manipulating time perception

[dancing-with-dragons]

I have no doubt that manipulating our perception of time on the astral plane or in dreams is possible.
I believe the mind is capable of anything it desires, and can expirience a hundred years clearly in the span of a single night.
I have heard of several different accounts of this happening. What Im looking for now is more information regarding this phenomenon.
Anything you can offer will greatly be appreciated.

Thank you !

[RoseRed]

Practice.

Notice the next time that 'time warping' happens to you and pay attention to what it feels like. Once you do it accidentally, it's easier to do it on purpose.

[Nahemah]

http://www.occultforum.org/forum/viewto ... on#p472991

I and others have posted a few things in other threads previously,that may be helpful to you. [thumbup]

The above has some information I gave on perception in general included in it,with a few starter links/tips for expanding awarenesses including time perceptives.

Does this fall within your requirements?

If not,there's more on the forum,with a lot of decent contributions from various members over the years,both from the old OF.com archives and the current forum here. [grin]

[ and if you use the search feature with 'time perception' as keywords you 'll see what mean.]

[RavenDarkWind]

Hopefully, your astral body's experience of time won't have damaging physical effects. I don't remember where I read it, but when a man woke up from a lucid dream lasting a hundred years, he was confused and seemed senile.

[RoseRed]

That reminds me of a fairy tale (which of course, I can't remember the name of).

It's possible to lucid dream or project for quite a while and feel like you don't quite fit when you return. Especially if the return is unexpected. The easiest way to fix that is to project again and pop right back in.

[shaded_shadow]

It's possible to lucid dream or project for quite a while and feel like you don't quite fit when you return. Especially if the return is unexpected. The easiest way to fix that is to project again and pop right back in.

Came in backwards....*strangest image in my head*....

[Sypheara]

That reminds me of a fairy tale (which of course, I can't remember the name of).

It's possible to lucid dream or project for quite a while and feel like you don't quite fit when you return. Especially if the return is unexpected. The easiest way to fix that is to project again and pop right back in.

I can second. I remember a lucid dream not particularly well now, but I remember living almost an entire alternate life that seemed to last decades. The apparent realm was one that was of several hundred years ago, except with weirded physics that did not seem to mesh with notions of reality. It felt like decades had passed.. and like i had lived every day in this other world. I remember riding through a forest, falling off and hitting my head on a rock or tree.. this felt quite real and hurt like hell, and i suddenly was awoke at like 6 in the morning feeling very derealised and like i was in the wrong body.

It took me days to actual accept the new reality, and I was kind of out of it during that time. That was before i 'believed' in the occult, so i didnt note down the experiences etc which i have now in the main entirely forgotten.

[dancing-with-dragons]

Thanks for the interesting replies! I plan on investigating this for myself in the future. What an amazing concept!

[Asurendra]

These videos may be of interest to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYfEgmDC_gw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8aC1b79b1M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS-rnkPGnOU

[magari]

I wanted to say something about my own experience.

Rosered said something interesting about it happening on accident the first time and I am still attempting to recall everything, but this will be the first time I'm going to write about it.

It happened recently. Last weekend actually.
I am 27 years old currently. Just recently moved back into my childhood home to help the family prepare the ranch for the winter. (I'm the only one in state [unsure])

Utilizing an entheogen I decided I was going to wander the ranch and visit all the old spots I used to as a child. The entire altered experience lasted hours, however there where two important lessons taken from it. Both are riddles I am currently attempting to solve. However, something I've been thinking about for the longest time is Time...

One of my first experiences with the mystery was when I was a sophomore in high school. I realized my life had taken a sort of pattern in regards to my interests, pursuits, and beliefs. To me it seemed every 2 years I would undergo some drastic changes. My entire bedroom would practically be thrown in the trash and I would start over, this included clothes, posters, toys, ect. I just didn't have any interest whatsoever in what was going on anymore and I would redirect the energy into new pursuits. This served me well when I was young, I played all sorts of sports, a few instruments, was able to visit places and experience whatever I desired. I also learned many lessons along the way.

When I began to join the adult world this wasn't so helpful. At the second to last major junction in my life I had dropped out of college (which I attended for 2 years) and got fired from the greatest position I could have asked for to launch a very successful career in my industry of choice (I worked there for 2 years).

I remember falling asleep one night and REMEMBERING the experience I had as a sophomore in highschool and being able to recall almost the entire experience without any effort at all. I could almost hear the music in my room when I realized I was shifting gears every 2 years.

At that point I decided that I needed change, in order to become the person I wanted to be I had to be able to dedicate myself to something for longer than 2 years. I was afraid I would continue to fall into old patterns. So scared in fact that I went straight to the US Army recruiters office and signed up for the toughest job I could find (Airborne Ranger) for a 4 year contract. I told myself that even if I wasn't going to make this my career I wouldn't be able to finish college if I couldn't do this for 4 years. This shift was as drastic as I could get. There are a million and one reasons why I joined, but I think its important to note that my perspective before I joined was that of a devote anti-social. I despised government and all forms of authority. I saw them as the enemy and the enemy only. My decision, to put it lightly, blew everyone who knew me away. It was so out of character that a few people were genuinely concerned.

