Do people alter time with their consciousness. Yes.

 My parents answered this question with the statement "What you put your attention on you become."

This was a very wise statement by the way. So, being careful how you choose to think about things is helpful in the long term survival of you and your children and their children and so on and so on.

So, basically the people that understand this can survive pretty well and the people that don't often die pretty young.

So, from my point of view:

"CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES REALITY"

In other words Reality isn't what you see around you reality is what you create inside of you that governs how you interrelate with the world.

IT's sort of like this. A person is like an architect or builder or engineer.

A person decides to build a table or chair for example. So, first they think or dream about this table or chair. Then they might put information down on the ground with a stick or they might if they have paper write a plan of how they want to build this table or chair. Then they go find wood to build this table or chair and then they build it.

 Actually, all aspects of life are just like this. Unless you get some sort of plan or system in how you are going to live your life you either have an awful life or no life at all.

And if you travel the world like I have you see the haves and the have nots all over the world. And the have nots often do not have a plan and have never been to school a day in their lives so they function a lot like adult children or:

Adults masquerading as children.

So, Consciousness is everything in life.

And another thing: "GRATITUDE IS THE MOTOR OF LIFE".

Both these things are true.

By God's Grace