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* In ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'', the relative flow of time between Gaia and Earth seemingly follows no logic whatsoever. At first, time seems to move at roughly the same speed in both worlds, and traveler Hitomi is even able to receive a page on Gaia at the exact same time it was sent on Earth. Then, time seems to be moving faster on Earth when it's revealed that Hitomi's grandmother traveled there as a girl at least thirty years ago Earth time, but only enough time had passed on Gaia for Allen to age from a youth to a young man (perhaps ten years max). Then, when Hitomi returns to Earth, she is transported to a point before she even left, which is about where you stop worrying about it.
** There's evidence that it has something to do with the connection between Hitomi and Van. When they're on different worlds, the time moves at the same rate. When they're on the same world ({{spoiler|such as when Van went to pick her up when she got sent back in time a bit}}), things get complicated. In the aforementioned example, Hitomi and Van were only on the same world for about ten seconds before they jumped back—but at least a few hours, maybe days, had passed on the world Van had just left.
* ''[[Yuu Watase]]'' has [[Word of God|gone on record]] as saying this is how the time difference between the real world, and world of ''The Universe of the Four Gods'' works in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' works. Basically the relative time difference depends on the text in the book, meaning that time doesn't move at a fixed rate - a few paragraphs could cover minutes, days, or months. So if the sentence "And a year passed." appeared, people inside will have lived a year in less than a second outside.
* The second season of ''[[Corrector Yui]]'' had the [[Cyberspace|Com-Net]] marching at 256 times the speed of real time, allowing people to do tasks that would normally last days (or months) into a few hours. This is mentioned in a certain episode when Yui is required to finish up a self-published manga (which, Yui [[The Ditz|being what she is]], forgets to do so).
* In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', time originally passed very quickly in the Digital World meaning that the gang could spend several decades (or maybe centuries, Izzy calculated it in the last episode) in the Digital World while only a month or two would pass in our world. However, time in the two worlds were synchronized after the final boss was destroyed.
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{{quote|'''Brutha''': He's been here for a hundred years?
'''Death''': {{smallcaps| Perhaps not. Time is different here. It is ... more personal.}}
'''Brutha''': Ah, you mean [[Year Outside, Hour Inside|a hundred years can seem like a few seconds]]?
'''Death''': {{smallcaps| [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|A hundred years can pass like infinity.]]}} }}
* The ''Pet Force'' series of ''[[Garfield]]'' books. The flow of time between the two universes (Garfield's regular universe and the Pet Force universe) is proportional (so time will pass in the mainstream universe but considerably more will pass in the alternate universe). This is usually a non-issue as Garfield and his friends return to their correct universe within the span of approximately five seconds but during the epilogue of one book, they are unable to return to their origin universe and Jon notices their absence.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the SyFy Channel miniseries ''[[Alice]]'', Wonderland appears to operate on Narnia Time: {{spoiler|Alice returns to our world mere hours after she left, but when the Hatter shows up the next day, the way he says "Finally!" implies that he's been waiting [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|much, much longer]]. On the flip side, Alice's father seems to have aged no more than he would have in our world, so unless no one ages in Wonderland (or at least people from our world don't)...}}
** And on another hand, it seems like a lot of time has passed between her {{spoiler|original trip and the current one}}
** It could be that residents of Wonderland (Wonderlandians?) age at the same rate as people from the "real world", even though actually time moves much faster in Wonderland itself and Oysters would, too, but they generally never live long enough to age at all. Then again, it is [[The Wonderland|Wonderland]]. [[A Wizard Did It|Maybe it's pointless to try and make sense of something inherently nonsensical.]]
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Anne", Buffy ends up in a Hell dimension where times runs so fast that a lifetime there is only a day in our world.
** Also the Hell dimension Angel was sent to at the end of season two; he was missing from our dimension for a few months, but to him several hundred years had passed. Interestingly enough, this period was never factored into his age; though technically he was around 700 years old if you counted his time in Hell, people most often said he was 240-250.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* This is how time in Arcadia works in ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' Two children might be kidnapped on the same day. One spends 30 years in Arcadia, and returns to find that it's only the next day. Another only spends a week in Arcadia, but comes back after 60 years in the real world. This is one of the major obstacles the Lost face when trying to regain their lives.
* [[Warhammer
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In [[The Dreamland Chronicles]], the [[Dream Land]] operates on Narnia Time. When Alex falls asleep he goes to Dreamland, and when he wakes up some time passes in dreamland before he falls asleep again. However the amount of time that passes in that time is explicitly declared as random. Sometimes nearly no time passes {{spoiler|like when he is falling with Felicity on his back}}, wheras sometimes several hours passes. The general amount of time that passes must average out though, because at the beginning of the story when Alex hasn't been to Dreamland in years, a similar number of years have passed for the inhabitants.
* In ''[[Xkcd]]'' [http://xkcd.com/821/ at the very bottom left.]
* ''[[Ninth Elsewhere]]'': The first 120 pages take place over at least several days in Carmen's [[Mental World]], but only about 15 minutes in the real world.
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