Shadha is a Sanskrit word meaning the funeral rites which you perform for departed ancestors. Hindus traditional Hindus believe in that so they do it for their way but every culture has prayers for the dead, says Ravi Agrawal. Time distortion happens when we change our state of awareness from waking to dreaming to deep sleep there is time but different scales of time altogetherDeep sleep no movement of time psychological time is not there at all when you were experiencing deep sleep unless the mind works time will not be experienced come to it is there don't worry see two things one is I must want it this and other is the belief adds to their store of good karma.
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Karika 22-23 and Mantra 12.