Scientific explanation for "Disney Time Fluctuation"??

[ZIPBAGS]

Never heard of "DTF". Well, its not officially recognized. The easiest explanation is the following:

Time leading up to a trip slows continously until the time of departure.....But, when you arrive at Disney. Time speeds up to restore itself with everyone else. That is why it feels like it takes forever to go...and the trip ends so quickly when you are there.

Before you leave 1 day seems like a week. When you are there 1 week seems like 1 day.

 

[LadyDulcinea1]

Think I'm experiencing that right now! I'm sure when I'm there 7 days will feel like nothing, but right now its making me crazy!

 

[babar41]

Finally! An explanation and a name! I can now tell people I suffer from DTF.

 

[skippyman111]

I love it!

 

[TinkerTracy]

too funny did you come up with that

 

[lucy_love_]

the theory of relativity. good old albert einstein

lucy

 

[mking624]

YES! Finally there's a name to it!!

 

[Twende]

DTF also has something to do with the wee bit of sleep we get while we are there.

We try to do as much as we can and we seldom get to bed before 1 AM and in a blink of an eye the phone is ringing and some Disney Character is telling us that this is our 6 AM wake up call. There is just no way that it has been hours!

Even more incredible is the fact that we survive for days on end with "minutes" of sleep!

 

[disneytraveler]

Lol i wondered what i was experiencing the week before i leave and the week
i am at Wdw.

 

[ZIPBAGS]

too funny did you come up with that

Yes, I did thanks...Do you think I can get a grant from a University to study it?? I will need to spend large amounts of time at Disney to prove it.

 

[zippehsmom]

I am experiencing DTF right now.

Will this night ever end......

 

[DonnaDuck]

That is so true...

Where's the title fairy? You should get a title for that one!

No amount of time at Disney is ever enough!!

 

[HaleyB]

I would like to offer myself and family as test subjects (pending your grant).
Interestingly, the weeks leading up to a trip crawl by, except for the night before (also known as "When I finally get around to packing") which flies by.

While at Disney not only do weeks fly by like days, but hours seem like minutes too.

This happens in both Florida and California... I swear it was 1pm when we went into the Haunted Mansion, last week, and then we just walked around a bit and suddenly it was 5pm! Same thing happened later, we started to leave Disneyland at 10pm- we only just went on two rides that had almost no lines and we had to walk out that way anyhow... but somehow it was 1 am and we had just made it to the car.

 

[cooldisneymom]

Never heard of "DTF". Well, its not officially recognized. The easiest explanation is the following:

Time leading up to a trip slows continously until the time of departure.....But, when you arrive at Disney. Time speeds up to restore itself with everyone else. That is why it feels like it takes forever to go...and the trip ends so quickly when you are there.

Before you leave 1 day seems like a week. When you are there 1 week seems like 1 day.

LOL!!! This is a "Back to the Disney Future" movie just waiting to happen!!! Somebody call Christopher Lloyd!!! :thewave:

 

[zippehsmom]

I would like to offer myself and family as test subjects (pending your grant).
Interestingly, the weeks leading up to a trip crawl by, except for the night before (also known as "When I finally get around to packing") which flies by.

While at Disney not only do weeks fly by like days, but hours seem like minutes too.

This happens in both Florida and California... I swear it was 1pm when we went into the Haunted Mansion, last week, and then we just walked around a bit and suddenly it was 5pm! Same thing happened later, we started to leave Disneyland at 10pm- we only just went on two rides that had almost no lines and we had to walk out that way anyhow... but somehow it was 1 am and we had just made it to the car.

Haley time only seems to fly by the night before when you haven't packed; However, if you have then time still seems to crawl. Hence, me being up at 12:52 am when I have to get up at 3:15 am to catch at 7:00 am flight. My body wants me to be up so that I can experience every excruciating second before my trip .

 

[Joe Mouse]

WOW that's what it is called!!!! My doctors thought I was and they couldn't figure out what it was! LOL!!!! I am experiencing the symptoms right now and find myself glued to these boards more and more each day .

Can't wait though!

Joe Mouse

 

[LongIslandCouple]

*** I suffer from DTF!

 

[ZIPBAGS]

I forgot another sympton..."Aero-deja-vu"

That uncomfortable feeling you get when you board the plane coming home and swore you were just on the plane coming down...feels like yesterday when its actually been a week.

 

[Lanie]

And what about if your plane lands at 9pm, and you have to go directly to your hotel? I can't sleep more than an hour before I wake up and think: only 5 hours until MK, only 4 hours... Is that a symptom of DTF as well???

 

[ZIPBAGS]

Just reviving my thread. Since the effects are happening again....The 3 1/2 months until we go will soon seem like 3 1/2 years.