The concept of time is interesting. Time is usually thought of in terms of seconds, minutes and hours or past, present and future. During an LSD experience, you are way beyond all of that. You're no longer in clock time. You're in real time. You can look at a clock and it might as well be on another planet because whatever the clock says doesn't mean anything now. Any amount of clock time will seem like it's a much much longer amount of time.

For example, John can go outside the door and come right back in. Bob, who is tripping, may ask John what took so long or why he was gone for such a long time, when it was really just for a moment. Another example would be someone smoking a cigarette and it seems to them as if they've been smoking if for hours and they haven't even needed to go to the ashtray yet. This is not an exaggeration. Hours can seem like years and even just a minute of clock time can seem longer than all the years of your life that came before you took the LSD. Nearing the end of the trip, it can seem like it's been going on since the beginning of all existence. If someone says that they are going out for a little while, there is no such thing as a little while when you're tripping. If they are going out, then they are gone. Even if it's only for 5 minutes, that is a very, very long time.

What's happening is that time is getting extended to the point that it's irrelevant and doesn't exist anymore. You now have all the time in the world. You are in eternity. Sometimes people think of eternity as something that goes on millennium after millennium, forever and ever. Obviously, that can't happen because, unfortunately, you will eventually have to come down and the trip will be over. While you are tripping, though, it seems as if it will go on forever and that feeling of eternity is very real. Eternity means that you're not in clock time, but real time or eternal time or real, eternal time or eternal, real time or simply, eternity.

It's a very luxurious feeling to have all the time in the world and not a worry. Having this eternal, timeless feeling helps make everything that's good about the LSD trip even better. For example, if you're getting all those nice, new, powerful, pleasurable, physical feelings and sensations, you are enjoying it even more because it seems like you'll feel this way forever. If you are feeling greater than ever and it's as if it will go on forever, it's starting to sound a little bit like heaven.

In this state, you are in no rush or hurry about anything. What is there to hurry about if you have all the time in the world? Usually, people are in a mad dash, going here, going there, doing this, doing that and go go go go go go go. Under LSD, there is no go go go go go go go. It's here here and now now. People rush not just because they don't feel as if they have a lot of time but also because they want to escape the here and now. They are rushing past the present, chasing a future that doesn't exist because all there is is the present.

The past was the present when it was happening. Any thought about the past is taking place in the present. Any thought about the future also takes place in the present and when the future comes, it will be the present, not the future anymore. There is nothing but the present. When someone is tripping, it's clear that yesterday and tomorrow are meaningless and that here and now is everything. We sacrifice the present, expecting to get a great future in return. We suffer going to school, preparing for that big job. Then, we continue to sacrifice the present going to work all those years until one can retire and finally enjoy their life in the present. The problem is that the retired person is at least 65 years old and has no idea how to enjoy the present. Their focus has always been on a distant future.