6. First glitches (03:01)

Shubhangi: I don’t quite know how to ask this, but I’m curious. Is your implant working fine? I know we’re not supposed to see any difference, but do you think it’s possible it wouldn’t work properly in some people?

Tim: I mean, I guess you could say it is a foreign body, it’s kind of like an organ transplant or a graft. It could react. But I don’t know if it could reject.

Shubhangi: Wait, is the foreign body the implant, or the extra time?

Tim: [laughs] I’m really not sure. I feel like I’m tying myself in knots here! But the glitches – yeah, I’ve been having some. Are we talking about the same thing though? Tell me yours.

Shubhangi: Well we’re out of sync, right, that’s the basic setup here: they’re on 24 and we’re on 25. But I’ve been getting these moments where it slips a little further. It’s bursts or surges of time. Not speed – or from the outside it must look like it. I don’t feel faster. But I get these moments, no, these pockets of time, where for example 5 minutes can last for 15. I’m not in slow motion either. It’s more like, uh, like a breather! Aside from trippy visuals when it opens, it’s actually totally normal.

Tim: Well I’m glad it’s not just me! It’s a good thing, that it’s you as well, I mean it feels like a good thing! Mine is similar to yours but it’s not exactly the same. For me it’s less of a sudden burst and more of a swell. It’s kind of gradual and it lasts longer, even if it’s not as large a dilation. It’s like waves and eddies of extra time throughout the day.

Shubhangi: Yours doesn’t stick to a schedule either?

Tim: No, at least not an obvious one. But I’m getting the idea it’s responding to me.

Shubhangi: Responding to you? Do you mean you can control it?

Tim: No! Well not yet! I’ll try. But I meant that it responds to my internal state. It reads me, somehow?