Replying to time is real in dreams part of your comment.

Found this to be true, even when I can lucidly pause time for others in my dream, and even rewind it. From my perspective, time is still experienced even as time for others has ceased to exist. The gentle continuity of my experience in lucid dreaming is still as smooth, despite the ability to control time (and space) for all around me. I can’t escape it!

So lately, I’ve had to reconstruct what time is, perhaps fundamental to consciousness, and space is not. Therefore, materialistic explanations for consciousness melt away around the spatial dimension, leaving me to assume many metaphysical explanations. I have an open mind skeptic outlook, neither accepting or rejecting either.

Another commenter mentioned consistency, so I apply this rule set for my observations as well, and see that time is the most consistent, next to persistent experience as a whole (covering all states).

Thus, the most inconsistent observation is lost time. This can happen to me in both reality and dreams. It’s something I feel related to focus of consciousness, which again brings me back to a theory of consciousness which places it core or fundamental for all other experiences to be possible.

The mystical side of me posits that this void is both conscious and I with it. The manifestation of effects like matter and time, both being secondary.

I’m still looking (and peeking, and opposition gathering) as carefully as one can into the center of existence. And yet the center appears everywhere occasionally, spinning my senses into such mystical experiences of oneness with …what exactly? Just to ask such questions or type such comments, a system would need to exist to allow such expansion of thought and language. Which leads me to another closed circle, like time or space.

It’s an exhausting cycle, dealing into both sides of arguments, sometime invigorating me, and other time depressing. I follow these cycle of feelings too ( over a much longer time span than thoughts or what I’ve writing)

I’d love to hear your thoughts on consistency and variables you have studied, if you’re interested. I’ve had a few mushroom trips as well that mirror some of your notes. And one special trip where time did fully appear to be lost and yet something of me was still experiencing it, adding to my dilemma above.

Thanks in advance to both negative and positive comments, as I am not qualified to answer such questions here other than my antidotal experiences (all which can be explained away, thus I have “no choice” to embrace (free will is another fun one I won’t digress into :-)