Yay, your explanation makes perfect sense to me! This part: "...relative to Earth, my brain and my instruments are running slower due to time dilation" helped a

Yay, your explanation makes perfect sense to me! This part: "...relative to Earth, my brain and my instruments are running slower due to time dilation" helped a lot with clarity and now it's intuitive for me as well. The linked page just managed to confuse me, so thanks for posting this!