Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Road Trip to a Time Slip

Sometime around 1974, I was driving from Madison, Wisconsin, to Bayfield, Wisconsin, a distance of something more than 300 miles and a six- or seven-hour drive. As is my habit even today whenever I can do so, I kept off the primary highways in favor of county roads. I had made the same trip several times before, and I had a consistent route: this far north on this road, then west a few miles on that road, the north again on another road, then…. You get the point.

Because I had made the trip before, I knew three things: which roads I was going to take, how long it would take to get from one to the other, and the total time for my trip. On this day, however, my best-laid plan went all catty-wampus. At some time during my trip I suddenly found I was on a northbound road I had not intended to take, a road I had never taken and would not have taken under any circumstances. I also found that I had “lost” something more than an hour. That is, given the amount of time that had passed, I should have been an hour farther north than I was.

Sounds almost like an alien abduction, doesn’t it? But I don’t have any mysterious implants in my body, and I don’t remember (poor me!) having had a sexual encounter with a comely alien female.

It does sound a lot like an episode of “highway hypnosis,” but for several reasons I don’t think it was highway hypnosis. With highway hypnosis you do lose a sense of time passing, but in this case the amount of time exceeds typical highway-hypnosis loss of time; I was not on a road with which I was familiar; I did not remember driving during that loss of time; during the time lost, I did not have peripheral knowledge of anything that was going on around me–I was not aware of anything. Furthermore, when you’re driving the back roads of Wisconsin, you must stay alert because you never know when you’ll top a rise and be faced with a slow-moving tractor pulling a manure spreader. If you’re not paying attention in that situation, you’ll soon literally be in the shit.

Charles Wesley Orton

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    1. hii..my name is sahil ansari. today I want to share something with you all.. I also can't believe on it but I am a real time traveler who travel time in real life on 2 separate place who experience a Time Slip Phenomenon.
      IT IS POSSIBLE THAT TIME TRAVEL CAN BE A REALITY!!! Take it from me from one of my phenomenon.
      My memory of this Time Slip occurred during in class on 2018 December 17... when I sitting in class then i was looking outside of my class but when my ma'am suddenly called me then i slipt in time travel i was gone in space i see many things like:
      #) i see a sign like 27..yes I know that a moon completes a one revolution of earth in (27 days 43 min 11.5 sec) but I think now its only take 27 days to revolute the earth
      #) i see a fire of astronaut is coming in earth
      i really don't know what happen in class. but i feel something like ma'am scolding me.
      up to 8 minute i stay in space.
      But really i can't believe on it...
      I am so much scared even my friend sitting behind me he say that your whole body is shaking..
      I think or I experienced that it is not a time slip its a big imagination or some energetic power appeared in my body.

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    2. hii..my name is sahil ansari. today I want to share something with you all.. I also can't believe on it but I am a real time traveler who travel time in real life on 2 separate place who experience a Time Slip Phenomenon.
      IT IS POSSIBLE THAT TIME TRAVEL CAN BE A REALITY!!! Take it from me from one of my phenomenon.
      My memory of this Time Slip occurred during in class on 2018 December 17... when I sitting in class then i was looking outside of my class but when my ma'am suddenly called me then i slipt in time travel i was gone in space i see many things like:
      #) i see a sign like 27..yes I know that a moon completes a one revolution of earth in (27 days 43 min 11.5 sec) but I think now its only take 27 days to revolute the earth
      #) i see a fire of astronaut is coming in earth
      i really don't know what happen in class. but i feel something like ma'am scolding me.
      up to 8 minute i stay in space.
      But really i can't believe on it...
      I am so much scared even my friend sitting behind me he say that your whole body is shaking..
      I think or I experienced that it is not a time slip its a big imagination or some energetic power appeared in my body.

      Delete