Re: virus: Language

Kristee (kjseelna@students.wisc.edu)
Wed, 01 Apr 1998 17:02:13 -0600


Eva,
What if you thought, "I AM the Clock!" Think about it, it makes sense.
That would have made things worse though. I empathize that it seems the
experience is terrifying in that it may never end, since time doesn't
exist, or is at least slowed down so much that it is like us not feeling
the earth moving beneath us. Songs on a stereo sound like they are in
slow-motion; 4 minutes is 15 min, and after you think it must be the wee
hours of the morning, a glance at the face of a clock disproves that it is
only 11:00 pm. It's a crazy world.

~kjs

>
>Sounds like you had a really interesting experience. My experience is
>different though.
> When my partner of the time and I were tripping, we found it an
>extremely exhausting experience, and wanted to be reassured, though it was
>very interesting, that it would in fact end eventually. My reasoning in
>that state was that as long as every time I looked at a clock, it was a
>later time, then time was passing, and thus the effects would eventually
>wear off, so things were fine. In that condition, I did not have my usual
>sense of duration, so was dependent on timepieces for any sense of
>proportion. In general, we had a really good and very enlightening time.
>The most worrisome moment, though, was when we had ensconced ourselves in
>a beanbag in a friend's room, vaguely hoping he would return, and I looked
>at the clock, looked at the clock later, and found it had an earlier time.
>This had both of us a little scared, until we realized there were two
>clocks, a couple minutes off from each other, and I had simply looked at
>one and then a moment later at the other.
>
>--Eva
>
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