Most people have a fairly consistent perception of time, but time is far more complex. Our bodies have more than 500 metabolic cycles atomic clocks, depending on and synchronizing each other. Each process matters to the timing of other processes. Depending on your species these processes that determine ageing can vary. A dog's ageing process is around 7 times as fast as a human's.
We use devices or natural events to help ourselves stay on time. We have variable personal experiences of time. Timekeeping devices have changed over the years, we have gone from pendulum clocks to spring wound devices to atomic clocks. All of these clocks use cycles to help people stay on the same time path. In a complex world synchronization is important because processes the overlap of cycles has a big effect on what happen.
Back when I was a teenager I was riding over to the dump to see if anything new was at the free spot by the dump after school. On the way a sign catches my eye. Boxes of old stuff have been left behind after a yard sale. As we begin loading the boxes a child sees us. The child asks if we are there to pick up after the yard sale, as if someone had known we would be there. Us being there had seemed like a random event, yet it had been predicted somehow.
This event could be predicted simply because it happened often, but why would something so statistically unlikely as people coming along to take free stuff happen there often? This was not just simple physics, like I found in the old spacetime physics, this was life, making it's own rules.
Everything had to be just right for me to end up with these books, had I been walking they would have been too heavy, I might have taken the bus I might have gone the other way, someone else could have picked up the books or they might even have gone to the dump. What was it that arranged this? Is anything really random?
One variable is how long it takes a neural synapse to happen, another variable is the synapse voltage. The nernst equation is use to help predict those variables. Changing neurological ions can lead to variation in nerves. Nerve cells normally contain sodium chloride and the immune system flushes out sodium fluoride and other interfering molecules, but if the immune system is overwhelmed, the nerves can end up with enough sodium fluoride to significantly alter perception, but in order to stay in the same reality as everyone else.
Humans perceive time in the temporal lobe. People with Autism tend to have larger temporal lobes and more distorted time.
Time had always seemed to affect me differently, I just didn't grow up very fast, I was always behind physically too young and chronologically to old. I was a less than motivated worn out sick student student with exceptionally poor vision and handwriting. It took me longer to do things. My name was not readable and I even turned in assignments wet with disgusting autoimmune goo.
I was often unresponsive, seeming someplace else will my mind kept records sorting and changing them endlessly in a world I did not understand and could not interact with quite consistently. A map of the US might seem like a simple assignment, but I could barely move. My brother had been more distant than I was, this made him frighteningly unpredictable, so they used drugs to control his sleep. He couldn't handle the drugs, he started having seizures and got very thin, before he disappeared. I had helped look for him. It might have already been too late, when I said "there is one place where if David is you need to find him right now." I remembered the assignment was hard and I had decided, not to do it at all. It was open house and the teacher was ready to show off what the students had done. My map was not with the other map, I waited nervously as the teacher looked. She found the map, but how? I was confused. I had this dream where I was looking for the map guilt-fully knowing I would not find it. I went to ask a guy where it was. I didn't normally recognise faces, but he was distinctively ugly, with a large nose and rat-like features...
Too be continued...
