Time is rather shifty here. I think if I were to put it in scientific terms, it's like your conscious mind is drawn out of your body and put here. Sort of like a dream -- dreams can feel like they take a long time, but when you wake up you see that not much time has really passed.

...Not that this is a dream, but it's just a thought.

My home was a large city. Tall buildings, thousands of people and a lot of things going on at any single time. Very busy place.