According to Einstein's theory of Special Relativity time is directly effected by gravitational pull of large objects and he stated that the closer someone or something is to an object with a large gravitational field the faster that time passes, hence we have his famous Twins Paradox.

Perhaps there is something happening that is effecting the gravitational field of our solar system and thereby increasing the rate at which we experience time?

Originally posted by byteshertz

Originally posted by thedoctorswife
Firstly, i dont make many threads, so mods i hope ive posted this in the right forum
Ive got to get this out , just to see if anyone else is experiencing the same as me. This has been a "situation" that has pestered me for the last few years.
LIiterally, it feels as thought time is speeding up at an incredible pace in my world. I know that some say that the older you get the faster time seems to be going by. But i cant believe it goes this fast.
Im seeing a friend this week who i havent seen for six weeks, and it feels like a week, last Sunday feels like a day or two ago, my life is flying past me.
Its really bizarre and i hope i dont sound like im nuts. Has it affected anyone else? Perhaps its just my imagination, but it feels real.

I've had the same feeling, no sense of missing time - just that it is going by faster than normal.

Like you, I chalked it up to getting older.

Im 43, how old are you? you dont have to say

I'd say you need to relax a little bit. Maybe take a vacation if you can, have some fun, take things slow and lower your stress level.

For some time I have had the ability to sense time speed up and slow down. It bothered me for a long time, but eventually caused me to study relativity, and quantum science, though without formal education on theory science. However, I now understand that time flows the same way as light waves and ocean waves do. They rise and fall, peak and bottom out. Light for instance varies in wavelength. That is, light waves have different lengths. So if each spectrum of light all arrive at the same place at the same time, they do not travel at the same speed because some are shorter and have to travel longer distances. Time is literally expressed in "waves". When they peak, it speeds up, and when they bottom out it slows. I have seen this. I have seen and experiences the seconds on my digital clock zipping by, aware of the speed, and then at other times slowing. It was really bothering me until I simply accepted that we exist in space but waves of time directly affect us like a boat on the water. Overall, time as a whole is speeding up because the universe is speeding up in expansion. You are probably aware of it, sensing it as well. It's amazing, and if you do a little experiment, look at your digital clock and watch the seconds pass, then do it again at another time of the day, or even at the same time the next day. let me know what you discovered.

Originally posted by Suspiria
I think we all experience this the older we get. Perhaps it's either something we accept, or the perception starts to slow down again at some point further in our lives.
I remember my mother, me now being the same age as she was then, complain of such a thing. Now neither my parents vocalise that perception.

edit on 4-9-2011 by Suspiria because: (no reason given)

Suspiria, i would love to agree with you, but im talking a year feeling like two months. I dont think it sped up that fast for our parents, i may be wrong.

I think I have a good answer for this.

It happens to everyone. Think about this:

When you're 4 years old, a year is an entire quarter of your life. You don't really have a basis for perception yet, when you're a kid, the years feel long. When you're 40, that same year is but 1/40th of the total time perceived.

So essentially, time isn't going faster, it just really seems like it based on your perception.

What is driving me crazy though, is why isnt every single person on the planet feeling it, why am i so weird, and a few other people, its makes me question my own sanity, (not really, i know im sane), hopefully....

The funny thing is, it is always NOW...

If Time exists, where is the Past now ???
And where does the Future Come from ???

I guess this is why "NOW" is referred to as The "PRESENT",

Perhaps this (The "NOW") is the "GIFT ???

I tell people all the time we are spinning faster. It's not just getting older, I can feel it. It's like that Neil Young lyric...
This old world keeps spinning round,
It's a wonder tall trees ain't laying down,
there comes a time...

I get ya!
Heather

Originally posted by thedoctorswife
What is driving me crazy though, is why isnt every single person on the planet feeling it, why am i so weird, and a few other people, its makes me question my own sanity, (not really, i know im sane), hopefully....

You're sane, and anyone over the age of 25 has felt this "speed up" in time.

If time was really moving faster, our mechanical clocks, etc. would indicate such.