After 2020 it seems many of us experienced time differently than expected. What is this phenomenon called?
Being depressed.
Seriously tho for most people the older you get the faster time seems to pass. The relationship to age is not really causal tho afaik. Age just correlates with people leading less interesting lives, being less social and learning less new stuff. Being bored and intellectually stagnant makes subjective time go faster.
Veritasium did a video about the relationship between subjective time perception (chronoception) and age.
It happened after Harambe got shot, we ended up in the bad timeline.
Harambe should be sainted.
I have gone commando since, in tribute. My dick will always be out, in spirit.
Do you mean that people have had more difficulty keeping track of time and timelines since the pandemic? I’ve certainly had lots of conversations where someone said, “That was 2 years ago already? What is time anymore?” They’re not talking about getting older, but that the pandemic created this blank space where we didn’t have our usual traditions or seasonal events. If there isn’t a term for this specific phenomenon, we could make one. Pandemic time elasticity?
Yep, that’s what I meant :)
Old people have been saying this since I was a kid, and I’m old now. Our perception of time appears to be weighted inversely with how much we’ve experienced, so summer feels like forever for a preteen, but two years is a blink of an eye to someone in their 50s. Couple that with no significant events or milestones for months or years, and your perception of time is further distorted. And now all those old people, like me, can talk to a million people online about it, so it appears more prevalent than it was before, when old people couldn’t or weren’t communicating with strangers half a world away on a daily basis.
It’s likely going to turn out that Covid has fucked our brains in ways we don’t understand yet. The before and after difference is too extreme to be caused by a collective trauma from 4 years ago. If that was really the problem, we would be over it by now and back to normal.
But that’s not what this is. Time is going to work every day, going to church or hiking or playing frisbee on the weekends, playing DND every two weeks, having a big test every few months…that goes away, you don’t have time anymore.
Are there any remote populations on the planet untouched by Covid? If so, a scientific study could possibly be carried out.
Well, there’s Sentinel Island, but we keep people away from there for many, many good reasons
Do you mean that time seems to speed up? I believe that is just a consequence of growing up. The older you get the more time you have lived to compare to the last week, month or years.
That is one aspect of it: if you are 10, then 1 year is 10% of your whole life, more if you consider the first few to not really be conscious. If you are 50 it’s only 2%.
But I think another factor is what stays in our memories vs what gets filtered out. If you are young, you’ll experience lots of “first times”, major changes, and defining moments. As you get older there are more parts of your life that are routine and repetitive. Looking back at a year/a whole life what are the things you can vividly remember?
This is also what imo causes the shift in perception for the covid period. Suddenly a lot of events that usually create memorable experiences didn’t happen. No parties, festivals, meeting new people, or vacations in foreign places. For most of us it will have been a major change initially, but relatively quickly routines setting in.
Infinite life when you are born.
By the time you’re born, you’ve been aware of the passage of time for, I’m guessing, at least six months, probably more. And the whole infinity problem dissolves when you consider that time awareness probably doesn’t just appear in one go, not to mention how that intermingles with consciousness and other levels of awareness.
Post-covid daze. When I say “3 years ago” I might mean 2021 or 2019, who knows!
Sounds like a collective depression to me
Depression. ADHD.
I miss the 90s. Like, it was only a few years ago, right?
“Altered perception”
tachypsychia? bradypsychia?
I remember that March - June was the fastest 4 months of my life. I"m not sure what it’s called, but I would say that it was due to the fact that everyday was exactly the same.
Getting old
Employment? At least, the period between 9 & 5 feels like eternity to me.
Optimism?
