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For the most part this all made sense to me, but it also seemed to contradict experiences I've had. For example, whenever I have work days that consist of the s
by bradenb 13y ago
For the most part this all made sense to me, but it also seemed to contradict experiences I've had. For example, whenever I have work days that consist of the same type of meaningless coding it seems to drag on forever, but give me an interesting or complex (or new) problem that I can really sink my teeth into and the day goes by in a flash.
Also, National Geographic's show Brain Games did an episode about our perception of time. It had a lot of this info in it; it even showed the experiment of displaying familiar pictures with the occasional unfamiliar picture mixed in. http://braingames.nationalgeographic.com/episode/2/ http://braingames.nationalgeographic.com/episode/2/
- bostonpete 13y agoI listened to a recent discussion on NPR (forget which program) which drew a distinction between the perception of time as it passes and the perception of time looking back. For example, after a year of doing the same thing over and over, you can look back and wonder where all the time went (even though it felt like it took an eternity while you were experiencing it). Whereas after a year of doing interesting/different things, the time may seem to pass quicker, but thinking back on the year, time seems to have passed much more slowly because there are more markers in your memory.