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Readers seeing the phrase “missing time” for the first time may search for it, only to find millions of discussions of the paranormal or UFOs. Some will check it out and find it fascinating. Others will shake their heads, thinking these people are “missing” their minds. But there is something here…something having to do with the nature of time, and how the brain perceives it.

Definition of Missing Time

Missing time is a gap in conscious memory identified with a certain time period. This gap can span a few minutes to a few hours to a few days in length. Memories of instances occurring during that time period often have to be retrieved by hypnosis or through dreams. An individual experiencing missing time will be performing an every-day task or traveling somewhere. He will glance at the time. At some point, this person will “awaken”, check the clock and notice some minutes or hours have passed during which he has no memory or awareness.

Organized religion has no specific definition of missing time; it tends to define such phenomena as visions. Psychology has just as little to say, but it does consider missing time “experiencers” as having otherwise perfectly healthy minds, and not usually suffering from various mental diseases. Ultimately, it is the field of science that needs to study the phenomena in-depth before coming to a conclusion.

How the Mind Perceives Time

The brain operates on a certain frequency. When it perceives an event, the brain waits for a repeat of the event then judges the time between occurrences of the event. For example, the brain perceives a sound on a certain frequency. The brain catalogs this occurrence and when a second occurrence of the sound materializes, the brain tells time by the recurrence of the frequency. Studies performed at Harvard University have found that they eye, when asked to stare straight ahead with a ticking clock nearby, will take a half second to move to the clock when asked to look at the clock. This means that the brain has documented the occurrence of an event, using the eye to record the second occurrence of the event.

The Nature of Time

The Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers several theories on the nature of time. It seems reasonable to think that if the brain works on frequencies, so does time. Indeed, under the heading The Topography of Time, the author posits that time actually has no beginning or end, but it is possible that time has streams of time. Frequencies can enjoy a wide range of area, as seen in broadband, so time itself may enjoy the same range. If time exists independently of action, then action is of itself. Hence, a missing time experience, according to the above-posited theory, would be independent of time.

How the Brain and Time Tie In

If it does truly exist, time is part of the universe. If the universe operates on frequencies, so does everything that exists in it. It is a scientific fact that the brain works on frequencies. If time does the same, then the brain’s perception of time is a matter of judging the repetition of signals. Since people have experienced missing time, they have been experiencing a different frequency. What that means is that when an event occurs, the brain documents it. The event may not be on the same frequency time is on, which makes time seem to stand still for the experiencer.

Missing Time, Or “Adjusted Time”?

Time as mankind generally understands it does not truly exist.

Timekeeping methods such as calendars, clocks and seasonal observances give mankind a method of normalizing something infinite and not understood. In the same way that mankind creates images of gods and goddesses so he can understand something indefinable, so has man made a method of understanding time.

Persons experiencing missing time have enjoyed a wide range of experiences. Bilocation astral projection may have taken their minds, bodies and essences to places they would never have known inside man’s theory of time and space. Quantum physics has taught these experiencers that time travel is possible and that one can communicate on different frequencies with other-than-earth dwellers. But, just like surviving jet lag from time changes flying east to west, these persons suffered the same sort of jet lag between frequencies.

Indeed, the term “missing” needs to be clarified with relation to the time-space theory. A more accurate term for this concept would perhaps be “adjusted time experiences“, instead of “missing time experiences”.

With a better understanding of the true nature of time coupled with a better understanding of how the brain perceives time, these experiencers would be more open to extra-sensory phenomena, thus bridging the frequency questions. Not only that, but certain persons were chosen to have these experiences, which begs the question what latent abilities, unknown to the persons, existed that allowed them to be tapped for these experiences?

The ridicule and stigma around missing time experiences is over, in that science is seriously digging for answers to the many questions surrounding this peculiar phenomenon. ~ http://blog.onlineclock.net/

TIME SLIPS

There are so much of timeslip stories–first-person accounts of that uncanny feeling of suddenly having slipped out of the present time and into the past.

According to great scientists such as Albert Einstein, time is not as stable as most of us think. As humans we’re adjusted to time and our evolution has established tricks to allow our conscious minds to deal with it but in reality it’s a slippery concept. Time slips occur when a current time (now) interlaces with a previous time (then) and can be experienced by the person from the more recent time. However, the event is usually unnoticed by the people from the earlier time. What is the evidence for this phenomenon? Well ... plenty if you know where to look. In fact it is so common that we’ve even built it into the English language. We’ll explain. When a time slip occurs people in both realities are able to experience the alternative reality.

Still, according to most accounts, this usually lasts for only a few seconds and the human brain does its best to filter out these anomalies. This has given rise to expressions such as “I could have sworn that I’ve just seen” or “my eyes must be playing tricks on me” or even “you won’t believe what I just saw”. Over the years people have claimed that they’ve seen old airplanes parked in fields that were once airports or roman soldiers marching down their road. In almost all cases the person experiencing the time slip blinks, looks again and is startled to find that whatever they saw has now vanished. However, photography has captured these anomalies from the time that the camera was first invented. In fact, the longer exposure times of early cameras have revealed more than the modern “instant” versions do but there are still oddities such as the image captured on Google Earth that clearly shows a World War Two bomber flying over Britain. Is this a time slip or just the folks at Google having a laugh? Perhaps it’s a reconstruction from an air show?

Not all time slips are brief and there have been occasions when people have entered a room and been startled to find that they are in a completely different time. One case was recorded by Mr Archie “Racer” Carmichael who was driving from Birmingham to London in 1953 when he stopped for a drink in a Cotswold village near Borton-on-the-Water. He parked his Austin-Healy 100/4 outside the local pub and entered for a drink. He was shocked when the he found the people inside the bar looked as if they were from an earlier century. His attempts to communicate were ignored and after a few minutes the scene dissolved and Archie found himself being asked if he was all right by a worried looking barman. It seems that he thought he had seen ghosts but was probably experiencing a time slip.

From That Mysterious Flow Davies writes in connection with how we perceive time in our daily lives:

“In daily life we divide time into three parts: past, present, and future. The grammatical structure of language revolves around this fundamental distinction. Reality is associated with the present moment. The past we think of having slipped out of existence, whereas the future is even more shadowy, its details still unformed. In this simple picture, the ‘now’ of our conscious awareness glides steadily onward, transforming events that were once in the unformed future into the concrete but fleeting reality of the present, and thence relegating them to the fixed past.” …. and how physicists prefer to think of time. But for many physicists, time is viewed rather differently according to Davies:

“Physicists prefer to think of time as laid out in its entirety – a timescape, analogous to a landscape – with all past and future events located there together … Completely absent from this description of nature is anything that singles out a privileged special moment as the present or any process that would systematically turn future events into the present, then past, events. In short, the time of the physicist does not pass or flow.”

Is it happening more often?  And if so, what does that mean for the future?  Past? Present?  Is the new immortality not about living longer, but living through infinite time all at once? 

So far the timeslip thing doesn’t sound like anything to worry too much about.  For most of us, timeslips happen randomly, perhaps due to finding ourselves in a setting where dramatic incidents from the past have imprinted deeply on the landscape or when our own state of consciousness is altered by unusual stress, exhaustion, or novelty, suddenly pitching us head first back in time.   It’s an interesting experience, but one that doesn’t seem to be spinning us into a time vortex. ~ Andrew Nicholson http://mysteriousuniverse.org/author/anicholson/