Time Perception: Why Time Can Feel So Slow
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Time can feel so slow because our perception is warped by life-threatening situations, eye movements, tiredness, hypnosis, age…
Time can feel so slow because our perception is warped by life-threatening situations, eye movements, tiredness, hypnosis, age…
A few years ago I had a car crash. I was driving in the middle lane of a motorway, when a truck pulled out from the inside lane…
Researchers explore why our time perception alters and why we think our children are growing up faster than they actually are.
I’m riding my bike along the Hudson River, cruising along at a good fast rhythm, when another cyclist coming the other way pops…
What I was experiencing at that moment was a psychological phenomenon know as subjective time dilation — the strange temporal…
By Christian Yates, University of…
Several theories exist as to why time seems to pass more quickly as we get older. Christian Yates explores them.
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Courtesy of Flickr user Carlos Martinez under Creative Commons…
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Someone told me yesterday that David Eagleman gets a thousand e-mails a day. Little wonder, then, that an hour after his talk…
Someone told me yesterday that David Eagleman gets a thousand emails a day. Little wonder, then, that an hour after his talk on…
NPR has a fantastic short radio segment on whether we really do experience time more slowly when our life is in danger. The…
Overestimation of time duration is often reported during brief, dangerous or possibly life threatening events, like car…
David Eagleman is guest blogging this week.One interesting direction of transhumanism lies in the possibility of teasing out…
We've all experienced those slow motion moments. Shooting for the winning basket at the buzzer, the loss of steering control on…
I strongly suspect this paper was conceived in the following manner at a lab meeting - "What's the least amount of work we…