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I Can Prove That Time is an Illusion
How can I make this claim? Short answer — Daylight Savings Time. But there is, of course, far more to it than that.
The human race is absolutely inundated with markings of time. Clocks and calendars are everywhere you turn, telling you the second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, and so on. All of these demarcations of time are pretty much wherever you turn.
It feels very, very real. You have clocks and calendars in your head. Appointments are set at a specific time. Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and the like are instances where time is set and fixed.
Would you believe that it truly is an illusion? Time, as we note it, mark, and follow it, is totally artificial?
Well, it is. Plain and simple, the minutes and hours as we note them are not the truth of time. They are man-made constructs that dictate so many aspects of our lives that it’s frankly surreal.
How is this possible? Time must be a real thing, as denoted by the clocks and calendars all around you.
Except that time, in this format, is completely made up.
The proof is right there in the idea and practice of Daylight Savings Time.
