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Has everyone ever had it where time or space seems to have shifted. Mine is normally like driving or reading. Driving I can be driving to work which normally takes 18-22 minutes and I will all of a sudden be 5 miles closer to work and wonder if I had spaced out but it will be the same time as before and I will get to work 5-6 minutes quicker then what is possible because I use cruise control to not speed to fast. Also when I am getting ready and I have time to spare I will read about a page for every minute I want to go by so I am not sitting there bored and watching a clock. The last time I had 15 minutes marked out 15 pages read them and only 3 minutes had gone by. Please tell me if anyone else has ever experienced this.

I don't drive but sometimes something simular has happened to me but in reverse. when i have been a passenger on a bus, i look my watch at, for instance, it's 20 past the hour, then about 30 seconds later, i check my watch again and 10 mins has gone by.

i have had it happen to me. usually only a few minutes, but once by several hours. my watch stopped, but as it was dark (in summer) and i'd walked at least 4 miles since sunset, i guessed the time to be about 11 pm, so reset my watch and wound it up again. when i was later able to check the time for real, i was 3 hours fast, and it was only around midnight. it could not possibly have been 9 pm when i reset my watch, as it had been pitch black for a long time, and the sun sets at around ten.

i had something like that but id never had to drive or read.. it could happen while i watch tv or just be looking at this computer screen..

i had that happen while driving home one weekend to see my family...i got there about 35 minutes earlier than what i should have and i couldnt explain how that had happened

Seamus

Did you know that certain forms of epillepsy (s) can cause what you speak of ?

epilepsy can cause blackouts, but there is no form of epilepsy that can cause you to reach your destination at exactly the same time (or earlier) than you left home.

Agreed Karn and I have had people in my car when it has happend tripped us out for days

No, not blackouts....I cant remember what the name is...when I do I'll come back.

from my personal experience with said illness. it only causes u to lose track of what went on in the last few mins. so from what was said. yes i dont think it is possible for time and space to bend or flex if u will and bring us closer to the places we wish to go...

I dont think it is really time or space bending i think it is just me zone'n out...So many times ill drive home like normal everyday but sometimes I will arrive home not even rememering how i got there, freaks me out!

I have experienced time shifts. When it happens to me it seems as something has changed or along those lines anyhow.

I have - mostly when I am reading. Once I finished The Fellowship Of The Ring in only fifteen minutes; I have no way of explaining this, and I definitely read the clock right both times.

Time and Space shift all the time, Time is noe linear at all Time is fluid. Not all Humans are sensitive enough to experience the Time shifts.

I've experienced this a few times each time I was at the same state of mind, a calm happy almost..

Sounds like 'road hypnosis' to me. Your conscious mind sort of shuts down and you're driving almost completely with your subconscious mind. Since these aspects of your mind tend not to communicate well (outside of hypnosis or dream-state) the time is lost to your reckoning. I've had it happen to me multiple times and with activities other than driving. Anyone that has done line-work would most likely have experienced this as well. That seems to be where it is most common AFAIK.

Most likely with the reading thing it is probably because you were enjoying what you were reading, because that has happend to me a lot i will start reading something and i will get through it really fast and not even realize it because it is so good...

It is not zoning. My work is 14 miles from my house and I always leave at 6:15. Normally get to work between 6:30 and 6:35 and I have made it there at 6:20. I never leave late or early because I drive my room mate who works with me. To make it there in 5 minutes I would have to drive 180 miles an hour. My Impala kicks ass nut not that much ass.

I've never had anything like that happen to me but a very close friend of mine has

I completely believe things like this are possible, especially since literal time itself is a man made thing

Not all individuals are focused enough for the time shift awareness, but you can train yourself to be as such.

As time is fluid, as well as is space; space being dimension of course. Not stating facts from quantum mechanics, but from distortions. Your brain may be catching up to the times with which you experiance bringing a realization that time may have paused for a moment after you were lost in that train of thought.

