15. You never really see the present.
It takes time for light to reach your eyes.
Your brain processes everything on delay.
By the time you perceive something, it’s already in the past.
Just think about it. Your realization is the... See more
Darshak Rana ️x.com15. You never really see the present. It takes time for light to reach your eyes. Your brain processes everything on delay. By the time you perceive something, it’s already in the past. Just think about it. Your realization is the greatest proof.
but the overarching point I want to make here is that our sense of time—how much time passed and what happened when—is constructed by our brains. And this sense is easily manipulated, just like our vision can be.
David Eagleman • Incognito
If you change the way your brain processes an event, you change the duration of the ‘now.’ You actually change the point at which the present becomes the past. It’s yet another way that the concept of the present is just an illusion, made out of memories and constructed by our brain.”
