The Passage of Time is Surjective

Have you ever heard the saying, "Time flies when you're having fun"? It's pretty true. But there are other things which seem to influence the passage of time. I've noticed that when I was a kid, time passed very slowly. When my parents sent me to my room for "an hour", that hour seemed like sooooo long! An hour would never end! But now, an hour is not so long at all. Now that I'm 24 years old, I can almost just close my eyes and open them and it's an hour later. I wonder whether time will continue to speed up as I grow. Maybe, the last half of life is like a brief fifteen minute rush. Then it hardly matters about growing to an old age, and one should focus all one's energy on making the present time as fun and adventurous as possible. Making an hour fun today is worth a lot more than making an hour fun fifty years from now, if the latter hour passes so much faster.


TIME TRAVEL

As a kid, I was at a slumber party with a friend, staying up late into the morning hours. His dog was asleep. My friend pointed out that, to the dog, it was already tomorrow morning. Since, time passes so fast in sleep. In some sense, the dog (or at least the dog's consciousness), time travelled ahead of us.


AFTERLIFE?

Here's a crazy theory about what the "afterlife" might be. Maybe the final moments of life pass slower and slower, slowing down in such a way that they last "forever". And during those moments, we experience a hallucination. And that hallucination, eternal-seeming, explains how the soul can be "immortal", and yet still be linked to the physical body which decays into dust. Various cultures call this hallucination "Heaven", "Velhalla", "Hell", etc, and it might depend on how morally one lived one's life.