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[[Time Dilation]], an effect of travelling very close to the speed of light or being in an incredibly strong gravitational field, is a real-life version of this. (Or at least, it will be if we ever build spacecraft that can travel that fast.)
Compare [[Rip Van Winkle]], where the pseudo [[Time Travel
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In [[Pandora Hearts]], Oz is trapped for a short time in the Abyss. When he leaves with Alice, he finds that 10 years have already passed in the few minutes he was gone.
* In ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'', this is how time passes in Brigadoon in relation to Earth. Of course, this is borrowed from the original ''Brigadoon'' musical.
* In ''[[Uzumaki]]'', Kirie, Shuichi and Chie {{spoiler|run away from the spiral-infested town, and into the spiral-infested forest. As they climb up the hills, they see Mr. Tanazaki building houses facing Dragonfly Pond, as those homes are the only ones that still stood. After [[Going in Circles]] for days, they finally arrive back at the village. However, when they return, all of the houses have been rebuilt so that they face the pond (in a spiral, no less), and Mr. Tanazaki is now much older. They finally realize just how long they've been gone when Tanazaki says, "How many years has it been? You haven't changed at all."}}
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', the mages are invited to a welcome back party in the celestial realm and party for about a day, only to return home and find that three months had passed in the real world.
* In ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' episode "The Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody", this was the method Yuki used to bring Kyon back to his time: being unable to time-travel herself, she basically put him in stasis.
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== [[Fairy Tales]] and Folk Tales ==
* [[Ur Example]]: This nasty trick likely originated with [[The Fair Folk]]. Usually, the hero is lured into the fairy mound, where he dances the night away. When he emerges from the mound, he finds that many years have passed (from 10 to 100). Sometimes he instantly ages or dies.
* The Japanese folktale of ''Kentaro Urashima'' involves the title character going to a kingdom under the sea, and when he goes back home, 100 years have passed.
** In
* In the legend of True Thomas, also known as [[Thomas the Rhymer]], the hero must serve in the Fairy Queen's realm for seven years. When he comes back out to his side of the veil, everyone he ever knew is long dead.
* Another ancient legend of China retold is the story of a fisherman who finds himself in the Chinese Faerie kingdom and marries the queen there.
* Occurs in the legends of the Czech mountain Blaník, e.g. a blacksmith who worked for the [[King in
== Fan Works ==
* The ''[[Star Trek: New Voyages]]'' episode "World Enough And Time" has Sulu and a [[Red Shirt]] specialist transported to another dimension while the Enterprise was trying to beam them out of the Romulan ship inside a multidimensional spatial anomaly that they are trapped in. Sulu and the specialist apparently spent years inside that dimension during which he had fathered a daughter through her, which explains why he appears on the Enterprise as an older man (played by the character's original actor George Takei).
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== Literature ==
* In one ''[[
** This was actually more of a case of him simply getting the return time wrong, as time in the other dimension was moving in squiggly lines.
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s story "Semley's Necklace", incorporated into the novel ''Rocannon's World'': Semley goes on a quest to recover the lost heirloom of the title, meeting a group of dwarf-like creatures who promise to help her get it back. What she doesn't realise is that they've taken it to another planet, eight light-years away, and thanks to relativity, what seems like a short trip to her is actually 16 years.
* In the original ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' novel, the astronauts go to Betelgeuse at near-light speed. On board, it takes a couple of years, but by Earth's standards, it takes hundreds of years.
* "[[
* [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Dread Companion'': The governess protagonist and her charges escape from [[The Fair Folk]] to discover that this has happened.
** ''Here Abide Monsters'': [[You Can't Go Home Again]] from the [[Alternate Universe]] on the other side of the [[Cool Gate]], in effect, and if you ever got the chance to do so, you wouldn't want to because of this trope. The gates rarely seem to flow ''from'' their world ''to'' ours, and time on one side has little discernable relationship to time on the other. The contemporary (1970s) heroes meet with [[World War II]]-era refugees for whom only four years have passed, as well as encountering medieval-era and Mongol refugees.
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** ''Sorceress of the [[Witch World]]'': The elder Tregarths discover that this is the case after the family escapes from the world in which they and Hilarion were trapped; when Simon left, their children were babies, but when they escaped, his daughter was the grown titular character. Hilarion, having been there longer, faces an even worse discrepency.
* In [[Clive Barker]]'s ''[[The Thief of Always]]'', for every day you spend in the Holiday House, a year passes in the real world.
* The novelizations of the 1998 ''[[Merlin (
* In the novel ''Once Upon a Summer Day'' by Dennis L. [[Mc Kiernan]] the main character Borel must enter the Fairy King's domain in order to gain his help in his quest to rescue the [[
* [[Fairyland]] in ''[[
* Invoked Einstein-style in the space travel portions of Robert J. Sawyer's [[Calculating God]].
* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'': When Percy and Annabeth first discover the Labyrinth, they spend maybe five minutes in it, and when they come back everyone says they've been gone for an hour and [[Shipper
** Not to mention in The Lightning Thief, when they went to the Lotus Hotel and Casino, they seemed to spend only a few hours in there, but by the time they left, six days had passed.
* In ''[[Rose Daughter]]'', Beauty stays at the Beast's castle for only a week, but learns when she reunites with her sisters that for every day she spent in the enchanted castle, a month passed by for them in the town where magic is unable to take root.
