6th Dimension: Time (Thought #8)

Isn't time the most wonderful thing? Well, actually... isn't it kind of annoying? It slows down when you're bored, speeds up when you're stressed, and we all know it's relative but to what? It's a total (ahem, excuse my language) mindfuck, to think that you're working and time feels increasingly slow, and then you look over at the person next to you playing computer games and you think, "Right now, this moment is passing by impossibly quickly for them." You could almost say we constantly time travel back and forth: say that stressed out people live shorter lives, not in statistics (although that's true too) but that 50 years for them feels like 40 years for another person. Then again, people who read all day, or do nothing, or when they're sick, their 50 years could feel like 60 years to another. I don't even know what to say.

DALI—The Persistence of Memory.

Most confusing thing ever. It's completely (ahem) fucked up. Really. You have to admit, Dali represented time perfectly. It stretches to infinities but can fit in small spaces, yet it's so malleable, stretchy, but like a rubber band it can just snap back and whip your fingers. It's actually really frustrating. I don't really know why there's a dead tree in the middle of nowhere. Actually, I don't even care. This isn't the time for a Dali analysis.

So, time also has quite an effect on memory (another Dali reference, sorry...). Memories tend to exaggerate themselves as time passes, yet some details you can remember perfectly. Also, déjà vu. Okay, we all know (maybe not all of us) that the true reason for déjà vu is simply that the brain processes the current memory twice by accident. But if you want to look at the less scientific part of it, when you get a déjà vu, the first thing you immediately ask yourself is, "Wait. When could this possibly have ever happened?" and then the endless time-searching begins.

I could go onnn and onnnn forever about time. But, speaking about it, I'm running out of time and it's getting late. Maybe I'll update this into a more complete thought, later. Bye for now!

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