What is time?

[Andreas]

What is time? And why does it exist? Did god create time? Or is time an illusion? I have always been really confused with it. And why does time seem to go by faster and slower when you are bored or when you are having fun? Or perhaps that’s an illusion created by ego. Sorry for all the questions but can anyone help me out here? 

 

Also im new here. Hi!

[Brittany]

Hi Andreas!

Time seems to exist for the body but not for the mind.

I have heard non-dual teachers say that everything that ever happened is happening right now. And I don't get that. haha

Eckhart Tolle says  "The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. ... Both are illusions." but again, I can see this mentally but not physically. Physically, the past seems quite real. Like something happened that changed the material world.

Probably with psychedelics, I would understand. haha 

Edited August 22, 2018 by Brittany

[XYZ]

Time seems like an objective measurement as it passes automatically, but knowing that 2 objects can experience time differently in different places in the universe, I feel that I can never full understand what this 4th dimension called time actually is.

What I am interested in is how we perceive the passing of time, and what some tricks are to s  l  o   w   i    t    d     o     w      n.

Time seems like it is moving faster the older you get. Because when you were 5 years old, a year was a fifth of your life, and it seemed so long. At age 10 it's only half that much, a tenth of your life, at 20 a year passed is only 5% of your life and so on. Even the most memorable action-packed days seem to pass in the blink of an eye now. And the uneventful ones just the same.

In certain moments of mindfulness though I can just slow down whatever I am doing. Slow my breathing, slow my eating, slow my walking, slow my talking, slow my thinking... and feel like I'm pushing back upon the hands of time ever so slightly...