"Egregores can kill you" is a book by Andrew McFing, detailing theories about the Great Alarm and the nasty effect it has on time itself. From the book:
"It makes the slow boring or unhappy moments stretch on and on, like your Job for example. It then makes the happy moments, and especially the sleeping ones, and makes them go quicker than the clock says the are going. Stealing life, stealing energies. Into the rhealm of the exhausted spirit."