Post by t-bob on Oct 19, 2020 12:21:13 GMT -5
The pandemic has wrecked the country’s sense of time. Our past feels distant. The present drags by. The future comes only in two-week chunks of dread. Time still feels like mush, especially for those still spending most of their time at home.
That’s because time, as we perceive it, is extremely malleable and like hearing or sight, it can be tricked.
Nothing could have played a crueller trick than the pandemic. Factors like attention, emotion, stress and novelty, researchers say, are all related to how we perceive time. Uncertainty, grief and isolation have stretched them all.
That’s because time, as we perceive it, is extremely malleable and like hearing or sight, it can be tricked.
Nothing could have played a crueller trick than the pandemic. Factors like attention, emotion, stress and novelty, researchers say, are all related to how we perceive time. Uncertainty, grief and isolation have stretched them all.