* Happens in [[The Mists of Avalon]]. Morgaine gets trapped in Faerie and is so under their spell that she only vaguely notices that her horse has turned into a skeleton in what seems like a very short time.
* The House of Foryx in ''[[
* Happens to Fitz at the end of [[Realm of the Elderlings|Fool's Fate]], as he travels through a skill-pillar: he gets lost on the other side, feels at most a few hours have passed, but when he finds his way through, he discovers it'd actually been over a month.
* The plot of [[Robert Charles Wilson]]'s [[Spin]] begins when something mysteriously covers the entirety of Earth in a field that causes this effect.
* In ''[[
== Live
* In one episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', an astronaut meets a woman just before he takes off on a long journey. During his trip, he's supposed to be in suspended animation, but the thought of returning to Earth as a young man and finding the woman he loved to be an old woman is something that he can't live with (never mind that she might have married or died or just didn't like him any more), so he turns off the suspended animation so he'll age the same as she did on Earth, but the real kicker is that the woman did love him, so she had herself suspended so that she would be young when he returned, causing a real downer ending.
* The Palace of the Prophets in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'' is enchanted so that time in it passes 10 times slower than for the outside world. The Sisters of the Light want to keep Richard there for several years, while the world is literally going to Hell. In a later episode, Richard is stuck in a nightmare where this does happen, and he finds out that Kahlan is with someone else now, not to mention that there have been two Seekers after him who failed.
* This happens to Sookie in ''[[True Blood]]'' - she goes to the fairy land for what seems like a few minutes, only to come back to find a year has passed in Bon Temps.
** Also happened to her grandfather. He was there for what seemed like a couple hours to him when it had been twenty years.
* This gem from [[
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'''Tracy''': Frank! You've been in your office for ''three months!''
'''Frank''': *looks into mirror* '''''WHAAAAT?!!''''' }}
* ''[[
** The next season features "The Girl In the Fireplace" where portals link to different point in Madame Pompadour's Life. While not a straight example, it means that anything from a couple seconds to a few minutes on a space ship could be weeks or years for the historical figure. After fighting robots who want to steal her brain (about a day for the Doctor, most of her life for the lady), the Doctor invites her to travel with him...only to step back into a time after she's passed away.
** And ''again'' in "The Eleventh Hour". After promising little Amelia that she could come traveling with him, the Doctor steps into his TARDIS just to stop her from exploding....and lands 12 years happy. All grown up Amy Pond is ''not'' happy. Said incident earned her the nickname "The Girl Who Waited", and a similar incident was looked at over a season later. {{spoiler|Amy gets trapped in a facility for 37 years, while only about 5 minutes have passed for her husband Rory and the Doctor. Rory is forced to choose between his young or old wife.}}
* The "Modern Warfare" episode of ''[[
== Music ==
* The
* [[Mike and the Mechanics]]' ''Silent Running'' is about an astronaut who has seen years of his country's [[Bad Future]] while experiencing time dilation. He spends the song trying to send a warning message back in time to save his wife and children.
== Mythology and Religion ==
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
** On the Astral Plane time does not exist. Non-natives do not need to eat, sleep, or breathe while there, and do not age. When they return to the Material Plane, however, all the "skipped" time comes [[Rapid Aging|back in a rush]].
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== Theatre ==
* ''[[Carousel]]'':
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* The Quickling Tree in ''[[Ancient Domains of Mystery]]''. Several hundred turns inside (with a turn being as much as needed to attack once or drink something, five turns are enough to eat many items), severalty days outside. What is a problem, since after ninety days pass ingame, the background corruption radiation rate increases, speeding up the [[Body Horror|transformations...]]
* Time seems to stand completely still while inside of [[Secret of Evermore|Evermore]]; thirty real-world years have passed, but none of the four humans who went inside of the virtual reality are even a day older.
* ''[[
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'''Dr. Kleiner:''' Indeed it did. And the repercussions were felt far and wide... but that was over a week ago.
'''Alyx:''' What do you mean? Gordon and I were just there a minute ago.
'''Dr. Kleiner:''' ... Fascinating. We seem to have developed a '''very slow''' teleport! }}
* This seems to be the case with the Realm of Darkness in ''Kingdom Hearts'', as {{spoiler|Aqua}} hasn't changed at all despite being trapped inside it for ''eleven years''.
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* In ''[[Juathuur]]'', the time for a small conversation in the god world takes three days in the juathuur world.
* In Space theme of ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', this is the effect of the new cyberspace. The old one has [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]].
== Western Animation ==
* This happened in the ''[[Captain Planet and
* The island of Avalon on ''[[
* Atlantis from ''[[Atlantis:
* ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' called in a form of this trope and [[Played for Laughs|used it as a punchline]]. The two newly-emancipated characters wish to stay up all night, but accidentally unplug the wall clock during their shenanigans. When this is finally discovered, the step outside to see what time it is. What greets them is a [[Zeerust]] city that was definitely NOT there when they started. [[Rule of Funny|No magical or technological time dilation is mentioned.]]
* ''[[Star Trek:
== Real Life ==
* [[The Theme Park Version]] of Einstein's Theory of [[Time Travel]]: There isn't such a thing as actually jumping ahead or back in time, but if a person were to approach the speed of light or a large gravity well (like a [[
* [[TV Tropes]]. If you don't believe us, [[
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