#temporal perception

[gloop-augustus]

Temporal Perception

Serge Hamad

2021

[philosophycorner]

Time Is Contagious

How to control the subjective experience of time.

By Alan Burdick

Illustration by Leigh Wells

On a recent Saturday morning, my wife, Susan, and I slipped into the city to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a place we hadn’t gone together since before our sons were born. The crowds hadn’t yet descended and for an hour or so we wandered around and absorbed the cavernous hush of art. We separated for a bit, together but apart; while Susan roamed among the Manets and Van Goghs I slipped into a small side gallery, not much larger than a subway car, that held a series of glass cases with small bronze sculptures by Degas. There were a few busts and several horses in stride and the figure of a woman stretching, a small bronze rising to her feet and curling her left arm upward as if waking from a long nap.

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[mire-drive]

Important thing that helped me be more patient:

DON'T ROUND THE TIME!

11:26 and 11:34 are not both "practically 11:30". They are EIGHT WHOLE MINUTES apart!

Of course, time feels like it's moving slowly when it takes eight real-world minutes to equal any mental change.

Learning to stop counting time as the nearest 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minute mark but instead as the exact time shown on the clock helps you process that time is still moving and isn't going slow.

[cultofcreatures]

I have such shitty depth perception that it extends to the fourth dimension of time. I must sit and wait all day for the coordinates to arrive because I have no way to tell how far away they are.