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Its the decline in variety.
Our brains compress mundane events which is why you can't remember every instance of your daily commute.
They keep comprehensive records of trauma, shock or emotional highs though
The combo skews our sense of time https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1322180451272982528
Our brains compress mundane events which is why you can't remember every instance of your daily commute.
They keep comprehensive records of trauma, shock or emotional highs though
The combo skews our sense of time https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1322180451272982528
So people are home more. Routine more. Mundane stuff blends together without the usual variety of excursions and outings and random interpersonal encounters. This makes the past seem short.
A ... Z rather than a full alphabet written out.
Compressed memories = compressed time
A ... Z rather than a full alphabet written out.
Compressed memories = compressed time
On the other hand, external life... (The news, social media, politics, world events, natural disasters, etc.) has been chaotic and frenetic and never-ending it it's onslaught of existentially threatening information.
Which makes time feel stretched out.
Lots of detail = longer
Which makes time feel stretched out.
Lots of detail = longer
These two phenomenon in unison end up warping our sense of time...
It's kinda like that Hitchcock camera trick from Vertigo where you bring the camera closer to the subject while zooming out at the same rate and the effect is a disorienting stretching and warping of space.
It's kinda like that Hitchcock camera trick from Vertigo where you bring the camera closer to the subject while zooming out at the same rate and the effect is a disorienting stretching and warping of space.
This is why it feels like the 42nd of Janutober.
Essentially your brain has a number of different mechanisms for perceiving and calculating how much time has passed and usually they're in sync.
But now those mechanisms can't agree on whose metrics are correct.
So they all are.
And we experience that as temporal dissonance
But now those mechanisms can't agree on whose metrics are correct.
So they all are.
And we experience that as temporal dissonance
We are all experiencing heightened and varying levels of fear, anxiety, grief, sickness, despair, sadness, anger, confusion and exhaustion.
On the other hand, we are aslo under the same or greater levels of stress and obligation to societal norms.
In a time that's not normal.
On the other hand, we are aslo under the same or greater levels of stress and obligation to societal norms.
In a time that's not normal.
In addition to the internal dissonance with time, there's an external dissonance between how we need to spend time when disoriented and how we are expected to spend time
This compounds that temporal dissonance and leaves people feeling even more time-dizzy.
This compounds that temporal dissonance and leaves people feeling even more time-dizzy.
I say all this to say that it is totally reasonable that so many people are having trouble establishing a visceral notion of when the hell they are.
