I’m same as you. Time perception slows way down. It’s one reason I enjoy it. Watching two movies at night after smoking feels like I had a whole day off.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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Interesting. At home it doesn't have the same sized effect. When I don't have to be doing and paying attention to a bunch of shit, I have a pretty good sense of time. Stoned or sober, I usually know the time off the top of my head within ~10 minutes. I know because my wife thinks it's neat and likes to test me. But at work all the details grow to enormous size and duration. I'm so caffeinated and going so fast that the world gets slow around me. It makes me even more Flora from I'm a Virgo than usual.
I watch movies and shows in 20 to 30 minute increments. I love that "oh boy, this is going to be good" feeling when you first turn it on but that fades. That's why I break it up. Much more total enjoyment.
I'm with you. My toothbrush has a timer that tells me when to switch from one part of the mouth to another. When I'm sober, it feels quick, like I can't get done in the time I have. When I'm high, it's like "oh, it's still going on? It hasn't buzzed yet? Did I miss it? Feels like forever."
Normally I’m in a weird place when time feels slower when I become aware of it, but it speeds up too much when I’m doing something which means I’m not paying attention to the time anymore.
I could see how it could just exaggerate the typical "time flies when you're having fun" experience, but that's not it for me. I genuinely love my job with everything in me. Yesterday was a great day in the time vortex. Both of my best friends work Fridays, and I enjoyed perceiving extra time with them.
I think this phenomenon can be explained by understanding our frame of reference with respect to time when we’re high.
In normal time (NT), time registers fairly linearly from our perspective. Generally, each second feels about as long as the next and we’re able to measure our mood, emotions, experiences and how long they go on for with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
In high time (HT), time does not flow linearly from our perspective. One second could be as long as the next, or it could be slower. There’s no really way to tell. Even if you deliberately set a timer like I often do, the numbers on the dial don’t really tell the whole story.
And I think this is because you can perceive so much more while high. Those cymbals you don’t hear in when in NT. The way the clouds move in the painting that you don’t notice in NT. The micro expressions on your friend’s faces as you talk that you don’t notice in NT.
You start to perceive all these extra things. Things that have always been there but time forgot to highlight to you, because you were in the wrong sort of time.
So when you’re in the correct time, the HT, I think you start to measure time not in how many seconds flow from one to the next, but by how much you experience from one moment to the next.
Then when you start to think of the moments passing and the minutes passing too, you realise that you actually packed more moments into those minutes than you would have in NT – and if you had to normalise those HT moments with NT moments to make the moments last the same amount of time, what actually ends up happening is that the seconds and minutes end up being longer when translated into a linear time space.
I hope this makes sense, if not, I’ll try and draw it.
I understand what you're saying but don't let that stop you from drawing it anyway!
Yep, this is the same for me. If I’m clock watching time drags but if I’m not it goes by much more quickly.
Tell them you aren't supposed to lace it with speed.
It's all dispensary weed with COAs and shit xd. I sometimes sell them the edible and see them eat it. And it doesn't fuck their sense of time at all like mine. It makes the day faster and easier for them. It's inexplicable to me.
My favorite thing to do is to point my chair towards the sun a little before sunset get super high and bask in it. In that state my ability to tell time no longer exist, all that exist is the position of the sun and the stretching of the shadows. It feels like time stretches on a little bit longer just as the sun sets, like reality itself allows you an extra personal minute to say goodbye to a good friend before they depart for the night.
Might depend if its a sativa or indica. Time slows down for me to, but i attribute that to my strain being indica dominate.
Well I tend to avoid anything too stimulating in terms of cannabis because it makes me anxious. But this is even just a small amount of plain thc without terps or minor cannabinoids. Hell, the H4CBD I've been mixing in with my CBG to elevate my mood has incredibly minor effects compared to thc, and it still does it sometimes.