Ah, my kind of thinking. And if you don't mind, I'l take it a step further.

I had this thought a while back (and it's very possible I was not stoned at the time); how many time periods can a person see at once.

Allow me to explain. You are always seeing the thing you are looking at as it was in the past, given the distance divided by the speed of light. If you look at the moon, you see it as it was about two seconds ago, if you look at the sun (ouch!), you see it as it was about eight minutes ago. If you look at the chick across the street, you see her as she was about 1/50,000 of a second ago.

Now, how many pasts can you see and understand at once? I was walking down the street having this thought, thinking that I was seeing a hundred different objects in a hundred different variations of the past. I'm seeing the leaf on the tree as it was in a past that is different from the sidwalk under my feet, and that past is different from the building down the road. You see what I'm getting at.

Then I talked to some some, and now I'm seeing these same hundred different past variations while talking to someone and knowing that given the speed of light and the speed of sound, what I heard was not truly in sync with what I saw. His words were 1/5000 of a second in the past (let's say) but he, as I was seeing him, was 1/5,000,000 of a second in the past. And then add in the time it takes for my brain to absorb what he was saying.... it was like I was stuck in a temporal soup. I swear I nearly fell down while thinking about it. "Plop!"

Anyone else ever have a "moment of clarity" like this?