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[Alexandr Korol]

When you are there on the farm, it feels as though, in the literal sense of the
word, physically, you are in a different world, or some different century
is at hand: a different world, a different civilization, or a different planet.
It’s as if you are completely outside the world of people — specifically
the social matrix and society.
This isn’t just a psychological sensation, as psychologists might think —
that obviously, when a person comes from a noisy city to nature, they might
experience an effect where time seems to flow differently. No, that’s not it.
This isn’t about those kinds of illusions. This is much more serious in a
literal sense; it’s not just “something that seemed to happen.” It’s not about it
being nature instead of a metropolis, making it “feel” like time is different.
In a literal sense, time is different there. I don’t know how to explain it so
you can literally visualize how serious this is. It’s like in the movie K-PAX,
when he claps his hands, claps again, and says he has returned, and everyone
laughs at him because he stayed in the same spot. Or the story in the 1997
film Contact, where a girl catches a signal and they build a machine in
which she ends up somewhere for a long time, only to be told later that she
never left, the machine didn’t work, and she couldn’t have been gone for
those hours — she was only out for about 10 minutes, figuratively speaking.
That’s what I’m talking about. Or like in the movie Interstellar, where
they show that moment of time — as if time on Earth and time somewhere
beyond our planet Earth flow differently. All scientists basically talk about
this and seem to agree; the theory exists. But... it is only recorded if you
approach a black hole or if you are truly beyond our Earth. Naturally, science
denies that such a thing could happen on Earth. But I claim that the same
thing exists here on Earth. People simply don’t notice it; they don’t see
it or understand it. To give an example: in June 2020, I was 29 years old.
When I was there for a month — aside from the fact that I am a literally very
sensitive person — I didn’t feel the world of people at all, as if it didn’t exist.
It was as if I were in a different space entirely, and time was felt differently.
I can’t say if it was faster or slower, but it was different. And here is the
point: how does it work that in movies, when a person distances themselves
from Earth and goes into space, if they were there for an hour and
didn’t age, when they return to Earth, they see the physical difference?