A Scientist Says Humans Can Slow Time With Their Minds
- “The duration of felt experience is between two and three seconds …. Everything before belongs to memory; everything after is anticipation. It’s a strange, barely fathomable fact that our lives are lived through this small, moving window.”
The New Yorker • Being in Time
The primary intention of both alternative timekeeping tools was to allow modern Homo Sapiens to appreciate and measure time in much the same way as nearly all living organisms do — by using light as the universal external entrainment signal and zeitgeber. The unintended bi-product was, arguably, an applied example of the type of “trance like” induc... See more
Medium • Towards digital psychedelia and the radical dilation of time
One of the most basic facts about time is that, even though we insist on measuring it as if it were an objective unit, it doesn’t, in all conditions, seem to be moving at the same pace. Five minutes can feel like an hour; ten hours can feel like five minutes. A decade may pass like two years; two years may acquire the weight of half a century. And
... See moreAlain de Botton • A Therapeutic Journey
When you take a mental time trip ten years into the future, your brain starts to think with a different point of view. This isn’t a metaphor—it’s a literal fact. Scientists describe this as switching your imagination from first-person to third-person perspective.
Jane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to see the future coming and be ready for anything
during mind-wandering, your mind will—Nathan said—engage in “mental time-travel,” where it roams over the past and tries to predict the future.