Human Perception of Time

how we experience and perceive time

I don’t want to wait for the world to change.

I want to live it.

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This is the secret to time travel. You have to be the first one to the be the example that others can follow.

So, beyond pharmacological clock modulation, drugs that alter consciousness broadly often secondarily alter time perception by changing what the mind is attending to or capable of processing .

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What can the brain process that we haven’t realized yet?

Looking at quantitative vs. qualitative effects: stimulants and simple sedatives primarily cause quantitative changes in timing (people err in one direction on interval tasks, but they generally still understand that time is flowing). Psychedelics, cannabis, and dissociatives often add a qualitative layer – users report that their entire relationsh... See more

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From linear time to multidimensional time

This illustrates the earlier point about attention: if a stimulant greatly enhances focus on a particular activity to the exclusion of clock-watching, the person might underestimate time (time seems to fly) despite the physiological tendency of the drug to speed the clock

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Relative experience can flip between one and the other given the right criteria

Intriguingly, this effect was not dose-dependent within the range tested: even a low psychoactive dose produced nearly the same time dilation as a higher dose

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hmm….weed has a set amount of dilation, which is something I seem to be able to depend on.

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