Time Sicknesses

Concepts and Considerations

Time Sickness can be induced by a variety of factors as well as by a combination of these. And it can also result in a variety of of symptoms and effects.

The decisive factors for time sicknesses (or a time sickness) to occur as well as the symptoms and the gravity of symptoms will depend on individual dispositions. However, we can certainly also find collective forms of time sickness. Moreover, social factors will more or less generally have to be taken in account.

Note: So far only a few (yet a reasonable number) of time sicknesses have been detected and described. In a more general perspective, time sicknesses are still to be researched in more detail.
Nevertheless (or perhaps also for this very reason) we can assume that not only deep research on time sicknesses is a serious and demanding task already at this point. It will probably become even more important in (and for) the near future.

Among the most common and likewise well researched examples for time sicknesses are travel-induced time sickness, above all the so called "jet lag" resulting from crossing time zones in opposite direction of day-might calendar too fast. Obviously people can cope better with 'winning subjective time' when crossing time zones in a way that they see to travel backwards in the calendar as if returning to a past they have already lived than 'loosing' hours or even whole days. For curious reasons this is true even when, in case of traveling with airplanes and thereby fastly crossing time zones, the loss or gain are not really felt as loss or gain, but rather simply registered according to the mere fact that one has to adjust clocks (and sometimes also calendars).

Other well known and well researched examples for time sicknesses are those occurring when people are forced to live in time rhythms that differ from their individual biorhythm, their preferred individual rhythm and/or the time rhythm that is dominant in their social environment.
Also, several forms of deprivation (i.e. of sleep, of daylight, of day/night sequences) are known as generating time sicknesses.

Yet there is evidence that especially in so called "modern" societies, and even more so in nowadays so called "globalized" cultures, a whole range of new and so far not sufficiently researched time sicknesses can be observed. Some of these may occur only temporarily and vanish due to processes of adaption. Some, however, may develop and result in serious problems for individuals as well as for society as a whole.

In any case, it makes sense to invest serious research in the topic of time sicknesses, and also to ask for possible ways to heal them, as well as to test possible treatments and cures.

I.e. we may ask which mechanisms of a TIME BENDING CLOCK could be used for detecting and/or healing which kind of time sicknesses.
We may especially research if and which kinds of [EcoTimeZones] (see ibid.) could prove suitable for related treatments and cures.

In the context of [Time Inventor's Kabinet] (TIK, see ibid.), Time Sicknesses (and research on treatments and cures) are a major topic especially for those working on and with [TIK Radio] (see ibid.)

Note: For the reasons explained above it is still open if some of the indicators observed and listed below are to be subsumed among the causes for time sicknesses or rather among the symptoms or both (or neither/nor).

Speed Dating, Speed Lunch/Dinner, 24/7 schedules, 24/7 availability via mobile media, Time Fugues, Time Gaps, Memory losses and Black-Outs
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to be continued – work in progress
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Related entries:
[EcoTimeZones]
[Hazy Time]
[TBC Mechanisms]
[TBC Nodes]
[Time Inventor's Kabinet (TIK)]
[TIK Radio]
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tags: clocks, ecology, radio, tik, time, urban cultures