Obssessed with time

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It’s like I’m aware of each moment slipping through the present and into the past, never to be visited or experienced ever again. One of the most powerful experiences I've had in relation to this was watching a video on youtube of some guy unpacking and eating an army ration pack from the early 90s. It gave me such a weird feeling of connection with that time, as if it all still existed somehow but couldn't be accessed. I avoid getting rid of things wherever possible because they are linked to memories and to lose them would be to lose my past. I look at photos of myself from a few years or even months ago and notice all the subtle ways in which I’ve aged. What terrifies me the most is that time seems to be going by faster and faster the older I get. I'm still only 18 now, but the days just seem to slip by unnoticed in a way that they never did when I was a child.
I get all these obsessive thoughts (most of them related to god, infinity, life, death, morality etc. etc.) which just constantly knock around in my head and use up brainpower and energy that would be better devoted to other things. My mind feels really out-of-control.

Can anyone relate to this on some level? IIN?

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  • ReplacementTheory
    7 years ago

    You're having a never ending inner dialogue in your head. Everyone does this, from the moment you wake up until you go back to sleep your mind is constantly speaking to you.

    The only way to find relief is meditation. Or lots of alcohol.

    The past is imaginary btw, it does not exist. There is only the present.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      7 years ago

      I've tried the latter of your solutions once or twice, but if anything that just made it worse.

      In physics there isn't a proper distinction between past, present and future, because it's all relative anyway, so what you say isn't technically correct.

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      • ReplacementTheory
        7 years ago

        Well, that was just a joke.
        And yes, it's relative.

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    • sebastian2013
      7 years ago

      that's clearly not true. either the past and future exists, and the only present is the here and now, or neither the past nor future exists, and all we have is an infinite amount of presents.

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      • heckleBucker
        7 years ago

        It means that time would have stopped. Think about it.

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  • mysistersshadow
    7 years ago

    Yea the older you get the faster time seems to go.

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  • [Old Memory]
    7 years ago

    Just get high on something and forget all about this time nonsense.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      7 years ago

      Getting high is the last thing I need. I'm spaced out enough as it is.

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      • worm
        7 years ago

        It's not my fault.

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