We go about our lives and everyday duties in interaction with our fellow beings. We are able to talk to them, exchange items or enjoy a movie or show at the same rate of speed. Is there some sort of regulator that keeps us all synchronized into the same time period. I know you all think that I have finally flipped out and maybe old age is catching up with me, but that isn't the case. Time, as we know it, is the same for everyone on this planet. Notice that I say everyone on This Planet, because how could we ever be sure that it is the same for other creatures on other worlds? Maybe some life form somewhere operates in the time between the seconds that we normally use. Other creatures might move so slow that to us they would look like statues to us, but to each other, everything would be perfectly normal.

Einstein indicated that time changes as we move faster, it slows down. This has been proven by various experiments with atomic clocks that were launched into orbit. He also said that we could never reach the speed of light because it would take so much energy to get to that speed that there would never be enough fuel. I don't know about you, but as hard as I try to buy this theory, I just can't. It just seems to be like those other theories that stated that we could never break the sound barrier or that man would never fly. Why am I mentioning this? I have a particular reason to mention this, it has to do with time. If Einstein is wrong and man does break the light speed barrier, what will happen with time? Will time slow down so much that even the race of man might disappear before a traveler got back to earth? Could it be that at some point time would reverse itself and no time would pass at all on the earth or that someone would get back to earth before they left?

Many people have had time experiences but never paid the attention to them that they deserve. The most famous one of course is the missing time that is associated with ufo abductions. Watches stop and people lose hours or days that can not be accounted for. We have all heard these stories or read about them in our favorite publications. Betty and Barney Hill really made the missing time phenomena famous when they started the abduction craze. But there is so much more to time. The missing time might be accounted for by abductions, which even though may be attributable to aliens, are still sort of accounted for.

There are quite a few stories of accelerated time, time that seemed to move faster for one person than for the other person or people that he or she was interacting with. Such a story concerns someone we will call Mr. X. Mr. X didn't want to use his proper name because telling this story made him feel foolish. When Mr. X was a child, he got into a fight with another child. During the fight he received a bump on the head. At that point in the fight, he felt as if he could run circles around the other boy. He told me how he was able to run right up to the boy and punch him in the face without the other boy even being able to react. He then knocked him down and still the boy hadn't moved. He was operating in accelerated time. At this point he decided to leave and went home. As he went along his way, time seemed to return to normal. This event has haunted him his whole life.

My. Y had a similar experience. This happened to Mr. Y without him receiving any physical contact such as the bump on the head that Mr. X had experienced. Mr. Y was called up to participate in a demonstration of hand to hand combat against an expert. Mr. Y had no experience in this type of action, but he was a tough kid having been brought up in the streets of a big city. As the demonstration started, Mr. Y felt a strange feeling come over him. He began to make moves on the instructor and it seemed that he could make about 10 moves before the instructor could make one. Needless to say the instructor didn't know what hit him. After the demonstration, thing s returned to normal. The instructor looked at Mr. Y very strangely and nobody could believe the blinding speed that Mr. Y had operated under. Mr. Y confided in me that during the demonstration he felt as if he was operating in normal time but that the instructor had slowed down to a snail's pace. Neither Mr. X or Mr. Y ever experienced this time acceleration again.

What had happened to Mr. X and Mr. Y, why had they become so fast? Had they operated outside of time? Could there be such a thing as natural time travel? Maybe Mr. X and Mr. Y had experienced a variation of time travel. Could it be that the human brain is capable of much more than we suspect? Maybe brain power alone could cause our bodies to speed up. How do we even know that time was the same for our early ancestors as it is for us today? You never hear anyone discuss this point, it is just taken for granted.

Primitive man had different mechanisms for survival. He had the ability to reason, to make tools and to start fires among other things. What if he had the ability to speed up time, giving him a chance to escape the clutches of vicious animals? Could this be one of those powers that we just buried in the back of our brains because we really had no use for it in the modern world? There is another explaination, however. It could be that somehow, we are slowing down the other person. At the very least I think that this deserves some investigation.