History Main / NarniaTime

* In Stephen King's ''TheDarkTower'' series, characters are at first able to jump between worlds at any point in either world's history, traveling back and forth through time at will. Later, there is revealed to be a Keystone Earth in which time always moves forward and you can never travel any earlier in history there than when you last visited ("no do-overs" is how the characters put it). Even then, it's explained that time generally moves faster in the Keystone Earth than the universe in which the majority of the action takes place, and periodically "lurches" forward in relation to it, forcing the characters to RaceAgainstTheClock to get certain plot-necessary chores done. Most of this is {{handwave}}d as either the work of "ka" (destiny) or a glitch in the failing infrastructure of the universes or both, but YourMileageMayVary as to how [[JustifiedTrope justified]] it actually is.

* ''TronLegacy'': Time in the world of programs is much much longer than time in the human world, to the point where Kevin Flynn being trapped in the Grid was about twenty years in the real world but ''several thousand years'' in the Grid itself.

* In the BuffyTheVampireSlayer 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.

* In the Doctor Who episode "The Girl in the Fireplace", the time portals between the future and 18th century France seem to work like this. Which the Doctor keeps inexplicably forgetting.
* Towards the end of the final season of Heroes, [[spoiler: Matt Parkman traps Sylar inside of a mental prison. Peter Petrelli takes Parkman's ability and enters Sylar's mind to find that even though Sylar had only been trapped for a short amount of actual time, he had experienced years of isolation in his mind. Peter and Sylar then spend many years together escaping the nightmare, justifying a complete HeelFaceTurn by Sylar, before they emerge into the real world in which only hours of actual time have elapsed.]]

* Folk and Fairy tales of the World in general. Usually time passes more quickly in 'fairyland' and the visitor returns to our world centuries later and falls to dust but there are other stories where no time at all passes and some in which 'fairyland' and the Real World are on the same schedule. This of course makes this trope OlderThanDirt.

* In ''VisionOfEscaflowne'', 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 ThisTroper stopped worrying about it.

* The first season of ''{{Digimon}}'' fit this to a T.
** While that seems to be the case, rather the Digital World is a pure case of [[YearInsideHourOutside Day Inside Minute Outside]].
*** This is averted in DigimonTamers though.

* The ''Pet Force'' series of ''{{Garfield}}''. 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.

* The Trope Namer is the ''ChroniclesOfNarnia'' series by C.S. Lewis, in which a number of people (usually children) travel between "our" world and the fictional land of Narnia. In the second book, the Pevensie children age from young children to full adults (kings and queens, in fact) in Narnia and then are returned to Earth where they have been gone for no time at all and are still children. The next time they visit Narnia a year later in Earth-time, hundreds of years have passed there, and their previous exploits are the stuff of legend. Edmund is able to determine that the [[MagicAIsMagicA rule]] is: when you're in Narnia, no matter how long you stay there, no time passes in "our" world; when you're in "our" world, any amount of time could be passing in Narnia. TheProfessor actually believes Lucy is telling the truth about her first visit to Narnia because her story makes use of this trope (which he has some personal experience with in the {{first book}}) without her realizing it.

* The Trope Namer is the ''ChroniclesOfNarnia'' series by C.S. Lewis, in which a number of people (usually children) travel between "our" world and the fictional land of Narnia. In the first book, the Pevensie children age from young children to full adults (kings and queens, in fact) in Narnia and then are returned to Earth where they have been gone for no time at all and are still children. The next time they visit Narnia a year later in Earth-time, hundreds of years have passed there, and their previous exploits are the stuff of legend. Edmund is able to determine that the [[MagicAIsMagicA rule]] is: when you're in Narnia, no matter how long you stay there, no time passes in "our" world; when you're in "our" world, any amount of time could be passing in Narnia. TheProfessor actually believes Lucy is telling the truth about her first visit to Narnia because her story makes use of this trope (which he has some personal experience with in the {{prequel}}) without her realizing it.

May include ''or'' contrast with YearInsideHourOutside ''and'' YearOutsideHourInside. See also TimeyWimeyBall.

May include ''or'' contrast with YearInsideHourOutside. See also TimeyWimeyBall.

* Time in fairyland passes faster than in the real world in ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'' - Roland thinks he's only been there for a few hours, and Tiffany has to tell him it's been longer than that. At first he's horrified that it might have been a hundred years, but he's even more upset when she tells him it was about a year; if it was a hundred, he couldn't be in trouble with his father.
** Also referenced in ''Discworld/SmallGods'', when Brutha [[spoiler: dies, and finds Vorbis, who died a century ago, still hasn't crossed the desert]]:

-->'''Brutha''': Ah, you mean a hundred years can seem like a few seconds?
-->'''Death''': [[AC: A hundred years can pass like infinity.]]

* Time in fairyland passes slower than in the real world in ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'' - Roland thinks he's only been there for a few hours, and Tiffany has to tell him it's been longer than that. At first he's horrified that it might have been a hundred years, but he's even more upset when she tells him it was about a year; if it was a hundred, he couldn't be in trouble with his father.

-->'''Death''': [[AC: Perhaps not. Time is differently here. It is ... more personal.]]

May include ''or'' contrast with YearInsideHourOutside.