As for the counting the seconds of a clock as a troubleshooting technique, your brain does adjust accordingly and differenciates between time and mind.

I would not think space had anything to do with time, other than the continuum theory. Then again, if a continuum came into effect, and the universe had to adjust itself, than you may perhaps experiance such shifts in time.

As I have said, it comes with an awareness for what time actually is.

time shifts are fun and relatively easy to do. when reading, it's simply that time is passing normally, you just don't notice it. it's just like when you do anything you enjoy time flies.

in terms of time shifts while driving? i deliberately do it on days i'm running behind schedule. i drive no faster... but i focus on getting there faster and arriving on time. normally, the drive ends up taking 5 min less (a 20 min drive in 15), regardless of traffic.

i have always held that time is non-existent. it's only because it is "perceived" by our linear consciousness that it passes and is marked in seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc. with this perception of time, it is possible to shift slightly. only slightly because time is also perceived by others on the road and in the world around us.

however, as with all things that are ruled by perceptions in the mind, it is malleable and doesn't always play by the rules.

this brings to mind a rather famous experiment in physics... don't remember the name of the scientists it's associated with.

if you take two clocks that show the same time, mark seconds on the second hand at the exact same moment, and leave one on the ground and fly one around the globe; the traveling clock always ends up at a slower (or is it faster?) time.

I actually found a great website regarding this topic:

http://realityshifters.com/pages/articles/timeshifting.html

My thoughts are that since the mind is a such a powerful thing, especially the subconscious, it is perhaps possible that we control how our time "flies." As someone above said, I believe Jenova (forgive me if I'm wrong), when one really focuses on getting somewhere early or on time, they can make it happen without rushing themselves. We control what happens with our time, not a clock nor the universe.

That does happen to me, espically when I'm driving to work. It usually takes me 45 mins to get to my office, but often enough it seems that I'm there before I know it. And since I'm out at 430 in the morning, I have to pay attention to animals threatening suicide by my car lol, so I know I'm not just really really deep in thought.

Great post, Things have seemed to happen to me on this for loss of time and no account of it. Wither its time distortion or my mind shutting down who is to say. I believe that time shifts are more accuring than before.

both reading and driving induce trance like states, im no scientist or doctor but sounds like to me repetition can make the mind drift in boredome of the redundancies. now the time shift ok that aspect is spooky.

I have had it happen to me quite often, especially while driving. I have been trying to figure out how to "make it happen", it would make it easier at certain times.

Yes it seems when a person is traveling at certain speeds it is quite possible that time and space at times can bend itself and we often find ourselves spacing out at this moment in time and when we come out of it we find ourselves at our destination much quicker than we anticipated.

i believe it could be possible some simaller things have happened to me.

i've had several expirances while driving. i think it has to do with the lul of the road, like going it auto pilot and losing track of time then you look at your watch and almost no time has past.

i've had days where I am driving and as im going down the street I have to wonder if I actually stopped at the stop sign or light. I have also done the I don't remember how I go there thing too. Its very strange and I would never count out anything strange like space and time stuff happening.

I've had the time move backwards...But that could be on account of the clock.

This used to happen to me a lot when I was in high school. I would be walking to my class and then all of a sudden it would be like the middle of class. That probably due to me not paying attention though.

yes and damn it's strange sometimes.

I have experienced similar things but usually only when i enter the astral realms.

I wonder if you are possibly zoning out and entering the astral realms or possibly even daydreaming.

I understand what your saying I have had it happen and I usually blow it off yet it is weird.

Happens to me often enough. Ever hear of a thing called Bi-localities it is a Quantum theory about time shifts and why they happen. The Tibetans have been doing it for centuries though so go ask a Zen master

Mikhail I have read about it but that was normally done intentionally.

Mener It could be the astral idea but day dreaming would not explain the time not passing. Next time it happens I will try and see if it was astral just weird that many times is with my room mate in the car so he would have to be going to which is a possibility.

