I imagined sitting and smoking the shisha again , which so perfectly slows down the flow of time . Talking in our unpolished english about religion and politics and women and our biographies . Judging from the dark void punctuated by these few signs , we could be headed everywhere , Chiapas maybe , or Athens , or Sassari .

Question: What about shisha causes it to slow down the perception of time ?
Answer: It takes so long to smoke that it makes time seem much slower in comparisonThe shisha is laced with a psychedelic drug that majorly alters time perceptionIt is connected to a machine that can alter brainwaves to slow time perceptionThe shisha tobacco contains nicotine , which is a psychoactive chemical and is mind - altering