Time Flies

Time flies when I’m sitting at the PC. Time passes slowly when I am in a waiting room. Time goes in a flash, sometimes, but drags at others. Everyone knows this and relates to it.

But we assume it’s just a perception, and not literal. Why? Suppose it’s real? It seems real enough to all of us, and happens consistently, and to everyone, so what’s the definition of reality that excludes such a consistently real event? 

I don’t sit at the PC and suddenly find myself 10 feet to the left of where I was when I started – but I do find that an hour appears to have passed when I only experienced a few minutes. I wasn’t travelling near the speed of light...

Suppose there is a second time dimension, orthogonal to the one we’re familiar with – the usual one that is part of the 4D physical space-time world. Suppose we are travelling along both time axes, so making an analogy to a 2D X/Y frame, we are travelling along a gradient with respect to both time axes – i.e. a component of our personal time is along both. Now suppose increased brain activity affects our direction of travel and moves us closer to the normal time dimension, then the component of our personal time in that axis increases – the projected component is greater. The effect then is that ‘normal’ time appears to have passed much faster... 

Or maybe time doesn’t exist at all? It’s just a perception?