What is interesting is that you have an observer, and it happens on the same route, and it has happened more than once.

You should set up some kind of experiment to test and validate your observations.

Would the same happen if you took a slightly different route?

Perhaps there is a time warp factor, a threshold to another dimension, a bermuda triangle of time shifts in that particular area. Maybe some witches were burned right there on the interstate, and to escape their plight one of them opened a portal.

I have had that happen to me many times. I just shrug it off and go on with my day. I don't work or do anything of importance so it dose not bother me that much.

I had this happen driving. The drive should have taken 1 1/2 hours and it took an hour, and i was not speeding

This has happened to me on airplane trips (yes, I'm aware of time changes and such, I've been flying before I could walk...parents work for UAL). Anyway, usually I have the weirdness of time going to fast, or just fast in general in air and then when I arrive (even without being time zone changes) my watch is behind, I never understand it...

this might have happen to me as well it takes 20 min to get to my b/f house so i take the free way to get there in 11 min, lol anyways sometimes it seems like its takeing alot longer to there get, when its the same any other time

This happens to me about everyday at least three times a day. I don't know to explain it. I guess the expression Tempus Fugit (time flies) really does apply.

ACK!! this happens to me all the time! I've driven a 2 hr trip in what seems like 10 min. I figured i was just spacing out. If you ARE spacing out while driving, what part of you keeps you on the road?

This has happened to me while driving. I always just sort of attributed it to being tired though. Sometimes after work I'll be driving home, and suddenly I'm sitting in my driveway trying to remember the actual drive, and failing miserably. I don't know...not sure if it's some kind of space/time lapse...but it sure is odd.

I have had the same thing with driving to work. It takes me a good 25-30 minutes to get to work. On some accasions I have left late because I have slept in or just not motivated enough. On these occassions I tend to be in another world, I have even ran a red light a couple of times not aware of it until my son tells me. Yet on all these occasions I get to work at the same time I would if I left at my normal time. I admit I am a speeder but when I feel like this I dont speed because I just couldnt be bothered plus there is always speed cameras lol.

I have read some books where I get so involved in them that I loose all trace of time and my surroundings. Also been that tired that I dooze off for what seems like 10-15 minutes but has really been hrs.

yes,driving and reading

i have felt like i have lost time , but nothing more then that

maybe its more of our minds switching to cruise controll than nething else!!!

I think it is just your mind traveling..day dreaming...while you are still aware of what you are doing you are off thinking of something else so when you come back into reality more time has passed than you think. Its like when I'm gaming...I feel that only 20 or 30 minutes have passed and I look at the time 2 hours have gone by like nothing.

what you're describing is very similar to accounts from people who have had experiences in the so called bermuda triangle and also on the opposite side of the world in whats called the devil's sea. maybe your experiences are caused by the same anomaly but to a far lesser extent than in the areas i just mentioned.

when im drawing time seems to disapear

I thing Mieta1 has the best explanation for that.

For anything else, first order of business would be independent corroboration of the facts. Without that - I am sorry to say - any account is technically worthless.

Time shifts are possible i experienced them on my last road trip

Experiencing something doesn't prove existence!

Folks on LSD-Trips "experienced". People in mental wards "experience". When you dream sometime you "experience".

Sorry. Just "experiencing" isn't good enough....

Ever call a wrong number on the phone and swear that you dialed it correct? Its the same thing folks. You f@cked-up!!! Why blame it on the supernatural when it was your own fault? You left earlier than you originally thought you did. Duh.
I swear some people have their minds wander and near came back. O.o

NEVER HAD THAT HAPPENED TO ME

As long as your floating around the sun on earth time isnt going to shift.

What has happend is your perception of time has shifted and it only appears that time has changed.

