When people have psychedelic trips or near death experiences, they sometimes claim that their experience seemed to last hours, days, months, years, or even forever. There is a difference between this being a literal amount of subjective time that has passed as opposed to it just seeming that way. For example, if I was very bored and I said that standing in line felt like hours when it was really only a few minutes, then there is a big difference between me just feeling like it lasted for hours as opposed it actually lasting for hours from my subjective point of view.
Standing there for hours and experiencing this passage of time would be very different than standing there for a few minutes and feeling that hours have passed. So I am wondering when it comes to trips and ndes, if the elongated periods of time that people who have these experiences describe are simply being attributed to the latter time description, or if it literally was like hours, months, days, years, or forever.
Edit: What I just simply wish to ask is do I have any reason to worry about the time dilation period I would experience during a trip or nde regardless of how long the amount of time is? Would the amount of time become unbearable to me, drive me insane, etc. just like how it would here in my normal waking reality if it were many centuries or millenniums? Especially if all, most, or a significant fraction of that time is spent undergoing torment and misery during a horrible trip or nde. Or is the amount of time, regardless of how long, not a contributing factor at all in a person's boredom, misery, torment, insanity, etc. during a trip/nde?
Standing there for hours and experiencing this passage of time would be very different than standing there for a few minutes and feeling that hours have passed. So I am wondering when it comes to trips and ndes, if the elongated periods of time that people who have these experiences describe are simply being attributed to the latter time description, or if it literally was like hours, months, days, years, or forever.
Edit: What I just simply wish to ask is do I have any reason to worry about the time dilation period I would experience during a trip or nde regardless of how long the amount of time is? Would the amount of time become unbearable to me, drive me insane, etc. just like how it would here in my normal waking reality if it were many centuries or millenniums? Especially if all, most, or a significant fraction of that time is spent undergoing torment and misery during a horrible trip or nde. Or is the amount of time, regardless of how long, not a contributing factor at all in a person's boredom, misery, torment, insanity, etc. during a trip/nde?
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