Is "time" the same when you are dead?

[samanthawhalen]

I've been wondering about this one for years and years.  For example I was knocked out in a fight once (I honestly never took any punches, lol) and people that saw me unconscious said I was that way for minutes.  Can't remember how long it was.  The thing is when I awoke there was never a thought of "oh no, I've been here for some time".  I didn't dream or anything.  It was as if nothing existed to me.  So, my question is this: is TIME the same for everyone, regardless of what mental or physical state they are in?

Aeron

[Pica Pica]

yes, but being dead you are not a part of it, your body is and time affects that the natural way...by rotting.

[KarenLyn]

Mostly I don't remember but I'd have to say no. I believe in reincarnation and I don't remember a long wait between lives.

Karen Lyn

ps if you think it's bad for us now, you should have tried being a woman in the 1600's!

[Nero]

I don't know. You'll have to ask a ghost.

(Yes, Nero believes in ghosts.)

[deviousxen]

Actually... Interesting fun fact. The human eye only sees a certain amount of frames per second, but when our body is in danger and pumped with adrenaline, TIME SLOWS.


This is because we see and interpret more frames per second. The way we see time is a measurement. It can be altered.


Thats why psychadelic trips can seem to last a long time, when its only like an hour.


Sleep is like that too.

[VeryGnawty]

Actually... Interesting fun fact. The human eye only sees a certain amount of frames per second, but when our body is in danger and pumped with adrenaline, TIME SLOWS.

I actually find the guy from the Time series to be very interesting.  In his observations he discusses whether or not time even exists, or whether it's just an idea created by the society in which we live.

His observations seem to favor the latter hypothesis.

[Jeannette]

I guess no one really knows...but I think time isn't even a thought to the dead and undead (if you believe in the undead). A fun example of this can be seen on the movie Constantine. Notice in the end the way time moved so slowly to the angels and satan. Seriously, if you have an eternity, why would you worry about time?

[tekla]

Time stops when your dead.  Largely because some intern or orderly at the hospital jacked your watch, thinking you wouldn't be needing it anymore.

My thinking is that is pretty much true.  Once your dead, you don't care.  That's the upside to the whole dead thing.

[Ell]

i read this story once where this guy dies, and blinks his eyes, and in that time, 300 years have passed.

but it could've as easily been 3,000 or 3 million years, why not.

[Lisbeth]

So, my question is this: is TIME the same for everyone, regardless of what mental or physical state they are in?

Time is not the same for me from one day to the next even when I'm awake.

I actually find the guy from the Time series to be very interesting.  In his observations he discusses whether or not time even exists, or whether it's just an idea created by the society in which we live.

Time is just nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.

[Kinkly]

time is an illusion
ever herd the term "time flys when having fun"
or had the feeling that that "today is really dragging on"
i believe that when we die and go to heaven we will be able to travel to other times (as an observer) as easily as crossing the road.
or experance the wonders of heaven from within a pace similar to time on earth - on a good day.
in Hell time is frozen nothing happens but hell is only experenced but the pure evil the only person who might be in hell is Hitler but there is probably no people there

[Jay]

(Yes, Nero believes in ghosts.)

I think it might do.. Im not sure...


Jay does too!

[lisagurl]

i believe that when we die and go to heaven

A lot of people that followed Hitler believed the same thing.

[NicholeW.]

O, lighten up on the believers in an after-life, Lisa!! You are sooo tough!!

I cannot recall my last death so I have no empirical knowledge of this matter.

N~

[Lisbeth]

O, lighten up on the believers in an after-life, Lisa!! You are sooo tough!!

I cannot recall my last death so I have no empirical knowledge of this matter.

N~

I don't know why I would want to remember this life.

[lisagurl]

Beliefs can be very powerful and also very dangerous. Much of the world problems is due to people having and acting on beliefs. If more time was spent on verifying facts and rational decisions there would be much less death and suffering. Time is a man defined concept to measure. It then would be relative to the person measuring.

[Natasha]

no, depending on the gravitational pull you are in time is different.
as for the unconscious, and the dead? they lay still while time passes by them.

[NicholeW.]

no, depending on the gravitational pull you are in time is different.
as for the unconscious, and the dead? they lay still while time passes by them.

So for Vampires the reason they are eternal is that htye are dead and time merely washes across and around them?

Nice. Kinda poetic, like mer-women in the Gulf Stream.

Seems like something worth sucking your wrist for!!  >

N~

[Alyssa M.]

no, depending on the gravitational pull you are in time is different.
as for the unconscious, and the dead? they lay still while time passes by them.

Regarding gravity, proper time always proceed forward at one second per second, regardless of your frame. The real issue of perception of time is what Einstein said: "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."

Regarding the dead, who knows? But I'll go with Bach (or his librettist) on this one: "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit."

[tinkerbell]

"Time is an artificial concept that we ourselves have created to make the limitlessness of eternity and the universe more bearable, more human".

Robert Greene


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