A number of things come to my mind in regard to "time":
- If time could be an illusion as the C's suggested on a number of occasions, then maybe trying to find an approach to understand time and the idea to create "a time machine" isn't "so simple"
Of course, time is probably some kind of illusion, but I'll explain how I see it.
There are different kinds of existence on different levels. For example, a chair probably exists differently from an electron. However, there is also an activity like singing, but we cannot touch singing or move it from one room to another. Hence, I would like to understand where it comes from that there is something called time, that we perceive its passage. What's behind all this?
Laura said:
Q: (L) Now, my memory for dates and times has always been, at best, a little vague. But, lately, it has been really bad. What is the cause of this loss of ability to keep a sequential record of what one does, who one sees, etc? It is really strange.
A: It is not strange. As one "ages" the illusion of time passage begins to deteriorate because your "higher mind" begins to understand the illusion.
Yes, it seems to me that with ageing there is a certain blurring of time, which means that events are not de facto placed in time, the past is mixed up with the future. We can remember specific dates if we have, for example, an autism spectrum (I have a small autism spectrum), but in fact, with age, the world is perceived as more "simultaneous".
In turn, explaining that time accelerates with age may be even easier. When we live in the world for our first year, we usually refer to the months we have lived. When we are 100 years old we refer to the 100 years we have lived, the proportions are completely different.
- If time is an illusion as we understand it, and it is something quite different in "higher densities", it begs the question in how far we can even remotely come to an approximation of understanding time on this level? So, trying to understand or use a concept like "time" on "this level" might be comparable to a mouse trying to formulate/understand/use human understandings/concepts of reality.
Understanding is one thing and description is another. A long time ago I had a dream about the fourth dimension. Sometimes I have very strange, sometimes prophetic dreams. There was really that extra "movement" in this fourth dimensional dream. I could go forward, backward, left, right, up, down and somewhere else. I was able to enter the sealed 3D sphere without breaking it.
This sphere was to me what a circle is to us. I can go inside the circle without breaking it, but if I were outside the circle as a 2D being, I couldn't (here I use the concept of dimension in a strictly mathematical sense).
When my dream abour a fourth dimension was over, my mind only had a momentary recollection, but then I couldn't think about that extra "movement". So I can't imagine the fourth dimension. My logical mind is incapable of this. However, nothing prevents me from describing the fourth dimension mathematically. I can describe even the fifth and any higher dimension.
So maybe we are not able to understand time with our mind, but we can describe it mathematically? Maybe this mathematical description will allow to develop a technology thanks to which ultimately even understanding time will be possible?
- Maybe there is already a "time machine" and some of us have used and/or experienced it consciously without really knowing how or why?
This is probably the way it is. But I always like to know how and why. And that's what I'm striving for.
- I think the best anyone could do on this level "to understand" time or create "a time machine" is probably a very limited whiff of what it is to "truly understand" the whole thing, let alone "use it" on purpose.
That's right. Time is most likely epistemologically transcendent. There may be moments, in certain situations, that you feel time differently than usual. As if it had stopped, as if the present moment extended to all past and future. This feeling is so special that it resembles paradise, nirvana. Perhaps this is also the key to understanding time. Nevertheless, this happens relatively rarely, you can try to induce it on purpose, e.g. through a meditative trance, but there is no guarantee. Then you feel overwhelming peace and have no worries. That probably says a lot about time.