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> Professor Moser says the study shows that by changing the activities you engage in, the content of your experience, you can actually change the course of the
by outworlder 8y ago
> Professor Moser says the study shows that by changing the activities you engage in, the content of your experience, you can actually change the course of the time-signal in LEC and thus the way you perceive time.
This correlates with anecdotal experience. A 'routine' day goes by much faster as opposed to a day with new experiences (travel to previously unseen places for instance).
- agumonkey 8y agoI still find odd how sometimes good times can feel dense and long even though you feel time flies.
- shrimp_emoji 8y agoSay my brain is used to processing one emotional state change per hour on a typical, slow day. Then a gauntlet of events happens that incur several state changes per hour for several hours, whether those emotions are all positive or all negative. I think I would feel as though more time had passed than the equivalent amount of time on a slow day due to the denser tempo of psychological excitation.