How can I make time slow down?
correct, Rocketman! 🙂 Best Answer (with caveat): Time doesn’t fly when you’re having fun – it lasts in your memory for a very long time. Happy times with friends and family are like jewels of the mind, locked in time, free to return to and be played with when you need a pick me up. Well, at approx twice the age of the OP, I can confirm that time does fly when we’re having fun, but the pleasant anticipation of a fun time, the event itself, and your many recollections of that time once it’s past all help to make you less unhappy and more grateful of the time you have.
Hold down the X button. No, but seriously … the Tao says that the more you try to do something like this, the worse your results will be. If you strain and concentrate and try to make time slow down, you’re actually speeding it up. Try mindfulness meditation, and activities that require your full attention. For me, it’s smoking a pipe, which is the perfect meditative act: puff too quickly or too slowly and it will go out. It’s actually rather challenging to keep a pipe lit (which is why they have pipe-smoking contests), and the only way to do it is by perfectly regulating and controlling the flow of your breathing.
Yes, the older you get the faster time goes by- or at least the perception of it anyway. I have often wondered why. One day, out of the blue I asked my nine year old and seven year old what they were thinking about as we drove down the road- they both answered “I don’t know- nothing”. I believe, the younger you are the more blank space there is in your life. Can you find blank periods in your day? Times when you are actively thinking about nothing at all? I tried it- didn’t have much luck. My mind was constantly whirling away. So, in a nutshell, you can not control the speed at which you think or possibly, because you are thinking so much, you are not realizing how much time is actually passing you by. I would be more concerned if time was not speeding up as I aged. I have to imagine some poor slob sitting in some prison for the rest of their life would tell you that time goes by excruciatingly slow. So, look at the positive- that birthday you just had is much better than the alternati
I love benzo8’s answer above. The preportionality of it all had never dawned of me before but it makes perfect sense. Also, along the lines of travel/vacations making time slow… I think that Camping is one of the best things you can do for this feeling… there’s little agenda, nature is quiet and serene, you have time to take it all in, and you’re day is moved forward soley by the slowly changing position of the sun in the sky rather than hands on a clock, which move at a much more rapid pace. Even an overnight trip to a lovely camp ground can give you this feeling.
