. For example, a group of subjects of different ages was asked to complete several simple tasks within a certain period of time. At the same time, they were isolated from any clock - wrist, wall, computer, cell phone. After completing the tasks, each of the participants in the group was asked the same question: how much time has passed since the start of the experiment in his opinion? The results were quite unambiguous. The greater the age of the subject, the longer the period of time he called, answering the question of the experimenters. There are many explanations for the age perception of time, but the most plausible of them are only two.
The first is that with age, all processes in the human brain slow down. Accordingly, when perceiving time, there is a “speedy shooting effect”. In those days when video was filmed, in order to get a video sequence where everything moves several times faster than the usual pace, its movement was slowed down. Accordingly, many more frames than usual fell on a certain section of the film, and as a result, an accelerated image was obtained. The same thing happens with the perception of time during slow processes in the brain. It seems to be going much faster than before.
The second explanation is much more interesting and does not directly relate to any physiology. You can even call it a psychological-mathematical explanation. The thing is that any individual period of time is perceived by us in relation to the entire life lived at the moment. In other words, the second year of a child's life is 1/2 or 50% of all the time he has lived, the third - 1/3 or 33%, the fourth - 1/4 or 25%, and so on. That is, a year lived by a fifty-year-old person takes only 2% of the total volume of his life. It is quite natural that this year seems to him to have flown by much faster than to a child.
It's all about the experience you get. Without them, all this mathematics would have no meaning. Because, although not consciously, we evaluate the time period primarily in terms of its saturation with impressions and make comparisons according to the same parameter. The next year, lived by an average fifty-year-old person, cannot compete in terms of the number of impressions with the previous half-century period of life.
Apparently, this is the meaning of the well-known saying that the Japanese live long, because they never cease to be surprised all their lives. The Japanese are indeed a nation of centenarians, the average life expectancy in Japan is approaching 80 years. But if longevity is understood not literally - that is, not from the point of view of actually lived years, but from the point of view of the perception of the length of life, then this statement takes on a completely different meaning. Being surprised all the time means constantly getting new and vivid impressions. And in this case, even a short life will seem very long.
What age do you feel like?
