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My anecdotal experience (age 33 now) is that sleep deprivation has a huge effect on time perception. If I get only 5-6h of sleep, a week can go by and feel only
by manmal 8y ago
My anecdotal experience (age 33 now) is that sleep deprivation has a huge effect on time perception. If I get only 5-6h of sleep, a week can go by and feel only 1/3 as long as normally. When well rested and not stressed, a week can stretch forever.
- koolba 8y agoThat's interesting because time spent awake in the situation you describe is reversed (more awake time with less sleep).
- jolmg 8y agoIt's been my experience as well. Since you're tired all day, you end up not making good use of your time. I would space out more often and when I got home, instead of doing useful things, I'd just sit on the couch and chill. When you look back, since one did so little that day, it seems like it's shorter.
- opportune 8y agoI feel very differently. Weeks in college (typically around the end of the semester) where I pulled 2 all nighters, slept all day a couple days, and generally got much less sleep on all the other days would feel like months. Whereas a month in the middle of the semester would feel like a week due to the monotony. Now that I work full time I don't go through cyclical periods of sleep deprivation so perhaps now I would experience this the same way you do.
- sridca 8y ago> When well rested and not stressed, a week can stretch forever. I am actually quite surprised that the article makes no mention of (emotional) stress which I believe has a huge influence on the perception of time. cf. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's "flow" vs a state where one is bored.