Time as is commonly understood is only perceptual measurment. Normal space-time is set and the measurement thereof is also set. While experiance and perceptions governs what we as an individual see as reality when placed in the context of group reality and removed from linear-thought we see that what we as an individual experiance is for the most part just a flaw in our perception.

as you said spaced out, thats exsactly hwat happend, your just so used to doing whatever it is your doing you dont have to pay attention to what your doing to do it...make sence?

just like when your driving home drunk, its only when there is something diffrent to the route that makes them crash

it seems likely that we can bend/warp the space/time gambit.. it's almost too bad that we cannot control the whole thing just a LITTLE better... lol
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i ahve another exsample, time goes faster when your having fun, its the same thing

It happens to me all the time.Driveing I wind up getting home 15 min. to 1/2 hour before I left.It's great when you run late and wind up not being late.My friends no longer flip out on it anymore and ask me to do it and somehow I do it.
KA

Tis has been an interesting article. I have never had this happen to me but then again i often day dream so who knows.

There are times where I have some kind of jump into a different time-frame. I used to think it was just a powerful form of deja vu but it's not. It happens too often. A friend of mine says it can happen when your mind and spirit are shifted out of the norm. I'm autistic and a medium so that may explain it.

i had that happen to me but along time ago while driving to my friends

thats pretty cool stuff

You may simply be disassociating for short periods of time. Look it up, it's cool.

I don't think you're talking about time or space shifts. I have similar experiences with routes i've taken routinely. You just automatically know where you are going and so your mind drifts. It isn't a new place you're going to therefore your mind does not need to be as alert.

It could be possible that there was a monentary time warp that can happen. Would be nice if this was something that can be controlled

It can be.
KA

I tend to think of it not as time shifting, but that the rate at which time flows in a specific location shifts.

I've had it happen where I was heading down to take my son to my parents. Of course, like all children, he took his time getting ready, so that by the time we left, we should have been on the road for over an hour already.

I'd told them to expect us by 4pm, we didn't get out of the house until quarter to three, and it's 184.6 miles door to door. Wisconsin State Patrol are A$$es to people with Minnesota plates, so I turned on AC/DC in the cd changer and set the cruise at 3 miles over the 65mph speed limit. I don't worry about time other than to picture myself turning into the driveway and looking down at the clock and having it read 3:55.

184.6 miles (and a stop for fuel and one of my son's infamously long restroom breaks) later, I turn into the driveway, look down at the clock, and watch the numbers change to 3:55.

No other reasonable explanation for it. The clocks in the house said 3:57 when we got in there. I know that we got out late, because we dropped my ex off at work on our way out of town; he had to be there by 3:00.

Then I started thinking about useful applications for this concept. How neat would it be for someone to have such pinpoint control of the ability to create a time-distortion field that you could create one within a traffic light control box or your computer's motherboard? Imagine the possibilities... ;)

yes i have had thing like that happen to me but didnt knwo how to explain it. it is odd but must have had a good reason for that to happen.

Yes some what I have had it happen like especially when I read I can read like 8 chapters in like an hour and a half..

when i drive i can make up time of course i also speed though as well, but i think i can warp time in that way.

You know, that's one of the phenomena reported with alien abductions. The loss of unaccounted for time.

Yeah I have been reading a great book and after thinking I have only been at it a short time it was something like 2 hrs latter the same when I am in a deep sleep seems like minutes but end up like hours

yes I have had that happen to me and it is a very unsettling feeling at best. Like I have seen it said here it is also goes along with socalled alien abductions and such.

I have also had it happen to me and it is very unsettling indeed, especially when it happens when I am driving. Glad to know it isn't just me. lol

It's because when you are not thinking about the time, it goes much quicker for you. What happens is you don't realise that time is progressing, because your not thinking about it.

happens to me all the time. When I am doing something that I really like. Seems like only a short time I have been doing it then hours have pass.

when i am at work it seems time just goes by faster than i think sometimes like i was a sleep