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This Simple Mental Trick Can Slow Down Time
Ever wonder why time seems to speed up the older -- and busier -- you get? The answer is simple: It's probably because you're just not paying attention. Most of us know the feeling well: As we grow up and fill our days with more busyness, time seems to fly by faster and faster. Of course, we know that time is moving at the same rate as it did during childhood, when lazy summer days seemed to stretch on infinitely. But what's changed is our perception of time. , how the brain perceives time passing determines whether our days feel luxuriously long, or short and harried -- and it's something that we have a certain level of control over. By paying attention and actively noticing new things, we can slow time down.The
pointed us to a 2011
of David Eagleman, a neuroscientist who studies time perception and calls time a "rubbery thing" that changes based on mental engagement. Inc. highlighted this passage, written by Burkhard Bilger:
The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. 'This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older,' Eagleman said -- why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.Eagleman's research made headlines again this week. We've all heard the saying, "The days are long, but the years are short." And it's true: In the case of very familiar events -- like your morning commute to work -- you may even find that although it feels endless while you're sitting in traffic, looking back, you can barely recall the time passing. According to Eagleman, that's is because your brain isn't taking in much new information. on a
about the neuroscientist, explaining why a mundane activity that feels tediously long can seem, in retrospect, to have passed by in a heartbeat. "The reason is you didn't lay down any new footage during the flight," . "There was nothing new happening. There were no events and so when you look back on it you can't remember it at all." British journalist Claudia Hammond echoed the idea that the amount of input our brain is receiving at any given moment can create a "time warp." An Elle of her new book, "Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception," explained:Humans seem to process the world in three-second increments (the duration of a handshake, the length of the annoying sound computers make when they start up, and the periodic rhythm of speech), and we develop a sense for how those increments sync with clock time. Time can warp when our brain receives much more or less input than usual in a three-second span. (For example, time slows down when you are about to crash your car, but you can easily lose a whole day watching things on YouTube.)So the solution to the time-flying problem? Do more, or rather, notice more. It's certainly not a new idea: The essence of
-- a practice with roots in ancient Buddhist philosophy that's becoming
in the Western world -- is cultivating a focused attention on the here and now, which science has shown can help our brains to store more information and thereby alter our perceptions of how fast time is passing."Mindfulness allows people to appreciate their surroundings and can lead to the feeling that time is passing more slowly," Dr. Steven Meyers, a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at Roosevelt University in Chicago, tells The Huffington Post. "Paying attention to events that are pleasant or interesting certainly can enhance our mood and allows us to savor positive experiences."Eagleman's research supports the idea that taking time to be mindful and focusing fully on the present moment -- in other words, actively noticing new things -- can actually slow down our brain's perception of time. And just as powerfully, mindless distraction can easily create the feeling that we're losing whole hours, days and months. Meyers explains that trying to avoid going through our daily routine on autopilot mode could be the best way to keep time from flying. "Time can slip by because we are blindly going through the routine of our day," he says. "There are a range of remedies for this situation. Some people may feel a sense of accomplishment if they set personal goals for themselves and work towards them in a purposeful way. Others may need to be on the lookout for certain events -- like appreciating a kind behavior from another person --
to punctuate time passing."Cultivating mindfulness through a meditation practice has also been shown to , boost , and improve . Mindfulness-based therapy has also been found to be an effective remedy for depression and anxiety. "Attention is often affected in people who experience stress or depression -- their minds drift off as they ruminate about their problems, which can further worsen their situations," says Meyers. "[Time perception] research highlights yet another benefit of mindfulness: It allows us to better appreciate the events and people around ourselves rather than feeling like we're living our days in a blur."[H/t ]
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Thanks for your report!Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies
A volunteer, left, prepares to drop 150 feet at up to 70 mph to study how the human mind perceives time when in danger. At right, another volunteer has to be wondering whether the pursuit of science is worth all this.
Credit: David Eagleman et al.
In The Matrix, the hero Neo could dodge bullets because time moved in slow motion for him during battles. Indeed, in the real world, people in danger often feel as if time slowed down for them.
This warping of time apparently does not result from the brain speeding up from adrenaline . Instead, this feeling seems to be an illusion, scientists now find.
To see if danger makes people experience time in slow motion, scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston tried scaring volunteers. However, roller coasters and other frightening amusement park rides did not cause enough fear to make time warp.
Instead, the researchers dropped volunteers
from great heights. Scientists had volunteers dive backward with no ropes attached, into a special net that helped break their fall. They reached 70 mph during the roughly three-second, 150-foot drop.
&It's the scariest thing I have ever done,& said researcher David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine. &I knew it was perfectly safe, and I also knew that it would be the perfect way to make people feel as though an event took much longer than it actually did.&
Indeed, volunteers estimated their own fall
lasted about a third longer than dives they saw other volunteers take.
To see if this meant people in danger could actually see and perceive more&like a video camera in slow motion can&Eagleman and his colleagues developed a device called a &perceptual chronometer& that was strapped onto volunteers' wrists. This watch-like device flickered numbers on its screen. The scientists could adjust the speed at which numbers appeared until they were too fast to see.
If the brain sped up when in danger, the researchers theorized numbers on the perceptual chronometers would appear slow enough to read while volunteers fell. Instead, the scientists found that volunteers could not read the numbers at faster-than-normal speeds.
&We discovered that people are not like Neo in The Matrix, dodging bullets in slow-mo,& Eagleman said.
Memory trick
Instead, such time warping seems to be a trick played by one's memory. When a person is scared, a brain area called the amygdala becomes more active, laying down an extra
that go along with those normally taken care of by other parts of the brain.
&In this way, frightening events are associated with richer and denser memories,& Eagleman explained. &And the more memory you have of an event, the longer you believe it took.&
Eagleman added this illusion &is related to the phenomenon that time seems to speed up as you grow older. When you're a child, you lay down rich memories for
when you're older, you've seen it all before and lay down fewer memories. Therefore, when a child looks back at the end of a summer, it seems to adults think it zoomed by.&
This work could help better understand disorders linked with timing, such as schizophrenia. Still, in the end, &it's really about understanding the
that we're trapped in,& Eagleman told LiveScience. &Our brain constructs this reality for us that, if we look closely, we can find all these strange illusions in. The fact that we're now seeing this with how we perceive time is new.&
Eagleman and his colleagues detailed their findings online Dec. 11 in the journal PLoS ONE.
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Copyright & 2015 All Rights Reserved.How Michael Lewis Slows Down Time
He writes, in a
commissioned by Chipotle:
I even have tricks for slowing time—or at least my perception of it. At night I sometimes write down things that happened that day… Recording the quotidian details of my day seems to add hours a day to my life: I’m not sure why.
Another trick is to focus on some ordinary thing—the faintly geological strata of the insides of a burrito, for instance—and try to describe what I see.
Another: pick a task I’d normally do quickly and thoughtlessly–writing words for the side of a cup, say–and do it as slowly as possible. Forcing my life into slow-motion, I notice a lot that I miss at game speed. The one thing I don’t notice is the passage of time.
The last two points are what meditation and mindfulness are about. Observe the ordinary.
Steven Johnson slows down time — he moved to a new physical place. In a new place, your status quo disrupted, and you’re forced to notice small details, which has the effect of making time pass more slowly.
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