Now I have had many dejavu experiences my whole life and often I can recall a memory of a dream I once had that was incredibly similar to what seemed to be happening to me at that time. In other words if I was about to jump into a pool I would remember a dream I had where I was doing exactly that, whether or not it was the same pool was a mystery.

However, one experience will never leave me. During basic training I took full advantage of every opportunity I got to push the limits of my consciousness in tandem with my body. Unity right?
Anyways, I dreamt every night. Vivid, memorable dreams would come to me almost every night sometimes during basic training. I had my first wet dream there (I was 22 years old). Often I would dream that I was a soldier (at that time I had not yet graduated basic), and in these dreams I would be riding in a Chinook helicopter with a whole platoon of other soldiers. I remember sitting in the seats and staring at everyone else while the helicopter bucked and turned this way and that.

It wasn't until that dream came true that the mystery of time reared its head in full view. I couldn't understand it yet, nor do I now, but I had no other experiences at that time to really catch my attention until then.

From that point forward I had always found time here or there to research Time. The trick for me, was looking back at my life. Especially my love life.

Once I had an understanding of the fractal nature of reality. I looked at my research of time and some of the things other people who have stepped out of time had to say about it. The common theme is that time can be looked at like an ever growing string or worm. As you move about throughout your day you are creating slices of said time. As time moves forward every single moment before and after the moment in which we exist, exists as well. These moments all put together makeup time.... or something like that.

Anyways, I chose to look at time like a fractal itself, for if time follows the rules of nature and reality then the spiral, or fractal should exist.
Once I had this perception I looked at all the women I had ever loved.

In the fractal plane in order for something new and unique to be created with the full potential of 2 unique individual patterns they must meet at the same point and time.

I saw then how my relationships were always the perfect choice for me at that time, but in the end our creations would fail because we couldn't maintain a consistent timing.

I went to college 2 years before my first love.
My second wasn't yet ready to spread her wings and fly when I asked her to move to Germany (where I was stationed)
My third couldn't leave Germany to live with me in America
My fourth had to leave Colorado to finish her degree

Bad timing....
So I knuckled down, I began researching again and started paying closer attention to what was happening around me. I started to attempt to pace my movements, decisions, thoughts, my life. Pace it ladies and gentlemen, pace it.

Not only did this seem to help me and my friends cooperate easier, but more and more outside forces all of a sudden were able to interact. Access to resources of creation I never imagined possible began landing in my lap.

Pace it ladies and gentlemen, pace it.

Now just the other day, while I was walking around my property, just like I had when I was young enough to climb trees and catch frogs, I began to relive my childhood. However it was just memories.

Now, to note, at one point along this induced journey I encountered the 3 fates. At first they were 1, then they were 3, each had an offering, and attempt to seduce, when I denied all 3, they became 1 again. The three fates are also known at the three witches or the Wyrd Witches. The entire experience of the witches had come and past before I set off home.

Along the route, however, was one spot on my property I had named the witches woods or the witches grove. The reason behind it was because it was just creepy. It was a clump of very thin, spindly pine trees that grew in a low spot on the ground which looked like it once had water running over it, but all the streams around it had to be incredibly old and would have diverted any water away from the spot....

Anyways, as I came upon this spot I was immediately blinded by a beacon of bright green light, like the one at the end of the dock in The Great Gatsby. Once the flash had subsided I was no longer my 27 year old self, but perhaps 11 or 12, standing there, trying to solve the mystery of the witches wood. This, ladies and gentlemen, was not a memory. I can't even begin to explain how I fell into this "slice" of time, but every little thing about it had me convinced I was 12 years old, trying to solve the mystery of the witches wood. When I broke focus to examine a splinter on my arm I saw the beacon of green light for a second time, though nowhere near as bright and possibly fading away as if I was floating away, but either way I was 27 years old again.

The experience floored me. Can't even begin to explain. I had to check my arm for a splinter and over the past couple days I had thought I felt something, but checking my arm proves nothing.

Now I am still trying to figure this out, but it seems to me like I setup that beacon somehow when I was 11 or 12 years old. It seemed to speak to me somehow. The beacon is now the mystery, but I also am trying to solve the three fates. I think they had something to do with it.

I dunno, but what I've realized immediately is that one cannot solve time without time. Discussions of time are discussions of history. Thats why this post is so long and why I feel like its the only way to gauge your experience off anyone else is to have an understanding of their understanding and experiences of time.

It might be important to note that as I was writing this a thunderstorm knocked out my internet. This post will take a long time to submit.