Kalyani Tupkary

The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us.

Cultures observing both linear and cyclic concepts of time see the past as something we have put behind us and the future as something that lies before us.

Pemmaraju’s story urges us to consider the occasional senses of temporal dislocation that we all experience from time to time—instances of timecode drift within our consciousness, small insurgencies of slave clocks against a tyrannical master clock.

Time isn’t like the other senses, Eagleman says. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing are relatively easy to isolate in the brain. They have discrete functions that rarely overlap: it’s hard to describe the taste of a sound, the color of a smell, or the scent of a feeling. … But a sense of time is threaded through everything we perceive.