'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

Re:'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains by elliekelly on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:04AM (#24942279)

That's interesting. I thought I had read that older people perceive time more slowly than younger people but I wonder if that can be overcome by keeping our sense of time-telling "calibrated" by periodically checking our accuracy.

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Re:'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains by lathiat on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:22AM (#24942489)

I’ve heard that story before and it was effectively centered on the fact that each year was a proportionally smaller part of your life as you get older.

But feels like it wouldn’t be hard for that long term sense of time to be fairly disconnected with a very short term one.

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Re:'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains by ButWhatFor on Friday October 30, 2020 @11:29AM (#24943252)

I thought it was the other way around? As you get older your perceive time as moving more quickly? As you get older every hour is a smaller percentage of your total life, so that made sense to me?

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Re:'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains by forgotmypw17 on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:03PM (#24945086)

I think this is a side effect of one's life becoming more routinized as they grow older, and having fewer memorable moments in each day.

Anecdotally, I had this feeling of time moving more and more quickly, and "that thing which feels just a week ago was actually a year ago" until my early 30s, when I finally decided to unsubscribe from routines.

As I gradually moved away from having a daily schedule, I had more time for unique and memorable experiences in my everyday life, and this feeling began to change.

Nowadays, it is actualy more typical for me to feel the other way, meaning something which was just a week ago feels like it was much longer.

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Re:'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains by hikarudo on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:18PM (#24947401)

This sounds super interesting! What do you mean by unsubscribe from routines? Could you give some examples? What effects did doing this have on your life?

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Re:'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains by the_other on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:16PM (#24943778)

My experiences with this suggest that “long” spans of time (weeks->years) follow the “smaller percentage of your life” principle. However, occasions “in the moment” get perceived according to the rules applicable for that moment:

- boring things: usually a slow dirge or filled with brief distractions

- novel things: either no sense of time passing, or a feeling of time going anywhere from slowly to “endless”

- mundane things: time passes “at a familiar rate”, but I remember fee details later

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Re:'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains by elliekelly on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:21PM (#24943831)

You're absolutely right. Total brain fart and it's too late for me to correct it with an edit.

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