Readers seeing the phrase “missing time” for the first time may search for it, only to find millions of discussions of the paranormal or UFOs. Some will check it out and find it fascinating. Others will shake their heads, thinking these people are “missing” their minds. But there is something here…something having to do with the nature of time, and how the brain perceives it.
Let’s begin…
Definition of Missing Time
Missing time is a gap in conscious memory identified with a certain time period. This gap can span a few minutes to a few hours to a few days in length. Memories of instances occurring during that time period often have to be retrieved by hypnosis or through dreams. An individual experiencing missing time will be performing an every-day task or traveling somewhere. He will glance at the time. At some point, this person will “awaken”, check the clock and notice some minutes or hours have passed during which he has no memory or awareness.
Organized religion has no specific definition of missing time; it tends to define such phenomena as visions. Psychology has just as little to say, but it does consider missing time “experiencers” as having otherwise perfectly healthy minds, and not usually suffering from various mental diseases. Ultimately, it is the field of science that needs to study the phenomena in-depth before coming to a conclusion.
Instances of Missing Time
Not every story of missing time has to do with the paranormal or UFOs. Here are a few possible missing time case scenarios:
- A child walking home from school notices the odd silence around him, despite the traffic and everyday motion on a city street. The street he turns on to get home seems to get farther away the closer he gets to it. Suddenly he “awakens” to find himself across town with his mother’s car parked close to him, the door open and his mother beckoning to him to get in the car. His mother told him she suddenly heard a voice in her head tell her to “get the child, he needs you”. There was no explanation for how the boy got to the other side of town, but approximately an hour had elapsed since he noticed the eerie quietness in the city streets.
- Two girls leave college on a weekend to visit one of the girls’ boyfriends in another state. They visit and on the return trip, one of the girls dozes off. The other girl finds it impossible to awaken her to help drive so she can rest. The remaining girl drives all the way back to college with her friend asleep beside her. When she “awakens” in the parking lot at school, she has made a long trip in a few short hours. Her friend wakes and , very shaken, agrees that it’s impossible.
- A woman takes her two-year-old daughter to her mother’s and returns home to go to bed as usual on a Friday night. She “awakens” to her repairman knocking on the door. On Monday morning. She had “lost” two days.
- A group of moms get together every now and then to laugh and have a night off. One mother drives home, planning to stop at a friend’s house, but thought it too late at night. She detoured to a cemetery to soak in the peace and quiet at 10:15 p.m., then drove home. The next morning her fiance asked why she didn’t get home until 1:30 a.m. She hadn’t “lost” time, as she remembered the times of her stops. She had gained time.
UFOs and Missing Time
The most famous of all cases of missing time is the story of Betty and Barney Hill of New Hampshire. In the early 1960s, driving on a deserted road late at night, they saw a strange craft hover over their car. The next thing they knew, they were miles down the road, having “lost” about three hours. Subsequent hypnosis found them victimized by aliens. Psychoanalysis found them perfectly normal otherwise.
In 1993, just outside Victoria, Australia, Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children were on their way home from visiting a friend. Along with two other cars, one containing a single person and the other containing three, Cahill and her husband both encountered beings from a ship hovering over the road. Cahill “awakened” to find herself in the car. Subsequent psychoanalysis did not include hypnotism, as Cahill remembered everything about the experience, down to the odd lack of color, as we know color, of the beings.
In November of 1980, West Yorkshire, England police constable Alan Godfrey was on a routine patrol one night. Unbeknownst to him, a trucker further down the road in addition to a team staking out stolen goods witnessed the alien craft hovering over the road. Godfrey experienced missing time, during which he remembered being questioned by a man named Joseph, wearing Biblical robes. He was hypnotized after the incident and was found to be normal, although understandably shaken by the experience.
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How the Mind Perceives Time
The brain operates on a certain frequency. When it perceives an event, the brain waits for a repeat of the event then judges the time between occurrences of the event. For example, the brain perceives a sound on a certain frequency. The brain catalogs this occurrence and when a second occurrence of the sound materializes, the brain tells time by the recurrence of the frequency. Studies performed at Harvard University have found that they eye, when asked to stare straight ahead with a ticking clock nearby, will take a half second to move to the clock when asked to look at the clock. This means that the brain has documented the occurrence of an event, using the eye to record the second occurrence of the event.
The Nature of Time
The Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers several theories on the nature of time. It seems reasonable to think that if the brain works on frequencies, so does time. Indeed, under the heading The Topography of Time, the author posits that time actually has no beginning or end, but it is possible that time has streams of time. Frequencies can enjoy a wide range of area, as seen in broadband, so time itself may enjoy the same range. If time exists independently of action, then action is of itself. Hence, a missing time experience, according to the above posited theory, would be independent of time.
How the Brain and Time Tie In
If it does truly exists, time is part of the universe. If the universe operates on frequencies, so does everything that exists in it. It is a scientific fact that the brain works on frequencies. If time does the same, then the brain’s perception of time is a matter of judging the repetition of signals. Since people have experienced missing time, they have been experiencing a different frequency. What that means is that when an event occurs, the brain documents it. The event may not be on the same frequency time is on, which makes time seem to stand still for the experiencer.
About Paranormal Activities
Everyone possesses some level of psychic ability. Society tends to ridicule what it doesn’t understand or fears. In the past, people were put to death for being the least bit different, but as time has progressed, so has scientific learning. Quantum physics is proving that the power of the mind is phenomenal, while paranormal studies have formulated machinery capable of capturing the frequency of the departed and sometimes interpret their words. These things have come out of the realm of the unknown and have had the light of a new day shed on them so that they are not called witchcraft.
Unidentified flying objects caused great fear when we first became aware of them. People who saw them or were captured by them were ridiculed and considered by science hysterical. Now we understand that they, too, operate on a different frequency so that only certain persons capable of processing that information are privy to the experiences. Those experiencing this capture were learning, first hand, about astral projection. This is when the body is in one location while the spirit is on another level of existence. Bilocation Astral Travel is when the body, mind and spirit are all in different locations, learning further wisdom. UFO experiences have yielded their victims lessons from another frequency.
Missing Time, Or “Adjusted Time”?
Time as mankind generally understands it does not truly exist.
Timekeeping methods such as calendars, clocks and seasonal observances give mankind a method of normalizing something infinite and not understood. In the same way that mankind creates images of gods and goddesses so he can understand something indefinable, so has man made a method of understanding time.
Persons experiencing missing time have enjoyed a wide range of experiences. Bilocation astral projection may have taken their minds, bodies and essences to places they would never have known inside man’s theory of time and space. Quantum physics has taught these experiencers that time travel is possible and that one can communicate on different frequencies with other-than-earth dwellers. But, just like surviving jet lag from time changes flying east to west, these persons suffered the same sort of jet lag between frequencies.
Indeed, the term “missing” needs to be clarified with relation to the time-space theory. A more accurate term for this concept would perhaps be “adjusted time experiences“, instead of “missing time experiences”.
With a better understanding of the true nature of time coupled with a better understanding of how the brain perceives time, these experiencers would be more open to extra-sensory phenomena, thus bridging the frequency questions. Not only that, but certain persons were chosen to have these experiences, which begs the question what latent abilities, unknown to the persons, existed that allowed them to be tapped for these experiences?
The ridicule and stigma around missing time experiences is over, in that science is seriously digging for answers to the many questions surrounding this peculiar phenomenon.
Missing Time Experiences is a post from: Alarm Clock Blog, the official blog of the original Online Alarm Clock.
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