This is an excerpt from the transcript of a class I gave in narrative psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, although a timelock moves inexorably forward, so that it is constantly moving at the same rate or amount of time, the same increments, optionlocks don\u2019t move that way. Optionlocks can have, say, three things be accomplished real fast, and the next one takes forever, so it\u2019s a different kind of guide \u2014 it seems a little more stretchy. But, for a moment, lets stand back and look at time, and say how fast does time flow for us. Are there not times, when we are lost and daydreamy, and we go through incredible journeys, and seems like it\u2019s been hours, and we come back and five minutes has passed. And other times, we take something that seems like it\u2019s happened very quickly, and it\u2019s really taken a lot of time, because we are thoroughly engrossed \u2013 how much we are involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And how much we are involved is a function of how many parts of the mind, how much of the mind percentage-wise or potential-wise becomes involved in the considerations. So, that when we are wholly involved in something, we lose track of time, and it goes faster, when it\u2019s an external thing. When we are wholly involved in an internal thing, often time will go slower. And so the internal \u2013 external issue starts to come into play as to how we begin to appreciate the nature of these locks that show us progress towards resolving an inequity and determining whether it\u2019s positive or negative. Whether it\u2019s outside or inside, sometimes you see a mirror image of the effect. When you are wholly involved in something outside, time will be something that can go by very quickly. When you are wholly involved in something inside, time can go very, very slowly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Time becomes stretchy, and you really can\u2019t tell how long you have to wait for something because how long it seems when you are waiting for a doctor\u2019s appointment versus when you are waiting in line in the supermarket or whatever.\u00a0 Time can seem to change \u2013 stretchy time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There really is no wholly objective time. Objective time is made up of the change in mass in it\u2019s relationship to energy. Subjective time is made up of the relationship between time and space, which seems like a contradiction \u2014 using time inside and space inside. So, you really have two kinds of time. We label them the same thing, but one of them is time per se, which is the movement of mass because of applied energy, which is completely consistent and external to ourselves, whereas, inside ourselves, it\u2019s not time, but duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Time is measured in increments. Duration is measured in speed. And the two don\u2019t always line up, as we\u2019ve mentioned before. It may seem like a lot of external time has gone by, but seem like it\u2019s been a very short duration or vice-versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n