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October 13

Slowing down time

What are some ways I can slow down time (or relax) without using drugs or marijuana (since I hope to God I don't try any)? TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 02:45, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I don't have a copy near me right now to check the details, but memory tells me that a character in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller chose to deliberately watch and involve himself in boring activities so that it would feel like he was living longer in a time and place where dying was highly likely. I welcome clarification from those with better memories or an actual copy of the book. HiLo48 (talk) 03:08, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If Tom Lehrer's inference is to be believed, you could try listening to Das Lied von der Erde on repeat. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:28, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Meditation.^[1][2] Some recommend mindfulness,^[3][4] which can be seen as a specific meditation technique.^[5] --Lambiam 08:14, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For various reasons, I have lately been sleeping in two bouts of about 4 hours in 24, rather than one of about 8. A side effect I have noticed is that time seems to pass more slowly, perhaps because almost every time I wake up it's still the same day. This does of course require one not to need to interact with others on a more normal schedule very much. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.86.81 (talk) 09:32, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to find that waiting at a bus stop achieves this very well. Shantavira|^{feed me} 18:57, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Depending on your phobic predipositions you may take a few moments following the second hand of the stopwatch. Alternatively or not, do it while listening to some recorded works after Franz Tunder. Without a stopwatch it will require enough free space for pacing back and forth for a few steps. --Askedonty (talk) 19:00, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's always the proverbial "watching grass grow" or "watching paint dry". Or, you could get one of your namesakes to keep as a pet in a terrarium, and watch it all day, because they just sit there doing nothing most of the time. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:52, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Occasionally wildly dancing a tarantella when nobody's watching. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:33, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In the 1950s, Clint Eastwood thwarted that frenetic dance in Napalm Springs. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:28, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]